Academic Databases

All Subjects

4,500 magazines, journals & newspapers in all subject areas
Voluminous search engine for academic web resources
100 reference ebooks with over 600 thousand entries
Full text, quality-controlled scientific & scholarly journals, covering all subjects
General encyclopedia with entries on many topics
Over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas
Google's scholarly search engine, including patents & legal publications
Multidisciplinary database that provides full text for many magazines
2,000 American newspapers including Star Democrat & other Maryland newspapers
Over 1.5 million lengthy, scholarly works submitted to complete a graduate degree
470 eBooks plus periodicals & websites on current social issues
Full text to 1990 for 70 magazines for elementary school research
3,800+ magazines, journals & newspapers in all subject areas
Over 100 encyclopedia & dictionary ebooks in every subject area

Business

2,300 business periodicals plus company profiles & reports
Maryland laws & regulations
World's largest collection economics journal articles & working papers
80 business periodicals on various U.S. regions

Communication

4,500 magazines, journals & newspapers in all subject areas
Encompasses many areas of linguistics, from historical to philosophical
Comprehensive yet concise overviews of college sociology topics

Ebooks

Hundreds of ebooks on a variety of subjects
2800 scholarly humanities ebooks
Hundreds of academic ebooks on a variety of topics
Millions of ebooks, some full-text & some only available as snippets
Almost 50,000 ebooks on a variety of academic subjects
Over 100 encyclopedia & dictionary ebooks in every subject area

Education

College & university news
2,200 education digests & scholarly journals
Nearly 500 popular, high school magazines
785 education journals
280 popular teacher & administrator periodicals for professional educators

English

Thousands of critical articles by noted scholars & 170 video segments
46 author biographies & criticism of contemporary literature
The most authoritative, scholarly approach to slang ever, with 10.3 million words
Encompasses many areas of linguistics, from historical to philosophical
Literary criticism & author biographies
Literary criticism & author biographies plus poems, plays, & prose works
MLA & APA bibliography composer
Dictionary complete with a history of the English language

Health

80 health periodicals plus pamphlets & ebooks
550 medical periodicals plus generic drug patient education sheets
Authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, & much more
More than 35 health reference ebooks for the healthcare provider
840 nursing & allied health periodicals
Over 415 journals covering topics like Botany, Microbiology, & Zoology

History & Biography

2800 scholarly humanities ebooks
Multi-volume reference on 17,400 Americans
135 multi-volume references plus periodicals on 380,000 people worldwide
Ebooks, images, documents, articles, & websites
Museums & libraries offer items from America's history, primary sources
Millions of ebooks, some full-text & some only available as snippets
Digitized historical books & magazines from America's past
Nearly 500 popular, high school magazines
Full text for nearly 300 journals & periodicals
Over 100 encyclopedia & dictionary ebooks in every subject area
Cultural treasures from around the world, including images, maps, & rare books

Law & Government

A trusted encyclopedia with basic facts about all the world's nations
Maryland laws & regulations
240 criminal justice journals
The GPO publishes the full text of laws, bills, & congressional hearings
Detailed profiles of active U. S. foundations, recent grants awarded by top funders
Google's scholarly search engine, including patents & legal publications
Online guide to Maryland government
Full text for nearly 300 journals & periodicals
470 eBooks plus periodicals & websites on current social issues
Public access to the laws of the U.S. via the Legal Information Institute
Legal cases, U.S. & state law reference [on-campus access only]

Music, Video, & Images

4.6 million Associated Press photographs, from the 1820s to the present
725,000 images of works of art, architecture, & photography
50,000 classical music recordings plus composer biographies, images, etc.
Streaming online video on a variety of academic topics
Free audio books in mp3 & ogg formats
Early 20th century recordings & music from the Library of Congress
Cultural treasures from around the world, including images, maps, & rare books

Psychology & Social Sciences

4,500 magazines, journals & newspapers in all subject areas
A trusted encyclopedia with basic facts about all the world's nations
Scholarly literature covering librarianship, classification, & online information retrieval
2,000 American newspapers including Star Democrat & other Maryland newspapers
470 eBooks plus periodicals & websites on current social issues
Many full-text, scholarly journals in Psychology
Comprehensive yet concise overviews of college sociology topics
Over 100 encyclopedia & dictionary ebooks in every subject area

Science & Biology

Videos, biographies, news, & encyclopedia entries for scientific topics
Articles on physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, & statistics
Information about many species with maps, images, and videos
Expert-reviewed information about the Earth
Scholarly & government articles on pollution, sustainability, & related topics
Authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, & much more
Over 415 journals covering topics like Botany, Microbiology, & Zoology
The latest research from fields such as genetics, biology, & medicine
Huge search engine for free scientific materials online