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Articles from scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. NOTE: In many cases, articles from the last 3-5 years are NOT available due to publisher copyright restrictions.
Indexes published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics
An intuitive and comprehensive business library containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more.
Sociology, anthropology, criminology, demography, education, law and penology, race relations, social psychology, and urban studies
Provides indexing for more than 2,700 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health.
Coverage of research in applied psychology, developmental psychology, personality, and more.
These databases contain articles that offer specific perspectives and opinions on a variety of topics.
This series takes a pro-con approach to today’s social issues and hot topics in politics, business, education, the environment, medicine, and more. It's the perfect resource when you have to take one side of a debate or have to write a persuasive essay.
General/Multidisciplinary databases are useful when searching for articles on a wide variety of subjects and from a wide variety of sources including scholarly journals, newspapers, and general magazines.
Smart Search allows you to search millions of items simultaneously, including journal articles, books, streaming media, CMU Libraries Digital Collections, and legal, governmental, and archival materials.
The OED is widely regarded as the most significant dictionary of the English language, offering the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 600,000 words —past and present— from across the English-speaking world.
