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Journal Article Databases
PROVIDER | SUBJECT(S) COVERED | DESCRIPTION |
FReD Full-text Journal Finder | multidisciplinary | Fulltext Retrieval Database for E-journals. Locate and access full-text online journal titles. Search by journal title or browse titles by subject. Useful if you are looking for a specific journal title. |
ACM Digital Library Portal  | computer and info sci | Access to 27 journals, magazines and transactions of the Association for Computing Machinery. |
| America: History and Life | history
culture | Index of 1,700 journals from 1964 to present covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. (Article Linker Enabled) |
| AnthroSource | anthropology
cultural studies | 30+ full-text journals and newsletters in anthropology published by the American Anthropological Association, including 15 critical peer-reviewed titles. |
CollegeSource Online  | education | U.S. and international college and university catalogs. |
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)  | politics and policy studies | Source for international affairs and policy briefs (1991-present). Includes university and NGO working papers, conference proceedings, books, journals, and case studies. |
Congressional Quarterly Electronic Library  | politics and policy studies |
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The Conference Board Business Knowledge Research  | business | Full-text research reports from 1998+ on business management and economics as well as podcasts and webcasts. |
| Daily Life Online | history
culture | Suite of multimedia social history and cultural studies resources, encompassing Daily Life though History and World Cultures Today. |
EBSCOhost 
(View/search all)
| multidisciplinary
business and economics
education
health and biology
psychology and behavior | Full-text access to scholarly journals via multidiscplinary and subject-specific collections (Article Linker Enabled) : [only select databases shown - click "view/search all" to left to see all]
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Education & Information Technology Library (Formerly AACE Digital Library) | computer and info sci
education | Collection of 10 full-text journals and selected conference papers published by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). |
Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies  | computer and info sci | Technology reports covering topics in Information Systems and IT Management. |
Ferguson Career Guidance Center  | employment, education | Contains industry overviews and resources, career profiles, scholarships, academic and non-academic programs, employability skills and a select list of web resources. |
Gale Group 
(view all)
| multidisciplinary | Search any of these full-text resources and more
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GPO Access 
| multidisciplinary | Government Printing Office database of documents produced by federal agencies and departments. |
Harpweek 
| history | Full-text electronic version of Harpers Weekly from the 19th century (Civil War period only). |
| Historical Abstracts | history
culture | Indexing of 1,700 academic journals covering the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, women's history, and more. (Article Linker Enabled) |
Info-Sci Online  | computer and info sci | Full-text journal articles, book chapters, case studies and conference proceedings in information science, technology, and management. |
| In The First Person | history
culture | Index of 3,350+ collections of personal narratives (letters, diaries, and oral histories) in English from around the world and through hundreds of years of history, from Alexander Street Press. |
JSTOR 
| multidisciplinary | Full-text archive of 322 scholarly journal titles. Features publications in arts and sciences, business, ecology and botany, general science, and language and literature. Users can search across entire collection or browse by subject discipline. |
Kraus Curriculum Development Database  | education | A collection of curricula, frameworks and standards addressing educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for pre-K through adult education. |
Mergent Online 
| business | Business and company information: SEC filings and annual reports for 15,000+ US public companies; financial data and annual reports for 17,000+ international companies. |
North American Women's Letters and Diaries  | history
culture | 150,000 pages of primary source letters and diaries from women writing from Colonial times to 1950. |
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts  | criminal justice | Summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications and links to the full-text of about 9,000. |
Oxford Reference Online  | multidisciplinary | 100+ subject dictionaries and reference works providing easy access to background information and facts in the major subject disciplines. |
ProQuest 
| multidisciplinary | Full-text articles (Article Linker Enabled) :
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Sage Journals Online  | multidisciplinary | 450+ journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. Full-text available for 1999 - present only. |
ScienceDirect 
| multidisciplinary | Over 700 full-text journals covering science, business and the humanities. |
Westlaw Campus  | law | Legal information including cases, federal/state laws and regulation, and journal articles. |
Women and Social Movements in the U.S. (Scholar's Ed)  | history
culture | From Alexander Street Press, this is an historical record of women's reform activities documented in primary and secondary source materials (Scholar's Edition). |
Newspapers
| Note that many newspapers are also indexed and searchable via some of the multidisciplinary journal databases above, such as EBSCOhost, Gale Group and ProQuest. |
Custom Newspapers  | Access to 300 regional, national and international newspapers and news services (coverage varies, 1996 - present). (Article Linker Enabled) |
Proquest Newspapers  | Full-text database of 27 national newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and more (coverage varies, 1980 - present). (Article Linker Enabled) |
New York Times Archive  | Search the ProQuest archives of the New York Times (1851 - 3 years ago). Includes full-page and article images in PDF format as well as historical and stock photos, and advertisements from the original print version. |
Ethnic Newswatch  | Interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. |
| Regional Business News | Full text coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis. |
| National Newspaper Index | Quick access to citations (no full-text) from America's top five newspapers: The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post (1977 - present). (Article Linker Enabled) |
New York Newspapers  | Search 10 New York State newspapers from Buffalo, Syracuse and NYC (1985 - present). |
Book Databases
| Empire State College E-Book Catalog | Search 7 collections of e-books at the same time, including ebrary, netlibrary, Gutenberg and PsycBOOKS. |
ebrary  | Search and view 34,000+ full-text books; largest collection in our library. |
ACLS Humanities E-Books  | 1,700+ full-text titles in humanities fields such as history, literature, philosophy, religion, and many more. New! |
Electronic Text Center  | 2,100+ texts in history, literature, philosophy, religion, history of science and titles in several foreign languages from the University of Virginia Library. |
eScholarship Editions  | 500+ free Electronic editions of academic books from the University of California Press. |
netlibrary  | Search and view more than 4,800 books on the web. |
National Academies Press  | 3,000+ scholarly reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. |
Online Books Page  | More than 25,000 free books online - mostly older works, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. |
Project Gutenberg  | 17,000 free eBooks - mostly classic texts that were originally published before 1923. Also includes audio books. |
PsycBOOKS  | 1000+ behavioral science books. |
| Other E-Book Collections | Choose from more than a dozen publicly available e-book collections. |
| WorldCat | Search thousands of library collections at once. |
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