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Arts
Art & Humanities Database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. It is designed to complement the following indexes: ABM, Avery, BHA, BHI, DAAI, Index Islamicus, MLA, Philosopher’s Index and RILM. ProQuest
Bibliographic Indexes
Agricola produced by the National Agricultural Library, consists of worldwide literature citations for journal articles, monographs, proceedings, theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, computer software, and technical reports pertaining to all aspects of agriculture and related fields. Since 1985, the CAB Thesaurus has been used to select controlled vocabulary terms for subject indexing. Library of Congress Subject Headings are used as controlled vocabulary for cataloging records. ProQuest
ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. Coverage: 1966 – current. ProQuest
Books & eBooks
eBook Academic Collection contains a growing collection of over 160,000 multidisciplinary eBook titles from a wide variety of subject areas, including Art, History, Mathematics, Psychology, Philosophy, and Business. EBSCOHost
eBook Collection contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter, and is a strong complement for any academic collection. The breadth of information available through this package ensures that users will have access to information relevant to their research needs. EBSCOHost
eBooks Central Collection provides access to authoritative ebooks from the world’s top publishers on a range of subjects: arts, business management, education, general knowledge, health & medicine, history & political science, law, literature & language, religion & philosophy, science & technology, and social science. ProQuest
Gale eBooks provides access to encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. Title List
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Making of America by Cornell University Library is a joint project of Cornell University and the University of Michigan to provide a digital library of primary sources of American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction with more than 900,000 pages currently scanned. Cornell University and the University of Michigan
World Book eBooks is a collection of 25 classics and 25 proprietary World Book non-fiction titles. Desktop computer and tablet users may access the site via browser or checkout for offline. Simultaneous checkout makes eBooks available for an unlimited number of users. World Book
Business
ABI/INFORM Collection provides information on company and market research: company profiles; annual, industry, market & commodity reports. Also includes current business & economic conditions, management techniques & corporate strategies.
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Accounting, Tax & Business Collection brings together global scholarly journals with other key resources for access to reliable information in this continuously evolving area of study. Quickly locate precise results from sources ranging from current news to professional and academic journal articles covering the trends and history influencing important accounting, tax, banking, and financial issues of the day. ProQuest
Asian & European Business focuses on business and financial news from the eastern hemisphere. It covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications. ProQuest
Australia & New Zealand Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Australia and New Zealand. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities. ProQuest
Business Market Research Collection (1986 – current) contains company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research from three sources, including Hoover’s Company Profiles, OxResearch from Oxford Analystica, and Snapshots.
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Business Source Elite provides full text for over 1,000 business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included. This database is updated daily. EBSCOHost
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Complete (CBCA) with 600 full text titles, is the most comprehensive Canadian reference collection available today. Accessible to readers and researchers at every level, CBCA Complete features a highly-respected, diversified mix of publications, including scholarly journals, trade publications, dissertations, books, newspapers and magazines. ProQuest
Continental Europe Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many European countries, including France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, and Portugal. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities. ProQuest
East & South Asia Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many East Asian and South Asian countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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East Europe, Central Europe Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in East European and Central European countries. Major subject areas of tudy are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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Entrepreneurship bridges theory with practice, covering a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students and practitioners. Content ranges from the scholarly – including journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings – to a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans and tips from successful entrepreneur in a wide range of formats – from video to downloadable Word and Excel files, as well as traditional text and PDFs.
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Global Road Warrior includes country facts, climate, society and business culture, demographics, money and banking, travel essentials, recipes, points of interest, security briefing, medical, transportation, communications, embassies and consulates for 175 countries. It is an ultimate business travel guide that includes information on business etiquette and basic help with learning foreign languages (with audio files). Students of international business, history, geography, social sciences, languages and health care will especially find this database helpful. Global Road Warrior
India Database is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary resource providing full-text, scholarly journals, all published in India. These scholarly sources support many academic fields of study, such as business, medicine, science, technology, social sciences and humanities. Providing a unique source of the very best scholarly periodical output from India, ProQuest Indian Journals is a current resource, with most coverage from the last five years and updated daily with new content. ProQuest
Latin America & Iberian Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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Middle East & Africa provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many Middle Eastern and African countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities. ProQuest
Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. EBSCOHost
Turkey Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Turkey. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities. ProQuest
U.K. & Ireland Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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Career & Vocational
Career and Technical Education is the definitive source for vocational information. It includes nearly 600 titles, with more than 500 in full text for quick access to research on virtually any technical topic. ProQuest
LearningExpress Academic Library Edition provides a comprehensive selection of interactive educational resources covering core colege-level math, computer, science and English skills. LearningExpress Academic also contains test preparation modules for ACT®, SAT®, GRE®, GMAT®, LSAT®, MCAT®, as well as ACCUPLACER, ASSET, CLEP, and high school equivalency degrees.
LearningExpress Academic also contains the Job & Career Accelerator module, which contains a wide variety of career preparation materials, including field-specific resources on an array of positions including Air Traffic Control, Allied Health and Social Work, Civil Service, Commercial Drivers, Cosmetology, Culinary Arts, Electrician and Plumbers, Law Enforcement, Military, Teaching, and many more. EBSCOHost
LearningExpress High School Library Edition provides a comprehensive selection of interactive educational resources covering college preparation, and high school level math, science, English, computer and social studies modules. The High School Library edition of LearningExpress also provides access to the Job & Career Acceletor module and includes additional materials to help students determine future careers. EBSCOHost
LearningExpress Public Library provides a comprehensive selection of educational resources—including interactive tutorials, practice exams, flashcards, articles and e-books—for basic skills mastery, academic success, job preparation, and career
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LearningExpress Library is an online resource of test preparation tutorials and practice tests to help students prepare for important exams. Includes the following tests: Basic Skills for Success, Career Center and Business Writing Center, Civil Service Careers, College Prep, Cosmetology, EMS and Medical, ESL (Spanish) Skills Improvement Courses, Firefighter, GED prep, Graduate School Entrance, Law Enforcement, Military, Real Estate, Skills Improvement Courses, Teacher Certification, Tech and Career College Courses, US Citizenship. This database requires setting up your own account and login information.
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Vocational and Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for nearly 340 trade and industry-related periodicals. EBSCOHost
Education & Library Science
Education Database supports the study and application of education across all levels of education, including early childhood education, primary and secondary education, and higher education. ProQuest
ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. Coverage: 1966 – current. ProQuest
Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA) indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. EBSCOHost
Library Science Database gives users full-text access to a selection of publications relevant to library and information science. It covers a range of titles and topics relevant to the theoretical and applied study of library science, including trade publications aimed at the library profession as well as scholarly journals. Coverage: 1970 – current. ProQuest
MAS Ultra – School Edition is designed specifically for high school libraries and it contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. EBSCOHost
Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags. EBSCOHost
Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
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Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world. It is designed for professional educators and it provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.
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Research Companion provides one-stop access to thousands of full-text periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, professional and trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 subjects and topics. To use this database, please, set up a free personal account via the person icon on the upper right hand side of the Research Library page and use the login/password that you create, there, to enter Research Companion. Please, call 870.722.8250 if you need assistance. ProQuest
Research Library provides one-stop access to thousands of full-text periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, professional and trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 subjects and topics.
