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Collection of 40 reference ebooks on topics including: history, popular culture, health, psychology, religion, and current events.
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A great starting point for any type of research. A multi-disciplinary, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. This scholarly collection provides full-text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, etc. and nearly 4,000 full-text scholarly publications.

The Indiana General Assembly website. As one of three co-equal branches of state government, the General Assembly is responsible for enacting the laws by which the state of Indiana is governed. The intent behind this website is to afford the opportunity to better understand the operation of the General Assembly and its impact.
This site provides advice, scholarships, and resource guides for those looking into the field of addiction counseling.
This alternative health research database provides the latest information and materials for the evolving practice of holistic medicine and therapies, with in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas.
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Online home of the AMA Manual of Style! With a streamlined interface, intuitive search and browse, and personalization features, finding what you need in the Manual is easier than ever.
A collaboration between GBH and the Library of Congress with a long-term vision to preserve and make accessible significant historical content created by public media, and to coordinate a national effort to save at-risk public media before its content is lost to posterity.
A collection of guides and reference books on topics such as cardiovascular care, CPR, and ECC.
Stanford University's Libraries and Cantor Arts Center's digital archive containing 3,600 contact sheets and 130,000 images publicly available. Users can search the contact sheets, browse photographs grouped by categories such as specific parties or New York street scenes, and view contact sheets and enlarged views of all the photos.
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On this site, you will find tutorials, FAQs, and other resources to help you improve your writing, master APA style, and learn the conventions of scholarly publishing.
Nearly 1200 full-text journals on topics including: applied mathematics, chemistry, engineering, geology, machinery, information technology, robotics, the food industry and more.
Free access to more than 40,000 images from the digital archives of the Art Institute of Chicago. Explore thousands of artworks in the museum’s wide-ranging collection as well as books, writings, reference materials, and other resources.
Provides access to over 1,000 full-text journals and 11 full-text books. Topics include, agricultural science, automotive technology, biotechnology, construction, cosmetology, culinary arts, diesel mechanics, electrical technology, fire science and service, food service management, hospitality management, industrial and mechanical design, information technology, horticulture, law enforcement and criminal justice, paralegal, machine tool technology, surveying, and veterinary assisting.

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An independent journal about evidence-based health care.
BOLD is a cloud-based data storage and analysis platform developed at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics in Canada that aids collection, management, analysis, and use of DNA barcodes. It consists of four main modules, a data portal, an educational portal, a registry of BINs (putative species), and a data collection and analysis workbench.
Publishes over 230 open access journals covering the sciences, technology, and medicine.
Biographical database offers the in-depth, original profiles from the Current Biography and World Authors series, the thorough periodical coverage of Biography Index,and the specialist biographical content of Junior Authors & Illustrators.It provides biographical full-text articles, page images, and abstracts from today's leading magazines and journals.
This database offers a collection of full-text biographies and unique narrative biographies. Including coverage for several of the most popular and heavily-researched biographies and genres, including those contained within Biography Today and Biography (both dating back to the first issue published).
The Biography Reference Source companion eBook subscription includes content on several popular and important figures in business, film, history, music, politics, sports, and more. EBSCO's Nonfiction Collection is a cross-curricular database providing abstracts and searchable full-text for popular nonfiction books.
Includes more than 290 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals covering all areas of biology and medicine.
Access to over 100 full-text peer reviewed journals on topics like clinical medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pre-clinical sciences, and the health care system.
Book Connections strives to joyfully enrich everyone's experience reading children's and young adult books. With this resource you can identify exceptional books that reflect diverse cultural experiences, interests, and ability levels as well as obtain resources paired with your book titles that further reading enjoyment, contextual knowledge, and educational relevance. Create a free account for basic use.
Includes the renowned Encyclopedia Britannica,Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines, periodicals, and many other research tools.
The world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.

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Whether they happened 30 years ago, or 30 minutes ago, the events in the C-SPAN Video Library create a significant catalogue of America's contemporary political dialogue. The events featured on this page represent the top viewed political events covered by C-SPAN during the past 30 years.
Cambridge Open Access serves authors and the wider community by publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed content that allows readers to redistribute, re-use and adapt the content in new works. At Cambridge University Press, Open Access submissions are accepted in more than 350 of their journals.
Access to over 500 full-text journals and trade publications on topics including: computer science, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales & retail, accounting, graphic design, photography, and more.
The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive information for historical and current publications as well as direct links to the full document, when available. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general keywords, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options.
Key source for demographic, economic, and health data about the United States.
Historic American newspapers from 1836 to 1922, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature including access to 770 full-text journals, 275 books and monographs, evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons, and more.
An integrated, curated bibliographic database of global peer-reviewed research and gray literature on the science of climate impacts on human health from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
The CMMC resource incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other top journals in communication and media studies. CMMC contains more than 210 active full-text, non-open access journals; cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for 670 journals; and selected coverage of more than 190 journals.
The official website for United States federal legislative information. Presented by the Library of Congress.
A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content, Consumer Health Complete is designed to support the information needs of patients and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. This resource provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. The multilingual health databases provide this information in 16 additional languages. See the World Languages subject page for a complete list.
eBook titles covering a broad range of general health topics, including disease such as cancer and diabetes; weight management and exercise; allergies; senior care; social emotional health; developmental disorders; and natural health.
Provides up-to-date, unbiased information on issues in the news. Topics include: health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.
Full-text articles from nearly 800 reference eBooks on topics including: art, food & beverage, language, medicine, psychology, social sciences, biographies, geography, law, music, religion, technology, business, history, literature, philosophy, and science.
Access to abstracts and indexing for 250 U.S and international criminal justice journals, with more than 100 available in full-text. Topics include criminology, corrections and law enforcement, criminal law, criminal justice, criminal rehabilitation, addictions, alcoholism, gambling, child abuse, and industrial crime.
Curationist is a free tool that makes millions of digital images of artworks and artifacts from around the world easy to access. We connect curious minds to the history, stories, and ideas these works inspire.

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Website from the U.S. Census Bureau, the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy.
This eResource is a searchable version of the print title of the same name and is designed to bring together necessary and valuable information for the millions of individuals, family members, and caregivers affected by dementia. For those providing care and support to individuals with dementia, this resource provides easy-to-understand and helpful information about dementia and connects readers to many sources of support."
Access to over 8,000 peer- or editor-reviewed scientific and scholarly ebooks in all areas of study.
Access to over 8,000 peer- or editor-reviewed scientific and scholarly journals in all areas of study.
The stated aim of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is to bring together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and make them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America's heritage, to the efforts and data of science. The DPLA aims to make the realm of openly available materials more easily discovered and more widely used. This resource offers a single point of access to millions of items including photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States. Users can browse and search the DPLA's collections by timeline, map, format, and topic. Users can also save items to customized lists and share their lists with others.
Facts & Comparisons eAnswers is a collection of clinical databases and clinical decision support tools that provides users with an extensive drug information library.
(Currently available on campus only.)

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EasyBib is an intuitive information literacy platform that provides citation, note taking, and research tools that are easy-to-use and educational.
Currently with 12,237 titles, this collection gives students, educators and administrators on-the-go access to popular e-books. This robust collection is an easy way for libraries to provide full-text e-books that align with their school’s curricula. It includes a selection of classic literary works, important historical documents and general reference materials.
Currently with 15,155 titles, this e-book collection supports a quality learning experience for K-8 students across all subject areas taught in elementary and middle schools. It’s an effective way to provide educators with full-text e-books to support their curricula.
A multidisciplinary collection of eBooks offering access to titles on various topics, without DRM (digital rights management) restrictions, created in cooperation with university presses and scholarly publishers in the Open Access model.
Currently with 48,137 titles, this collection gives your patrons access to high-quality e-books covering a wide range of topics such as self-help, fitness, games, hobbies and cooking. This general reference e-book collection features titles for both adults and juveniles, as well as best-selling and recommended titles from leading publishers.
Collection of over 9,000 eBooks on topics including: the arts, business, computer science, education, engineering & technology, health & medicine, history, law, literature & criticism, mathematics, philosophy, political science, psychology, sciences, study aids, and language learning.
EBooks are selected for this collection to assist students and scholars with various business research, special project and entrepreneurial needs, and to help students understand general business concepts. The eBook Business Collection encompasses a variety of business topics, such as marketing, finance, supply chain management and entrepreneurship, with additional focus on career growth, personal development, communication and networking.
The EBSCO eBook Community College Collection offers over 40,000 books from a variety of publishers.These books are non-fiction, selected to help students do research for school work or personal interest. There are books on most subjects, including art, history, nursing, psychology, zoology, and much more.
This resource provides users with access to the Library's e-journals subscriptions via the EBSCOhost interface.

This free research database offers essential content covering important issues related to race in society today. Essays, articles, reports and other reliable sources provide an in-depth look at the history of race and provide critical context for learning more about topics associated with race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness.

EBSCO Open Dissertations is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs to increase traffic and discoverability of ETD research. You can join the movement and add your theses and dissertations to the database, making them freely available to researchers everywhere.
The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is part of EMBL, Europe's flagship laboratory for the life sciences. Explore open data resources, browse data, perform analyses, and more.
A tool for business students and researchers, providing the latest insight on topics relevant to entrepreneurship and small businesses. It offers full text for business journals, magazines and reference books, as well as case studies and company profiles.
Provides access to education literature and resources. Contains links to more than 337,000 full-text documents from 1966 to the present, plus records for over a million other publications.
Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences. Approximately 300 single and multi-authored volumes are indexed annually, plus more than 20 selected annuals and serial publications.
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 is a free archive of indexed publications related to the Americas and written in Europe before 1750. It includes thousands of valuable primary source records covering the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples.
A tool designed to help teachers with lesson plans, student tools, curriculum standards and valuable sites for teachers.
A student interface designed for use in Middle & High School grades with a focus on the Arts, Literature, Biography, Current Events, Geography and Culture, Health, History, Math, Science and more. Useful for education students.
A student interface designed for use in Kindergarten through grade 5 with a focus on the Arts, Literature, Biography, Current Events, Geography and Culture, Health, History, Math, Science and more. Useful for education students.
An interface designed for public and school libraries with a focus on the arts, literature, biography, business and careers, current events, geography and culture, health, history, math, science and more.
Alternate Name(s) Explora for High Schools
An interface designed for students in grades 9 through 12 with a focus on the arts, literature, biography, business and careers, current events, geography and culture, health, history, math, science and more.

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Facts and Comparisons is a drug referential resource geared toward retail pharmacists, delivering evidence-based content and drug comparative tools and tables in an easy-to-use interface.
A resource for researchers of film and television, providing the most comprehensive, balanced collection of full-text and bibliographic coverage from scholarly and popular sources, and spanning the entire spectrum of film and television studies.
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The leading source of web-based digital video delivery service for all academic, vocational, and life-skills topics.
A collaborative effort between the Florence Nightingale Museum in London, England, the Boston University Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, the Royal College of Nursing and the Wellcome Library which compiles their holdings into a collaborative database consisting currently of more than 2,300 letters handwritten or narrated by Florence Nightingale that are now available to researchers through a single source.
Portuguese language scholarly resources. A resource for academic researchers, this multidisciplinary database provides extensive full-text coverage of Portuguese-language scholarly content. It is a rapidly growing collection of journals from Brazil and Portugal designed to make academic research readily available in PDF format.
Free access to 3,316 scholarly journals covering all medical topics.
Frontiers is a leading Open Access Publisher and Open Science Platform. 79 open-access journals covering 662 disciplines across academia.
Alternate Name(s) Spanish Language
Spanish language scholarly journal. A source for academic research, providing key coverage of major subject areas. Fuente Acadmica provides researchers with a collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain, designed to make academic research readily available in PDF format.
Over 25,000 basic, easy-to-read encyclopedia entries.

