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Primo Search Box
Search the library collections for books, ebooks, DVDs, articles, and more.

Journal/Magazine Articles

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? Excellent place for general research. Provides complete coverage of academic disciplines.
- What's included? Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences, and more. Offers access to video content from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency. Videos relevant to the search terms will appear in a panel in the result list. With footage from 1930 to the present and updated monthly, this collection of more than 75,000 videos with a wide variety of topics.
AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? Provides millions of citations relating to the field of agriculture.
- What's included? Articles and book chapters from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Topics include food and human nutrition, agricultural engineering and technology, earth and environmental sciences and more.
Biography Reference Center This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? Provides thousands of reliable full-text biographies.
- What's included? Includes the complete full text of Biography Today and Biography, plus narrative biographies not available in other databases. Use keyword search, and also locate biographies by subject occupation, nationality, activity, gender, lifespan and more.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? Business industry’s most used research database.
- What's included? Find articles, economic reports, company profiles, industry reports, and videos from business publications in areas such as marketing, management, accounting, and finance. Includes: company profiles, up-to-date company news coverage, organizational structure, and SWOT analyses.
Career and Technical Education This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? The definitive source for vocational information.
- What's included? Includes nearly 600 titles, with more than 500 available in full text for quick access to research on virtually any technical topic.
CareNotes System
- Why search here? A single source for evidence-based patient education materials..
- What's included? Concise, customizable materials written at a 4th to 7th grade reading level cover conditions, treatment, laboratory tests, follow-up care, psychosocial conditions, continuing health and wellness and the most frequently administered drugs.
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CINAHL with Full Text
- Why search here? Nurse educators and students depend on the CINAHL Database to research their subject areas.
- What's included? Full text of nursing & allied health journals and access to access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, audiovisuals and book chapters, legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, research instruments, and clinical trials.
Criminal Justice This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? Provides access to academic journals and magazines on topics in criminal justice and related fields.
- What's included? Contains 8,669,954 articles criminal justice, law, and related fields.
Diversity Studies This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? Explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community.
- What's included? Includes more than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals, updated daily.
Britannica Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? EB delivers fast and easy access to trusted information with balanced, global perspectives and insights that users will not find anywhere else.
- What's included? Includes all articles from the print edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools.
Fine Arts and Music Collection This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? Supports research in areas including drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
- What's included? More than 250 journals covered in databases are available in full text. Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
- Why search here? Provides researchers, students, nurses and medical educators with access to full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
- What's included? Includes indexing, abstracts and full-text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals, many of which are peer-reviewed.
Literary Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? A literature database covering all genres and time periods.
- What's included? Includes thousands of plot summaries, essays of literary criticism, author biographies, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems, classic and contemporary short stories, and author biographies, plus lesson plans and literary study guides.
MEDLINE
- Why search here? Authoritative bibliographic database contains citations and abstracts, and some full text, for biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers.
- What's included? Contains journal citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from around the world.
Micromedex
- Why search here? Unbiased, referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine to stay informed on clinical diagnosis and treatment decisions.
- What's included? Access relevant and consolidated drug information, curated by professionals.
NoveList
- Why search here? Novelist is an electronic readers' advisory resource that assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles.
- What's included? Includes full text book reviews, subject headings and a complete array of searching options, including searching by title, by author or by describing specific plot details.
Nursing and Allied Health Premium (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? Prepares students for clinical success, helps build the research skills that students need today and to advance their careers tomorrow. Presents a unique mix of practical and theoretical content in a nursing and allied health specific interface.
- What's included? Peer-reviewed journal articles, clinical skills videos, case studies, and multi-cultural reports.
Opposing Viewpoints In Context
- Why search here? This database includes a rich resource for debaters and general research that includes viewpoints, reference articles, infographics, news, images, video, audio, and more.
- What's included? Topics include capital punishment to immigration to marijuana, supports subject areas in science, social studies, current events, and language arts.
Pop Culture Studies This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? Provides useful information for students in a social science, history, art or liberal arts course.
- What's included? Includes scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
- Why search here? Covers topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
- What's included? Provides hundreds of full-text psychology journals, including many indexed in APA PsycInfo.
Psychology Collection (Gale OneFile)
- Why search here? Provide access to authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology and applied psychology.
- What's included? Includes access to hundreds of subject-appropriate full-text journals.
APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? Covering behavioral and social science research and literature, APA PsycInfo is unmatched as a resource for locating scholarly research findings in psychology and related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.
- What's included? Full citation and summaries for journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, and electronic collections.
Religion and Philosophy Collection This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? Covers topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions, including the impact religion has had on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. Updated daily.
- What's included? Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines of interest.
Sociological Collection This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? Covers a broad range of subjects relevant to sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, social and cultural structure and more.
- What's included? Full-text scholarly journals and coverage spanning over a century.
TOPICSearch
- Why search here? Covers current events, social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics.
- What's included? What’s included text
U.S. History: Gale In Context This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? Complete overview of our nation’s past that covers the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people.
- What's included? Reference content, millions of news and periodical articles, and more than 5,500 rare and vital primary source documents that range from slave journals to presidential papers.
Vocations and Career Collection
- Why search here? Provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
- What's included? Offers hundreds of current and applicable periodicals, from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
War and Terrorism Collection This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? Offers balanced coverage of both historic and contemporary topics in the fields of war and terrorism.
- What's included? Provides access to academic journals and magazines of interest to analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science.
World History Collection (Gale OneFile)
- Why search here? Offers balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work established in the field.
- What's included? Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines.