Databases by Subject

Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for academic research. Home to nearly 13,000 journals, Academic OneFile delivers quality content for faculty, students, scholars and other researchers. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects makes Academic OneFile both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Academic OneFile is a one-stop resource for academic research in all disciplines.

Art & Architecture Complete™ is a research database for the study of art and architecture. This database provides full-text coverage of more than 330 periodicals and 215 books. In addition, Art & Architecture Complete offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for nearly 730 academic journals, magazines and trade publications. The database also provides an Image Collection of over 64,000 images provided by Picture Desk and others. This database covers a wide variety of pertinent subjects, art and art history, graphic design, photography, and much more.

Do you need to check a definition or read a short, authoritative description of a literary or scientific term? Credo Reference features full-text content from nearly 400 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference gives you the power of the web without all the irrelevant web sites, the clutter, or the advertisements. Each search result in Credo Reference is formatted for you in MLA and APA format.

The Culinary Arts Collection offers a smorgasbord of information—more than five million articles from more than 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines.

Digital Theatre+ provides access to over 600 theatre productions. Useful for both literature and drama studies, DT+ captures high quality live performances from leading theatre companies and provides behind-the-scenes insights from leading practitioners and academics to enrich understanding of the plays.

Films On Demand delivers web-based, educational video content from a variety of producers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Cambridge Educational, BBC, and many more. BVU's subscription includes over 6,000 titles in the Master Academic Collection, which spans all academic disciplines and subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to search and organize 60,000+ segments, share playlists, personalize folders and post to a course management system. Titles are continuously added to this collection.

The Fine Arts & Music Collection provides information on hundreds of arts-related topics. Powered by Gale InfoTrac, this database quickly places information from over 5 million articles at the fingertips of students of the arts.

IPA Source helps singers with the comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts in art song and opera, based on the International Phonetic Alphabet. IPA Source offers works in Latin, Italian, German, French, Spanish, and English.

JSTOR Biological Sciences Collection provides full-text coverage to over 130 journals in the areas of biology, botany, ecology and zoology.

The JSTOR Essential Collection is comprised of foundational content in the Humanities and Social Sciences with nearly 700 core titles across 45 disciplines. The journals in the Essential Collection serve both basic and advanced research and teaching needs for two- and four-year institutions.

Kanopy is a film service which streams more than 26,000 films to over 3,000 higher education campuses worldwide, reaching millions of students around the globe. Films on Kanopy's platform range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, must-see classics and blockbuster movies.

Project Muse is an online collection of over 300 journal titles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. MUSE journals cover many disciplines including literature, history, politics, economics, education, film, religion, and women's studies.

With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.

Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for academic research. Home to nearly 13,000 journals, Academic OneFile delivers quality content for faculty, students, scholars and other researchers. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects makes Academic OneFile both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Academic OneFile is a one-stop resource for academic research in all disciplines.

AgEcon Search collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural and applied economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food security and supply, energy and natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, international trade, and economic development. Content includes conference presentations, working papers, journal articles, government documents, and theses and dissertations.

From animal feeds to zoonotic diseases, the Agriculture Collection yields information in all agricultural-related areas for every kind of agricultural researcher. The Agriculture Collection comprises over 400 agricultural periodicals powered by Gale InfoTrac.

Business Collection provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications, updated daily. Complementing these titles is a selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications, all available on the Gale's InfoTrac platform.

Business Economics & Theory Collection includes over seven million articles, including coverage of Kiplinger Handbooks such as Retire Worry Free, Switching Careers, Making Money in Real Estate, Financing College, and more. This resources also contains exclusive video feeds from forbes.com highlighting current business news and interviews with CEOs and entrepreneurs.

Gale Business Insights: Essentials delivers authoritative company and industry information, articles, and statistical data. Gale Business Insights: Essentials makes it easy for researchers to use in-depth information on U.S. businesses, industries, and products. It includes:
• 300 sources for investment research/brokerage reports
• 1,000 SWOT reports, updated quarterly
• 2,200 corporate chronologies
• 3,900 full-text periodicals
• 11,500 market research reports
• 14,000 industry research reports from Datamonitor
• 15,000 company histories
• 50,500 articles from Market Share Reporter
• 70,000 associations
• 80,000 articles from Gale’s Business Rankings Annual
• 465,000 company profiles including 2,000 with deep links to related content and statistical data.

Gale Business Insights: Global empowers people to not only study international business, but also to interpret their research. For business professionals, entrepreneurs, students, and general researchers, Gale Business Insights: Global delivers comprehensive international business intelligence, compiled into a logical, usable context. Business Insights: Global contains detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports. This database also provides thousands of company histories and industry essays from Gale's core business collection and also includes case studies, scholarly journals, and business news for deep research coverage of global economies.

Do you need to check a definition or read a short, authoritative description of a literary or scientific term? Credo Reference features full-text content from nearly 400 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference gives you the power of the web without all the irrelevant web sites, the clutter, or the advertisements. Each search result in Credo Reference is formatted for you in MLA and APA format.

Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory offers a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit bibliographic index. This content is useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, constructing economic models, investing for the future, researching rates, and more.

Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship provides insights, tips, strategies, and success stories for business schools and entrepreneurs.

Films On Demand delivers web-based, educational video content from a variety of producers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Cambridge Educational, BBC, and many more. BVU's subscription includes over 6,000 titles in the Master Academic Collection, which spans all academic disciplines and subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to search and organize 60,000+ segments, share playlists, personalize folders and post to a course management system. Titles are continuously added to this collection.

Kanopy is a film service which streams more than 26,000 films to over 3,000 higher education campuses worldwide, reaching millions of students around the globe. Films on Kanopy's platform range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, must-see classics and blockbuster movies.

SpringerOpen covers over 200 journals published by Springer of academic, peer-reviewed open access articles that are primary in the sciences, but some social science areas are also represented.

Value Line provides independent, objective and unbiased analysis and performance reports on approximately 8,000 stocks, 15,000 mutual funds, and 80,000 options and other securities. **Value Line allows up to three simultaneous users.**

Finding the right career, enrolling in an appropriate institution of learning or training, searching for a job, advancing in your career through continuing education — these are high stakes tasks in today’s world. Vocations & Careers Collection makes it easier for researchers by providing content that is updated daily from nearly 400 journals — from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.

The Wall Street Journal is known for its business journalism and its coverage of global markets, politics, world news, technology, arts and life.

Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for academic research. Home to nearly 13,000 journals, Academic OneFile delivers quality content for faculty, students, scholars and other researchers. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects makes Academic OneFile both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Academic OneFile is a one-stop resource for academic research in all disciplines.

Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) provides the most robust collection of high-quality research in areas related to communication and mass media. In addition to the more than 600 journals that CMMC provides indexing and abstracts for, the database also features full text for more than 240 journals. A sophisticated Communication Thesaurus is available to researchers, and searchable cited references are provided for many of the journals covered by the database.

Communication Studies includes the full-text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. Some journals go back more than 50 years. The database includes over 12,800 articles and covers such subjects as journalism, political communication, mass communication, interpersonal communication, cultural studies / intercultural communication, television / film studies, media studies, business communication, organizational / management communication, and written communication. Every bibliographic record in the Communication Studies links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format. This database is updated weekly.

Communications & Mass Media Collection brings together information found in more than 350 journals which contain nearly 3 million articles on all aspects of the communications field on Gale's InfoTrac platform.

Do you need to check a definition or read a short, authoritative description of a literary or scientific term? Credo Reference features full-text content from nearly 400 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference gives you the power of the web without all the irrelevant web sites, the clutter, or the advertisements. Each search result in Credo Reference is formatted for you in MLA and APA format.

Films On Demand delivers web-based, educational video content from a variety of producers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Cambridge Educational, BBC, and many more. BVU's subscription includes over 6,000 titles in the Master Academic Collection, which spans all academic disciplines and subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to search and organize 60,000+ segments, share playlists, personalize folders and post to a course management system. Titles are continuously added to this collection.

Kanopy is a film service which streams more than 26,000 films to over 3,000 higher education campuses worldwide, reaching millions of students around the globe. Films on Kanopy's platform range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, must-see classics and blockbuster movies.

Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for academic research. Home to nearly 13,000 journals, Academic OneFile delivers quality content for faculty, students, scholars and other researchers. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects makes Academic OneFile both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Academic OneFile is a one-stop resource for academic research in all disciplines.

Do you need to check a definition or read a short, authoritative description of a literary or scientific term? Credo Reference features full-text content from nearly 400 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference gives you the power of the web without all the irrelevant web sites, the clutter, or the advertisements. Each search result in Credo Reference is formatted for you in MLA and APA format.

Criminal Justice Collection makes research easy by bringing together information from more than 700 journals. Powered by InfoTrac, Criminal Justice Collection takes users straight to the answers they need from nearly 5.5 million articles. Updated daily, the database yields current, relevant results.

Criminology includes the full-text of 24 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. Some journals go back more than 80 years. The database includes over 20,400 articles and covers such subjects as criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, corrections, penology, policing, forensic psychology, and family and domestic violence. Every bibliographic record in the database links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.

Films On Demand delivers web-based, educational video content from a variety of producers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Cambridge Educational, BBC, and many more. BVU's subscription includes over 6,000 titles in the Master Academic Collection, which spans all academic disciplines and subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to search and organize 60,000+ segments, share playlists, personalize folders and post to a course management system. Titles are continuously added to this collection.

Kanopy is a film service which streams more than 26,000 films to over 3,000 higher education campuses worldwide, reaching millions of students around the globe. Films on Kanopy's platform range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, must-see classics and blockbuster movies.

Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for academic research. Home to nearly 13,000 journals, Academic OneFile delivers quality content for faculty, students, scholars and other researchers. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects makes Academic OneFile both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Academic OneFile is a one-stop resource for academic research in all disciplines.

Brainfuse offers a comprehensive suite of online academic services which include expert online services, study tools, and collaborative tools. The SkillSurfer module contains practice tests for standardized tests, including the Praxis tests. Other features include resume writing tools, job resources, and resources for veterans.

Gale In Context: College is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a wide array of subjects. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Do you need to check a definition or read a short, authoritative description of a literary or scientific term? Credo Reference features full-text content from nearly 400 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference gives you the power of the web without all the irrelevant web sites, the clutter, or the advertisements. Each search result in Credo Reference is formatted for you in MLA and APA format.

Education includes the full text of 36 peer-reviewed journals published by SAGE and participating societies. Some journals go back more than 90 years. The database includes 45,400 articles in the areas of adult and continuing education, educational administration, educational policy, elementary and primary education, high school and secondary education, higher education, international education, leadership, measurement and testing, multicultural education and diversity, professional development, teaching and instruction, teaching methods. Every bibliographic record in the database links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.

Education Source is designed to meet the needs of education students, professionals, and policy makers. The collection provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,850 academic periodicals and includes full text for more than 1,800 journals, 500 books and monographs, education-related conference papers, citations for over 4 million articles including book reviews and over 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests. Coverage in Education Source spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and also includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.

Educator’s Reference Complete covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college and includes virtually every educational specialty, such as bilingual studies, health, technology and testing. The resource also includes information on issues related to administration, funding and policy in education. Available on the Gale PowerSearch platform, Educator’s Reference Complete is an important tool for today’s educators, providing instant access to more than 1,100 periodicals that cover a wide range of subjects as well as 200 reports from the United States Department of Education.

ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) is the world's largest source of education information, with more than one million abstracts of documents and journal articles on educational research and practice. The database contains more than 1,243,000 records and links to more than 224,000 full-text documents from ERIC.

Films On Demand delivers web-based, educational video content from a variety of producers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Cambridge Educational, BBC, and many more. BVU's subscription includes over 6,000 titles in the Master Academic Collection, which spans all academic disciplines and subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to search and organize 60,000+ segments, share playlists, personalize folders and post to a course management system. Titles are continuously added to this collection.

Gale In Context: High School is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a wide array of subjects. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Kanopy is a film service which streams more than 26,000 films to over 3,000 higher education campuses worldwide, reaching millions of students around the globe. Films on Kanopy's platform range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, must-see classics and blockbuster movies.

Gale OneFile: Leadership and Management provides access to authoritative periodical content covering topics as diverse as 21st-century skills, learning disorders, standardized testing, homeschooling, and more. Leadership and Management is useful for researchers or any educator interested in professional development.

Produced by the Buros Center for Testing at the University of Nebraska, Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print is essential for evaluating contemporary testing instruments. Designed for novices and professionals alike, it contains full-text reviews for test products in psychology, education, business and leadership. In addition, it provides a bibliography to all known commercially available English-language tests currently in print. **This database allows up to four simultaneous users.**

The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research. The database contains more than 137,000 articles from 66 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.

Psychology includes the full text of 34 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. Some journals go back more than 60 years. The database encompasses over 44,400 articles in such areas as applied psychology, child development, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, counseling psychology, cross-cultural psychology, cultural psychology, developmental psychology, educational psychology, family studies, industrial/organizational psychology, learning disabilities, personality, school psychology, and social psychology. Every bibliographic record in the database links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.

Psychology Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines that cover the study of emotions, personality, and the human mind. The database offers content of interest to both researchers and general users.

PsycINFO, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all from psychology and related disciplines. Journal coverage spans the 19th century to the present and includes international material selected from more than 2000 periodicals published in more than 25 languages. More than 60,000 new records are added each year. PsycINFO also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, physiology, pharmacology, sociology, education, nursing, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.

SPORTDiscus is the world's most comprehensive sports and sports medicine database. Articles from more than 440 journals are available with links to full-text. Coverage ranges from 1985 to the present. Material published in books and conference proceedings is also indexed in this database. **SPORTDiscus allows up to four simultaneous users.**

Teacher Reference Center provides abstracts and some full-text for 270 of the most popular education and administration journals to assist professional educators. Most journals in TRC are peer-reviewed.

Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for academic research. Home to nearly 13,000 journals, Academic OneFile delivers quality content for faculty, students, scholars and other researchers. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects makes Academic OneFile both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Academic OneFile is a one-stop resource for academic research in all disciplines.

America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises over 450,000 bibliographic entries for journal articles, books, and reviews providing an incomparable research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history. This extensive database indexes over 1,700 journals published worldwide. **America: History and Life allows up to six simultaneous users.**

The AAS Historical Periodicals Collection: 1691-1820 presents over 500 titles from 1691 through 1820. Representing over two centuries of print culture from early colonial imports to titles published on American soil during the Revolution and early republic, Series 1 is first of the five series created from periodical holdings from one of the premier repositories in the United States, the American Antiquarian Society. The entire AAS collection features over 7500 titles from the seventeenth through the late nineteenth century. The subject matter covered in Series 1 is broad in scope and covers all aspects of American society during this time period.

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection Series 2 presents over 1000 titles dating from 1821 through 1837. The series two is second of the five series created from serials holdings belonging to one of the premier repositories in the United States, the American Antiquarian Society and featuring about 6500 titles from the seventeenth through the late nineteenth century. The subject matter covered in Series 2 represents the Jacksonian Democracy era in history and is broad in scope and includes agriculture, entertainment, history, literary criticism, and politics.

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodical Collection: Series 3 presents over 1,800 titles dating from 1838 through 1852. Series 3 is the third of five series created from serials holdings of one of the premier repositories in the United States, the American Antiquarian Society. The themes presented in Series 3 reveal a rapidly growing young nation, where industrialization, the railroads, regional political differences, and life on the western frontier were daily realities. Subjects covered in the collection reach into every facet of American life, including science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women's fashion, family life, and religion.

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection - Series 4 presents over 1,100 titles dating from 1853 through 1865. Series 4 is the fourth of five series created from serials holdings of one of the premier repositories in the United States, the American Antiquarian Society. While the Civil War is a focal point of the collection, we also find a diverse record of the continuance of daily life for many Americans--both leading up to and during the war. News from the battlefront can be found, in addition to the usual breadth of subject matter found in previous collections that include science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women's fashion, family life, and religion.

