Librarians Can Help
Don't know where to start?
Talk with Tammi
She can help you:
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Find a research topic.
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Make a research plan.
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Search for scholarly books, articles, & more.
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Cite your sources.
It's her job to help you understand your research assignment, cut through the jargon and confusion, and help you make a checklist for timely completion of your work.
Top Databases
These are some of the most-used databases. If you don't see one that fits your topic on this list, go to our A-Z Databases list to look at all of our databases and find the one that's right for you.
- All Databases A-ZI know my topic, but where do I look? Use the middle link on this page "Search E-resources by subject" to find which database to use.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowProvides broad coverage of most academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, and in the scholarly and general periodical literature. Contains indexing and abstracts for more than 13,000 journals, with full text for more than 9,000 of those titles.
- Access World News This link opens in a new windowSearch over 5,000 news sources across the United States and over 2,500 from around the world. Time coverage extends back 30 years for some sources, and the database is updated every day. Includes the Omaha World Herald back to 1983 and the Lincoln Journal Star back to 1997
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowProvides full text for more than 4,000 journals in all disciplines of business, including the Harvard Business Review (1922-current). Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new windowCQ Researcher reports cover a wide range of political and social issues, including topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
- Education Source This link opens in a new windowThis database offers the world's largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals, and encompasses an international array of English-language periodicals, monographs, yearbooks, and many unique sources that were never previously available, covering all levels of education--from early childhood to higher education--as well as all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowThe library's JSTOR account includes access to all fifteen Arts & Sciences Collections and the several topical collections such as Ireland, Life Sciences, Security Studies, and Sustainability. These encompass an archive of over 2,300 journals in classical studies, ecology, economics, history, language and literature, mathematics, music, the history and study of art and architecture, cultural studies, film, folklore, performing arts, philosophy, political science, sociology, and religion.
- LexisNexis Academic This link opens in a new windowLexisNexis has moved to the new Nexis Uni platform. It provides access to more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources. (Includes Zacks Equity Research)
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowOver 900 reference books from 114 publishers, encompassing over 3,400,000 articles. Credo Reference is a comprehensive, encyclopedic source for basic information.
- PsycInfo This link opens in a new windowCovers articles published in 1,400 periodicals in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, social work, business, political science, and law.
- Statista This link opens in a new windowStatista offers over 1 million statistics ranging across a myriad of social, economic, and market-related topics. Data may be exported in PPT, XLS, PDF, and PNG formats.
Searching Databases
This short video shows how to search within Academic Search Complete, one of the library's databases. There are many different types of databases, but this will give you a general idea of what searching and filtering can look like when you are completing research in the databases.
Once you have found an article you want to use in the database, you can see if the full text is available. If it is, then you can download, print, save, email, cite, or link to the article.
