Databases

EBSCO Discovery Service

EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) provides a fast, streamlined search through a single search box, pulling together intuitive features and functionality, high-end indexing, and instant access to critical, full text articles, helping users find and access the highest-quality content for the best-possible research experience.

EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) - Information Sheet

https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/EBSCO-Discovery-Service-EDS-Information-Sheet?language=en_US

Basic Searching on EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS)

https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/Basic-Searching-on-EBSCO-Discovery-Service-EDS?language=en_US

EBSCO Discovery Service - Quick Start Guide

https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/EBSCO-Discovery-Service-Quick-Start-Guide?language=en_US

Using the Dashboard in the New EBSCO Interfaces

https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/Using-the-Dashboard?language=en_US#dash2

VIDEO TUTORIALS

EBSCO Discovery Service Overview – Tutorial

This tutorial demonstrates the features of the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) interface, including how to search for information of interest to you.

https://youtu.be/a1M7HKdrmy4

EBSCO Discovery Service - Improving Your Search Results – Tutorial

This tutorial demonstrates how you can improve your EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) search results using limiters, expanders, and facets found on the result list screen.

https://youtu.be/LAX6Z8P_Id8

EBSCO Discovery Service Research Starters – Tutorial

This tutorial demonstrates the Research Starters feature on the EBSCO Discovery Service interface.

https://youtu.be/l2-UMTHVNNY

Finding Reliable Library Resources with EBSCO Discovery Service

https://youtu.be/BpH-dtIoO-E

Publication Finder - Overview Tutorial

This tutorial demonstrates how to use Publication Finder available within the Full Text Finder and EBSCO Discovery Service interfaces.

https://youtu.be/HxwvCS7OEdU

The Concept Map – Tutorial

This tutorial demonstrates the features of Concept Map. The Concept Map gives researchers a visual way to interact with their searches while also exploring additional related topics..

https://youtu.be/W2BbOXdbC74

EBSCO Discovery Service Takeaway Guide

https://www.ebsco.com/sites/g/files/nabnos191/files/acquiadam-assets/EBSCO-Discovery-Service-Take-Away-Guide.pdf

EBSCO's Publication Finder - Use To Find Specific Publications in the Databases

Use this search box to locate journals & magazines in the databases. Example: You want to see which databases contain Time magazine - you would then type Time in the search box below.

Quick Links to Databases

  • NoodleTools - Citation creation tool.  Login screen is shown below. If you need to create a login, please use the Microsoft 365 option:

  • Sage Publishing Online
    When performing a search in this database, please click on Browse in the "Search and Browse Journals by Discipline" box. On the next page, click on "SAGE Journals Available to Me".
  • Salem Press eBooks
    The Salem Press eBook collection provides access to multiple eBook titles covering Literature, Health, Science, History, and Careers. The full text of all titles can be searched, browsed, printed, and downloaded.

General Subject Databases

EBSCO - Open EBSCO and select any or all of the following resources or follow individual database links below.

  • Academic Search Complete - Designed for academic institutions, this database is a leading resource for scholarly research. It supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study by providing journals, periodicals, reports, books and more.
  • Alternative Press Index - This database is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper and magazine articles from hundreds of international alternative, radical and left periodicals. Covering 1991 to the present, it provides access to emerging theories and practices of social change.
  • Associates Programs Source Plus - A database designed specifically for the research needs of two-year college students. Providing hundreds of full-text journals and books, it covers the most relevant subjects, including biotechnology, graphic arts, criminal justice and veterinary assisting.
  • Newspaper Source - This database provides cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers. In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts from major networks. 
  • Points of View Reference Source - A collection of topic overviews and analysis presenting both sides of many current and controversial issues.
  • Primary Search - Designed for elementary school libraries, Primary Search is a full-text database providing popular children’s magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedic entries and a vast image collection.
  • The Serials Directory - This database provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information, as well as current pricing structures for popular serials.  

Gale - Open Gale and select any or all of the following resources or follow individual database links below.

  • Academic OneFile - Gale’s premier periodical resource, Gale Academic OneFile, provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
  • Academic OneFile Select - This database covers everything from art and literature to economics and the sciences. This resource for academic research integrates the full text of publications from across the disciplines and now includes vocational/technical titles used by community college students, filling a specific need for curriculum-oriented collections.
  • Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints - This database is the premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular resource supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.
  • Gale LegalForms - Massachusetts - Offers a wide selection of Massachusetts-specific, customizable legal forms.
  • General OneFile - Gale's largest general-interest periodical resource. General OneFile allows researchers to find the information they want quickly.

