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Academic Search Complete
Full-text scholarly database with broad subject coverage, including biology, chemistry, education, engineering, humanities, physics, psychology, religion & theology, sociology, and more. Collection includes over 9,800 titles, with more than 5,400 in full text. 

CQ Researcher
Source for single-themed reports that offer in-depth, journalistic coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy. 

Encyclopedia Britannica
Text of the 32-volume Encyclopædia Britannica plus thousands of additional articles; provides access to dictionary, atlas, and thesaurus entries.

FindArticles.com
Full-text articles from over 500 publications on business, education, entertainment, health and fitness, and current events.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
A core collection of virtual reference books available in the library and at home 24/7.  Subject areas are:  business, education, history/terrorism, medicine, law and government, and science.

LexisNexis Academic
Full-text database with content from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.

MasterFILE Premier
General interest full-text database covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains the full text for reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an Image Collection of photos, maps & flags.

NetLibrary 
Collection of electronic books covering a wide range of disciplines. The library catalog includes records for electronic books from the NetLibrary collection. Click on the link in the catalog record to access the electronic book.

Newsbank
Full text access to the Aberdeen American News and the Sioux Falls Argus Leader.  Coverage for the American News runs from 2001 to the present, and the Sioux Falls Argus Leader runs from 1999 to the present.  These newspaper databases are fully searchable and provide html versions of the news of the day.

Oxford English Dictionary 
Online counterpart to the 20-volume print edition. Traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

Oxford Reference Online 
Resource for facts, figures, definitions, and translations. Find more than 50,000 scholarly articles from titles in the Oxford Companions series, plus all 20,000 quotations from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

ProQuest 
Suite of databases that cover such topics as education, art, science, health, women’s interests, the military, law, psychology, multiculturalism, and the social sciences.

Reference Center (netLibrary)
An eBook reference resource that includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, handbooks, thesauri, and more. Subject areas include agriculture, arts, business, language and linguistics, law, political science, sociology, and technology. 

WorldCat
Online catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide offering millions of bibliographic records.

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