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General Research
Click the headings below to browse our many general databases. Each of these resources covers a broad range of topics.
ACADEMIC ONEFILE (TEL)
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.
DIGITAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OF AMERICA
Makes millions of materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country available to all in a one-stop discovery experience.
GALE IN CONTEXT: HIGH SCHOOL (TEL)
High school learners can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and more. Empower learning with hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast video, BBC News, New York Times video, and NPR.
GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY (TEL)
A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multi-disciplinary research.
GENERAL ONEFILE (TEL)
Provides millions of articles from thousands of magazines, journals, newspapers, and other authoritative sources. With intuitive search features, and extensive coverage across wide-ranging topics, you'll find accurate information and articles to support your interests. Discover full text results to fuel exploration and gain understanding through the vast selection of periodicals in Gale General OneFile. Click here to view a video tutorial.
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS IN CONTEXT (TEL)
Covers today's hottest social issues, from offshore drilling to climate change, health care to immigration. Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps you analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.
STUDENT RESOURCES IN CONTEXT (TEL)
Integrates a multitude of content, including: 15 million periodical and newspaper articles from the New York Times, US News and World Report and many others, 4,200 primary sources, and video and audio content from NBC, NPR and many other respected sources.
WORLD BOOK EBOOKS (TEL)
Includes highly illustrated, engaging titles that support a span of curriculum areas and reading levels.
WORLD BOOK ADVANCED (TEL)
Online encyclopedia, perfect for high school students, that features thousands of reference articles, primary sources, and online books. It also includes up-to-the-minute access to worldwide news publications, government links from numerous countries, and multimedia materials.
WORLD BOOK DISCOVER (TEL)
Provides reference resources for students reading below grade level with content and tools specifically developed for these students. Includes reference articles, text-to-speech capabilities, learning and life skills activities, multimedia, and interactive video to draw students into curriculum-related topics and subjects relevant to older students.
WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA (TEL)
World Book Encyclopedia is an official online searchable encyclopedia. World Book Online will allow you to navigate easily to all the World Book encyclopedias included in TEL.
WORLD BOOK TIMELINES (TEL)
Allows students to discover and map important events in society and culture. Users can browse more than 400 ready-made, interactive timelines covering various periods in history or create their own timeline on any subject.
WORLD BOOK ENCICLOPEDIA ESTUDIANTIL HALLAZGOS (TEL)
Dicciionario visual, mundo de animales, actividades y otras.
Subject-Specific Research
Click the headings below to browse our many subject-specific databases. These resources can help you stay focused in your search for information.
Many of these resources are from Gale, a database company. To search all of the Gale databases at once, try Gale Power Search (TEL).
AGRICULTURE COLLECTION (TEL)
With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the Agricola database, this collection of more than 600 journal titles is focused on agriculture-related fields. In addition, more than 30 Delmar titles provide in-depth coverage on a variety of agriculture-related topics.
GARDENING & HORTICULTURE COLLECTION (TEL)
Serves horticultural enthusiasts of all levels with more than 3.6 million articles from more than 100 journals, as well as more than 20 reference titles from Delmar, including Handbook of Flowers; Foliage and Creative Design; Computer Graphics for Landscape Architects; and more.
CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S ISSUES (TEL)
Gale’s Contemporary Women’s Issues offers comprehensive coverage of issues that influence women’s lives across the globe. Users will find timely and historically relevant content on topics including civil rights, health, education, professional development, and entrepreneurship.
DIVERSITY STUDIES COLLECTION (TEL)
A must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework, this collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. This set includes more than 150 journals.
FINE ARTS & MUSIC COLLECTION
Powered by InfoTrac, this database quickly places information from over 5 million articles at the finger tips of serious students of the arts. From research prelude to ending, Fine Arts & Music Collection moves fast, providing information on hundreds of arts-related topics.
GENDER STUDIES COLLECTION (TEL)
This collection of journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics such as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, any many more.
POP CULTURE COLLECTION (TEL)
A selection of journals with articles covering such topics as global warming, stem cell research, animals rights and more.
RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY COLLECTION (TEL)
A selection of titles from Infotrac OneFile specific to religious and philosophic themes.
ST. JAMES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POPULAR CULTURE (TEL)
Includes more than 2,700 signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words written by subject experts, and edited to form a consistent, readable and straightforward reference. Entries include subject- specific bibliographies, and where appropriate, photographs and textual cross-references to related essays.
EDUCATOR'S REFERENCE COMPLETE
Contains periodicals and reports from the US Department of Education.
