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EBSCOhost
EBSCOhost provides access to millions of articles drawn from general databases along with specialized databases focused on specific disciplines.
EBSCOhost Mobile
This is the same EBSCOhost content as the previous option, but slimmed down to fit better on the screens of mobile devices such as iPhones.
Academic OneFile + InfoTrac OneFile (replaced Expanded Academic ASAP)
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, lterature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, III
The Arts & Sciences I Collection contains many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences, along with a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.

The Arts & Sciences II collection includes 124 titles in the areas of economics, history, and Asian studies. Additionally, the collection offers core journals in disciplines, such as archaeology, classics, and African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic studies.

Arts & Sciences III includes journals in languages and literature, as well as titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture. This collection includes 150 titles.

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
MasterFILE Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection of photos, maps and flags.
Newspapers  
The Arizona Republic
Full-text content of local and regional news.
National News 5
Includes full text access to the New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Christian Science Monitor.
Phoenix Business Journal
Full-text content of local and regional business news.
Arts  
Arts articles are available in the General databases.
Biography  
Biography Resource Center
Biography Resource Center includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. With the Complete Marquis Who's Who(R), find quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people.
Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center provides access to , and other resources for biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline, covering more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. LRC includes access to Contemporary Authors and select articles from Contemporary Literary Criticism.
AccessScience
Access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms,and over 2,000 biographies of scientists.
Additional Biography articles are available in the General databases.
Business and Careers  
Business Source Premier
Provides full text for nearly 3,600 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 1,050 peer-reviewed business publications. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.
Regional Business News
Comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Vocational and Career Collection
Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for 400 trade and industry-related periodicals.
EBR Database Online
EBR Database Online provides the latest statistics on Arizona's economy, its metro areas and counties.
Global Road Warrior
The Global Road Warrior is a comprehensive business travel, telecommunications and business culture reference containing key travel and culture information for 175 countries.
Additional Business and Careers articles are available in the General databases.
Controversial Issues  
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Access to information on current and controversial social issues including viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
CQ Researcher
Reports on current and controversial issues with complete summaries, the pros and cons, bibliographies and more.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Additional Controversial Issues articles are available in the General databases.
Diversity  
Ethnic Newswatch
Articles reflecting ethnic, minority and native viewpoints.
The African American Experience
The widest-ranging and easiest-to-use online collection on African American life ever assembled, The African American Experience is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture. Drawing on over 400 volumes, this database gives voice to the black experience from its African origins to the present day.
The Latino American Experience
The Latino American Experience (LAE) focuses on the history and culture of Latinos living in the United States. LAE’s content spans from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas, through the Spanish and Mexican settlement of much of what is now the United States, to the triumphs and challenges facing present-day U.S. Latinos.
World Folklore and Folklife
World Folklore and Folklife explores the rich tradition of holidays, festivals, language, stories and fairy tales, proverbs, foodways, and folk remedies that define our society and our place within it.
Global Road Warrior
The Global Road Warrior is a comprehensive business travel, telecommunications and business culture reference containing key travel and culture information for 175 countries.
Additional Diversity articles are available in the General databases.
Education  
ERIC
Indexes and abstracts all ERIC documents from 1966 to present with access to select ERIC Journal articles.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The academic world's No. 1 source of news and information.
Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.
Additional Education articles are available in the General databases.
Encyclopedias - Dictionaries - Reference  
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
CollegeSource Online
Over 7800 college catalogs in complete, original page format; includes 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools.
Biography Resource Center
Biography Resource Center includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. With the Complete Marquis Who's Who(R), find quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people.
Oxford English Dictionary
The complete text of the OED's twenty-volume Second Edition and three-volume Additions Series.
Military & Government Collection
Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.
History  
History Reference Center
History Reference Center offers full text from more than 2,300 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 130 leading history periodicals, more than 61,100 historical documents, 66,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 110,200 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Additional History articles are available in the General databases.
Literature and Criticism  
Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center provides access to , and other resources for biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline, covering more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. LRC includes access to Contemporary Authors and select articles from Contemporary Literary Criticism.
Biography Resource Center
Biography Resource Center includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. With the Complete Marquis Who's Who(R), find quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people.
World Folklore and Folklife
World Folklore and Folklife explores the rich tradition of holidays, festivals, language, stories and fairy tales, proverbs, foodways, and folk remedies that define our society and our place within it.
Additional Literature and Criticism articles are available in the General databases.
Nursing and Health  
OVID: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Nursing and Health Professions Premier Collection
This database provides access to over 60 of today’s top nursing journals including LPN2006 and Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!
CINAHL
This database provides indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1982, totaling over 880,000 records.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Includes 480 journals, abstracts and indexes 510 journals.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Articles from over 280 periodicals and 1200 health pamphlets.
Medline
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE searches citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
Nature
Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions.
Additional Nursing and Health articles are available in the General databases.
Philosophy and Religion  
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles.
The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture
The Cambridge Companions series offers specially-commissioned collections of essays which are intended to serve as reference works for an inter-disciplinary audience of students and non-specialists. Addressing topics and figures ranging from Plato through Kant to Habermas, and philosophical movements such as the Scottish Enlightenment and German Idealism, this online collection contains over 1100 downloadable essays taken from the Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture (more than 100 volumes).
Additional Religion and Philosophy articles are available in the General databases.
Psychology  
PsycARTICLES + Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Search both PsycARTICLES and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection at the same time.
PsycARTICLES
Articles from 53 journals published by the American Psychological Association.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Coverage of more than 550 full text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
Additional Psychology articles are available in the General databases.
Science  
AccessScience
Access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms,and over 2,000 biographies of scientists.
Science
Published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Science serves its readers as a forum for the presentation and discussion of important issues related to the advancement of science, including the presentation of minority or conflicting points of view.
Scientific American
Authoritative articles on all sciences by scientists who performed the research reported. Features science and the citizen, computer reactions, the amateur scientists, reviews of current books in science and bibliographies.
Nature
Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Additional Science articles are available in the Nursing and Health databases and in the General databases.
Technology  
Scientific American
Authoritative articles on all sciences by scientists who do the research reported. Features science and the citizen, computer reactions, the amateur scientists, reviews of current books in science and bibliographies.
Additional Technology articles are available in the General databases.

Last Updated: 9/1/2009