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Magazines
Academic OneFile (InfoTrac)
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Academic Search Complete
Provides more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals, with indexing and abstracts for 10,900 publications. Content goes back as far as 1865. Covers many academic disciplines including art, music, literature, history, sociology, psychology, government, and science. (Some full-text)
Alt HealthWatch
Provides coverage of complementary and alternative medicine back to 1990. (Mostly full text).
Computer Database
Magazine and trade publications for the computer field. (Some full-text)
Computer Source: Consumer Edition
Offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications. (Some full text).
E-Library
Provides full-text from more than 2,500 magazines, newspapers, reference books, and television transcripts -- plus thousands of pictures, maps, weblinks, and audio/video files. (Full-text).
General Reference Center Gold
A general purpose database that includes the full text of many magazines and journals from a number of fields and disciplines. Good for popular, current event, opinion-oriented, practical, and how-to topics. (Some full-text)
Health & Wellness Resource Center
Coverage of health information from medical journals, encyclopedias and pamphlets. (Full-text)
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Health information for consumers from a wide variety of sources. (Full-text)
InfoTrac OneFile
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Updated daily.
MAS Ultra: School Edition
Includes magazine articles, reports, original historical documents, the CIA World Factbook, books, pamphlets, and book reviews. (Some full-text)
MasterFILE Premier
Full text for nearly 1,860 periodicals; abstracts and indexing for nearly 2,780 periodicals; full text for nearly 5,000 Magill's Book Reviews; Essential Documents in American History. (Some full-text)
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Draws on the Opposing Viewpoints social issues series, as well as core reference content from other sources, plus viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. (Full-text)
ProQuest Direct
A general purpose database that includes the full text of many magazines and journals from a number of fields and disciplines. Good for popular, current event, opinion-oriented, practical, and how-to topics. (Some full-text)
SIRS Knowledge Source
A suite of databases providing access to periodical articles, reference materials, pictures, government documents, and selected Internet sites, related to a wide range of topics. (Full-text)
TOPICsearch
A current events vertical file database that includes: full text documents; selected full text articles; and other information from newspapers, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information. (Full-text)
Wilson OmniFile
A general purpose database that includes the full text of many magazines and journals from a number of fields and disciplines. Good for popular, current event, opinion-oriented, practical, and how-to topics. (Some full-text)

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