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Genealogy
African American Heritage provides access to essential historical records for African Americans, including Federal Census, Marriage and Cohabitation Records, Military Draft and Service Records, Register of Slaves and Free(d) Persons of Color, Freedman’s Bank, and more. ProQuest
HeritageQuest is a source for finding out more about your family’s history, the history of a local region, and genealogy research. It provides access to U.S. census records, books, periodicals, Revolutionary War service records, and Freedman’s Bank depositor records. ProQuest
General Research
Academic Search Elite contains full text for more than 2,100 journals and nearly 150 journals have PDF images dating back to 1985. Academic institutions worldwide depend on this database as their core resource of scholarly information.
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eLibrary Academic provides access to a massive collection of multidisciplinary periodical and digital media content, designed for middle and high school students, undergraduates at community colleges and universities, instructors, and librarians. Editorially created pages provide valuable context for both common and more unusual topics of research. All content is 100% full-text, including documents from books, magazines, journals, newspapers, photographs, transcripts, and videos. The collection covers a wide range of subjects. ProQuest
eLibrary Guided Research Platform ProQuest
eLibrary LibGuide provides training videos and explains eLibrary’s features and recent enhancements. ProQuest
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos World Book
Public Video Online offers over 50,000 streaming videos on History, Science, Engineering, Health, Performing Arts, Religion, and films for research. Institutional access limited to school and public libraries. ProQuest
Research Library provides one-stop access to thousands of full-text periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, professional and trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 subjects and topics. ProQuest
SIRS Discoverer® is a multidisciplinary database specifically designed for upper elementary and middle school learners, researchers, and educators covering curriculum areas such as, history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology. ProQuest
SIRS Issues Researcher provides background and current analysis necessary for research and understanding of 360+ current and pervasive Leading Issues. Analysis and opinions cover the pros, cons, and everything in between on the most researched and debated social issues. ProQuest
World Book Advanced is a reference tool for 8th grade and up that includes encyclopedia, multimedia, e-books, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search World Book Advanced is a powerful reference tool that includes encyclopedia, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search. World Book
World Book Complete goes to all Traveler World Book databases for selection. World Book
World Book Discover provides reference resources for students reading below grade level because of language or learning difficulties, with content and tools specifically developed for these students. World Book
World Book Early World of Learning provides three interactive learning environments for preschoolers and children in early grades. “Trek’s Travels” offers narrated stories, interactive games, and original videos that teach early childhood themes, including numbers, shapes, colors, opposites, and more. “Welcome to Reading” develops and strengthen phonics, vocabulary, phonemic awareness, and comprehension skills. “Know It” offers a richly visual first encyclopedia. World Book
World Book eBooks is a collection of 25 classics and 25 proprietary World Book non-fiction titles. Desktop computer and tablet users may access the site via browser or checkout for offline. Simultaneous checkout makes eBooks available for an unlimited number of users. World Book
World Book Kids is a general reference Web site developed especially for young students with easy-to-read articles, thousands of illustrations, videos, comparison tools, and a wealth of engaging games and activities, including an atlas, interactive maps, flags, and over 200 game and activities. World Book
World Book Online Reference Center is a customizable interface tailored to the needs and skills of the public library users, high school age & above, providing a reference tool that has an encyclopedia, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases in a fully integrated a single search. World Book
World Book Student is a research tool tailored for students in elementary & middle schools with over 40,000 encyclopedia and reference articles, 10,000 + biographies, multimedia, videos, animations and student activities. World Book
World Book Timelines is a resource for accessing or creating timelines for projects in the arts, literature, notable people, science & technology, world history, geography and more. Users can select a built timeline and make changes or create new timelines. World Book
Geography
Countries and Their Cultures presents the cultural similarities within a country that set it apart from others by examining over 200 countries to document the myriad ways in which culture defines and separates the nations of the world as much as geographical borders do. Surveys each country’s shared values, behaviors and cultural variations from foods and rituals to pastimes and arts, using a standard entryformat for easy comparison. Provides illustrations, photographs and maps. Gale
Countries of the World and Their Leaders covers nearly 200 countries and is filled with background reports from the U.S. Department of State. Entries typically cover geography, history, government and political conditions, economy, and state of relations with the United States. Gale
Global Road Warrior includes country facts, climate, society and business culture, demographics, money and banking, travel essentials, recipes, points of interest, security briefing, medical, transportation, communications, embassies and consulates for 175 countries. It is an ultimate business travel guide that includes information on business etiquette and basic help with learning foreign languages (with audio files). Students of international business, history, geography, social sciences, languages and health care will especially find this database helpful. Global Road Warrior
United States Geography profiles all 50 U.S. states, providing information on the government, economy, history, and issues of each. Social and political challenges that each state faces as an independent entity, such as immigration, education, housing, unemployment, and management of the economy, are covered, as are places such as museums, symphonies, and naval bases defined by a state’s geography and culture. Houses primary and secondary sources including 4,000 images, 525 maps, audio and video recordings, profiles of indigenous peoples and important organizations, acts and laws, and state flags and animals. Includes exclusive primary sources such as a collection of journal entries of explorers from the American West accompanied by interactive maps and contextual material. Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education. ABC-Clio
World Book Timelines is a resource for accessing or creating timelines for projects in the arts, literature, notable people, science & technology, world history, geography and more. Users can select a built timeline and make changes or create new timelines. World Book
World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Its Reference tab includes: regional and world maps, flags of the world, a guide to country profiles and comparisons, and the World Factbook Users Guide. Open access
World Geography: Understanding a Changing World develops students’ global literacy, focusing on the geographic, political, social, economic, environmental, and cultural forces that are increasingly important in our globalized world. On any given country, students can find information about the landforms and climate; natural resources and agriculture; environment; people; traditions and etiquette; food and holidays; national dress; art and landmarks; and government, politics, and economy; as well as its history and contemporary issues the country faces. Contains profiles of nearly 200 countries, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, providing a portrait of each nation’s geographical features, recent and early history, culture, politics, and economy, plus more than 600 political and topographical maps to situate readers. Houses more than 8,500 primary and secondary sources that include images of palaces, capitals, and ruins; flags; noteworthy speeches; recipes; facts and figures; glossary terms; and national constitutions.
Includes more than 1,700 biographies of important political and cultural figures, including Nigerian human rights activist and playwright Wole Soyinka, Czech playwright and former president Vaclav Havel, and King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.
Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education. ABC-Clio
Health & Medicine
AHFS Consumer Medication Information is a trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish. Published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, AHFS includes more than a thousand drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers and has been a Top Ten Award Winner in the Department of Health and Human Services National Consumer Education Materials Contest. This content is updated monthly.
