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Alt HealthWatch* (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Journals, reports, and pamphlets focusing on complementary and alternative approaches to health and wellness.

Health & Medical Complete* (Provider: Proquest)
Description: Over 1200 full-text journals covering medical research, administration, and consumer-interest topics.

Health Source* (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Journals and pamphlets covering nursing and allied health disciplines. Also includes a medical dictionary and a drug guide covering over 4700 brand name and 1300 generic products.

Medline* (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: A comprehensive index of articles in medical journals worldwide.

Article Databases (multiple subjects)

EBSCOhost* (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Combined search of Ebsco’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.

Gale Academic One File* (Trial) (Provider: )
Description: Online access to thousands of full-text magazines, academic and peer-reviewed journals.

JSTOR* (Provider: JSTOR)
Description: An archive of full-text articles from over 400 scholarly journals. JSTOR does not include the most recent few years of the journals.

ProQuest Newspapers (Provider: Proquest)
Description: "Offers full-text access to over 200 regional, national, and international newspapers including the San Diego Union-Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and the Times of London."

ProQuest* (Provider: Proquest)
Description: Combined search of Proquest’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.

Reference Databases (multiple subjects)

AP Images (Provider: Associated Press)
Description: photographs, graphics, charts, and current news

Biography Reference Bank (Provider: H.W.Wilson)
Description: Covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images. Includes biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Basic-level, general encyclopedia.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Provider: Gale)
Description: multi-subject reference guides and encyclopedias

NetLibrary Reference Center (Provider: NetLibrary)
Description: encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, handbooks, thesauri, and more

Oxford English Dictionary (Provider: Oxford)
Description: definitions, pronunciation, and history of the English language

Oxford Reference Online (Provider: Oxford)
Description: contains over 125 reference works published by Oxford University Press

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