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ELM Database Descriptions

ELM is comprised of 15 databases from five vendors:

EBSCO (5 databases)

Academic Search Premier
Full text for thousands of scholarly publications across all academic disciplines. Updated daily.

Business Source Premier
Full text for scholarly journals and trade publications across all business subject areas. Includes detailed company profiles, industry, market research, and country economic reports, and much more. Includes the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fortune and thousands of others titles. Updated daily.

EBSCO MegaFILE
Save time and search all four EBSCO databases at once. The EBSCO MegaFILE is comprised of the complete content and functionality of Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE Premier, Business Source Premier, and Regional Business News.

MasterFILE Premier
Full text for popular magazines in all subject areas. Includes reference books, book reviews, biographies, primary source documents, and images. Excellent coverage of consumer information, education, health, science, social science, arts, current events, and more. Includes Consumer Reports, Parenting, Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, People, and thousands of other titles. Updated daily.

Regional Business News
Full text for business journals, newspapers and newswires from metropolitan and rural areas across the U.S. Updated daily.

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GALE (7 databases)

Discovering Collection
Designed for students grades 8-12, this database includes literary criticisms, timelines, primary source documents, audio and video clips, maps, images, flags and more.

¡Informe! (Spanish-language interface)
¡Informe! (English-language interface)
El texto completo de 50 de los más populares periódicos y diarios de habla hispana y bilingües, incluyendo el periódico en español El Nuevo Herald (Miami, FL). Full text of 50 of the most popular Spanish-language and bilingual periodicals including El Nuevo Herald (Miami, FL), a Spanish-language newspaper.

InfoTrac Junior Edition
Designed for middle school students, this database has full-text articles from magazines, newspapers, and reference books in just about every subject area.

InfoTrac Student Edition
Designed for high school students, this database has full-text articles from magazines, newspapers, and reference books. Historical images and maps included. Covers a wide variety of subjects.

Junior Reference Collection
Designed for students grades 6-8, this database has information from reference books about people, places, history, science and more. Includes photos and maps.

Kids InfoBits
Designed for elementary school students grades K-5, this database has articles from magazines, newspapers, and reference books on animals, famous people, science, countries and states, and more.

Professional Collection
Designed for the educator, this database has full text for education journals across a variety of fields such as child and adolescent psychology, drug and alcohol abuse, learning disabilities, sports/athletic training etc. Updated daily.

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NetLibrary (1 database)

NetLibrary eBooks
Full text of over 14,000 electronic books in the arts, humanities, social sciences, life and physical sciences, business, computers and more. Includes Cliff's Notes.

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OCLC (1 database)

WorldCat
Online catalog of books and other materials held in libraries worldwide. Updated daily.

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ProQuest (1 database)

ProQuest Newsstand Complete
Full text for the Star Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Barron's, USA Today, and hundreds of other newspapers.

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