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Body Systems covers the 14 systems of the human body and their role and functions both from an individual organ perspective and each system as a whole, as well as what occurs when systems are not functioning properly due to injury, disease, or other causes. Entries cover the development of each body system from birth to full adult growth, as well as adjustments by the body during the senior years. Gale
CINAHL Complete is the world’s most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text formany of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1981, CINAHL Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature. EBSCOHost
Consumer Health Care focuses on the U.S. healthcare system and the individual’s experience with it. Entries cover topics related to the current state of health insurance, the various kinds (including government programs like Medicare and Medicaid) and methods of its delivery, as well as the history of insurance and the evolution of our current for profit system. Healthcare legislation and reform is also discussed. Gale
Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients’ information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. In addition, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs. This database is updated weekly.
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Health & Medical Collection offers reliable, comprehensive journal coverage of clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration and more. ProQuest
Health & Wellness Issues includes student learning modules that cover today’s top health-related issues that impact physical and mental well-being. Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education. ABC-Clio
Health & Wellness Resource Center indexes professional and general interest periodicals to offer articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMO’s Prescription Drugs, and more. Gale
Health Management is a collection of reliable and relevant resources in the field of health administration, including journals and dissertations. ProQuest
Health Reference Center Academic is a multi-source database that provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac’s award-winning Health Reference Center. All in a single, easy-to-use database, the material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
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Health Source – Consumer Edition is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines. EBSCOHost
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names. EBSCOHost
Healthcare Administration Database provides full-text access to journals covering all aspects of health administration, including hospitals, insurance, law, health economics, public health administration and more. ProQuest
Medical Database is a comprehensive collection of journals covering clinical and biomedical literature. ProQuest
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much 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 5,400 current biomedical journals. ProQuest
Nursing & Allied Health Source offers reliable, comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals, video, dissertations, reference books and more. ProQuest
Pharmaceutical News is an insider’s guide to healthcare research, development and regulatory issues. ProQuest
Public Health allows you to search the core literature in the field of public health. ProQuest
PubMed is a free database accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez information retrieval system. PubMed was first released in January 1996 and many of its records contain links to full text articles, some of which are freely available. PubMed provides access to: older references from the print version of Index Medicus back to 1951 and earlier; references to some journals before they were indexed in Index Medicus and MEDLINE, for instance Science, BMJ, and Annals of Surgery; very recent entries to records for an article before it is indexed with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and added to MEDLINE; and a collection of books available in full-text and other subsets of NLM records. Open access.
UXL Complete Health Resource covers the causes symptoms, diagnoses, tests, treatments and prognoses of health problems; the main systems of the human body, including the circulatory system, the endocrine system, special senses and much more; and a detailed examination of nutrition, and medical and mental health issues. Gale
History
African American Heritage provides access to essential historical records for African Americans, including Federal Census, Marriage and Cohabitation Records, Military Draft and Service Records, Register of Slaves and Free(d) Persons of Color, Freedman’s Bank, and more. ProQuest
The African-American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience discusses the history of African Americans from pre-colonial times to the present. Includes memoirs, letters, family histories, newspapers, oral histories, and city directories, providing historical evidence to help understand and interpret past events. For high school and college students, as well as general readers. Gale
American Civil War Reference Library offers comprehensive and wide ranging research options on this compelling era of American history. Material in each of the three titles has been reviewed by an independent advisory board for its curriculum relevance and its accessibility to students in grades 6-12. Gale
American Eras: Primary Sources on the Reform Era includes essays on events, publications, lifestyles and individuals important to the Reform Era and eastern United States development in U.S. history. Gale
American Eras: Primary Sources on Westward Expansion includes essays on events, publications, lifestyles and individuals important to the Westward Expansion Era in U.S. history. Gale
American Government explains the nuanced structure and foundations of U.S. government and connects these concepts to current issues and questions about political processes, constitutional rights, and international relations. It identifies values the government has traditionally upheld and how the government of today continues to reflect those values, while simultaneously examining changes that the government has undergone since the nation’s founding. Houses more than 13,000 primary and secondary sources, including 2,500 documents, 4,000 images, 250 maps, and 250 audio and video recordings.
Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education. ABC-Clio
American History surveys American history from the colonial era and American Revolution through to the nation’s rise to eminence as a global superpower, analyzing American political conflict, economic development, and changing culture and thought as they tell one continuous and continuing story of America’s history. Houses more than 16,000 primary and secondary sources, including government and court documents, photos, maps, audio and video recordings, and more. Includes nearly 3,300 biographies of famous political and military figures such as Thomas Jefferson, Sandra Day O’Connor, and Douglas MacArthur, as well as fascinating people from across American society, including Hank Aaron, Andrew Carnegie, Robert Redford, and Jonas Salk. Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education. ABC-Clio
American Men & Women of Science, 32nd edition, profiles living persons in the physical and biological fields, as well as public health scientists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists. Gale
American Mosaic: The African American Experience provides a comprehensive survey of African American history and its heartbreaking struggles, major movements—political, social, artistic, and literary—and most notable events and legislative reform. Featuring articles and essays from African American authors and contributors, it gives voice to the experience of African Americans from their arrival in the Americas through to the present day, including the influence of the black community on popular culture and the aspirations of African Americans as expressed, for example, through the campaign of hope on which Barack Obama ran in 2008. Houses nearly 8,000 primary and secondary sources, including overview essays, slave narratives, speeches, court cases, and quotations, that embody themes of literature, music, the arts, slavery, the struggle for civil rights, education, sports, science, medicine, folklore, and more. Includes nearly 1,000 biographies of such famous political and social figures as W.E.B. DuBois, Barack Obama, Frederick Douglass, and Mary McLeod Bethune as well as such fascinating contemporary figures as Amiri Baraka, Muhammad Ali, Drake, and Oprah Winfrey. Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education. ABC-Clio
American Mosaic: The American Indian Experience illuminates the historical and contemporary practices and tribulations of more than 150 Native American tribes from all regions of North America. Featuring articles and essays from Native American authors and contributors, it gives voice to the American Indian experience with respect to colonial conflict, trade economies, decisive wars, parsing of Native American land enabled by American policy, assimilation, and native claims to land, among other topics. Hundreds of primary source documents and media, including traditional stories, treaties, speeches, a wealth of maps, thousands of images, and videos. Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education. ABC-Clio
American Mosaic: The Latino American Experience documents the rich heritage and current culture of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Guatemalans, Cubans, Dominicans, Colombians, Ecuadorians, and other Hispanic groups in the United States. Their stories are detailed through a robust collection of primary and secondary sources, beginning with pre-16th century Mayan, Incan, and Aztec empires and continuing through to the present day, with treatment also given to cultural themes including coming-of-age rituals, music, literature, and cuisine. On the controversial issues shaping the modern Latino American experience—such as immigration reform, media portrayals, and voting access and influence—credentialed academics offer varied perspectives to serve as both sources and exemplars of scholarly argumentation. More than 2,500 primary documents and media, including speeches, maps, songs, audio clips, interviews, and vivid historical photographs. Coverage of history and culture from all the countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula, including content on modern-day Latin American countries, the history of the Hispanic Diaspora, and indigenous peoples. Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education. ABC-Clio
Arkansas Historical Quarterly is a Cumulative Index to the Arkansas Historical Quarterly that covers 1942-2000 (volumes 1-59). Open access
Australia & New Zealand Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Australia and New Zealand. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities. ProQuest
Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 includes more than 550 entries focusing on artists active from 1990-the present. Individual artists and groups in all popular styles are covered, including those in rock, rhythm and blues, rap, country, electronica, jazz, vocal and classical. Gale
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) is a finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general key word, or click on “Advanced Search” for more options.