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Use this page to choose from all the Gale databases the library offers.
Collection of Reference eBooks on topics including: the arts, biographies, business, education, environment, history, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation & world, religion, social sciences, science, and technology.
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Access more than 14,000 pro/con essays, over 5,000 topic overviews, 5 million periodical articles, 6,000 statistical tables, charts, and graphs. Also includes images, podcasts, and court case overviews.
Biographical and critical information on literary figures from all time periods writing in genres such as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, journalism, and more.
Supported by Google Jigsaw, the GDELT Project monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages and identifies the people, locations, organizations, themes, sources, emotions, counts, quotes, images and events driving our global society every second of every day, creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world.
A gateway to thousands of scanned books, many of them full-text.
Find citations for scholarly periodical literature.
GovInfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch. GovInfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.
Access to over 9,000 full-text articles on topics including: global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
A collection of over 500 titles discussing the history and debate of gun regulation and legislation here in America.

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HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
130 publications covering topics such as staffing, health care regulation, health care facilities management, marketing, finance, and more.
Includes 80 full-text magazines, 130 full-text reference books, 9,900 Clinical Reference Systems reports, and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary.
Includes full-text of nearly 550 peer-reviewed full text scholarly journals on many medical disciplines.
Alternate Name(s) Accessible Archives
Accessible Archives has moved to History Commons. VU's subscription includes full-text access to Vincennes and regional newspapers scanned from the Lewis Historical Library collection.
Designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges and undergraduate research, this database features full text for thousands of primary source documents and informational texts.
Alternate Name(s) U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
The Holocaust Encyclopedia includes items on all aspects of the Holocaust and the central figures involved in the Nazi attempt to annihilate the Jewish population of Europe. In addition to the searchable entries of the Encyclopedia itself, the site, sponsored by the National Holocaust Museum, includes historical films, photographs, lists of book titles and scholarly journals, and guides to archival resources, among them a guide to oral histories. There are additional materials, such as a search of identity numbers, with biographies, and resources for the study of genocide in general.
Coverage of featured topics in homeland security, news digest collection, research tools, and policy and strategy documents from a variety of sources including federal, state, tribal, and local government agencies, professional organizations, think tanks, academic institutions, and international governing bodies.
Indiana's digital historic newspaper program, providing searchable and browsable access to Indiana newspaper articles from 1806 to 1974.
This database provides full text, abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as specialized magazines.

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A free public domain music library. Also contains music from composers who are willing to share their work. Here you can find lots of sheet music.
Provided by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. Includes IBRC publications InContext and Indiana Business Review. Also links STATSIndiana, a repository of statistic and demographic information, economic forecasts, and more.
Website includes information about wildlife, forestry, natural resources, hunting/fishing, conservation law, outdoor activities, state parks, historic preservation & archaeology, also the Indiana Big Tree Register.
Indiana Legacy combines existing Indiana State Library databases with the Vital INformation Exchange (VINE), a collaborative statewide database composed of Indiana local history and vital records from Indiana libraries, historical societies, genealogy societies, and related organizations. It is designed to allow participants and users to obtain access to Indiana local history and vital records through searching across all indexes or a single index. The database is searchable by county, event, or through a general surname search of all records. These records are available to the public at no charge and include a host of records such as: birth, marriage, death, divorce, obituaries, court records, newspapers, scrapbooks, yearbooks, military records, and many other record types.
One of the nation's oldest historical journals.
A collaborative effort to provide access to the wealth of primary sources in Indiana libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions. Includes digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, maps, and other media.
Periodical abstracting & indexing database. Includes free abstracts and selected free, full-text articles.
Databases and resources provided by the Indiana State Library for the use of Indiana residents.
A research tool for theatre and dance studies. In addition to all the comprehensive indexing of the International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance(IBTD), it contains full text for the top performing arts journals.
A comprehensive listing of manufacturers and suppliers serving major segments of the OEM industrial manufacturing marketplace across the United States and Canada.

