This A to Z list provides links to and descriptions of all of the full text indexes, databases, and some ebooks.  Ebooks can also be found in our online catalog.  If you are off campus or using a wireless pc, you will be prompted to login.  Remote Login Information can be found here.  All of these databases are available to be searched individually.  Many of these are also available through MC Central Search if you want to search several databases simultaneously. 

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Academic Onefile   Thomson Gale  (UL)  Title Lists  Help available at site
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.  Updated daily.

Academic Search Premier  EBSCO  (UL/MDL)  Tutorial on Basic Searching  Title List
This database of articles from magazines and journals "offers information in nearly every area of academic study"...and contains full text for more than 4,683 scholarly publications, including more than 3,641 peer-reviewed publications and offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,215 journals in total.  Some titles, however, do have an embargo period of up to one year.

Access Science  Not available in Central Search. McGraw-Hill  (UL/MDL)  Online Tutorial Available at Site 
An electronic version of the 9th edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.  It also includes Research Updates to trends and developments in science and technology, biographies of scientists, late breaking news, links to evaluated web sites, images and learning resources and study guides by topic.

African American Newspapers:  the 19th Century  Not available in Central Search.  Accessible Archives  (UL)
This collection of African-American newspapers "contains a wealth of information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day...[and] also contain[s] large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.

African American Song Alexander Street Press (MDL/UL)  Help Guides 
African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. The African American experience is deeply connected to music. Whether using guitar, piano, voice, harmonica, violin, or spoons, African Americans have always expressed their joy, pain, and hopes through song.

African Studies Companion Hans Zell Publishing (UL)
This is the online companion to the print 4th edition (held by the Rockville campus library) and is updated on a regular basis throughout the year.

AJN:  American Journal of Nursing Not available in Central Search. OVID (UL) "AJN is one of the nursing profession's foremost publications and is the official journal of the American
Nurses' Association."  (Magazines for Libraries, 12/15/04)

American Song Alexander Street Press (MDL/UL)  Help Guides available on the Web page. 
"American Song is a history database that will [eventually] contain 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. [At present], this release includes 763 albums, equaling 12,542 tracks.

ARTStor  ARTstor Inc.  (UL)  Quick Start Guide  Other Tutorials Available at Site
The ARTstor Charter Collection currently contains approximately 300,000 images; by 2006 it is expected to contain 500,000. The Charter Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. We believe the Charter Collection will, in its richness, scope and variety, support the needs of teachers and scholars throughout the arts and humanities.  

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Biography Resource Center Thomson Gale (MDL/UL) Help & Search Tips available on homepage
BioRC "is a comprehensive database of biographical information on over 340,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 435,000 biographies from over 1,000 volumes of more than 135 respected Gale sources."

Biology Journals ProQuest (MDL/UL)  Title List  Help
The database provides access to a wide range of biology topics and includes over 285 titles, with more than 250 available in full text. With thousands of articles available online, ProQuest Biology Journals includes some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government, and public research environments.

Books in Print  Bowker  User Guide
Search for publication information for books, audios, & videos in print; some listings include reviews.  This is a finding aide and does not include full text information.  A link to this database can also be found on the Especially for Librarians page.

Business Source Premier  EBSCO  (UL/MDL)  Tutorial on Basic Searching  Title List
This database indexes more than 9,070 magazine and journal titles in all areas of business; approximately 8,197 of these are full text.  Also includes country reports.  

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Career Guidance Center  Ferguson's/Facts on File (UL)
This is a "comprehensive career research database, providing detailed and up-to-date profiles of more than 2,900 of today's most popular jobs in 93 industries."  

Choice Reviews Online American Library Association (20) Top Tips for Using Choice Reviews Online
"Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education."  Each year, Choice publishes over 7,000 reviews.  

Chronicle of Higher Education  Not available in Central Search. Chronicle  (UL)  Help
"No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. A subscription to The Chronicle includes access to all of this Web site and to Academe Today, our daily e-mail newsletter."  This is a collegewide site subscription for all users and we suggest adding it to your desktop for quick access.

