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Article Databases

EBSCOhost includes

  • Academic Search Premier
    Premier scholarly database offering information in nearly every area of academic study. Citations and full-text articles available.
  • America: History & Life
    Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
  • ATLA Religion
    Provides index citations on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. 
  • Business Source Premier
    Comprehensive database including scholarly journals and business periodicals covering topics such as accounting, economics, management, and marketing.
  • Communication & Mass Media Complete
    Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.
  • SPORTDiscus
    Offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more.

ACCESSScience
Searchable content from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition.

ACS Chemistry Journals
Full-text of over 30 American Chemical Society journals, in .html and .pdf formats.

Access World News
Provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues.

America's Newspapers
The electronic editions of 730 newspapers. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community.

American Physiological Society Legacy Journals 
Backfiles of the journals of the American Physiological Society.  Content goes back to the first issue of each of the APS journals. These include American Journal of Physiology (1898-1997) and Journal of Applied Physiology (1948-1996). 

BioOne.1
Collection of bioscience research journals. Full-text access is available as well as abstracts.

Classical Music Library
The world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries, including a growing collection of 50,000-plus tracks for listening and searching supplemented by extensive reference materials.

Classical Scores Library
Collection includes works spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions.

Des Moines Register
Complete full-text content of local and regional news, with articles available from 1999 to three days ago. Current issue of Des Moines Register with indexing back 7 days.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Provides free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. It aims to cover all subjects and languages.

LexisNexis Academic
Comprehensive research database providing full-text access to various databases, including current news, business information, Hoover’s company records, company directories, federal and state laws, legal cases, medical and references.

FirstSearch
Multiple databases providing citations to articles on a variety of subjects.  Databases include MEDLINE, ERIC, ArticleFirst, and GPO Monthly catalog.

Indianola Record-Herald
Current issue of the local newspaper.

JSTOR
Arts & Sciences I, II & III Collections include the complete back runs of 394 core journals in many disciplines, including economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences.  Includes a selection of titles in the fields of archaeology, arts, classics, cultural studies, ecology, literature, mathematics, and statistics.

LexisNexis ACADEMIC - Comprehensive research database providing full-text access to various databases, including current news, business information, Hoover’s company records, company directories, federal and state laws, legal cases, medical and references.

Literature Resource Center
Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.  The Literature Resource Center (LRC) contains access to the MLA citation database. 

MLA--Modern Language Association
International in scope, it is the premiere tool for researchers in the humanities, particularly in literature, language, and linguistics, providing more than 1.6 million bibliographic citations from 1963 to the present.

New York Times
Online full-text index of a leading financial newspaper. Contains articles from 1999 to present.

New York Times: Historical
Indexing, including fulltext and images (in .pdf format) from 1851 through 2005.

Open Science Directory
An ongoing program to create a global search tool for all open access and special programs journal titles. Supported by EBSCOhost, a large collection of  e-journals is now available for researchers.

Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online includes Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. Articles from specialist dictionaries such as The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.

PLOS: Public Library of Science
Nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.

Project MUSE
Project MUSE - Basic College Collection is a unique collaboration providing full-text, user-friendly online access to 116 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals.

PsycINFO/PsycARTICLES/PsycBOOKS
Contains citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. Searchable full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology from APA journals.

Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition)
Online full-text index of a leading financial newspaper. Contains articles from 1984 to current.

Wiley InterScience
A peer-reviewed journal index containing citations and full-text articles related to a variety of topics.

 

 

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