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Academic OneFile

Gale. Academic OneFile is a starting point for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Covering the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, it contains millions of articles available in full-text. Includes full-text New York Times content from 1995 to present.

Academic Search Premier

EBSCOhost. Full text for more than 4,500 scholarly social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. 3,700+ are peer-reviewed.

Access Science

An online version of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. It contains nearly 9,000 online encyclopedia articles, terms, images and videos related to sciences and technology. The Study Center provides essay topics, study guides and bibliographies.

Ageline

EBSCOhost. AgeLine focuses exclusively on the population aged 50+ and issues of aging. It includes aging-related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy.

AGRICOLA

EBSCOhost. AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is the catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library.

Agriculture Collection

Gale. With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the Agricola database, this collection of more than 400 titles is focused on agriculture and its related fields: from farming to scientific research in horticulture.

Alt HealthWatch

EBSCOhost. Full text for over 180 publications (many peer-reviewed) covering alternative and complementary medicine.

Alt-Press Watch

ProQuest. A full text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.

Ambrose Video

Ambrose Video has a large collection of streaming video clips and full programs, with an extensive library of materials in history, literature, fine arts, and the sciences.

ArchiveGrid

ArchiveGrid provides detailed descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide.

ArticleFirst

FirstSearch. A general subject index with citations (not full text) from nearly 12,500 journals. Coverage is from 1990 to the present. Libraries that own the cited journals are listed.

ARTstor

Includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's software tools support viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline. You must register to save any images for future reference and to use ARTstor's sophisticated presentation tools. You also must register to access ARTstor from off-campus.

Biography in Context

Gale. Images, videos, news features, scholarly articles, reference resources, and more are brought together in this collection of more than 600,000 biographies.

Biology Journals

ProQuest. Full text articles from 280 biology journals, many of them peer-reviewed.

BuildingGreen.com

Information on a wide range of topics related to sustainable building, including energy efficiency, recycled-content materials, land-use planning and indoor air quality. Integrates online versions of GreenSpec, Environmental Building News (EBN), and a database of more than 100 high-performance building case studies.

Business & Company Resource Center

Gale. Brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Find detailed company and industry news and information.

Business Economics and Theory

Gale. This collection provides periodicals focusing on topics in economics. It has more than 450 full-text journals and regular feeds of videos from Forbes.com that contain business news coverage and interviews with CEO's.

Business Source Premier

EBSCOhost. Full text for over 3,000 journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting, and more.

CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online)

CAMIO contains works of art from around the world contributed and described by leading museums. Showcasing a wide range of fine and decorative art, CAMIO provides high-quality art images for education, research and enjoyment. All content is rights-cleared for educational use.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text

EBSCOhost. Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health. The most comprehensive source for nursing and allied health journals, updated this year with full text from over 750 journals. 1981 to the present.

College Source

An online collection of college catalogs. Search by college name, geographic area, or specific criteria such as tuition, major, or enrollment. Includes selected non-U.S. schools as well.

Communication & Mass Media Complete

EBSCOhost. Full-text articles relating to all aspects of communication and mass media.

Communications & Mass Media Collection

Gale. Over 250 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects include advertising and public relations, linguistics, and literature.

Computer Database

Gale. Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.

Computer Source

EBSCOhost. Information and current trends in high technology. This database features over 300 full text periodicals covering topics such as programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.

CQ Researcher

Topical, full text reports on controversial issues. Each report features a summary, chronology, and bibliography. Updated weekly.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Online

Reference resource for physical constants, symbols, material properties, conversion factors, and much more. 92nd Edition. To learn more about using the handbook, including the interactive tables feature, visit the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics tour.

Credo Reference

Provides online versions of 500+ published reference works, including general and specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias. Try the Concept Map to search for terms and topics that are interconnected and displayed in a visual form.

Criminal Justice Collection

Gale. Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, forensic scientist or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection offers more than 700 journals.

Culinary Arts Collection

Gale. Includes 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines as well as reference content. Coverage includes searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

Directory of Open Access Journals

Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering a variety of subjects in many languages.

Discovering Collection

Gale. The Discovering Collection is comprised of more than 28,000 biographies, 18,000 overview essays and 13,500 critical essays in core curriculum subjects. The information is pulled from Gale reference materials and explores literature, history, biography, science and social studies with easily accessible content.

Diversity Studies Collection

Gale. Useful for social science, history and liberal arts coursework, this collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. This set includes 250 journals.

eBooks on EBSCOhost View Handout

Formerly NetLibrary, eBooks on EBSCOhost brings a new interface to searching and reading thousands of full text titles. Subjects covered include computer science, philosophy, education, mathematics, and many others. To learn more about using the new interface, watch the searching eBooks on EBSCOhost video tutorial.

ebrary

Over 30,000 full-text books in all academic disciplines. Watch a demo now!

EBSCOhost View Handout

Search from a wide range of research databases for magazine and journal articles. Updated daily.
Use EBSCOhost Mobile from a smartphone.

ECO: Electronic Collections Online

FirstSearch. Citations and some full text articles from over 2000 scholarly journals. Coverage is from 1995 to the present.

Educator's Reference Complete

Gale. A collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports for any educator -- from the school teacher and administrator to those studying at the collegiate and graduate level. Educator's Reference Complete is the perfect complement for the ERIC database, because it provides full-text results for nearly half of the journal titles found in ERIC.

Environmental Studies and Policy Collection

Gale. Answers environmentally-related inquiries with coverage of more than 3.3 million articles from more than 700 journals and reference content from Delmar, Cengage Learning. Robust coverage of environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.

ERIC

EBSCOhost. ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center from the U.S. Dept. of Education, lists journal articles and educational documents (lesson plans, studies, etc.). 1966 - present.

Ethnic NewsWatch

ProQuest. Full text newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic minority and native press. Provides a rich collection of articles, editorials, and reviews with a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints. Also a good source of ethnic recipes. Coverage is from 1980 to the present.

Films on Demand

Films Media Group. A collection of high-resolution streaming videos organized by subject. For academic research as well as general interest. Career and technical resources are also available.

Fine Arts and Music Collection

Gale. Provides more than 150 full-text magazines and journals that are covered in indices such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide support for research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

Fuente Académica

EBSCOhost. A unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American, South American and Spanish publishers. Full text coverage for more than 150 scholarly Spanish language journals.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

EBSCOhost. 25,000 encyclopedic entries, searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.

Gale Databases

Find magazine and journal articles here. You can search all of the Gale databases at once or select just the ones you want.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

GVRL is a database of over 200 encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Look here for biology, chemistry, nursing and medicine, sociology, history, education, law, and more.

Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection

Gale. A collection of more than 100 journals focused on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture, with the addition of over 20 subject specific reference sources from Delmar, Cengage Learning, this collection provides information for gardening enthusiasts and professionals alike.

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Life and Issues Collection

Gale. This collection of nearly 40 journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more.

GenderWatch

ProQuest. Focusing on how gender impacts diverse subject areas, resources include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, as well as NGO and government publications. Archival material from as early as 1970 provides a historical perspective on the women's movement, men's studies, the transgendered community, and changes in gender roles.

General Business File ASAP

Gale. Analyze company performance, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Includes broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings.

General OneFile

Gale. General OneFile is a periodical resource with over 6500 full text titles, many dating back as far as 1980. It contains popular, business and professional journals, NPR audio files complete with transcripts, and Fodor's travel guides.

General Science Collection

Gale. A collection of over 200 journals, providing researchers with the information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments -- including such topics as particle physics, advanced mathematics, and nanotechnology.

GPO

FirstSearch. The Government Printing Office Monthly Catalog contains citations for all types of U.S. government documents. Coverage begins in 1996; updated monthly.

GreenFILE

EBSCOhost. Scholarly, government and general-interest content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

Grove Art Online (Oxford Art Online) Limit: 5 simultaneous users

Contains more than 45,000 full text articles on every aspect of the visual arts—painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography—from prehistory to the present day, including a wide variety of image files. Includes The Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources)

Gale. Videos, interactive maps, news sources, refereed case studies, and primary source articles are included. Browseable by issue or topic as well as by location.

Health and Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health Module

Gale. Provides access to medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles.

Health Reference Center Academic

Gale. HRCA contains full text from nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources.

Health Source: Consumer Edition

EBSCOhost. Information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

EBSCOhost. Scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. Also includes Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary.

Historical Statistics of the United States

This edition has many new topics plus options for customizing, charting and downloading the data. Some statistics go as far back as Colonial times. Each topic includes essays plus data tables.

Home Improvement Collection

Gale. This collection of more than 200 home-improvement focused titles covers such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more will meet the needs of hobbyists and professionals alike.

Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection

Gale. This collection of more than 800 journals and 29 subject specific Delmar, Cengage Learning reference titles and travel handbook's from Fodor's - provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism fields. A great resource for curious travelers and serious researchers.