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Alternate Name(s) General Laboratory Techniques
This collection demonstrates how to execute basic techniques commonly used in cellular and molecular biology.
Alternate Name(s) Lab Manual
Comprehensive, curriculum-focused videos for both instructors and students in introductory biology lab courses.
Access to 500,000 articles from over 200 core scholarly journals published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere.
Alternate Name(s) ARTstor
ARTstor has migrated to JSTOR! The ARTstor website will be retired August 1, 2024. With images on JSTOR, you can explore collections of images and primary sources from libraries, museums, and archives around the world. Discover new avenues of research and gain deeper understanding of your topics with original materials including artworks, photographs, publications, recordings, and other artifacts.
Thousands of Open Access ebooks are available from top scholarly publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press.
This growing collection of Open Access journals covers topical areas in sustainability and security studies, and offers broad coverage in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
More than 39,000 research reports from over 140 policy institutes around the world are freely accessible to everyone on JSTOR. Research reports provide current analysis on many of today’s most hotly debated issues from a diversity of perspectives from all corners of the world. Topics include climate change, cybersecurity, energy policy, international relations, terrorism, and various public health issues, including COVID-19.

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This website presents a rich and copiously illustrated guide to mineral wealth and other earth resources that shaped Indiana history. Beginning in 1787 with the establishment of the Northwest Territory and extending to 2018, the timeline traces the development of industries around mineral resources (coal, natural gas, cly, and iron ore) and profiles important benchmarks in the scientific understanding of Indiana's geology with maps and other documents.
Alternate Name(s) Test Prep
Organized into targeted learning centers, LearningExpress Library supports those looking to improve core academic skills, pass the GED, prepare for college, join the military, obtain occupational certification, find a job, change careers, become a U.S. citizen and much more.
The Lens makes the most of metadata, integrating multiple identifiers and sources so that more than 225 million scholarly works, 127 million global patent records, and 370 million patent sequences can be searched, collated, and analyzed. The Lens is a powerful tool for researchers, particularly those interested in global patent knowledge.
Lexicomp Online is an Internet-based platform delivering time sensitive drug information on an easy-to-use interface.
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photos, maps and manuscripts in their collections, both physical and online.
Indexes library, information science, and technology citations.
Free downloadable audio recordings of public-domain books.
A full-text database providing information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It gives students, teachers and librarians a complete foundation of literary reference works to meet any and all of their research or instructional needs.
eBook titles covering a broad range of literary-related subjects including literary criticism, study guides, and classics.

