Electronic Library Resources A-Z

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  • Academic Index ASAP
    Articles in the humanities, social sciences, psychology, economic development and of general interest.
  • Academic OneFile
    Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.
  • Academic Search Complete
    Multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals designed to support the humanities, social sciences, psychology, economic development and general interest. This database is an update to Academic Search Premier.
  • AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive
    Electronic library of the Associated Press' current year's photo report and a selection of images dating back to 1840s.
  • AccuWeather Premium Weather Service
    AccuWeather Premium is the subscription site of the well-known website - Accuweather.com - no adds, pop-ups or banners.
  • ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
    ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) Project contains over 1500 books of high quality in the humanities.
  • ACM Digital Library Core Collection
    Full text collection of journals, magazines and transactions and proceedings published by ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), including over 50 years of archives.
  • AllYouCanRead.com
    Free source of current newspapers and trade magazines from about 200 countries.
  • America: History and Life on the Web
    Published since 1964, America: History and Life is the most comprehensive bibliographic reference tool covering history and culture of the United States and Canada.
  • AWP eLink 
    Association of Writers and Writing Programs portal to:  the "Writer's Chronicle",  AWP news,  information on careers, grants, awards, and conferences for writers.  Access is limited to students and faculty in the M.F.A. program. Contact Dr. Robert Begiebing to obtain a username and password.
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  • Bartleby.com
    Great Books Online - includes Columbia Encyclopedia 6th ed., American Heritage Dictionary, Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, and many more free reference books.
  • BLOOMBERG Business News Service
    BLOOMBERG provides news, data and analysis for global financial markets and businesses and supplies real-time pricing, data, history, analytics and electronic communications 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. SNHU has BLOOMBERG terminals in the Library Reference Office and in The Center for Financial Studies. [Access is restricted to current SNHU students and faculty]
  • BNA Human Resource Library
    Plain-English coverage of virtually every issue HR departments must address in the areas of personnel management, fair employment practices, compensation, wages and hours, and labor relations.
  • Book Index with Reviews
    A comprehensive database that provides information on over 3.8 million book titles in a wide range of formats, including large print, books on tape.
  • Books 24x7
    The ITPro and FinancePro Library Collections provide online access to the full, unabridged contents of thousands of business and techincal books. Students and faculty must use their SNHU e-mail address to register for a personal bookshelf.
  • Britannica Online
    Online version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica - the largest, most authoritative encyclopedia in the world.
  • Business and Company Resource Center
    Business & Company Resource Center brings together in a single database company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals.
  • Business Index ASAP
    Perform in-depth research on management issues, economic indicators and business theories and practices, as well as on the activities of companies and industries worldwide.
  • Business Source Complete
    Provides full-text for nearly 1,040 journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting. Now contains indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886. Provides full-text coverage to the Harvard Business Review.
  • Business Searching Interface for Business Source Complete
    Search interface for Business Source Complete which highlights searching by company, industry, country and market research reports.
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  • Cabell's Directories
    Directories of Publishing Opportunities in Accounting, Economics and Finance, Management, Marketing, Education, Psychology and Library Science. 
  • Child Development & Adolescent Studies
    Today's source for references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21.
  • Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
    CLCD is an acquisition, research, and reference service that offers more than 1,400,000 MARC records and more than 260,000 reviews of children's books 
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education
    The number one source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
  • Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
    Includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.[Off-Campus users must also register with CIAO for a user name and password. Choose the "Remote Access" link on the left navigation bar and follow the directions.]
  • Communications & Mass Media Complete
    Quality research in areas related to communication and mass media.
  • The CQ Researcher
    The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.
  • Credo Reference
    A giant online reference library that provides you with access to a selection of reference books from a total of 162. Credo Reference includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, not to mention a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law. 
  • Criminal Justice Abstracts
    A criminology database from SAGE Publications, which contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.  Abstracts Only - for full-text follow "SNHU Article Linker" or "Interlibrary Loan" links.
  • CultureGrams
    One of the most trusted and widely used cultural reference and curriculum products in the education, government, and non-profit arenas.
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  • D&B Key Business Ratio
    Utilize the company's database of financial statements of U.S. corporations, partnerships and proprietorships to calculate 14 key business ratios.
