General Databases

Database Names and Descriptions

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Academic Search Premier 
A great first stop when looking for scholarly journal articles, Academic Search Premier contains full text content across all academic disciplines from over 4,600 periodicals. Also contains some popular magazines. Most content is from the last twenty years.

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ArticleFirst 
This index database gathers article citations from journals in business, science, humanities, social science, medicine, technology and popular culture. It describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal in each record, and provides a list of libraries that have the journal title for most items. Coverage includes over 15,000 titles from 1990 to the present.

Christian Periodical Index 
Published by the Association of Christian Librarians, CPI is an interdisciplinary index of Christian periodicals. Search here if you're looking for articles or reviews written from an evangelical perspective.

Clase and Periódica 
Clase and Periódica is an index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. This database offers access to more than 400,000 citations (from 2,600 scholarly journals) in the social sciences, humanities, science, technology from 24 different Latin American countries.

Credo Reference 
Don't know where to start? Try Credo! Credo Reference is a powerful source of introductory and reference information across all academic disciplines. Combining cross-searchable content from over 500 encyclopedias and other reference sources, Credo will also connect you to related materials in other library databases and collections.

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Dissertations and Theses 
The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. Includes 2.7 million citations, 1.2 million of which are available in full-text.

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E-books on EBSCOhost 
A collection of online full-text books, encyclopedias and dictionaries. This collection is also searchable via the library catalog.

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Ebrary Academic Complete 
Ebrary is a database of over 50,000 e-books in all academic areas. This collection is also searchable via the library catalog.

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Electronic Collections Online (ECO) 
An index covering over 5,000 journals in all academic disciplines.

Gale Virtual Reference Library 
A cross-searchable and growing online collection of more than 100 reference volumes, including encyclopedias in most academic disciplines.

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Google Scholar 
Google Scholar is a broad index of scholarly content across many different fields and content types.

JSTOR - Arts & Sciences 
JSTOR is an interdisciplinary database providing access to back issues from some of the most important scholarly journals in many fields. Coverage of most journals ends four or more years ago. The library currently provides access to three JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences II and V, and Music.

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SpringerLink 
This database includes access to over 20,000 e-books and 1,800 e-journals from Springer, a respected academic publisher. Most academic fields are represented, but it is strongest in the fields of science, technology and medicine. Please note that the library does not own all resources shown in this collection.

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WorldCat 
WorldCat is the world's largest library catalog, combining into one database the local catalogs of more than 71,000 libraries in 112 countries around the world.

WorldCat Dissertations and Theses 
An index of over 8 million dissertations and theses.