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Funding for selected EBSCOhost databases in academic and school libraries was provided by the Governor of West Virginia and theWest Virginia Legislature in response to a request by the West Virginia Library Commission and includes the following: MasterFILE Premier; Alt Health Watch, Business Source Elite, Health Source Consumer Edition, Health Source Nursing Academic Edition, Newspaper Source, Primary Source.



Alexander Street Press Titles, ArtStor, the Digital Library of Appalachia, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Gale Virtual Library, Grove's Dictionary of AArt, Grove's Dictionary of Music, JStor, nantahala Review, NetLibrary, Polling the Nations, and Statesman's Yearbook have been obtained through the University of Charleston's affiliation with the Appalachian College Association and the ACA Central Library.


 
 

Alphabetical List of Databases

Use these resources to look for articles by topic. Many of these resources will provide information in specific fields or disciplines, e.g., CINAHL for nursing and health science students.

If you are unsure of which resource to use, a good place to begin is with general resources like Expanded Academic Index or MasterFILE Premier. These are both multi-disciplinary resources containing mostly full-text resources (articles, book chapters, etc.).

  • AGRICOLA  
      
    Provides access to a large collection of journal articles and reports indexed by the National Agriculture Library along with links to some full text.
  • Alt HealthWatch  
      
    Provides access to the full-text of over 140 publications on complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
  • American Chemical Society Journals  
      
    Provides access to the full-text of the journals published by the American Chemical Society.
  • American Civil War: Letters & Diaries  
      
    The e-book collection, American Civil War: Letters and Diaries contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs.
  • ARTStor  
      
    ARTStor provides access to over 300,000 digital images and their associated catalog data. The images represent the full scope of the history of art.
  • Biography Resource Center  
      
    Provides full-text biographies of individuals. The Biography Resource Center is searchable by occupation, ethnicity or gender as well as numerous other criteria.
  • Business Source Elite  
      
    Provides access to over 1,100 scholarly business sources from 1985 to the present and provides abstracts and bibliographical data for 1,800 additional sources. Business Source Elite also provides company profiles for the 10,000 largest companies.
  • CQ Electronic Library  
      
    CQ Electronic Library (CQEL) includes CQ Researcher and four subject-specific reference databases: CQ Congress Collection, CQ Supreme Court Collection, CQ Public Affairs Collection, and, CQ Voting and Elections Collection.
  • Child Care & Early Education Research Connections  
      
    Multidisciplinary database of articles, reports, government documents and datasets relevant to child care and early education research and policy.
  • Chronicle of Higher Education  
      
    The Chronicle of Higher Education Web site provides access to the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; current job listings; articles published since September 1989; discussion forums; and career-building tools.
  • CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)  
      
    CINAHL provides access to abstracts and bibliographic data for over 1,700 current nursing and allied health journals and publications from 1982 to the present.
  • Early Encounters in North America  
      
    The e-book collection, Early Encounters in North America contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters between indigenous American peoples and European settlers.
  • Encyclopedia of Animals  
      
    EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
  • ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center)  
      
    ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center , provides access to over 2,200 educational digests and provides abstracts and bibliographic data for nearly 1,000 education and education related journals as well as the ERIC microfiche collection.
  • Expanded Academic ASAP  
      
    This is a general index that provides abstracts and full-text to over 2,400 journals and magazines. Expanded Academic covers a wide range of academic disciplines.
  • Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia  
      
    Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library  
      
    Provides access to a large number of reference titles in full text.
  • Grove's Dictionary of Art Online  
      
    Provides web access to the 34 volume Dictionary of Art (1996) as well as numerous annual updates. Covers the visual arts from prehistory until the present.
  • Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians Online  
      
    Provides web access to the full text of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , 2nd edition (2001), the New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2002) as well as numerous updated articles.
  • Health Source: Consumer Edition  
      
    Provides access to the full-text of nearly 300 journals in the areas of medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, child care, sports medicine, and general health.
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic  
      
