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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.
ABI/INFORM Complete ABI/INFORM remains the gold standard when it comes to business research databases. ProQuest provides access to hundreds of key business titles.
Academic Search Elite Full text for more than 2,100 journals. Nearly 150 journals have PDF images dating back to 1985.
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 of Architectural Periodicals The Index to Architectural Periodicals is a premier architecture resource to architectural literature, presented by ProQuest. Most of the entries are citation and abstract only.
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 Insights: Essentials A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals; indexes more than 4,900 items with nearly 3,600 in full text. 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
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. 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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Emerald Online Library and Information Studies Collection A collection of journals and books spanning a range of topics such as: collection building; library finances; document supply and inter-library lending. 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
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.
JBI Evidenced-Based Resources Reliable, comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals, evidence-based resources, video, dissertations, reference books and more.
JSTOR Coverage from journal date of inception (some beginning 1800s) for a range of disciplines including: social sciences, ecology & evolutionary biology, education, business, language & literature, mathematics and philosophy. 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.
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.
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.
Oxford 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. Contains Grove Music Online. full text
Philosopher’s Index 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.
ProQuest Central ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated full-text database in the market today, with thousands of periodical titles and millions of full-text articles available. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets. full text
ProQuest Newsstand Offers unparalleled access to the full text of over 1300 newspapers, news websites and blogs from leading publishers throughout the world. The database includes backfile for most newspapers, providing access to articles, columns, editorials, obituaries and features published in each paper.
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.
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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.