Research Tools
Broad Topic:
Academic Search Complete: Scholarly sources designed for academic institutions.
Provides different views about issues that help students develop critical thinking skills.
Biography Reference Center:
More than 450,000 biographies. Includes complete full text run of Biography Today and Biography Magazine as well as thousands of narrative biographies.
MasterFile Complete:
Broad collection of popular full-text magazines and reference books.
Britannica School High:
Nonfiction content geared for K-12 students.
Points of View Reference Center:
Presents multiple sides of over 400 issues to spark ideas for further research.
Arts & Humanities:
Humanities Reference Center:
Covers literary, scholarly, and creative thought. Ideal for students, researchers, and educators interested in the humanities.
Literary Reference Center:
Covers information on thousands of authors and their works. Topics include: plot summaries, literary criticism, book reviews, novels, and author interviews.
Poetry & Short Story Reference Center:
Hundreds of thousands of poems, as well as short stories, biographies, and essays. Topics include the poetic forms, movements, and techniques.
Education:
Environment:
Education Source:
Provides scholarly research for education students, professionals, and policy makers. Covers all levels of education from early childhood to higher education. Covers specialties such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
ERIC:
Index of journal articles, books, theses, curriculi, conference papers, standards, and guidelines on a wide range of education topics. Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education.
Environment Complete:
Scholarly, academic coverage in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, and related areas.
Economy/Business:
Health/Medicine:
Business Demographics Now: Business and residential tool providing access to demographic data. Strong tool for businesses and non-profits alike.
Health Source Nursing Academic Edition: Provides researchers, allied health professionals, nurses, and medical educators access to scholarly journals on many medical disciplines. Provides indexing, abstracts and full text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals, many of which are peer-reviewed.
History Reference Center:
Documents, photos, maps, film, and video from leading history journals. Also includes biographies of historical figures.
Law:
News:
Political Science:
Legal Source: A scholarly resource of current issues, studies, and trends of the legal world. For attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, students, and paralegals.
Newspaper Source Plus: Includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires, and news magazines. Offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
Political Science Complete: Designed for students, researchers, and government institutions. Covers political topics with a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of current discourse.
Psychology:
Science & Technology
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection: Covers a broad range of subjects in the fields of psychology, behavioral sciences, and related disciplines. For psychologists, counselors, researchers, and students.
Applied Science & Technology Source:
Contains material from science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources.
Science Reference Center:
Contains material from science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources.