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Indexes academic journals, magazines, reports and books across disciplines, and includes the full text of over 5,700 active peer reviewed journals. Includes more than 77,000 videos from the Associated Press, with footage from 1930 to the present.
Includes over 66,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Newsbank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues.
A digital collection of over 5,400 seminal books in the humanities and related social sciences. These titles are presented in collaboration with more than 120 publishers and Michigan Publishing. Books in the HEB collection have been recommended and reviewed by scholars and constituent learned societies of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Contains more than 1,000 fully searchable printed works from the beginning of Jim Crow to post-World War I. These works provide insights into African American culture and life during this period of segregation and disenfranchisement and include such topics as African American identity, relationships with peoples of other nations, and literature.
Contains nearly 1,400 fully searchable printed works from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of Jim Crow. It includes documents related to African Americans and citizenship, voting rights, literacy, land rights, employment, and more, including the gaps between written law and practice.
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Online index of the National Agriculture Library. Locate journal articles, conference papers, books, audiovisuals, and other resources covering all aspects of agriculture and related science, including: laws & regulations, crops, livestock, research & technology, food & nutrition, marketing, trade, and more.
A trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish. Published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, AHFS includes more than 1,000 drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers. Updated monthly.Searchable through Consumer Health Complete.
This database features full-text articles on topics related to alternative medicine. Many articles are peer-reviewed..
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Accesses articles from American newspapers from 1758-2011.
Film Scripts Online, Volume 1 contains over 1,000 scripts and makes available, for the first time, accurate and authorized versions of copyrighted screenplays.

Most scripts in the series have never been published before. Alexander Street developed the collection through arrangements with Warner Bros., Sony, RKO, MGM, and other major film studios; rights holders such as Faber & Faber, Newmarket Press, Penguin Putnam, StudioCanal, and Vintage Anchor; and the writers themselves, including Paul Schrader, Lawrence Kasdan, Gus Van Sant, Neil LaBute, Oliver Stone, and many others.
American Periodicals includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Because American Periodicals contains digitized images of periodical pages, researchers can see all of the original typography, drawings, graphic elements, and article layouts exactly as they were originally published. Coverage includes history of science and medicine, Art, Religion, Literature, and more.
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APA PsycArticles®, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.
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The APA PsycInfo® database, American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with one of the highest DOI matching rates in the publishing industry. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from periodicals in dozens of languages.
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Offering 2 million searchable and downloadable images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with detailed descriptions of each piece, for academic use. It is divided into a Public Collection, with images free for downloading without a subscription or login, and a subscription Core Collection, featuring downloadable images from museums, artists, libraries, scholars, and photo archives.
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Find more than 1 million items in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Biology, Finance, and Statistics. Many of these are not yet peer-reviewed, but often, they are updated by the author with the peer-reviewed version after publication.
Research a number of subjects typically studied as part of an Associate's Degree program (i.e. Culinary Arts, Veterinary Assisting, Forensics and more).

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Alternate Name(s) Biblical Archaeology Society Library
Full text of Biblical Archaeology Review, Bible Review, Archaeology Odyssey, and New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, Vol. 5, as well as other resources.
Hundreds of e-books in the fields of psychology and behavioral science.
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Alternate Name(s) BHL is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.
BHL is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.
BioOne is a global, not-for-profit collaboration bringing together scientific societies, publishers, and libraries to provide access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
Black Life in America: The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media.
Black Studies Center brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. It is comprised of several cross-searchable, component databases, including the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), Black Literature, 1827-1940, Black Abolitionist Papers, and The Chicago Defender.
Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders - teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history. In addition to the most familiar works, Black Thought and Culture presents a great deal of previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts. The ideas of over 1,000 authors present an evolving and complex view of what it is to be black in America.
This collection includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. The collection now includes primary materials spanning more than 300 years. Each source has been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.
Look in thousands of journal and magazine articles about business-related topics, including commentaries about business practice.

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Indexes current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. Book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations covering biomedical and social sciences worldwide are indexed. More than 342,000 records are included with over 10,000 new records added each year. Title List.
Alternate Name(s) Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature
The Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) is the premier index of nursing and allied health literature, indexing more than 5,400 journals. Includes more than 600 full text journals with full text coverage back to 1981.
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Contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters, memoirs, The collection also includes biographies, an extensive bibliography of the sources in the database, and material licensed from The Civil War Day-by-Day by E.B. Long.
A great starting point for communication majors with information on all aspects of Communication, Mass Media and related fields. Includes notable author profiles.
Covers the research and development of computing and applied sciences as disciplines. Especially useful when researching implications of new technology.
Consumer Health Complete supports the information needs of patients and fosters an overall understanding of health-related topics. This resource provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary and holistic medicine
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Full text resource for all things related to criminal justice and criminology.

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The Ferrum College collection contains items from the archives of the college's Blue Ridge Institute & Museum, Virginia's State Center for Blue Ridge Folklore. Ferrum's entries in the Digital Library of Appalachia include images, documents, and recordings documenting traditional culture (customs, crafts, music, storytelling, material culture, etc.) primarily in southwest Virginia and the southern Virginia Blue Ridge.
The most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Collections cover the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post-World War II through the 21st century, providing unparalleled access to the defining international strategies of our time with more than 124,000 indexed, declassified government documents
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Founded in 2009, Digital Theatre+ provides powerful ways to connect ELA and Theatre students with dramatic texts, poetry and performance. Today, Digital Theatre+ delivers engaging learning experiences for ELA and Theatre to students and educators in over 3,000 schools, colleges, and universities in 90+ countries.
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Search thousands of peer-reviewed articles published in open access journals.
Includes over 82,000 pages of primary sources, supporting materials, and archives, along with 100+ hours of video. Includes content in the growing disciplines of disability history and disability studies, as well as in history, media, the arts, political science, education, and other areas where the contributions of the disability community are typically overlooked.
Search thousands of doctoral dissertations and master's theses from around the world. This is a great way to find new and unique research, but keep in mind that these results will be LONG.

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50,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in American between 1639 and 1800. Includes 1,100 supplemental works printed between 1670 and 1800 from the Library Company of Philadelphia.
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Painstakingly assembled from hundreds of sources, EENA documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives from all of the protagonists, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. The project brings coherence to a wide range of published and unpublished accounts, including narratives, diaries, journals, and letters.
Early Modern Books covers material from the British Isles and Europe for the period 1450-1700. An integrated search across both Early English Books Online and Early European Books allows scholars to view materials from over 225 source libraries worldwide. EEBO's content draws on authoritative short-title catalogues of the period and features many text transcriptions specially created for the product. Content from Europe covers the curated Early European Books Collections from 4 national libraries and London's Wellcome Library.
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eBooks on the EBSCO platform.
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Over 3,000 eBooks from the publisher ABC-Clio and Greenwood press.
American Economic Association's indexing database, now with full-text from EBSCO.
Search many articles related to issues in higher education, including the Chronicle of Higher Education from 1999 to the present.
The electronic version of Environment Index, covering applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. It contains citations for articles from domestic and international journals, monographs and conference papers of the North American Association of Environmental Education.
The Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) provides access to educational literature and resources. This database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
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The Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) provides access to educational literature and resources. This database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
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Index created from “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750.” Contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.

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Factiva provides full-text news articles and business/industry information from newswires, newspapers, business and industry magazines, television and radio transcripts, financial reports, and photos from news services. Most content is HTML, though other formats are available for export. News sources 1979-present; financial data 1960s-present.
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Provides the most comprehensive coverage of research, policy and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development and Social Welfare. NOT ALL RESULTS ARE FULL-TEXT.
Find streaming videos in every subject area.
Alexander Street's Food Studies Online provides researchers rich archival content, visual ephemera, monographs, and videos that explore how food shapes the world around us.

