Databases A-Z

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Academic Search Premier

This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Alt HealthWatch

This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full-text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research, and book excerpts.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection

• Series 1
• Series 2
• Series 3
• Series 4
• Series 5

Magazines, journals, and newspapers from the 17th-19th centuries.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Applied Science & Technology Source

Journal articles from applied science and computing disciplines.

Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials PLUS ATLA Religion

The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Religion Database is a comprehensive database for religious study and research. It includes journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays representing major religions, faiths, denominations, and languages.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

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BAS Library

Biblical Archaeology Review is the only magazine that connects the academic study of archaeology to a broad general audience eager to understand the world of the Bible. Covering both the Old and New Testaments, BAR presents the latest discoveries and controversies in archaeology with breathtaking photography and informative maps and diagrams. It also includes Bible Review from 1985-2005 and Archaeology Odyssey from 1998-2006.

Included in Discovery searches: No

Bibliotheca Sacra

Bibliotheca Sacra’s studies in theology, Bible exposition, ministry, and current issues have provided an invaluable resource for serious Bible students. Its articles by respected theologians and reviews of the latest publications will enhance your ministry and deepen your theological insights.

Request username & password.

Included in Discovery searches: No

Britannica Online Academic Edition

Provides access to 3 encyclopedias: the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Also included is access to research tools, Merriam-Webster’s dictionary and thesaurus, and rich multimedia.

Included in Discovery searches: No

Business Source Premier

Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full-text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

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Cambridge Core: Histories

Cambridge Core includes the Cambridge Histories Collection. This collection offers a big perspective in subject areas such as American History, Ancient History, and Classical Studies, Asian History, British and European history, Literature, Middle East and African Studies, Music and Theatre, Philosophy and Political Thought, and Religion.

Note: After you have submitted a search, look on the left panel for the following:  “Only show content I have access to.” Check the box.

Included in Discovery searches: No

The Chicago Manual of Style Online 17th edition

The Chicago Manual of Style is published in hardcover and online. The online edition includes the searchable text of both the 15th and 16th editions and includes tools for editors, a citation guide summary, and searchable access to a Q&A, where University of Chicago Press editors answer readers’ style questions. The Chicago Manual of Style also discusses the parts of a book and the editing process.

Included in Discovery searches: No

Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database

Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database is an online database of over 400,000 book reviews and related information about children’s literature. Search options allow users to locate books by age level, grade level, reading levels, genre, author/illustrator, language, and more. Many curriculum tools are also available, including lesson plans, teaching guides, and discussion guides.

Included in Discovery searches: No

Consumer Health Complete

CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. This full-text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children’s health, men & women’s health, etc.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Consumer Health Reference eBook Collection

This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general health topics, including diseases such as cancer and diabetes; weight management and exercise; allergies; senior care; social-emotional health; developmental disorders; and natural health.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

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Directory of Open Access Journals

Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

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eBook Collection (EBSCO)

EBSCO is now a key provider of ebooks and audiobooks to libraries and other institutions worldwide.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Ebooks Minnesota

Ebooks Minnesota is an online ebook collection for all Minnesotans. The collection covers a wide variety of subjects for readers of all ages and features content from our state’s independent publishers, including some of our best literature and nonfiction.

*You must be in Minnesota to access. Use “Log in by my Device Location”.

Included in Discovery searches: No

EBSCOhost E-journals

EBSCOhost Electronic Journal Service provides online access to a select number of publications that the MLC Library subscribes to in print. EJS puts the e-journals in a single place on the Web, so you don’t have to jump all over the place to find the printed articles you need.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

ERIC (EBSCO)

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text educational literature and resources.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750

This new bibliographic database is a valuable index for libraries, scholars, and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. EBSCO Publishing, in cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, has created this resource from “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750,” the authoritative bibliography that is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

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Gale Databases

Resources from Gale.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Gale In Context: High School

Journal articles, plus primary sources, images, video, and more for middle and high school students. Includes the InfoTrac Student Edition database.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Gale In Context: Middle School

Gale In Context: Middle School combines the best of Gale’s reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Students will find outstanding support to complete assignments in core subjects including literature, science, social studies, and history.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Gale Literary Index

Gale’s Literary Index provides quick and easy access to author and title listings from over 130 literature products. The referenced products themselves will contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Help Information

Gale Literature Resource Center

Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on nearly 150,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Gale Virtual Reference Library is an eBook collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Google Books

Search and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide. Discover a new favorite or unearth an old classic.

