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Library Databases
The library's databases are your source for scholarly and academic articles!
Bortz Library subscribes to dozens of academic research databases, covering a wide array of subject matter. These databases provide access to articles from academic journals, magazines, newspapers, and more.
Use the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) search box below to search through all of the library's databases at once, or click on the title of a particular database from the list below to search through just one database. Each database in the list has been included on this guide for its subject coverage and relevance.
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Magazines and Databases
- Environment CompleteOffers coverage in areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Recommended for Environmental Science research.
- Science MagazineSite license to Science Magazine, directly from AAAS. Coverage 1997 - present.
- Britannica OnlineOnline version of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
- Scientific American Site LicenseSite license access to Scientific American and Scientific American Mind from Nature.com includes current access plus 4 years of archive access. Recommended for Biology and Psychology research.
Around the Web
In addition to using the library's databases to find scholarly (and popular) content, check out some of the free online resources listed below. Please note: these resources are not necessarily scholarly in nature.
- Darwin OnlineDarwin Online is the largest and most widely consulted edition of the writings of Darwin ever published. It is probably the most extensive scholarly website devoted to any historical figure. This website contains over 219,804 pages of searchable text and 219,900 electronic images, at least one exemplar of all known Darwin publications, reproduced to the highest scholarly standards, both as searchable text and electronic images of the originals. The majority of these have been edited and annotated here for the first time with more than 4,900 original editorial notes.
- Darwin Correspondence ProjectRead and search the full texts of more than 12,000 of Charles Darwin’s letters, and find information on 3,000 more. Discover complete transcripts of all known letters Darwin wrote and received up to the year 1878.
- Charles Darwin's Virtual LibraryCharles Darwin’s Library is a digital edition and virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Charles Darwin.