You are searching a selection of general resources available through the library, including journal article databases, the library catalog, and online encyclopedias and dictionaries; specifically, these resources are:
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
A Multi-disciplinary database. This database includes citations for articles in most areas of academic study. Sources are drawn from over 3,200 journals, with almost 1300 peer-reviewed titles. Full-text is available for 1,850 publications. Coverage is from 1985 to the present.
Blackwell Synergy
Blackwell/Synergy indexes articles and offers access to journals in a variety of disciplines published by Blackwell Publishing. Using their new Cross-Ref searching, researchers can now search titles from other publishers. Primarily, Blackwell journals deal with the sciences, but other topics in the arts, humanities, the law and more are available. Blackwell/Synergy indexes more than 750 titles and offers some full text. Coverage for most titles begins in 1990, but varies by title. Content is updated continuously. We have the full text of anything in green.
CQ Researcher
The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports. Search or browse by topic and/or issue; 1991-present.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Consists of a fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative references, including Britannica's latest article database, articles not yet in the print Britannica encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary (tenth edition), and the Britannica book of the year.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
INFOMINE
NFOMINE is librarian built and a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.
JSTOR
JSTOR focuses on humanities, social science, and more recently, science titles which have proven themselves vital to these disciplines and which have many years of publication, in some cases going back to the 19th century.
Lexis Nexis Academic News
A full-text database that provides access to national & international newspapers, as well as magazines, newsletters & journals, and transcripts of television & radio news broadcasts.
Library Catalog
The database that indexes materials in the Joseph F. Smith Library. Includes books, periodicals, media (CDs, DVDs, VHS), and other resources.
Research Library (Proquest)
ABI/INFORM Global; PA Research II; ProQuest Newspapers. ABI/INFORM Global searches 1000 premier worldwide business periodicals (many articles available in full text), and provides information on 60,000+ companies. PA Research II searches over 1800 popular and scholarly periodicals and selected newspapers in all disciplines with many articles appearing in full text. ProQuest Newspapers indexes the full text of over 300 U.S. and international news sources, including over 150 major U.S. and international newspapers.
Sage Journals Online
The SAGE Full-Text Collections are discipline-specific research databases of the most popular peer-reviewed journals in Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning. These comprehensive databases include more than 246 journals, 160,000 articles, book reviews, and editorials, with all the original graphics, tables, and page numbers.
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