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General & Reference databases

Databanks (Collections of databases)
General interest and reference databases
Online reference books

Databanks (Collections of Databases)

EBSCO Databases
Several scholarly and general index databases, some with full text
 
InfoTrac databases
A collection of academic and general interest databases
New PowerSearch interface
Original InfoTrac interface
 
LexisNexis Academic
Provides the full text of many news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, including national and regional newspapers, wire services, and broadcast transcripts [More info]
 
FirstSearch databases
A small collection of journal indexes
 

General interest and reference databases

A - C | E - L | M - O | P - Z
Academic Search Premier
An all-purpose academic database covering many disciplines [More info]
 
Alternative Press Index [password required]
Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change [More info]
 
Books in Print [password required]
In-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios and videos [More info]
 
Britannica Online
Browse or search more than 100,000 articles from Encyclopædia Britannica. Includes photographs, illustrations, sound files, and video clips; a dictionary and thesaurus; and statistical data for the countries of the world. [More info]
 
Credo Reference
A digital reference library of dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, books of quotations, and subject-specific titles, covering many subjects, all from leading publishers. [More info]
 
EBSCO MegaFILE
A "catchall" conglomeration of other four other EBSCO databases [More info]
 
Expanded Academic ASAP
A multidisciplinary database; a good starting point for many academic research topics [More info]
 
General OneFile (formerly InfoTrac OneFile)
An all-purpose database covering a wide range of subjects, providing access to more than 5,500 scholarly and popular full-text journals [More info]
 
General Reference Center Gold
A multidisciplinary database indexing mostly popular or general interest magazines such as you would find in a public library [More info]
 
Google Scholar
An Internet search engine for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports [More info]
 
InfoTrac K-12 databases
A variety of databases for kindergarten through high school [More info]
 
MasterFILE Premier
A multidisciplinary database designed specifically for public libraries [More info]
 
OCLC databases
See WorldCat
 
OED Online
Online version of The Oxford English Dictionary, the authoritative guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past, from across the English-speaking world [More info]
 
Oxford Reference Online
Full-text dictionaries and other reference books in many subject areas from Oxford University Press [More info]
 
WorldCat
The world's most comprehensive bibliography of books and other materials from libraries around the world [More info]