Biography In Context

Biography in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the worlds most influential people. It merges Gale's authoritative reference content (including Live Perspectives) with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.

Criminology Collection

This collection supports research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as law enforcement and security services. It includes the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database, with further index and full-text coverage of scholarly journals. It also includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other relevant material for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, and related fields.

eBook Collection

Offering more than 160,000 ebooks, this collection includes titles in nearly every subject, including: art, business, education, medical, language and preforming arts, philosophy, poetry, politcal science, religion, social sciences, technology, engineering, etc. All titles are available with unlimited user access. This growing subscription package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary e-books representing a broad range of academic subjects. The breadth of information available through this package ensures that students and scholars will have access to information relevant to their research needs. Offering more than 160,000 e-books, this collection includes titles from leading university presses such as Oxford University Press, MIT Press, State University of New York Press, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, McGill-Queen's University Press, Harvard University Press and many others. Additional academic publishers include Elsevier, Ashgate Publishing, Taylor & Francis, Sage Publications and John Wiley & Sons.

Education Collection

This collection provides access to ERIC, the leading index for education research, in combination with the full- text Education Database. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more, including full- text from hundreds of leading education journals.

Environment Complete

Comprehensive Coverage for Environmental Studies including agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, and affiliated areas of study

Films on Demand

Streaming academic video collection, with more than 300,000 clips, 20,000 full-length videos, and over 10,000 hours of content! Subjects covered include: anthropology, art, biology, business, communication, criminal justice, English, environmental science, geography, health, history, math, philosophy, religion, physical science, political science, psychology, sociology, and technology.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

Updated annually. Funk Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas.

Global Issues in Context

Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.

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. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

MasterFILE Premier

Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

Newspaper Source

Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television radio news transcripts are also provided.

Newspaper Source Plus

Digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.

Politics Collection

This collection provides access to renowned databases such as PAIS and WPSA, covering the international literature in political science and public administration/policy, along with related fields. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, country reports, dissertations, think-tank reports, working papers, government documents and more, including full-text from many leading political science and international relations journals.

Social Science Database

This database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.

Social Science Premium Collection

This collection provides access to databases covering international literature in social sciences, including politics, public policy, sociology, social work, anthropology, criminology, linguistics, library science, and education. Featured databases include IBSS, Sociological Abstracts and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full-text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, and more.

U.S. History in Context

U.S. History in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. U.S. History In Context's acclaimed titles from Gale, Macmillan Reference USA, Scribner, and U·X·L include: Dictionary of American Biography Dictionary of American History Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America U*X*L Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History U*X*L Encyclopedia of U.S. History Millions of full-text articles drawn from top periodicals and newspapers include The New York Times, America, American History, The Journal of Southern History, and National Geographic. Engage users with thousands of images, videos, and audio selections from NPR, The History Channel, Associated Press, and other trusted sources. Primary Sources U.S. History In Context brings a personal perspective to history with more than 5,000 rare and vital primary source documents from the American Decades: Primary Sources and American Journey series, and other top titles. Examples include: Excerpts from former slave William Wells Brown's Narrative of the Life of William Brown (1847) Excerpts from Henry David Thoreau's Walden (1854) Personal account of General Charles Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown in 1781 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Japanese Relocation Order (1942) The papers of President John F. Kennedy.

World History in Context

World History In Context reaches back to the ancient world and forward to today's headlines to deliver a chronicle of the great cultures and societies that have formed the history of the human race. Rare primary sources, reliable reference and multimedia content put this vast topic into context for students. World History in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. More than 1,700 primary source documents from Primary Source Media and other reliable providers join hundreds of acclaimed, award-winning titles from Gale, Macmillan Reference USA, and Scribner.