Academic Video Online
Academic Video Online delivers video titles spanning a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Curated for the educational experience, the massive depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc.) makes this database a useful resource for faculty and students alike.
Docuseek2
A multidisciplinary streaming video database, offering documentary films for higher education.
Kanopy
A multidisciplinary streaming video database, offering films from the Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation, and many more.
CINAHL Complete
provides full text for more than 1,300 journals in nursing & allied health, including many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo.
Cochrane Library
A collection of six databases that contain different types of independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Includes: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Methodology Register, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Health Technology Assessment Database, NHS Economic Evaluation Database. Also includes a seventh database that provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration.
Education Collection
Includes: Education Database and ERIC . see "Additional Info" below.
Links for individual databases included in this collection:
Education Database: Coverage spans the literature on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling and adult education.
ERIC: Education and related topics - journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs
Health Source: Nursing/Academic
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Includes AHFS Consumer Medication Information
Medline
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Mental Measurements Yearbook contains information for a complete evaluation of test products within such areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language.
PILOTS
Bibliographic database covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress. Incluldes citations to literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.
PsycINFO
Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in behavioral science and mental health. Journal coverage from the 1800s to the present.
Sociology Collection
Includes the following two databases (direct links and descriptions under "see note" below): Sociological AbstractsSociology DatabaseApplied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts(ASSIA)
Links for individual databases included in this collection:
Sociological Abstracts (1952 - current):indexes international scholarly literature in sociology and includes companion file Social Services Abstracts
Sociology Database (1985 - current): Sociology and social work - journal articles
Sociology Database
International literature in sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more.
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