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Database details Academic OneFile

Coverage: 1980-present
Scope: A huge and highly heterogeneous multidisciplinary mix of scholarly, journalistic, practitioner and popular sources, with much direct full-text included. Use the tabs to identify scholarly, newspaper or other sources as necessary.
Notes: Scholarly, journalstic, practitioner, popular sources. Thanks to Mel
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Database details Article 1st

Scope: Not a particularly useful multidisciplinary database. Academic OneFile or WilsonSelectPlus would be better starting points for general research and any of the discipline-specific databases would be better for in-depth research.
Notes: Some scholarly. Thanks to Mel
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Database details Dictionary of Literary Biography

Coverage: DLB Complete Online includes the DLB main series, the DLB Documentary Series, and the DLB Yearbook Seri
Scope: Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
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Database details Encyclopedia of American Studies

Scope: This source brings together a wide range of disciplines related to the history and cultures of the United States, from pre-colonial days to the present. It features broad, synthetic articles covering areas such as history, literature, art, photography, film, architecture, urban studies, ethnicity, race, gender, economics, politics, wars, consumer culture, and global America.
Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details Expanded Academic ASAP

Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details FirstSearch

Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details Google Scholar

Scope: You can check the availability of article full text from within Google Scholar - see how!.
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Database details InfoTrac - Thomson Gale databases

Notes: Thanks to Mel (for most)
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Database details Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

Scope: NEWS: full text access to newspapers, magazines, trade journals, newsletters, news wires, and transcripts. News sources are never scholarly, but they can give you up-to-date information on current events. BUSINESS: access to financial and business information for specific companies. It's most accurate when you limit your search by sources, such as Hoover's Company Reports, S&P Corporate Descriptions, American Markeplace, and Tax Analysts Publications. LEGAL: you can search for legal information such as court decisions, legal codes, legal news, and law journals. The coverage includes information both at the state level and at the federal level.
Notes: Some scholarly.
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Database details McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Coverage: Science & Technology
Scope: 10th edition
Notes: scholarly
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  Net Library

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Database details OneFile

Notes: Some scholarly.
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Database details Open Access Journals - DOAJ

Notes: Scholarly e-journals.
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Database details Opposing Viewpoints

Scope: The premier full-text resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints; brings together all the information that’s needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more!
Notes: Limit 4 users. Please log off when done.
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  Readers' Guide Abstracts

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Database details WilsonSelectPlus

Scope: A great place to get a few good articles. Almost all of the articles are available full-text or PDF.
Notes: Thanks to Mel
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Database details World Almanac

Notes: Thanks to Mel
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Database details WorldCat

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