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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window This database provides full text for more than 8,500 periodicals (magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals), including full text for nearly 7,300 peer-reviewed titles, in all subject areas. The database includes PDF content going back as far as 1887. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.

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CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window Provides abstracts and full text of journals articles and books covering nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Also offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals, and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,350 journals are also included.

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Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window Provides abstracts and full text articles from journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study, some dating as far back as 1915. Also includes over 5,400 Author Profiles, providing biographical data and bibliographic information for the most frequently searched for authors in the database.

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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Contains the full text of over 1,000 encyclopedias, dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, and other reference books covering all major subject areas. Thousands of Topics Pages provide articles from different reference sources, arranged by subject. Includes “gadgets” for finding images, definitions, people, pronunciations, quotations, and measurement conversations, as well as a concept map feature for help identifying keywords and broadening or narrowing a topic. Additional features include videos, maps, and animations.

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EBSCO Databases Search This link opens in a new window Searches these databases: Academic Search; AHFS Consumer Medication; Alt HealthWatch; America: History & Life; AP NewsMonitor; CINAHL; Comm & Mass Media; Criminal Justice; eBooks; ERIC; European Views of Americas; Funk & Wagnalls; GreenFILE, Health Source; History Ref Ctr; Library, Info Science & Tech; MagillOnLit; MAS Ultra; MasterFILE; MEDLINE, Military & Govt; Newspaper Source; PsycARTICLES; Psych & Behavioral Sci; Regional Bus; Science; Voc & Career; Web News.

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Gale Literarature This link opens in a new window Provides access to Literature Resource Center, Literature Criticism Online (which includes Contemporary Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism), and Gale Ebooks in a single research environment. Includes primary sources, critical articles, literary and cultural analysis, and biographies.

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JSTOR This link opens in a new window Provides full text articles from scholarly journals in a range of subject areas in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences, dating from the first issue (sometimes going back over 100 years) until five years ago. The Luria Library subscription includes the following collections: Arts & Sciences II; Arts & Sciences III; and Life Sciences.

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Los Angeles Times This link opens in a new window Provides the full text of articles from the Los Angeles Times from 1988 to the present.

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New York Times This link opens in a new window

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New York Times Website Access This link opens in a new window Access the full online version of the New York Times through the Luria Library subscription package. This link takes you to a page outlining how to activate and access NYT using the subscription

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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Provides the full text of news, business, and legal sources, including: current and back issues of local, regional, national, and international newspapers; television and radio transcripts; newswires; blogs; information on more than 80 million U.S. and international companies and more than 75 million executives; law reviews and journals; and the Shepard's® Citations Service for all federal and state court cases and statutes back to 1789.

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Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window An excellent source of pro/con information, providing opinions and other information on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Includes continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.

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Project MUSE This link opens in a new window Provides complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals in subject areas such as: ethnic studies; art and architecture; literature; education; film; theatre and performing arts; history; language; medicine and health; philosophy; religion; science, technology, and math; social sciences; and gender and sexuality. Contains over 525 journals, 335 of which are full text. An good source of scholarly articles for advanced literary criticism.

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US Newsstream This link opens in a new window Provides full-text access to current U.S. news content from newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites. Archives dating back to the 1980s are also included. Specific titles include: New York Times; Los Angeles Times; Wall Street Journal; Christian Science Monitor; Washington Post; and USA Today, as well as hundreds of local and regional newspapers.

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New / Trial Databases

The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.

African American Studies Center This link opens in a new window The Oxford African American Studies Center provides more than 20,000 articles by top scholars in the field, with over 2,500 images, more than 700 primary sources with specially written commentaries, and nearly 200 maps have been collected to enhance this reference content.

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Salem Press This link opens in a new window This database provides online access to all of the Grey House Publishing books purchased by the library. These include The Reference Shelf Series, Magill's Literary Annual, and history titles. Use this database to search for current comprehensive, balanced coverage of an issue of importance in modern society (The Reference Shelf Series), information on 20th and 21st century authors (Magill's Literary Annual), and historical topics.

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Alternate Name(s): Reference Shelf Series, Magill's Literary Annuals

Swank Streaming Video This link opens in a new window Swank Digital Campus provides colleges and universities with streaming video, including over 30,000 films, documentaries and TV shows

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