Chronicle of Philanthropy   Chronicle Publishing (UL) 
Sister publication of the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Chronicle of Philanthropy "is the newspaper of the nonprofit world. It is the No. 1 news source, in print and online, for charity leaders, fund raisers, grant makers, and other people involved in the philanthropic enterprise."

Classical Music Library Alexander Street Press (MDL/UL)  Help  Blog
Classical Music Library is a fully searchable classical music resource—a ... database of ... classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to on the Internet. The audio selections are cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. Users can browse, search, click, and then listen to the music over the Internet through their headphones. If a score is available in the database Classical Music Scores, below, you will be able to see the score and hear the recording simultaneously.

Classical Music Scores Alexander Street Press (UL)  Help  Blog
"Content in the first release includes 800 scores (approx. 25,000 pages) of in-copyright material from Boosey and Hawkes and selected material from the University Music Editions microfilm series. 49 composers' works are included in this release, including notable 20th-century composers such as Aaron Copland, Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Ned Rorem. This first release contains 16 full operas, 7 oratorios, over 50 string quartets, 27 symphonies, 60 concerti, and more."  Eventually this database will grow to 400,000 pages of classical music scores.

Columbia Granger's Poetry Database  Not available in Central Search.  EBSCO (UL)
Produced by Columbia University Press, this database contains works of poetry found in anthologies, and volumes of collected works and selected works for individual poets. This database currently has nearly 70,000 poems in full text and more than 500,000 poem citations.

Communication & Mass Media  EBSCO  (UL/MDL)  Tutorial on Basic Searching  Title List   
This database provides access to "core" titles in the field which are indexed and abstracted in their entirety and "priority" titles which include only those articles which are relevant to the field and "offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources".

Computer Database  Thomson Gale Infotrac  (UL)  Help Available at Site  Title List  
This database indexes 666 periodical titles; 362 of these are full text.  Covers all aspects of computer hardware and software and related topics.

CQ Researcher  CQ Press  (UL/MDL)  User Resources
This database provides "original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news" and is published weekly.  "Each 12,000-word CQ Researcher report is a unique work, investigated and written by a seasoned journalist.  It can be read in its entirety or by section, which include a background and chronology; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources."

CQ Weekly  CQ Press  (UL)  User Resources
This database is "your complete source for expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, backroom maneuvering, and more" and is published weekly.

CREDO Reference (formerly xreferplus) (UL/MDL)  Tours  Title List
"CREDO Reference is a giant online reference library that provides...access to a selection of reference books...[including] encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, ...[and] a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law."  You can search or browse by subject in this database.  These titles are also accessible through our online catalog.

Criminal Justice Periodicals Index ProQuest  (UL/MDL)  One Page Guide (pdf)  Title List
This database indexes 231 periodical titles in criminal justice; 50 titles are completely full text.

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Daily Life Online   Greenwood (UL)
This database is a "cross-disciplinary resource that supports history, social studies, English, and language students, [and] moves seamlessly from past to present, providing context for contemporary life and culture."

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Education Journals  ProQuest  (UL/MDL) One Page Guide (pdf)   Title List
This database indexes approximately 710 periodicals in education; over 500 of these are full text journals covering "not only the literature of primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education," and more.

Encyclopædia Britannica  Encyclopædia Britannica (UL/MDL)  Guided Tour (pdf)
Encyclopædia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopædia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.

Encyclopedia of Associations, US - (Gale Directory Library) Cengage Gale (UL) Help available on Web page
"The only comprehensive source for detailed information on nonprofit American membership organizations of national scope. Each entry features a range of valuable data, typically including the organization’s complete name, address, e-mail, Web site and phone; the primary official’s name and title; founding date; purpose and activities; dues; national and international conferences; and more."

ERIC  EBSCO  (UL/MDL)  Tutorial on Basic Searching
This database indexes and abstracts approximately 1,000 educational and education-related journals from the CIJE (Current Index of Journals in Education) and documents from RIE (Resources in Education Index).  It is mostly not full text except for more than 2,200 Eric Digests and does provide some linked articles.

