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Databases

Education Databases

ERIC [EBSCO]
The world's largest database of education research. Includes bibliographic entries, full-text articles, and a thesaurus of education-related terminology that is used to tag entries in the database.
Education Abstracts [EBSCO]
A database of citations and indexed abstracts for journals and books covering all levels of education.
Teacher Reference Center [EBSCO]
A database containing indexed citations and abstracts of the most popular publications for K-12 teachers, administrators, and librarians. Covers topics such as assessment, instructional media, language arts, math, science, pedagogical research, and continuing education.

Government Databases

Access Washington [State of Washington]
A portal to WA and US government services and information. Find state facts, laws, consumer protection information, and other public information.
Homeland Security Digital Library [U.S. Department of Homeland Security / Naval Postgraduate School]
A collection of documents related to homeland security, policy, strategy, and organizational management.

Includes material published by federal, state, and local governments; international governments and institutions; nonprofit and private sector organizations; think tanks, research centers, colleges, and universities. Covers terrorism, border issues, climate change, immigration, pandemics, school violence, and food security.

USA.GOV
USA.gov is the government's own search engine, suitable for searching federal and state webpages.

Data.gov [U.S. Government]
A resource for open-access datasets generated by the Executive branch of the U.S. government.
Science.gov [U.S. Government]
A comprehensive, multi-database search engine for more than 200 million pages of science information published by U.S. government agencies.
SciTech Connect [U.S. Department of Energy]
A database of technical reports, bibliographic citations, journal articles, conference papers, books, multimedia, software, and data information sponsored by the Department of Energy.
National Sea Grant Library [University of Rhode Island]
A database of NOAA Sea Grant funded documents covering a wide variety of subjects, such as oceanography, marine education, and seafood safety. Online full-texts are available for roughly half of the entries.
National Technical Report Library
A repository of over two million reports on research paid for by the U.S. government. Full-texts are available for most reports. Free registration is required.

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General Databases

EBSCO Multi-Database Search
Search all EBSCO databases at once, or click "choose databases" to customize the databases included in your search.
JSTOR [ITHAKA]
A multi-disciplinary full-text database of articles from many scholarly journals. Content available is usually 1-5 years behind the most recently published journal article. Also contains some current journals and books.

Science Databases

Biological Sciences [ProQuest]
A database covering research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.
Tip:
When full text is not available, use Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad).
Web of Science [Thomson Reuters]
A multi-database search tool combining all three Web of Science indexes (the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index).Tip:
You can use this index to find works that have cited a specific author or article.
GreenFILE [EBSCO]
An index of citations to scholarly and general interest publications that highlight connections between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health, and technology.

Social Science Databases

PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service [ProQuest]
An international database of over 500,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, reports, conference papers, web content, and other sources.

Publications cover 120 countries around the world on topics including justice, finance, culture and religion, the environment, education, government, health, human rights, international relations, labor, law, defense, politics, demographics, social conditions, trade, and transportation.
Sociological Abstracts [ProQuest]
An international database of book review citations and journal article and dissertation abstracts in the field of sociology as well as related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Topics include social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development.
POPLINE [Johns Hopkins University / USAID]
An extensive, international collection of population, family planning, and related reproductive health and development literature.

Supports program managers, policy makers, and service providers in low- and middle-income countries as well as development-oriented agencies and organizations by providing them access to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished documents.
HLAS: Handbook of Latin American Studies [Library of Congress]
A multidisciplinary bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by 130 scholars from around the world.

Entries alternate annually between the social sciences and the humanities, with 2,000-3,000 works added each year.
Transportation Research Board Publications Index [National Academy of Sciences]
A database of citations, abstracts, and full-texts of documents published by the Transportation Research Board, Highway Research Board, Strategic Highway Research Program, and the Marine Board from 1923 to present.
TRID Transportation Research Database [National Academy of Sciences]
A database providing citations, abstracts, and full-texts of international transportation research. A combination of the TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database.

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