Key Resources:
Periodical (Articles) Databases To Try First:
- General
OneFile (Thomson Gale): includes full-text; Provides comprehensive
access to an extensive collection of journals, newspapers, magazines,
and newswires.
- Lexis-Nexis
Academic: includes full-text; covers newspapers, periodical
titles, and financial data
- Education
Research Complete: Covers all levels of education from
early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties.
Provides full text for more than 750 journals, and includes full text
for more than 100 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related
conference papers.
- SportsDiscus: Offers comprehensive, bibliographic and full text coverage
of sport, fitness and related disciplines.
- Cinahl
Plus: Provides full text for over 500 journals in the fields
of nursing and allied health indexed in CINAHL. Of those, most have
cover-to-cover indexing in CINAHL. Contains more than 600,000 full-text
articles dating back to 1937.
- PsycINFO: Contains citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book
chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines.
97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage
includes international material in foreign languages.
- ScienceDirect: Indexes
high-quality, peer-reviewed research journals in the sciences and includes
links to many full text articles.
Electronic Reference Book Collections:
- Gale
Virtual Reference Library: Contains encyclopedias and specialized
reference sources for multidisciplinary research. For some titles there
may be a more recent edition in print format.
- Oxford
Reference Online: Premium Collection: Contains dictionary,
language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford
University Press, plus more detailed information across a broad subject
range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series.
Other Online Resources:
- CQ Researcher
Online: report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of
political and social issues.
- Government
Information Resources: The library's web links to federal,
state and local, and international agencies and websites with how-to
guides, reports, and links to statistical information.
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Other Information:
The library catalog helps you
find books, periodicals, audio & video recordings, government publications,
these and dissertations, and conference papers owned by the ODU Libraries.
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