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| General Databases |  For resources on controversial issues, law and legislation, statistics, and public opinion, see our web guide to Current Events. |
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| Academic Search Premier |  |
Full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. | EBSCOhost |  |
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| SIRS Knowledge Source | |
Full text articles and internet resources on social issues, science, history, government, the arts and humanities. | SIRS Publishing | |
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| CQ Researcher | |
Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. | Congressional Quarterly Inc | |
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| Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center | |
One-stop source for information on social issues . Includes articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. | Gale | |
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| MasterFILE Premier | |
Provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. | EBSCOhost | |
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| Alt-Press Watch | |
A 100% full-text database of over 170 newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. | ProQuest | |
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| Arts & Humanities Databases | Check out our newest databases | ||||
| ARTstor | |
A rich digital library of art images and descriptive information, as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. Content includes images from the fields of art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's software tools support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline. | ARTstor | ||
| Literature Resource Center | |
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. | Gale | |
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| Theatre in Video | |
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 of the worlds most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video-more than 500 hours in all. Includes BBC productions of the complete plays of Shakespeare. | Alexander Street | ||
| Dance in Video | |
With Dance in Video, watch dance performances through online streaming video-including 250 dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. |
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| Classical Scores Library | |
Classical Scores Library will contain 400,000 pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 musical scores. | Alexander Street |
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| Business Databases | Search for Scholarly articles and local and regional business here. Special features include: Country Reports, Company Profiles, Industry Overviews, and more! |
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| Business Source Premier | |
Full text for more than 7,400 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for nearly 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. | EBSCOhost | |
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| Regional Business News | |
Comprehensive full-text coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and news wires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. | EBSCOhost | |
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| Careers and Colleges Databases | Explore career options and make informed decisions through researching Lane's Careers and Colleges databases. | ||||
| Occupational Outlook Handbook | |
Published by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations. | Book | ||
| Oregon Career Information System (CIS) (password required) | |
Oregon CIS provides a comprehensive and state-based resource to help Oregonians of all ages become aware of work and educational options, connect education and work, and make successful career decisions and transitions throughout their lifetime. Use Oregon CIS to research careers, explore programs and majors, and find schools. password required | UO |
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| Easy Reading Databases | Reading and Resource materials to support readers and researchers at all levels. Special features include searching by Lexile level! |
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| Primary Search | |
Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines at an elementary school reading level. Users may limit searches to articles within a certain range of Lexile Reading Levels. Full text information dates as far back as 1990. | EBSCOhost | |
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| Middle Search Plus | |
Middle Search Plus provides full text for 140 popular magazines at a middle school reading level. Users may limit searches to articles within a certain range of Lexile Reading Levels. Full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. | EBSCOhost | |
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| MAS Ultra - School Edition | |
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 700 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra - School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, 542 full text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. | EBSCOhost | |
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| Education Databases | Learn new skills or research issues in education or library science using one of Lane's Education databases. |
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| LearningExpress Library | |
a comprehensive, 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. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. | |||
| Professional Development Collection | |
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized and comprehensive collection of over 500 full-text journals, including more than 300 peer-reviewed titles. | EBSCOhost | |
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| ERIC | |
Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals. | |||
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| TeacherReference | |
Provides indexing and abstracts for over 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional educators. | EBSCOhost | |
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| Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, (LISTA) | |
Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. | EBSCOhost | |
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| Library Literature & Information Science Full Text | |
Reflecting the latest trends in a rapidly evolving field, this database indexes English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, plus over 300 books per year. This resource delivers full text articles cover to cover from over a hundred select publications. | H.W. Wilson | |
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| College Source Online | |
Search 41,550 COLLEGE CATALOGS AND OVER 34,900,000 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS! Full cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools. |
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| Health Databases | Comprehensive coverage of Nursing, Health and Medical Information from Alternative Health to Evidence Based Practice. Special features include descriptive images, patient education support, and more! |
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| AltHealthWatch | |
This alternative health database provides full text for more than 140 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990. | EBSCOhost | |
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| Health Source: Consumer Edition | |
Full-text for nearly 300 journals on many health topics, including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. | EBSCOhost | |
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| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition | |
Provides 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, as well as abstracts and indexing for more than 850 journals. | EBSCOhost | |
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| CINAHL with Full Text | |
Provides indexing for 2717 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, and full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments, case studies, evidence based nursing and clinical trials. | EBSCOhost | |
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| MEDLINE | |
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals. This database includes links to full-text articles. | EBSCOhost | |
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| MedlinePlus | |
A goldmine of authoritative and current health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine. Includes a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, surgery videos, and links to thousands of clinical trials. MedlinePlus is updated daily. | |||
| Nursing Reference Center | |
