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Academic Search Premier from EbscoHost: Includes abstracts and indexing for nearly 4,330 journals, with full text for over 3,390.
Alternative Press Index via FirstSearch: Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines in the areas of cultural, economic, political & social change
Alternative Press Index Archive via FirstSearch: International, interdisciplinary guide to alternative sources of information published from 1969-1990
Article1st via FirstSearch: 1990-present; Index of articles and tables of contents from nearly 12,500 journals
Business Source Premier from EbscoHost: Includes abstracts and indexing for 3,110 business journals, and full text from over 2,850.
Clase Periódica via FirstSearch: Clase 1975- and Periódica 1978-; CLASE indexes Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities, and PERIÓDICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. They offer access to more than 400,000 bibliographic citations from 2,600 scholarly journals published in Latin America and the Caribbean
CQ Researcher: 1983-present; Weekly issues contain articles on current and controversial topics
Credo Reference: A collection of reference books in all disciplines
CSU-Pueblo Journals AtoZ: A searchable list of all journals available through the CSU-Pueblo Library
Ethnic NewsWatch via Proquest: 1990-present; "An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press"
FINDarticles.com: 1998-present; Searchable database of full-text articles from nearly 300 magazines and journals.
Fuente Academica: This database is no longer available due to state budgetary constraints. Alternative: Clase Periódica.
IngentaConnect: Searchable database of scholarly journals that provides customized accounts
JSTOR: Full text archival access to journals in the Arts and Sciences I, II, and III and Language and Literature Collections
LexisNexis: Full text in the areas of news, business, legal research, and medicine
MasterFILE Elite (formerly MasterFile Premier): A general interest database, including full text from 86,019 biographies
OAIster: Covers a wide range of years.; Searches a wide variety of digital collections and repositories from research institutions. Includes preprint articles, papers, theses, and much more.
OCLC FirstSearch: Visit a collection of 60+ databases in a variety of subject areas with citations for periodical articles and books.
Oxford Reference Online: Includes "language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource"
PapersFirst via FirstSearch: 10/1993-present; An index of papers presented at conferences
Periodical Abstracts via FirstSearch: 1986-present; Abstracts to articles in general and scholarly periodicals as well as transcripts of television and radio programs
Points of View Reference Center: This database is no longer available due to state budgetary constraints. Alternatives: TOPICSearch
Proceedings via FirstSearch: 10/1993-present; An index of conference publications
Readers Guide Abstracts via Wilson OmniFile under Subject Area: Abstracts of articles from popular magazines
RefWorks: Create your own database of research citations and generate bibliographies
ScienceDirect Journals: A collection of approximately 1800 full text journals in a wide variety of subject areas
SIRS Researcher via FirstSearch: Index to magazine articles
TOPICSearch: Current events including social, political and economic issues and scientific discoveries
Wilson Select Plus via FirstSearch: 1994-present; Indexes and abstracts a variety of professional, scholarly, and trade journals and magazines
WilsonWeb OmniFile Full Text Select: 1994- present; Full text of over 1,600 selected journals from 11 specialized databases
WorldCat via FirstSearch: Books and other materials in libraries worldwide

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Arts and Humanities

American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I: Broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. Published by Readex, a division of NewsBank, inc.
American Film Scripts Online via Alexander Street Press: "Contains 497 scripts by 605 writers with information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts."
Art Index via Wilson OmniFile under Subject Area: An index to leading publications in the world of the arts
Arts & Humanities Search via FirstSearch: A citation index to articles on the topics of arts and humanities
Asian American Drama via Alexander Street Press: Fifty-two plays by 42 playwrights with information on "related productions, theaters, production companies, and more."
Black Drama 1850-Present via Alexander Street Press: "Contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, with information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more."
Black Short Fiction via Alexander Street Press: "Contains approximately 4,370 stories and folktales by 272 African, African American, and Caribbean authors."
Classical Music Reference Library: Covers the entire history of Western classical music, and includes Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music.
Contemporary Authors via Galenet: Currently updated; Biography and Criticism of Authors
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select via Galenet: Currently updated; Literary Criticism of a broad range of works
Contemporary Literary Criticism Online (Full version): Full back issues of Contemporary Literary Criticism series from Gale publishers
Search all Gale literary resources with Gale Publisher's Literary Index: An indexing service that cross references the many Gale literary reference series. It's easy to search for an author or title, print out your results, and then head for the shelves.
Humanities Index via Wilson OmniFile under Subject Area: An index of articles in humanities journals
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism and Theory
: "presents a comprehensive historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements"
JSTOR: Full text archival access to journals in the Arts and Sciences I, II, and III and Language and Literature Collections
Latino Literature via Alexander Street Press: "Contains approximately 380 plays and 67,500 pages of prose and poetry by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States."
Literary Criticism Online: Literary criticism series from Gale publishers
Literary Reference Center: This database is no longer available due to state budgetary constraints. Alternatives: Contemporary Literary Criticism Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism and Theory, Credo Reference
Media Review Digest via FirstSearch: Reviews of educational media and entertainment resources
MLA Bibliography via Ebsco: Modern Language Association's Index to Articles
Novelist: This database is no longer available due to state budgetary constraints. Alternatives: None suggested.
North American Theatre Online via Alexander Street Press: "Contains 834 plays by 124 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more."
North American Women's Drama via Alexander Street Press: "Contains 1021 plays by 247 playwrights, together with information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more."
Oxford English Dictionary: The second edition, 1989
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period via Alexander Street Press: "Contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry, extensive contemporary critical reviews, as well as material...by leading scholars."
Tales Online: Approximately 2000 international folktales.
Twentieth Century North American Drama via Alexander Street Press: "contains 1,386 plays by 209 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more."
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online: Annotated entries for a broad range of Shakespeare related materials published or produced between 1964 and 2006