Cities of the United States provides information on America’s top cities–those fastest-growing, as well as those with a particular historical, political, industrial, and/or commercial significance. City-specific profiles organize pertinent facts, data, and figures related to demographic, economic, cultural, geographic, social, and recreational conditions. Gale
Continental Europe Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many European countries, including France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, and Portugal. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities. ProQuest
Countries and Their Cultures presents the cultural similarities within a country that set it apart from others by examining over 200 countries to document the myriad ways in which culture defines and separates the nations of the world as much as geographical borders do. Surveys each country’s shared values, behaviors and cultural variations from foods and rituals to pastimes and arts, using a standard entryformat for easy comparison. Provides illustrations, photographs and maps. Gale
Countries of the World and Their Leaders covers nearly 200 countries and is filled with background reports from the U.S. Department of State. Entries typically cover geography, history, government and political conditions, economy, and state of relations with the United States. Gale
CREDO Reference is a general reference solution that allows users to conduct thoroughly detailed searches in a range of multifaceted ways. Its full-text, aggregated content covers every major subject from the world’s best publishers of reference.
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Criminal Justice is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. As well as U.S. and international scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement and related fields. It provides access to: ProQuest Criminal Justice and ProQuest Deep Indexing: Criminal Justice. ProQuest
CultureGrams provides access to cultural reports, statistics, and primary source material for countries across the globe, including the United States and Canadian provinces. Includes unique information such as native recipes, interviews, photos and videos. Contains four modules: Kids, Provinces, States and World. ProQuest
Making of America by Cornell University Library is a joint project of Cornell University and the University of Michigan to provide a digital library of primary sources of American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction with more than 900,000 pages currently scanned. Cornell University and the University of Michigan
Map Collection The Perry-Castaneda Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin, includes world, continent, country, state, city, historic, thematic, and topographic maps. University of Texas
Middle East & Africa provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many Middle Eastern and African countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities. ProQuest
Military Collection covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering and more. It includes over 550 titles, with more than 370 available in full-text, allowing you to search over 3.5M records, dating back to the early 1990’s. ProQuest
Ox Research provides succinct analytical articles discovering world and regional economic and political developments of major significance. It evaluates issues and events within a coherent political, social and economic framework. Additionally, it contains objective, multi-disciplinary articles compiled by an extensive international network of over 1,000 faculty members at Oxford and other leading universities around the world, as well as think-tanks and institutes of international standing. Open access
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. Pew Research does not take policy positions. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Open access
Political Science gives users access to hundreds of leading political science and international relations journals, providing full-text of many core titles indexed in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. In addition, over a thousand recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics are included, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country profiles, political news and other sources. Coverage: 1985 – current. ProQuest
Pop Culture Universe includes student learning modules covering history through books, fashion, film, food, music, sports, technology, media, transportation, travel, and more. Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education. ABC-Clio
Presidents: A Reference History has been revised and updated to include the second term of the Clinton administration, as well as the first year of George W. Bush’s presidency. Each president and his administration is thoroughly profiled by a distinguished senior scholar. More than 100 black and white photos and two color-insert sections illustrate the work, which also features a new history of the White House and a general introduction to the presidency by Editor in Chief Henry Graff. Gale
Religion provides a wide range of primarily full-text, international periodicals for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies of major religions, as well as the most recent trends and scholarly thought. Included are titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations. The resource reflects a wide spectrum of religious belief systems and supports the global study of religion. Coverage: 1986 – current. ProQuest
SIRS Discoverer® is a multidisciplinary database specifically designed for upper elementary and middle school learners, researchers, and educators covering curriculum areas such as, history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology. ProQuest
SIRS Issues Researcher provides background and current analysis necessary for research and understanding of 360+ current and pervasive Leading Issues. Analysis and opinions cover the pros, cons, and everything in between on the most researched and debated social issues. ProQuest
TOPICsearch contains full text for over 150,961 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO’s unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information. 
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Turkey Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Turkey. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities. ProQuest
U.K. & Ireland Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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United States Geography profiles all 50 U.S. states, providing information on the government, economy, history, and issues of each. Social and political challenges that each state faces as an independent entity, such as immigration, education, housing, unemployment, and management of the economy, are covered, as are places such as museums, symphonies, and naval bases defined by a state’s geography and culture. Houses primary and secondary sources including 4,000 images, 525 maps, audio and video recordings, profiles of indigenous peoples and important organizations, acts and laws, and state flags and animals. Includes exclusive primary sources such as a collection of journal entries of explorers from the American West accompanied by interactive maps and contextual material. Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education. ABC-Clio
U.S. Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, US Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. US Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers, and is cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform. Coverage: 1980 – current ProQuest
World Book Advanced is a reference tool for 8th grade and up that includes encyclopedia, multimedia, e-books, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search World Book Advanced is a powerful reference tool that includes encyclopedia, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search. World Book
World Book Complete goes to all Traveler World Book databases for selection. World Book
World Book Discover provides reference resources for students reading below grade level because of language or learning difficulties, with content and tools specifically developed for these students. World Book
World Book Timelines is a resource for accessing or creating timelines for projects in the arts, literature, notable people, science & technology, world history, geography and more. Users can select a built timeline and make changes or create new timelines. World Book
World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Its Reference tab includes: regional and world maps, flags of the world, a guide to country profiles and comparisons, and the World Factbook Users Guide. Open access
World Geography: Understanding a Changing World develops students’ global literacy, focusing on the geographic, political, social, economic, environmental, and cultural forces that are increasingly important in our globalized world. On any given country, students can find information about the landforms and climate; natural resources and agriculture; environment; people; traditions and etiquette; food and holidays; national dress; art and landmarks; and government, politics, and economy; as well as its history and contemporary issues the country faces. Contains profiles of nearly 200 countries, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, providing a portrait of each nation’s geographical features, recent and early history, culture, politics, and economy, plus more than 600 political and topographical maps to situate readers. Houses more than 8,500 primary and secondary sources that include images of palaces, capitals, and ruins; flags; noteworthy speeches; recipes; facts and figures; glossary terms; and national constitutions.
Includes more than 1,700 biographies of important political and cultural figures, including Nigerian human rights activist and playwright Wole Soyinka, Czech playwright and former president Vaclav Havel, and King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.
Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education. ABC-Clio
World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras provides students with an in-depth survey of early human history around the world, from prehistoric times to the beginning of the Renaissance. Students gain both key foundational knowledge and strengthen more advanced research and critical thinking skills with this comprehensive collection of nearly 7,000 reference articles, more than 5,000 primary sources and images, and additional scholarly works exploring key themes and controversial topics in all ancient and medieval eras. More than 6,000 reference articles, including over 1,800 biographies of important figures, such as Alexander the Great, Confucius, William the Conqueror, and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Explorations of roughly 75 distinct eras, such as the Roman Republic, the Han Dynasty, the rise of the Ottomans, and the Italian Renaissance. More than 5,000 primary sources and images, including key documents and images of significant individuals, artifacts, and buildings. Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education. ABC-Clio
World History: The Modern Eras provides for comprehensive study of the emergence of the modern world, covering the history of the world from 1500 to the present. Students will learn about the evolution of modern Europe since the Renaissance; concurrent developments in Asia, Africa, and the Islamic world; the global impact of the Industrial Revolution; revolutions in France and Latin America; imperialism; nationalism; World Wars I and II; growing global powers, and more.
Includes more than 70 era explorations, including those of the Spread of Protestantism, Napoleon’s Empire, the Unification of Italy, the Meiji Restoration, and the Iron Curtain, complemented by a number of interactive study and teaching tools. Houses more than 7,300 primary sources of exceptional authenticity, including Ronald Reagan’s “Tear Down This Wall” speech; newsreel footage of the U.S. landing at Inchon, Korea; photographs including those of T. E. Lawrence during the Arab uprising in 1917; book excerpts and recorded interviews with notable figures; and maps depicting kingdoms, island regions, religious affiliations, and more. Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education. ABC-Clio
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices provides information on current religious practices around the world with an emphasis on how religions impact the daily lives of their followers. Gale
International
Continental Europe Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many European countries, including France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, and Portugal. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities. ProQuest
Countries and Their Cultures presents the cultural similarities within a country that set it apart from others by examining over 200 countries to document the myriad ways in which culture defines and separates the nations of the world as much as geographical borders do. Surveys each country’s shared values, behaviors and cultural variations from foods and rituals to pastimes and arts, using a standard entryformat for easy comparison. Provides illustrations, photographs and maps.
Gale
Countries of the World and Their Leaders covers nearly 200 countries and is filled with background reports from the U.S. Department of State. Entries typically cover geography, history, government and political conditions, economy, and state of relations with the United States.
Gale
East & South Asia Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many East Asian and South Asian countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
ProQuest
East Europe, Central Europe Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in East European and Central European countries. Major subject areas of tudy are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World looks at Islam’s role in the modern world, doing so in the context of the religion’s history and development over the last 13 centuries. Containing thematic articles, biographies of key figures, definitions, illustrations, maps and more, this new encyclopedia fills a need in this key area of religious studies. Gale
Encyclopedia of Latin American History & Culture provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of Latin American history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. Covers cultural issues and includes numerous biographical profiles of important figures in politics, letters and the arts. Gale
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Ethnic NewsWatch provides access to journals, magazines, and newspapers from ethnic and minority presses. The current collection, Ethnic NewsWatch™, covers 1990-present, and the historical collection, Ethnic NewsWatch: A History™, spans 1959-1989. Ethnicities include: African American/Caribbean/African; Arab/Middle Eastern; Asian/Pacific Islander; European/Eastern European; Hispanic; Jewish; NativePeople. ProQuest
Global Road Warrior includes country facts, climate, society and business culture, demographics, money and banking, travel essentials, recipes, points of interest, security briefing, medical, transportation, communications, embassies and consulates for 175 countries. It is an ultimate business travel guide that includes information on business etiquette and basic help with learning foreign languages (with audio files). Students of international business, history, geography, social sciences, languages and health care will especially find this database helpful. Global Road Warrior
India Database is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary resource providing full-text, scholarly journals, all published in India. These scholarly sources support many academic fields of study, such as business, medicine, science, technology, social sciences and humanities. Providing a unique source of the very best scholarly periodical output from India, ProQuest Indian Journals is a current resource, with most coverage from the last five years and updated daily with new content. ProQuest
International Newsstream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. ProQuest International Newsstream provides information from more than 660 of the world’s top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications. ProQuest
Latin America & Iberian Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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Middle East & Africa provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many Middle Eastern and African countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities. ProQuest
Turkey Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Turkey. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities. ProQuest
U.K. & Ireland Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
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World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Its Reference tab includes: regional and world maps, flags of the world, a guide to country profiles and comparisons, and the World Factbook Users Guide. Open access
World Geography: Understanding a Changing World develops students’ global literacy, focusing on the geographic, political, social, economic, environmental, and cultural forces that are increasingly important in our globalized world. On any given country, students can find information about the landforms and climate; natural resources and agriculture; environment; people; traditions and etiquette; food and holidays; national dress; art and landmarks; and government, politics, and economy; as well as its history and contemporary issues the country faces. Contains profiles of nearly 200 countries, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, providing a portrait of each nation’s geographical features, recent and early history, culture, politics, and economy, plus more than 600 political and topographical maps to situate readers. Houses more than 8,500 primary and secondary sources that include images of palaces, capitals, and ruins; flags; noteworthy speeches; recipes; facts and figures; glossary terms; and national constitutions.
Includes more than 1,700 biographies of important political and cultural figures, including Nigerian human rights activist and playwright Wole Soyinka, Czech playwright and former president Vaclav Havel, and King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand. Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education. ABC-Clio
World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras provides students with an in-depth survey of early human history around the world, from prehistoric times to the beginning of the Renaissance. Students gain both key foundational knowledge and strengthen more advanced research and critical thinking skills with this comprehensive collection of nearly 7,000 reference articles, more than 5,000 primary sources and images, and additional scholarly works exploring key themes and controversial topics in all ancient and medieval eras. More than 6,000 reference articles, including over 1,800 biographies of important figures, such as Alexander the Great, Confucius, William the Conqueror, and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Explorations of roughly 75 distinct eras, such as the Roman Republic, the Han Dynasty, the rise of the Ottomans, and the Italian Renaissance. More than 5,000 primary sources and images, including key documents and images of significant individuals, artifacts, and buildings. Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education. ABC-Clio
World History: The Modern Eras provides for comprehensive study of the emergence of the modern world, covering the history of the world from 1500 to the present. Students will learn about the evolution of modern Europe since the Renaissance; concurrent developments in Asia, Africa, and the Islamic world; the global impact of the Industrial Revolution; revolutions in France and Latin America; imperialism; nationalism; World Wars I and II; growing global powers, and more. Includes more than 70 era explorations, including those of the Spread of Protestantism, Napoleon’s Empire, the Unification of Italy, the Meiji Restoration, and the Iron Curtain, complemented by a number of interactive study and teaching tools. Houses more than 7,300 primary sources of exceptional authenticity, including Ronald Reagan’s “Tear Down This Wall” speech; newsreel footage of the U.S. landing at Inchon, Korea; photographs including those of T. E. Lawrence during the Arab uprising in 1917; book excerpts and recorded interviews with notable figures; and maps depicting kingdoms, island regions, religious affiliations, and more. Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education. ABC-Clio
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices provides information on current religious practices around the world with an emphasis on how religions impact the daily lives of their followers. Gale
K-12 Students
CultureGrams provides access to cultural reports, statistics, and primary source material for countries across the globe, including the United States and Canadian provinces. Includes unique information such as native recipes, interviews, photos and videos. Contains four modules: Kids, Provinces, States and World. ProQuest
Early World of Learning provides three interactive learning environments for preschoolers and children in early grades. “Trek’s Travels” offers narrated stories, interactive games, and original videos that teach early childhood themes, including numbers, shapes, colors, opposites, and more. “Welcome to Reading” develops and strengthen phonics, vocabulary, phonemic awareness, and comprehension skills. “Know It” offers a richly visual first encyclopedia. World Book
eLibrary Academic provides access to a massive collection of multidisciplinary periodical and digital media content, designed for middle and high school students, undergraduates at community colleges and universities, instructors, and librarians. Editorially created pages provide valuable context for both common and more unusual topics of research. All content is 100% full-text, including documents from books, magazines, journals, newspapers, photographs, transcripts, and videos. The collection covers a wide range of subjects. ProQuest
eLibrary Guided Research Platform ProQuest
eLibrary LibGuide provides training videos and explains eLibrary’s features and recent enhancements. ProQuest
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LearningExpress High School Library Edition provides a comprehensive selection of interactive educational resources covering college preparation, and high school level math, science, English, computer and social studies modules. The High School Library edition of LearningExpress also provides access to the Job & Career Acceletor module and includes additional materials to help students determine future careers. EBSCOHost
LearningExpress Public Library provides a comprehensive selection of educational resources—including interactive tutorials, practice exams, flashcards, articles and e-books—for basic skills mastery, academic success, job preparation, and career
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Research Companion To use this database, please, set up a free personal account via the person icon on the upper right hand side of the Research Library page and use the login/password that you create, there, to enter Research Companion . Please, call 870.722.8250 if you need assistance. Research Companion provides one-stop access to thousands of full-text periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, professional and trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 subjects and topics.
