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Academic Search Premier Periodical Provided by the INSPIRE Network

Subjects: wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general science, education. Contents: Provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals, plus the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Christian Science Monitor. Full-text available online for 1,000+ journals, with 380+ titles from 1990-present. Coverage: varies. Updated daily.


JSTOR

JSTOR (Journal STORage) presents the searchable full text of the complete back files for over 100 important scholarly journals. Coverage generally includes the first volume through issues published prior to the most recent 3-5 years (current issues are not available in JSTOR). Includes journals for the following disciplines: African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics.


LitFinder Periodical Provided by the INSPIRE Network

LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. A subject navigator provides over 10,000 subject headings, and basic and advanced search modes allow users to search by keyword, author, subject, work title, work date, nationality, gender, timeline, and more.


MLA International Bibliography

Subjects: literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Contents: Provides access to scholarly research in over 4,000 journals and series published world-wide. Other materials indexed include books, dissertations, book chapters, & essay collections. No abstracts. Produced by the Modern Language Association of America. Coverage: 1963-present. Updated 10 times yearly.


Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

Provides information on the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 500,000 words.


Project MUSE

Project MUSE provides full-text access to current content from over 400 journal titles.These journals cover topics predominantly in the humanities and social sciences, specifically including subject areas like Latin American studies, International Relations, Religion, Politics, Philosophy, Literature, Film and Theater, as well as History and many more. Highlights of this collection include: 100% full-text article access with no black-out dates for coverage; decades of back files; scholarly, peer-reviewed journals; and a choice of HTML (web page) or PDF formats to read, print, and download.


Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select

Subjects: All core undergraduate subjects included in the general Wilson databases Reader's Guide, General Science, Education, Humanities, Business and Social Sciences. Contents: Quality indexing and abstracting from 2,900 publications and full-text from 1,500 publications. Coverage: 1982-present. Updated four times a week.


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