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 5 presents over 2,500 titles dating from 1866 through 1877. Series 5 is the fifth of five series created from serials holdings of one of the premier repositories in the United States, the American Antiquarian Society. The themes presented in Series 5 reflect a nation that persevered through a most difficult set up circumstances: a bloody civil war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives; the incorporation of the recently-freed African Americans into American life; a population that rapidly expanded into the Western territories. Broad subject areas covered in the collection reach into every facet of American life, including science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women's fashion, family life, and religion.

Biography In Context is for researchers seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. Organized into a portal experience, it merges Gale's reference content with periodicals and multimedia. Users can also search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by keyword and full text. Biography In Context is built on a foundation of more than 650,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study. Biography In Context includes over 4,500 portal pages on contemporary and historical figures. It offers reference content alongside, videos, audio selections, images, primary sources, and magazine and journal articles from hundreds of major periodicals and newspapers.

Do you need to check a definition or read a short, authoritative description of a literary or scientific term? Credo Reference features full-text content from nearly 400 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference gives you the power of the web without all the irrelevant web sites, the clutter, or the advertisements. Each search result in Credo Reference is formatted for you in MLA and APA format.

DPLA makes millions of materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country available to all in a one-stop discovery experience. Text and audio-visual materials available.

This database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery. The original bibliography was co-developed by John Alden and Dennis Landis, Curator of European Books at The John Carter Brown Library.

Films On Demand delivers web-based, educational video content from a variety of producers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Cambridge Educational, BBC, and many more. BVU's subscription includes over 6,000 titles in the Master Academic Collection, which spans all academic disciplines and subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to search and organize 60,000+ segments, share playlists, personalize folders and post to a course management system. Titles are continuously added to this collection.

Gale NewsVault delivers a cross-searching experience for exploring your library's collection of Gale historical newspapers.

Gale PowerSearch offers ease-of-use, flexibility, and a range of features and benefits. With Gale PowerSearch, users can instantly access periodical and reference content in multiple Gale resources from a single starting point by enabling users to cross-search content from multiple Gale resources, including all InfoTrac periodical products (such as General OneFile, Academic OneFile, and others).

Gale Primary Sources is an integrated research environment that allows users to search across all of their Gale primary source collections. Gale Primary Sources takes users beyond a simple search and retrieve workflow, allowing them to analyze content using frequency and term-relationship tools. Through intuitive subject-indexing users will discover new material even in the most familiar of content sets.

Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. BVU is not a partner institution, so logging in will not reveal additional resources beyond those that are already available with open access.

Historical Abstracts is your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.

The JSTOR Essential Collection is comprised of foundational content in the Humanities and Social Sciences with nearly 700 core titles across 45 disciplines. The journals in the Essential Collection serve both basic and advanced research and teaching needs for two- and four-year institutions.

Kanopy is a film service which streams more than 26,000 films to over 3,000 higher education campuses worldwide, reaching millions of students around the globe. Films on Kanopy's platform range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, must-see classics and blockbuster movies.

Project Muse is an online collection of over 300 journal titles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. MUSE journals cover many disciplines including literature, history, politics, economics, education, film, religion, and women's studies.

The largest and most ambitious project of its kind, this collection is devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective. An unprecedented collection developed under the guidance of a board of scholars, it offers never before available research opportunities and endless teaching possibilities.

First published in 1785, The Times of London is widely considered to be the world's 'newspaper of record'. The Times Digital Archive allows users to search over 200 years of this invaluable historical source.

Gale’s U.S. History Collection provides balanced coverage of both current thought on events in U.S. history as well as scholarly work from leading journals.

U.S. History In Context is for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. Topics range from the arrival of Vikings in North America all to the way to the first stirrings of the American Revolution and on through the Civil Rights movement, 9/11, and the War on Terror. Content includes reference works, millions of news and periodical articles, and more than 5,000 rare and vital primary source documents that range from slave journals to presidential papers. U.S. History In Context is cross-searchable with World History In Context.

Researchers accessing the more than 1.7 million articles in the War and Terrorism Collection will gain insight into conflicts and their causes, impact and perception on a global scale. This definitive collection for researchers of history, social science and current events covers 100 subject-appropriate, full-text periodicals that are updated daily.

Both the novice historian and the advanced academic researcher will find useful information in Gale’s World History Collection which contains leading journals in the field of world history. Articles are updated daily and provide balanced coverage of events in world history—both current thinking and established scholarly work.

World History In Context reaches back to the ancient world — and forward to today's headlines — to deliver a chronicle of the great cultures and societies that have formed the history of the human race. Rare primary sources, reliable reference and multi-media content put this vast topic into context for students. Content is aligned with state and national curriculum standards and is cross searchable with U.S. History In Context.

Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for academic research. Home to nearly 13,000 journals, Academic OneFile delivers quality content for faculty, students, scholars and other researchers. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects makes Academic OneFile both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Academic OneFile is a one-stop resource for academic research in all disciplines.

Do you need to check a definition or read a short, authoritative description of a literary or scientific term? Credo Reference features full-text content from nearly 400 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference gives you the power of the web without all the irrelevant web sites, the clutter, or the advertisements. Each search result in Credo Reference is formatted for you in MLA and APA format.

Films On Demand delivers web-based, educational video content from a variety of producers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Cambridge Educational, BBC, and many more. BVU's subscription includes over 6,000 titles in the Master Academic Collection, which spans all academic disciplines and subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to search and organize 60,000+ segments, share playlists, personalize folders and post to a course management system. Titles are continuously added to this collection.

HeinOnline Academic includes more than 100 million pages of multidisciplinary content in more than 100 subject areas, including history, political science, criminal justice, religious studies, international relations, women’s studies, pre-law, and many more. HeinOnline provides access to 300+ years of information on political development and the complete history of the creation of government and legal systems around the world. Among the many databases included, HeinOnline’s journal collection features nearly 2,800 periodicals relating to a variety of subject areas, with all coverage dating from inception to the most currently published issues in most cases.

Kanopy is a film service which streams more than 26,000 films to over 3,000 higher education campuses worldwide, reaching millions of students around the globe. Films on Kanopy's platform range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, must-see classics and blockbuster movies.

LegalTrac is a resource for students, law school faculty and legal researchers and features a comprehensive collection of major legal publications. This resource provides indexing for more than 1,500 major law reviews, legal newspapers, international legal publications, specialty publications, Bar Association journals and international legal journals, including more than 250 titles in full text.

WestlawNext Campus Research provides law-related information. Content includes legal encyclopedias, law reviews and journals, federal and state statutes, regulations and court decisions. Westlaw Campus Research is available on campus only.

Search the BVU Library's collection of 147,000 books, videos, compact discs and other material by keyword, title, author, or subject. The catalog also provides access to over 92,000 eBooks. You can access the Library Catalog here

Do you need to check a definition or read a short, authoritative description of a literary or scientific term? Credo Reference features full-text content from nearly 400 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference gives you the power of the web without all the irrelevant web sites, the clutter, or the advertisements. Each search result in Credo Reference is formatted for you in MLA and APA format.

Library science students, information science and technology professionals, and others will value the Information Science Collection. It is updated daily with articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology, including usability, cataloging, circulation, business information, and more.

WorldCat is a catalog of books, audio-visual materials, maps, musical scores, manuscripts, dissertations and archival materials housed in libraries worldwide. It offers bibliographic records for over 95 million items in over 400 languages.

WorldCat Discovery is an updated interface to search the WorldCat database. WorldCat allows you to search for articles, books, audio-visual materials, maps, musical scores, manuscripts, dissertations, and archival materials in electronic formats and in physical formats which are housed in libraries worldwide. It offers bibliographic records for over 1.8 billion items in over 400 languages.

Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for academic research. Home to nearly 13,000 journals, Academic OneFile delivers quality content for faculty, students, scholars and other researchers. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects makes Academic OneFile both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Academic OneFile is a one-stop resource for academic research in all disciplines.

AgEcon Search collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural and applied economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food security and supply, energy and natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, international trade, and economic development. Content includes conference presentations, working papers, journal articles, government documents, and theses and dissertations.

From animal feeds to zoonotic diseases, the Agriculture Collection yields information in all agricultural-related areas for every kind of agricultural researcher. The Agriculture Collection comprises over 400 agricultural periodicals powered by Gale InfoTrac.

Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 covers topics including LGBTQ activism and the HIV/AIDS crisis. It provides researchers with the documents necessary to delve deep into the Gay Rights Movement with resources that may otherwise go undiscovered. Repositories for this collection include: Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation; Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives; Women's Energy Bank; GLBT Historical Society; National Library of Medicine; among other archives.

Bioline International is a pioneer in the provision of open access to peer reviewed bioscience journals published in developing countries.

Do you need to check a definition or read a short, authoritative description of a literary or scientific term? Credo Reference features full-text content from nearly 400 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference gives you the power of the web without all the irrelevant web sites, the clutter, or the advertisements. Each search result in Credo Reference is formatted for you in MLA and APA format.

The Directory of Open Access Books is a large collection of academic peer-reviewed books that are open access. All subject areas represented, but holdings are strongest in sciences and social sciences.

The Environmental Studies & Policy Collection is a comprehensive resource that addresses growing environmental concerns. Powered by Gale’s InfoTrac, Environmental Studies & Policy Collection brings together full-text information found in more than 700 journals. This collection contains more than 3.3 million articles, addressing such issues as global warming, climate change, alternative energy, environmental policy, going green, recycling, soil, plants, agronomy and much more.

Focusing on the physical and social aspects of environmental issues, Gale in Context: Environmental Studies (formerly GREENR) provides authoritative content, empowering learners to critically analyze and understand important topics that affect people around the world. Topic, organization, state, and province portals form research centers around issues covering earth systems, global change, land and water use, populations, legislation, and more. Portal overviews provide essential information, supplemented by academic journals, news, case studies, conferences, statistics, and rich multimedia.

Films On Demand delivers web-based, educational video content from a variety of producers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Cambridge Educational, BBC, and many more. BVU's subscription includes over 6,000 titles in the Master Academic Collection, which spans all academic disciplines and subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to search and organize 60,000+ segments, share playlists, personalize folders and post to a course management system. Titles are continuously added to this collection.

With the Gale General Science Collection, researchers can stay current with the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology and hundreds of other areas. More than 200 journals are covered. Updated daily, the General Science Collection includes more than 1.6 million articles to satisfy almost every scientific inquiry.

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as full text for more than 4,700 records.

Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine includes information created specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers, and health care professionals. This database is the perfect resource for up-to-date information on a complete range of healthcare topics.

Gale Health and Wellness offers access to thousands of full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and more. Perfect for researchers at all levels, this comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices, and more.

JSTOR Biological Sciences Collection provides full-text coverage to over 130 journals in the areas of biology, botany, ecology and zoology.

Kanopy is a film service which streams more than 26,000 films to over 3,000 higher education campuses worldwide, reaching millions of students around the globe. Films on Kanopy's platform range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, must-see classics and blockbuster movies.

Medline indexes over 10,000 journals in all fields of medicine, dentistry and nursing. Medline provides indexing for over 17 million articles published from 1950 to the present and is updated daily.

Nursing & Allied Health Collection supports the research needs of students and researchers in nursing and allied health fields who are looking for answers related to the specialized care, treatment and management of all sorts of patients. Nursing & Allied Health Collection brings together information found in more than 1,000 journals.

The Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine collection, which includes hundreds of thousands of articles updated daily from nearly 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine. Users will discover proven treatment techniques, examine experimental research theses, find unique applications for specific sports (everything from baseball and bowling to tennis and yachting) and more.

PubAg covers all of the core topics of the agricultural sciences including nutrition, food safety, food quality, animal and crop production and protection, natural resources, sustainable agricultural systems, rural development, agricultural economic and policy issues, agricultural imports and exports, and agricultural statistics. This database contains nearly 3 million citations to peer-reviewed journal articles. A small number (10%) are available with full-text, but links to full-text at publisher web sites and open source articles supplements the amount of available full-text significantly.

PubMed contains over 20 million citations for articles from the fields of medicine, life sciences, and health. PubMed is a free resource that is developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

ScienceDirect provides access to thousands of academic journals published by Elsevier. BVU has purchased access to the full-text of over 1,100 of those journals in the areas of Health & Life Sciences. This sub-set of the ScienceDirect collection delivers an immense amount of peer-reviewed journal content covering biology, medical and nursing and allied health, sports science, and environmental science. Articles are available from 1995 to the present. Full-text access is denoted by a green page icon.

SPORTDiscus is the world's most comprehensive sports and sports medicine database. Articles from more than 440 journals are available with links to full-text. Coverage ranges from 1985 to the present. Material published in books and conference proceedings is also indexed in this database. **SPORTDiscus allows up to four simultaneous users.**

Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for academic research. Home to nearly 13,000 journals, Academic OneFile delivers quality content for faculty, students, scholars and other researchers. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects makes Academic OneFile both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Academic OneFile is a one-stop resource for academic research in all disciplines.

Book Review Index includes more than 5 million book reviews, allowing users to conduct research in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index a useful reference tool. Thousands of publications are indexed.

Do you need to check a definition or read a short, authoritative description of a literary or scientific term? Credo Reference features full-text content from nearly 400 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference gives you the power of the web without all the irrelevant web sites, the clutter, or the advertisements. Each search result in Credo Reference is formatted for you in MLA and APA format.

Films On Demand delivers web-based, educational video content from a variety of producers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Cambridge Educational, BBC, and many more. BVU's subscription includes over 6,000 titles in the Master Academic Collection, which spans all academic disciplines and subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to search and organize 60,000+ segments, share playlists, personalize folders and post to a course management system. Titles are continuously added to this collection.

Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major print literature series published by The Gale Group. It combines and cross references more than 146,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 193,000 titles into one source. Use this index to locate biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings. For full text, consult print volumes in the library's Reference collection. Gale publications owned by the BVU Library can be located by searching for the source publication title in the library's catalog.

Gale Literary Sources brings together collections of essays, commentary, criticism, primary sources and biographical information related to literature, literary movements, history and culture from a variety of sources. Search across these literary resources to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism and analysis, reviews, author biographies, and a rich collection of expertly written work overviews: MLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography; LRC (Literature Resource Center); Scribner Writer Series; Twayne’s Authors Series.

Informe Académico meets the research needs of Spanish-speaking users with a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. Informe Académico provides quality reference material, allowing researchers to analyze topics and conduct research in Spanish.

Kanopy is a film service which streams more than 26,000 films to over 3,000 higher education campuses worldwide, reaching millions of students around the globe. Films on Kanopy's platform range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, must-see classics and blockbuster movies.

The world’s most current, comprehensive and reliable online literature database, Literature Resource Center is uniquely relevant to today’s researcher. Its rich critical, biographical and contextual content supports interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy and the development of critical-thinking skills. Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements. Researchers at all levels will find the information they need, with content covering all genres and disciplines, all time periods and all parts of the world.

International in scope, LitFinder covers all time periods and contains a wealth of primary literature content. This includes approximately 140,000 full-text poems, 800,000 poem citations and excerpts, 7,100 full-text short stories and novels, 3,800 full-text essays, 2,000 full-text speeches and 1,700 full-text plays. It also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs and a glossary. LitFinder’s easy-to-use interface allows users to target the information they are looking for or to browse the collection through various refined search and browse options. For example, users can find everything from the sonnets of Shakespeare to contemporary poems by African-American women, the inaugural speeches of George Washington through Barack Obama, short stories by Edgar Allan Poe to stories by up-and-coming writer Elizabeth Weld, or essays on such subjects as the arts, science and religion.

Use Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 classic works of literature, freely available and in the public domain, that can be downloaded in text or (in some cases) audio formats.

Project Muse is an online collection of over 300 journal titles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. MUSE journals cover many disciplines including literature, history, politics, economics, education, film, religion, and women's studies.

The acclaimed Scribner Writers series provides students, teachers, and other researchers access to more than 2,000 original, comprehensive, scholar-signed essays on the lives and works of more than 1,400 important authors from around the world and from all time periods. Each entry averages 15-20 pages in length and includes a concise essay and biographical information that places the author's work in personal and historical context. Articles are written by noted literary scholars, and the American Writers and British Writers series are managed and edited by Jay Parini, a novelist and professor of English and Creative Writing at Middlebury College in Vermont.

