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Biography Format Availability
Biography Resource Center
Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. Full text Campus or home
Student Resource Center
Comprehensive, cross-curricular reference source for college and college-prep libraries. Full text Campus or home

Books Format Availability
Library Catalog
Books, audiocassettes and videos available in the Garrett College Library Citations Campus or home
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Full text Campus or home
NetLibrary
Electronic books which may also be searched through the library catalog. Full text Campus or home
Title Source II
Comprehensive and accurate title information on over 3 million book, audio and video titles. Citations and book reviews See librarian

Business Format Availability
Business Source Premier
World's largest full text business database, covering virtually all subject areas related to business. Full text Campus or home

 

Criminal Justice Format Availability
ProQuest
Periodical articles from thousands of journals in education, business, science, psychology and many other disciplines. Full text Campus or home

Current Events Format Availability
Issues & Controversies
Articles that highlight the important issues in today's news. Full text Campus
Information on social issues; viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles Full text Campus or home

Education Format Availability
ERIC
Contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals. Mostly abstracts with some
full text
Campus or home
ProQuest
Periodical articles from thousands of journals in education, business, science, psychology and many other disciplines. Full text Campus or home

General Format Availability
Academic Search Premier
Periodical article index in general academic subject areas. Full text Campus or home
Britannica Online
Online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Full Text Campus
eLibrary
Over 1 million newspaper articles, 250,000 journal & periodical articles, TV & radio transcripts, reference books, pictures & images on a wide variety of topics. Full text Campus or home
National Newspapers
Access to articles in the Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Baltimore Sun. Full text Campus or home
ProQuest
Periodical articles from thousands of journals in education, business, science, psychology and many other disciplines. Full text Campus or home
Student Resource Center
Comprehensive, cross-curricular reference source for college and college-prep libraries. Full text Campus or home

Government Documents Format Availability
SIRS Knowledge Source
Information about the federal government; Supreme Court decisions; current & historic government documents on a wide variety of topics Full text Library

Health Format Availability
Health Source Plus | Nursing/Academic Edition | Consumer Edition
Covers many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Full  text Campus or home
National Library of Medicine
Comprehensive medical database for the general public and professionals in the health field. Abstracts & full text Campus or home
PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 45,000 articles from 57 journals - 46 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1985 to present. Full text Campus or home
PsycBOOKS
Indexes individual chapters from books in the area of psychology. A companion to PsycINFO and PsycExtra. Full text Campus or home
PsycEXTRA
PsycEXTRA, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), is a bibliographic and full text companion database to the scholarly PsycINFO database. The document types included in PsycEXTRA consist of technical, annual and government reports, conference papers, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more. It contains nearly 53,000 records, with over 30,000 additional records added annually Full text and abstracts Campus or home

Literature Format Availability
LION: Literature Online
Fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. Full text Campus or home
Literature Resource Center
Access to biographical and bibliographical information on writers from every era and literary discipline and critical analysis of their works. Full text Campus or home
Magill on Literature
Over 11,000 essays on literary works, including plot, characters and critical analyses. Full text Campus or home

 

Music Format Availability
NAXOS Music Library
The most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of over 262,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Music Campus

 

Newspapers Format Availability
National Newspapers
Access to articles in the Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Baltimore Sun. Full text Campus or home

Science Format Availability
Access Science
Online encyclopedia of science and technology. Full text Campus or home
Science Resource Center
Thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures, illustrations and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards. Full text Campus or home
Species Information Library
Profiles of North American wildlife, including taxonomy, life history, habitat and management. Full text Library or home
Wildlife Society Publications
Papers on all aspects of wildlife research, conservation and management from the Wildlife Society Bulletin, the Journal of Wildlife Management and Wildlife Monographs Full text Campus only

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