Annotated List of Databases

Academic OneFile

Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.  Millions of articles are available.

ArticleFirst

OCLC's ArticleFirst contains articles and other items on the table of contents pages of journals.

Computer Database

Computer Database has over 2 million articles from journals, trade magazines and popular computing magazines.

ECO Electronic Collections Online

A collection of scholarly journals in the sciences and social sciences.  Includes anthropology, literature, businee, economics, philosophy, education, political science, fine arts, psychology, geography, religion, history, science, language, social science, law and technology.

ERIC

Contains annotated references to nonjournal material issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Some full-texts available.

Expanded Academic ASAP

Magazine, newspaper and journal articles appropriate to college and university-level research.  All topics and mostly full-text.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.  (Contains Encyclopedia of American Business)

General BusinessFile ASAP

Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics.  Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full-text and images available.

General Reference Center Gold

Access to general interest magazines, business periodicals, reference books, maps, historical images and newspaper articles.  Records are available with a combination of indexing, abstracts, image or full-text formats.

GPO Monthly Catalog

The GPO Monthly Catalog includes thousands of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates and records; judiciary materials and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).  Includes a bibliographic citation in each record.

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers

A collection of full text newspapers from around the Country and the World.

InfoTrac OneFile

A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology and many general interest topics.  Millions of full-text articles available.

LearningExpress Library

A completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help students and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass; includes the ACT, SAT, GMAT, LSAT, GRE, MCAT, Nursing, TOEFL, Real Estate tests and many more.  Immediate scoring, complete answer explanations and an individualized analysis of your results.

LegalTrac

LegalTrac provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.  Some full-text available.

Making of Modern Michigan

Michigan's unique heritage is represented through photographs, family papers, oral histories, genealogical materials and much more from local history collections around the state.

NetLibrary

The daily newspaper New York Times from 1995-present.

NewsBank Michigan Newspapers

Full text of the Detroit News (1/1/1999-current), Grand Rapids Press (2002-current), and Lansing State Journal (1/1/1999-current).

WilsonSelectPlus

Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business.  Michigan residents or Michigan library access only.

World Almanacs

The MeL Database contains the full text of Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac for Kids, The World Almanac of the U.S.A. and The World Almanac of U.S. Politics.

WorldCat

The world's largest online catalog of books and magazines.  Includes a description of the item and which libraries own the item.