Information Science and Technology Collection

Gale. Comprised of content from nearly 100 leading industry journals, this collection provides current and accurate information for the information professional. Coverage includes such topics as data processing techniques, metadata architectures, and more.

Informe

Gale. A collection of Hispanic magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects.

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers

Gale. Provides access to selected articles from nearly 1,000 newspapers, including large and small U.S. newspapers. Does not include The Oregonian.

InfoTrac Newsstand

Gale. Provides access to selected articles from nearly 2,500 major newspapers, including U.S. regional, national, and local papers as well as leading titles from around the world. Does not include The Oregonian.

Insurance and Liability Collection

Gale. This collection targeted towards individual property owners to multinational corporations, comprises nearly 40 journals that take a broad view of the insurance and liability industry, covering such topics as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues.

Intelecom Online Resources Network

This captioned video clip collection covers a range of key concepts and topics in various academic disciplines. Includes adult basic education (ABE) resources as well as those for English for speakers of other languages (ESOL).

JSTOR

Full text of over 1000 scholarly journals in the arts and sciences, from their earliest issues up to 3-5 years ago. Does not include current issues of the journals. Video tutorials are available.

Learning Express Library

Interactive practice tests and tutorials to help you succeed on academic or licensing tests. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. You must sign in before taking a test.

Legal Collection

EBSCOhost. Full text for more than 260 scholarly law journals.

LegalTrac

Gale. Provides full-text coverage of major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.

LexisNexis Academic Universe

Comprehensive full-text coverage of articles from 1980 forward. Full-text of newspapers, wire services, and magazines from around the world, including the New York Times . Also provides company profiles and financial reports, government transcripts, trade journals and academic and legal databases.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

EBSCOhost. 600+ periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings,on library science, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Literature Criticism Online

Gale. Includes the Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism and Poetry Criticism databases. Literary criticism for authors who lived during the 19th century. Includes scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals. Search for a poet or a poem. Look for the list of relevant pages in each article.

Literature Resource Center (LRC)

Gale. Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

MasterFILE Premier

EBSCOhost. Full text of general interest periodicals, reference and travel books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps, and flags.

MAS Ultra - School Edition

EBSCOhost. Full text for over 515 general interest and current events magazines.

MedicLatina

EBSCOhost. A Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. Full text for more than 130 peer-reviewed medical journals.

Medline

EBSCOhost. Covers the international literature on biomedicine, including allied health. Citations available from 1965 - present; some full text.

Military & Government Collection

EBSCOhost. Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and abstracts for about 400 titles.

Military and Intelligence Database

Gale. A collection of over 400 journals, covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. Key subjects include socioeconomic effects of war, governmental policies, the structure of armed forces, and many more.

MLA Bibliography

EBSCOhost. Produced by the Modern Language Association, this international bibliography of literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from journals, books and dissertations. .

National Fire Protection Association Codes Online (NFPA) Limit 10 simultaneous users

The National Fire Protection Association's codes and standards. This online edition provides access to the complete set of nearly 300 codes. The NEC (National Electric Code) is available in the National Fire Codes as NFPA 70. To find it, use the link above, click on the Current Editions link for the most recent codes, then browse the alphabetical list of codes.

New York Times

This newspaper is available through LexisNexis.

Newspaper Source

EBSCOhost. Full text for regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, news wires, newspaper columns as well as 24 TV and radio news transcripts. Also contains indexing and abstracts for national newspapers.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection

Gale. Offers researchers looking for answers to nursing or allied health questions millions of articles found in over 1,100 journals. Provides full-text coverage of many of the titles cited in CINAHL.

Nursing Resource Center

Gale. Designed for nursing students, the Nursing Resource Center brings together in an easy-to-use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts.

OAIster

FirstSearch. A union catalog of over 19 million digital resources. Includes items such as scanned books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files, images, movies and datasets.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context View Handout

Gale. A one-stop source for information on current social issues. Includes viewpoint articles on both sides of an issue, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

Oregon Career Information System

Provides a system of occupational and educational information to help Oregonians learn about the world of work and education.

The Oregonian

Search the last six months of stories, columns, and opinions written by The Oregonian staff. Please note: The Oregonian is no longer available through LexisNexis. For more information, please read about the changes to accessing The Oregonian.