ERIC (INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION SCIENCES)
The ERIC database, sponsored by the US Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. Provides free access to 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials, and, if available, includes links to full-text.
LISTA
This world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on such subjects as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, and more.
PROFESSIONAL COLLECTION (TEL)
Full-text articles for school faculty and administrators.
TEACHER REFERENCE CENTER (EBSCO)
Provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 300 peer-reviewed journals. Topics covered include Best Practices, Curriculum Development, Literacy Standards, Pedagogical Research, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Science & Mathematics, School Administration, and more.
GALE ONEFILE: ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND POLICY (TEL)
Answers environmentally-related inquiries with coverage of more than 3.3 million articles from more than 700 journals.
GALE IN CONTEXT: ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES (TEL)
Provides detailed information on current environmental issues and processes from both a scientific and a social standpoint suitable for high school, undergrad, and graduate students. Reference works, case studies, multimedia materials, newspapers, and magazines provide a wide range of content to support all learners.
GREENFILE (EBSCO)
GreenFILE is a freely accessible database that focuses on the relationship between the environment and human beings. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more.
CORONAVIRUS RESEARCH DATABASE (PROQUEST)
The Coronavirus Research Database is a collection of journal articles, preprints, conference proceedings, dissertations and more related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. It includes comprehensive research background coverage of past pandemics and epidemics, like MERS and SARS, to give researchers and students context around the current global crisis.
DARTMOUTH ATLAS OF HEALTH CARE
For more than 20 years, the Dartmouth Atlas Project has documented glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project uses Medicare data to provide information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as hospitals and their affiliated physicians.
HEALTH REFERENCE CENTER ACADEMIC (TEL)
Provides consumer health information from medical journals, consumer health magazines, health pamphlets, and medical reference books. Contains many full-text articles on medicine, nutrition, diseases, fitness, pregnancy, public health, occupational health & safety, alcohol and drug abuse, health insurance, prescription drugs, etc.
MEDLINE PLUS (TEL)
Medline Plus brings together authoritative information from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, the other government agencies and health-related organizations. Medline Plus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and the latest health news.
NURSING & ALLIED HEALTH COLLECTION (TEL)
With a strong emphasis on full-text titles cited in CINAHL and over 10 million articles, this collection's current and authoritative content will help nursing professionals already working in the field, as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
PSYCHOLOGY COLLECTION (TEL)
This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops and diminishes over time. Researchers will have access to nearly 500 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals - many cited in the PsycINFO index.
Both researcher and practitioner alike will find relevant, authoritative content in this collection, which includes over 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine. Covering a wide spectrum of information, researchers will have access to a diverse, but focused set of topics in the field, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses, and many more.
US HISTORY COLLECTION (TEL)
This collection provides well- rounded coverage of both the current thinking and events in US History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field.
WORLD HISTORY COLLECTION (TEL)
This compilation of journals provides robust and balanced coverage of this field, useful both to the novice historian as well as to the advanced academic researcher.
BOOKS & AUTHORS (TEL)
Find reading recommendations based on favorite titles or topics. Find books in a series by genre. Includes author biographies, award & bestseller lists from all ages.
GALE LITERATURE: LITFINDER (TEL)
Gale Literature: LitFinder provides thousands of full-text written works ranging from plays by William Shakespeare and poems by Maya Angelou to essays by Ben Franklin and speeches given by U.S. Presidents and world leaders. You’ll also find a set of biographies, work summaries, and photographs to provide background on key titles and individuals. Guide to LITFINDER
GALE LITERARY INDEX (TEL)
A master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for titles of works into one source.
POPULAR MAGAZINES (TEL)
Features full-text coverage of 1,000 of the most searched magazines across Gale's InfoTrac product line, covering current events, sports, health and more. Includes more than 600 titles recommended by Bowker's Magazines.
PROJECT GUTENBERG
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free eBooks, over 46,000. Choose among free epub books, free Kindle books. Download them or read them online.
PURDUE ONLINE WRITING LAB
Writing resources and instructional material provided as a free service of the Writing Lab of Purdue. Excellent research& citation guides.
MILITARY & INTELLIGENCE DATABASE (TEL)
A selection of titles specific to military and intelligence themes.
WAR AND TERRORISM COLLECTION (TEL)
A definitive periodical collection of hand-selected titles for analysts, risk-management professionals and students of military science, history and social science.
GENERAL SCIENCE COLLECTION (TEL)
More than 350 full-text, non-embargoed journals are covered; updated daily, this collection includes more than 1.6 million articles to satisfy almost every scientific inquiry. Key subjects covered include the biological sciences, computing, engineering, and technology.