Databases by Subject
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Resources with this logo are brought to you by the Michigan eLibrary (MeL).| Allied Health & Nursing |
Description/Content | Format | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| CINAHL Plus with Full Text (Ebsco) |
More than 560 journals, with over 600,000 full-text articles. | Full text | 1937- |
| Cochrane Library (Wiley InterScience) |
High-quality, independent evidence based practice reviews to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials and more. | Full text | n/a |
| Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source (Ebsco) |
Covers all facets of dentistry, including public health, endodontics, facial pain & surgery, odontology, oral & maxillofacial issues, orthodontology, pediatric dentistry, periodontology, and prosthodontics. | Citations/ Full text |
1919- |
| Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module (Infotrac/Gale) |
Fitness, Medicine, Nutrition, Public Health, Abuse, Drugs and Alternative treatments | Full text | 1980- |
| Health Reference Center Academic (Infotrac/Gale) |
Scholarly health journals | Full text | 1980- |
| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (Ebscohost) |
550+ Scholarly health journals | Full text | 1975- |
| Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy (On Campus Only) |
An exemplary, scholarly, peer-reviewd journal for physical therapists and others in the healthcare and research communities to advance musculoskeletal and sports-related best practice | Full text | 1979- |
| Lab Tests Online |
Web site designed to provide patients and care givers with quality, current, readable information on the many clinical lab tests that are used to diagnose and determine treatment for various diseases and conditions. | Full text | |
| Laboratory Medicine | Publication of the American Society for Clinical Pathology | Full text | January 2000 - Current |
| MTS Lab Training and Competency Assessment | Medical Lab training and competency assessment | Full text | |
| NLM Gateway | National Library of Medicine gateway that combines many resources such as PubMed and MedLine to search multiple resources at one time | Some full text | |
| Nursing & Allied Health Collection (Infotrac/Gale) |
All aspects of the Nursing profession -- from direct patient care to health care administration -- are covered in this collection. Includes nearly 400 titles. |
Full text | 1980- |
| Proquest Nursing & Allied Health Source (Proquest) | Leading nursing and related publications | Full text | 1988- |
| Rehabilitation Reference Center | An evidence based clinical reference tool for use at the point-of-care. It is designed to deliver current, valid and relevant information to build customized treatment regimens for patients. | Full text | |
| Salem Health | A comprehensive reference to diseases and disorders | Full text | |
| Science Direct Health & Life Sciences Collection |
Science, medical and technical information online | Full text | 1996- |
| Business | |||
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Business and Company Resource Center (Infotrac/Gale) |
A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. | Full text | Current |
| Business Source Elite (Ebscohost) | 1100 scholarly business journals | Full text | 1985- |
|
Computer Database (Infotrac/Gale) |
Computer-related product information | Citations | 1980- |
|
General Business File ASAP(Infotrac/Gale) |
Company, Management, Economics reports, newspapers, journals and trade publications | Full text | 1980- |
|
Regional Business News
(Ebscohost) |
75 regional business publications | Full text | |
| Criminal Justice/Government/Law | |||
|
America: History & Life
(Ebscohost) |
Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. | Citations | 1964- |
|
Criminal Justice Periodicals
(Proquest) |
U.S. and international criminal justice journals | Full text | 1981- |
|
GPO
(FirstSearch) |
U.S. Government publications | Citations | 1976- |
|
Legal Trac
(Infotrac/Gale) |
Law reviews, journals, and newspapers | Citations | 1980- |
| Michigan Administrative Code | Compilation of adopted rules and regulations for the State of Michigan | Full text | |
| Michigan Legislature | Website of the Michigan Legislature | Full text | |
| WestLaw Campus Research | Complete laws and statutes of the federal government and 50 states, federal regulations, court decisions and encyclopedia of state and federal law | Full text | Current |
| Education - K-12 | |||
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Junior Edition (Infotrac/Gale) |
Junior high and middle school magazines, newspapers and reference books on current events | Full text | 2001- |
