These databases will help you find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, books, book chapters, statistics, and more. If you are not sure of your topic, start with Academic Search Complete.
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Academic Search Complete
Remote Access
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- Start your search with this interdisciplinary database of journals and magazines with full text available for many.
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Directory of Open Access Journals
- Provides indexing, abstracting, and free full text access for selected international scholarly journals in many subject areas, including agriculture and food science, biology, chemistry, health science, languages and literature, mathematics, physics, engineering, the arts, business, environmental science, history, law, political science, philosophy, religion, and social science. Coverage varies by title (updated continuously).
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FindArticles
- Hundreds of thousands of full text articles from more than 300 magazines and journals in a variety of disciplines from 1998 to the present. There are a few publications such as Scientific American that have abstracts only.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Remote Access
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- Search multiple encyclopedias and other reference works with a single search
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Google Scholar
Remote Access
Access to some full text restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.
- Search for scholarly works from a wide variety of disciplines
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GPO Government Publications Catalog
- Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including congressional reports, hearings, debates, judiciary materials and much more. Consists of records published by the Government Printing Office since July 1976. Also included are documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.). A bibliographic citation is included on each record.
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Image Quick View
Remote Access
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- Search for all images found in Ebsco databases
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InfoTrac Newsstand
Remote Access
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- Provides full text access (1996-present) to The Austin American-Statesman, The Houston Chronicle, The New York Times, Financial Times, The Times (London), Christian Science Monitor, Knight-Ridder Newswire, and more than a hundred others.
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JSTOR
Remote Access
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- A respected interdisciplinary database of leading academic journals in full text
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Lexis-Nexis
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- Legal codes and cases; company financial information; full text magazine and newspaper articles. Documentation and a source list for the database are available.
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Masterfile Premier
Remote Access
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- Fulltext magazines, books, and other materials in a variety of disciplines aimed at a public library audience
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Ebsco Ebooks
Remote Access
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- A collection of current scholarly texts on a variety of topics purchased by St. Mary's and other Amigos library members.
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Newspaper Source
Remote Access
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- Provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. Updated daily.
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Project Muse
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.
- Searchable access to a selection of prestigious journals in the humanities and social sciences. The library's subscription includes fulltext access to a subset of the full collection.
More Interdisciplinary Databases
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GPO Access
- Searchable databases of government information: bills, CFR, Congressional Record, etc.
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GrayLit
- A portal for over 100,000 fulltext technical reports from the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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Ingenta
- Interdisciplinary journal index covering thousands of journals; searchable by keyword; browse tables of contents of any journal in the database. Some fulltext freely available.
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National Technical Information Service Publications (NTIS)
- Searchable catalog of technical reports, datafiles, CD-ROMs, videotapes, and audiocassettes from over 200 U.S. government agencies. 1987-present.
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National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (Library of Congress)
- Searchable catalog of manuscript collections held by U.S. libraries and archives. Searchable by person's name, organization's name, subject, geographic location, and more.
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RAND Abstracts
- Search the abstracts or full text of reports and monographs on national defense, education and training, health care, criminal and civil justice, labor and population, science and technology, community development, international relations, and regional studies from the RAND Corporation. Some of the materials cited in Rand Abstracts are available free. Only selected RAND Publications are available full text.
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Sparknotes
- Literature, philosophy, astronomy, economics, poetry, mathematics, history, chemistry, biology, physics, biography, psychology, computer science, Shakespeare, and health and nutrition concepts explained and summarized
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