Databases by type: General Databases

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Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, including more than 7,300 peer reviewed titles. Indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 12,500 journals.

1980-present
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Ad Age and Datacenter provides news, reports, and statistics about the advertising industry.

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ASSIA is designed to serve the information needs of the caring professions, including practitioners, researchers, and students in healthcare, social services, education, and related areas

1987-present
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Biological Science Database provides access to nearly 400 journals, with more than 325 available in full text.

1986-present
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Contains Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), and other databases.

The Cochrane Library is associated with the evidence-based practice movement in health care. 

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Dimensions is a linked research knowledge system that re-imagines discovery and access to research.

1665-present
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Provides indexing for high-quality, peer-reviewed publications from a wider range of countries and from emerging scientific fields to extend the Web of Science journal collection.

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Google Scholar provides access to scholarly articles, conference papers, preprints, theses, books, and technical reports.

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1990's-present
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A collection of primary and secondary sources on global history from ancient times to the present day.

1900-present
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The IBSS includes over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951.

1951-present
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JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of academic journals (over 2,000) in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. 

Coverage is the beginning of the journal until two to five years ago.
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Find information and links about your legal rights, the law, the courts, legal forms and more.

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LISA is an international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists.

1969-present
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General reference magazines and publications covering a wide-range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science and multicultural issues.

1990-present
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Guide to prescription and over-the-counter medications, herbs, and supplements.

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NCJRS covers literature related to research, policy and practice in criminal and juvenile justice and drug control. Search over 189,000 U.S.

1975-present
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LexisNexis has replaced LN Academic with Nexis Uni

Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.

1975-present
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Policy File Index is a web-based resource for information on public policy issues with indexing and linking to the output of over 350 think tanks and similar organizations.

1990-present
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Project Muse provides full text access to over 335 journals, and indexing for 200 more in the humanities and social sciences.

1996-present
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Multidisplinary database with access to nearly 20,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers.

1905-present
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ProQuest Research Library provides access to a wide range of the core academic titles, including more than 6,000 titles, 75% of which are available in full text.

1981-present
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Full text access to more than 1,200 journals from the Elsevier Science journal collection, indexing for 1,300 more.

1960s-present
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The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a world wide collaborative of over 185,000 authors and more than 1.3 million users that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of so

1994-present
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The comprehensive international content of the database is drawn from websites, journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference proceedings, etc.

1900-present
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Provides full text access to more than 1,500 peer reviewed journals in a wide variety of academic discplines.

1990s-present
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Provides indexing and citation analysis for over 12,000 journals from a wide range of disciplines. 

1898-present
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Provides full text access to more than 1,000 scholarly journals.

1990's-
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides abstracts and indexing of the international literature of political science and international relations, along with complementary fields, in

1975-present
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