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Off-Campus Users: Access Busse Library databases and periodical indexes through your MyCampus account. Select the "Library" tab inside any MyCampus course; necessary passwords are provided for off-campus access through MyCampus. There are general and specialized collections of databases for your use.

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General Indexes, Publications, and Databases

(Multi-Discipline)

EBSCOhost Databases --  About *  Basic searching practice * Advanced searching 

Lexis-Nexis Academic --  About * Online help and tutorials 

Wiley InterScience -- Online help

CQ Researcher. -- About * Online help

FirstSearch Databases -- Online tutorial

 

(Newspaper Sources)

Cedar Rapids Gazette -- About NewsBank * Online help and tutorial

NewsBank: Access World News Research Collection -- About * Online help and tutorial

Lexis-Nexis Academic. --  About * Online help and tutorials 

Newspaper Source -- About * Online help and tutorial

Wall Street Journal (WSJ) -- About * Online help

Today's Newspaper Front Pages from Newseum


(Legal Information)

Lexis-Nexis Academic -- About * tutorial: selecting resources * tutorial: working with results

LexisNexis Congressional -- About * tutorial: selecting resources * tutorial: working with results



(General Reference Collections)

Credo Reference -- About * Online help and tutorial

Encyclopedia Britannica
-- About * Online help

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia -- Online help and tutorial

Oxford English Dictionary --  About * Online help and tutorial

Oxford Reference Online -- About * Online help

WorldCat -- WorldCat (on-campus) --  About * Online help and tutorial



(Databases for Business)

Business Source Complete  -- About * Online help and tutorials

Wiley InterScience -- Online help

Company Profiles 

Business Source Elite -- About *  Online help and tutorials

Regional Business News --  About * Online help and tutorials

Value Line --  About * Online help

MorningStar -- About * Online help and tutorial

Wall Street Journal (WSJ) -- About * Online help

 

(Databases for Education)

American National Biography: Over 20,000 online biographies -- About * Online help and tutorial

Encyclopedia Britannica: Complete, electronic version -- About * Online help

Education Research Complete 1800 education journals --  About * Online help and tutorial

ERIC from EBSCOhost  -- About * Online help and tutorial

Wiley InterScience -- Online help

ERIC: Offered by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE)

Middle Search Plus Useful for middle and junior high school teachers --   About * Online help and tutorial

Primary Search  Useful for elementary school teachers -- About * Online help and tutorial

Professional Development Collection  For practicing teachers --  About * Online help and tutorial

PsychINFO  Psychological literature from 1887 to the present --  About * Online help and tutorial

 

(Databases for the Humanities)

America: History and Life: U.S. and Canadian history --  About * Online help and tutorial

American National Biography: Over 20,000 online biographies -- About * Online help and tutorial

Encyclopedia Britannica -- About * Online help

MLA International Bibliography  Literature and languages -- About * Online help and tutorials

Wiley InterScience -- Online help


(Databases for Nursing)

CINAHL with Full Text from EBSCOhost -- About * CINAHL support center
Tutorials:  Basic searching tutorial * advanced searching techniques

Cochrane Library Evidence-based reviews of nursing interventions -- About * Online help and tutorial

Science Direct from Elsevier

Micromedex Healthcare Series:    Drug toxicology, interactions, and patient education
 * About * Online help and tutorial

MEDLINE --  About * Online help and tutorial

Wiley InterScience -- Online help

PubMed Medline from the National Library of Medicine --  About * Online help and tutorial

Health Source: Consumer Edition General healthcare information -- About * Online help and tutorial

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition 625 scholarly journals -- About * Online help and tutorials

Annual Review of Immunology: Online version; print copy available (QR180 .A5x) --  About * Online help

Annual Review of Medicine: Online version; print copy available (R 101 .A5) --  About * Online help

Annual Review of Nutrition: Online version; print copy available (QP141.A1 A64) --  About * Online help

Annual Review of Physiology: Online version; print copy available (QP1 .A535) --  About * Online help

Annual Review of Public Health: Online version; print copy available (RA421 .A66) --  About * Online help

 

(Databases for the Sciences)

Wiley InterScience -- Online help

Annual Review of Biochemistry: Online version; print copy available (QP501 .A7) --  About * Online help

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics: Online version; print copy available (QH540 .A53) --  About * Online help

Annual Review of Genetics: Online version; print copy available (QH431.A1 A54) --  About * Online help

Annual Review of Microbiology: Online version; print copy available (QR1 .A5) --  About * Online help

Annual Review of Plant Physiology: Online version; print copy available (QK1 .A48) --  About * Online help

Biodigest: Abstracts from biology journals -- About * Online help and tutorial

Science.gov: Search engine for federal government science and technology information

TOXNET: Toxicology Data Network --  About * Online help and tutorial

Chemistry Reference Materials from Knovel. Collection includes: (1) International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry, and Technology. (2) Knovel Critical Tables (2nd edition). (3) Smithsonian Physical Tables (9th revised edition) -- About Knovel Reference *  Online help and tutorials

 

(Databases for the Social Sciences)

PsychArticles  Full text, scholarly journals from the APA -- About * Online help and tutorial

PsychINFO  Psychological literature from 1887 to the present --  About * Online help and tutorial

SocINDEX from EBSCOhost: Full text, sociological literature.  About * Online help and tutorial

Wiley InterScience -- Online help

NewsBank: Access World News Research Collection -- About * Online help and tutorial

ERIC from EBSCOhost  -- About * Online help and tutorial

Communication and Mass Media Complete from EBSCOhost -- About * Online help and tutorial

Annual Review of Anthropology: Online version; print copy available (GN4 .A5x).  About * Online help

Annual Review of Psychology: Online version; print copy available (BF30 .A56).  About * Online help

Annual Review of Sociology: Online version; print copy available (HD7255 .A2 A55).  About * Online help

 

(Electronic Book Collections)

Oxford Reference Online: Collection of online reference books and dictionaries -- About * Online help

netLibrary: Electronic book collection with strength in social sciences --  About * Online help  

 

(Other Databases: Biography and Geography)

American National Biography: Over 20,000 online biographies -- About * Online help and tutorial

National Geographic Society : Xpeditions Atlas: Maps available for download, printing, and copying. 

U.S. Census Information

World Almanac from FirstSearch: Global facts and figures of interest --  About * Online tutorial

 

(Other Databases: Book and Publishing Information)

ArticleFirst from FirstSearch: Index to citations from over 12,600 journals --  About * Online tutorial

Books in Print from FirstSearch: Books currently available for purchase -- About * Online tutorial

GPO Monthly Catalog from FirstSearch: Information printed by the U.S. GPO --  About * Online tutorial

National Geographic Magazine Index

Time Magazine Archive: Index from January 1923 to the present. 

American History in Video -- About * FAQ