    Provides access to the full-text of nearly 550 full text medical journals. Over 800 other journals are abstracted.
  • Iowa Drug Information Service  
      
    The IDIS database consists of full-text articles and an index of article citations selected from 200 peer-reviewed English language journals.
  • Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism  
      
    Constantly updated version of the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism.
  • JSTOR  
      
    JSTOR provides extensive full-text articles in a variety of fields including history, political science, business, economics, literature, and environmental science.
  • LexisNexis Academic Search  
      
    LexisNexis Academic Search provides extensive full text of business, legal, medical, and general news sources.
  • Literature Resource Center  
      
    Provides access to the biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of the works of over 120,000 authors. Now includes material from Scribner Writers Series Online and Twayne's Authors Online.
  • MasterFILE Premier  
      
    Provides full-text for over 2,000 general reference publications. MasterFILE Premier also includes over 350 full-text reference books, maps, flags, short biographies, primary source documents, and over 100,000 photographs.
  • Medline  
      
    MEDLINE® is the United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM®) premier bibliographic database providing information from the following fields: medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health and pre-clinical sciences.
  • Nantahala Review  
      
    Online journal of writing and photography from Appalachia.
  • Nature  
      
    Nature is a weekly scientific journal that publishes papers, comment and opinion about important, topical scientific events. Our Nature site license includes access back to January 1997. Older issues are available in print on the third floor of the libra
  • Nature Encyclopedia of Life Sciences  
      
    Constantly updated and revised version of the print encyclopedia.
  • NetLibrary E-Books  
      
    NetLibrary provides the UC community access to over 55,000 current electronic books
  • Newspaper Source  
      
    Provides access to the selected full-text of 25 national and international and over 200 regional newspapers as well as television and radio transcripts.
  • North American Women's Letters and Diaries  
      
    The e-book collection, North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters from Colonial Times to 1950.
  • Points of View Reference Center  
      
    Points of View Reference Center provides full-text content pertaining to hundreds of topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (affirmative argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).
  • Polling the Nations  
      
    Polling the Nations provides access to thousands of opinion polls by Gallup and other sources arranged by subject.
  • Pre-CINAHL  
      
    Pre-CINAHL is a companion database to CINAHL that contains bibliographic data on articles that are too recent to be included in CINAHL. Pre-CINAHL does not allow for subject searching.
  • Primary Search  
      
    Primary Search is designed for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms. It contains full text for more than 60 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
  • PsychArticles  
      
    Provides the full-text of articles from 49 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations.
  • Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection  
      
    Provides full-text access to over 500 scholarly journals in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychology, anthropology and related fields.
  • PubMed  
      
    PubMed is a service of the National Library of Medicine and includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed also includes links to many sites providing full-text articles and other related resources.
  • Regional Business News  
      
    Provides full-text access to 75 regional business journals, newspapers, and news wires.
  • Searchasaurus  
      
    Searchasaurus provides an interface designed specifically for the young researcher that links to the materials contained in the EBSCO Primary Search database. This database is useful for education majors.
  • Science Direct  
      
    The Science Direct College Edition - Health and Life Sciences Collection provides access to the full-text of over 950 scientific journals.
  • Science Resource Center  
      
    Provides full-text access to over 200 science magazines and journals as well as topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations. Database has a tool to associate various experiments with national and state education standards.
  • Scirus-for Scientific Information Only  
      
    This database searches the web for scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web while filtering out non-scientific web sites.
  • SportDiscus with Full Text  
      
    SPORTDiscus provides access to fulltext and bibliographic references in such areas as sport medicine, physical education, coaching and training, arts and history, corporate wellness, engineering and health and safety.
  • Statesman's Yearbook of the World  
      
    SYBWorld provides political, economic, and social information about countries and regions as well as information on international organizations.
  • TestMaster  
      
    Use TestMaster to iprove your study habits and test-taking skills.

 
 

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