Research Databases

Research Databases by Subject

Reference

• Academic Search Premier — Periodical articles for research in all academic disciplines. For peer reviewed, select "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" on basic search screen.
• CIA World Fact Book — Open access information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Provides a variety of maps, flags of the world and ability to compare countries in 75 fields.
• Credo Reference — Credo’s Academic Core Collection provides full-text background information covering over 80 major subject disciplines and more than 6 million research concepts from encyclopedias, handbooks, guides, companions, and readers. Credo also provides access to more than 1,000 videos and animations, as well as 500,000 contextual visual aids, images, photographs and maps.
• Encyclopedia of Life — Open access books, journals, databases, and videos focusing on different life forms from across the globe.
• Films on Demand — Streaming video collections offering curriculum-focused content in humanities & social sciences; business & economics; science & mathematics; health & medicine; technical education; family & consumer sciences; careers & job search; guidance & counseling. Thousands of full-length programs and video segments with new titles added monthly.
• Gale Academic OneFile — Articles from periodicals and reference sources in all academic disciplines. For peer reviewed, select “to peer-reviewed publications.”
• Gale OneFile: Biography — Biographical information on noteworthy individuals from past and present across all disciplines and subject areas.
• Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine — Articles in nursing, allied health, and medical journals, magazines, newspapers, and reference books. For peer reviewed, select "to peer-reviewed publications."
• Gale OneFile: Health and Wellness — Articles from reference books, pamphlets, and journals on health topics. For peer reviewed, use "refereed publications".
• Gale OneFile: Opposing Viewpoints — Topic overviews and articles on social issues and current event topics, including statistics, government data, primary documents, legislation, and more.
• Gale OneFile: Science — Reference, magazine, news, and journal articles, experiments, and multimedia for science related research.
• Gale OneFile: U.S. History — Reference, magazine, news, and journal articles, primary source documents, and multimedia covering pre-Colonial times to the present.
• Gale OneFile: World History — Reference, magazine, news, and journal articles, primary source documents, multimedia, and more on world history topics.
• Google Scholar — Open access scholarly literature, articles, journals and conference papers, theses and dissertations, academic books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports, court opinions and patents. All broad areas of research, from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, university repositories, and websites.
• Hathi Trust — The largest set of open access ebooks, with millions of titles, covering a broad set of scholarly interests.
• LibriVox (Audio books) — Download open access audiobooks in a wide range of genres and subjects.
• Literary Reference Center — A comprehensive literary reference database with articles from books and monographs, literary encyclopedias, reference works, and journals.
• Literature Online (LION) — English and American literature resources, including journals, biographies, criticism, related websites, and complete text of poetry, prose, and drama works.
• Literature Resource Center — Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.
• MasterFile Premier — Articles from general reference publications, including magazines, newspapers, journals, reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and images.
• Merriam Webster — Open access online dictionary and thesaurus including print and digital language references.
• Nursing Reference Center Plus — Current information about nursing best practices for diseases, skills and procedures, drug information, patient education, practice resources, and continuing education.
• Points of View Reference Center — Overviews and arguments presenting multiple sides of current issues; includes essays, articles from magazines and newspapers, radio and TV news manuscripts, primary source documents, reference books, and images.
• ProQuest Central — Periodical articles from 39 specialized databases in all major subject areas, including thousands of newspapers from around the world. Options for limiting to peer reviewed and scholarly journals are on the basic search screen.
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — An open access reference source from Stanford University and The Metaphysics Research Lab for philosophy.
• U.S. Code via LII — Public access to U.S. laws and Codes with legal encyclopedias of business, constitutional, criminal, family, employment, and money and finances law provided by the Legal Information Institute (LII), a project of Cornell Law School.
• USA Facts — Provides understandable open access government data and analysis on U.S. spending and outcomes for business and economy, government finances, people and society, and security and safety.
• World Digital Library — A project of the Library of Congress providing open access primary materials, timelines, and interactive maps from all countries and cultures from 8000 BCE to 2000