Ethnic Newswatch  ProQuest  (UL/MDL)  One Page Guide (pdf)  Title List (Excel)
This is a database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press and contains over 830,000 full-text articles from 240 publications.

Expanded Academic ASAP  Thomson Gale Infotrac  (UL)  Help Available at Site  Title List
This database indexes 3,732 periodicals; 2,211 of these are full text.  Covers all subject areas and includes great indexing and subject headings.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library  Thomson Gale  (UL/MDL)  Guided Tour of GVRL
This is a selected collection of "of encyclopedias, ..., and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research".  For a current title list of our offerings, see the List of Sources once you 
are in the collection.  You can search all of our ebooks here simultaneously.  These titles are also accessible through our online catalog.

GenderWatch  ProQuest  (UL/MDL)  One Page Guide (pdf)  Title List  (Excel)
This is a "full text database of...publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of 
subject areas"...[and offers] an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women's
movement and the changes in gender roles."

Greenwood Ebooks   Greenwood (UL)
This is a collection of digital ebooks available through Greenwood Press covering all subjects which can be searched by title, author, or subject or browsed.

Grove Art Online Oxford University Press (UL)  Guided Tour
Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) and
The Oxford Companion to Western Art (2001). Included are ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 3,000 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links, and sophisticated search and navigation tools.

Grove Music Online Oxford University Press (UL)  Guided Tour
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., published as Grove Music Online in January 2001 publishes regular revisions and includes The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (published in print in 1992 and online in 1999) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd. ed. (2001). Through a partnership with Sibelius notation software, over 500 of Grove's musical examples are now available in sound as well as notated examples.

 

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Health Source:  Consumer Ed.  EBSCO  (UL/MDL)  Tutorial on Basic Searching  Title List  
Indexes 303 titles; another 286 are full text.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Ed.  EBSCO  (UL/MDL)  Tutorial on Basic Searching  Title List
This database indexes and abstracts 822 periodicals and provides 547 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.

Historical New York Times (formerly New York Times Historical) (1851-2003)  ProQuest (UL/MDL) Help Available at Site
Includes full text from the New York Daily Times (1851-1857) and the New York Times from 1857 to 2003.  For current New York Time's articles, use the ProQuest Newspapers database.

Historical Washington Post (formerly Washington Post Historical) ProQuest  (UL)  Help available at Site
This full text database provides articles from the Washington Post and the Times Herald from 1877 to 1990.  For current articles from the Washington Post, go to the ProQuest Newspapers database.

History E-Book Project  (See Humanities E-Book Project below.)

History Resource Center:  US  Thomson Gale Infotrac (UL)  Help Guides  List of Sources
This database includes some material from Gale's proprietary reference content, including American Decades CD-ROM, American Eras, DISCovering U.S. History, and Worldmark Encyclopedia of Nations and also delivers full-text periodicals, newspapers, primary source documents, radio/television transcripts, professional development tools, and student research tools.

History Resource Center:  World  Not available in Central Search. Thomson Gale Infotrac (UL/MDL)  Help Guides  List of Sources
History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronologic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.

Hoover's Online  Not available in Central Search. D&B  (UL)  Training
Hoover's, Inc., delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence and can be searched by Companies, People, Industries, and News.  

Humanities E-Book Project  (formerly ACLS History E-Book Project) American Council of Learned Societies  (UL)  Title List
The ACLS Humanities E-Book Project is a collaboration of eight learned societies, nearly 75 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in history, recommended and reviewed by historians and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. The Project is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers. The ACLS Humanities E-Book Project was initially funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  These titles are also accessible through our online catalog.
 

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iStream League for Innovation in the Community College (UL)
The Innovation Stream (iStream) provided by the League for Innovation in the Community College is now available to our institution. This tool is an online resource bank and learning community. As a subscriber, you can use iStream as a professional development tool, listen to League Radio, or access publications and presentations.  Anyone at the College, including students, may use this online resource.  The only requirement is that you set up your own personal account with a montgomerycollege.edu e-mail account.

