Library Databases

Freely accessible audio and video archive of over 269,000 hours of Congressional proceedings and other political and public affairs programming that has aired on C-SPAN, the American legislative broadcaster, since 1987. Content is searchable and browsable by program, topics, date, and speaker.

The Quick Guide to the C-SPAN Video Library highlights the programs from the most frequently searched categories, a selection of most popular searches, some well-received “fast finds”, and a look into the most popular programs (by online views) for each day of the year.

Service Provider: National Cable Satellite Corporation

This product helps researchers when making decisions about where to publish by providing the publishing information of hundreds of academic journals.

Journalytics: provides complete contact and publication information, multiple quality metrics, submission experience data, and peer review indicators for over 11,000 periodicals across 18 academic disciplines. It includes contextual metrics such as the Cabell’s Classification Index©, the Difficulty of Acceptance©, and the Institutional Publishing Activity©, powerful tools designed to help researchers search, filter and compare journals when making decisions about publication and to assist administrators in evaluating publication records. 

Predatory Reports is a searchable database of academic journals flagged as deceptive and predatory when analyzed against a list of 60 behavioral indicators. Detailed reports provide ways to identify the journal and enumerate the specific predatory behaviors that the evaluation revealed.

Service Provider: Cabell’s International

Combines everything you need for a successful job search into one easy-to-use online application. With this innovative job-hunting system, you can:

• Explore detailed information on over 1,000 different occupations
• Match your interests and skills with the career that’s best for you
• Search over five million up-to-the-minute local and national job postings
• Create professional resumes and cover letters
• Practice and master interviewing skills
• Get invaluable tips and advice every step of the way—from your initial search to accepting an offer. Conveniently organize and track your job-search progress all in one place

It also includes workplace soft skills tutorials for Attitude and Teamwork, Email Etiquette, Workplace Etiquette, Time Management, and Verbal Communication at Work

Because this resource provides highly personalized content, all first-time users are required to create a personal account. Personal accounts created for Job & Career Center Plus™ will work for all LearningExpress Library Plus™ Centers as well.

Service Provider: LearningExpress / EBSCOhost

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First-time access requires the creation of a personal account from a computer connected to the campus network.

In-depth source of reviews of academic databases, websites, and tools for librarians, students, and faculty. This continuously updated, interactive service provides comprehensive, comparative, and authoritative information on a wide range of digital resources.

Service Provider: American Library Association and The Charleston Company

Access limited to a maximum of 35 concurrent users.

Internet-based version of tax information provided by the Research Institute of America (RIA). CHECKPOINT EDGE includes information from primary and secondary (editorial) sources on U. S. federal, state, and local taxes, estate planning, pensions and benefits, international taxation, and payroll taxation for U. S. companies and individuals. Primary contents include the full text of tax legislation dating back to 1996, current code and code histories back to 1990, regulations, and IRS administrative rulings.

Service Provider: Thomson Reuters

Continually updated, this database provides access to repair, maintenance and service information on the most popular cars, trucks, vans and SUVs on the road today, as well as many new vehicles. This resource includes exclusive photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks.

Service Provider: Gale

Top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The website features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; an archive of previously published content back to May 1989; special reports on critical issues including technology, trends, and diversity; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.

For first time access from off-campus via desktop computer or mobile device in standard view:

1. From the Chronicle.com website, click on the Log in link at the top, right-hand side of the page.
2. Choose the Create an account now option.
3. Enter and confirm your campus email address, then follow the steps on the account setup pages.

For first-time access via mobile device in mobile view:

1. Go to Chronicle.com via device’s web browser.
2. Locate and click on Log in link.
3. Enter and confirm your campus email address, then follow the steps on the account setup pages.

Service Provider: The Chronicle of Higher Education. Inc.

Robust collection of journals for nursing & allied health, providing full text access to more than 770 journals indexed in CINAHL®. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. Full text coverage dates back to 1937.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

This database brings together a diverse offering of publications covering civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more and more Americans.

It provides access to hearings and committee prints, legislative histories on the landmark legislations, CRS and GAO reports, briefs from major Supreme Court cases, and publications from the Commission on Civil Rights. It also includes a curated list of scholarly articles, a varied collection of books on many civil rights topics, and a list of prominent civil rights organizations to assist researchers in finding information on this topic beyond HeinOnline.

