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New / Trial Databases

The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.

New

Alternate Name(s): International Phonetic Alphabet Source

Subject: Music
Content/Description:The library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.

Popular Databases

The most frequently-used databases

Academic Search Complete (1867 to Present)

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Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description:Peer-reviewed journal and magazine articles, historical reviews, abstracts, and indexing from content as far back as 1867.

America’s News (Newsbank)

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Alternate Name(s): Newsbank

Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description:Full text access to newspapers from across the country. Includes Holland Sentinel, Grand Rapids Press, and Detroit News.

APA PsycInfo (1806-present)

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Alternate Name(s): Psyc INFO PsycINFO

Subject: Psychology
Content/Description: Provides access to journals, books, book chapters, dissertations, and reports.
Please Note: Dissertations and books comprise 20% of the citations in this database. To limit your search results to journal articles from your search results, select this limit for scholarly journal articles.

CINAHL Plus

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Subject: Nursing
Content/Description: Provides journal articles, book chapters, and periodicals for nursing and health-related sciences

ERIC

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Subject: Education
Content/Description: Contains journal articles and unpublished research reports in education. ERIC can also be accessed via the U.S. Department of Education interface or via ProQuest.
Also available: ERIC Documents on Microfiche: ED284956 (Jan. 1988) - ED476550 (Dec. 2003)

Web of Science

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Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description:Includes a collection of databases with citations on the Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences and other topics.