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WorldCat Discovery (Beta)
| Description | Find books available in libraries worldwide in WorldCat. This Discovery service is available in a Beta version. If you retrieve unexpected results, try the FirstSearch version in addition. |
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Dissertations and Theses Global
| Description | From the vendor site: "ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, this database includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works." |
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History Reference Center
| Description | History Reference Center is a full text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. The database features full text for more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction and contains nearly 57,000 historical documents; more than 77,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 37,000 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video. |
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Student Resources in Context
| Description | Student Resources in Context provides holistic topic perspectives by integrating a multitude of content, including: Reference articles, periodical and newspaper articles from the "New York Times", "USA Today", and many others, primary sources, multimedia records, including charts, graphs, maps and tables, video and audio content from NBC, NPR and more. |
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National Geographic Virtual Library
| Description | Magazine archive of National Geographic magazine in full color. Search features include browse, advanced, image search, and term frequency searches. Citation tools, email, and document URL available. If you create an account with the virtual library there are additional features including bookmarking and saving favorite documents. |
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Arctic & Antarctic Regions
| Description | Arctic & Antarctic Regions is the world's largest collection of international polar databases. With over 1 million records from 1800 to the present, Arctic & Antarctic Regions covers a wide variety of sources from multiple disciplines. Many sources are indexed only in Arctic & Antarctic Regions making it the best resource for research on cold regions anywhere, from temperate regions with cold winters to the Himalayas of Tibet. |
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
| Description | A growing collection of outstanding electronic encyclopedias. |
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Taylor and Francis Online
| Description | A collection of journals in multi-disciplines but with an emphasis on titles in Science & Technology, Social Science and Humanities. |
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Social Sciences Full Text (Wilson)
| Description | Social Sciences Full Text covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences. Subjects Covered: Addiction Studies, Anthropology, Area Studies, Community Health & Medical Care, Corrections, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Family Studies, Gender Studies, Geography, Gerontology, International Relations, Law, Minority Studies, Planning & Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Political Science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Public Welfare, Social Work, Sociology, Urban Studies. |
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Humanities Full Text
| Description | The database indexes, abstracts and delivers the full text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more. Subjects Covered: Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion and Theology. |
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Omnifile Full Text Mega (Wilson)
| Description | Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition contains everything (all the indexing, abstracting, and full text) that is contained in these six Wilson databases: Education Full Text; General Science Full Text; Humanities Full Text; Readers' Guide Full Text; Social Sciences Full Text; Wilson Business Full Text Note: Indexing and abstracting for all articles in journals covered by these six databases, whether or not they include full text, is included in OmniFile. |
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Essay & General Literature Index
| Description | Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, art history, drama, and film. |
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Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (Wilson)
| Description | This library and information science database indexes English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, plus over 300 books per year. |
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SpringerLink Journals
| Description | Peer-reviewed journals provided by Springer Publishing covering the following subject areas: Behavioral Science, Biomedical & Life Sciences, Business & Economics, Chemistry & Materials Science, Computer Science, Earth & Environmental Science, Engineering Collection, Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Mathematics & Statistics, Clinical Medicine, Physics and Astronomy Collection |
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Annual Reviews Online
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
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ScienceDirect
| Description | Access to over 2,500 science journals and almost 20,000 books online. |
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Google Scholar
| Description | Search for peer-reviewed academic papers across many disciplines found in many different sources. |
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WorldCat Dissertations
| Description | A database of all the dissertations and theses available through WorldCat. |
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WorldCat (FirstSearch)
| Description | Millions of records for books and other materials worldwide. Identify resources not available in the Juneau library system in WorldCat and order through interlibrary loan. |
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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
| Description | "The Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database providing nearly 575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed journals. The database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection." |
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Digital Pipeline
| Description | Formerly known as 'Databases for Alaskans', the Digital Pipeline is a grouping of databases for Alaskan citizens to search for information from articles and selected reference sources. Look under the subject categories, or click the link to 'List of resources by name'. |
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Digital Dissertations (ProQuest)
| Description | As a visitor to this free Internet version, you will be able to freely access the most current two years of citations and abstracts in the Dissertation Abstracts database. To search the entire database of more than 1.6 million titles, you will need to connect from a subscription institution. |
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PsycARTICLES
| Description | PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research. The database contains more than 40,000 articles from 56 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. |
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PsycINFO
| Description | PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association, contains citations and summaries of articles from over 9,900 sources (journals, plus books, chapters, dissertations, and technical reports) in psychology and related fields, published worldwide from 1887-present. If FULL TEXT is available, you will be linked to the full text of articles found in PsycARTICLES, or other EBSCO databases. PsycINFO gives you the broadest searching power for publications in psychology. |
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NewsBank
| Description | NewsBank is comprised of "Archive of Americana" historical collections and "Access World News". In Access World News Collection explore issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Search diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. You may also go directly to search: "America's News Magazines", Alaska News, The World, or The United States. |
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eBook Collection (Ebsco)
| Description | Effective July 2016, our primary ebook provider has changed from Ebrary to Ebsco. Our largest ebook collection, search within the full text of over 140,000 multidisciplinary ebooks. Read online or login with your myEbscohost account to download for offline reading. |
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MAS Ultra: School Edition
| Description | Full text for over 700 popular high school magazines. Full text is also available for 84,074 biographies and 86,135 primary source documents. Also contains an Image Collection of 188,323 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. Updated daily. Designed for high school libraries. |
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JSTOR
| Description | An archive of entire runs of 19th and 20th century scholarly journals. Disciplines of journals include African American Studies, Anthropology, Biological Sciences, Botany, Business, Ecology, Education, History, Language and Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, and Statistics. Page images of journal contents may be viewed, printed, and downloaded. |
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Fuente Academica
| Description | In the Spanish language, full text coverage of over 150 scholarly journals from Latin America, South America, and Spain. This multi-disciplinary database offers full text content to many academic areas including business/economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library/information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology. |
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CQ Researcher
| Description | The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports. Every 12,000-word report is written by an experienced journalist and features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue. Numerous charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts -- round out each report. |
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Article First
| Description | This database describes items listed on the table of contents pages of individual issues of over 15,000 journals. Each record describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal. Some linked full text available. |
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Academic Search Premier
| Description | Large multidisciplinary database providing full text access to almost 4,700 scholarly publications including nearly 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Subject coverage includes, but is not limited to, social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Updated daily. |
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global
| Description | From the vendor site: "ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content." |
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