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SIRS Discoverer® is a multidisciplinary database specifically designed for upper elementary and middle school learners, researchers, and educators covering curriculum areas such as, history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology. ProQuest
SIRS Issues Researcher provides background and current analysis necessary for research and understanding of 360+ current and pervasive Leading Issues. Analysis and opinions cover the pros, cons, and everything in between on the most researched and debated social issues. ProQuest
World Book Advanced is a reference tool for 8th grade and up that includes encyclopedia, multimedia, e-books, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search World Book Advanced is a powerful reference tool that includes encyclopedia, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search. World Book
World Book Complete goes to all Traveler World Book databases for selection. World Book
World Book Discover provides reference resources for students reading below grade level because of language or learning difficulties, with content and tools specifically developed for these students. World Book
World Book Early World of Learning provides three interactive learning environments for preschoolers and children in early grades. “Trek’s Travels” offers narrated stories, interactive games, and original videos that teach early childhood themes, including numbers, shapes, colors, opposites, and more. “Welcome to Reading” develops and strengthen phonics, vocabulary, phonemic awareness, and comprehension skills. “Know It” offers a richly visual first encyclopedia. World Book
World Book eBooks is a collection of 25 classics and 25 proprietary World Book non-fiction titles. Desktop computer and tablet users may access the site via browser or checkout for offline. Simultaneous checkout makes eBooks available for an unlimited number of users. World Book
World Book Kids is a general reference Web site developed especially for young students with easy-to-read articles, thousands of illustrations, videos, comparison tools, and a wealth of engaging games and activities, including an atlas, interactive maps, flags, and over 200 game and activities. World Book
World Book Online Reference Center is a customizable interface tailored to the needs and skills of the public library users, high school age & above, providing a reference tool that has an encyclopedia, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases in a fully integrated a single search. World Book
World Book Student is a research tool tailored for students in elementary & middle schools with over 40,000 encyclopedia and reference articles, 10,000 + biographies, multimedia, videos, animations and student activities. World Book
World Book Timelines is a resource for accessing or creating timelines for projects in the arts, literature, notable people, science & technology, world history, geography and more. Users can select a built timeline and make changes or create new timelines. World Book
Law & Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. As well as U.S. and international scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement and related fields. It provides access to: ProQuest Criminal Justice and ProQuest Deep Indexing: Criminal Justice. ProQuest
LearningExpress Library is an online resource of test preparation tutorials and practice tests to help students prepare for important exams. Includes the following tests: Basic Skills for Success, Career Center and Business Writing Center, Civil Service Careers, College Prep, Cosmetology, EMS and Medical, ESL (Spanish) Skills Improvement Courses, Firefighter, GED prep, Graduate School Entrance, Law Enforcement, Military, Real Estate, Skills Improvement Courses, Teacher Certification, Tech and Career College Courses, US Citizenship. This database requires setting up your own account and login information.
EBSCOHost
Legal Collection contains full text for more than 250 of the world’s most respected, scholarly law journals. Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world. EBSCOHost
Literature & Language
Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary provides definitions of a wide variety of acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations and similar contractions, translating them into their full names or meanings. Terms from subject areas such as associations, education, the Internet, medicine and others are included. Gale
Contemporary Authors Online provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on all of the more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors whose entries appear in Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Authors New Revision Series. Updated monthly, Contemporary Authors allows users to search for an author by name, title of work, nationality, date and place of birth and death, subject/genre, personal and career information, awards and honors, and more.
Gale
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world’s most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. Comprised of the award-winning Dictionary of Literary Biography series, which over its 30-year history has been dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, DLB Complete Online includes the DLB main series, the DLB Documentary Series, and the DLB Yearbook Series – all delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. Gale
Gale Literature brings together Gale’s premier literary databases in a new digital environment that allows researchers, faculty and students to search across these resources to discover and analyze content in entirely new ways. No other publisher offers this unmatched combination of uniquely rich literary content, dependable metadata, and intuitive subject indexing – all enriched by features and design that breathes new life into the study of literature. As Gale makes additional Literary Resources available through Gale Literary Sources, and if your library has access to these products, they will be automatically added to the Gale Literary Sources experience upon release. Gale
Linguistics Database includes full-text journals and other sources in linguistics, including many titles indexed in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA). It covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. ProQuest
Literary Index is a master index to the major print literature series published by The Gale Group. It combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 140,000 titles into one source. Use this index to locate biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings. Gale
Literature Criticism brings together the most acclaimed literary series from Gale: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism,and Children’s Literature Review. Gale
Literature Online (LION) offers the full text of more than 350,000 works of poetry, drama and prose in English from the eighth century to the present day. Articles from over 430 scholarly journals, as well as essays from the authoritative critical guides Cambridge Companions to Literature and New Essays on the American Novel. Coverage is extended by the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), one of the most important bibliographical sources for English studies.
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MagillOnLiterature Plus is the definitive source for editorially reviewed critical analyses, character studies, author biographies and plot summaries of the most studied literary works. Content includes 36,000 critical analyses, more than 16,000 biographical records, Masterplots (12 volumes) and Masterplots II (58 volumes), Cyclopedia of World Authors (5 volumes), Cyclopedia of Literary Characters (5 volumes), Magill’s Literary Annual 1977-2012 (38 volumes), Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature (4 volumes), Magill Book Reviews, (8,200+ essays) and Critical Surveys (35 volumes). EBSCOHost
Mango Languages provides a self-paced learning program that teaches languages through relevant and topical dialogue using the four key components — vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and culture — for improving proficiency in another language.