Examples of topics covered in the collection: Organic Farming/Small Farms, School lunch programs, Childhood nutrition, Marketing and advertising, Packaging, Food industry, Environmental impact of GMOs, US food programs during WWI/WWII, Food security, Famine, Vegetarianism, Labor practices, Food safety, Wine making, Obesity, Gender roles through history, Food habits around the world and more.
Provides more than 500 Spanish-language journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain.

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Abstract database combines the Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, theses and dissertations and other sources. NOT ALL RESULTS ARE FULL-TEXT.
The GeoRef database, established by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI) in 1966, provides access to the most comprehensive geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef contains millions of references to geoscience maps, serial, and non-serial literature. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Master's theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities are also covered. Coverage for North American resources starts in 1669, whereas worldwide coverage starts in 1933.
In the late 1800's, Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen began collecting books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. The Gerritsen Collection has since become the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world.
The Gilded Age brings primary documents and scholarly commentary together into a searchable collection. In addition to an extensive selection of key treatises that reflect the social and cultural ferment of the late nineteenth century, The Gilded Age offers a wealth of rare materials, including songs, letters, photographs, cartoons, government documents, and ephemera. This primary content is enhanced by video interviews with scholars and numerous topical critical documentary essays specially commissioned for the project by Alexander Street Press. Covering such themes as race, labor, immigration, commerce, western expansion, and women’s suffrage, these essays illuminate the rapidly changing cultural landscape of America during the decades between the end of the Civil War and the election of Theodore Roosevelt.
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This resource draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

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Find historic articles from Harper’s Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper. Coverage includes the Civil War and Reconstruction eras (1857-1877).
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HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Find content about physical education and recreation.
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Hispanic Life in America: The experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media.
ProQuest History Vault unlocks the wealth of key archival materials with a single search. Researchers can access digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and many more primary source materials taken from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collections.

Includes: Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle; NAACP Papers; Southern Life, Slaver, and the Civil War; American Indians and the American West; International Relations and Military Conflicts; Women’s Studies; Workers, Labor Unions, and Radical Politics
This database ontains more than 1.1 million records, with coverage dating back to 1931, with full text for over 525 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books. NOT ALL RESULTS ARE FULL-TEXT.
Human Rights Studies Online is a research and learning database providing comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than thirty additional subjects.
This database includes all data from Humanities International Index plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases. Humanities International Complete includes full text for more than 1,230 journals. NOT ALL RESULTS ARE FULL-TEXT.

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Access the JCE from 1924 - present.
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Search Ferrum's JSTOR subscriptions including: JSTOR Arts and Sciences Archive, Ecology & Botany I Archive, JSTOR Free Early Journal Content, and Health & General Sciences Archive Collections.

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Digital film streaming service. Please check Films on Demand for specific films first.

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Look for information about the legal aspects of many topics, including many social issues.
LGBT Thought and Culture is an online resource hosting books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. The collection illuminates the lives of lesbians, gays, transgender, and bisexual individuals and the community with content including selections from The National Archives in Kew, materials collected by activist and publisher Tracy Baim from the mid-1980s through the mid-2000s, the Magnus Hirschfeld and Harry Benjamin collections from the Kinsey Institute, periodicals such as En la Vida and BLACKlines, select rare works from notable LGBT publishers including Alyson Books and Cleis Press, as well as mainstream trade and university publishers.
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Indexes major subjects related to libraries and research from more than 580 journals dating back to 1960.
Excellent resource for peer-reviewed criticism, biographies, reviews, and original works.

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Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE Premier provides full text for magazines, reference books, and primary source documents. This database also provides an Image Collection containing photos, maps & flags.
A unique collection of medical research and scientific journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. MedicLatina contains a complete table of contents and PDF full text for peer-reviewed medical journals in the Spanish language.
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Search for articles and research in all fields of medicine here. You can also use this database to search Pubmed, the popular research database from the US National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health. NOT ALL RESULTS ARE FULL-TEXT.
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The Manuals are one of the world’s most widely used medical information resources.
Find industry and financial information for a wide variety of publicly and privately traded companies.
Designed to offer current news through a collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs for all branches of the military and government.
The definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore and film with the full text of more than 1,000 journals.

