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1. Academic Search Premier
   The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
2. Academic Universe/LEXIS(R)-NEXIS(R). See LexisNexis Academic
3. Bartlett's Quotations
   10th edition (1919) of Familiar Quotations, featuring over 11,000 searchable quotations
4. Britannica Online
   Consists of the Encyclopedia Britannica (15th edition), the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition), the Britannica Book of the Year, etc.
5. The CQ Researcher
   Includes complete full-text of The CQ Researcher and Editorial Research Reports from 1923 to the present.
6. Career Insider by Vault (Formerly Career Library)
   Access to current career information.
7. Chronicling America
   Contains digitized newspapers from 1880 to 1922 as well as information about American newspapers published between 1690 and present.  Current states with newspaper content on the site include Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia.
8. The CQ Researcher
   Includes complete full-text of The CQ Researcher and Editorial Research Reports from 1923 to the present.
9. Courier-Journal (Louisville) Digital Microfilm
   Provides access to the digitized microfilm of the Courier-Journal (Louisville). Access is for 2008 to approximately 3 months ago.  ACCESS NOTE: Use the web browser Microsoft Internet Explorer.
10. Courier-Journal (Louisville) Online (via Proquest)
    Access to full-text of the Louisville Courier Journal (1999 to the present).
11. Digital Microfilm (Proquest)
    Provides access to the digitized microfilm of the Courier Journal (Louisville), Indianapolis Star, and the Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition). Access is for 2008 to approximately 3 months ago.  ACCESS NOTE: Use the web browser Microsoft Internet Explorer. 
12. Directory of Open Access Journals
    Open access scientific and scholarly journals.
13. Eighteenth Century Collections Online
    Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800, it captures the essence of the Enlightenment in Great Britain during this period.
14. Factiva (formerly Dow Jones)
    Excellent news and business coverage, including full-text of the Wall Street Journal.
15. (Facts on File) World News Digest
    Brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news from the renowned Facts On File World News Digest in print. This archival record of domestic and international news is updated weekly.
16. Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
    This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
17. Galenet Databases
    Includes the Biography Resource Center, Literature Rescource Center, Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of Associations/Associations Unlimited and The Biography and Genealogy Master Index.
18. GreenFILE
    A bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns. Indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports.
19. Historical New York Times
    Full content of The New York Times from 1851-2006.
20. Image Collection (EBSCOhost)
    Includes over 460,000 historical and contemporary photographs and images of people, places, nature, maps, and flags, with an emphasis on world news and events.
21. Indianapolis Star Digital Microfilm
    Provides access to the digitized microfilm of the Indianapolis Star.  Access is for 2009 to approximately 3 months ago.  ACCESS NOTE: Use the web browser Microsoft Internet Explorer.
22. Ingenta
    Formerly CARL UnCover: Indexing/abstracting of thousands of journals and provides tables-of-contents and an article notification service.
23. JSTOR
    Searchable full-text backfiles of 117 scholarly journals in the fields of African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics.
24. Knight Ridder Collection
    The Knight Ridder collection includes a 90-day archive of approximately 100 newspapers from the Knight Ridder wire service. The data is updated daily.
25. LexisNexis Academic
    Provides access to over 6,000 full-text publications, including national and regional newspapers, magazines and trade journals, federal and state court cases, company financial information, and biographical information from Marquis' Who's Who.
26. LibriVox
    LibriVox provides almost 2,500 freely available, volunteer-read audiobooks from the public domain.
27. Louisville Courier-Journal Digital Microfilm
    Provides access to the digitized microfilm of the Courier-Journal (Louisville). Access is for 2008 to approximately 3 months ago.  ACCESS NOTE: Use the web browser Microsoft Internet Explorer.
28. Louisville Courier-Journal Online (via Proquest)
    Access to full-text of the Louisville Courier Journal (1999 to the present).
29. MAS Ultra - School Edition
    Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 550 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra - School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, 339 full text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
30. MasterFILEPremier
    Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 450 full text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
31. Middle Search Plus
    Middle Search Plus provides full text for nearly 150 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
32. New York Times (Historical)
    Full content of The New York Times from 1851-2006.
33. Newspaper Source
    Newspaper Source provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
34. TOPICsearch
    This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 78,000 articles from more than 3,000 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full text periodicals.
35. Vault Career Insider (Formerly Vault Online Career Library)
    Access to current career information.
36. Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition) Digital Microfilm
    Provides access to the digitized microfilm of the Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition). Access is for 2008 to approximately 3 months ago.  ACCESS NOTE: Use the web browser Microsoft Internet Explorer.
37. Wiley Journals Full-Text
    Provides full-text coverage of over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical and professional journals from the mid-90's to current.
38. World News Digest (Facts on File)
    Brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news from the renowned Facts On File World News Digest in print. This archival record of domestic and international news is updated weekly.

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