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Academic Search Complete- Ebsco [ Full Text ]
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals, and indexing and abstracting for more than 9,300 journals.

ACS Publications [ Full Text ]
Full text of journal articles from over 30 American Chemical Society publications, some of which go back over 100 years.

Agricola
Bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators.

America: History & Life
Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada from pre-history to the present.

AnthroSource
Index of anthropological material developed by the American Anthropological Association.

Art Index
Index with abstracts of an international array of peer-selected publications.

Article First - FirstSearch
Indexing and some abstracts for over 16,000 journals in all subject areas from 1990 - Present.

Bibliography of Asian Studies
Index of principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.

Book Index with Reviews [ Full Text ]
Index of over 3.8 million book titles in a wide range of formats in all genres. Contains over 800,000 full-text searchable reviews from sources including Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and CHOICE.

Business Source Complete - Ebsco [ Full Text ]
Full text for more than 8,800 serials back to 1965 (or the first issue published for that journal) and searchable cited references back as far as 1998 in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, etc.

China Data Online
A statistical database from University of Michigan's China Data Center, China Data Online offers comprehensive and updated information on China’s economic development at national, provincial, city, county, and industrial levels. It also includes statistical yearbooks published by the National Bureau of Statistics of China, industrial surveys, census maps and an atlas of China.

Classical Music Library [ Full Text ]
A comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings with streaming audio.

Communcation & Mass Media Complete [ Full Text ]
Provides indexing and full text of journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study. Indexing and abstracts for more than more than 660 titles. Includes full text for 350 journals. Features over 5,000 Author Profiles, providing biographical data and bibliographic information, and covering the most cited and most frequently searched for authors in the database.

Congressional Universe [ Full Text ]
Searchable text of Congressional publications, federal laws and regulations, and information about members of Congress.

Contemporary Literary Criticism [ Full Text ]
Contemporary Literary Criticism covers nearly 3,000 authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. This digitized resource includes the following print volumes: Vol. 1 (1973) through Vol. 236 (2007). For more recent print volumes, see Contemporary Literary Criticism, Reference 1st Floor PN771 C59.

CQ Encyclopedia of American Government [ Full Text ]
Illuminates the history, structure, dynamics, operation, and personalities of the three branches of U.S. government and elections, and provides the who, what, where, when, and how of every era of American history, from the American Revolution to the present.

CQ Researcher [ Full Text ]
Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week.

CQ Weekly [ Full Text ]
Comprehensive, non-partisan news and information on Congress, politics and public policy from 1983 to the present.

Criminal Justice Abstracts
Contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on virtually any topic in criminal justice.

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Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
A collection of freely available dictionaries and encyclopedias.

Dissertations & Theses
Citations and abstracts for thousands of doctoral dissertations and master's theses from 1861 to the present.

Education Full Text [ Full Text ]
Abstracting and indexing to 427 core international periodicals, yearbooks, and monographs covering preschool, elementary, secondary, higher, and adult education.

e-Duke Scholarly Collection [ Full Text ]
Full text of journal articles back to 2000 from 29 Duke University Press humanities and social science journals.

eHRAF World Cultures [ Full Text ]
Cross-cultural database containing more than 350,000 pages of descriptive information on cultures, diversity and ethnic groups of the world.

Electronic Collections Online - FirstSearch
Indexing for approximately 3000 academic and scholarly journals.

Entrez Search and Retrieval System
Entrez is a search and retrieval system that integrates information from databases at NCBI, including PubMed Central and MEDLINE.

ERIC
Consists of two files: the Resources in Education (RIE) file of document citations and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) file of journal article citations from over 750 professional journals.
For items published before 1993, CWU owns the entire microfiche collection of ERIC Documents. For assistance, see a librarian in the Documents Dept., also on the 3rd floor.

Essay & General Literature Index
Indexes contents in collected works focusing on humanities and social sciences.

Gale Virtual Reference Library [ Full Text ]
Browse interdisciplinary reference sources covering: Education, Environment, History, and the Social Sciences. Once you are logged in click on 'Show All' to see a complete title list.

GEOBASE
Contains bibliographic citations and abstracts for human geography, physical geography, oceanogeography, and international and development studies.

GeoRef
Comprehensive index of international geoscience literature. Covers geology of North America from 1785 to the present and world geologies from 1933 to the present.

GPO Monthly Catalog - FirstSearch
Descriptions of materials in U.S. federal depository libraries (such as CWU).

GreenFILE - Ebsco
Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.

Grove Music Online has been redesigned, updated and renamed Oxford Music Online.
See entry below for link to and more information on Oxford Music Online.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
A selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America.

Health Source - Consumer Edition - Ebsco
Provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health; access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - Ebsco
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

Historical Abstracts
Covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding North America).

Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
Comprehensive index of international Hispanic publication since 1970. Citations are in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and other languages.

Homeland Security Digital Library
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of Grants and Training and the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security, this is an indexed collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents.

Hoover's Online [ Full Text ]
Provides company profiles, corporate directory (searchable by company name, industry, ticker symbol, sales, location), market quotes, and business news.

Hospitality and Tourism Index [ Full Text ]
Covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism.

In the First Person
An index of letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives.

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JSTOR [ Full Text ]
Contains the complete back files of over 600 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, the social sciences, as well as the natural and applied sciences.

LexisNexis Academic [ Full Text ]
Extensive array of full-text news (newspapers, wire services, transcripts and newsletters), business literature, industry and company information, legal, biographical, and reference resources.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts - Ebsco
Indexes more than 690 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Marcive
Citations to U.S. Government documents from 1976 - present. When available, includes links to the Web version of documents.

MasterFILE Premier - Ebsco
Multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, full text from 86,019 biographies, 105,787 full text primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 293,480 photos, maps and flags.

MathSciNet
Searchable Web database providing access to over 59 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications (from 1940 to the present).

MEDLINE - FirstSearch
Indexing and abstracts for journal literature in medicine and biology from 1965 - present.

Military & Government Collection - Ebsco
Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. Provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

MLA International Bibliography
Abstracts for published work in literature and linguistics dating back to the 1920s; produced by the Modern Language Association.

MLA Directory of Periodicals
Offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography.

Music Index - New and improved interface! Contact us if you have questions.
Index to articles about classical, popular, and non-western music in music periodicals.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Abstracts for literature in criminal justice.

National Newspapers - Proquest [ Full Text ]
Coverage of 27 newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, plus other important U.S., international and minority interest papers.

netLibrary [ Full Text ]
Electronic full text of approximately 1,200 books in the areas of library reference, Choice Outstanding Academic Books, Computer Science and Technology, and Pacific Northwest History.

Newsbank Newspapers: United States News [ Full Text ]
Provides full text access to over 900 U.S. newspapers, including 20 from Washington State.

Newsbank Newspapers: World News [ Full Text ]
Provides full text access to over 1,200 international papers.

Newspaper Source - Ebsco
Provides cover-to-cover full text for 25 national & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for more than 335 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.

Nutrition Abstracts: Series A (called Human Nutrition on search form)
Topics and journal articles indexed include food composition and nutritive value, Human health and nutrition, disease and therapeutic nutrition, and physiology and biochemistry of nutrients.

OAIster
OAIster is a database of over 20 million items held digitally at nearly 1100 libraries, museums, and organizations. Types of files include digitized (i.e., scanned) books and articles; born-digital texts; audio files (e.g., wav, mp3); images (e.g., jpg, gif); movies (e.g., mp4, quicktime); and datasets (e.g., downloadable statistics files).

Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content.

Oxford Reference Online [ Full Text ]
Brings together over 100 of Oxford University Press's premier language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource. Now includes the Western Civilization collection.

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PAIS International: Public Affairs Information Service
Covers social and public policy literature from thousands of periodicals, government documents, books, and other sources.

Papers First - FirstSearch
Descriptions of professional papers presented at conferences.

Philosopher's Index
Contains informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy.

Physical Education Index
Provides citation information and abstracts to journal articles about physical education and related disciplines.

PrimateLit
Provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities.

Proceedings First - FirstSearch
Index of conference publications.

Project Muse [ Full Text ]
Provides searchable full text of over 200 scholarly journals from scholarly publishers and covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and other subject areas.

PsycINFO [ Full Text ]
Journal articles, chapters, books, dissertations and reports on psychology and related fields, from 1887-present.

PsycARTICLES [ Full Text ]
Peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and allied organizations.

Regional Business News - Ebsco
Comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

RIA - Checkpoint [ Full Text ]
RIA is an online research system for the federal tax code and regulations, financial accounting standards, international accounting standards, and auditing standards.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
International index of scholarly writings on music as well as music-related disciplines.

Sage Journals Online [ Full Text ]
Full text of journal articles back to 1999 from over 400 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, theoretical and applied sciences, technology and medicine.

ScienceDirect [ Full Text ]
Full text of journal articles back to 1995 from over 100 journals published by Elsevier in business, humanities, and the sciences. (Full-text titles available to CWU)

Social Services Abstracts
Citations and abstracts of journal articles covering current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

Sociological Abstracts
Citations and abstracts of journal articles covering sociology, social work, and other social sciences.

Scitation & SPIN Web
The SPIN database (Searchable Physics Information Notices) provides indexing and abstracting of major American and Russian physics and astronomy journals.

SpringerLink [ Full Text ]
Full text of journal articles from over 1,000 journals published by Springer in business, humanities, and the sciences.

Standard & Poors NetAdvantage [ Full Text ]
Comprehensive source of business and investment information from Standard & Poor's research products: Corporate Records, Stock Reports, Industry Survey, Register, Outlook, Stock Guide, Bond Guide, Earning Guide, Dividend Record, and Mutual Fund Reports.

Stat USA
STAT-USA/Internet consists of: State of the Nation (SOTN), Global Business Opportunities (GLOBUS) and the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB). Inludes info on economic indicators on topics such as employment, wholesale and retail prices, monetary and housing trends, gross domestic product, etc.; access to over 200,000 current and historical documents on export opportunities by industry, country, and product; and political and socio-economic conditions in hundreds of countries.

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Test Reviews Online - Buros Institute
Indexes the content available in the print volumes of the Mental Measurements Yearbook series available in the Library's First Floor Reference Collection.

Value Line [ Full Text ]
Includes full-page reports and analyst commentaries as well as Timeliness and Safety ranks on 1,700 stocks covered by The Value Line Investment Survey.

Washington State Newsstand - Proquest [ Full Text ]
Full text of Washington state and regional newspapers.

Web of Science - Science Citation Index Expanded
Index, abstracts, bibliographies, and cited references to articles from the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 150 disciplines.

Wiley Interscience [ Full Text ]
Full text of journal articles back to 1997 from over 250 journals in science, technology, and medicine.

World Almanac - FirstSearch [ Full Text ]
Topics covered include arts and entertainment, U.S. cities and states, people in the news, the nations of the world, sports, the environment, vital statistics, science and technology, computers, and taxes.

WorldCat - FirstSearch
An international online catalog of over 61 million items. Records exist for everything from print books to stone tablets, electronic books, wax recordings to MP3s, DVDs and Web sites.

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