Electronic Resources

Electronic Resources

Academic Search Complete

 Academic Search Complete offers an enormous collection of full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. In addition, it includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities. With footage from 1930 to the present and updated monthly, this collection of more than 75,000 Associated Press videos covers various topics.

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Britannica School

Britannica is a secure digital encyclopaedia offering resources for ages 3-18. The library provides articles, images, videos, and free EBSCO journals, with content translatable into over 90 languages, along with tools like read-aloud and a dictionary to assist English learners.

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Credo Reference

Provides an enormous amount of quality information that is contained in over 170 special encyclopedias and reference works.

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CultureGrams

CultureGrams provides reliable cultural information more than 200 countries aiming to increase understanding and appreciation of the world's countries and people with easy-to-understand information, fun facts and country reports, photo galleries, video clips, short biographies, interviews, recipes, and timelines from each country.

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Drama Online

A collection of full text plays and monologues from different time periods ranging from Aeschylus to the present day. Provides contextual and critical background on the plays, as well as filmed live performances and audio recordings.

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EconLit with Full Text

Contains full-text articles, book chapters, dissertations and many more in all fields of economics including capital markets, economic forecasting and labour economics.

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Economist

British weekly newspaper focuses on the international political scene, business news, and views.

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Flipster

Flipster is a trusted source of digital magazines for libraries of all shapes and sizes. It offers a state-of-the-art platform, enhanced user functionality, a user-friendly app and seamless access and an easy and intuitive reading experience.

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Gale In Context Elementary

Gale In Context Elementary database is designed for school children, teachers, and parents to find valid information in publishers like Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Blackbirch Press, KidsPost from the Washington Post, Youngzine, and more. Content is daily updated, and includes indexed, searchable content with more than 16,600 images, 1,700 charts and graphs, and 600 educational videos on animals, geography, health, literature, influential people, social studies, sports, and technology. 

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Gale Literature

Provides full-text access to all the journals, criticism, primary sources and other content from Gale literature databases.

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JSTOR

Contains scientific articles from all academic disciplines.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary provides the ultimate guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.

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Gale in Context - Opposing Viewpoints

Articles from a variety of sources related to current social issues.

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Oxford Art Online

Collection of reference books related to the arts, artists and artistic movements.

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Oxford Music Online

Collections of reference books related to music, musicians, composers, etc.

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Oxford Reference

Contains definitions from general, special dictionaries and reference works for over 100 languages. Covers nearly all the branches of science.

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SIRS Discoverer

SIRS Discoverer is reference database that supports primary and secondary education. It supports students’ assignments on famous people, countries, animals, and pro/con topics.

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SIRS Issues Researcher

Articles from magazines and newspapers related to current social issues.

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Additional databases, especially appropriate for the IBDP

APA PsycArticles®

An essential database of full-text, peer-reviewed articles published by the APA and affiliated journals. Α must-have for any core collection in the social and behavioral sciences provides access to 119 journals, including the American Psychologist®.

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Art, Design & Architecture Collection

Art, Design & Architecture Collection is a comprehensive survey of current publications in the fields of visual and applied arts, and includes:
ARTbibliographies Modern is the only bibliography available for the study of modern and contemporary art from the late 19th century onwards. Provides deep coverage of publications on modern artists and movements.
Design & Applied Arts Index provides researchers with abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards.
International Bibliography of Art is recognized as the world's most comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of Western art. It consists of bibliographic citations, abstracts, and subject indexing drawn from the Getty’s thesaurus.

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Communication and Mass Media Complete

Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) is a robust communication studies database. It provides full-text, indexing and abstracts for many top communication journals covering all related disciplines, including media studies, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse.

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Ebook Central (Proquest)

Contains more than 177.000 ebooks that cover a wide range of academic disciplines.

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eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)

Contains more than 180,000 ebooks that cover a wide range of academic subjects.

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Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is the pinnacle resource for researchers of film and television, providing the most comprehensive, balanced collection of full-text and bibliographic coverage from scholarly and popular sources, and spanning the entire spectrum of film and television studies.

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Gale Literature Criticism

Full-text access to Gale's Literary Criticism, the most extensive compilation of scholarly and popular literary commentary available.

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Gale Literature - LitFinder

LitFinder indexes thousands of poems, stories, plays, speeches, and essays and includes full text for many titles. Also includes author biographies and other secondary material.

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Music & Performing Arts Collection

The collection features scholarly and trade journals, magazines, books, newspapers, and reference works, covering a wide range of disciplines including dance, ballet, circus performance, popular music, puppetry, radio, stagecraft, theatre, classical music, and opera. It consists of two distinct databases, Music Periodicals Database and Performing Arts Periodicals Database.

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Sage Journals

This resource includes high-impact research titles published on behalf of over 500 scholarly and professional societies. It provides access to more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals and over 1 million articles. Its interdisciplinary coverage is unparalleled, spanning subject areas including business; humanities; social sciences; science, technology, medicine; and many more.

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ScienceDirect

Citations and abstracts from over 3,200 journals. Full-text access to over 480 scholarly journals in the social and behavioural sciences, including psychology, sociology, business and management, and more.

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Statista

A multidisciplinary full-text online platform that provides access to publicly available third-party, as well as exclusive, market and consumer data and reports.

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