Service Provider: HeinOnline

This website makes freely available to the general public a searchable database of the individuals who served in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. The CWSS database currently contains over 6.3 million soldier records from 44 states and territories.

It also includes the histories of Union and Confederate regiments, links to descriptions of significant battles, and selected lists of prisoner-of-war records and cemetery records.

CWSS is a cooperative effort by the National Park Service (NPS) and several other public and private partners, to make information about the Civil War publicly available.

Service Provider: U.S. National Park Service

CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIÓDICA covers journals specializing in science and technology.

Offers access to more than 400,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. Contain information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.

Service Provider: OCLC

Collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence, such as protocols, systematic reviews, technology assessments, and clinical trial abstracts to inform healthcare decision-making.

It includes:

• the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) - leading resource for full-text systematic reviews in health care; includes all Cochrane Reviews (and protocols) prepared by Cochrane Review Groups;
• the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) - highly concentrated source of reports of randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials; in addition to bibliographic details (author, title, source, year, etc) CENTRAL records often include an abstract (a summary of the article);
• Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCA) - clinically focused entry points to rigorous research from Cochrane Reviews. Each CCA contains a clinical question, a short answer, and data for the outcomes from the Cochrane Review deemed most relevant to practicing healthcare professionals. The evidence is displayed in a user-friendly tabulated format that includes narratives, data, and links to graphics.

Service Provider: Wiley

This resource provides access to valuable tools that help college students:

• Build foundational skills for college success
• Improve core English, math and science skills
• Conquer developmental coursework
• Score higher on college placement tests
• Acquire basic computer skills
• Build workplace skills and explore careers
• Prepare for occupational licensing exams
• Succeed in college and beyond!

Because this resource provides highly-personalized content, all first-time users are required to create a personal account. Personal accounts created for College Center Plus™ will work for all other LearningExpress Library Plus™ Centers as well.

Service Provider: LearningExpress / EBSCOhost

Covering more than 100,000 articles from the core literature of the field, this database contains abstracts of articles and books, bibliographic records, and other sources of relevance to researchers, scholars, and students interested in fields related to human communication studies (mass communication, human interaction, rhetoric, health communication, communication and new media, journalism, communication history, etc.).

Service Provider: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship

Incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study.

Offers full text and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for journals covering communication, mass media, linguistics, discourse, rhetoric, sociolinguistics, communication theory, language, logic, organizational communication and other closely related fields of study.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Abstracting and indexing database containing over 20 million citation records from thousands of scientific journals and conference proceedings published in 77 countries across 190 engineering disciplines.

It supports in-depth search and discovery of both engineering-specific and engineering-related content primarily in the physical sciences, while also addressing increasing interdisciplinarity in engineering (including the computer sciences), and physical science domains overall

Content is indexed and made discoverable through the assignment of controlled vocabulary specialized for engineering/physical science domains, using the Ei Thesaurus and thesaurus search.

Service Provider: Elsevier

Provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers access to the full text of more than 300 publications, covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

Comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content, including full text from many health reference books and encyclopedias and thousands of health reports as well as physician-generated videos and hundreds of medical images and diagrams.

Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine.

This full-text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, fitness, nutrition and dietetics, children’s health, men and women’s health, and more.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

Provides in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy. Reports are published online 44 times a year.

Each single-themed report is researched, footnoted and professionally fact checked. The consistent, reader-friendly organization provides researchers with an introductory overview, which poses and addresses relevant questions; a background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; a pro/con debate by representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.

Service Provider: CQ Press / SAGE

Online collection of top quality reference books from major publishers. Features authoritative titles across a wide range of subjects, including art, history, technology, careers, psychology, business, and health. Includes 3.5 million entries from notable encyclopedias, guides, and handbooks, as well as more than 2,000 instructional videos and 600,000+ contextual visual aids, images, maps, and photographs.

Service Provider: Credo

Provides access to the bibliographic records and full text of hundreds of top journals and magazines covering criminal justice, criminology research and related subjects, including forensic sciences, corrections, policing, criminal law and investigation.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®