Oxford Art Online Limit 5 simultaneous users

This is the gateway to Grove Art Online, a scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art. Includes image searching, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Oxford English Dictionary

More than 600,000 words defined, including historical meanings, word origins, and pronunciations. Examples of past usage are shown through quotations from a rich variety of English language sources.

Oxford Reference Online

A collection of dictionaries and other reference books from Oxford University Press. Coverage includes the arts, languages, literature, sciences and social sciences.

PapersFirst

FirstSearch. An index of papers presented at conferences, symposia and workshops worldwide since October 1993.

Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection

Gale. This collection includes over 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine, providing researchers with access to topics discussed in the field, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses, and many more.

Pop Culture Collection

Gale. This collection, focused on pop cultural issues, provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art or liberal arts course. This collection is made up of 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.

Popular Magazines

Gale. Features full-text coverage of 1,000 of the most searched magazines across Gale's InfoTrac product line, covering current events, sports, science, health and more.

ProceedingsFirst

FirstSearch. A companion database to PapersFirst. this provides tables of contents for papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at the conference.

Professional Development Collection

EBSCOhost. A highly specialized collection of over 515 full text journals, designed for professional educators.

PsycINFO View Handout

EBSCOhost. Start here if you are looking for scholarly (peer-reviewed) psychology articles. PsycINFO is the single most comprehensive psychology article collection. Full-text articles from PsycARTICLES are included here.

Psychology Collection

Gale. This subset of the larger Gale databases gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops and diminishes over time. Researchers will have access to nearly 500 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals - many cited in the PsycINFO index.

Psychology Resources

EBSCOhost. Search the Psychology Collection, Academic Search Premier, and MasterFile Premier at the same time. Topics in the Psychology Collection include emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

Regional Business News

EBSCOhost. A full text news wire database that incorporates business wires from all over the world.

Religion and Philosophy Collection (EBSCOhost)

EBSCOhost. Full text coverage of topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.

Religion and Philosophy Collection (Gale)

Gale. This collection provides coverage of different religions, philosophies and how they impact our daily lives. 250 subject specific full-text periodicals are included.

Safari Tech Books Online Limit: 6 simultaneous users

Thousands of ebooks available for online viewing. Full text of books dealing with networking, programming, web development, and more.

Science Direct View Handout

Full text for over 890 peer reviewed health and life sciences journals. For best results click on SEARCH to get started. Limit your search to SUBSCRIBED Journals,1995 to the present.

SIRS Knowledge Source View Handout

ProQuest. Full text information on social issues, science, health, history, government, business, and the arts and humanities.

Small Business Collection

Gale. Perfect for business schools and entrepreneurs, this compilation provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories. Users will find 250 subject appropriate full-text periodicals.

Small Business Resource Center

Gale. Offers content that covers starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax and more. Based on a combination of periodicals and reference content, Small Business Resource Center includes nearly 200 business journals and books useful for entrepreneurs and students.

Standard and Poor's

Full text of many S&P products, including the Stock Reports, Corporation Records, Industry Surveys, and more.

Summit

Summit is a library catalog that combines information from Pacific Northwest academic libraries into a single unified database.

TOPICsearch

EBSCOhost. Explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries, and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. Citations include Lexile reading levels.

U.S. History Collection

Gale. This collection of over 40 journals provides balanced coverage of both current thought and events in U.S. History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field; useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher.

U.S. History in Context

Gale. A collection of full-text periodicals, reference works, and primary sources as well as scholarly analysis is available. Images, videos, and audio recordings bring additional perspectives to United States history from pre-colonial times to the present.

Vocational and Career Collection

EBSCOhost. Full text coverage for more than 300 trade and industry-related periodicals including Modern Machine Shop, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age, and many more.

Vocations and Careers Collection

Gale. Providing content from nearly 400 journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.

The Wall Street Journal

Full text newspaper articles from 1984 to the present. Does not include stock quotes or classified ads.

War and Terrorism Collection

Gale. A definitive collection of 100 subject specific full-text periodicals for students of history, social science and current events, that provides insight into conflicts and their multiple causes.

World Almanac

Includes Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia plus four almanacs. Coverage from 1998 to the present. Updated annually.

World Book Online Reference Center

The World Book Encyclopedia along with related newspaper and magazine articles, multimedia, special reports, a dictionary, and links to selected web sites. Includes a Spanish language encyclopedia.

World History Collection

Gale. This collection of nearly 40 journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field; useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher.

WorldCat

Search for books, magazines, videos and other materials published around the world -- and see which libraries have them.

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