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Business and Management

ABI Inform via FirstSearch: National and international articles on business and management
Business and Industry via FirstSearch: Current article citations on Business and Industry
Business & Management Practices via FirstSearch: An index of article citations on business and management practices
Business Dateline via FirstSearch: Citations on regional business articles
Business Organizations via FirstSearch: Directory of new and established organizations, agencies, and publications worldwide.
Business Source Premier via EbscoHost: Includes abstracts and indexing for 3,110 business journals, and full text from over 2,850. The Business Source Premier Business Interface allows searching by Company and Industry Profiles, and Country and Market Research Reports.
CCH Tax Research NetWork: Provides comprehensive federal, state, and international tax information.
Corporate ResourceNet: This database is no longer available due to state budgetary constraints. Alternative: Business Source Premier.
Disclosure via FirstSearch: Financial reports on publicly owned companies
Econ Lit via FirstSearch: An index of articles from economics journals
Hoovers Online: Company information
LexisNexis: Full text in the areas of news, business, legal research, and medicine
Mergent Online: US and international company data and annual reports, industry reports, expanded long-term debt, fact sheets, and corporate bond portraits
Regional Business News: This database provides coverage for 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from rural and metropolitan areas within the United States, and is updated daily.
Thomas Register: Password Required
WARC: World Advertising Research Center: "Provides the largest single source of intelligence for the marketing, advertising, media and research communities worldwide, drawn from more than 40 international sources."
Wilson Business Abstracts via Wilson OmniFile under Subject Area: Leading English-language business periodicals
Worldscope via FirstSearch: Financial reports on companies worldwide

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Education

Education Index via Wilson OmniFile under Subject Area: Citations to articles from leading publications in the field of education
ERIC via Ebsco: 1966-present; The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. It provides access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year. Ebsco's version of ERIC offers full text article linking and links to EDRS full text documents.
ERIC: Education Research Information CenterUS Dept of Education web site: Offers full text of ERIC documents
Kids Search - Middle & Elementary School: Includes a vocabulary builder, photos and videos, encyclopedia, dictionary, and teacher resources such as curriculum standards.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts: Provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more
Library Literature via Wilson OmniFile under Subject Area: Articles on libraries and librarianship Full Coverage here. Contact a librarian for login information
MAS Ultra School Edition: Contains abstracts and full text of 520 periodicals covering a broad range of topics, Magill Book Reviews, the CIA Factbook, and Essential Documents in American History. Provides Lexile rankings
Middle Search Plus: Full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines, biographies, primary source documents, an Image Collection, maps and flags, with Lexile levels
Novelist K-8: This database is no longer available due to state budgetary constraints. Alternatives: None suggested.
Primary Search: Full text and indexing of children's magazines, as well as World Almanac for Kids and the Encyclopedia of Animals. Provides Lexile rankings
Professional Development Collection: This database is no longer available due to state budgetary constraints. Alternatives: ERIC

Searchasaurus - Elementary School: Contains images, the American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, and a visual search interface for elementary school-aged children.
Student Research Center - High School & Middle School: Includes a variety of resources: magazines, reference books, photos, and flags, as well as searching tutorials.
Teacher Reference Center: Provides coverage on assessment, continuing education, pedagogical research, curriculum development, and other topics.

