- Articles/News
Research on All Subjects
Academic Search Premier - Provides full text for nearly 4,600 publications, including nearly 3,500 (scholarly) peer-reviewed journals.
JSTOR - Back issues of nearly 800 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. Coverage is from the first issue to 3-5 years prior to the current year.
Proquest - 4,000+ periodicals - many full-text. Includes Research Library, ABI/Inform, Dissertations & Theses, Newspapers.
Persuasive Essay Resources
CQ Researcher + Archives - 1923-present. Topics include public policy, economics, education, environment, government & law.
Opposing Viewpoints - Draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues.
Current Newspaper Articles
NewsBank (Access World News) - Full-text articles from 4,700+ domestic and international newspapers. Newspaper Source (Ebsco) - Full-text to 240 US and international newspapers, including The London Times from 1985.
Newspaper Direct Press Display - Full-page layout of >1000 newspapers and magazines from 82 countries, in 39 languages.
Historical Newspaper Articles
- Books/Bios
Books
Search the Library Catalog:Search WorldCat (Libraries Worldwide):Search Google Books:More Book Resources
e-Book Downloads
Classics
Tech Books
Academic Sites
+ ACLS Humanities - 2,000 high-quality books in history and the humanities, recommended and reviewed by historians.
+ Blackwell - 425+ works covering the Social Sciences and Humanities.
+ EBL - All subjects.
+ Ebrary - All subjects plus novels.
+ Ebsco e-books - All subjects plus novels.
+ Eighteenth Century Books - 150,000 printed works (33 million pages) covering the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Industrial Revolution.
+ GospeLink.com - On campus only. Registration required.
- Dict/Ency
Dictionaries
Merriam-Webster -Merriam-Webster's International Dictionary and 8 other reference works.
Oxford English Dictionary - The authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
Oxford Language Dictionary - Oxford's top-of-the-range, unabridged bilingual dictionaries, available in Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
Units of Measure - Find units of measure for anything you could think of along with conversions.
Handbooks, Guides, Quotations, Directories
Bartlett's Quotations - Familiar Quotations, Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature.
Blackwell Reference Online - 425+ works covering the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Gale Directories - Contains electronic directories including: Directories in Print, Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media, Encyclopedia of Associations.Encyclopedias
Artcyclopedia - The Fine Art Search Engine.
Britannica - Complete encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Britannica Book of the Year.
Gale Virtual Reference - More than 300 reference e-books in Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation & World, Religion, Science, Social Science.
Global Reference - Online encyclopedias from Britannica in Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.
Oxford Reference - Over 120 dictionaries (English and foreign languages) and reference titles in science, business, humanitites, social sciences and more.
World Book Encyclopedia - Contains >25,000 articles, >10,000 pictures & maps, 10,000 video & sound clips, linked articles to periodicals, & 140,000 editor-approved web sites.
Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus - Words grouped by meaning with definitions. - Images/Maps
Art, Architecture, Historical & Photography Images
AP Images - Formerly AP Photo Archive. Images are licensed for student and faculty research only!
Art Museum Image Gallery - Art images and related multimedia gathered from distinguished museums around the world. Cultures and time periods represented range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works.
ARTstor Digital Library - The collection currently contains ~500,000 images. The Charter Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design and other forms of visual culture.
BYUI Digital Collections - Campus photos, historical Scroll, Rigby Star, Upper Snake River Valley Histories, Clark County photos, digital books and more.
Image Quest Britannica - More than two million images from Britannica Image Quest. All images are rights-cleared for non-commercial, educational use.
Research Guides
Maps
A-Z Maps Online - The world's largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. Updated monthly.
U.S. Geological Survey - Maps and other geologial information from the Nation's largest water, earth, and biological science and civilian mapping agency, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collects, monitors, analyzes, and provides scientific understanding about natural resource conditions, issues, and problems.
Research Guides
- Films/Music
Films
Streaming Films
Academic Video Online - Search American History, Counseling & Therapy, Dance, Ethnography, Opera, Theatre, and World History in Video.
Films on Demand - High-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content.
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) - High-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content.
medici tv - (On campus only currently) Medici.tv offers over 700 programs available on streaming VOD with an unlimited access to the films as long and as often as you wish
CDs
Streaming Music
Jazz Music Library - Thousands of artists, ensembles, albums and genres.
medici tv - (On campus only currently) Medici.tv offers over 700 programs available on streaming VOD with an unlimited access to the films as long and as often as you wish
Music Online - American Song, Classical Music Library, Classical Scores Library, and Contemporary World Music all in one.
Naxos Music Library - Contains well over 300,000 tracks including classical, jazz, world, folk, and Chinese music.
Opera in Video - Contains 250 of the most important opera performances. Includes stages productions, interviews and documentaries.Music Scores and Books
- Gov/Stats
Government
CIA World Fact Book - Country information divided into the following areas: Introduction, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, transnational issues.
Federal Government Agencies Directory - Active U.S. agencies as represented in the United States Government Manual (LSU).
Supreme Court Decisions: FLITE - Cases from 1937-75, 1990-present. Air Force Academy Database.
Thomas - Congressional database with Bill Text & Status, Roll Call Votes, Congressional Record Index (Doc X 1.1/A), Committee Reports, US Congressional Documents and Debates: 1774-1873.
U.S. Congressional Set - Reports, Documents & Journals of the U.S. Congress: 1817-1980
U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs 1832-1978 - Contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court. A primary source tool for the study of all aspects of American history & the U.S. judicial system.
Statistics
Census Bureau American Factfinder - Source for population, housing, economic and geographic data. Includes popular tables and maps for the US., states, counties, cities, towns, and American Indian reservations.CQ Researcher - Current research on social issues including charts and graphs.
Fedstats - The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.
Data.gov - The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
iPOLL Databank (Roper Center) -The Roper Center iPOLL is a compilation of over 500,000 questions from public opinion polls on a broad range of topics.
Lexis Nexis Academic Universe - Current research on social issues including charts and graphs.
Statistical Warehouse - Topics include: economics, demographics, social indicators, health, government employment & finances, politics, geographic and climatic data, intellectual property & social services
- Test Prep
Interactive Tests
Learning Express - ACT, SAT, GED, LSAT, ASVAB, paramedic, EMT basics, Praxis, nursing, U.S. citizenship.
TERC - GED, SAT, GRE, MCAT TOEFL, scholarship info.
AP Tests
DAT
MCAT
SAT
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