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Library Subscription Databases
- ERIC (EBSCOhost)

The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. The University Library owns the microfiche set of the ERIC ED documents plus they are starting to be available Partial/Full Text on the Internet (see ERIC ED documents entry).
- Education Full Text

Covers 423 core international periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues. Includes abstracts from January 1994 and indexing from June 1983. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.
- PsycINFO

PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, and books in psychology, as well as psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Includes PsycLit database.
- Medline

Produced by the National Library of Medicine, Medline covers all aspects of biomedicine including nursing, dentistry and veterinary medicine. It contains citations and abstracts, beginning in 1966, from over 3,800 journals published in the United States and 70 other countries.
- PubMedCentral
PubMedCentral is a repository for life sciences journals, sponsored by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Access to PMC is free and unrestricted.
Other Databases
- OrphaNet
OrphaNet is a database dedicated to information on rare diseases and orphan drugs. Access to this database is free of charge.
- TOXNET
A cluster of databases from the National Library of Medicine on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas.