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Off Campus Access to Databases.

In the First Person

An index to diaries, letters, oral histories and personal narratives covering many subjects, all in the English language. Source formats include text, audio and video files. The sources are repositories and collections which are available free on the web, as well as some which are only available in subscription databases. Results that instruct the user to login will not be accessible since the library does not subscribe to those subscription databases.

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JSTOR

JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is an online archive of scholarly journals which have been digitally reproduced to provide access to the backfile of each title. Some titles go back to the 19th century. JSTOR will not include the latest 2 - 5 years of the journals for most titles, although some publishers of journals are now providing links to some recent content.

Connect to JSTOR (Arts & Sciences I, II III, IV and the Complement Collections ; Ecology and Botany Collection; General Science Collection). View a list of journals in each collection at http://support.jstor.org/collectioninfo.

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Learning Express Library

Learning Express Library is an interactive testing database which allows the user to practice in preparation for a wide variety of tests, such as standardized education tests, vocational tests, citizenship tests and more. Tests are provide for elementary students through adults. Instant scoring is provided as well as additional feedback.

Users must create an account to access the databases of tests.

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Lexis-Nexis Academic

Lexis-Nexis Academic offers full-text of a variety of sources in business, law, government and other related disciplines.

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For information on how to cite sources retrieved from Lexis-Nexis Academic, go to Citing Print and Electronic Sources in Research Papers.

Lexis-Nexis Primary Sources in History

Lexis-Nexis Primary Sources offers full-text and images of primary sources in African American Studies, Presidential Studies and Women's Studies. Document types include manuscripts, autobiographies, contemporary accounts, government documents, photographs and images, case law, chronologies, speeches and statutes. Secondary source materials include encyclopedic references and scholarly articles. Searches can be done by subject term or keywords, or each collection can be browsed by document type. More information about the product can be found on the Lexis Nexis website.

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For information on how to cite sources retrieved from Lexis-Nexis Primary Sources in History, go to Citing Print and Electronic Sources in Research Papers.

Lexis-Nexis Statistical

Lexis-Nexis Statistical is an index to thousands of statistical documents produced by the United States government, state governments, organizations, research centers, international organizations and foreign countries. Some of the statistical documents are available full-text. Included on this site is the popular Statistical Abstract of the United States. This database contains the content of the print indexes American Statistics Index, Statistical Reference Index and Index to International Statistics.

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For information on how to cite sources retrieved from Lexis-Nexis Statistical, go to Citing Print and Electronic Sources in Research Papers.

Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts

This database indexes more than 690 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.  

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Literature Resource Center

This database includes biographical information on authors and literary criticism of author works. The content for this database is taken from the authoritative critical sets published by the Thompson Gale company, as well as literary journals. Also included is the Encyclopedia of Literature and a Literary-Historical Timeline. A complete list of sources is available.

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MAS Ultra-- School Edition

This database indexes articles from approximately 520 general interest, health, science and other periodicals. Many of the articles are also available full text in the database. Special documents include full text of these publications: Magill Book Reviews, approximately 140 Macmillan Press books, health and science-related pamphlets, the CIA World Factbook, and Essential Documents in American History.

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MasterFILE Premier

This database provides indexes over 2800 general interest periodicals and provides full text articles from over 2,100 of these. Also included are book reviews, reference books such as dictionaries, almanacs, biographies, travel, maps and images.

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MathSciNet

MathSciNet is the searchable Web database providing access to the journals Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications (from 1940 to the present). These journals provide reviews of the mathematical literature.

Access is restricted to on use.

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MDXHealth

Abstracted citations from consumer health publications. From 1988 - present.

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Military & Government Collection

This database indexes articles from approximately 400 military, scholarly and general interest journals. The articles are available full text from approximately 300 of these journals. Also included are full text country reports from CountryWatch and the full text of approximately 250 pamphlets.

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Million Dollar Database

This database provides selected data on nearly 1.6 million public and private companies in the United States and Canada which have sales of at least $1 million dollars or employs 20 more more people or branches with 50 or more employees.

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MLA International Bibliography

The Modern Language Association Bibliography identifies critical writings, published from 1926 to the present, on national literatures, languages, linguistics, literary theory & criticism, literary forms & genres and folklore. Approximately 75% of the works cited are scholarly journal articles. The bibliography does not include the full-text of the works cited.

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