Databases (A-Z)
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Academic Search Complete
Search over 13,200 publications from a wide range of disciplines. Includes books, reports, conference proceedings. Scholarly and popular. Full-text and Index.
Alt HealthWatch
Search for information on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. More than 180 journals and reports. Scholarly and popular. Full-text.
America: History and Life
Search for articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada. Contains information from 1,700 journals published from 1964 to the present. Scholarly index with some full-text.
AP News
EBSCO's AP News provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press on a continuous basis. Includes AP Top News, WorldStream, Financial News, AP Online, U.S. Politics & Government and 50 State Reports. Popular. Full-text.
ArchiveGrid
Search thousands of archives throughout the world. Scholarly and popular. Index.
ArticleFirst
Search articles available for request via interlibrary loan. Scholarly and popular. Index.
ArXiv
Search for articles related to physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. Scholarly. Full-text.
Associates Programs Source
Search 1,000 journals and 100 books related to vocational studies. Scholarly and popular. Full-text and Index.
Astrophysics Data System
The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. It includes three bibliographic databases containing more than 8.9 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints. It also includes over 9.2 million links to external articles, data catalogs and archives. Scholarly. Full-text and index.
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BioOne
Search for articles related to the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. Scholarly. Full-text.
Bridgeman Art Library
An archive of over 46,000 images drawn from art collections throughout the world. Scholarly. Full-text.
Britannica Enciclopedia Moderna
Search Britannica's Spanish-language encyclopedia. Includes a video library, timelines and an atlas. Popular. Full-text.
Britannica Escolar Online
Search a Spanish-language encyclopedia designed for young people and those who are learning the language. Includes images, videos, and Spanish language learning materials. Popular. Full-text.
Business Source Complete
Search for information related to business, companies and industries. Includes articles, books, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, faculty seminars (videos), and more. Scholarly and popular. Full-text and index.
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Cambridge Companions
Search for information from books in the Cambridge Companions print series (e.g. Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare, Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World). Includes titles related to literature, classics, philosophy, religion and culture. Scholarly. Full-text.
Camio
Access 95,000 high resolution art images from prominent museums worldwide.
ChemXSeer
ChemXSeer is an integrated digital library and database allowing for intelligent search of documents in the chemistry domain and data obtained from chemical kinetics. Scholarly. Full-text.
Choice Reviews Online
Search for brief reviews of academic books, electronic media, and internet resources of interest to those in higher education. Scholarly. Full-text.
Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Popular. Full-text.
Civil War: Antebellum to Reconstruction
Search for primary resources related to American culture, politics and society from 1840 through 1877. Includes more than 150 newspapers from all regions of the United States, 50,000 government documents and 4,000 rare broadsides and pieces of ephemera. Scholarly. Full-text.
ClasePeriodica
Search for articles from Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Scholarly. Index.
Classical Music in Video
Musical performances, documentaries, interviews and masterclasses captured on video. Scholarly. Full-text.
Classical Music Library
Listen to over 130,000 streaming music files from all classical genres and periods.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Search for articles related to communication and mass media. Scholarly. Full-text and index.
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
Search for articles related to computing and applied sciences disciplines. Scholarly. Full-text and index.
Consumer Health Complete
Search for consumer-oriented health information. Includes articles, books, evidence-based reports, information on drugs, medical images and diagrams, and physician-generated videos and animations. Scholarly and popular. Full-text.
Contemporary Women's Issues
Search for information related to contemporary women's issues. Includes articles, reports, newsletters, and other materials. Scholarly and Popular. Full-text.
Credo Reference
Search for background information from 100 high-quality reference titles, fully cross-referenced and linked to other Von Canon Library resources. This is a great place to start any research project. Scholarly and popular. Full-text.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography
Search for career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and genres. Scholarly. Full-text.
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eBook Collection
Search our collection of full-text electronic books. Scholarly and popular.
Economia y Negocios
Search for business-related articles from over 340 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States and elsewhere. Incorporates keywords in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. Scholarly. Index.
