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The Library provides 24 hour electronic access to magazine, journal, and newspaper articles from 45 databases including EBSCOhost, Opposing Viewpoints, and JSTOR.  To find articles, start by clicking on the subject areas below to see databases available on those subjects.   

To access our electronic resources from off campus, you will need to know your Maricopa Enterprise ID (MEID).  If you need help, please contact the Library.

General

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 + General 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, IV, VII
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.

Arts & Sciences IV has a strong focus on the professions of business, education, and law, and also includes titles in psychology and public policy and administration.

The Arts & Sciences VII Collection includes more journals in more disciplines than any other JSTOR collection. Its eclectic range of disciplines in the arts, humanities, and social sciences complements research in core disciplines such as history, political science, sociology, art and art history, and language and literature, and the collection represents the largest cluster of health policy titles in JSTOR.

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 Newspapers Core (previously 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

Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online offers access to acclaimed art reference works including Grove Art Online, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

ARTstor
ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences.

Additional Arts articles are available in the General databases at the top of this page.

Biography

Biography In Context
Biography In Context 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.

Additional Biography articles are available in the General databases at the top of this page.

Business and Law

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.

Hoover's Academic
Hoover’s Academic integrates of both Hoover’s directory of over 84 million businesses  worldwide and First Research Industry Reports providing in depth reports on over 900 top industries.

Legal Information Reference Center
Providing online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, Legal Information Reference Center contains more than 310 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms. Many of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation's oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.

Small Business Reference Center
Small Business Reference Center™ provides up-to-date information on relevant topics from starting a company, operations management and sales to growing or rescuing a business. The database contains nearly 400 full-text periodicals and over 450 full-text reference books.

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.

EBR Database Online
EBR Database Online provides the latest statistics on Arizona's economy, its metro areas and counties.

Economy@W.P. Carey
Economy@W.P. Carey is a portal to data and analysis from economists at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.  It includes The Western Blue Chip Economic Forecast, The Greater Phoenix Blue Chip, The Job Growth Update, and Real Estate Reports.

Additional Business and Law articles are available in the General databases at the top of this page.

Controversial Issues

Opposing Viewpoints
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 at the top of this page.

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. LAEs 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 at the top of this page.

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 at the top of this page.

Encyclopedias - Dictionaries - Reference

Credo Reference
Credo Reference is a full-text online reference service. Our collection includes over three million entries from hundreds of well-regarded titles from some of world's the best reference publishers. Credo’s collection is intelligently integrated with millions of cross-references and contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature.

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.

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 at the top of this page.

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 In Context
Biography In Context 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 at the top of this page.

Nursing and Health

OVID: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Nursing and Health Professions Premier Collection
This database provides access to over 60 of todays top nursing journals including LPN2006 and Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 770 journals indexed in CINAHL.

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.

ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect provides access to science, technology and medicine journal articles. By default, ScienceDirect will show links to articles that are not available to you for free. To limit results to articles that are covered by the library's subscription, please choose the Advanced Search feature and on that page change the sources category to "subscribed sources".

Additional Nursing and Health articles are available in the General databases at the top of this page.

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 Philosophy and Religion articles are available in the General databases at the top of this page.

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 at the top of this page.

Science

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 articles for Biology and Life Sciences are available in the Nursing and Health databases above.

Additional Science articles are available in the General databases at the top of this page.