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• indicates that the database contains at least some full-text content.
• Providers listed in bold in the tables below are considered major, multidisciplinary sources of full-text material.

PROVIDER	SUBJECT(S) COVERED	DESCRIPTION
FReD Full-text Journal Finder [view FReD tutorial]	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	CQ Public Affairs Collection - primary sources & statistics for public policy CQ Researcher - current issues in public policy CQ Weekly - U.S. Congress legislative action
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) [view EBSCO tutorial]	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] Academic Search Premier (multidisciplinary) Art Abstracts Business Source Premier CINAHL Plus (nursing) Communication and Mass Media Complete Education Research Complete ERIC (education) Gender Studies Database GreenFILE (environment) MEDLINE (health and medicine) PsycArticles (psychology) PsycINFO (psychology) SocINDEX with Full Text (sociology)
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) [view Gale tutorial]	multidisciplinary	Search any of these full-text resources and more View all databases Academic OneFile** (all major disciplines) Biography Resource Center ** Business and Company Resource Ctr (NOVEL) Custom Newspapers** Health and Wellness RC** Health Reference Center Academic (NOVEL) Literature Resource Center MLA International Bibliography** (literature) Opposing Viewpoints Resource Ctr ** Virtual Reference Library (250+ subject encyclopedias) All NOVEL databases (NYS Library funded resources) ** = (Article Linker Enabled)
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 [view JSTOR tutorial]	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 view [Mergent tutorial] (or print version)	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 [view ProQuest tutorial]	multidisciplinary	Full-text articles (Article Linker Enabled) : View/search all databases Research Library (all subjects) Arts and Humanities Business (ABI/Inform, Barron's, etc.) Dissertations & Theses: Humanities and Social Sciences Ethnic Newswatch GenderWatch Health and Medicine (incl. psychology) Health Management Newspapers (NYT, LAT, WSJ, etc.) New York Times Archive (1851-2003) PolicyFile (1995 - present for US policy research) Social Sciences (incl. education and law)
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 [view Westlaw Tutorial]	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).

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).

Empire State College E-Book Catalog	Search 10 collections of e-books at the same time, including ebrary, netlibrary, ACLS, Gutenberg and PsycBOOKS.
ebrary [view ebrary tutorial]	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.

Virtual Reference Library	250+ searchable subject encyclopedias.
Credo Reference (formerly xrefer)	100 cross-searchable dictionaries, encyclopedias, image and map libraries and other reference tools.
CollegeSource Online	U.S. and international college and university catalogs.
Ferguson Career Guidance Center	Contains industry overviews and resources, career profiles, scholarships, academic and non-academic programs, employability skills and a select list of web resources.
Oxford Reference Online	100+ subject dictionaries and reference works providing easy access to background information and facts in the major subject disciplines.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy	Search or browse 2000+ in-depth articles in this multi-volume encyclopedia.
Routledge Religion Resource	Search or browse dozens of encyclopedias dealing with all aspects of religion and related issues, religious history and religious movements.