A Traveler Statewide Resource funded by Arkansas State Library.
MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 5,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines. EBSCOHost
MLA International Bibliography is an essential tool for research in all aspects of modern languages and literature. Available as a searchable online database of more than 2.8 million records and constantly updated by scholars in the field, the bibliography is used by academics and teachers around the world to find and share their work. Students at all levels rely on the bibliography to lead them to the journals, books, Web sites, and other publications they need to succeed in their research projects.
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MLA International Bibliography with Full Text contains millions of citations as well as full text for 1,000 journals. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920’s and contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from JSTOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.
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Poetry for Students features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction. Gale
Math
LearningExpress Academic Library Edition provides a comprehensive selection of interactive educational resources covering core college-level math, computer, science and English skills. LearningExpress Academic also contains test preparation modules for ACT®, SAT®, GRE®, GMAT®, LSAT®, MCAT®, as well as ACCUPLACER, ASSET, CLEP, and high school equivalency degrees. LearningExpress Academic also contains the Job & Career Accelerator module, which contains a wide variety of career preparation materials, including field-specific resources on an array of positions including Air Traffic Control, Allied Health and Social Work, Civil Service, Commercial Drivers, Cosmetology, Culinary Arts, Electrician and Plumbers, Law Enforcement, Military, Teaching, and many more. EBSCOHost
LearningExpress High School Library Edition provides a comprehensive selection of interactive educational resources covering college preparation, and high school level math, science, English, computer and social studies modules. The High School Library edition of LearningExpress also provides access to the Job & Career Acceletor module and includes additional materials to help students determine future careers. EBSCOHost
Real-Life Math provides an understanding of commonly studied math concepts by illustrating their use in everyday life in everyday tasks, such as buying insurance, constructing a budget, reading graphs, adjusting cooking recipes or planning for retirement. Topics are designed to support the modern mathematics curriculum and contain examples related to the global economy. Gale
SIRS Discoverer® is a multidisciplinary database specifically designed for upper elementary and middle school learners, researchers, and educators covering curriculum areas such as, history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology. ProQuest
STEM Database is comprised of more than 500 scholarly journals and popular science magazines. These publications support research and instruction in science, technology, engineering, and math. All coverage is front-to-back full-text, with images and graphics reproduced exactly as they appear in the original editions. ProQuest’s STEM database offers something for students and educators at multiple grade levels. Coverage: 1997 – current link. ProQuest
Music
American Mosaic: The African American Experience provides a comprehensive survey of African American history and its heartbreaking struggles, major movements—political, social, artistic, and literary—and most notable events and legislative reform. Featuring articles and essays from African American authors and contributors, it gives voice to the experience of African Americans from their arrival in the Americas through to the present day, including the influence of the black community on popular culture and the aspirations of African Americans as expressed, for example, through the campaign of hope on which Barack Obama ran in 2008. Houses nearly 8,000 primary and secondary sources, including overview essays, slave narratives, speeches, court cases, and quotations, that embody themes of literature, music, the arts, slavery, the struggle for civil rights, education, sports, science, medicine, folklore, and more. Includes nearly 1,000 biographies of such famous political and social figures as W.E.B. DuBois, Barack Obama, Frederick Douglass, and Mary McLeod Bethune as well as such fascinating contemporary figures as Amiri Baraka, Muhammad Ali, Drake, and Oprah Winfrey. Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education.
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American Mosaic: The Latino American Experience documents the rich heritage and current culture of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Guatemalans, Cubans, Dominicans, Colombians, Ecuadorians, and other Hispanic groups in the United States. Their stories are detailed through a robust collection of primary and secondary sources, beginning with pre-16th century Mayan, Incan, and Aztec empires and continuing through to the present day, with treatment also given to cultural themes including coming-of-age rituals, music, literature, and cuisine. On the controversial issues shaping the modern Latino American experience—such as immigration reform, media portrayals, and voting access and influence—credentialed academics offer varied perspectives to serve as both sources and exemplars of scholarly argumentation. More than 2,500 primary documents and media, including speeches, maps, songs, audio clips, interviews, and vivid historical photographs. Coverage of history and culture from all the countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula, including content on modern-day Latin American countries, the history of the Hispanic Diaspora, and indigenous peoples. Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education. ABC-Clio
Art & Humanities Database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. It is designed to complement the following indexes: ABM, Avery, BHA, BHI, DAAI, Index Islamicus, MLA, Philosopher’s Index and RILM. ProQuest
Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 includes more than 550 entries focusing on artists active from 1990-the present. Individual artists and groups in all popular styles are covered, including those in rock, rhythm and blues, rap, country, electronica, jazz, vocal and classical. Gale
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) is a growing, open access virtual library of thousands of public domain music scores, as well as scores from contemporary composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge.
Pop Culture Universe includes student learning modules covering history through books, fashion, film, food, music, sports, technology, media, transportation, travel, and more. Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education. ABC-Clio
News & Newspapers
Academic Search Elite contains full text for more than 2,100 journals and nearly 150 journals have PDF images dating back to 1985. Academic institutions worldwide depend on this database as their core resource of scholarly information.
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Accounting, Tax & Business Collection brings together global scholarly journals with other key resources for access to reliable information in this continuously evolving area of study. Quickly locate precise results from sources ranging from current news to professional and academic journal articles covering the trends and history influencing important accounting, tax, banking, and financial issues of the day. ProQuest
African American Heritage provides access to essential historical records for African Americans, including Federal Census, Marriage and Cohabitation Records, Military Draft and Service Records, Register of Slaves and Free(d) Persons of Color, Freedman’s Bank, and more. ProQuest
Asian & European Business focuses on business and financial news from the eastern hemisphere. It covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications. ProQuest
African American Heritage provides access to essential historical records for African Americans, including Federal Census, Marriage and Cohabitation Records, Military Draft and Service Records, Register of Slaves and Free(d) Persons of Color, Freedman’s Bank, and more. ProQuest
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Complete (CBCA) with 600 full text titles, is the most comprehensive Canadian reference collection available today. Accessible to readers and researchers at every level, CBCA Complete features a highly-respected, diversified mix of publications, including scholarly journals, trade publications, dissertations, books, newspapers and magazines. EBSCOHost
Canadian Newsstream Complete offers unparalleled access to the full text of over 190 Canadian newspapers from Canada’s leading publishers. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s. EBSCOHost
eLibrary Academic provides access to a massive collection of multidisciplinary periodical and digital media content, designed for middle and high school students, undergraduates at community colleges and universities, instructors, and librarians. Editorially created pages provide valuable context for both common and more unusual topics of research. All content is 100% full-text, including documents from books, magazines, journals, newspapers, photographs, transcripts, and videos. The collection covers a wide range of subjects. ProQuest
Ethnic NewsWatch provides access to journals, magazines, and newspapers from ethnic and minority presses. The current collection, Ethnic NewsWatch™, covers 1990-present, and the historical collection, Ethnic NewsWatch: A History™, spans 1959-1989. Ethnicities include: African American/Caribbean/African; Arab/Middle Eastern; Asian/Pacific Islander; European/Eastern European; Hispanic; Jewish; NativePeople. ProQuest
Global Breaking Newswires is the premier library news product providing timely access to the best newswire content available from around the globe for the modern researcher as well as growing archive of news indexed and accessible through the familiar & popular research functionality of the ProQuest platform. ProQuest
Google News Newspaper Archive provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. Users can search for events, people or ideas and see how they have been described over time. Search results can include content that is freely accessible as well as content that requires a fee. Open access
Harris Polls provide access to the well-known Harris polls back to 1998 in the form of news releases, analysis articles, and individual questions with responses. Users can search the site by keyword or date. Open access.