|
Kid's Edition - K-12 (Infotrac/Gale) |
Elementary school magazines, newspapers and reference books on current events | Full text | |
|
Kids Infobits (Infotrac/Gale) |
Kindergarten-Grade 5 magazines, newspapers and reference books on current events | Full text | |
|
LearnATest
(Learning Express Library) |
Practice tests | Full text | Current |
|
SIRS Discoverer |
General reference database for children in grades 1-9 | Full text | |
|
Student Edition (Infotrac/Gale) |
High school magazines, newspapers and reference books on current events | Full text | |
| Education - Post-Secondary | |||
|
Chronicle of Higher Education -ON CAMPUS ONLY |
News, information and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators | Full text | Current |
| Educator's Reference Complete (Infotrac/Gale) |
Contains more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports from the U.S. Department of Education, including 1/2 of the journals found in ERIC. | Full text | 1980- |
|
ERIC
(Ebscohost) |
Educational journal articles and reports(PreK-Higher ED) | Citations/Full text | |
|
ERIC
(FirstSearch) |
Educational journal articles and reports | Citations/Full text | 1966- |
| LearnATest (Learning Express Library) |
Practice tests | Full text | Current |
| Scholarships, Fellowships, and Loans | A guide for education related financial aid and awards for students and professionals | Full text | 2010 |
| Electronic Books | |||
|
Ebooks |
Catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide | Citations | |
| NetLibrary | Digital books accessed from your computer | Full text | |
| General | Description/Content | Format | Coverage |
| Academic Search Elite (Ebscohost) |
2050 scholarly journals | Full text | 1985- |
| African American Studies Center | The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 7,500 articles by top scholars in the field | Full text | |
| ArticleFirst (FirstSearch) |
Table of contents | Citations | |
| ChiltonLibrary.com (Infotrac/Gale) |
ChiltonLibrary.com represents the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners. There are thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models. | Full text | Current |
| Credo Reference Library | A complete reference collection from over 50 publishers | Full text | |
| Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus (H. W. Wilson) | Carefully selected full text articles from key publication on social, scientific, health, political, and global issues. These give a well-rounded overview and are organized by topic for easy access. | Full text | 1990- |
| ECO (FirstSearch) |
4800 scholarly journals | Citations | 1995- |
| Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac/Gale) |
Multidisciplinary | Full text | 1980- |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library (InfoTrac/Gale) |
Encyclopedias and specialized resources for multidisciplinary research | Full text | |
| General OneFile (InfoTrac/Gale) |
Multidisciplinary | Full text | 1980- |
| General Reference Center Gold (InfoTrac/Gale) |
Multidisciplinary newspapers, journals, and reference books | Full text | 1980- |
| Global Road Warrior | A country culture database containing structured content for 175 countries. Most comprehensive coverage of banknote and coinage images in the world | Full text | |
| OmniSelect Plus (Wilson Web) |
Multidisciplinary | Full text | 1994- |
| Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center | A virtual library of resources designed to aid students in the study of today's hottest social issues | Full text | |
| Oxford Reference Center Online | 100+ dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press | Full text | |
| Research Library (ProQuest) | Broad coverage of topics from Literature to Psychology | Full text | 1971- |
| World Almanac (FirstSearch) |
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs | 1998- | |
| WorldCat (FirstSearch) |
Worldwide catalog of books | Citations | |
| WorldCat Dissertations (FirstSearch) |
A database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat | Citations | |
| History (Michigan, U.S., World) | |||
|
Academic Search Elite
(Ebscohost) |
2050 scholarly journals | Full text | 1985- |
|
America: History & Life
(Ebscohost) |
Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. |
Citations/ Full text |
1964- |
| African American Studies Center | The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 7,500 articles by top scholars in the field | Full text | |
| Harper's Weekly | 19th century illustrated newspaper | Full text | 1857-1889 |
| OmniSelect Plus (Wilson Web) |
Multidisciplinary | Full text | 1994- |
|
U.S. History (Infotrac/Gale |
Academic sources specific to U.S. History | Full text | |
