Quick Links to Databases

General Subject Databases - Use these databases to find articles on all subjects.  For more specific subject databases, look at the Subject list in the tab to the right.

EBSCO - Open EBSCO and select any or all of the following resources or follow individual database links below.

• Academic Search Premier
• Alternative Press Index
• eBook Collection
• eBook Academic Collection
• eBook Community College Collection 
• MasterFILE Premier
• MAS Ultra - School Edition
• Middle Search Plus
• Newspaper Source
• Points of View Reference Center
• Primary Search
• The Serials Directory

Gale - Open Gale and select any or all of the following resources or follow individual database links below.

• Academic OneFile
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• General OneFile
• InfoTrac K-12 Student Edition
• Kids InfoBits
• Research in Context

ProQuest

• ebrary (Accessible via ProQuest Ebook Central) - Thousands of full-text eBooks spanning multiple subject areas.
• eLibrary - Magazines, newspapers, reference books, transcripts, maps, pictures, websites, and audio-visual files.
• Publicly Available Content Database - Designed to complement other databases and collections, this database brings together or links to full text for publicly available scholarly content from a number of different sources from around the world. It includes content from major subject repositories such as arXiv as well as open access journals. Content includes journal articles, pre-prints, books, conference papers and reports. 

Kanopy - Fiction and non-fiction streaming movies database.

Nexis Uni (Formerly LexisNexis) - Newspapers, business and industry reports, and legal information including law reviews, federal and state laws, and individual cases.

Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas - from ABC-CLIO.  This database is organized chronologically from 1900 through the new millennium, with each topic center devoted to a unique decade in American history.

Overdrive - A collection of downloadable eBooks and eAudiobooks

Biography in Context - From Gale.

Note: For additional biographical resources, try the "Encyclopedias and Reference" option in the "By Resource Type" tab.  You can also find biographical resources in eLibrary, found under the letter "E" in the A-Z list tab.

EBSCO - Open EBSCO and select any or all of the following resources or follow individual database links below.

• Literary Reference Center 
  • Combining information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals and original content from EBSCO, it  features an expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries and full-text essays from leading publishers. It also includes literary reference books and monographs, cover-to-cover full text for literary magazines and book reviews from the most prestigious publications. It offers poems from hundreds of sources, short stories, classic texts, author interviews and much more.

Gale - Open Gale and select the following resources or follow individual database links below.

• Literature Resource Center (LRC) 
  • Literature Resource Center is Gale’s most current, comprehensive and reliable online literature database offering the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works including a deep collection of full-text critical and literary analysis. The database provides researchers with unbounding evidence to support their literary responses and thesis statements through a diversity of scholars and critics that ensure all views and perspectives are represented.

Salem Press Literature eBooks - View the full-text of a collection of eBooks from Salem Press. The Literature collection includes both literary criticism and in-depth biographical resources.

EBSCO - Open EBSCO and select the following resources or follow individual database links below.

• Alternative Press Index
• Associated Press Images Collection
• Newspaper Source
• Points of View Reference Center
• Regional Business News

Gale - Open Gale and select the following resources or follow individual database links below:

• Global Issues in Context
• InfoTrac Newsstand
• The New York Times

Infobase - Open Infobase and select the following resources or follow individual database links below.

• Facts On File Issues & Controversies - Issues & Controversies helps researchers understand the crucial issues we face today, exploring more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.

ProQuest - Open ProQuest and select the following resources or follow individual database links below.

• Boston Globe - Full-text access to the Boston Globe from 1980 on.
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Boston Globe - Full-text access to The Boston Globe covering 1872 to 1985.
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Globe and Mail - Full-text access to The Globe and Mail covering 1844 to 2013. 
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: South China Morning Post - Full-text access to the South China Morning Post covering 1903 to 1997. 

CQ Researcher - Lengthy, original, and comprehensive reports and analysis on current events.

eLibrary - Magazines, newspapers, reference books, transcripts, maps, pictures, websites, and audio-visual files.

Ethnic NewsWatch - Over 200 publications of the ethnic, minority and native press; searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages and more than 100,000 articles in Spanish.

Nexis Uni - Choose the "News" box or the Advanced Search option. Good resource for International English language newspapers.

CQ Researcher - Lengthy, original, and comprehensive reports and analysis on current news topics such as health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.

• Reports include history of issues and analysis of multiple sides of each issue.
• Reports run from 1923 to present.

Facts on File Issues & Controversies - Issues & Controversies helps researchers understand the crucial issues we face today, exploring more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.

• Updated weekly, with links to a 12-year back-file, Issues & Controversies offers in-depth articles made to inspire thought-provoking debates.
• This database is great for research papers and debate prep.
• From Infobase.

Facts on File Issues & Controversies in American History - This accessible educational database delivers dynamic, concise, and balanced coverage that provides the background, outcome, and contemporary points of view for every major debate and conflict in American history.  From Infobase.

Global Issues in Context - Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events.

• Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues.
• From Gale.

Points of View Reference Center - A collection of topic overviews and analysis presenting both sides of many current and controversial issues.

• Great for opinion and argument papers. From EBSCO.