  • Datastream Research Services
    Contains key data sets from both developed and emerging markets - equities, market indices, company accounts, macroeconomics, bonds, foreign exchange, interest rates, commodities and derivatives. SNHU has DATASTREAM software on terminals in the Library Reference Office, The Center for Financial Studies, and the International Business Modelling Lab. [ Access is restricted to current SNHU students and faculty]
  • Directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries
    The authoritive source of information on American firms, which have branches, subsidiaries, or affiliates outside the United States.
  • Directory of Foreign Firms Operating in the United States
    The authoritive sources of information for corporations, government agencies, organizations, institutions, and individuals involved in international commerce or investment.
  • Dissertations & Theses: Full Text
    With more than 2.4 million entries, the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: Full Text (PQDT) database is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world.
  • Dissertations Abstract
    Selectively covers masters theses and dissertations including dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe.  Coverage = 1861 to present; abstracts = 1980 to present.
  • DOAJ
    Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
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  • EBSCOhost
    Main site of EBSCOhost database of full-text articles and abstracts of articles in magazines, journals and newspapers. Offers the ability to search multiple databases at one time.
  • EDUCATION Index Full-text
    Abstracting and indexing of 478 periodicals as far back as 1983 and full-text of 204 periodicals as far back as 1996 in the field of education.
  • EIU Viewswire
    Premier, international database from Economist Intelligence Unit, a leading provider of country, industry and management analysis. Provides country analysis on over 200 markets, industry trends in nine key sectors, and the latest management strategies and best practices.
  • EMERALD Full-text
    Subject coverage spans a spectrum of management disciplines including: strategy; leadership; library and information management; marketing and human resource management; plus a substantial number of engineering, applied science and technology titles.
  • Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing 
    Provides a comprehensive, critical and descriptive examination of concepts, issues, trends, and challenges in +this rapidly expanding field of data warehousing and mining (DWM).
  • Encyclopedia of Distance Learning 
    Offers the most comprehensive coverage of the issues, concepts, trends, and technologies of distance learning.
  • Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology
    The premier sources for information and technology research.
  • Environment Reporter
    Since EPA was founded in 1970, Environment Reporter has provided industry and the legal profession with unrivaled notification of current environmental developments.
  • ERIC
    Educational Resource Information Center database from the U.S. Department of Education, contains citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals as well as full-text of more than 2,200 digests.
  • Europa World Plus
    Online version of one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories.
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  • Family & Society Studies Worldwide
    A core resource providing the most comprehensive coverage of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development, and Social Welfare.  
  • FirstSearch
    A comprehensive online indexing service that provides access to 33 databases including OCLC's WorldCat and Dissertation Abstracts.
  • Funk and Wagnells New World Encyclopedia
    This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
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  • General Business File
    Database of full-text articles and abstract of articles in business and management related topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies andindustries.
  • GPO Access
    GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government.
  • GreenFILE 
    A bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns that indexes scholarly and general interest titles as well as govenment documents and reports.
  • Grove's Encyclopedia of Art -see Oxford Art Online
    Contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts, painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography from prehistory to the present day.
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  • HAPI Online
    Hispanic America Periodicals Index Online is your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United states-Mexico border region in the United States.
  • Health Source
    Provides scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 550 journals. A link to USP DI Volume II, Advice for the Patient is also available.
  • Historical Statistics of the United States
    Landmark reference source that is the standard for quantitative facts of American history.
  • Hoover's
    Provides access to powerful tools and business information on more than 12 million US and non-US companies, industries, and the people who run them.
  • Hospitality and Tourism Index Complete
    Hospitality & Tourism Index Complete covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism, with the full text for more than 200 publications.
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  • INFOTRAC
    Main site of INFOTRAC database of full-text articles and abstracts of articles in magazines, journals and newspapers.
  • International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
    The IESBS is the first attempt in a generation to map the social and behavioral sciences on a grand scale. The largest reference work ever published for the social and behavioral sciences includes 3,842 signed articles, 15 million words of text, 90,000 bibliographic references and 150 biographical entries. Shapiro Library has IESBS available in electronic and print format.
  • International Environment Reporter
    International Environment Reporter keeps you informed of international environmental law and policy in the major industrialized and developing nations. Contains all issues published sinc Feb. 7, 1996.
  • International Financial Statistics
    Statistical database from the International Monetary Fund.
