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Academic Search Complete (EBSCO): Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals.

Access World News(NewsBank): Electronic editions of record for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources -- all in one database with a world map. Includes Daily Oklahoman and Tulsa World.

America’s News Magazines (NewsBank): U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and science and technology from familiar magazines.

American Chemical Society—ACS: Full-text database of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences.

ArticleFirst (FirstSearch): OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals (links to full text in other databases).

ARTstor: ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.  Create an account to take full advantage of ARTstor's capabilities. On campus:  click on the ARTstor link above.  Off campus:  use Instructions for Off-Campus Access, Method 2. Create an Account Instructions ARTstorYouTube Instructional Video

BioOne: Full-text journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

Books in Print: General information and reviews for current and out-of-print books.

Business Source Complete(EBSCO): Definitive scholarly business database, providing bibliographic and full text content from business journals, market research reports, company profiles, and business publications.  (Also available with Enhanced Business Searching Interface)

CINAHL with Full Text (EBSCO): Comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 520 journals indexed in CINAHL.     

ClasePeriodica (FirstSearch): Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities (no full-text)  

Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO): Full text for 285 journals in areas related to communication and mass media, as well as Indexing and abstracting coverage of nearly 600 titles.

Criminal Justice Periodicals (Proquest): Comprehensive collection of U.S. and international criminal justice journals including information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.

Ebooks (FirstSearch): OCLC catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide(links to full text in RSU’s NetLibrary collection)   

EBSCO Animals(EBSCO): Online encyclopedia of animals.

EBSCOHost Databases: Link to list of all EBSCO databases available through RSU.

ECO(FirstSearch): An OCLC electronic collection of scholarly journals. (links to full text in other databases)  

ERIC (EBSCO): Contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals. (links to full text in other databases)

ERIC (FirstSearch): Same collection of resources as EBSCO’s ERIC, but with an improved Interlibrary loan requesting format and different searching options.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO): over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

FirstSearch Databases: Link to list of all FirstSearch databases available through RSU.

Government Information Home page: RSU’s portal to local, state, and federal government websites, research databases, and forms.

GPO (FirstSearch): Indexing and some full text for U.S. government publications

GreenFILE: This supplementary resource from EBSCO Publishing offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment   GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports.

Health Source - Consumer Edition (EBSCO): Over 130 full text, consumer health magazines covering the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. 

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition(EBSCO): Over 500 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.

JSTOR: Full-text database of older (3+years) peer-reviewed articles in the arts, sciences and humanities.

Kids Search (EBSCO): Full-text database designed especially for youth in grades K-8

LexisNexis Academic: Comprehensive database providing articles and primary sources for Business, Law,  and news, including the New York Times back to 1980. Includes broadcast transcripts, SEC filings, Federal and state law codes, and Key U.S. and State case law.  Need research help?  Try this LexisNexis Wiki.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO): Indexes periodicals, books, research reports and proceedings covering librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management. (no full-text) 

Literary Reference Center (EBSCO): A comprehensive literary reference database that combines information from over 1,000 books and journals on the most studied authors and their works.

MAS Ultra - School Edition(EBSCO): Contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines, as well as 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.

MasterFILE Premier(EBSCO): Full text for more than 1,730 magazines and general reference publications.  

MEDLINE(EBSCO): Authoritative indexing for over 4800 journals in all areas of medicine, including nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. (links to full text in other databases)

MEDLINE(FirstSearch): Same collection as MEDLINE in EBSCO, with an improved Interlibrary loan requesting format and different searching options.( links to full text in other databases)

Middle Search Plus(EBSCO): Provides full text for 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.

Military & Government Collection (EBSCO): Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.

Newsbank Databases: Link to list of all Newsbank databases available through RSU.

Newspaper Source(EBSCO): Selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, as well as full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers. 

Nursing Reference Center:  Provides access to thousands of full text documents, covering diseases & conditions, labs & diagnostics, as well as drug & reference information from top publishers. This database also features best practices guidelines, continuing education modules, and patient education information in English and Spanish.

PapersFirst (FirstSearch): OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide (no full-text)   

Primary Search (EBSCO): Provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.

Proceedings (FirstSearch): An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings (no full-text)   

Professional Development Collection(EBSCO): 520 specialized high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles, intended for use with ERIC. 

Proquest Databases:Link to list of all Proquest databases available through RSU.

PsycARTICLES (EBSCO): A definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed psychology articles from APA journals. 

PsycINFO (EBSCO): Produced by the APA, contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines from 1887 to the present.  (links to full text in other databases)

ReferenceUSA: Information on businesses and people for researchers, students, and job seekers. Find businesses based on employee size, sales volume, type of business and location. Find news articles on businesses for papers and class projects. Conduct research about industries and companies. Find executives, corporate families and company descriptions.  Select a location and do a radius search to look up the number of similar businesses in the area.

RefWorks:  An online research management, writing and collaboration tool.  Designed to help researchers gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. Off-campus users:  Call 343-7716 or 343-7770 for the group access code.

Regional Business News(EBSCO): Comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications, incorporating coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. 

Searchasaurus(EBSCO): Easy-to-use search interface for elementary and middle school students, which provides access to magazine articles, pictures, encyclopedias, and a dictionary through an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages students to enhance and develop basic search skills.

The Serials Directory(EBSCO): General information and pricing for 212,000 serials. (no full-text)

SIRS Discoverer: Award-winning database designed with the young researcher in mind. More than 1,600 U.S. and international magazines, newspapers and U.S. government documents are carefully selected for their educational content, interest and level of readability.

SocINDEX with Full Text(EBSCO): Comprehensive sociology research database, containing full text for 397 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 150 "priority" coverage journals.

SPORTDiscus™ with Full Text: The world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 400 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. The world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 400 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus.

State Academies of Science Abstracts: An authoritative reference on studies specific to states and regions of the U.S. It is the foremost source of records on new species, range extensions, and threatened and endangered species. 

Student Research Center(EBSCO): A search interface designed for students in grades 6 through 12. SRC provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools to easily obtain the information that they need from their EBSCO databases.

TOPICsearch(EBSCO): Current events database exploring social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 139,800 articles from more than 4,800 diverse sources.

Wall Street Journal (Proquest): Full Text coverage dating back to 1984. Updated Daily.

WilsonSelectPlus (FirstSearch): Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business   

WorldAlmanac (FirstSearch): Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs     

WorldCat (FirstSearch): OCLC catalog of over 62 million books and other materials in libraries worldwide (no full-text)   

WorldCatDissertations (FirstSearch): A database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat (no full-text)

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