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Resource Title
Vendor
Resource Description


 
ABC-CLIO
Contains 16 full length E-books on a wide variety of topics, from Cults to Women in Science.
EBSCO
This database offers more than 5,500 full-text documents as well as indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and nearly 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and more. on topics ranging from astronomy to zoology.
ACLS
An online collection of over 1000 books of high quality in the field of history
EBSCO
Offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international journals and reports on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
EBSCO
Covers periodical literature and some books dealing with America and Canada from prehistory to the present
ACS
Full text access to the archives of over 30 ACS publications
Alexander Street Press
This 100,000-page collection contains detailed, firsthand descriptions of historical characters and events, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events and personages, accounts of sufferings at home, a rich battles database, and others.
Readex
Contains hundreds of historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography and in additional subsequent bibliographies.
Newsbank Inc.
26 magazines in areas of business, news, entertainment, science and technology, lifestyle and sports.
Newsbank Inc.
Provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for more than 700 U.S. newspapers

Annual Reviews
Full-text access to Annual Review titles published by Academic Press.
ARTstor
Digital image repository including architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts and design, as well as archeological and anthropological objects
EBSCO
Updated weekly with primary focus on disciplines of study within associate degrees and certification programs.

   
Wilson
Comprehensive coverage of people in the news and history makers, including more than 236,000 individuals and 36,000 images.
Gale
This database contains nearly 414,000 biographies on more than 320,000 people as well as full-text articles from more than 265 magazines specifically chosen for their renowned biographical content in a broad range of subject areas.

BioOne
Includes a broad selection of the full-texts, peer-reviewed journals and bulletins published by AIBS (American Institues of Biological Sciences) member societies and other closely related organizations

Books in Print FirstSearch Books in Print contains In-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audio and video, with optional reviews.
EBSCO
Business Source Complete is the database for full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.

   
EBSCO
Incorporates the content of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource.
EBSCO
Covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines.
EBSCO
A full-text, comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content that is designed to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics covering all areas of health and wellness.
CQ Press
The definitive reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs
Credo Reference
Hundreds of reference books in a broad range of subjects (formerly XreferPlus)

   
Proquest
Abstracts of over 2,000,000 masters theses and dissertations including dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe.

   
Readex
The definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.
Readex

Contains hundreds of historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography and in additional subsequent bibliographies.

Alexander Street Press
Documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850 focusing on personal accounts, and provides unique perspectives from traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. It also includes nearly 1,000 prints, drawings, paintings, maps, bibliographies, letters, photographs, and original facsimile pages.
CSA
Covers the subject of Economics from 1969 to the present
EBSCO
A collaborative effort between EBSCO Publishing and ESAN (Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados) to provide coverage for over 300 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States and elsewhere.  
EBSCO
Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
Wiley
Unique and dynamic resource that covers the entire range of life sciences research
EBSCO
Covers applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
Ed.gov
Provides a public Web site for searching nearly 1.2 million citations going back to 1966 and, with contributor permission, accessing more than 110,000 full-text materials in the subject area of education
EBSCO
ERIC through the EBSCO interface

   
Dow Jones Reuters
Provides essential business news and information
Bowker
Browsable by location, topic, character, genre, timeframe, or setting.
First Search
Includes Geobase, EconLit, and Books in Print
EBSCO
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text (including PDF) for a rapidly growing collection of scholarly Spanish language journals.

   
Gale
Cross search Academic Onefile, General Onefile, Expanded Academic ASAP, and the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Also provides access to additional Gale biography and literature databases.
Gale
Database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research
Gale

News and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics

EBSCO

GreenFILE is a bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns going back 35 years and covers scholarly as well as non-scholarly titles.  It contains almost 300,000 records with searchable cited references and has some limited full-text articles.
Greenwood
Over 3,000 full text, full image book titles.
First Search
Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).   This database includes only bibliographic citations, however online access links are included wherever possible. 1976 to the present.
Oxford
Provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art (2001) (now Oxford Art Online)
Oxford
An integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes; London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes; London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes; London, 2002) (now Oxford Music Online)

   

Harper’s Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper
EBSCO
Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines on many health topics.
EBSCO
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines and also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide.
ABC-CLIO
Covers periodical literature and some books dealing with world history, excluding the U.S. and Canada, since 1450

EBSCO
Historical Abstracts through the EBSCO interface
EBSCO
Contains more than 721,000 records from more than 650 titles covering scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism.
EBSCO
Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index .

   
Alexander Street Press
Index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories
Ingenta
This database gives access to around 4,500 journals and to over 20,000 abstracts in all subject fields.

   
JSTOR
Online journal collection that contains the backfile of journals from a variety of subject areas

   
EBSCO
Contains full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals with information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
Lexis-Nexis
Access to a wide range of regional, local, and international news; company and financial information; and legal, medical and reference information.
EBSCO
Coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more
Gale
Single-search access to an assortment of traditional literary reference works; critical information on authors and their works; current journal articles; and additional resources (click here for title list).

   
EBSCO
MasterFILE™ Premier contains full text for more than 1,750 periodicals, full text for nearly 500 reference books, 86,019 biographies, 105,787 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 293,480 photos, maps & flags.
AMS
Covers the world's mathematical literature since 1940. MathSciNet provides Web access to the bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical research literature contained in the Mathematical Reviews Database.
EBSCO
A collection of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers in native Spanish.
EBSCO
A comprehensive database of biomedical literature produced by the National Library of Medicine. 1966 - present

EBSCO

Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska , the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments.
MERGENT
Seamless capabilities for finding, filtering and organizing information about companies and industries.  
MERGENT
Information on over 35,000 publicly traded companies -- approximately 12,000 domestic public companies, 24,000 international public companies, and 10,000 extinct (due to merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, etc)  global public companies.  Company histories and over 200,000 annual reports in pdf, 30 years of stock prices, and more.
EBSCO
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government through a collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content.
Gale
The MLA International Bibliography indexes books, articles and dissertations published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics, providing coverage from 1926 to the present. It includes the MLA Thesaurus and the MLA Directory of Periodicals, which lists detailed information on over 5,500 journals, including over 4,400 indexed in the bibliograpy

   
Nature
International weekly journal of science, topics range from Bone Marrow to Spinal cord; from biology to Physics
NAXOS

Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, and Folk music. While listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database

Note: Emory & Henry's subscription allows for 3 simultaneous users

NetLibrary
NetLibrary provides access to your library’s eContent collection. eContent is the digital version of books, journals, and database content. Emory and Henry has access to 52,639 prints.
Newsbank
Provides full-text articles of current newspapers, magazines, historical newspapers, and early American imprints
EBSCO
Cover-to-cover full text for 131 national & international newspapers and selective full text for more than 335 U.S newspapersas well as full-text television & radio news transcripts.
Alexander Street Press
Contains 1,500 American and Canadian women’s diaries and correspondence. Spanning more than 300 years , the 150,000 pages of materials provide a detailed record of women's daily life.

   
Wilson
Delivers research-quality information in a broad range of academic disciplines. OmniFile bundles the Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers' Guide, Social Sciences, and Wilson Business Full Text databases with a full-text only subset from the Applied Science & Technology, Art, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science full-text databases.
Oxford
Formerly Grove Art Online
Oxford
Searchable online version of the Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford
Formerly Grove Music Online
Oxford
Brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource

   
CSA
Contains references to more than 553,300 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more
Polling
Compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries from 1986 to the present
Project Muse
Full text of scholarly journals in the humanities, the social sciences, and mathematics published by Johns Hopkins University Press
EBSCO
See below
EBSCO
Contains more than 2 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines
EBSCO
Covers information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods
PubMed Central
Digital archive of life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM)

   
EBSCO
Regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications) with full text for more than 50 sources and 67 periodicals indexed and abstracted.
EBSCO
Extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy through nearly 300 full text journals.

   
Salem Press
The online version of Magill's Medical Guide through Salem Health.
Salem Press
The online version of the Salem Press Decades series.
EBSCO
Consumer Health Complete designed for the everyday consumer of Spanish-language health care information
CAS
Bibliographic and reference research database from Chemical Abstracts Services (CAS). Only one user license is available at a time. First time users click here for registration.
Elsevier

Comprehensive science-specific search engine, searches over 250 million science-specific Web pages

Springer
 
Palgrave Macmillan
Arranged by nation, Statesman’s Yearbook offers access to quick facts and figures concerning politics, culture and economics. You can browse via region or nation. Other important features include a detailed international year in review and the ability to compare basic statistics from two nations side by side.

 

   
EBSCO
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
EBSCO
Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).

 

   
CSA
Source of detailed information on more than 290,000 periodicals of all types -- academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world


 
Vente et Gestion (French Business Source)
EBSCO
Vente et Gestion provides full text coverage for French language business journals.

 

   
Wiley
Provides access to three full-text reference works, as well as 36 other titles in science
Alexander Street Press
Resource fo students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1700 and 2000.
Harvard

Focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections.

EBSCO
Women’s Studies International, produced by NISC, covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research, spanning from 1972 and earlier to the present.
First Search
Includes millions of bibliographic records for items cataloged by OCLC member libraries, representing material in over 400 languages

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