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Use databases to find articles from magazines, journals, newspapers, and online reference books.  The databases will open in new windows. 

You can get a list of database passwords from the
Database Passwords page. Note: links to passwords are available for on-campus computers only. 
Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA)
This database provides access to major journals in agriculture and related biological, environmental and social sciences offered by the leading academic publishers.
Password required

African Journals OnLine (AJOL): A Gateway to African Published Research
Over 229 African-published journals in agricultural sciences, science and technology, health and social sciences.  Citations only, few full text articles.  See the librarian to order the full text.

Blackwell Synergy
Provides access to over 800 leading learned journals in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences.  Password required

Cambridge University Press Online Journals
Online access to nearly 200 journals from Cambridge University Press spanning the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
Password required

Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. It covers all subjects and languages and provides full text access to 470 journals.
 

Ebsco- Access to the following databases Password required

Academic Search Premier
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary database containing full text for nearly 4,700 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.  This collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study. It also offers indexing for nearly 8,200 journals.

Business Source Premier
Provides the full text for nearly 8,200 serials. Business Source Premier provides full text back to 1965 and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business.

Health Source: Consumer Edition
Providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. It features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals.

Health Source: Nursing Edition
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines and also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. 

MasterFILE Premier
A popular database containing nearly 2,000 full text magazines and journals covering every subject of general interest.

Newspaper Source
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rovides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), etc. It also contains selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, The New York Daily News, The San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc.

Regional Business News
This database incorporates full text coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Emerald
Provides access to articles from 100 journals in the fields of management, information science and engineering intended for a world-wide audience.
Password required

Gale - Access to the following databases Password required:

Academic ASAP
This all-in-one resource for academic research integrates the full text of more than 600 publications from across the disciplines.

Health and Wellness Resource Center 
Access to broad range of health information from magazines, journals, newsletters, newspapers, pamphlets and reference books.

Global Development Network 
Publicly Accessible Free Online Journals provides a comprehensive listing of the different collections of free online journals. 
JSTOR Access limited to on-campus computers
Provides access to electronic archive of important scholarly literature. The database contains 614 journal titles and over 143,000 individual journal issues.
MIT Open Courseware
On campus access
Off campus access
Searchable access to Massachusetts Institute of Technology's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners.  This database allows access to syllabi, course materials, and reading lists for over 1550 MIT courses.

Oxford - Access to the following databases:

Oxford English Dictionary
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. No password required, on campus access only. 

Oxford Reference
Over 100 dictionary and subject reference works covering the broad academic disciplines. No password required, on campus access only.

Oxford University Press  
Access to articles in journals from Oxford University Press covering Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law. Some full text articles available.  No password required for general information. 
Password required for full text searches.

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