Included in Discovery searches: No

Google Scholar

Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts, and articles.

Included in Discovery searches: No

GreenFile

A free research database from EBSCO focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment. Featuring hundreds of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. The total number of records is approximately 612,000, and the full text is provided for more than 9,100 records from open access titles.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

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HathiTrust

Hathi is the Hindi word for elephant, an animal famed for its long-term memory.

HathiTrust is a collection, (10 million volumes, over 2.7 million of which are public domain), of digital content from research libraries, Google Books project, and Internet Archive digitization initiatives.  It is a  large collaborative repository started in 2008 by thirteen universities with the common goal of preserving cultural collections for use now and in the future.

HathiTrust provides a number of discovery and access services, notably, full-text search across the entire collection.

Included in Discovery searches: No

HathiTrust/WorldCat Search

The first version of a HathiTrust built on OCLC’s WorldCat Local interface.

Health Source: Consumer Edition

This source is a rich collection of consumer health information. This resource provides access to nearly 80 full-text, consumer health magazines.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

This resource provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Historical Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub (1856-1922)

The Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub is a searchable website from the Minnesota Historical Society that makes hundreds of thousands of pages of Minnesota newspapers available online.

Included in Discovery searches: No

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Internet Archive

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Included in Discovery searches: No

Infobase Ebooks

• Unlimited simultaneous use, 24/7
• Custom bookmarks
• The ability to print, email, and save pages
• The ability to link to a specific eBook, chapter, or page
• 550 Literature titles to choose from

Included in Discovery searches: No

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JSTOR

Has created a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive of scholarship, preserving over one thousand academic journals in both digital and print formats.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

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Literature Resource Center from Gale

Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work, and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements.  Researchers at all levels will find the information they need, with content covering all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all parts of the world.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

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MAS Complete

Designed specifically for high school libraries, MAS Complete is a full-text database providing hundreds of popular high school magazines and reference books. Covering subjects such as art, history, sports, and music, it also includes thousands of biographies and primary source documents, plus over a million photos, maps, and flags.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

MAS Reference eBook Collection

This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects for high school students. Topics include biography, history, careers, language arts, literature, government, health, math, science, current events, and social-emotional health.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

MasterFILE Complete

Offers the largest collection of popular full-text magazines, reference books, and other highly-regarded sources from the world’s leading publishers. Covering virtually every general interest subject area, it also includes an extensive collection of photos, maps, and flags.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

MasterFILE Reference eBook Collection

This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects. Topics include biography, history, careers, cooking, literature, genealogy, health, parenting, personal finance, politics, architecture, science, current events, social-emotional health, sports, and travel.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Mental Measurements Yearbook

Includes timely, consumer-oriented test reviews, providing evaluative information to promote and encourage informed test selection.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Middle Search Plus

Content contains more than 140 full-text periodicals, over 400,000 photos, maps, and flags, 84,774 full-text biographies, and 105,786 primary source documents.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Middle Search Reference eBook Collection

This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects for middle school students. Topics include social studies, math, history, language arts, technology, geography, culture, and science.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

MTLE Test Preparation

Mometrix eLibrary provides study materials in preparation for teacher license exams on every major subject. Resources provided are flashcards, practice questions, subject secrets study guide.

Included in Discovery searches: No

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Newspaper Source

Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

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OCLC  WorldCat

WorldCat is the world’s largest network of library content and services. WorldCat lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. Use the MLC ILL services to retrieve materials found in WorldCat from around the world.

Included in Discovery searches: No

Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL)

Open Dissertations

 OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Oxford Companion to Music

This classic reference work includes articles that range from clear, concise definitions of musical ideas and terms to extended surveys of musical forms and styles, with specialist coverage of virtually every musical subject.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Oxford Dictionary of Music

Oxford Dictionary of Music offers broad coverage of a wide range of musical categories spanning many eras, including composers, librettists, singers, orchestras, important ballets and operas, and musical instruments and their history.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Oxford Handbooks Online

Handbook series contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field. Each Handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Oxford English Dictionary

Is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present, and past.

Included in Discovery searches: No

Oxford Music Online

Includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Access is also available to the full text of The Oxford Companion to Music and  The Oxford Dictionary of Music.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Oxford Reference

Twenty-one titles from Oxford’s award-winning scholarly reference collection in History and Culture, and Literature and Language.

• Individual titles by Subject

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

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PebbleGo: Animals and Biographies & PebbleGo Next: States and Native Americans

A curricular content hub specifically designed for K-5 students. Modules include Animals and Biographies in the PebbleGo (K-3) tab, and States and American Indian History in the PebbleGo Next (3-5) tab. Informational articles, ready-made activities, and literacy support including read-along audio and word-by-word highlighting.

Included in Discovery searches: No

Post Reformation Digital Library

Open Access Resource

The Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL) is a select database of digital books relating to the development of theology and philosophy during the Reformation and Post-Reformation/Early Modern Era (late 15th-18th c.).

Included in Discovery searches: No

Points of View Reference Center

Points of View Reference Center provides a balance of materials from all viewpoints with main essays, leading political magazines from all sides of the political spectrum, newspapers, radio, and television news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books. Also, it provides Curriculum Standards for all ages and locations.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Primary Search

Primary Search contains full text for more than 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator which provides students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. It also includes and an image collection of 400,972 photos, maps, and flags.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Primary Search Reference Ebook Collection

This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects for primary school students. Topics include social studies, history, language arts, geography, culture, math, and science.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Professional Development Collection by EBSCO

Professional Development Collection™ provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians, and education researchers. This collection offers information on everything from children’s health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Project MUSE

Offers full-text access to current content from prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.

Search Help

Included in Discovery searches: No

ProQuest 

U.S. Newsstream, Dissertations & Theses (Publically Available Content), Scholarly Journals, and more will enable users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, link to full text for publicly available content from a number of different sources from around the world as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s featuring top newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format.

Included in Discovery searches: No

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Regional Business News Plus

This database provides comprehensive full-text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers, and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a bi-weekly basis.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

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Salem Press: History & Literature

Salem Literature is the online version of Salem Masterplots. A reference book series that summarizes the plots of significant works of literature and films. The MLC Library holds the print version in Reference.

Included in Discovery searches: No

Science Reference Center

Science Reference Center™ is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content. Designed to meet every student’s science research needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Science Reference eBook Collection

This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

It contains dynamic reference work, maintaining academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research.

Included in Discovery searches: No

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Teacher Reference Center 

Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

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Van Nostrand’s Scientific Encyclopedia – 10th ed.

Covers emerging technologies affecting genetics, global warming, communications, informatics, and nanotechnology.

Included in Discovery searches: No

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Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Digital Library

The WLSDL collects, preserves, and distributes digital theological materials. Among the repositories hosted by the WLSDL are the WLS Essay File and the WLS World Seminary Library. This library continues to add content regularly.

WLS Community:

• Archived Seminary Resources
• Audio files
• Audio files of selected essays
• Essay File
• Collection of Historical Essays
• Gemeindeblatt
• Graduate Photos
• Senior Theses
• The Northwestern Lutheran
  • Archived Issues of The Northwestern Lutheran Starting in 1914

Included in Discovery searches: No

World Politics Review

World Politics Review is a daily, online publication and resource for foreign policy professionals and readers with a serious interest in international politics and foreign affairs. Its original articles are written by a network of more than 400 contributors from around the world, including subject-matter experts from journalism, research organizations, academia, government, and elsewhere. This database currently has thousands of articles in its archives, and produces more than 75,000 words of original content per month.

Included in Discovery searches: Yes

World Religions

World Religions explores religion and spirituality in an objective manner, from the ceremonies of the first practitioners to the elaborate rituals of today. The database’s Topic Centers feature specially selected content on 15 of the world’s religions and traditional spiritual practices, including information on important topics, spiritual leaders, sacred texts, and holy days and festivals.

Included in Discovery searches: No