Gale Literature: Twayne's Author Series is devoted to in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers of the world within the context of the time period in which they lived. It provides insightful and original commentary of the history and influence of literary movements.

Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for academic research. Home to nearly 13,000 journals, Academic OneFile delivers quality content for faculty, students, scholars and other researchers. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects makes Academic OneFile both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Academic OneFile is a one-stop resource for academic research in all disciplines.

Gale OneFile: Computer Science provides access to leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries. The database provides information on computer-related product introductions, news, and reviews in areas like hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications, and the application of technology.

Do you need to check a definition or read a short, authoritative description of a literary or scientific term? Credo Reference features full-text content from nearly 400 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference gives you the power of the web without all the irrelevant web sites, the clutter, or the advertisements. Each search result in Credo Reference is formatted for you in MLA and APA format.

Films On Demand delivers web-based, educational video content from a variety of producers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Cambridge Educational, BBC, and many more. BVU's subscription includes over 6,000 titles in the Master Academic Collection, which spans all academic disciplines and subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to search and organize 60,000+ segments, share playlists, personalize folders and post to a course management system. Titles are continuously added to this collection.

With the Gale General Science Collection, researchers can stay current with the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology and hundreds of other areas. More than 200 journals are covered. Updated daily, the General Science Collection includes more than 1.6 million articles to satisfy almost every scientific inquiry.

Kanopy is a film service which streams more than 26,000 films to over 3,000 higher education campuses worldwide, reaching millions of students around the globe. Films on Kanopy's platform range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, must-see classics and blockbuster movies.

Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for academic research. Home to nearly 13,000 journals, Academic OneFile delivers quality content for faculty, students, scholars and other researchers. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects makes Academic OneFile both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Academic OneFile is a one-stop resource for academic research in all disciplines.

Do you need to check a definition or read a short, authoritative description of a literary or scientific term? Credo Reference features full-text content from nearly 400 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference gives you the power of the web without all the irrelevant web sites, the clutter, or the advertisements. Each search result in Credo Reference is formatted for you in MLA and APA format.

The free version of Dimensions provides openly-available search and metrics for more than 100 million publications. Searches can be limited to OA titles only in the left column filter options.

Films On Demand delivers web-based, educational video content from a variety of producers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Cambridge Educational, BBC, and many more. BVU's subscription includes over 6,000 titles in the Master Academic Collection, which spans all academic disciplines and subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to search and organize 60,000+ segments, share playlists, personalize folders and post to a course management system. Titles are continuously added to this collection.

Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine includes information created specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers, and health care professionals. This database is the perfect resource for up-to-date information on a complete range of healthcare topics.

Gale Health and Wellness offers access to thousands of full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and more. Perfect for researchers at all levels, this comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices, and more.

Kanopy is a film service which streams more than 26,000 films to over 3,000 higher education campuses worldwide, reaching millions of students around the globe. Films on Kanopy's platform range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, must-see classics and blockbuster movies.

Medline indexes over 10,000 journals in all fields of medicine, dentistry and nursing. Medline provides indexing for over 17 million articles published from 1950 to the present and is updated daily.

Nursing & Allied Health Collection supports the research needs of students and researchers in nursing and allied health fields who are looking for answers related to the specialized care, treatment and management of all sorts of patients. Nursing & Allied Health Collection brings together information found in more than 1,000 journals.

The Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine collection, which includes hundreds of thousands of articles updated daily from nearly 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine. Users will discover proven treatment techniques, examine experimental research theses, find unique applications for specific sports (everything from baseball and bowling to tennis and yachting) and more.

PubMed contains over 20 million citations for articles from the fields of medicine, life sciences, and health. PubMed is a free resource that is developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Science.gov is a gateway to U.S. government science information. The portal offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies. Science.gov makes it possible for users to search over 60 databases, over 2,200 websites, and over 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information in many formats, including full-text documents, citations, scientific data supporting federally funded research, and multimedia.

ScienceDirect provides access to thousands of academic ScienceDirect12 published by Elsevier. BVU has purchased access to the full-text of over 1,100 of those journals in the areas of Health & Life Sciences. This sub-set of the ScienceDirect collection delivers an immense amount of peer-reviewed journal content covering biology, medical and nursing and allied health, sports science, and environmental science. Articles are available from 1995 to the present. Full-text access is denoted by a green page icon.

SPORTDiscus is the world's most comprehensive sports and sports medicine database. Articles from more than 440 journals are available with links to full-text. Coverage ranges from 1985 to the present. Material published in books and conference proceedings is also indexed in this database. **SPORTDiscus allows up to four simultaneous users.**

Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for academic research. Home to nearly 13,000 journals, Academic OneFile delivers quality content for faculty, students, scholars and other researchers. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects makes Academic OneFile both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Academic OneFile is a one-stop resource for academic research in all disciplines.

Biography In Context is for researchers seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. Organized into a portal experience, it merges Gale's reference content with periodicals and multimedia. Users can also search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by keyword and full text. Biography In Context is built on a foundation of more than 650,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study. Biography In Context includes over 4,500 portal pages on contemporary and historical figures. It offers reference content alongside, videos, audio selections, images, primary sources, and magazine and journal articles from hundreds of major periodicals and newspapers.

Book Review Index includes more than 5 million book reviews, allowing users to conduct research in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index a useful reference tool. Thousands of publications are indexed.

Brainfuse offers a comprehensive suite of online academic services which include expert online services, study tools, and collaborative tools. The SkillSurfer module contains practice tests for standardized tests, including the Praxis tests. Other features include resume writing tools, job resources, and resources for veterans.

The Britannica Concise Encyclopedia provides coverage on a variety of subjects including arts, business, geography, history, literature, philosophy, politics, pop culture, science, sports, and more. Articles are accompanied by colorful photographs, diagrams, maps, flags and pronunciation help. This accessible encyclopedia provides the answers you need to everyday questions. BCE may be searched or browsed through the Credo Reference Platform, where it is just one of nearly four hundred reference books available.

Search the BVU Library's collection of 147,000 books, videos, compact discs and other material by keyword, title, author, or subject. The catalog also provides access to over 92,000 eBooks. You can access the Library Catalog here

Gale In Context: College is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a wide array of subjects. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Do you need to check a definition or read a short, authoritative description of a literary or scientific term? Credo Reference features full-text content from nearly 400 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference gives you the power of the web without all the irrelevant web sites, the clutter, or the advertisements. Each search result in Credo Reference is formatted for you in MLA and APA format.

The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, theses, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

The Directory of Open Access Journals is the world’s only free, independent, community-curated, online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals

DPLA makes millions of materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country available to all in a one-stop discovery experience. Text and audio-visual materials available.

Search and view the BVU Library’s collection of electronic books (more often referred to as eBooks.)

Films On Demand delivers web-based, educational video content from a variety of producers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Cambridge Educational, BBC, and many more. BVU's subscription includes over 6,000 titles in the Master Academic Collection, which spans all academic disciplines and subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to search and organize 60,000+ segments, share playlists, personalize folders and post to a course management system. Titles are continuously added to this collection.

Gale PowerSearch offers ease-of-use, flexibility, and a range of features and benefits. With Gale PowerSearch, users can instantly access periodical and reference content in multiple Gale resources from a single starting point by enabling users to cross-search content from multiple Gale resources, including all InfoTrac periodical products (such as General OneFile, Academic OneFile, and others).

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

General OneFile is a comprehensive general-interest resource providing periodical and news information includes more than 8,000 full-text titles; more than 3,600 journals; more than 25 years of backfile; and five newspaper indexes — totaling more than 13,000 titles in all. With more than 100 million records at researchers’ fingertips, General OneFile provides access to the largest collection of full-text periodicals available; a full collection of National Public Radio programs from 1990 to the present, including searchable transcripts; and links to over 5,000 video files including shows like the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, NRO TV, and Meet the Press.