  • Investext Plus
    Search this database to find investment, company and industry reports from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East
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  • JSTOR: the Scholarly Journal Archive
    Database of archival issues of scholarly journals, many dating back to inception. SNHU subscription to the Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences II, and Arts & Sciences IV collections includes the complete runs of over 300 important journals.
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  • KCDL online
    KCDL or the Krause Curriculum Development Library is a searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards that brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.
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  • Legal Periodicals Full Text
    Complete coverage of the most important English language legal information in scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, and more. Contains Indexing, 1981+; Abstracting, 1990+; Full Text 1995+.
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
    An article database which contains millions of documents from over 8,000 news and business sources and 4,800 legal sources. Numerous databases are included.  
  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
    Indexes periodicals, books, research reports and proceedings in librarianship, online information retrieval, information management and more.
  • Literature Criticism Online
    The largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available 24/7.  SNHU subscribes to: Contemporary Literary Criticism, 1960 - present; Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, 1900-1960; and Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism.
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  • MEDLINE
    MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
  • Mental Measurements Yearbook
    Produced by the Buros Institute at, University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. The MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
  • Mergent Online
    Mergent Online is a subscription-based service offering financial information on 11,000 U.S. public companies and 17,000 non-U.S. public companies from Mergent, Inc.Collection includes company annual reports and SEC (EDGAR) filings.
  • Mergerstat Online Transaction Roster
    A high quality global database of Mergers & Acquisitons that records M&A transactions dating from 2001 to the present. Contact Reference Desk (ext. 2161) or reference@snhu.edufor username and password, please provide your student ID number.
  • Mintel Reports
    Mintel offers market research reports covering US and International marketplaces. Each report combines data & analysis of the competitive landscape, market-share analysis and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market.
  • Military and Government Collection
    Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites.
  • MLA Directory of Periodicals
    The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography
  • MLA  International Bibliography
    Electronic version of the premier bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertationsof journal articles, books and dissertations produced by the Modern Language Association.
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  • NCJRS
    National Criminal Justice Reference Service  is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. The NCJRS Library and Abstracts provide access to summaries of more than 195,000 justice and substance abuse resources.
  • NCJRS
    Ebsco version of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service that provides a familiar search interface and full-text linking to our other databases.
  • New York Times - Historical
    Digitized full-text and full-image articles from The New York Times from its first issue in 1851 to 2002.
  • NetAdvantage
    Online access to Standard and Poor's most popular research products including Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Mutual Fund Reports, Bond Guide, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, and The Outlook.
  • NetLibrary
    Provides access to over 1,424 full-text E-Books in the fields of education, psychology, biology & life sciences, business, economics & management and general social sciences plus numerous E-Books in the public domain. Users must "create an account" with netLibrary on their website before gaining access to full-text information. About NetLibrary...
  • Newspaper Source
    Provides full-text for 139 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six newswires, and nine newspaper columns.
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  • OneSource
    International Businesses database in Reference USA that includes in-depth company profiles on 3 million international companies, including key executives and detailed financial information. Great for research on large companies and their foreign parents and subsidiaries.
  • Opposing Viewpoints
    Provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. User can access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
  • Oxford Art Online 
    An innovative new gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. Grove Art Online contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts, painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography from prehistory to the present day.
  • Oxford English Dictionary
    The foremost authority on the evolution of the English language. It gives the meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million words and traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations.
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  • Periodicals Archive Online
    Periodicals Archive Online (formerly PCI Full Text) is a major online periodical archive which makes the full image of periodical articles in the humanities and social sciences, from 1770 to 1995, available in digital form.
  • Project Muse
    Over 300 full-text, peer-reviewed current journals from more than 58 scholarly publishers in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences are available in this database provided by Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • PROMT
    Predicast Overview of Markets and Technology. Use this database to research companies, the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in which they compete.
  • Psych-Articles
    The definitive source of searchable full-text articles on current issues in psychology. Contains more than 25,000 searchable full-text articles from 38 journals published by the APA.
  • PsychExtra
    PsycEXTRA, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), is a bibliographic and full text companion database to the scholarly PsycINFO database. The document types included in PsycEXTRA consist of technical, annual and government reports, conference papers, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more.
  • Psych-INFO: 1887 to current.
    Provides indexing and abstracts for over one million articles in 1,500 journals from over 50 countries. This database, provided by the American Psychological Association, also includes abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters ranging in date from 1887 to the present.
