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• Academic OneFile (InfoTrac)

  
  Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects; Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995 (Some full-text)

• 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)

• 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)

• JSTOR

  
  Includes articles from hundreds of scholarly research journals covering a wide range of academic fields. (Full-text)

• Literature Resource Center

  
  Literature criticism from journals, reference books, and books, including biographies, literary criticism, & links to author-related Web sites. (Full-text)

• NetLibrary

  
  Approximately 27,000 research-oriented books, fully searchable by author, title, keyword, and any word in the text. (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)

• STAT!Ref

  
  Up-to-date medical information from leading reference books and texts. (Full-text)