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Featured Databases

Each link below will take you directly to a database of particular interest. Databases can also be found under the Find Articles section of Tools for Library Research.

Art Full Text
Articles on all aspects of art. Indexing 1984+; full text 1997+.

Art Index & Art Index Retrospective
An Index to articles in art, art history, photography, architecture, ans related fields. Retrospective covers 1929-1984; Art Index covers 1985+.

ARTstor
Contains 300,000+ digital images of world art, architecture, design and other forms of visual culture from museums, photo archives, slide collections, art publishers and other sources. Images can be downloaded.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Guide to the literature of architecture and design. Avery indexes more than 2,500 U.S. and foreign journals. Covering international scholarly and popular periodicals literature, including the publications of professional associations, U.S. state and regional periodicals, and major publications in the archetecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia as well as architects' obituaries. Coverage begins in the 1930s, with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s.

BuildingGreen
Covers a wide range of topics on sustainable building design and construction. Contains news articles, product listings and project case studies.

Cochrane Library
A collection of evidence-based medicine databases. Assesses the effectiveness and appropriateness of health care interventions--including medications, surgery, and education--through systematic review of scientific literature.

Contemporary Women's Issues
A full-text database with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries.

CQ Researcher
Explores a single hot issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. 44 reports are produced each year including four expanded reports.

Facts.com
Provides full text content from the Facts on File World News Digest since 1940, and selected content from Issues & Controversies on File, Today's Science on File, Editorials on File, Reuters On-Line News Service (latest 2 weeks), and the World Almanac.

GLBT Life with Full Text
Complete articles and index to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender literature.

Historical Statistics of the United States
Quantitative historical data from the earliest times to the present. Allows one to graph and combine data from different tables into custom tables, and to download tables for use in spreadsheets and other applications. Print version is in reference: (Ref HA202.H57 2006)

JSTOR
Digital archive of core scholarly journals in arts, humanities, general science and social sciences. Historical collections covering complete run of each journal from its inception to generally 2-5 years ago.

LexisNexis Academic
Full-text of news, legal, business, and medical resources. Includes newspaper and wire service articles; television and radio transcripts; federal and state statutes; federal regulations; company, industry and market news; SEC filings; and law reviews and legal news.

Literature Resource Center
Critical essays, biographies and articles on US and international authors. Includes Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, parts of Contemporary Literary Criticism and other titles having to do with literature.

New York Times Historical
Exact reproductions of entire issues of the New York Times from its first issue in 1851 up to the last two to three years. For current coverage, use LexisNexis Academic or ProQuest Newsstand.

Oxford Reference Online
A collection of 100+ language and subject dictionaries and reference works published by Oxford University Press. The scope is broad, including works in the areas of science and medicine, the humanities and social sciences, and business and law. Inclueds English dictionaries and thesauri, guides to grammar and usage, and dictionaries of etymology, foreign languages, quotations, and names.

Project MUSE
Complete articles from scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, social sciences and sciences.

ProQuest Newsstand
Full text of more than 500 U.S. and international news sources. Includes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires. Years of coverage vary by title. Maine papers included: Bangor Daily News (1992+), Portland Press Herald (1995+), and selected business coverage from Maine Times (1994-2002) and Central Maine Morning Sentinel (1993-1997).

PsycArticles
Full-text articles from over 50 psychology journals.

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