Online Databases

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Databases A - Z


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Please Note: To search by title, you must type in at least one full keyword of three or more characters in length.  Abbreviations do not work. Example: Not "Euro" but "European."

ABC-CLIO eBook Collection

ABC-CLIO

ABC-CLIO specializes in books for the college community.  Besides scholarly issue-oriented electronic books the collection also contains encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks and guides.

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Academic Search Complete

A  multi-disciplinary database containing a  vast and varied selection of full-text, indexed, and abstracted items. Our largest full-text collection.  Updated daily

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Access World News (formerly America's News)

Access World News  is a  full-text news resource consisting of over 3,300+ local, regional, national and international sources (of which 1,400+ international sources).  Access to many local sources, including The Lexington Herald Leader in all formats.  Updated daily, it offers researchers and students valuable primary source information on today’s issues and events from newspapers, newswires, transcripts, video clips, web only, and blogs

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ACLS Humanities E-Book Project

(American Council of Learned Societies) Electronic works of major importance to historical studies and other areas of the humanities.

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Agricola [Department of Agriculture]

This database contains bibliographical records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agriculture Library. Coverage for Agricola dates back to 1970 and includes more than 4.3 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual material, and technical reports related to agriculture.

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AHFS Consumer Medication Information

AHFS Consumer Medication Information is a trusted source for patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish. Published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, AHFS includes more than a thousand drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers. This content is updated monthly.

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Alt-Press Watch [Alternative and Independent press]

Includes weekly newspapers, journals, and magazines. Alt-Press Watch covers a wide array of fields, including the environment, government, labor, education, civil rights and liberties, gender issues, feminism, the Supreme Court, public policy, politics, religion, foreign policy, the arts, and entertainment.

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Amazing Animals of the World

Contains reference and media materials on 1200 animals for grades 2 and above.

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American Civil War: Letters and Diaries

More than 100,000 pages of diaries, letters, and memoirs from more than 400 sources provide first-person views on almost all aspects of the Civil War.

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American Doctoral Dissertations

American Doctoral Dissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. It incorporates EBSCO’s previously released American Doctoral Dissertations, 1933-1955, and features additional dissertation metadata contributed by select American colleges and universities. Providing researchers with citations to graduate research across a broad span of time, from the early 20th century to the present, this database will continue to grow through regular updates and new partnerships with graduate degree-granting institutions. 

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