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General/Multidisciplinary Databases
All off campus access is through Researchport. See the Guide to Researchport for more information.
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Search Premier [on-campus]
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Coverage: 1990 - present. Provides full-text for over 3,400 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, sciences, and more. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL). - ArticleFirst
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Coverage: 1990 – present. Indexes journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Citations only. No abstracts or full-text. Now includes ContentsFirst. -
Biography
Resource Center [on-campus] [help]
The Biography Resource Center (BioRC) is a comprehensive database of biographical information on over 320,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 400,000 biographies from over 800 volumes. Choice Reviews Online [on-campus] [help]
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. More than 35,000 librarians, faculty, and key decision makers rely on Choice magazine and ChoiceReviews.online for collection development and scholarly research. Choice reaches almost every undergraduate college and university library in the United States. Each year Choice publishes more than 7,000 reviews.-
Credo Reference
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Content available throughCredo Reference includes a wide range of general reference titles together with a large collection of subject-specific books spanning 20 topics, covering everything from the arts to astronomy, law to literature and science to Shakespeare. -
Digital
Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts from Proquest) [on-campus]
Coverage 1861 – present. Indexes U.S., Canadian, British, and other European dissertations and theses; dissertations abstracted since 1980, theses abstracted since 1988. A 24 page preview of dissertations published since 1997 is available. The full text of dissertations may be obtained by clicking the free download button. -
Encyclopedia
Britannica Online [on-campus][help]
Coverage: includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopædia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
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Lexis-Nexis
Academic [on-campus]
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Coverage: 1970 - present. Features full text of many newspapers and periodicals. Also offers business news, legal materials such as federal & state codes, case law and legal journals. -
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
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indexes more than 600 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. -
Masterfile
Premier [on-campus]
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Coverage: 1990 - present. Indexes more than 3,100 magazines covering general subjects. Includes full-text for over 1,000 journals. -
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale) [on-campus]
Covers social issues, such as Gun Control, Genetic Engineering, Censorship, Endangered Species, and Terrorism. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazines articles, as well as links to more than 1,800 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites. It takes its name from the Opposing Viewpoints print series published by Greenhaven Press, an imprint of the Gale Group. -
NetLibrary
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Coverage: Varies. A collection of E-texts covering specifically chosen by Maryland Academic Libraries. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL). -
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (Bowker) [on campus]
Bibliographic database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on journals, magazines and newspapers published throughout the world. -
WorldCat [on-campus]
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Coverage: Varies. International database of collections (including books, journals , dissertations, documents, and other materials) held by libraries worldwide. Maryland libraries that own copies of the items display at the top of the list of libraries so you can easily determine if local libraries own the material needed. Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century. - XRefer Plus - See Credo Reference