Global Issues in Context supports global awareness and provides a global perspective while tying together a wealth of authoritative content, empowering learners to critically analyze and understand important issues of the modern world. Integrating news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more in a single search—Global Issues in Context is updated daily and offers 250 different country topic pages and more than 400 Issue pages.

GPO (Government Printing Office) Monthly Catalog covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.) Over half a million government documents published from 1976 to the present are included in the database. Some records contain “Access” links that provide the electronic full-text of the government document.

HeinOnline Academic includes more than 100 million pages of multidisciplinary content in more than 100 subject areas, including history, political science, criminal justice, religious studies, international relations, women’s studies, pre-law, and many more. HeinOnline provides access to 300+ years of information on political development and the complete history of the creation of government and legal systems around the world. Among the many databases included, HeinOnline’s journal collection features nearly 2,800 periodicals relating to a variety of subject areas, with all coverage dating from inception to the most currently published issues in most cases.

Gale In Context: High School is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a wide array of subjects. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

The JSTOR Essential Collection is comprised of foundational content in the Humanities and Social Sciences with nearly 700 core titles across 45 disciplines. The journals in the Essential Collection serve both basic and advanced research and teaching needs for two- and four-year institutions.

JURN is a unique search tool, helping you to find free academic articles and books. JURN harnesses all the power of Google, but focuses your search through a hand-crafted and curated index. Established in 2009 to comprehensively cover the arts and humanities, in 2014 JURN expanded in scope. JURN now also covers selected university full-text repositories and many additional ejournals in science, biomedical, business and law.

Kanopy is a film service which streams more than 26,000 films to over 3,000 higher education campuses worldwide, reaching millions of students around the globe. Films on Kanopy's platform range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, must-see classics and blockbuster movies.

Our Academic Site License provides full access to the New York Times, 1851-present. Access to the International New York Times and the New York Times in Chinese is also available. Users must register individually using a bvu.edu email address, which provides access for 364 days. To Register, visit www.NYTimes.com/Pass To view a short video on how to activate a Pass, please visit http://bit.ly/1sRcPw1

Select NYT tablet apps are now available to all who claim a new pass or renew a pass to the NYTimes.com Academic Site License affiliated with Buena Vista University.

Gale OneFile: News provides access to more than 1,100 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.

US North Central Newsstream enables users to search the most recent regional news content, as well as archives which stretch back to the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. North Central Newsstream covers news sources from Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Notable newspaper titles include USA Today, the Denver Post, the Star Tribune, and the Des Moines Register.

OAIster includes more than 50 million records that represent digital resources from more than 2,000 contributors. For best results, narrow the search to one of the “downloadable” formats in the left column after your initial search. That adjustment will provide a higher percentage of immediately accessible materials.

OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. It incorporates EBSCO's previously released American Doctoral Dissertations, and features additional dissertation metadata contributed by select colleges and universities from around the world. Providing researchers with citations to graduate research across a span of time, from the early 20th century to the present, this database will continue to grow through regular updates and new partnerships with graduate degree-granting institutions.

Gale's Opposing Viewpoints In Context is an online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular research database supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions. Opposing Viewpoints In Context includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, infographics, and more. A category on the National Debate Topic provides quick and easy access to content on frequently studied and discussed issues. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more.

The Popular Magazines Collection from Gale provides a strong focus on current events, sports, science and health, giving users access to the most-searched magazines across Gale's InfoTrac products. Users also gain access to the full collection of National Public Radio programs, including transcripts and podcasts.

Use PQDT Open to search for dissertations and theses in a variety of subject areas and read them for free.

Project Muse is an online collection of over 300 journal titles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. MUSE journals cover many disciplines including literature, history, politics, economics, education, film, religion, and women's studies.

SpringerOpen covers over 200 journals published by Springer of academic, peer-reviewed open access articles that are primary in the sciences, but some social science areas are also represented.

SSRN is a searchable online library that enables authors to post their papers and abstracts easily and free of charge. The vast majority of papers can be downloaded free of charge as well. From its initial focus on the social sciences in 1994, SSRN has grown to become the most interdisciplinary service of its kind, representing disciplines across the full research spectrum, including the applied sciences, health sciences, humanities, life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.

The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a respected statistical reference publication that is now available in electronic format. This comprehensive collection of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States provides a snapshot of America and its people. Most statistics are gathered from federal governmental agencies. Printed volumes of Statistical Abstract from previous years are available in the BVU Library.
Statistical Abstract of the US

Finding the right career, enrolling in an appropriate institution of learning or training, searching for a job, advancing in your career through continuing education — these are high stakes tasks in today’s world. Vocations & Careers Collection makes it easier for researchers by providing content that is updated daily from nearly 400 journals — from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.

The Wall Street Journal is known for its business journalism and its coverage of global markets, politics, world news, technology, arts and life.

WorldCat is a catalog of books, audio-visual materials, maps, musical scores, manuscripts, dissertations and archival materials housed in libraries worldwide. It offers bibliographic records for over 95 million items in over 400 languages.

WorldCat Discovery is an updated interface to search the WorldCat database. WorldCat allows you to search for articles, books, audio-visual materials, maps, musical scores, manuscripts, dissertations, and archival materials in electronic formats and in physical formats which are housed in libraries worldwide. It offers bibliographic records for over 1.8 billion items in over 400 languages.

Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for academic research. Home to nearly 13,000 journals, Academic OneFile delivers quality content for faculty, students, scholars and other researchers. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects makes Academic OneFile both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Academic OneFile is a one-stop resource for academic research in all disciplines.

Do you need to check a definition or read a short, authoritative description of a literary or scientific term? Credo Reference features full-text content from nearly 400 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference gives you the power of the web without all the irrelevant web sites, the clutter, or the advertisements. Each search result in Credo Reference is formatted for you in MLA and APA format.

The Directory of Open Access Books is a large collection of academic peer-reviewed books that are open access. All subject areas represented, but holdings are strongest in sciences and social sciences.

With the Gale General Science Collection, researchers can stay current with the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology and hundreds of other areas. More than 200 journals are covered. Updated daily, the General Science Collection includes more than 1.6 million articles to satisfy almost every scientific inquiry.

ScienceDirect provides access to thousands of academic journals published by Elsevier. BVU has purchased access to the full-text of over 1,100 of those journals in the areas of Health & Life Sciences. This sub-set of the ScienceDirect collection delivers an immense amount of peer-reviewed journal content covering biology, medical and nursing and allied health, sports science, and environmental science. Articles are available from 1995 to the present. Full-text access is denoted by a green page icon.

Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for academic research. Home to nearly 13,000 journals, Academic OneFile delivers quality content for faculty, students, scholars and other researchers. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects makes Academic OneFile both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Academic OneFile is a one-stop resource for academic research in all disciplines.

Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 covers topics including LGBTQ activism and the HIV/AIDS crisis. It provides researchers with the documents necessary to delve deep into the Gay Rights Movement with resources that may otherwise go undiscovered. Repositories for this collection include: Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation; Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives; Women's Energy Bank; GLBT Historical Society; National Library of Medicine; among other archives.

Do you need to check a definition or read a short, authoritative description of a literary or scientific term? Credo Reference features full-text content from nearly 400 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference gives you the power of the web without all the irrelevant web sites, the clutter, or the advertisements. Each search result in Credo Reference is formatted for you in MLA and APA format.

Films On Demand delivers web-based, educational video content from a variety of producers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Cambridge Educational, BBC, and many more. BVU's subscription includes over 6,000 titles in the Master Academic Collection, which spans all academic disciplines and subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to search and organize 60,000+ segments, share playlists, personalize folders and post to a course management system. Titles are continuously added to this collection.

Gender Studies Collection offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.

Kanopy is a film service which streams more than 26,000 films to over 3,000 higher education campuses worldwide, reaching millions of students around the globe. Films on Kanopy's platform range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, must-see classics and blockbuster movies.

Produced by the Buros Center for Testing at the University of Nebraska, Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print is essential for evaluating contemporary testing instruments. Designed for novices and professionals alike, it contains full-text reviews for test products in psychology, education, business and leadership. In addition, it provides a bibliography to all known commercially available English-language tests currently in print. **This database allows up to four simultaneous users.**

The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research. The database contains more than 137,000 articles from 66 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.

