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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) Help (PDF) Most areas of academic study with some information dating back to 1975. Some full text.
AGRICOLA
Bibliographic database of agricultural literature citations.
Alt-HealthWatch (EBSCO) This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990.
BioMed Central
Journals in biomedical research with some full text.
BioOne
Full text of bioscience research journals.
Bookshelf (NCBI/NLM)
Web access to biomedical books.
Consumer Health Complete (EBSCO) Consumer Health Complete (CHC) is EBSCO's interface designed for the everyday consumer of health care information. CHC provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.
CQ Researcher
In-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues.
CREDO Reference A full-text online reference service. Credo’s collection is integrated with millions of cross-references and contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Full-text, scholarly, open-access journals.
eBooks (Gale Virtual Reference Library)

A selective collection of electronic reference books in a range of subject areas.

eBooks (NetLibrary)
Collection of over 12,000 copyrighted and public domain eBooks available for patrons of Concordia University in collaboration with CLIC and MINITEX.
E-print Network
Offers searchable/browsable access to e-prints (preprints, reprints, technical reports, conference publications, etc.), scholarly and professional works shared among researchers in order to communicate findings.  While primarily of interest to professional researchers, the E-print Network can be used by "undergraduate science students contemplating graduate studies [to] find information about graduate programs and gain a better understanding of what pursuing these studies would entail."
Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest) Help (PDF) Interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) full-text database of ethnic, minority, and native press publications (Coverage from 1990).
Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale) Coverage is available through more than 4,200 indexed and more than 2,500 full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times and many others.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (eBooks)

A selective collection of electronic reference books in a range of subject areas.

General Science Collection (Gale) Consists of over 200 journals encompassing the most popular scientific titles available today. This resource provides information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments -- including such topics as particle physics, advanced mathematics, and nanotechnology.
Google Scholar Help (PDF) Search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCO) This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO) This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
HighWire Press Archive of free, full-text science journals, hosted by Stanford University.
JSTOR
Full text as a digital image in range of disciplines. (Coverage: Begins with first issue.  Most recent available issue will be 3-5 years old depending upon publisher contract.)
Making of America (Cornell University holdings)
"...a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 9,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. For more details about the project, see About MoA. Making of America is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation."
Making of America (University of Michigan holdings)
"...a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 9,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. For more details about the project, see About MoA. Making of America is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation."
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost)
General interest subject areas in the form of full-text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and images.

Mathematics ArXiv


Search or browse for articles in the fields of mathematics, computer science, and physics.  Maintained by Cornell University.

MedlinePlus
Health information (tutorials, selected links, drug information, an encyclopedia, etc.) from the National Library of Medicine.
MnLINK
Minnesota's web-based virtual library.  Search public and academic library catalogs as well as various electronic databases.

National Sea Grant Library


A coastal, ocean, and Great Lakes information resource.
NetLibrary (eBooks)
Collection of over 12,000 copyrighted and public domain eBooks available for patrons of Concordia University in collaboration with CLIC and MINITEX.
OCLC FirstSearch: WorldCat
OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Thomson Gale)
"...features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to websites."
PLoS (Public Library of Science) Open access journals from a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians. Search each journal through the links in the bottom half of the page.
Project Muse
Full text of scholarly journals in a range of subject areas.
PubChem
"PubChem contains the chemical structures of small organic molecules and information on their biological activities."  Search for information using the following databases: PubChem Compound, PubChem Substance, PubChem BioAssay, and PubChemStructure Search.
PubMed
PubMed is a service of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles [including most of the articles in PubMed Central] and other related resources.
PubMed Central (PMC)
PubMed Central (PMC), the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature, is an electronic archive of full-text journal articles.
Sage Journals Online (formerly Sage Full-Text Collections)
Search Sage scholarly journals in the areas of Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Management and Organization Studies, Materials Science, Nursing and Health Sciences, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies and Planning.
Science Reference Center (EBSCO) Science Reference Center is 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.
ScienceDirect Web Editions
Collection of science, technology and medicine citations and abstracts as well as the full text of Concordia?s subscription journals.
Student Resources In Context (Gale) General purpose reference portal centered around topic pages which include reference sources, journals, magazines, newspapers, primary documents, creative works, and multimedia, Also includes hours of video and audio clips and podcasts. A good starting point for research.

  

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