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Combines all of the quality content of both Magill On Literature and Magill On Authors in a fully integrated and enhanced single database. It is a source for editorially reviewed critical analyses, character studies, author biographies and plot summaries of the most studied literary works.
Access to 267 monographs and over 100,000 journal articles published in the U.S. between 1840-1900. Provided by Cornell University.
Includes full-text articles from nearly 1200 publications including general business periodicals, trade publications, management journals, and company profiles. Formerly known as Corporate Resource Net.
Designed for high school libraries. Periodicals contained in MAS Complete cover a wide range of subject areas that are of interest to high-school students including art, history, sports, music, film, travel, science, the Internet, fashion, religion, nature, hobbies, current events, fiction and much more.
MAS Reference eBook Collection is a full-text database of popular magazines, reference books and primary sources covering many subjects, including history, science and health.
Access to 1,700 full-text periodicals, 592,000 images including maps and flags, and over 500 full-text reference books. Topics covered include: general reference, business, health, education, general science, and multicultural issues.
This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects. Topics include biography, history, careers, cooking, literature, genealogy, health, parenting, personal finance, politics, architecture, science, current events, social-emotional health, sports, and travel.
Access to 290 U.S., regional, and international newspapers. Updated daily.
The Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) is a pioneer in scholarly open access publishing and has supported academic communities since 1996. Based in Basel, Switzerland, MDPI has the mission to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines.
Full-text database providing access to top-tier biomedical and health journals. Covering a wide range of subjects, it is an essential resource for doctors, nurses, health professionals and researchers engaged in clinical care, public health and health policy development.
Free website provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. Provides information on diseases, conditions, wellness, treatments, drugs, supplements, medical terminology, and clinical trials.
For over 120 years The Merck Index has been regarded as the most authoritative and reliable source of information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals. Now this trusted resource is available online from the Royal Society of Chemistry. The Merck Index Online offers the same highly authoritative information as the print edition in a convenient and easily searchable full text database. It contains over 11,500 monographs – including historic records not available in the print edition. The Merck Index Online will be updated regularly with accurate information curated by experts.
Free access to the professional and consumer versions of this medical information resource.
Search the most up-to-date and comprehensive medical dictionary from the reference experts at Merriam-Webster.
The Microbiology Society is one of the largest microbiology societies in Europe with a worldwide membership based in universities, industry, hospitals, research institutes and schools offering all open access content.
Healthcare providers can equip their clinicians with current, rapid, reliable insights at the point of care with clinical decision support solutions from Micromedex.
Full-text of more than 140 middle school magazines and thousands of photos, maps, and flags. Useful for education students.
Multidisciplinary ebook collection for middle school students.
Current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. This collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and offers indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles. Some publications covered in this database include Air Force Comptroller, Defence Studies, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more.
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The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information. Includes GeneBank, Entrez, Cancer Genome Database, Human Genome Database, etc.
Alternate Name(s) NCAC
NCAC’s mission is to promote freedom of thought, inquiry and expression and oppose censorship in all its forms.
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), a bipartisan organization serving U.S. law and policymakers, provides objective, fact- and evidence-based research across 1,400-plus issue areas, including agriculture, budget and taxes, education, health care, immigration, and more. Users can access up-to-date information on pending legislation and new research resources. Results can be refined by topic, policy type, date, availability of databases, graphics, maps, tables, and more.
Free access to criminal justice information sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Executive Office of the President. Topics include: corrections, courts, crime, crime prevention, drugs, justice system, juvenile justice, law enforcement, and victims.
Website of the government agency that supports research on the health aspects of drug abuse and addiction. NIDA's missionis to advance science on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public health.
Cover-to-cover full-text for more than 40 national and international newspapers, 330 full-text regional newspapers, full-text TV and radio news transcripts from CBS, CNN, CNN International, Fox, and NPR.
EBSCO's Newswires provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wireon a continuous basis. This content is monitored by EBSCO and relevant results are provided when users enter searches in EBSCOhost. This collection includes AP Financial News, AP Top News, AP WorldStream, AP U.S. Politics & Government, AP 50 State Reports, UPI Security Industry, UPI Emerging Threats, UPI Business, UPI Entertainment, UPI Sports, UPI Top News, Arabia 2000, and more. End users can immediately access the full text of the web content, by following the link in the record. The index to the full text content in EBSCO Newswires is held for a rolling 30-day archive by EBSCO.
Abstracting and indexing for over 850 journals, with over 715 titles in full text and more than 12,000 full-text dissertations on topics including: cytology, nursing, nutrition, oncology, pediatric care, pharmacology, public health, and radiology.
Provides free and open access to over 800,000 images scanned from items in the New York Public Library's collections.

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Access to all types of official United Nations documents beginning in 1993. Older items are added on a daily basis. Also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onward.
Ohio University offers free access to its rich digitized collections, which include fully catalogued and described manuscripts, photographs, fine art, Civil War correspondence, and much more.
A powerful English thesaurus and brainstorming tool that lets you describe what you're looking for in plain terms. Find synonyms, related words, adjectives, rhymes, and more!
Free access to over one million books.
An extensive library of free stock photos, images, and audio, available for free use. Offers access to more than ten million images freely available across 13 providers. Formerly known as Creative Commons.
The Orange Book identifies drug products approved on the basis of safety and effectiveness by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) and related patent and exclusivity information. Data files are updated monthly.
A collection of journals for nursing students and professionals.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 600,000 words, past and present, from across the English-speaking world.

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This unique resource combines AI technology with web search capabilities, allowing users to conduct conversational, natural-language-based queries and receive responsive results accompanied by citations and links to relevant sources. The ad-free platform relies on the Perplexity Copilot, a tool that aks follow-up questions, summarizes the most relevant findings, and pulls from a variety of vetted, traceable sources. The free plan allows five Copilot queries every four hours.
Provides reports of public opinion polls, demographic research, media content analysis, and other empirical social science research.
Provided by the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service. Includes information on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens in the U.S. and its territories. Also includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, crop information, automated tools, web links, and references.
This unique resource covers classic and historical plays, along with the works of contemporary playwrights. Play Index covers new editions and translations, and includes descriptive annotations to summarize the plot and indicate musical requirements.
Containing resources that present multiple sides of an issue, this database provides rich content that can help students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.
Provides free full-text access to open access dissertations and theses.
Contains 82 full-text elementary school magazines and thousands of photos, maps, and flags. Particularly useful for education students.
Designed for elementary school libraries, Primary Search is a full-text database providing popular children’s magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedic entries and a vast image collection. Students can learn about a variety of topics, including endangered species, famous musicians, fitness and space exploration.
Access to 508 full-text journals (339 of them peer-reviewed), and nearly 230 educational reports.
Free digital access to over 50,000 public-domain books available for reading online or in multiple downloadable formats.
Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves.
The Coronavirus Research Database is a collection of journal articles, preprints, conference proceedings, dissertations and more related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. It includes comprehensive research background coverage of past pandemics and epidemics, like MERS and SARS, to give researchers and students context around the current global crisis.
Ebooks from university presses and other scholarly sources.
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A good starting point for research on any topic. Provides access to over 3,600 full-text journals on topics including: the arts, business, education, health and medical, humanities, law, military, multicultural studies, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's studies.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection provides access to hundreds of full-text journals and offers particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and various areas of counseling.
Free access to journals, some peer-reviewed, on topics like biology, medicine, genetics, computational biology, pathogens, neglected tropical diseases, and more.
Free access to over 1,700 scholarly biomedical and life science journals.
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The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material and provides these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue.

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Collection of eBooks covering topics including medicine, nursing, allied health, and consumer health.
Read It! is designed for middle and high school students and anyone who has a basic foundation in English grammar and reading but needs adapted reading material for a variety of subjects. The customized articles and practice quizzes support ELL success and promote reading comprehension across a variety of school subjects and life skill areas. Read It! also offers resources to help build background knowledge, conduct research and improve study skills.
This full-text database provides searchable full text as well as abstracting and indexing for a broad selection of the most popular periodicals.
This comprehensive database offers content from a variety of sources, including an inclusive collection of images, health reports, and full text for reference books and general interest magazines in a broad array of subject areas. Additionally, the resource covers a full spectrum of Spanish-language scholarships inside and outside academia.
Formerly Business Wire News. Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
With hundreds of full-text and scholarly journals, the Religion & Philosophy Collection provides an in-depth collection of resources covering topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. The Religion & Philosophy Collection provides coverage of key theological and philosophical resources spanning over 100 years.
Recognized as a leader in technology-based language learning, Rosetta Stone offers libraries and their patrons their proven immersion method.

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Online reference eBooks including Magill's Literary Annual, Masterplots, Decades(America in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s), Applied Science, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society, Forensic Science, etc.
The Science Reference eBook Collection is a collection of over 230 reference books from top educational publishers and university presses.
A research database providing easy access to a wealth of full-text, science-oriented content. Designed to meet student researcher's needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and other reliable sources. In addition, the database includes a vast collection of images from sources such as UPI, Getty, NASA, National Geographic and the Nature Picture Library.
U.S. government information and research results from the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, the Interior and Transportation, Environmental Protection Agency, Library of Congress, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Archives and Records Administration, and the National Science Foundation.
Provides detailed indexing for hundreds of thousands of short stories, this database is an essential resource for readers seeking short stories by author or genre, and for those researching the body of work of a particular literary figure.
Provides authoritative insight into the most-studied social issues by delivering the pros and cons from relevant, credible documents and graphics selected by trained editors and curated from over 2,000 global sources. Topics include business & economic, civil rights & liberties, communication & technology, crime & punishment, drugs, health & wellness, environment & science, ethics, school, family & youth, world cultures & poitics.
A collection of over 1,000 titles and essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English speaking world, including every federal, state, and colony statue dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases dealing with the topic.
This database offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as the necessary tools and instructions to address a wide-range of small business topics. In addition, it provides business videos, a help and advice section, and information on how to create business plans.
The Small Business Reference eBook Collection contains reference books from top educational publishers and presses. This encompasses a rich selection of titles centered on sustainable and ethical business practices for small businesses.
Search Smithsonian's collections, ranging from art, to air and space, science, nature, technology, history, and people and places.
Social Sciences Full Text provides sources covering a wide array of subjects, including addiction studies, ethics, public welfare, urban studies and more. Covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences, this full-text resource provides access to the most important English-language social science journals.
Indiana statistical information provided by more than 100 federal and state agencies, commercial, and private data sources. Topics include: economics, demographics, industry, education, health care, population, taxes, workforce and unemployment, agriculture and more.
An exciting digital archive that houses over 2,000 radio programs created by broadcaster Studs Terkel during his decades-long career at Chicago's WFMT. Additional features include curatorial commentary, educational curricula, opportunities to reuse and remix audio, and an original podcast.
Website of the public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that works to support the behavioral health of the country. Incorporates information on health initiatives, current statistics, grant opportunities, and links to where to find help and treatment.

