e-Books
Ebsco eBook Subscription: A rotating collection of over 100,000 books in full text. Search, display, and printing options available.
Permanent Ebsco eBook Collection: (Formerly NetLibrary) A collection of over 40,000 books in full text.
ACLS Humanities E-books A collection of over 3,500 classic, but mostly out-of-print, books by reputable scholars in the humanities, recommended and reviewed by area specialists and sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies (hence the name).
Springer e-Books SpringerLink provides access to over 20,000 high-quality books in a broad range of disciplines, including the physical and social sciences and humanities.
Early English Books Online This remarkable database contains high-fidelity e-versions of more than 125,000 English language titles originally published between 1473 and 1700.
General Research
EBSCOhost Gateway to a collection of citations and full-text articles for general academic research, including business, education, psychology and sociology, literature and film, history, religion and philosophy, health and medicine.
Springer Journals SpringerLink provides access to over 20,000 high-quality books in a broad range of disciplines, including the physical and social sciences and humanities.
Gale Infotrac Academic OneFile (over 30,000,000 articles), Gale Research Library (a full-text collection of multi-volume reference works, and many subject-specific collections in business, science, history, religion, etc.
ProQuest A collection of databases providing citations and full-text articles in business, academic and news publications.
FirstSearch Gateway to twelve databases provided by the Arkansas State Library. The databases provide access to citations and full-text publications on a variety of research topics. Source types include articles, conference papers, and dissertations.
Periodicals Index Online Indexing for millions of articles in over 5,000 periodicals (going back to 1665) in 37 subject areas in the humanities and social sciences.
Periodicals Archive Online Full text access to millions of articles in over 5,000 periodicals (going back to 1665) in 37 subject areas in the humanities and social sciences.
Multimedia
Films for the Humanities and Sciences Offers streaming access to over 5500 films in a broad range of academic disciplines.
Alexander Street - Academic Video Online This is a package of video collections, accessible through the new Academic Video Online cross-search with access to over 10.000 videos.
ARTstor A growing collection of over 300,000 high-quality images especially relevant to the fields of art, architecture, archeology, design and history.
Oxford Art Online The online version of the 34-volume Grove Dictionary of Art, the 4-volume Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. This database also includes links to external image content.
Alexander Street - Music Online For multi-genre streaming audio files, Music Online is hard to rival. Music files, images, and background material for American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music
Oxford Music Online The full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. A link to Classical Music Library - the classical music database within Alexander Street's Music Online - is available from the "Related Content" tab of every Grove article.
Current Events
Westlaw News and business information in full text from hundreds of sources (newspapers, magazines, newsletters, newswires, broadcast transcripts, trade journals, and international publications). Law-related information in over 800 law journals and reviews; the U.S.Code; Federal Register; Code of Federal Regulations; state and federal (including Supreme Court) cases; European Union laws and regulations; American Law Reports; and American Jurisprudence 2d.
Lexis-Nexis Collection of full-text articles and documents from over 6,000 news, business, legal, medical, and reference sources.
Access World News Find current and archived state, regional, national, and international articles on issues, events, people, government and more with over 2,500 news sources including the Chicago Tribune (1985-Current),New York Times (1985-Current),Southwest Times Record (3/1/2000-Current), theWashington Post (1977-Current), Acceda Noticias, Access Business News, and Access Military Government & Defense.
Congressional Quarterly Online versions of Congressional Quarterly's CQ Weekly and CQ Researcher.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) Ciao, bella! Columbia University's online collection of teaching materials and background readings, updated monthly, is a great first stop for current country-level research.
Reference
Credo Reference Credo is an encyclopedic, user-friendly tool for researching people, quotations, definitions, concepts, historical events, and more. Credo offers access to over 400 full-text reference resources, and is fully integrated with both the library catalog and other databases. It's rather like Wikipedia, except that you can actually use this in a research paper.
Oxford Reference Online A collection of over 200 reference works published by Oxford University Press.
Oxford English Dictionary - Online Next time you're playing scrabble, prove the veracity of your triple word score usage of "exequy" by calling on this easily searchable online version of the venerable multi-volume English language resource.
Encyclopedia Britannica Hail, Britanni(c)a!The online Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus.
Business
World Trade Press Country Database (Global Road Warrior) Constantly updated information for 175 countries all over the world.
Mergent Online Online business or financial information for businesses and industries worldwide.
MarketLine Business profiles of thousands of companies, industries, and countries.
Westlaw News and business information in full text from hundreds of sources (newspapers, magazines, newsletters, newswires, broadcast transcripts, trade journals, and international publications). Law-related information in over 800 law journals and reviews; the U.S.Code; Federal Register; Code of Federal Regulations; state and federal (including Supreme Court) cases; European Union laws and regulations; American Law Reports; and American Jurisprudence 2d.
Science
BioOne A collection of Bioscience research journals. As a bonus with our BioOne subscription, we also have access to BAID (BioOne Abstracts and Indexes Database) through CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts). With BAID, you can employ CSA's thesaurus searching with descriptors, identifiers and other controlled vocabulary qualifiers and filters.
SciFinder Chemical Abstracts Service's registry and index to peer-reviewed science journals. First time users must register.
Nature (Journal) This journal, founded in 1869, is the leading weekly, international scientific journal.
Springer e-Books & Journals SpringerLink provides access to over 20,000 high-quality books in a broad range of disciplines, including the physical and social sciences and humanities.
History
Archive of Americana A collection of early American publications in facsimile (1639-1876) from Access World News.
Early English Books Online This remarkable database contains scanned English-language books of surprising antiquity, usually in very clear copy.
Literature
LION - English and American Literature Online A virtual library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources.
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry 250,000 poems in full text and 450,000 poem citations, searchable by 6,000 subject headings and by era or school, nationality, language, cultural identity, gender, and form, with links to audio recordings, commentaries, biographies, glossary terms, history, and criticism.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database This resource's title more or less says it all.