| Research Library (ProQuest) | Broad coverage of topics from Literature to Psychology | Full text | 1971- |
|
World History (Infotrac/Gale) |
Academic sources | Full text | |
| Humanities/Literature | |||
|
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
(Infotrac/Gale) |
Citations with over 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million people | Index | 1800- |
| Books & Authors (Infotrac/Gale) |
100,000 recommended titles with selected plot summaries and awards information | Full text | |
|
Camio
(OCLC) |
OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online. Documents works of art from around the world from prominent museums. | Image Database | |
| Library and Information Services in Distance Learning | This journal address the issues and concerns of librarians and information specialists in distance learning. | Full text | 2004- |
|
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts - LISTA
(Ebscohost) |
Indexes nearly 690 periodicals, books, research reports, and proceedings | Index | 1960- |
|
Michigan Authors and Illustrators |
Authors and illustrators born in Michigan, who live in Michigan or have written books about Michigan | Full text | |
| Naxos Music Library | The world's largest classical music listening service for students and instructors, with over 287,000 tracks of music | Music Files | |
|
NoveList
(Ebscohost) |
Coverage of thousands of fiction series. Searchable and sortable by popularity and lexile scores | Full text | |
| Medical/Health (See Allied Health & Nursing) | |||
| News | |||
|
America's Newspapers (Newsbank) |
The Detroit News, Grand Rapids Press and Lansing State Journal | Full text | 2002- |
|
Infotrac Newsstand (Infotrac/Gale) |
Newspapers from around the country and the world | Full text | |
|
New York Times (Infotrac/Gale) |
Full backfile from 1995 to present. | Full text | 1995- |
| Newspaper Source (Ebscohost) | 225 national (U.S.), regional and international newspapers, television and radio news transcripts | Full text | |
| Reference/Encyclopedias | |||
| Books & Authors (Infotrac/Gale) |
100,000 recommended titles with selected plot summaries and awards information | Full text | |
| Credo Reference Library | A complete reference collection from over 50 publishers | Full text | |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | Encyclopedias and specialized resources for multidisciplinary research | Full text | |
|
GPO
(FirstSearch) |
U.S. Government publications | Citations | 1976- |
|
LearnATest
(Learning Express Library) |
Practice tests | Full text | Current |
| Michigan Authors and Illustrators | Authors and illustrators born in Michigan, who live in Michigan or have written books about Michigan | Full text | |
| Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center | A vitual library of resources designed to aid students in the study of today's hottest social issues | Full text | |
| Oxford Reference Center Online | 100+ dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press | Full text | |
|
World Almanac (FirstSearch) |
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs | 1998- | |
|
WorldCat (FirstSearch) |
Worldwide catalog of books | Citations | |
|
WorldCat Dissertations (FirstSearch) |
A database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat | Citations | |
| Science | |||
|
PubMed (National Center for BioTech Info) |
Broad coverage of the life sciences. | Full text | 1988- |
| Science Direct Health & Life Sciences Collection | Science, medical and technical information online | Full text | 1996- |
| Social Sciences (Human Services, Psychology & Sociology) | |||
|
Academic Search Elite (Ebscohost) |
Multidisciplinary scholarly coverage; includes 2,000 journals | Full text | 1985- |
|
Criminal Justice Periodicals
(Proquest) |
U.S. and international criminal justice journals | Full text | 1981- |
|
ERIC
(FirstSearch) |
Educational journal articles and reports (PreK-Higher ED) |
Citations | 1966- |
|
Health Reference Center Academic (Infotrac/Gale) |
Scholarly health journals | Full text | 1980- |
|
Infotrac Psychology Collection (Infotrac/Gale) |
Psychology focused collection of academic resources | Full text | |
| OmniSelect Plus (Wilson Web) |
Multidisciplinary | Full text | 1994- |
| Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center | A virtual library of resources designed to aid students in the study of today's hottest social issues | Full text | |
| Research Library (ProQuest) | Broad coverage of topics from Literature to Psychology | Full text | 1971- |
|
Science Direct Psychology Collection |
Science, medical and technical information online; scholarly sources | Full text | 1996- |