IRIS  Not available in Central Search. University of Illinois  (UL)  Search Tips
The IRIS database currently contains over 8,600 active federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.  In addition to funding opportunities for faculty, the IRIS Database also contains fellowships and scholarships for grad students and undergrads. Users can search IRIS by sponsor, deadline date, keyword, and other criteria. Most IRIS records contain live links to sponsor Web sites, electronic forms, or Electronic Research Administration (eRA) portals. The IRIS Database is updated daily.  Users can also set up a profile alert.  This database can also be found on the Especially for Faculty information page.

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LegalTrac  Not available in Central Search. Thomson Gale Infotrac (UL)  Help Guides  Title Lists available @ the database page.
Indexes and provides some full text articles from major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers. Included are articles on Federal and State Cases, Laws and Regulations, Legal Practice, and Taxation. Also included are: British Commonwealth, European Union and International Law.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts EBSCO  (UL) 
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.  Access to this database is provided free by EBSCO and can be found on the Especially for Librarians page.

Literature Resource Center  Thomson Gale Infotrac   Help Guides
This database is comprised of information found in Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 120,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring entries on all authors appearing in CLC since vol. 95 of the print series and complete profiles of 266 most studied authors from editions prior to vol. 95; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars.  It also includes selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from Gale's Literature Criticism and For Students Series.

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Mental Measurements Yearbook (see, also, Tests in Print below)  EBSCO (MDL/UL)
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present.

Merck Index   CambridgeSoft (UL) 
"The Merck Index is an encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals that contains more than 10,000 monographs. Each monograph in this authoritative reference source is a concise description of a single substance or a small group of closely related compounds."

Mergent Online  Mergent (UL)  Help & QQuick User Guide Available on Web page.
This database provides Internet-based access to the most detailed, accurate and comprehensive global company database available with access to information such as U.S. Company Data, International Company Data, U.S. Company Archives, International Company Archives, U.S. Annual Reports, International Annual Reports, U.S. Earnings Estimates, Industry Reports, Competitor Reports and much, much more.  Also includes lExperian National Business Private Company Database.

Military & Government Collection  EBSCO  (UL/MDL)  Tutorial on Basic Searching  Title List
Provides current news pertaining to all branches of the military and full text articles from 396
periodicals; indexes 503 titles.

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National Newspapers  See ProQuest Newspapers below.

Nature   Not available in Central Search. Nature Publishing Group  (UL)
This is the online edition of the weekly international science journal and has archives going back to 1950.

NetLibrary  OCLC/NetLibrary  (UL/MDL)  Help
NetLibrary includes 1, 433 eBooks that are digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction, and, also, includes 3,400 publicly-accessible titles.  You can search for ebooks by title, keyword, author, or full text and can browse the book online or "check it out" after creating a free online account.  Checking out a book allows you to view the book anywhere, anytime for the specified check out period.  These titles are also accessible through our online catalog.

New York Times Historical  (See Historical New York Times above.)

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Opposing Viewpoints  Thomson Gale Infotrac  (UL/MDL)  Search Tips  List of Sources 
A complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

Oxford English Dictionary   Oxford University Press  (MDL)  Help using OED Online
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online Oxford University Press (Palinet) Help available on Web page
OLDO offers "essential language resources never before available online: fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages."

Oxford Reference Online Premium Oxford University Press (Palinet)  Help available on Web page
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.  The Premium Collection offers over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series.
 

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Primary Sources in African American History/Primary Sources in American Women's History Not available in Central Search.  LexisNexis  (UL/MDL)  Help  Titles  (pdf, pp.2-6 and pp.9-13).
These collections share the same interface and can be searched by keyword or subject or can be browsed.  Collections can be searched separately and consist of primary documents in the histories of African Americans and American Women.

Project Muse  Johns Hopkins University (UL) Help Info included at Search Screen Title List
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.  Our subscription is Premium which includes all titles in the title list.

ProQuest Newspapers (formerly National Newspapers) ProQuest  (UL/MDL)
This database is a full text, cross searchable database of the newspaper collections of the Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.  See, also, Historical New York Times and Historical Washington Post.

