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Communication & Mass Media Complete (via EBSCOhost) 1915+
Contains full-text articles from over 200 journals, and indexing for 400 journals in all areas of mass communication studies.

Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson) (now via EBSCOhost)
Provides full text of articles from 350+ journals as far back as 1996, in addition to indexing of more than 770 periodicals dating back to 1983. Subject coverage includes adult education, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods and much more.

ERIC (via EBSCOhost) 1966+
A public database sponsored by the U. S. Department of Education, ERIC contains more than one million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. Most ERIC "ED" documents 1993-present are accessible online through ERIC. Older documents are on microfiche in Arrigoni Library.[more information...]

Health & Wellness Resource Center (via Infotrac) 1980+
Mostly full-text from over 800 journals, covering the fields of consumer health and fitness, nursing, and medicine. Also includes major reference books and Alternative Health Module.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (via EBSCOhost) 1990+
Information on nursing, allied health, and related medical fields. Mainly full-text of 850 journals. Includes Stedman's Medical Dictionary.

MEDLINE Database (via EBSCOhost)
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Database searches citations from 4,800+ current biomedical journals. Citations may include links to full-text content when available.

Professional Development Collection (via EBSCOhost) 1965+
A collection of information for professional educators and education researchers. This collection offers information from over 500 full-text journals on everything from children’s health and development to pedagogical theory and practice.

PubMed Central
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). PMC provides access to 150+ journals. (Note: Many journals have a six month to one year delay period before issues become available.)

PsycINFO (via EBSCOhost) 1887+
Contains over 1.5 million records from more than 1700 periodicals in all fields relating to psychology, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.

ScienceDirect
Abstracts from over 1800 journals. Coverage focuses on science and medicine, with some social science, computer, and business journals.

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General and Interdisciplinary Content Databases
General content databases cover a range of subjects and may be helpful to your research in this area.

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