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  • Provides access to whole articles, in addition to citations and abstracts.
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Large general database of articles from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers on many topics. Covers science, social sciences, mathematics, engineering, and many other subjects. Full-text coverage: 1887-present (EBSCOhost)
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Find over 70,000 online video titles in a broad range of subjects from publishers like PBS, BBC, National Geographic, BroadwayHD, A&E Networks, and more. (ProQuest)
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Contains full-text articles from the journals, magazines, and conference proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery, the world's oldest and largest educational and scientific computing society. Full-text coverage: 1936-present (Association for Computing Machinery)
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Offers comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Essentially, these articles synthesize current scholarly opinion and output on a given topic. Full-text coverage: 2000-2016 (Annual Reviews)
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  • Available for free via open access
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Open access to over one million e-prints in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. (Cornell University)
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Access thousands of ebooks from Cambridge University Press on a variety of topics. (Cambridge)
  • Provides access to whole articles, in addition to citations and abstracts.
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Cambridge University Press currently publishes more than 420 peer-reviewed academic journals covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine. (Cambridge)
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Communication studies database with full-text, indexing, and abstracts for many top communication journals covering all related disciplines, including media studies, linguistics, rhetoric, and discourse. Full-text coverage: 1915-present (EBSCOhost)
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Indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources pertaining to engineering, computer theory and systems, and new technologies in their social and professional contexts. Full-text coverage: 1965-present (EBSCOhost)
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This database provides access to thousands of open access ebooks.
  • Provides access to whole articles, in addition to citations and abstracts.
  • Available for free via open access
This database covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
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Search hundreds of documentary videos on a variety of subjects and watch them online. (Docuseek)
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Electronic books by university presses and other scholarly publishers, as well as a collection of older titles by major authors. Formerly NetLibrary. (EBSCOhost)
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Choose from multiple databases within the EBSCO platform. These databases cover a wide range of subjects, including history, communications, sociology, religion, biology etc.
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[LIMITED FULL-TEXT] Access thousands of ebooks from the premier scientific publisher. Please note that we only have access to a limited number, in addition to the ones that are published as open access. Ask a librarian for more info! (Elsevier)
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Watch streaming videos from such publishers as the BBC, History Education, HBO, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Frontline, National Geographic and more. Topics range from health and medicine to history to biology and many more. (Infobase)
  • Provides access to whole articles, in addition to citations and abstracts.
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Scholarly journal articles from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. Covers most subjects, but particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion, sociology. Full-text coverage: 1922-present (EBSCOhost)
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A set of electronic encyclopedias and reference books covering a wide variety of subjects and disciplines, such as health and medicine, history, and criminal justice. (Gale)
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This database contains topic overviews, experiments, biographies, articles, links to quality websites, pictures, and illustrations in all areas of science, including biology, chemistry, earth and environmental science, physics, and more. Full-text coverage: 1984-present (Gale)
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Contains video oral history interviews of many important African Americans from all walks of life. Rather than focusing on a single subject, such as their career or participation in the civil rights movement, the interviews cover their entire span of memories. The archive continues to grow with new videos added daily and memories stretching from 1890s to the present. (HistoryMakers)
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Access technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. This includes full-text journals, magazines, transactions, conference proceedings, and active IEEE standards. Full-text coverage: 1872-present (IEEE)
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Stream a broad selection of thousands of documentaries, feature films, and training videos on all topics from thousands of producers, including Criterion Collection, PBS, HBO, The Great Courses, California Newsreel, Kino Lorber, BBC, and many more. (Kanopy)
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Large database covering many topics, such as general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues, and more. Includes full-text of many reference books, primary source documents, as well as a vast image collection. Full-text coverage: 1921-present (EBSCOhost)
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Covers a broad range of topics, including biography, history, careers, cooking, literature, genealogy, health, parenting, personal finance, politics, architecture, science, current events, social-emotional health, sports, and travel. (EBSCO)
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We have access to ebooks in the Essential Knowledge series, which offer concise overviews on a variety of topics. (MIT Press)
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A collection of thousands of ebooks covering a wide variety of technology, engineering, computer science, and business topics. (ProQuest)
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Access online encyclopedias, handbooks, and dictionaries published by Oxford on a wide variety of topics. (Oxford University Press)
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Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Full-text coverage: 1743-present (ProQuest)
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Access thousands of ebooks on a wide variety of topics. (ProQuest)
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  • eBooks and eAudioBooks
Access thousands of ebooks on a wide variety of topics. (ProQuest)
  • Provides access to whole articles, in addition to citations and abstracts.
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Search over 90 databases on different scientific disciplines all at once. Full-text coverage: 1902-present (ProQuest)
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Search our library catalog to find ebooks, articles, physical books, etc. (Ex Libris)
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[LIMITED FULL-TEXT] Access thousands of ebooks from this scientific publisher. Please note we do not have access to all ebooks in this database. (Springer)
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Access the largest online video archive of design, animation, and VFX projects. Stash gives you streaming access to thousands of outstanding films plus behind-the-scenes extras and exclusive interviews with the creators. (Stash Media)
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This database pulls together data and statistics from thousands of sources on many different topics. Download the charts and graphs provided in this database and incorporate them into your presentations. Much of the focus is on demographic data, company data, and market trends. (Statista)
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[LIMITED FULL-TEXT] Access thousands of scholarly ebooks on a wide range of subject areas. Please note we only have access to a select number of ebooks through this database. (Taylor & Francis)
  • Provides access to whole articles, in addition to citations and abstracts.
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Provides full text coverage for French language business journals. Includes publications covering topics such as accounting & tax, administration, industry & manufacturing, marketing, logistics, technology and others. Full-text coverage: 1982-present (EBSCOhost)
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Journals and ebooks cover a variety of disciplines, including the fields of arts and humanities, business and economics, engineering, law, medicine, social sciences, sciences, and technology. Full-text coverage: 1977-present (Wiley)
  • Available for free via open access
Online catalog to thousands of the world's libraries. If it's held in a library somewhere around the world, a record of it is in this database. Items include books, films, journals, magazines, manuscripts, musical scores, newspapers, slides, sound recordings, and videos/DVDs. (OCLC)
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