PsychARTICLES  EBSCO  (UL/MDL)  Tutorial on Basic Searching  Title List
This database contains thousands (more than 41,000 as of July 2005) of searchable full text articles from 55 peer reviewed journals published by the APA and allied organizations.

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R2 Library   Rittenhouse (UL but one concurrent user per title)
"R2 is a web-based application that aggregates health sciences book content from leading publishers in a single platform."

RCLweb  Bowker  (UL)  About RCLweb
RCLweb is the new online edition of Resources for College Libraries, last published in 1988, that identifies 65,000 titles in 58 curriculum-specific subject areas.

Reference Universe  Paratext  (UL/MDL)  About and Help available from their homepage
We have had indexes to periodical literature for years but this is the first product to index reference works by subject.  "Reference Universe is designed to help you begin your research using the truly authoritative resources found in your own library. That may be an online encyclopedia, or a printed specialized encyclopedia.  Moreover, because Reference Universe is matched to your own catalog, it offers unprecedented access to your reference collection."

Regional Business News  EBSCO  (UL/MDL)  Tutorial on Basic Searching  Title List
Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering some metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

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Safari Tech Books Online  Not available in Central Search. ProQuest  (5)  Help
This collection currently consists of over 1,800 full text eBooks on a broad range of technical subjects in the computer applications and computer sciences field.  Users can do a simple keyword search, an advanced search, or even search code fragments or can browse a range of topics listed on the left ranging from Artificial Intelligence to Certification to Enterprise Computing to Internet/Online to Software Engineering and much, much more.  Contains books from the current year plus two.  Users can sign up for an RSS feed to get the latest title news sent to them.  These titles are also accessible through our online catalog.

Sage Journals Online (Premier) Not available in Central Search.  Sage (Palinet/UL)  Help
"SAGE publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine."  We have, through a consortial deal, access to 452 of the 460 titles from 1999 to the present.

Science Direct  Elsevier  (UL/MDL)  User Guides and Tutorials 
ScienceDirect indexes more than 7 million journal articles in the sciences and applied sciences.  Through the MDL consortium, we have access to the full text of many of these articles through a shared title list.  Other tabs can be used as a citation index.  It is recommended that users create a one-time registration so that users can create alert profiles, etc.

Science Resource Center  Thomson Gale (MDL/UL)  Help available on homepage.
This database includes "thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations...and the latest scientific developments...covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites."

SIRS Researcher  ProQuest  (UL/MDL)  Quick Start Guide (pdf)
SIRS Researcher is a...general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues.  Articles and graphics are...selected from 1,500 domestic and international publications according to strict criteria with regard to content and age appropriateness.

Smithsonian Global Sound Alexander Street Press (MDL/UL)   Blog
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries® includes the published recordings...of the...Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.

StatRef   Teton Data Systems (5 concurrent users) 
StatRef is a cross-searchable database of medical, nursing and allied health reference works.

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Teacher Reference Center  EBSCO  (UL/MDL)  Tutorial on Basic Searching
The Teacher Reference Center database is made up of indexing, abstracts, and full text for over 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional educators.

Tests in Print (see, also, Mental Measurements Yearbook above)  EBSCO  (MDL/UL)
Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).

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Ulrich's Periodicals Directory  Not available in Central Search. Bowker  (2)  Virtual Tour Demo
The premier source for locating publishing information about magazines, journals, newspapers and newsletters.  This database can be searched by title, keyword, ISSN or browsed by subject.  This database can be found on the Especially for Librarians page.

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Washington Post Historical  (See Historical Washington Post above.)

Westlaw Campus Research  Not available in Central Search. Thomson West  (UL)  Help Available at Site
This full text legal database includes encyclopedia and law reviews, federal, state and Supreme Court cases, federal (USCA) and state statutes and administrative materials, etc.  You can search a document by citation if known or search a case by title.  You can also search by keyword, natural language or something West calls "Terms and Connectors".  They do have an extensive help guide in the database.