Education Research Complete
Search for articles related to education in the world's largest and most complete collection of full text education journals. Scholarly and popular. Full-text and index.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Search the most comprehensive scholarly encyclopedia available with related internet sites and other features. Scholarly and Popular. Full-text.
Encyclopedia of Religion
The definitive source for detailed, authoritative information on topics related to religion and spiritual practice, including biographical profiles of major figures in religion and religious studies. Scholarly. Full-text.
Environment Complete
Search for articles related to agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Scholarly and popular. Full-text.
ERIC
Search over one million citations covering research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials in the field of education. Scholarly and popular. Full-text and index.
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
Search over 32,000 printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. Scholarly. Index
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Factiva
Search the latest business news, an archive of global publications, business-oriented websites, and comprehensive company data. Scholarly and popular. Full-text and index.
Fuente Académica
Search a growing collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. Scholarly. Full-text and index.
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GPO
Search all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments. Full-text and index.
GreenFILE
Covers all aspects of human impact to the environment. Includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Scholarly and popular. Full-text and index.
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Harpers Weekly
Search issues of Harpers Weekly Magazine published during the Civil War era and Reconstruction from 1857-1877. Full-text.
Health Source - Consumer Edition
Search for consumer health information. Scholarly and popular. Full-text and index.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Search nearly 550 journals focusing on medical disciplines. Scholarly. Full-text and index.
HighWire Press
Search over 1400 free, peer-reviewed journals from a wide range of topics. Scholarly. Full-text.
Hospitality & Tourism Complete
Search for articles related to hospitality and tourism. Scholarly and popular. Full-text.
Humanities International Complete
Search over 1200 humanities journals from around the world. Scholarly. Full-text.
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Iconclass
A multilingual classification system for cultural content. Search for images of art and iconography.
IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
Search a digital library of public domain music scores via the International Music Score Library Project. Full-text.
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Job & Career Accelerator
Job & Career Accelerator combines everything you need for a successful job search into one easy-to-use online application. With this innovative job-hunting system, you can explore detailed information on over 1,000 different occupations, match your interests and skills with the career that's best for you, search over five million up-to-the-minute local and national job postings, create professional resumes and cover letters, practice and master interviewing skills, and organize and track your job-search progress.
Journal Finder
Search for the name of a specific journal, magazine, or newspaper and JournalFinder will tell you whether Von Canon Library provides full-text content from it. It will also provide direct links to the content. Scholarly and Popular. Index, with links to full-text content.
JSTOR
Search for scholarly journal articles from many fields. Coverage extends to the 19th century in some cases. Scholarly. Mostly full-text, some index.
JURN
JURN is a search-engine dedicated to indexing free ‘open access’ ejournals in the arts and humanities, along with other arts and scholarly publications offering free content. Scholarly. Full-text.
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LearningExpress Library
LearningExpress Library is an interactive online learning platform featuring over 770 practice tests, tutorials, and eBooks related to job search and workplace skills improvement, career certification and licensing exam preparation, college entrance and graduate school admissions exam preparation, GED exam preparation, and basic skills improvement in reading, writing, and math, for all ages. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
Legal Collection
Search more than 250 of the world's most respected law journals. Scholarly. Full-text.
Lexis Nexis
Search over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. Includes company/industry data and legal research tools. Scholarly and popular. Full-text.
LISTA Database
Search for articles on topics related to librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management. Scholarly and popular. Index.
Literature Resources from Gale
Search a vast collection of literary resources by author name, work name, or other variable. Includes literary criticism, critical biographies, work overviews, reviews, primary sources and multimedia. Scholarly and popular. Full-text.
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MasterFILE Premier
Search more than 500 reference books, 164,400 primary source documents, a collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, and nearly 1,700 periodicals. Scholarly and popular. Full-text.
MedicLatina
Search medical research and journals from Latin American and Spanish publishers. Scholarly. Full-text.
Military & Government Collection
Search for articles related to the military and government. Scholarly and popular. Full-text.
MLA
Search over 1.4 million works of critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Includes journal articles, books, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings and other materials published from 1963 to the present. Produced by the Modern Language Association of America. Scholarly. Index.
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National Gallery Collection
High definition images from the National Gallery, London. Scholarly. Full-text.
Newspaper Source Plus
Search over 860 national & international newspapers, including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Irish Times and others. Includes over 35 million articles and over 857,000 television and radio transcripts. Popular. Full-text.
Notable American Women
An indexed, searchable edition of the highly respected research tool, Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary (1607-2004). Scholarly. Full-text.
OAISter
Search over 23 million digital resources from archives worldwide. Scholarly. Index.
Oxford English Dictionary
Search the entire text of the 22-volume Oxford English Dictionary. In addition to definitions of words, it also provides information on their origins, and quotations showing their range of meanings from the time they entered the language to the present.
Oxford Reference
Search more than 140 dictionaries and reference works published by Oxford University Press. Full-text.
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PhilPapers
PhilPapers is a comprehensive directory of online academic philosophy. Scholarly. Full-text.
Philosopher's Index
Search for journal articles, books, and book reviews published from 1940 to the present in all major fields of philosophy. Includes material from over 50 countries, in 30 languages. Scholarly. Index.
Project Muse
Limited access to journals in the humanities. Scholarly. Full-text and index.
Proquest Dissertations and Theses
Search over 2.7 million dissertations and theses published from 1861 to the present, including over 1.2 million in full-text and 2.1 million available for purchase as printed copies. Scholarly. Full-text and index.
PsycInfo
Search the definitive index of peer-reviewed articles in psychology. Scholarly. Index.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Search for articles related to psychiatry and psychology, behavioral sciences, and anthropology. Scholarly and popular. Full-text.
PubChem
PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It includes substance information, compound structures, and BioActivity data in three primary databases, Pcsubstance, Pccompound, and PCBioAssay, respectively. Scholarly. Full-text.
PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Scholarly and popular. Full-text and Index.
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Regional Business News
Search more than 80 regional business publications. Popular. Full-text.
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Search for articles related to world religions, scriptural studies and philosophy. Scholarly. Full-text.
Richmond Daily Dispatch
Search for newspaper articles from the Richmond Daily Dispatch, published during the American Civil War. Full-text.
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Salud en Espanol
Search a Spanish-language version of the Consumer Health Complete database. Scholarly and popular. Full-text.
Scribner Writers Online
Search more than1,600 detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world. Full-text.
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Teacher Reference Center
Provides abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators. Scholarly and popular. Index.
Twayne Authors Online
Search in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and the development of literary genres. Features content from nearly 600 books that comprise three print series. Full-text.
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Vente et Gestion
Search for articles from French-language business journals. Scholarly and popular. Full-text.
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Wiley Online Library
Search almost 800 full-text journals from a wide range of disciplines. Scholarly. Full-text and index.
Women and Social Movements, Scholars Edition
Women and Social Movements in the United States is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. The collection currently includes 102 document projects and archives with more than 4,050 documents and 145,000 pages of additional full-text documents. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools. The Scholar’s Edition features enhanced content and search tools that make it ideal for research and scholarship. It includes 75,000 additional pages of previously inaccessible data and statistics from the publications of local and state commissions on women since 1963. Scholarly. Full-text.
Women's Studies International
Search for articles related to Women's Studies. Scholarly. Full-text.
World Almanac
Search Funk & Wagnalls’ New Encyclopedia and four almanacs. Full-text.
WorldCat (Via FirstSearch)
Search a worldwide catalog of books and other materials available through libraries. Request materials via inter-library loan. Scholarly and popular. Index.
WorldCat.org (Web Version)
A user-friendly web-based version of the WorldCat database. Search a worldwide catalog of books and other materials available through libraries. Request materials via inter-library loan. Scholarly and popular. Index.