ProQuest Databases

Other General Subject Databases

  • JSTOR - Contains the backfiles (older issues) of over 2,800 scholarly journals. Includes journal collections: Arts & Sciences I-XV, Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Life Sciences, Lives of Literature, Public Health Journals, Security Studies, and Sustainability. Includes Primary Source Collections: 19th Century British Pamphlets, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Struggles for Freedom: South Africa, and Global Plants.
  • JSTOR - Open and Free Content - It includes journals, ebooks and community collections (library contributed open access collections).
  • Nexis Uni - Newspapers, business and industry reports, and legal information including law reviews, federal and state laws, and individual cases.
  • Wiley Online Library (access to over 1,500 online journals - for a list of journals, click here: Wiley Journals List)

EBSCO eBook Databases

Other eBook Databases

  • Overdrive - A collection of downloadable eBooks and eAudiobooks
  • ProQuest Ebook Central (Accessible via ProQuest Ebook Central) - Thousands of full-text eBooks spanning multiple subject areas.

Streaming Films Databases

Gale in Context: Biography - This Gale database is an engaging experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. Organized into a user-friendly portal experience, it merges Gale's authoritative reference content, including Lives & Perspectives, with periodicals and multimedia.

  • Users can browse to find people based on occupation, role, or historical period, or search based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by keyword and full text.

Literary Reference Plus - The definitive literary database covering all genres and timeframes. It includes thousands of full-text poems, short stories, synopses, critical essays, literary journals, reference books and author biographies, plus lesson plans and literary study guides. It gives students a complete foundation of literary reference works. From EBSCO.

Literature Resource Center (LRC) - Gale’s most current, comprehensive and reliable online literature database offering the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works including a deep collection of full-text critical and literary analysis. The database provides researchers with unbounding evidence to support their literary responses and thesis statements through a diversity of scholars and critics that ensure all views and perspectives are represented. 

EBSCO - Open EBSCO and select the following resources or follow individual database links below.

  • Alternative Press Index - This database is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper and magazine articles from hundreds of international alternative, radical and left periodicals. Covering 1991 to the present, it provides access to emerging theories and practices of social change.
  • Associated Press Images Collection
  • Newspaper Source - This database provides cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers. In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts from major networks. 
  • Points of View Reference Center - A collection of topic overviews and analysis presenting both sides of many current and controversial issues.
  • Regional Business News - This database provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Users can search newspapers, magazines and other resources from trusted news sources.

Gale - Open Gale and select the following resources or follow individual database links below:

  • Gale in Context: Global Issues - This database supports global awareness and provides a global perspective while tying together a wealth of authoritative content, empowering learners to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world. Explore issues within government, law, health, science and technology, society and culture, and more.
  • Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints - This database is the premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular resource supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.
  • Gale OneFile: News - This database provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
  • New York Times Article Archive - Search the full text of The New York Times (starting in 1985). This is an archive of written articles; there are no interactive articles on this database. Provided by Gale.

Infobase

  • Facts On File Issues & Controversies - Issues & Controversies helps researchers understand the crucial issues we face today, exploring more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.

ProQuest - Open ProQuest and select the following resources or follow individual database links below.

  • Boston Globe Article Archive- Coverage 1980 onwards. This is a database of written articles. There are no interactive articles. Provided by ProQuest.
  • CNN Video Collection
  • eLibrary - Magazines, newspapers, reference books, transcripts, maps, pictures, websites, and audio-visual files.
  • Ethnic NewsWatch - Over 200 publications of the ethnic, minority and native press; searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages and more than 100,000 articles in Spanish.
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Boston Globe - Full-text access to The Boston Globe covering 1872 to 1985.
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Globe and Mail - Full-text access to The Globe and Mail covering 1844 to 2013. 
  • 60 Minutes: 1997-2004 - For the first time ever, nearly two decades of television’s most preeminent program are available online in one expansive streaming video resource. The 60 MINUTES: 1997–2014 collection from Alexander Street grants unprecedented access to the CBS News archives from this period, including many episodes not widely seen since their original broadcast. From ProQuest and Alexander Street.
  • The Washington Post - Comprehensive coverage from 1987 to present. 

Other Databases

  • CQ Researcher - Lengthy, original, and comprehensive reports and analysis on current events.
  • Nexis Uni - Choose the "News" box or the Advanced Search option. Good resource for International English language newspapers.

CQ Researcher - Lengthy, original, and comprehensive reports and analysis on current news topics such as health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.

  • Reports include history of issues and analysis of multiple sides of each issue.
  • Reports run from 1923 to present.

Facts on File Issues & ControversiesIssues & Controversies helps researchers understand the crucial issues we face today, exploring more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.

  • Updated weekly, with links to a 12-year back-file, Issues & Controversies offers in-depth articles made to inspire thought-provoking debates.
  • This database is great for research papers and debate prep.
  • From Infobase.

Facts on File Issues & Controversies in History - This accessible educational database delivers dynamic, concise, and balanced coverage that provides the background, outcome, and contemporary points of view for every major debate and conflict in American history.  From Infobase.

Gale in Context: Global Issues - This database supports global awareness and provides a global perspective while tying together a wealth of authoritative content, empowering learners to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world. Explore issues within government, law, health, science and technology, society and culture, and more.

Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints - This database is the premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular resource supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.

Points of View Reference Source - A collection of topic overviews and analysis presenting both sides of many current and controversial issues.

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