These databases are good places to start most research projects. Academic Search Premier | Academic Universe | CINAHL with Full Text | ERIC | InfoTrac PowerSearch | WorldCat Additional Databases by Topic | A-Z List of Databases Database descriptions: Academic Search Premier is a scholarly full-text and bibliographic database with coverage of astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications and the general sciences. Academic Universe from Lexis-Nexis is a major full-text resource for news, business, health, biographical, and legal topics. Included are newspapers (national, international, and regional), periodicals (general interest, health, business, and legal), company profiles and financial report, legal materials (federal and state cases and codes including MCA). Updated daily. Business Source Premier "provides full text for over 2,470 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more." CINAHL with Full Text (Ebsco) (1982- ) provides indexing and abstracting for over 1,600 current nursing and allied health journals and other publications dating back to 1982. The CINAHL database includes full-text articles for selected journals, and links to articles in other Ebsco databases, to which this library subscribes. ERIC (1966- ) is a bibliographic and abstracts database covering the field of education. It includes citations to educational journal articles and educational documents. Many of the documents published since 1996 are also available in full-text format. Most of the earlier documents are filed by their ED number in the microfiche cabinets on the Main Floor of the library. Another version of this database is the Department of Education's ERIC. InfoTrac PowerSearch is our largest database. Search the entire contents of 12 databases including Academic OneFile, General OneFile, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, Educator's Reference Complete, Business & Company ASAP, Health Reference Center-Academic, InfoTrac Custom Newspapers, Gale Virtual Reference Center, and other databases. This database includes full text articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers and chapters from reference books and citations for thousands of other articles. Updated daily. WorldCat (1200- ) is a catalog of books, periodicals, and other materials held by MSU-Northern and hundreds of other libraries around the country and some international libraries. Another version of this database is WorldCat.org. This version allows you to quickly locate libraries in your area that have a copy of the item. Additional databases can be found on the Topics page which organizes the databases by subject. The topics include Arts & Humanities, Business & Economics, Education, Nursing, Reference, Science & Technology, and Social Sciences databases. There is also an A-Z page of databases that includes descriptions of all available databases. | |||||||||||||||