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Databases
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine OneFileThis link opens in a new windowCovers the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.
This database both analyzes and contributes to popular culture. It offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.
Opposing Viewpoints in ContextThis link opens in a new windowGale's Opposing Viewpoints In Context is the premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular research database supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions. Opposing Viewpoints In Context is a rich resource for debaters and includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, infographics, and more. A category on the National Debate Topic provides quick and easy access to content on frequently studied and discussed issues.
ProConThis link opens in a new windowThe leading source for Pros & Cons of controversial issues.
Psychology DatabaseThis link opens in a new windowCoverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics.
Contains various sports magazines and journals, including Sports, Outdoor Life, and Research Quarterly for Exercies and Sport.
Coverage: 1946-current
Directory of Open Access JournalsThis link opens in a new windowDOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent. All funding is via donations, 50% of which comes from sponsors and 50% from members and publisher members. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ. All data is freely available.
Replaces MEDLINE, Alt HealthWatch, Health Source, and Consumer Health Complete.
Health and Medical CollectionThis link opens in a new windowA comprehensive medical information resource for researchers, students, faculty, and healthcare professionals.
Consumer Health DatabaseThis link opens in a new windowIncludes an enormous range of public health subjects, including pandemics, disaster preparedness, and obesity.
MEDLINEThis link opens in a new windowOver 20 million citations and abstracts covering medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
PubMedThis link opens in a new windowPubMed comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
22+ million records in 30+ languages, encompassing the largest biomedical research and clinical health sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical and bioengineering database in any language, with full text scholarly peer-reviewed and some limited popular information from 5,600+ journals, plus full text and peer reviewed books, dissertations, software. Excellent standards of care and evidence-based nursing, some legal case and conference proceedings and other health sciences. 34,000+ records added annually.
Provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
Google NewspapersThis link opens in a new windowDigitized historical documents; some full-text; many free. For best use, check out ThoughtCo.'s helpful article: https://www.thoughtco.com/search-tips-for-google-news-archive-1422213
Ebook CentralThis link opens in a new windowNEW CONTENT! Contains the Academic Complete, Health & Medicine, Reference, SciTech, and e-Libro eBook packages, over 400,000 titles.
Replaces EBSCO eBook Collections and Credo Reference.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)This link opens in a new windowSearch thousands of eBooks from all topics, including a specially-curated collection of Bible & Theology eBooks. Most eBooks in this platform must be viewed in a web browser and cannot be downloaded, with some exceptions.