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Electronic Research Books

ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
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The Proquest Ebook Central collection includes over 50,000 titles spanning all academic subject areas.Users may create an account to store books on a personal bookshelf, and use the ebrary Reader to highlight text and take notes. Individual UMS libraries have also purchased some ebrary ebooks that are restricted to a single user at a time, due to digital rights management licensing.

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Library Essentials

Online Professional Journals

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Academic Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Academic Search Complete is a large peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, full-text database.
Education Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Provides full-text access to selected journals in North America. Coverage includes education, specifically adult education, continuing education, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, school administration, special education, teacher evaluation, and teaching methods. Full-text coverage from 1983, citation coverage from 1969.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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JSTOR is a digital archive beginning with volume one, in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
MEDLINE (Ovid) This link opens in a new window
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MEDLINE is an authoritative bibliographic database that indexes medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,600 biomedical journals.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new window
Contemporary testing instruments in psychology, education, business, and leadership.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
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Full-text articles from: American Psychological Association, APA Educational Publishing Foundation, Canadian Psychological Association.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
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Professional, academic literature in psychology, medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
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Developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), PubMed is a major medical database. It provides access to bibliographic/abstracting information from MEDLINE, plus out-of-scope citations from certain MEDLINE journals; citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing; and some additional life science journals that submit full-text and receive a qualitative review by NLM. Included are links to many sites with full-text articles.