Electronic Databases

Reference Databases

Academic Search Complete
This database provides complete coverage of multidisciplinary academic journals. The level and range of content supports scholarly research in key areas of academic study and provides full text for more than 7,900 peer-reviewed journals, reports, and books.

Environment Complete
This database provides deep coverage in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, and affiliated areas of study, and has full text for nearly 1,000 journals. It contains millions of records from thousands of domestic and international titles dating back over 100 years.

Research Starters – Business
This database provides students with a solid foundation for their research and assignments in business. Comprehensive summaries help students to grasp the broad outlines of a subject, understand real world applications, and locate sources for advanced research.

Research Starters – Education
This database provides students with a solid foundation for their research and assignments in education. Comprehensive summaries help students to grasp the broad outlines of a subject, understand real world applications, and locate sources for advanced research.

Research Starters – Sociology
This database provides students with a solid foundation for research and assignments in sociology. Comprehensive summaries help students to grasp the broad outlines of a subject, understand real world applications, and locate sources for advanced research.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text
This database covers sports and sports medicine journals and provides full text for more than 530 journals.

GreenFILE
This database draws on the connections between the environment and various disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling.

America: History and Life
This database provides literature coverage of the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With full text coverage for nearly 260 journals and more than 80 books, and selective indexing for journals dating back nearly 60 years, this database is an important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history.

Humanities
This database provides full text, abstracts and bibliographic indexing of most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as specialized magazines. Content includes feature articles, interviews, obituaries and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and much more. Full-text articles from over 330 journals.

The Nation: Digital Archives
This database contains indexing, abstracting, and full text for the complete archive of The Nation, beginning with its first issue in 1865 all the way to the present. The Nation is America’s oldest weekly magazine and one if its premier journals of opinion since its inception in 1865. The Nation has long been regarded as one of the country’s definitive journalistic voices of writing on politics, culture, books, and the arts, and continues to stand as the independent voice in American journalism.

Footnote History & Genealogy Archives: Native American Archives
This database is a collection made possible in collaboration with the National Archives and Allen County Library. It provides original historical documents pertaining to Native American history and life from the 18th through the 20th century, and includes:

Dawes Packets containing original applications for tribal enrollments
Eastern Cherokee Applications of the U.S. Court of Claims (1906-1909)
The Guion Miller Rolls
Indian Census Rolls (1885-1940)
Ratified Indian Treaties dating back to 1722
Records of the Cherokee Indian Agency in Tennessee (1801-1835)
Series of Enrollment Cards (1898-1914)

Poetry and Short Story Reference Center
This database provides a historically rich collection of hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniques–including contemporary content from the finest publishers. Over 712,000 full-text poems, both classic and contemporary Over 53,000 full-text short stories, both classic and contemporary Nearly 11,000 dramatic works Over 2,300 audio recordings of poets reading their own works from Academy of American Poets, poets reading works of other poets, and podcasts from The Poetry Foundation High-quality videos provided by Academy of American Poets and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions

JSTOR

JSTOR’s Archives Collections provide both multi-disciplinary and discipline-specific full-text databases containing the complete run of core scholarly journals, current to within 2-5 years. Following are the database packages we subscribe to: Arts and Sciences IV: Business & Economics / Education Arts and Sciences V: History / Language & Literature Life Sciences: Biological Sciences / Ecology & Botany I / Health & General Sciences

AMERICAN INDIAN EXPERIENCE

This reference database provides authoritative, in-depth coverage of topics on indigenous peoples of North America. Multimedia tools and streaming content make it rich and dynamic. Search by Categories, Eras, States, Regions, or Tribes.

NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN THOUGHT AND CULTURE

A compilation of biographical information on indigenous peoples from all areas of North America, this reference collection covers Biographies, Autobiographies, Personal Narratives, Speeches, Diaries, Letters, and Oral Histories.

HEINONLINE

This legal research collection is a fully searchable and image-based database with more than 100 million pages provided in PDF format. Law Journal Library (includes American Indian Law Review) Core U.S. Journals Criminal Justice Journals Code of Federal Regulations Legal Classics Treaties and Agreements Library U.S. Federal Legislative History Library