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Academic Search Premier
Full text periodicals covering nearly all subjects.
Agricola
National Agricultural Library index covering journal articles, books, theses, technical reports, and other publications.
Alaska's Digital Archives
A repository of digitized historical manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, maps, books, and other publications, along with significant personal collections.
Biography Reference Center
More than 461,000 full-text biographies.
Chronicling America
Access digitized historical newspapers from around the state and country.
EBSCO Open Dissertations (formerly American Doctoral Dissertations)
An open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses, incorporating EBSCO’s previously released American Doctoral Dissertations, 1933-1955, with additional dissertation metadata contributed by select American colleges and universities. When full text is not directly accessible, there is sometimes a link to free full text at institutional repositories.
ERIC
Index and abstracts of journal articles and reports on education; some publications are available in full text.
Explora Educator's Edition
Access lesson plans, student tools, curriculum standards and more, as well as a search of ERIC, Teacher Reference Center and Professional Development Center.
Fuente Académica
Scholarly academic journals in Spanish in all major subject areas.
Gale in Context
Includes access to over 150 ebooks, as well as full text of magazines and newspapers, and multimedia. Formerly known as Student Resources in Context, Gale in Context: High School and Gale in Context: College are both the same database.
GreenFILE
Index and abstracts of scholarly, government, and general-interest publications covering human impact on the environment, such as global warming, green building, and renewable energy.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Full text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
HistoryMakers
"Over 148,163 stories are assembled here from life oral history interviews with 2,691 historically significant African Americans as of October 1, 2020."
History Reference Center
Designed for academic research, this database features full text for more than 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books.
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Open Polar
The global open access portal for research data and publications on the Arctic and Antarctic. Provides a combination of links to full text/image/audio/video and citations with abstracts.
Points of View Reference Center
Contains resources that present multiple sides of an issue.
Professional Development Collection
Full text journals and reports for professional educators.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Full text articles on topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Full text articles covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Science Reference Center
A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text, science-oriented content.
Semantic Scholar
Search open scholarly sources using artificial intelligence: narrow down your search with suggested search terms, see overviews of research on specific topics, and see connections between studies.
Teen Health & Wellness
A comprehensive database that allows teens (and those who care about teens) to research health-related issues important to their well-being. It’s both a research/report tool and a self-help resource.