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Business Source Premier
Business Source PremierProvides “full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles and full text back to 1886. Searchable cited references date back to 1998. Provides full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.” Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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Consumer Health Complete
A “comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients’ information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. In addition, it includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs. The database is updated on a weekly basis.” Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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Entrepreneurial Studies Source
Provides “the latest insight into topics relevant to entrepreneurship and small business. This database offers users full text for more than 125 key periodicals, 135 reference books, case studies, thousands of company profiles and over 600 videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Series and Vator.TV.” Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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Hoover's Online
Business ResourceBusiness data on companies, corporate leaders, and industries. Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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JSTOR
from ITHAKA, a non-profit organization of scholarsat Cottey JSTOR is focused on Business, Humanities and Fine Arts articles in full text from a large number of scholarly journals. Some publications withhold access to articles in the most recent 2 to 5 years. Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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Regional Business News
Provides “comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications, incorporating coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.” Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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EBSCO
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Academic Search Complete
The most comprehensive database at Cottey. Scholarly, “multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.” Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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EBSCOhost
The quickest way to find large amounts of resources on almost every topic. In addition to providing a number of subscription databases containing articles from scholarly journals and popular magazines. Cite each EBSCOhost source as a library subscription database.
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ERIC
(Education Resources Information Center sponsored by the U. S. Department of Education)The largest database in the field of Education, containing “more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.” Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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Flipster
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Humanities International Complete
Provides “full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,300 journals and more than 2.9 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 1,200 journals.” Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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MEDLINE
from EBSCO and the U.S. National Library of MedicineProvides “authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created for doctors by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.” Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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Missouri Digital Heritage
from the Missouri State ArchivesRecords of “enduring historical value from institutions throughout the state of Missouri,” including documents, photographs, maps and other materials. Cite this source as a web site.
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MLA International Bibliography
from EBSCO and the Modern Language Association“Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.” “. . . contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.” This database provides some full text. Use the interlibrary loan service to request the full article if it is not available online. Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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Newspaper Source
Provides “cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.” Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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Points of View
Short articles that give both sides of an argument. Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, it is “the most comprehensive collection” of full text education journals in the world. This database “provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.” Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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PsycARTICLES
Sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA), it is a definitive source of full-text, “peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains over 150,000 articles from nearly 80 journals published by the APA, and its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychology Association and Hogrefe Publishing Group.” Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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Public Affairs Index
A “bibliographic database covering all aspects of global contemporary public policy issues ranging from public health, the environment, housing, human and civil rights, to international conflict and natural disasters. It draws on a diverse array of scholarly publications, conference papers, government documents and current reference works to provide up-to-date information on the broad range of topics of concern to the world today.” This database provides citations and abstracts. Use the interlibrary loan service to request the full article. Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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Regional Business News
Provides “comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications, incorporating coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.” Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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Science Reference Center
A “comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.” Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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Violence and Abuse Abstracts
Bibliographic records “covering essential areas related to violence and abuse, including family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 21,500 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.” This database provides citations and abstracts. Use the interlibrary loan service to request the full article. Cite this source as a library subscription database.
Gale Databases
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Gale Databases
Databases on Business, Education Curriculum, and a Literature Resource Center. Cite this source as a library subscription database
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Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context
Opposing Viewpoints in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today’s hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
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Gale US History In Context
U.S. History in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. The new solution merges Gale’s authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
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Gale Global Issues In Context
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. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique “perspectives” articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia – including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs – enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.
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Gale LCO: Contemporary Literary Criticism Current Subscription
Gale™ takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online. Imagine centuries of analysis – the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals – delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. It’s all designed to raise the level of research while providing the around-the-clock remote access that today’s researchers demand.
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Gale LCO: Literature Criticism 1400-1800 Current Subscription
Gale™ takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online. Imagine centuries of analysis – the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals – delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. It’s all designed to raise the level of research while providing the around-the-clock remote access that today’s researchers demand.
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Gale LCO: Twentieth Century Literary Criticism Current Subscription
Gale™ takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online. Imagine centuries of analysis – the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals – delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. It’s all designed to raise the level of research while providing the around-the-clock remote access that today’s researchers demand.
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Gale Artemis Literary Sources
Artemis Literary Sources integrates full-text literary content with metadata and subject indexing and provides workflow tools to analyze information. You can research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search across your library’s Literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.
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Gale: Diversity Studies Collection
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Gale: Psychology Collection
History
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AD ACCESS
Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories – Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda – dated between 1911 and 1955.” Cite this source as a web site.
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American Women Through Time
Designed by Ken Middleton of Middle Tennessee State University Library.A “timeline that links specific events with relevant online sources, such as diaries and letters, photograph collections, and lectures by historians.” Cite this source as a web site.
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Arts & Letters Daily
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Discovering American Women's History Online
Designed by Ken Middleton of Middle Tennessee State UniversityProvides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that “document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers from the 1970s.” Cite this source as a web site.
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Gale US History In Context
U.S. History in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. The new solution merges Gale’s authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
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Gale LCO: Contemporary Literary Criticism Current Subscription
Gale™ takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online. Imagine centuries of analysis – the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals – delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. It’s all designed to raise the level of research while providing the around-the-clock remote access that today’s researchers demand.