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Netflix has made select documentaries available on its YouTube channel, including the series Our Planet, Explained, Abstract, and Babies.
Includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 radio and news transcripts
This collection includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information, so providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, the series provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. In selected cases, users will be able to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants.
North American Indian Thought and Culture brings together more than 100,000 pages, many of which are previously unpublished, rare, or hard to find. The project integrates autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files for the first time. The result is a comprehensive representation of historical events as told by the individuals who lived through them.
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters from Colonial Times to 1950. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.
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The New York Times Academic Pass provides each Ferrum College student, faculty and staff member an online subscription to the nytimes.com site.

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Single search point for a majority of the library's databases and the library catalog.
Known commonly as the "OED," the Oxford English Dictionary has long been an authority in the defining of English words.
Oxford Music Online is the access point for Grove Music Online, Oxford History of Western Music, and other Oxford music reference resources.
Collects thousands of reference entries from a wide selection of Oxford encyclopedia, dictionaries, images, and other reference sources.
Provides access to full historical runs from approximately 1997 to 2019 for over 325+ journals published by Oxford University Press.

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Complete documentaries available to watch for free from the renowned PBS news program.
Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the full text of a growing number of digitized periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online. Periodicals Archive Online contains over 700 journals comprising more than 3 million articles and 15 million article pages.
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Indexes 479 American and English periodicals from (1802-1906). PDF version of original print index provided by Hathi Trust.
Alternate Name(s) congress statues at large public law laws house reports proceedings hearings
Includes Congressional Hearings Digital Collection, 1824-2003, Congressional Research Digital Collection, 1830-2003, US Serial Set Digital Collection, 1789-1969, and Executive Branch Documents, 1789-1939.
A collection of indexes, full-text, and primary source materials, including historical newspapers and full runs of periodicals, from ProQuest.
Provides extensive full-text coverage for a broad range of subjects in the fields of psychology, behavioral sciences and related disciplines. Provides particularly strong coverage in child & adolescent psychology and various areas of counseling.
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WELCOME TO PSYCHOTHERAPY.NET. Since 1995 we have been producing and distributing the highest quality training DVDs in the field of psychotherapy, and we think you will find these to be incredibly useful in the training of students and therapists. Additionally, we publish Articles, Interviews, Blogs, and Cartoons (all free of charge!) that make excellent educational resources—many of the therapists on our videos are also featured in interviews on this website.
PsycInfo / PsycArticles
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PubMed comprises more than 25 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Link to Ferrum College holdings from the full record.

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Provides access to all the information from 44 Readers’ Guide annuals in a single database, as well as to articles from approximately 375 leading magazines; many are peer reviewed.
Web-based bibliographic management software. Use RefWorks to collect reference and insert citations into either MS Word or Google Docs. Create an account from on-campus using your Ferrum email address.
Provides ultimate coverage for full-text business publications, on a regional level, for the United States and Canada. NOTE: Use the "Geographic Terms" option from the search drop-down to find news for a specific United States city or state.
Provides extensive coverage of topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political or historical philosophy. Includes more than 300 full text journals.

