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A-Z List of Databases

Access Science
Science reference materials from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, Science News headlines, biographies of scientists, definitions, evaluated web sites, illustrations, and more.

The African American Experience
The widest-ranging and easiest-to-use online collection on African American life ever assembled.

Asian American Drama*
Info on productions, full text plays, characters, etc., by Asian Americans.

Black Drama*
Info on productions, theatres, full text plays, etc., by Black dramatists.

Britannica Online
Completely updated for 2006, this award-winning reference site is now faster, easier to use, and full of new content specifically designed to meet the needs of academic libraries.

Chronicle Career Library of Occupational Briefs
Presents information on more than 2,000 occupational titles, including 650 comprehensive occupational descriptions, ranging from those that require a high school diploma or less, through professional careers.

CINAHL with Full Text
A comprehensive source of full-text articles from more than 520 nursing & allied health journals, with coverage back to 1982.

Classical Music Library*
Includes a fully searchable classical music database where users can browse, search click, and then listen to over 10,000 tracks of audio. Associated music reference sources are also available.

CountryWatch
Up-to-date news and information on each of the recognized countries of the world.

CQ Researcher Plus Archives
Find articles about controversial issues, both current and historical, in a wide variety of subject areas. Current issue and back issues to 1923 can be searched. Extensive bibliographies are often included in the articles, which are full-text.

Credo Reference
A collection of full text books including an assortment of subject encyclopedias and dictionaries, along with images, multimedia (music and video) features, tables of statistics, and maps.

EBSCOhost
Find articles on a variety of subjects from journals, magazines, newspapers and other reference sources. Many articles are full-text.

ERIC - Education Resources Education Center
From the U.S. Dept. of Education. More than one million records of educational resources, back to 1966. More than 100,000 non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), are available in full-text at no cost.

FACTS.com 
20 + years of news with maps, photographs, and primary source documents. Find full-text articles on today's prominent issues in "Issues and Controversies" and "Today's Science."

ForensicnetBase
A collection of electronic books covering the areas of criminal justice, law enforcement, and forensic science in a searchable full-text format.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of searchable reference sources in full-text, including the Encyclopedia of Education, Encyclopedia of Religion, Nutrition and Well-Being A-Z, World Microbiology and Immunology and others.

History Resource Center: U.S. 
Covers themes, trends, and people from United  States History. Contains full-text articles, maps and images with many primary source documents.

Hoover's Online *
Through Hoover's Pro Online, the company's more than 80-member editorial staff delivers continuously updated intelligence on public and private companies worldwide. On-campus access only.

Knovel *
Technical books on food science, biology & biotechnology, chemistry, pharmaceuticals and more.

The Latino American Experience*
The first-ever full-text database focusing on the history and culture of Latinos living in the United States.

Latino Literature: Poetry*
Plays, prose and poetry by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States.

Literature Resource Center (includes Gale Literary Index)
Provides full-text access to biographical information on authors as well as literary criticism, book reviews and plot summaries from a variety of Gale literary resources and over 130 literary journals.

MagillOnLiterature 
This database is an online source for editorially reviewed critical analyses of literature and also includes brief plot summaries.

North American Theatre Online*
People, theatres, theatrical companies, plays, source works, years, etc. Links to many full-text plays published by Alexander Street Press.

North American Women's Drama*
Plays by women playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, etc.

OCLC netLibrary - Access PA eBook Collection *
netLibrary provides access to the Access Pennsylvania Database collection of eBooks.

Opposing Viewpoints 
Articles providing alternative points of view on controversial issues. Articles are full-text.

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
A collection of bilingual dictionaries for English with Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish, including other tools related to writing and language.

ProQuest Direct 
Find articles in this general academic database for undergraduate research. Many articles are full-text.

PsycARTICLES
Full-text database of articles from American Psychological Association journals.

PubMed
A service of the National Library of Medicine.  Provides access to over 11 million citations to articles in medical and life science journals.  Not full-text! 

PubMed Central 
The National Library of Medicine's archive of life sciences journal literature. Most of the articles are full-text.

Safari Books *
Safari is the premier electronics reference library for programmers and IT professionals.

SocIndex
Contains full text journal articles in the fields of sociology, and subdisciplines including criminal justice/criminology, ethnic & racial studies, marriage & family, political sociology and many others.

Twentieth Century North American Drama*
Plays, info on related productions, theaters, production companies, selected playbills, production photographs, etc.

Vault: Online Career Library

Vocational Biographies

Westlaw Campus *
Westlaw Campus provides full-text access to a vast collection of statutes, case law material, public records, and other legal resources, including the U.S. Code, federal Supreme Court decisions, and Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes. On-campus access only. You must agree to the initial Westlaw Agreement before you can access the database.

 * on-campus access only