a user-friendly point-of-care resource delivering clinical evidence and knowledge on conditions and diseases. | EBSCOhost | |
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| Health Information on the Internet | |
An excellent starting point for the best health Web sites. | OHSU | ||
| ScienceDirect College Edition | |
online access to more than 1,500 journals and 45 reference works in the health, life and physical sciences. How to perform a full text only search in ScienceDirect: 1) Open ScienceDirect College Edition For more instructions including screenshots, visit our Scientific Studies webpage. |
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| Newspaper Databases | Find local, national, and world news through Lane's newspaper databases. |
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| EBSCO's Newspaper Source | |
Provides selected full text for over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers. | EBSCOhost | |
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| Lexis-Nexis Academic | |
Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. | Lexis-Nexis | |
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| New York Times Online | |
Full-text coverage of the US newspaper of record. Offers superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts. Coverage: 2000-current | Newsbank | |
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| Oregon Index | |
The Web-accessible Oregon Index is a selective index to Oregon newspapers, and to Oregon items in selected other publications. The Oregon Index database coverage is 1985-2004. | Oregon State Library | ||
| The Oregonian | |
Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Access to certain freelance articles and other features within this publication (i.e. photographs, classifieds, etc...) may not be available. Coverage from July 12, 1987 – current. | Lexis-Nexis | |
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| Register-Guard | |
Online full-text coverage from November 14, 2001 - current. In print current two months in the Lane Library Back issues from 1970 to the present are available on microfilm at the Lane Library's circulation counter. Microfilm of the RG prior to 1970 is available at the University of Oregon and the Eugene Public Library. Register Guard Index coverage from 1963 - 2003 online via UO Libraries. |
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| Eugene Weekly | |
Full-text access to the Eugene Weekly. Coverage 2000 - current. The Index to the Eugene Weekly back files is currently only available at the Eugene Public Library Reference Desk. Coverage from June 1997 through December 2003. |
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| Science Databases |
Looking for scientific articles, but not sure how to find them? See our tutorial: Finding Articles Reporting Scientific Findings. Looking for a controversial scientific issue? Try the databases listed at the top of our Current Events page. |
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| Science Resource Center | |
Features full-text articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals, as well as encyclopedias and newspapers. Includes topic overviews, experiments, biographies, and links to quality web sites. | Gale | |
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| AccessScience | |
Provides access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News ® headlines, biographies, and more. | McGraw Hill | |
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| Environment Complete | |
offers coverage in agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. The database contains full text for more than 650 journals and more than 100 monographs. | EBSCOhost | |
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| ScienceDirect College Edition | |
online access to more than 1,500 journals and 45 reference works in the health, life and physical sciences. How to perform a full text only search in ScienceDirect: 1) Open ScienceDirect College Edition For more instructions including screenshots, visit our Scientific Studies webpage. |
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| Social Science Databases | Discover more about psychology, history, and ethnic studies through Lane's Social Science databases. Special features include timelines of events! |
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| PsycARTICLES | |
From the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 69 journals. | EBSCOhost | |
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| The American Indian Experience | |
is a full-text digital resource exploring the histories and contemporary cultures of the indigenous peoples of the United States. It offers full-text access to an online library, featuring more than 150 volumes of reference content, hundreds of primary documents, and thousands of images. From prehistory to the present day, from the Inuit of the north to the Seminoles of Florida, it is an indispensable source of information about the history and experience of Native Americans. | Greenwood | ||
| The African American Experience | |
is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture. It contains over 450 reference books and monographs, 5,000 primary documents, over 3,500 fully-searchable interviews with former slaves, 3,000 photographs, maps, and other images, and a timeline with over 170 pages worth of content, navigable by century, decade, and keyword. This database gives voice to the black experience from its African origins to the present day. | Greenwood | ||
| The Latino American Experience | |
marks the first-ever database dedicated to the history and culture of Latinos. It contains over 200 volumes of content, from encyclopedias and biographies to newly published scholarly books introduced biannually, and primary source materials, including maps, images, audio clips, interviews, music files, speeches, documents, and other material in English and Spanish. It also includes a fully searchable timeline dating to the pre-Colonial civilizations of the Aztecs, Mayas, Incas, Caribes, and others, up through the most recent political movements and achievements of contemporary Latinos. It also includes content on modern-day Latin American countries and the history of the Hispanic diaspora. | Greenwood | ||
| History Resource Center U.S. | |
Provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. | Gale | |
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| History Resource Center World | |
comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. | Gale | |
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| Women and Social Movements | |
Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this database includes more than 35,000 pages of documents, a chronology of U.S. women's history, and more. |
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| Spanish Language Databases | Scholarly articles and medical information in Spanish. | ||||
| Fuente Academica | |
A unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American, South American and Spanish publishers. This database provides full-text coverage (including PDF) for more than 200 scholarly Spanish language journals. Content is provided in Spanish from respected publishers worldwide. | EBSCOhost | |
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| MedicLatina | |
A Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for more than 140 peer-reviewed medical journals. | EBSCOhost | |
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| Auto Repair Reference Center | |
Contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1954. Database content includes approximately 23,000 vehicles covered from 1954 to present; over 100,000 factory drawings and step-by-step photographs; over 60,000 technical service bulletins & recalls issued by the original equipment vehicle manufacturer; wiring diagrams for easy viewing and printing; specifications & maintenance schedules; Labor Time Guide & Estimator; Quick Tips. | EBSCOhost | ||
| Scientific & Technical Information Network (STN Easy) (password required) | |
Current and archival information from over 200 scientific, technical, business, and patent databases covering a broad range of scientific fields, including chemistry, engineering, life sciences, pharmaceutics, biotechnology, regulatory compliance, patents, business, and more. (This database is only available Monday through Thursday 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. ; Friday 5 p.m. to Saturday 7 p.m. ; Saturday 11 p.m. to Monday 5 a.m. - password required) |
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| GREENR | |
GREENR is an authoritative, intuitive resource that combines news, unique commentary, audio, video, primary source documents, images, conference reports, statistics and more into a Web-like experience designed to attract attention and foster participation. Trial runs through December |
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