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Government and Law

Colorado Virtual Library: Colorado state government and information
FindLaw: Find cases, statutes, laws, and legal articles
GPO via FirstSearch: 7/1976-present; Catalog of U.S. government publications
GPO Access: Government Printing Office official web site to link to numerous federal information databases
Index to Legal Periodicals via Wilson OmniFile under Subject Area: Index to articles from legal periodicals & books
LexisNexis: Full text in the areas of news, business, legal research, and medicine
Marcive: 7/1976-present; Catalog of government publications in libraries around the country
Military and Government Collection: This database is no longer available due to state budgetary constraints. Alternatives: Academic Search Premier

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Health and Medicine

Biology Digest via FirstSearch: Non-technical digests in biology, ecology & health
Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic: This database is no longer available due to state budgetary constraints. Alternatives: BioMed Central ; PubMed Central.
BIOSIS Previews: Contains content from journals, books, patents, and meetings in the areas of life sciences, biomedicine, preclinical and experimental research, and provides searching by BIOSIS indexing, MESH subject headings, and CAS registry numbers.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text: Includes over 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937 from more than 560 journals. Of those, nearly 400 have cover-to-cover indexing
Consumer Health Complete: This database is no longer available due to state budgetary constraints. Alternative: Medline Plus.
Health Source: Consumer Edition: This database is no longer available due to state budgetary constraints. Alternative: CINAHL Plus with Full Text.
MedicLatina: This database is no longer available due to state budgetary constraints. Alternatives: Clase Peroidica
Medline via Web of Science: MEDLINE is the premier database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It contains over 12 million records of journal articles in all areas of the life sciences, with particular emphasis on biomedicine.
MEDLINE via FirstSearch: 1965-present; Abstracted articles from medical journals
MedlinePlus: The National Library of Medicine (NLM)'s consumer health site
Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Basic: This database is no longer available due to state budgetary constraints. Alternatives: Cinahl Plus w/ Full Text
PubMed: NLM's search service to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE
Salud en Espanol (CHC Spanish Version): A database, in Spanish, designed for the everyday consumer of health care information, and provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information
SPORTDiscus: Comprehensive coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over 600,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800.

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History

American Civil War: Letters and Diaries via Alexander Street Press: "This release contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs."
Archive of Americana: Published by Readex, a division of NewsBank, inc. This family of historical collections contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over three centuries.
Black Short Fiction and Folklore from Africa and the African Diaspora via Alexander Street Press: "Black Thought and Culture contains 795 sources with 434 authors which includes the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans."
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries via Alexander Street Press: "Includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters."
Early Encounters in North America via Alexander Street Press: "This release of Early Encounters in North America contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters."
The Gilded Age: Coverage includes race, labor, immigration, western expansion, and women’s suffrage, in primary source materials such as video interviews, photographs, songs, letters, cartoons, and emphemera.

ACLS Humanities E-Book Project (formerly entitled "History E-Book Project"): "A fully searchable collection of high-quality books in history, recommended and reviewed by historians."
History Reference Center: This database is no longer available due to state budgetary constraints. Alternative: Credo Reference.
JSTOR: Full text archival access to journals in the Arts and Sciences I, II and III and Language and Literature Collections
Nineteenth Century American Newspapers: Includes hundreds of newspapers from cover to cover
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories via Alexander Street Press: "Includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information" about immigration between 1800 and 1950.
North American Indian Thought and Culture via Alexander Street Press: "Contains approximately 27,000 pages of text and images. Included are biographies, autobiographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories."
North American Women's Letters and Diaries via Alexander Street Press: "Includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters."
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection: Around 700 mostly British newspapers and pamphlets collected by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817)

Mathematics

MathSciNet: Contains reviews, abstracts and for mathematical sciences literature. Over 80,000 new items are added each year.

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Newspapers

Alternative Press Index via FirstSearch: Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines in the areas of cultural, economic, political & social change
Alternative Press Index Archive via FirstSearch: International, interdisciplinary guide to alternative sources of information published from 1969-1990.
America's Historical Newspapers
Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection (Collaborative Digitization Project): A joint endeavor of the Colorado State Library, Colorado Historical Society and the Collaborative Digitization Program, providing online digitized copies of many Colorado newspapers published from 1859 to 1923.
Ethnic NewsWatch via Proquest: 1990-present; "An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press"
LexisNexis: Full text in the areas of news, business, legal research, and medicine
McClatchy Tribune Collection: This database is no longer available due to state budgetary constraints. Alternatives: Newspaper Source and Lexis-Nexis Academic
Newspaper Abstracts via FirstSearch: Article Abstracts from over 25 newspapers
Newspaper Source: Cover-to-cover full text for 25 national and international newspapers, and selective coverage of over 335 regional US papers
Nineteenth Century American Newspapers: Includes hundreds of newspapers from cover to cover
NYTimes Archives Search - Index (1851 - 1980): The New York Times Article Archive: 1851-1980 includes New York Times articles with accompanying photos, charts and graphs from September 18, 1851 through December 31, 1980. These articles are in PDF Format which requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Articles in the Public Domain (1851-1922) can be accessed for free. For-cost articles can be obtained for free by writing down the article's author, title, volume/issue, and year, and bringing it to the library's 3rd floor.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection: Around 700 mostly British newspapers and pamphlets collected by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817)

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Reference Databases

Books in Print via FirstSearch: R. R. Bowker's Books In Print
Colorado Virtual Library: Colorado Libraries and Information Resources; 72,000+ Multimedia Encyclopedia Articles
Consumer Index via FirstSearch: An index of articles providing consumer information
CQ Researcher: 1983-present; Weekly issues contain articles on current and controversial topics
Credo Reference: A collection of reference books in all disciplines
CSU-Pueblo Journals AtoZ: A searchable list of all journals available through the CSU-Pueblo Library
Digital Dissertations via Proquest: Full text electronic dissertations from 1997-, citations of dissertations from 1861-, and of theses from 1988-
Dissertation Abstracts via FirstSearch: An index to dissertations
Ebsco Animals: Information on a variety of animals
Fact Search via FirstSearch: Facts and statistics on topics of current interest
Funk & Wagnalls: Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Library Literature via Wilson OmniFile under Subject Area: Articles on libraries and librarianship Full Coverage here. Contact a librarian for logon information.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts: Provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more
MLA Directory of Periodicals: "Detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography." Includes submission guidelines.
North American Indian Biographical Database via Alexander Street Press: "Contains approximately 27,000 pages of text and images. Included are biographies, autobiographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories."
Oxford English Dictionary: The second edition, 1989
Oxford Reference Online: Includes "language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource"
RefWorks: Create your own database of research citations and generate bibliographies
World Almanac via FirstSearch: World Almanacs

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Science & Technology

Agricola: This database is no longer available due to state budgetary constraints. Alternatives: Agricola National Agricultural Library version; BIOSIS.
American Chemical Society Journals: Search current and archival full text articles of many ACS journal titles. 1879-
Applied Science & Technology Index via Wilson OmniFile under Subject Area: Applied science and technology journal articles
Automobile Repair Reference Center: This database is no longer available due to state budgetary constraints. No suggested alternative.
Biology Digest via FirstSearch: Non-technical digests in biology, ecology & health
Biological & Agricultural Index via Wilson OmniFile under Subject Area: Citations to articles from leading publications in agriculture and biology
Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic: This database is no longer available due to state budgetary constraints. Alternatives: BioMed Central ; PubMed Central.
BIOSIS Previews: Contains content from journals, books, patents, and meetings in the areas of life sciences, biomedicine, preclinical and experimental research, and provides searching by BIOSIS indexing, MESH subject headings, and CAS registry numbers.
Chemical Abstracts: Ask a Reference Librarian about searching this database.
General Science Index via Wilson OmniFile under Subject Area: Index to articles in leading general science periodicals
GEOBASE via FirstSearch: Worldwide literature on geography and geology
GreenFILE: Includes government reports, and articles on all aspects of environmental issues
JSTOR: Full text archival access to journals in the Arts and Sciences I and II and Language and Literature Collections
Knovel Library: Science and engineering reference sources
NTIS: National Technical Information Service: Allows searching and retrieval of government produced engineering, life sciences, and technology publications. You must see a Reference Librarian in order to login to this site.
Ovid Full-Text Nursing Plus: OvidSP is a suite of health-related databases that include journals for nursing research.
ScienceDirect Journals: Collections of full text journals in a wide variety of subject areas
Science Reference Center: This database is no longer available due to state budgetary constraints. Alternatives: Knovel Library and BIOSIS Previews
SciFinder Scholar: SciFinder is a research discovery tool that searches the CAS databases, which contain literature from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more. Please contact a librarian for access information at (719) 549-2333.
STN Science and Technology Databases: Ask a Reference Librarian about these databases; About 50 specialized databases including EICompendex and INSPEC searchable by appointment.

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Social Sciences

Communication and Mass Media Complete: Created by the merging of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index databases, provides full text of over 200 titles and citation information to many more
Contemporary Women's Issues via FirstSearch: Indexes articles about women's issues
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts: The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database is an information clearinghouse for people around the U.S. and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control.
PsycINFO: Provides indexing and abstracts for over one million articles in 1,700 journals from over 50 countries. Also includes abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters ranging in date from 1887 to the present.
Social Sciences Index via Wilson OmniFile under Subject Area: Guide to the literature of the social sciences
SocINDEX with Fulltext: "Contains full text for 235 'core' coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 545 books and monographs, and full text for 6,601 conference papers."

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