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Gale LCO: Literature Criticism 1400-1800 Current Subscription
Gale™ takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online. Imagine centuries of analysis – the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals – delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. It’s all designed to raise the level of research while providing the around-the-clock remote access that today’s researchers demand.
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Gale LCO: Twentieth Century Literary Criticism Current Subscription
Gale™ takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online. Imagine centuries of analysis – the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals – delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. It’s all designed to raise the level of research while providing the around-the-clock remote access that today’s researchers demand.
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LIFE Photo Archive
hosted by Google“Search millions of photographs from the the LIFE Magazine photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.” Cite this source as a web site.
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Missouri Digital Heritage
from the Missouri State ArchivesRecords of “enduring historical value from institutions throughout the state of Missouri,” including documents, photographs, maps and other materials. Cite this source as a web site.
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MLA International Bibliography
from EBSCO and the Modern Language Association “Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.” “. . . contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.” This database provides some full text. Use the interlibrary loan service to request the full article if it is not available online. Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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Monastic Matrix
from the Department of History, University of Southern California“A scholarly resource for the study of women’s religious communities from 400 to 1600 CE.” Cite this source as a web site.
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Women's Studies: World Wide Web Virtual Library
from the International Institute of Social History“The main purposes of this virtual library are to list women’s history institutions and organizations, locate archival and library collections, and provide links to Internet resources on women’s history. In addition, also included are a list of women’s studies journals and a few comprehensive link collections useful as a starting point for searching the Internet for women’s studies in general.” Cite this source as a web site.
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WWW-VL History Central Catalogue
from the European University Institute, Florence, ItalyThe World Wide Web Virtual Library’s links to history sites in all parts of the world. Maintained by Serge Noiret at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Cite this source as a web site.
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Science
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AGRICOLA
The National Agricultural Library, Washington, DC.One of the world’s “largest and most accessible agricultural information collections.”
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BioOne Complete
BioOne Complete is the full-text database of more than 200 titles from over 150 society and independent publishers in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. The collection offers comprehensive coverage of fields such as zoology, plant sciences, ornithology, and entomology, with new content added daily. Visit BioOne Complete to explore the full breadth of resources the collection offers.
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Child Development & Adolescent Studies
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Consumer Health Complete
A “comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients’ information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. In addition, it includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs. The database is updated on a weekly basis.” Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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Directory of Open Access Journals
“Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.” Cite this source as a web site.
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Environment Complete
Contains “more than 2.4 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888 (including over 1,350 active core titles) as well as more than 190 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 920 journals.” Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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General Sciences: Full Text
General Science Full Text covers a variety of scientific subjects, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, environment, genetics, physics, and zoology. Nearly 100 full-text periodicals. Full-text coverage dating back to 1983. Indexing and abstracts for more than 330 periodicals dating back to 1974. The full-text articles provided in General Science Full Text include graphs, charts, diagrams, photos and illustrations. Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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MDC
from the Missouri Department of Conservation“Administers more than 975,000 acres throughout the state. Oak and hickory are the most common tree species, and other important species are shortleaf pine, eastern red cedar, walnut, ash and cottonwood, which provide wildlife habitat, outdoor recreation, watershed protection, scenic beauty and wood products.” Cite this source as a web site.
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MEDLINE
from EBSCO and the U.S. National Library of MedicineProvides “authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created for doctors by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.” Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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Science Reference Center
A “comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.” Cite this source as a library subscription database.
Periodicals
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EBSCOhost
The quickest way to find large amounts of resources on almost every topic. In addition to providing a number of subscription databases containing articles from scholarly journals and popular magazines. Cite each EBSCOhost source as a library subscription database.
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Flipster
Popular Magazines.
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Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context
Opposing Viewpoints in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today’s hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
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Gale US History In Context
U.S. History in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. The new solution merges Gale’s authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
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Gender Watch
A full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch is a repository of important historical perspectives on the evolution of the women’s movement, men’s studies, the transgendered community, and the changes in gender roles over the years. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, and NGO, government and special reports. Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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LIFE Photo Archive
hosted by Google“Search millions of photographs from the the LIFE Magazine photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.” Cite this source as a web site.
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Newsbank–Access World Research
This comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people. Content is easily searched and sorted through an intuitive, map-based interface.
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Newspaper Source
Provides “cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.” Cite this source as a library subscription database.
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Social Sciences : Full Text
Social Sciences Full Text provides sources covering a wide array of subjects: including addiction studies, anthropology, communications, economics, ethics, family studies, gender studies, international relations, law, mass media, minority studies, political science, psychology, public welfare, social work and urban studies. Full-text articles from more than 300 journals. Full-text content dating back to 1972. High-quality indexing for more than 920 periodicals, 850 of which are peer-reviewed. Cite this source as a library subscription database.
Psychology
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Child Development & Adolescent Studies
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Gale: Psychology Collection
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PsycARTICLES
Sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA), it is a definitive source of full-text, “peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains over 150,000 articles from nearly 80 journals published by the APA, and its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychology Association and Hogrefe Publishing Group.” Cite this source as a library subscription database.