Article Databases

For many of these databases, use is restricted to currently enrolled students, faculty, and staff of Chadron State College. Off-campus users may be prompted to provide their username and password in order to be authenticated. This is the same username and password that you use to access MyCSC.

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Journal Finder
If you know the title of the journal you need, Serials Solutions can find which of the CSC online databases has access to it. You can also browse e-journals by subject.

EBSCOhost
EBSCOhost provides thousands of periodicals of interest to college & university users. Many of the articles are full text and peer-reviewed. Check the appropriate box for the desired database.

Wilson Web
Wilson Web provides access to the Biographies Plus Illustrated and OmniFile FullText Select databases. Indexing and full-text for over 2000 multidisciplinary periodical titles.

ProQuest
Databases for Psychology, Agriculture and Biology. Many articles are full text and peer-reviewed.

Infotrac
Infotrac provides a wide range of databases in several interest areas; General Business File ASAP, Business and Company Resource Center, Business Index ASAP, Expanded Academic ASAP, and Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography.

LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis® Academic provides access to full-text information from over 5,600 sources, including: National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information. Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789. Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.

Westlaw Campus Research
Westlaw Campus Research is a research service that provides college and university students with access to a comprehensive collection of news and business information and law-related resources.

JSTOR
Complete archives of older journal articles in the Arts & Sciences, Language and Literature, and Business.

CSA Illumina
CSA contains 22 databases with several million citations and abstracts to journals of interest in the physical, life, and applied sciences. The Sage Full-Text Collection has 10 full-text databases with more than 240 full-text journals and thousands of articles across many disciplines.

Issues & Controversies
Issues & Controversies, from the Facts on File News Service, has in-depth coverage of more than 600 "hot topics." It includes activities to teach students how to evaluate news information and encourage them to think about their own opinions. It has Full-text searching; Newspaper editorials; and hyperlinks to biographies, news updates, and relevant Web sites. It also includes bibliographies, chronologies, maps, graphs, tables, and photos. There is a Directory of Organizations to contact for further information. There is also a "By The Numbers" statistical snapshot of key issues. Carefully researched essays are written to give students a thorough review of all sides of a topical issue or controversy in today's news. Each essay includes a complete bibliography and contact information.

RefWorks
is a personalized database that works automatically with hundreds of online resources such as EBSCOhost, CSA Illumina, and even the CSC library catalog, to keep track of all of your research and create your bibliography for you. It will even format your bibliography automatically in any style (such as MLA, APA, or Chicago).

CredoReference
CREDO Reference (formerly Xreferplus) gives you a complete reference collection from over 50 publishers, powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context.

Britannica Online
Encyclopedia Britannica Online, featuring the complete Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, Merriam-Websters Dictionary & Thesaurus, videos, web sites, and magazines.

NebraskAccess
NebraskAccess offers free online access to current magazines, journals, newspapers, genealogy and business information to all Nebraska residents. The Nebraska Library Commission provides these resources with funding from the State of Nebraska. Please contact the Reta E. King library for a username and password if you are a CSC student who does not live in Nebraska.

eLibrary
Excellent source for current, non-technical information. Book contents, periodical articles, newspaper articles, radio/t.v. transcripts, visuals indexed. All full text.

ebrary
Ebrary is a comprehensive database of more than 37,000 e-books and other authoritative materials. ebrary uses a platform that integrates multiple online resources and allows for multiple search and navigation options. It also includes functions such as highlighting, annotating, personal bookshelves, copy/paste and print text with automatic citations and URL hyperlinks back to the source.

NetLibrary
NetLibrary contains thousands of full text books in an online format. To learn more about NetLibrary, and to see how to get your password and I.D., read the user information and tips at the Nebraska Library Commission Website. After you have been authenticated at the CSC Library, you will have access to NetLibrary services either in the library or through your home computer

Books In Print
Bowkers Books in Print is the library industrys largest Web-based bibliographic resource. Find what you’re looking for quickly and easily, using their unbiased and comprehensive database of 5 million book, audio book, and video titles.

OCLC FirstSearch
Collection of 12 major databases including ERIC, MEDLINE, and Government Publications. Other available databases include the GPO Monthly Catalog, OCLC Union List of Periodicals, PapersFirst, Electronic Collections Online, ProceedingsFirst, WorldCat, and The World Almanac.

OCLC WorldCat
Find books & other material owned by libraries worldwide.

Grove of Art Online
Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001). They offer ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 2,500 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links, and sophisticated search and navigation tools.

Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002). Many articles have been updated since their appearance in print.

Classical Music Library
Classical Music Library is a fully searchable comprehensive database of classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to over the Internet. The audio selections are cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. Classical Music Library is limited to three users at a time.

African American Music Reference
African American Music Reference will bring together 50,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

Classical Music Reference Library
Classical Music Reference Library brings together more than 30,000 pages of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Included are the authoritative reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music, which are available for the first time in electronic form.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.

Classical Scores Library
Classical Scores Library will contain 400,000 pages of the most important classical scores and manuscripts, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 scores.

North American Indian Thought and Culture
North American Indian Thought and Culture contains over 119,000 pages of text and images. Included are biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories. Full-length reference works also are included to give background and context to the narratives.

American Journal of Science
The American Journal of Science (AJS), founded in 1818 by Benjamin Silliman, is the oldest scientific journal in the United States that has been published continuously. The Journal is devoted to geology and related sciences and publishes articles from around the world presenting results of major research from all earth sciences.

American Journal of Physics
The American Journal of Physics is devoted to the instructional and cultural aspects of physical science. The Journal was established in 1933 and from 1933 to 1940 it carried the title The American Physics Teacher.

The Physics Teacher
The Physics Teacher publishes papers on physics research, the history and philosophy of physics, applied physics, curriculum developments, pedagogy, instructional lab equipment, and book reviews.

Kiplinger Forecasts
Includes U.S. and Global Economic Outlooks, Kiplinger Letter, Economy at a glance, Business News, Economic Calendar, Tables & Graphs, Personal Finance & Investing, tax information, and much more.

Educator's Reference Desk
Educator's Reference Desk provides access to Resource Guides and Lesson Plans.

ERIC Database
ERIC (largest source of education information) contains more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. Those documents not full-text online, are available on microfiche at King Library.

GEM - Gateway to Educational Materials
GEM provides quick and easy access to over 40,000 educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit and commercial Internet sites.

MEDLINEplus
Subset of MEDLINE geared toward consumer information on numerous health topics. Many full-text documents and links are available. Prepared by the National Library of Medicine from their Medline databases.

PubMed
MEDLINE database from the National Library of Medicine. No full text. Results may be e-mailed or printed.

In the First Person
An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Personal Narratives. In the First Person provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world.

Directory of Open Access Journals
The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Many of the journals are from Europe.

Google Print
"Search the full text of books (and discover new ones)" Google Print.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.