Psychology includes the full text of 34 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. Some journals go back more than 60 years. The database encompasses over 44,400 articles in such areas as applied psychology, child development, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, counseling psychology, cross-cultural psychology, cultural psychology, developmental psychology, educational psychology, family studies, industrial/organizational psychology, learning disabilities, personality, school psychology, and social psychology. Every bibliographic record in the database links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.

Psychology Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines that cover the study of emotions, personality, and the human mind. The database offers content of interest to both researchers and general users.

PsycINFO, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all from psychology and related disciplines. Journal coverage spans the 19th century to the present and includes international material selected from more than 2000 periodicals published in more than 25 languages. More than 60,000 new records are added each year. PsycINFO also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, physiology, pharmacology, sociology, education, nursing, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.

The PTSDpubs bibliographic database (formerly PILOTS: Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress), covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont. The PTSDpubs database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage.

SSOAR : Social Science Open Access Repository provides growing holdings of freely available, full-text social science documents.

Focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries, Women's Studies Archive provides a history of the social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives and offers a look at the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society. Through a variety of documents such as diaries, letters, photographs, news clippings, organizational records, and journals, it presents a record of the issues that have affected women, societal contributions, social status, and women's movements.

Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for academic research. Home to nearly 13,000 journals, Academic OneFile delivers quality content for faculty, students, scholars and other researchers. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects makes Academic OneFile both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Academic OneFile is a one-stop resource for academic research in all disciplines.

AgEcon Search collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural and applied economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food security and supply, energy and natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, international trade, and economic development. Content includes conference presentations, working papers, journal articles, government documents, and theses and dissertations.

From animal feeds to zoonotic diseases, the Agriculture Collection yields information in all agricultural-related areas for every kind of agricultural researcher. The Agriculture Collection comprises over 400 agricultural periodicals powered by Gale InfoTrac.

Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 covers topics including LGBTQ activism and the HIV/AIDS crisis. It provides researchers with the documents necessary to delve deep into the Gay Rights Movement with resources that may otherwise go undiscovered. Repositories for this collection include: Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation; Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives; Women's Energy Bank; GLBT Historical Society; National Library of Medicine; among other archives.

Bioline International is a pioneer in the provision of open access to peer reviewed bioscience journals published in developing countries.

Gale OneFile: Computer Science provides access to leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries. The database provides information on computer-related product introductions, news, and reviews in areas like hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications, and the application of technology.

Do you need to check a definition or read a short, authoritative description of a literary or scientific term? Credo Reference features full-text content from nearly 400 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference gives you the power of the web without all the irrelevant web sites, the clutter, or the advertisements. Each search result in Credo Reference is formatted for you in MLA and APA format.

The Culinary Arts Collection offers a smorgasbord of information—more than five million articles from more than 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines.

The free version of Dimensions provides openly-available search and metrics for more than 100 million publications. Searches can be limited to OA titles only in the left column filter options.

The Directory of Open Access Books is a large collection of academic peer-reviewed books that are open access. All subject areas represented, but holdings are strongest in sciences and social sciences.

The Directory of Open Access Journals is the world’s only free, independent, community-curated, online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals

The Environmental Studies & Policy Collection is a comprehensive resource that addresses growing environmental concerns. Powered by Gale’s InfoTrac, Environmental Studies & Policy Collection brings together full-text information found in more than 700 journals. This collection contains more than 3.3 million articles, addressing such issues as global warming, climate change, alternative energy, environmental policy, going green, recycling, soil, plants, agronomy and much more.

Focusing on the physical and social aspects of environmental issues, Gale in Context: Environmental Studies (formerly GREENR) provides authoritative content, empowering learners to critically analyze and understand important topics that affect people around the world. Topic, organization, state, and province portals form research centers around issues covering earth systems, global change, land and water use, populations, legislation, and more. Portal overviews provide essential information, supplemented by academic journals, news, case studies, conferences, statistics, and rich multimedia.

Films On Demand delivers web-based, educational video content from a variety of producers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Cambridge Educational, BBC, and many more. BVU's subscription includes over 6,000 titles in the Master Academic Collection, which spans all academic disciplines and subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to search and organize 60,000+ segments, share playlists, personalize folders and post to a course management system. Titles are continuously added to this collection.

With the Gale General Science Collection, researchers can stay current with the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology and hundreds of other areas. More than 200 journals are covered. Updated daily, the General Science Collection includes more than 1.6 million articles to satisfy almost every scientific inquiry.

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as full text for more than 4,700 records.

Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine includes information created specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers, and health care professionals. This database is the perfect resource for up-to-date information on a complete range of healthcare topics.

JSTOR Biological Sciences Collection provides full-text coverage to over 130 journals in the areas of biology, botany, ecology and zoology.

Kanopy is a film service which streams more than 26,000 films to over 3,000 higher education campuses worldwide, reaching millions of students around the globe. Films on Kanopy's platform range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, must-see classics and blockbuster movies.

Medline indexes over 10,000 journals in all fields of medicine, dentistry and nursing. Medline provides indexing for over 17 million articles published from 1950 to the present and is updated daily.

Nursing & Allied Health Collection supports the research needs of students and researchers in nursing and allied health fields who are looking for answers related to the specialized care, treatment and management of all sorts of patients. Nursing & Allied Health Collection brings together information found in more than 1,000 journals.

The Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine collection, which includes hundreds of thousands of articles updated daily from nearly 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine. Users will discover proven treatment techniques, examine experimental research theses, find unique applications for specific sports (everything from baseball and bowling to tennis and yachting) and more.

PubAg covers all of the core topics of the agricultural sciences including nutrition, food safety, food quality, animal and crop production and protection, natural resources, sustainable agricultural systems, rural development, agricultural economic and policy issues, agricultural imports and exports, and agricultural statistics. This database contains nearly 3 million citations to peer-reviewed journal articles. A small number (10%) are available with full-text, but links to full-text at publisher web sites and open source articles supplements the amount of available full-text significantly.

PubMed contains over 20 million citations for articles from the fields of medicine, life sciences, and health. PubMed is a free resource that is developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Science.gov is a gateway to U.S. government science information. The portal offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies. Science.gov makes it possible for users to search over 60 databases, over 2,200 websites, and over 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information in many formats, including full-text documents, citations, scientific data supporting federally funded research, and multimedia.

Science In Context is an online resource providing contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. By integrating authoritative, curriculum-aligned reference content with headlines and videos, Science In Context is meant to show how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues, from weather patterns to obesity. Science in Context contains millions of full-text articles that are drawn from hundreds of national and global newspapers, magazines, and journals.

ScienceDirect provides access to thousands of academic journals published by Elsevier. BVU has purchased access to the full-text of over 1,100 of those journals in the areas of Health & Life Sciences. This sub-set of the ScienceDirect collection delivers an immense amount of peer-reviewed journal content covering biology, medical and nursing and allied health, sports science, and environmental science. Articles are available from 1995 to the present. Full-text access is denoted by a green page icon.

SPORTDiscus is the world's most comprehensive sports and sports medicine database. Articles from more than 440 journals are available with links to full-text. Coverage ranges from 1985 to the present. Material published in books and conference proceedings is also indexed in this database. **SPORTDiscus allows up to four simultaneous users.**

SpringerOpen covers over 200 journals published by Springer of academic, peer-reviewed open access articles that are primary in the sciences, but some social science areas are also represented.

SSRN is a searchable online library that enables authors to post their papers and abstracts easily and free of charge. The vast majority of papers can be downloaded free of charge as well. From its initial focus on the social sciences in 1994, SSRN has grown to become the most interdisciplinary service of its kind, representing disciplines across the full research spectrum, including the applied sciences, health sciences, humanities, life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.

Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for academic research. Home to nearly 13,000 journals, Academic OneFile delivers quality content for faculty, students, scholars and other researchers. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects makes Academic OneFile both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Academic OneFile is a one-stop resource for academic research in all disciplines.

Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 covers topics including LGBTQ activism and the HIV/AIDS crisis. It provides researchers with the documents necessary to delve deep into the Gay Rights Movement with resources that may otherwise go undiscovered. Repositories for this collection include: Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation; Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives; Women's Energy Bank; GLBT Historical Society; National Library of Medicine; among other archives.

Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) provides the most robust collection of high-quality research in areas related to communication and mass media. In addition to the more than 600 journals that CMMC provides indexing and abstracts for, the database also features full text for more than 240 journals. A sophisticated Communication Thesaurus is available to researchers, and searchable cited references are provided for many of the journals covered by the database.

Communication Studies includes the full-text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. Some journals go back more than 50 years. The database includes over 12,800 articles and covers such subjects as journalism, political communication, mass communication, interpersonal communication, cultural studies / intercultural communication, television / film studies, media studies, business communication, organizational / management communication, and written communication. Every bibliographic record in the Communication Studies links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format. This database is updated weekly.

Communications & Mass Media Collection brings together information found in more than 350 journals which contain nearly 3 million articles on all aspects of the communications field on Gale's InfoTrac platform.

Gale OneFile: Contemporary Women's Issues offers comprehensive coverage of issues that influence women's lives across the globe. Users will find timely and historically relevant content on topics including civil rights, health, education, professional development, and entrepreneurship.

Do you need to check a definition or read a short, authoritative description of a literary or scientific term? Credo Reference features full-text content from nearly 400 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference gives you the power of the web without all the irrelevant web sites, the clutter, or the advertisements. Each search result in Credo Reference is formatted for you in MLA and APA format.

The Diversity Studies Collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community. This collection includes more than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals, updated daily.

The Directory of Open Access Books is a large collection of academic peer-reviewed books that are open access. All subject areas represented, but holdings are strongest in sciences and social sciences.

The Directory of Open Access Journals is the world’s only free, independent, community-curated, online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals

Encyclopedia of Social Work provides an authoritative starting place for research in the field of social work as well as related fields like public health and sociology. ESW provides social work overview articles and biographies of key figures in social work history. Entries in ESW are updated as needed. Links to additional resources and related entries are provided within the text of each entry.

Films On Demand delivers web-based, educational video content from a variety of producers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Cambridge Educational, BBC, and many more. BVU's subscription includes over 6,000 titles in the Master Academic Collection, which spans all academic disciplines and subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to search and organize 60,000+ segments, share playlists, personalize folders and post to a course management system. Titles are continuously added to this collection.

Gender Studies Collection offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.

HeinOnline Academic includes more than 100 million pages of multidisciplinary content in more than 100 subject areas, including history, political science, criminal justice, religious studies, international relations, women’s studies, pre-law, and many more. HeinOnline provides access to 300+ years of information on political development and the complete history of the creation of government and legal systems around the world. Among the many databases included, HeinOnline’s journal collection features nearly 2,800 periodicals relating to a variety of subject areas, with all coverage dating from inception to the most currently published issues in most cases.

The JSTOR Essential Collection is comprised of foundational content in the Humanities and Social Sciences with nearly 700 core titles across 45 disciplines. The journals in the Essential Collection serve both basic and advanced research and teaching needs for two- and four-year institutions.

Kanopy is a film service which streams more than 26,000 films to over 3,000 higher education campuses worldwide, reaching millions of students around the globe. Films on Kanopy's platform range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, must-see classics and blockbuster movies.

Produced by the Buros Center for Testing at the University of Nebraska, Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print is essential for evaluating contemporary testing instruments. Designed for novices and professionals alike, it contains full-text reviews for test products in psychology, education, business and leadership. In addition, it provides a bibliography to all known commercially available English-language tests currently in print. **This database allows up to four simultaneous users.**

Project Muse is an online collection of over 300 journal titles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. MUSE journals cover many disciplines including literature, history, politics, economics, education, film, religion, and women's studies.

The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research. The database contains more than 137,000 articles from 66 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.

Psychology includes the full text of 34 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. Some journals go back more than 60 years. The database encompasses over 44,400 articles in such areas as applied psychology, child development, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, counseling psychology, cross-cultural psychology, cultural psychology, developmental psychology, educational psychology, family studies, industrial/organizational psychology, learning disabilities, personality, school psychology, and social psychology. Every bibliographic record in the database links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.

Psychology Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines that cover the study of emotions, personality, and the human mind. The database offers content of interest to both researchers and general users.

PsycINFO, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all from psychology and related disciplines. Journal coverage spans the 19th century to the present and includes international material selected from more than 2000 periodicals published in more than 25 languages. More than 60,000 new records are added each year. PsycINFO also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, physiology, pharmacology, sociology, education, nursing, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.

The PTSDpubs bibliographic database (formerly PILOTS: Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress), covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont. The PTSDpubs database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage.

The Social Work Abstracts database, produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., contains coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Researchers seeking scholarly and professional perspectives on subjects such as therapy, education, human services, addictions, child and family welfare, mental health, civil and legal rights, and more will find Social Work Abstracts to be an indispensable resource. **Social Work Abstracts allows up to four simultaneous users.**

SSOAR : Social Science Open Access Repository provides growing holdings of freely available, full-text social science documents.

SSRN is a searchable online library that enables authors to post their papers and abstracts easily and free of charge. The vast majority of papers can be downloaded free of charge as well. From its initial focus on the social sciences in 1994, SSRN has grown to become the most interdisciplinary service of its kind, representing disciplines across the full research spectrum, including the applied sciences, health sciences, humanities, life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.

Researchers accessing the more than 1.7 million articles in the War and Terrorism Collection will gain insight into conflicts and their causes, impact and perception on a global scale. This definitive collection for researchers of history, social science and current events covers 100 subject-appropriate, full-text periodicals that are updated daily.

Focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries, Women's Studies Archive provides a history of the social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives and offers a look at the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society. Through a variety of documents such as diaries, letters, photographs, news clippings, organizational records, and journals, it presents a record of the issues that have affected women, societal contributions, social status, and women's movements.

Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for academic research. Home to nearly 13,000 journals, Academic OneFile delivers quality content for faculty, students, scholars and other researchers. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects makes Academic OneFile both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Academic OneFile is a one-stop resource for academic research in all disciplines.

Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 covers topics including LGBTQ activism and the HIV/AIDS crisis. It provides researchers with the documents necessary to delve deep into the Gay Rights Movement with resources that may otherwise go undiscovered. Repositories for this collection include: Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation; Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives; Women's Energy Bank; GLBT Historical Society; National Library of Medicine; among other archives.

Do you need to check a definition or read a short, authoritative description of a literary or scientific term? Credo Reference features full-text content from nearly 400 reference books covering a broad range of subjects. Credo Reference gives you the power of the web without all the irrelevant web sites, the clutter, or the advertisements. Each search result in Credo Reference is formatted for you in MLA and APA format.

Criminal Justice Collection makes research easy by bringing together information from more than 700 journals. Powered by InfoTrac, Criminal Justice Collection takes users straight to the answers they need from nearly 5.5 million articles. Updated daily, the database yields current, relevant results.

The Diversity Studies Collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community. This collection includes more than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals, updated daily.

Encyclopedia of Social Work provides an authoritative starting place for research in the field of social work as well as related fields like public health and sociology. ESW provides social work overview articles and biographies of key figures in social work history. Entries in ESW are updated as needed. Links to additional resources and related entries are provided within the text of each entry.

Films On Demand delivers web-based, educational video content from a variety of producers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Cambridge Educational, BBC, and many more. BVU's subscription includes over 6,000 titles in the Master Academic Collection, which spans all academic disciplines and subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to search and organize 60,000+ segments, share playlists, personalize folders and post to a course management system. Titles are continuously added to this collection.

Kanopy is a film service which streams more than 26,000 films to over 3,000 higher education campuses worldwide, reaching millions of students around the globe. Films on Kanopy's platform range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, must-see classics and blockbuster movies.

The PTSDpubs bibliographic database (formerly PILOTS: Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress), covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont. The PTSDpubs database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage.

The Social Work Abstracts database, produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., contains coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Researchers seeking scholarly and professional perspectives on subjects such as therapy, education, human services, addictions, child and family welfare, mental health, civil and legal rights, and more will find Social Work Abstracts to be an indispensable resource. **Social Work Abstracts allows up to four simultaneous users.**