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ABI/Inform Global Content from thousands of journals that help researchers track business conditions, trends, management tecniques, corporate strategies, and industry specific topics worldwide.
Full Text Selected full text, 1971 -

Academic Search Premier Academic multi-disciplinary database providing full text for 4700 publications, and peer reviewed journals. Periodicals date back to 1975.
Full Text Yes, 1975 -

AccessScience McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
Full Text Yes

AP Photo Archive Over 750,000 photographs and graphics from the Associated Press
Full Text N/A

Blackbirch Visual Reference of the United States Contains more than 2500 graphs, charts, maps and photographs that cover the most important and interesting facts about every state in the country.
Full Text Yes

Blackbirch Visual Reference of the World Contains more than 2500 graphs, charts, maps and photographs that cover the most important and interesting facts about every country on the planet.
Full Text Yes

Book Index with Reviews Book Reviews designed to aid in book selections.
Full Text Yes

Books in Print with Reviews Book Reviews designed to aid in book selections for libraries.
Full Text Yes

Business & Company Resource Center Detailed company and industry news and information including company profiles and investment reports.
Full Text Yes, 1965 -

Business Source Premier The industry's most used business database providing full text for nearly 8200 serials.
Full Text Yes, 1985 -

CQ Researcher In depth non biased reporting and analysis on issues in the news.
Full Text Yes

Charleston Advisor Critical reviews of web products for information professionals.
Full Text Yes

Cinahl Cinahl, the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature covers over 1200 professional journals in nursing and allied health, as well as dissertations, and conference proceedings.
Full Text Citations mostly, 58 journals full text; 1982 -

Clinical Pharmacology Provides access to concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard to find herbal and nutritional supplements, over the counter products, and new and investigational drugs.
Full Text Yes

CountryWatch.com Provides country specific geopolitical information on each of the 191 countries of the world
Full Text Yes

Ebsco Animals Provides in depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals, including the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
Full Text Yes

Encyclopedia Britannica Accesses the complete encyclopedia, the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, and the Britannica Book of the Year. Includes 130,000 links to web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
Full Text Yes

ERIC ERIC, the US Dept of Educational Resource Information Center database, is a national information system which provides access to educational periodical literature, research and technical reports.
Full Text Some full text

Expanded Academic ASAP Covers a wide variety of disciplines including the social sciences, humanities, news, general interest, science and technology.
Full Text Yes, 1980 -

FACTS.com FACTS.com brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest since 1980 and selected content from six other core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 20 years. FACTS.com also delivers in-depth features on "Historic Events" drawn from the 60-year Facts On File archive.
Full Text Yes

Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Full Text Yes

General Reference Center Gold Comprehensive reference database with a broad subject scope and over 8.3 million citations.
Full Text Yes, 1980 -

Google Image Search Web search results in images
Full Text N/A

Hartford Courant Access to daily newspaper articles from the Hartford Courant from 1992 to the present.
Full Text Yes, 1992 -

Hartford Courant Historical Access to daily newspaper articles from the Hartford Courant from 1764 to 1922.
Full Text Yes, 1764-1922

Health Source Plus Provides full text coverage of over 270 periodicals covering nutrition, exercise, medical self-care, drugs, alcohol and more.
Full Text Yes, 1990 -

Health & Wellness Resource Center Medical reference and periodical materials for the consumer, student, and health professional.
Full Text Yes, 1997 -

History E-Books Full text of over 800 books of major importance to historical studies.
Full Text Yes

History Reference Center Providesaccess to reference articles, and full text journals covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. and World History.
Full Text Yes

iCONN NewsStand Full text of the Hartford Courant, New York Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor.
Full Text Yes

Information Please Combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas and several up to the minute almanacs consisting of statistics, facts and historical records.
Full Text Yes

Informe! Full text Spanish Language and bilingual periodicals.
Full Text Yes, 1998 -

InfoTrac OneFile Periodical and news content covering popular, business and professional topics.
Full Text Yes, 1980 -

Infotrac Junior Edition Full text multi-source reference tools for grades 6 to 12.
Full Text Yes

InfoTrac Student Edition Full text multi-source reference tools for grades 6 to 12.
Full Text Yes

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Access to full text news, business, legal, and reference information; company news and financial information; federal, state, and international legal materials; medical and health information; and reference materials including biographical material (politicians, business executives), country profiles, polls and surveys, quotations, state profiles, and the World Almanac. Search 1980 to the present.
Full Text Yes, 1980 -

Library Literature Indexes articles and book reviews in more than 234 key library and information science periodicals published in the the United States and elsewhere.
Full Text Yes

Literary Reference Center Includes biographical, reference and periodical articles related to the study of literature.
Full Text Yes

MasterFile Premier Covers general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals.
Full Text Yes, 1990 -

MAS Ultra - School Edition Designed for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 700 popular, general interest, and current events publications, as well as pamphlets, biographies, maps, flags, photos, reference books and an image collection.
Full Text Yes

Medline Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences.
Full Text Limited

Military and Government Collection Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, offering over 300 journals and periodicals.
Full Text Yes

netLibrary Electronic book collection, searchable and readable online. Holdings include business, computers, education, government, law, health history, humanities, science and technology. Also includes literary and historical fiction.
Full Text Yes

Newspaper Source Full text newspaper articles from over 159 newspapers and newswires.
Full Text Yes

New York Times Full text coverage of the U.S. Newspaper from 2002 to the present.
Full Text Yes

New York Times Historical Full text articles dating back to 1851.
Full Text Yes

Opposing Viewpoints One stop source for information on social issues providing access to viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full text magazine and newspaper articles.
Full Text Yes

Pre-Cinahl A companion database to CINAHL, intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles.
Full Text Yes

Primary Search Provides full text for over 60 popular magazines for elementary school research.
Full Text Yes, 1991 -

Professional Development Collection Online collection of over 300 full text journals for educators.
Full Text Yes

PsycINFO Covers the field of psychology, psychiatry, sociology, anthropology and education.
Full Text Citations, 1887 - limited links to full text articles.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
Full Text Yes

Regional Business News Comprehensive full text coverage of business journals, newspapers and newswires for regional business publications from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Full Text Yes

reQuest Use reQuest to search the catalogs of more than two hundred Connecticut libraries, all at the same time.
Full Text N/A

Science Full Text Articles from over 320 scientific, technical, agricultural and applied mathematics periodicals.
Full Text Yes

Statistical Abstracts Online version of Statistical Abtracts compiled from the U.S. Census.
Full Text Yes

Turnitin.com Plagiarism prevention software.
Full Text N/A

Valueline Value Line publishes more than a dozen print and electronic products utilized by more than half-a-million investors for timely information on stocks, mutual funds, special situations, options and convertibles. The company is best known for The Value Line Investment Survey, the most widely used independent investment service in the world.
Full Text Yes