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• Academic Research

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• CQ Researcher

  Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. CQ Researcher is also indexed in both EBSCOhost and ProQuest Direct.

• EBSCOhost

  Provides access to information from a wide range of academic areas, including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multicultural studies.

• ProQuest Direct

Provides coverage of all subject areas including: arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. Newspaper coverage includes The New York Times and Washington State Newsstand, which provides newspaper coverage for 15+ regional newspapers in the state.

• Art

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• ARTstor

  Digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.

• General

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• IngentaConnect

  Searching and browsing of over 21 million articles from over 31,000 publications. Access to full text is available by pay-per-view or by subscription to individual publications.

• Nursing & Health

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• CINAHL with Full Text

  Covers over 1200 professional journals in nursing, 17 allied health disciplines, and health sciences librarianship, with coverage as far back as 1982. In addition, CINAHL  offers access to healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software in nursing, audiovisuals, and book chapters.providing full text for more than 580 journals

• Health Reference Center Academic

  Provides articles on Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, and more.

• Nursing Resource Center

  Includes important titles from Gale and Macmillan with excellent, thorough nursing-specific texts from Thomson Delmar. Additionally, relevant journal results from top publications in the field and animated depictions of the human anatomy will complement the 20+ core reference texts.

• PubMed Central

  U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

• Philosophy

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• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  A dynamic reference work covering all area of philosophy.

• Reference

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• Contemporary Authors

  Complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.

• Contemporary Literary Criticism Select

  An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.

• CultureGrams

  Up-to-date information on the cultures of the world beyond mere facts and figures to offer an insider's perspective on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.

• Gale Virtual Reference Library

  Current titles available are Academic and Workplace Sexual Harassment: A Handbook of Cultural, Social Science, Management, and Legal Perspectives (2003), Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries (5th ed., 2007), Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America (2004), Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology (2006), and U.S. Immigration and Migration Reference Library (2004).

• Oxford Reference Online Premium

  Offers over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.

  Science

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• AccessScience

  Fully searchable content to authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition.

• Science.gov

  Gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies , including research and development results, and over 1,800 scientific Web sites.

• Scirus

Science-specific search engine providing information from over 450 million web pages, including scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data, reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, preprints and journals.

• Sociology

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• Encyclopedia of Sociology

  A collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles including content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

• Sustainability

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• GreenFILE

  A collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles including content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.