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A – Z Maps Online AtoZMapsOnline.com is the worlds largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps.
Academic Search Complete More than 8,500 full-text periodicals with 7,300 peer-reviewed journals; searchable cited references provided for more than 1,400 journals. full text
Academic Search Elite Full text for more than 2,100 journals. Nearly 150 journals have PDF images dating back to 1985.
Academic Search Premier Provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles; searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. full text
ACS Web Editions Full text access to 46 plus journals published by the American Chemical Society (as well as to previously published titles); includes both tables of contents and keyword searching.
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ARTstor A non-commercial, educational collection of more than over 1 million images from nearly 200 collections and growing. Associated cataloging data designed for teaching and research in art history, the humanities, and other disciplines.
Art Full Text Indexes more than 450 journals and magazines in the field of art going back to 1983; includes full text from around 120 titles going back to 1996; indexes 174 peer reviewed titles.
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Avery Index The Index to Architectural Periodicals is a premier architecture resource to architectural literature, presented by EBSCOhost. Most of the entries are citation and abstract only.
Avery Index FREE TRIAL: The Index to Architectural Periodicals is a premier architecture resource to architectural literature, presented by ProQuest.
The Beige Book: The Federal Reserve Board Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions. Released eight times a year, the Beige Book combines statistical data about the nation’s economy with anecdotal evidence from the business community collected by the Federal Reserve’s twelve regional district banks.
Biodiversity Heritage Library The materials have been brought together from 12 prestigious institutions,
including the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), the world’s largest repository of full-text digitized legacy biodiversity literature, has added more than 14,000 records of digitized materials, making these items accessible to researchers through the world’s largest resource for finding library materials.
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Business & Company Resource Center “A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.” It indexes more than 4,900 items with nearly 3,600 in full text. full text
Business Source Premier Provides full text for more than 8,300 business sources, including more than 1,100 scholarly business publications covering all areas of business; includes country economic reports and profiles for more than 10,000 of the world’s largest companies full text
Campus Research formerly West Law A full text database of news, business, and legal information including newspapers, magazines, trade journals, newswires, and broadcast transcripts. It also includes comprehensive full text access to federal and state legal resources from Westlaw. The Westlaw legal research part of this database is a gift from the estate of Charles M. LeCompte, Drury Class of 1965. full text
Central and East European Academic Source is a multidisciplinary, multilingual database providing full-text coverage pertaining to all facets of central and eastern European countries. The collection contains more than 400 full-text publications covering many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history and sociology relating to this geographic region. full text
Checkpoint A comprehensive full-text tax research system. full text
Communication & Mass Media Complete An extensive database including 770 journals indexed with over 450 of those in full text. full text
Consumer Health Complete A full text resource for consumer-oriented health information. The content is taken from 250+ health reference books and encyclopedias. full text
Countrywatch.com Political and economic information on the world’s 191 countries with full text news reports from ten international news organizations. full text
Credo Credo includes more than 500 reference titles: encyclopedias, dictionaries (English and bilingual), quotations, biographies, and more. We would like to know what you think about Credo, please give us feedback by emailing us at: refdesk@drury.edu. full text
Directory of Open Access Journals Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals; currently includes more than 2,000 journal titles.(Includes BioMed Central and Public Library of Science) full text
Ebooks Contains around 150,000 electronic books, including U.S. government publications, public domain books published prior to 1923, and e-books from commercial services that Drury may or may not subscribe to. full text
Education Full Text Indexes more than 450 journals in the field of education going back to 1983; includes full text from more than 200 titles going back to 1996.
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Electronic Journal Service- from EBSCO. Access to full text articles from 136 journals that the Olin Library subscribes to in print. full text
eHRAF World Cultures Human Relations Area Files: a cross-cultural database containing more than 350,000 pages of comparative data on human cultures from all over the world. full text
Entrepreneurial Studies Source a full text database deriving content from more than 125 key periodicals, 135 reference books, numerous case studies, thousands of company profiles and over 600 videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series and Vator.TV, one of the world’s largest social network sites for high-tech entrepreneurs full text
Environment Complete contains more than 2.5 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888 (including over 1,350 active core titles). The database contains full text for more than 920 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline, as well as full text for more than 190 monographs. full text
ERIC - from Ebsco contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents from ERIC back to 1966. full text
Films on Demand The Films on Demand Humanities and Social Sciences Collection includes thousands of state-of-the-art streaming videos in these subject areas: Anthropology, Area Studies, Art & Architecture, Communication, Criminal Justice, Education, English & Language Arts, History, Music & Dance, Philosophy & Religion, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and World Languages. New content is added monthly.
Gale Virtual Reference Library The eBooks to which the library subscribes are displayed by subject . full text
Google Scholar A Google database focusing specifically on scholarly literature, including “peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.” A useful supplement to the library’s specialized bibliographic databases. full text
GreenFILE An environmental database that contains more than 300,000 bibliographic records going back 35 years including scholarly journals, magazines, and other formats. Aims to be “a practical tool for everyday information and a resource for academic study and classroom activities.” Indexes more than 600 titles
Grove Music Online The full text of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. full text
Humanities International Complete this database includes all data from Humanities International Index™ (more than 2,300 journals and more than 2.9 million records) plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 1,200 journals. full text
In the First Person An index to more than 2,500 collections of letters, diaries, oral histories, and personal narratives from more than 9,000 individuals.
JSTOR Full text access to complete runs of more than 670 journals. full text
Learning Express Library A comprehensive, interactive platform of academic and licensing practice tests, including SAT, ACT, GRE, LSAT, Advanced Placement, civil service, military, real estate, law enforcement, citizenship, TOEFL, ESL, basic skills for elementary, middle and high school skills improvement, and much more. Just register and log in.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts Indexes more than 600 journals plus books, research reports, and proceedings in library and information science. Coverage extends to the mid-60s.
MEDLINE – from Ebsco
MEDLINE-from NLM The NLM’s premier bibliographic database containing over 11 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.
Middle Eastern and central Asian Studies database contains more than 639,000 records and coverage spans from 1900 and earlier to the present. Over 15,000 records of recently published and grey literature are added annually.
MLA -Modern Languages Association More than 1.7 million bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations from 1926 to the present in academic disciplines such as language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts.
Naxos Music Library A vast collection of streaming music, mostly classical, with a steadily expanding collection of more than 320,000 tracks of music. Naxos relies on cookies – if you need help click here. Here are the minimum requirements.
NewsBank Provides full text access to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Kansas City Star, and several news magazines.
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Newspaper Source Cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 U.S. & international newspapers; selective full text for 389 regional U.S. newspapers; some full text television & radio news transcripts also provided.
NCJRS The NCJRS Abstracts Database provides citations and summaries to more than 180,000 criminal justice publications.
OED Online The Oxford English Dictionary online. Researchers can look for definitions of individual words or search the entire text of the dictionary for quotations, phrases, or occurrences of terms.
Philosopher’s Index An index to the contents of more than 680 philosophy journals since 1940.
Philosopher’s Index Free Trial ProQuest: An index to the contents of more than 680 philosophy journals since 1940.
Professional Development Collection provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers.
Project Muse Full text access to 136 journals in a range of disciplines. The collection can be searched using keywords or browsed by individual titles. full text
PsycARTICLES Full text access to 59 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations going back to 1894. full text
PsycINFO Indexes journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology and related fields going back to 1887.
RoperCenter Drury announces the availability of Roper Center public opinion data. The Roper Center is the largest archives of public opinion information and now, working from any workstation on your campus.
Salem History We have access to Milestone Documents of American Leaders and Great Lives from History: The Middle Ages for an extended period. full text
Science Reference Center Comprehensive research database provides easy access to full text science-oriented content; contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books and periodicals.
SciFinder Scholar – click here if you already have an account
Scifinder Scholar – click here if you need to register for an account		 The comprehensive Chemical Abstracts and Medline databases that include more than 22 million citations from more than 9,000 scientific journals; includes much research in biology and life sciences, medical sciences, physics, geology, material sciences and engineering. full text
SocINDEX with Full Text A comprehensive sociology and criminology database with full or selective coverage of some 4,000 journals, including full text from more than 360 journals along with books, monographs, and conference papers; also includes more than 10,000 author profiles. full text
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A dynamic reference work written and maintained by scholars at universities around the world selected for their expertise. full text
Teacher Reference Center Designed for professional educators, this database indexes more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines.
Wall Street Journal Electronic version of the foremost business newspaper in the U.S. going back to 1984. full text
WorldCat The world’s largest database of book and other literature, containing more than 60 million records for books, journals, newspapers, videos, music, scores, maps, Web resources, and other formats.