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A complimentary research database for teachers, Teacher Reference Center (TRC) provides indexing and abstracts for more than 230 peer-reviewed journals.
A collection of 225,000+ digital materials about children's and young adult books. Find author interviews, video book trailers, read-alongs, discussion questions, vocabulary lists, and more.
(VU Faculty & Staff -- enter your work email, click 'Sign in' and follow the prompts.)
(Students -- contact libref@vinu.edu for username and password.)
Informative and entertaining verbal presentations on a variety of topics.
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Princeton University Press proudly presents The Digital Einstein Papers, an open-access site for The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, the ongoing publication of Einstein's massive written legacy comprising more than 30,000 unique documents. The site presents 15 volumes published to date by the editors of the Einstein Papers Project, covering the writings and correspondence of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) from his youth to 1927. The volumes are presented in the original language version with in-depth English language annotation and other scholarly apparatus. In addition, the reader can toggle to an English language translation of most documents.
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The MLA Style Center is the only authorized Web site on MLA style. A companion to the MLA Handbook, the site provides students and educators with a host of free resources for teaching and learning the MLA’s approach to research, writing, and documentation. It offers a quick guide to citing any source according to the MLA format template, a practice template, a Q&A feature with hundreds of citation examples, a blog of writing tips, guidelines for formatting a paper and avoiding plagiarism, sample papers, lesson plans, worksheets, and other classroom resources submitted by users. Additional teaching resources are in development.
Free access to information on sourcing components, equipment, MRO products, raw materials, and custom manufacturing services. Find suppliers, source products, download 2D and 3D CAD drawings, and read product news.
Full-Text for 150,000 articles from 475 publications including: international newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, books reviews, pamphlets, and government information.

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Website of US government agency includes updated information about endangered species.
Alternate Name(s) AGRICOLA, PubAg, NAL Digital Collections (NALDC)
The USDA National Agricultural Library’s main search tool containing AGRICOLA, PubAg, and the NAL Digital Collections (NALDC) together in one place. It provides simple, one-stop access to more than 8 million records covering all aspects of agriculture and related disciplines.

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French language business journals. A tool for both academic and professional researchers, Vente et Gestion provides full-text access to a wide variety of content relevant to business and related subjects, sourced from top French language journals on business and industry.
Browse over 60,000 professionally made video and article guides on a large range of topics.
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Designed to meet a wide variety of vocational and technical research needs, this collection provides full-text coverage for trade and industry-related periodicals for high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public.
Designed specifically for the research needs of two-year colleges, this full-text resource offers comprehensive coverage of scholarly content most relevant to vocational programs.

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News Harvester provides near real-time access to thousands of top news feeds from around the globe. These feeds are monitored by EBSCO and relevant results are provided when users enter searches in EBSCOhost. This collection includes over 5,000 feeds across a range of business and general news topics.
This resource makes available significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
Listing AM/FM radio stations by their broadcasting frequencies, this site allows users to tune in from their computer or mobile device. Station choices range across the world, including Chicago, Shanghai, Delhi, Kingston, and many more. Users can select cities from a map or from a comprehensive list. Radio stations stream in a variety of formats, including WMA, MP3, and RealAudio.
The WTO's webpage includes links to data about tariffs, trade disputes, and other matters related to international business.
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