  • Psychiatry Online
    PsychiatryOnline is a powerful website that features DSM-IV-TR® and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of an unsurpassed collection of psychiatric references, including books, journals, and self-assessment tools.
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  • Reference USA
    The No. 1 source of information on businesses and people for researchers, students, job seekers and government agencies. Databases include U.S. Businesses, Canadian Businesses, International Businesses, Healthcare, U.S. Residents and Canadian Residents.
  • RefWorks
    RefWorks is an online bibliographic management system that allows users to creat their own personal databases of references. RefWorks allows users to format papers and bibliographies in a variety of styles, including APA and MLA.
  • Regional Business News
    Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
  • RIA Checkpoint (ON CAMPUS USE )
    Database that includes RIA Federal Tax Library, RIA State and Local Tax Library, and RIA International Tax Library. This link is for library/on-campus use only - user name and password not required.
  • RIA Checkpoint (OFF CAMPUS USE)
    Database that includes RIA Federal Tax Library, RIA State and Local Tax Library, and RIA International Tax Library. This link is for students or faculty who need to access RIA Checkpoint from off-campus or who wish to save searches. After you login with your SNHU E-mail address and password, you must register at the RIA Checkpoint Registration site for an unique RIA user name & password. An e-mail will be sent to each user with user name, password and instructions. Students and Faculty requiring access to FASB information should contact Carol West for a special user name and password.
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  • Safari Tech Books Online
    Safari Tech Books Online offers an exclusive collection of highly acclaimed reference content from the two premier IT publishers, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., and The Pearson Technology Group. The SNHU Bookshelf contains over 260 titles chosen to support our IT curriculum. [Please Note: If you are using IE and need to print, right-click on the "print icon" and choose "Open in New Window"].
  • SAGE Journals Online
    The delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. SNHU has access to 450 SAGE  journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
  • SBR Net
    Research homepage of Fitness Information Technology that includes information on sport, sport management and sport marketing topics.
  • Science Direct
    Offers a collection of over 2,000 titles in science, technology, medicine, and social sciences. Shapiro Library subscribes to a number of titles with free full text access and provides a "pay-per-view" service through an account funded by the library.  If  you see this message: “This article is not included in your organization's subscription. However, you may be able to access this article under your organization's agreement with Elsevier. Click the Continue button below to proceed.”,  selecting “Continue” will download the article.  Please try to determine if the article will be useful before you download the full text by reading the citation and abstract, which are available for free.   
  • SocINDEX with Full-Text
    The world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 253 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals, full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.
  • SPORTDiscus
    The most comprehensive database of sport and fitness information.
  • Sports Market Place Directory Website
    Provides access to over 13,000 leagues, teams, sports media, agencies, equipment manufacturers, associations and more. Contact Reference Desk (ext. 2161) or reference@snhu.edu for username and password, please provide your student ID number.
  • SRDS Media Solutions
    The leading provider of media rates and data. Library subscribes to: Business Publication Advertising Source; Consumer Magazine Advertising Source; Direct Marketing List Source; Newspaper Advertising Source; Radio Advertising Source; TV and Cable Source; and Interactive Advertising Source .
  • STAT-USA
    A service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, it is the site for the U.S. business, economic and trade community, providing authoritative information from the Federal government. Includes access to National Trade Databank.
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  • Tests in Print
    Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
  • Travel Industry Association of America Research Publications
    The authoritative and recognized source of research, analysis and forecasting for the travel and tourism industry. Library subscribes to the Premier Subscription Package that includes all reports and statistical databases. Contact Reference Desk (ext. 2161) or reference@snhu.edu for member login and password, please provide your student ID number.
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  • USAGov
    Premier search engine that retrieves information from all the web sites of the U.S. federal government.
  • UlrichsWeb.com
    Online vesion of "Ulrich's Periodical Directory", the global source of periodical information since 1932.
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  • Valueline Research Center
    Includes on-line access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.
  • Vault Online Career Library
    Online access to over 60 guidebooks, over 2,500 company profiles and over 1,100 career advice articles. For career services contact the SNHU Career Development Office.
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  • Wall Street Journal
    Full-text articles from the world's leading financial newspaper dating back to 1986. Database is updated daily.
  • WorldCat
    OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
  • World Competitiveness Online
    Well-known reference for analyzing and ranking the competitiveness of nations.  ON-CAMPUS ACCESS ONLY.