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Featured Databases
Essential resources for research, writing, and academic excellence
Acta Sanctorum Database
A collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organized according to each saint's feast day.
Chicago Manual of Style Online
Fully searchable 17th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style.
Project Gutenberg
The original online collection of free e-books. Access over 70,000 free eBooks in multiple formats.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. An unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words—past and present.
Acta Sanctorum Database
A collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organized according to each saint's feast day.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
Combines the ATLA Religion Database with ATLA's online collection of religion and theology journals.
Intelex Past Masters
Contains collections of the works of Augustine, Anselm, and Aquinas in Latin and English.
Library of Latin Texts
Contains a wide range of classical, patristic, and medieval Latin texts, along with selected modern texts.
Patrologia Latina
Electronic version of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, containing the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.
Philosopher's Index
Contains author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the field of philosophy, published in books and journals since 1940.
Philosophy Documentation Center Collection
The PDC Collection is an online full-text collection of more than 40 philosophy journals, including American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Augustinian Studies and the Review of Metaphysics.
American Economic Association Journals
Access the full-text journals of the American Economic Association.
Business Source Complete
The world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content.
International Financial Statistics
International Monetary Fund database containing statistics from more than 200 countries and areas from 1948 to the present.
National Bureau of Economics Research Working Papers
The National Bureau of Economic Research is the nation's leading nonprofit economics research organization. The Working Papers make results of NBER research available to other economists in preliminary form before final publication.
Nexis Uni
Full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications.
ProQuest One Business
ProQuest One Business combines multiple ProQuest business information databases including the ABI/INFORM Collection, 2400+ journals & magazines, hundreds of news sources, thousands of e-books, videos, and market research reports from J.P. Morgan Research, Hoovers, EIU, & Plunkett Research- to a total of more than 130 million documents.
PsycINFO
Abstracting and indexing database with more than 3 million records devoted to peer-reviewed literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health.
Research Library: Business
Covers publications on the latest business and financial information.
Research Library: Social Sciences
Covers publications on social sciences including psychology, communications, political science, linguistics, and education.
World Bank Databases
The World Bank is providing open source access to many of its major previously subscription-based databases such as World Development Indicators and Global Development Finance.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Want to know what the future of your chosen career looks like?
Academic Search Complete
The world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals.
ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
Ever-growing collection of over 2000 scholarly e-books in the field of humanities. Books can also be accessed directly from the Library catalog.
Chicago Manual of Style Online
Fully searchable 17th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style.
Credo Reference
Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos.
EBSCO eBook Academic Collection
Access over 160,000 eBooks covering a wide variety of academic disciplines.
The Online Books Page
Contains over 25,000 e-books in English.
The Perseus Digital Library
Collection of electronic classics, history, and literature materials.
Project Gutenberg
The original online collection of free e-books. Access over 70,000 free eBooks in multiple formats.
JSTOR
Full text back issues of over 800 important journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. An unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words—past and present.
Oxford Journals Online
Over 300 prestigious, highly cited, and authoritative journals covering a wide range of disciplines.
Project MUSE
Full-text access to over 300 high quality journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.
ProQuest Research Library
Multidisciplinary resource covering more than 150 subject areas.
Catholic Newspapers Online
Access to historical Catholic newspapers.
MasterFILE Premier
Multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975.
Newspaper Source Plus
Includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles.
New York Times
Online access to the New York Times when you create your free account.
Mango Languages
Language learning resource that offers over 70 language courses.
ARTSTOR
Repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data covering artwork from every period in history.
Research Library: The Arts
Covers publications on the arts.
Naxos Music Library
Extensive collection of streaming classical music.
Oxford Music Online
Includes access to Grove Music Online, Oxford Dictionary of Music, and Oxford Companion to Music.
IPA Source
Largest collection of literal translations and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions on the web. Currently only available on-campus
Archival Films & Newsreels Collection
Archival films and newsreels collection for historical media research.
Drama Online
Digital library for drama and literature, including Shakespeare's Globe on Screen and Royal Shakespeare Company collections.
Loeb Classical Library
Access to important Greek and Latin literature in the original language and accurate English translations.
MLA International Bibliography
Covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, and dramatic arts.
Research Library: Literature & Language
Covers publications on literature and language.
World Shakespeare Bibliography
Annotated bibliography of books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1963 and the present.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
Contains most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Please note: Each user must create an account to gain access.
Glossarium Mediae et Infimae Latinitatis
A free website maintained by the Sorbonne that presents a searchable online edition of Charles Du Cange's glossary of the texts of Medieval authors.
CINAHL with Full Text
Full text for over 550 nursing and allied health journals, an essential research tool for healthcare professionals.
PubMed
More than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
Research Library: Health & Medicine
Covers publications on the latest medical information.
Education Collection
Offers index and full-text databases covering all education subject areas.
Education Database
Includes over 1,000 full-text journals and 18,000 dissertations, supporting research on the theory and practice of education.
ERIC
World's most widely used index to education-related literature.
Teacher Reference Center
Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
HeinOnline
Collection of legal resources including over 40 million pages in PDF format.
Feminism in Cuba: Nineteenth through Twentieth Century Archival Documents
This collection comprises, in its entirety, the Scholarly Resources microfilm collection entitled The Women's Movement in Cuba, 1898-1958: The Stoner Collection on Cuban Feminism.
Early English Books Online
Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473–1700. Currently only available on-campus
Iter Bibliography
Contains citations for books, articles, reviews, bibliographies, catalogs, abstracts, discographies, dissertations, and essays pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400–1700).
Research Library: History
Covers publications on history.
American Chemical Society Journals
Access the full-text journals of the American Chemical Society.
GreenFILE
Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.
Research Library: Science & Technology
Covers publications on the latest science and technology information.
Science Direct
Access citations of peer-reviewed Elsevier journals in engineering, life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.
SciFinder
Provides access to the world's most comprehensive and reliable collection of scientific research information.
MathSciNet
Searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. MathSciNet contains over two million items and includes data from digitized articles dating back to the 1800s.
FirstSearch Database
Provides access to a wide variety of resources in a number of databases as well as a union catalog of books all over the world.
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts
Indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings.
Points of View Reference Center
Containing resources that present multiple sides of an issue, this database provides the basis from which students can realize and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.
Swank Digital Campus
Stream feature films.