Research Databases

          

Journal Collections - Search by topic or by matching words in titles, citations, and abstracts. Many articles are full text. 

• Professional Collection - Full text periodicals for the Professional Development Collection
• Informe (English) - Hispanic magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects
• Informe (Spanish) - Hispanic magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects
  
  

Vocational/Technical Magazines - Serving vocational-technical students and instructors. Coverage from 1991 to date and is updated daily.
ProQuest Newsstand Complete - Major newspaper collection, including national and leading regional papers.
PsychArticles - full-text articles containing material from 55 top psychology publications.

Offers a choice of 8 different research databases resulting in thousands of articles, many in full-text with graphics. Ebsco research databases include:

• Academic Search Premier - full text articles from more than 4,500 journals
• MasterFile Premier - full text reference, biographies, documents and images
• MegaFile - full text for over 19,000 publications
• GreenFile - 4,700 full text documents covering all aspects of human impact to the environment
• CINAHL Plus - full text articles from over 750 Nursing and Allied Health journals
• Business Source Premier - full text business research from over 2,300 journals
  
  

GREENR - an authoritative, intuitive database that covers topics ranging from the emerging green-collar economy to enduring questions of climate change to environmental issues are shaping the future of our world

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a full-text database covering today’s hottest social issues.

 

American Indian History online offers thorough access to more than 15,000 years of Native American culture, history, and heritage.

 

BioOne BioOne provides a collection of critical, high quality titles across the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

Magills' Medical Guide

Psychology & Mental Health

Health Source: Nursing Provides access to nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, including strong coverage of nursing and allied health

The rich combination of Encyclopedia Britannica plus the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals provides the variety of reliable resources that students need all in one database.

Thousands of essays, critical analyses, biographies, primary sources, creative works and multimedia elements make it effortless for students to research papers in history, literature, biography, science and social studies.

CAMIO® — OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online — Art from around the world in the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms.

 

OCLC ebooks  Provides bibliographic information for more than 5,000 electronic journals from over 70 publishers in a wide range of subject areas.

ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center. ERIC provides access to education literature to improve practice in teaching and learning.

  ArchiveGrid is a database for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.

 Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs provide research and general information in all subject areas.

Minnesota Reflections brings you nearly 31,000 images and documents shared by more than 95 cultural heritage organizations across the state. This site offers a broad view of Minnesota's history for students and instructors.

   General Science Collection    A customized selection of science journals offering over 1,650,00 articles updated daily!

 Theses, Dissertations & Proceedings  Access scholarly records and publications from institutions across the world by searching these OCLC-sponsored databases.

 

Points of View Reference  Full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of over 250 current issues.

 

  Alternative HealthWatch   Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.