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Academic Search Premier

Provides full text for more than 3,600 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. It offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 4,500 journals. Over 2,700 of the full text journals are peer reviewed. All articles are in English.

Encyclopędia Britannica

The electronic version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. An excellent starting point for almost any topic of research, the Britannica offers both concise descriptions, and longer, more comprehensive articles on a wide variety of topics.

LexisNexis Academic
Provides access to full-text information from newspapers, journals, magazines and
reference sources with strengths in the areas of current news, business, law, and politics.

Military & Government Collection

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.

Newspaper Source

Provides selected full text articles from 143 U.S. and international newspapers.

Oxford Reference Online

100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books combined into a single cross-searchable web database. You can search all 100+ works simultaneously and find articles from several different reference books on your topic.

Includes:

World Encyclopedia
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
A Dictionary of Geography
A Dictionary of Political Biography
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics
Handbook of the World
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English

Readers' Guide Retrospective

Contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Covers publications printed from 1890-1982.