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The Salem Press Online ebook collection includes the Great Lives, Working Americans, Great Events from History, and Critical Insights series. Read Critical Insights: Hunger Games and Critical Insights: The Harry Potter Series here.
This source provides topic specific reports covering all aspects of health and wellness overviews on diseases, conditions, procedures and various treatments. Salud en Español is the one stop resource for evidence-based reports and fact sheets that are all in the Spanish Language.
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Science Magazine articles from 1997 to the present can be found here, as well as all of the AAAS's online content. (Older issues of Science Magazine can be found in the Academic Onefile database or the library's print collection.)
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A small but growing repository for articles written in the field of high-energy physics.
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974 brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. With 125,000 pages of text and 50 hours of video at completion, this searchable collection is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history, culture, and politics.
Social Work Online is a first-of-its-kind resource that pairs recently published social work textbooks along with compelling documentaries clinical demonstration videos, and engaging lectures that illustrate the complex and challenging realities social work students will face as practitioners. Curriculum areas: Children and Families; Older Adults; Crisis and Trauma; Immigration; Diversity; School and Social Work; Substance Abuse; Mental Health; Health Care.
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Indexing of 3,000+ and full-text of over 700 journals in sociology and social work, including topics such as political sociology, rural and urban sociology, social psychology, religious faith, demography, substance abuse, and other social or behavioral issues.
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SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the premier source of full text for sports and sports medicine journals. It includes the full text of journal articles from 550 titles, and active indexing for over 100 more. Select indexing and full-text coverage back to 1930.
Search the holdings of the Stanley Library and many of the holdings at the Blue Ridge Institute. The catalog includes books, DVDs, and nearly all eBooks and streaming videos accessible through the library.
The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Online it is 1400+ individually indexed tables with attached spreadsheets.
Individual streaming titles requested by Ferrum College Faculty.

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Indexing covers a variety of topics of interest to teachers, including assessment, best practices, pedagogy, and literacy standards, for teachers in all levels of education.
Twentieth Century North American Drama contains 2,059 plays by 434 playwrights, and more than 150 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors. This collection offers a unique window into the economic, historical, social, and political psyche of two countries.

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Offers full-text articles from a variety of French language business and industry journals.
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Check here for newspaper articles from all over Virginia during the 18th and 19th centuries. The entries here make ideal primary resources for historical research.

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The world's largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians.
Excellent coverage customized for Ferrum's community of all subjects from academic publisher Wiley & Sons. Strongest coverage in computer science, agricultural science, and mathematics. NOT ALL RESULTS ARE FULL-TEXT.
Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820 explores prominent themes in world history since 1820: conquest, colonization, settlement, resistance, and post-coloniality, as told through women’s voices. With a clear focus on bringing the voices of the colonized to the forefront, this highly-curated archive and database includes documents related to the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the British, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and United States Empires, and settler societies in the United States, New Zealand and Australia.
Coverage spans from 1972 and earlier to the present and contains the following database files: Women Studies Abstracts, Women's Studies Bibliography Database, Women's Studies Database, Women Studies Librarian, Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research, and Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography.
FirstSearch includes WorldCat, ArticleFirst, Medline, Electronic Books, ECO A&I, Clase and Periodica, ERIC, GPO, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst, WorldCat Dissertations & Theses, OAIster, and ArchiveGrid.

 

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Contains more than 1,000 fully searchable printed works from the beginning of Jim Crow to post-World War I. These works provide insights into African American culture and life during this period of segregation and disenfranchisement and include such topics as African American identity, relationships with peoples of other nations, and literature.
Contains nearly 1,400 fully searchable printed works from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of Jim Crow. It includes documents related to African Americans and citizenship, voting rights, literacy, land rights, employment, and more, including the gaps between written law and practice.
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Founded in 2009, Digital Theatre+ provides powerful ways to connect ELA and Theatre students with dramatic texts, poetry and performance. Today, Digital Theatre+ delivers engaging learning experiences for ELA and Theatre to students and educators in over 3,000 schools, colleges, and universities in 90+ countries.
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WELCOME TO PSYCHOTHERAPY.NET. Since 1995 we have been producing and distributing the highest quality training DVDs in the field of psychotherapy, and we think you will find these to be incredibly useful in the training of students and therapists. Additionally, we publish Articles, Interviews, Blogs, and Cartoons (all free of charge!) that make excellent educational resources—many of the therapists on our videos are also featured in interviews on this website.
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Indexing of 3,000+ and full-text of over 700 journals in sociology and social work, including topics such as political sociology, rural and urban sociology, social psychology, religious faith, demography, substance abuse, and other social or behavioral issues.
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SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the premier source of full text for sports and sports medicine journals. It includes the full text of journal articles from 550 titles, and active indexing for over 100 more. Select indexing and full-text coverage back to 1930.
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