International Newsstream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. ProQuest International Newsstream provides information from more than 660 of the world’s top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications. ProQuest
Newsmakers provides timely and informative profiles of the world’s most interesting people. Gale
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided. EBSCOHost
Pharmaceutical News is an insider’s guide to healthcare research, development and regulatory issues. ProQuest
Political Science gives users access to hundreds of leading political science and international relations journals, providing full-text of many core titles indexed in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. In addition, over a thousand recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics are included, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country profiles, political news and other sources. Coverage: 1985 – current. ProQuest
ProQuest Central is a cross-disciplinary research tool with 30 databases that can be searched together or individually. Covering more than 160 subjects areas, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database of periodical content. This award-winning online reference resource features a highly-respected, diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos. ProQuest
ProQuest U.S. Newsstream detailed indexing helps users quickly find the news information they need. Each issue of each newspaper is indexed thoroughly, so researchers have access to not only top news stories but also the information contained on the various sections of the papers. The indexing covers not only complete bibliographic information but also companies, people, products, etc. ProQuest
Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. EBSCOHost
TOPICsearch contains full text for over 150,961 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO’s unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information. EBSCOHost
U.S. Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, US Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. US Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers, and is cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform. Coverage: 1980 – current ProQuest
Science & Technology
Agricola produced by the National Agricultural Library, consists of worldwide literature citations for journal articles, monographs, proceedings, theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, computer software, and technical reports pertaining to all aspects of agriculture and related fields. Since 1985, the CAB Thesaurus has been used to select controlled vocabulary terms for subject indexing. Library of Congress Subject Headings are used as controlled vocabulary for cataloging records. ProQuest
Agricultural & Environmental Science Database includes the renowned AGRICOLA, TOXLINE, ESPM (Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. This database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources covering such topics as the effects of pollution on people and animals and environmental action and policy responses. Coverage: 1960 – current. ProQuest
American Men & Women of Science, 32nd edition, profiles living persons in the physical and biological fields, as well as public health scientists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists. Gale
Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under a NASA grant. The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 8.3 million records.
Biology provides access to a wide range of biology topics including some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government and public research environments. Coverage: 1998 – current. ProQuest
Body Systems covers the 14 systems of the human body and their role and functions both from an individual organ perspective and each system as a whole, as well as what occurs when systems are not functioning properly due to injury, disease, or other causes. Entries cover the development of each body system from birth to full adult growth, as well as adjustments by the body during the senior years. Gale
Computer & Internet Basics are interactive tutorial courses that will familiarize you with using a computer and the Internet in straightforward, non-technical language, at your own pace. These courses require Adobe Flash Player 8.0 or higher.
Computing is a premium resource for those who need access to comprehensive coverage of computer topics. The database includes numerous titles, most of them in full text, allowing users to search records dating back to the early 1990’s. Coverage: 1998 – current. ProQuest
Encyclopedia of Science Technology & Ethics considers both the professional ethics of science and technology, and the ethical and political issues raised by science and technology in an increasingly complex and global society. This broad coverage supports the numerous courses in applied and professional ethics and policy related to the practice of science and technology in education. Gale
Environmental & Agricultural Science Collection contains environmental science related full-text articles, granular access to figures and tables within articles, environmental impact statements, and the entire range of bibliographic records from Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (ESPM). ESPM provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences drawn from over 10,000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. Coverage: 1960 – current. ProQuest
Encyclopedia of Science Technology & Ethics considers both the professional ethics of science and technology, and the ethical and political issues raised by science and technology in an increasingly complex and global society. This broad coverage supports the numerous courses in applied and professional ethics and policy related to the practice of science and technology in education. Gale
SIRS Discoverer® is a multidisciplinary database specifically designed for upper elementary and middle school learners, researchers, and educators covering curriculum areas such as, history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology. ProQuest
STEM Database is comprised of more than 500 scholarly journals and popular science magazines. These publications support research and instruction in science, technology, engineering, and math. All coverage is front-to-back full-text, with images and graphics reproduced exactly as they appear in the original editions. ProQuest’s STEM database offers something for students and educators at multiple grade levels. Coverage: 1997 – current link. ProQuest
Social Sciences
Psychology provides abstracts and indexing for more than 640 titles, with over 540 titles available in full text. Many titles are indexed in PsycINFO. Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics. ProQuest
Religion provides a wide range of primarily full-text, international periodicals for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies of major religions, as well as the most recent trends and scholarly thought. Included are titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations. The resource reflects a wide spectrum of religious belief systems and supports the global study of religion. Coverage: 1986 – current. ProQuest
Social Science offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology. ProQuest
Sociology covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more. This collection provides full-text coverage of many core titles included in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts. ProQuest
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a freely-accessible online encyclopedia of philosophy maintained by Stanford University. Open access
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices provides information on current religious practices around the world with an emphasis on how religions impact the daily lives of their followers. Gale
US Government
American Government explains the nuanced structure and foundations of U.S. government and connects these concepts to current issues and questions about political processes, constitutional rights, and international relations. It identifies values the government has traditionally upheld and how the government of today continues to reflect those values, while simultaneously examining changes that the government has undergone since the nation’s founding. Houses more than 13,000 primary and secondary sources, including 2,500 documents, 4,000 images, 250 maps, and 250 audio and video recordings.
Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education. ABC-Clio
American History surveys American history from the colonial era and American Revolution through to the nation’s rise to eminence as a global superpower, analyzing American political conflict, economic development, and changing culture and thought as they tell one continuous and continuing story of America’s history. Houses more than 16,000 primary and secondary sources, including government and court documents, photos, maps, audio and video recordings, and more. Includes nearly 3,300 biographies of famous political and military figures such as Thomas Jefferson, Sandra Day O’Connor, and Douglas MacArthur, as well as fascinating people from across American society, including Hank Aaron, Andrew Carnegie, Robert Redford, and Jonas Salk. Funding provided by Arkansas Department of Education. ABC-Clio
Countries of the World and Their Leaders covers nearly 200 countries and is filled with background reports from the U.S. Department of State. Entries typically cover geography, history, government and political conditions, economy, and state of relations with the United States. Gale
Military Collection covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering and more. It includes over 550 titles, with more than 370 available in full-text, allowing you to search over 3.5M records, dating back to the early 1990’s. ProQuest