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ACADEMIC ALL SUBJECTS RESOURCE LIST

List of Commonly Used Databases

ABC CLIO Great History research resource: American History, Daily Life through History, The African American Experience, The American Indian Experience, The Latino American, Experience, World at War, World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras, World History: The Modern Era
ACADEMIC ONEFILE
BIOGRAPHY IN CONTEXT Biography In Context is a comprehensive database of biographical information on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. In-depth coverage of current and historic people from almost every field of endeavor and from around the world.
EBSCO ALL DATABASES PROVIDES leading research databases, scholarly journals, magazine subscriptions, and ebooks
EBSCO EBOOKS eBooks on EBSCO Host has approximately 14,000 electronic books in all subject areas from careers to classics to Cliffs notes. Full text and searchable.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA Explore the fact-checked online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biographies, videos, and images.
GALE DATABASES Huge variety of topics and subject matter. Material includes ebooks, journals and encyclopedia articles. Also included are primary sources including video and audio recordings.
GALE EBOOKS Huge collection of ebooks to help you complete reports and papers and homework as well. You can rely on these sources to be well researched by people and publishers that are respected as scholarly resouces in their field.
GLOBAL NEWSSTREAM Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full- text format.
INFORME ACADÉMICO El informe académico es un documento formal mediante el cual una o más personas rinden cuenta a una autoridad superioro similar, sobre un hecho o actividad realizada.
JSTOR RESEARCH JOURNALS
NEWSBANK Search the world's contemporary and historic newspapers
NEWSPAPERS.COM The largest online newspaper archive 20,100+ newspapers from the 1700s–2000s Millions of additional pages added every month
THE NEW YORK TIMES Use the search bar and refine by date to find articles relating to your topic throughout time.
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NEXIS UNI "Nexis Uni is a database that features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790." - LexisNexis
ONEFILE (GALE) Academic OneFile, provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning. With extensive coverage in key subject areas such as, biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental science, history, marketing, political science, and psychology, researchers are able to find accurate information and articles in both PDF and HTML formats with ease.
OXFORD RESEARCH DATABASES
PROJECT MUSE Project MUSE is an enormous collection of eBooks and full text scholarly journal articles in a wide variety of subjects
PROJECT MUSE - Reference Journals Huge array of scholarly journals that are ideal for research and learning.
PROQUEST CENTRAL
PROQUEST DATABASES Huge collection of primary sources, video, news, articles, general information. This link will take you to a page where you can choose all databases or some to search in an advanced search
PROQUEST RESEARCH Multidisciplinary subject coverage from scholarly, trade, and consumer publications
SMITHSONIAN COLLECTION Search the millions of items in the Smithsonian reflecting information that stretches both eras and subjects.
TEEN HEALTH & WELLNESS A-Z health information geared specifically toward teens.
TIMES DIGITAL ARCHIVE Multi-Subject CoverageProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to thousands of full-text periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, professional and trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 subjects and topics. in all instances.
US GOV TOPICS USA.gov is your online guide to government information and services.
VOCABULARY.COM Learning new vocabulary has never been so much fun! Tons of categories of words to learn including SAT prep. Set up in an engaging game format.
WALL STREET JOURNAL See directions on the News page to receive your login credentials.