Research Databases

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cultural Databases

Culture-CultureGrams (ProQuest): Find reliable and up-to-date cultural information on countries around the world.

Culture-Global Issues (Gale): Analyze important global issues and events through topic overviews, international viewpoints, news, and multimedia content.

Culture-Pop Culture Studies (Gale): Peruse access to journals and magazines that analyze, criticize, and document, modern and historical popular culture.

Discourse Databases

CQ Researcher (Sage): Locate original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy.

Issues & Controversies (Infobase): Explore in-depth articles—each presenting both sides of an issue clearly, coherently, and without bias—made to inspire thought-provoking debates.

Opposing Viewpoints (Gale) Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues.

SIRS Issues Researcher (ProQuest): Delve into this resource that offers diverse perspectives on today’s complex social issues with relevant, credible information and tools that equip students to think critically about controversies.

Health Databases

Health and Wellness (Gale): Search a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to alternative medical practices.

Health-Health Reference Center (Infobase): Utilize this in-depth resource which includes coverage of body systems, current health issues, major diseases and conditions, treatments, and procedures, as well as health and nutrition information.

Health-Teen Health and Wellness (Rosen): Learn from this nonjudgmental, straightforward, and academic resource that explore topics related to diseases, drugs and alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide and bullying, green living, LGBTQ issues, and more.

History Databases

Issues & Controversies (Infobase): Provides balanced pro/con articles, primary sources, videos, and accessibility-enhanced tools to help students and researchers explore major debates in U.S. and world history.

Salem Press: Sort through this useful history and U.S. state resource.

Study Center (ProQuest): This collection of full-text journals and popular magazines provides offers vital context and varied perspectives on thousands of topics from world history.

U.S. History (Gale): Uncover information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in U.S. history from a variety of sources.

World History (Gale): From the ancient world to today, this database offers a history encyclopedia of events, cultures, religions, wars, and people.

Literature Databases

Literature-Bloom's Literature (Infobase): A multimedia resource that enhances literature study with overviews, criticism, author biographies, and contextual background.

Literature-Learning Literature (ProQuest): A robust solution for schools that offer teaching and learning in literature from multiple traditions and perspectives.

The News

Newspaper-New York Times: (on-campus access only) The New York Times is dedicated to helping people understand the world through on-the-ground, expert and deeply reported independent journalism.

Newspaper-Wall Street Journal: Award-winning coverage on breaking news and today's top stories that impact you. This newspaper provides extensive coverage on topics ranging from finance and business to tech and world news.

Reference Databases

Britannica Encyclopedia: Obtain facts and in-depth information on a wide variety of subjects with this online encyclopedia.

Discoverer (ProQuest): Useful and accessible resource that is an excellent starting point for newer researchers.

Oxford English Dictionary: An unsurpassed guide for researchers in any discipline to the meaning, history, and usage of over 500,000 words and phrases across the English-speaking world. Note: username and password information are needed even when on campus.

Classroom Video OnDemand (Infobase): This is a cross-curricular video resource with 31,000+ titles expertly curated to support researchers.

Credo Source (Infobase): A multidisciplinary research starting point that provides high school students with access to over 1.7 million curated reference materials for topic discovery.

E-Library (ProQuest): Helps simplify the research process and empowers novice researchers to more easily and efficiently choose their research topic and find authoritative information to support their research claim.

High School (Gale): Explore thousands of topics across different subjects.

Central Student (ProQuest): Access thousands of journals, magazines, newspapers, videos, reports and other related content.

JSTOR (Ithaka): JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.

Power Search for Gale (Cengage): Search across multiple Gale collections of periodical and reference content while efficiently managing your results.

Science Databases

Science (Gale): Understand context for hundreds of science topics through overviews, journals, news, interactive experiments, and more.

Science - Environmental Studies (Gale): Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.

Science Online (Infobase): Find accessible articles and hands-on experiments help students explore real-world science, practice the scientific method, and build critical thinking skills.

Today's Science (Infobase): An essential STEM resource shows how the scientific method can be applied to everyday life, helping students think like scientists.

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