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Academic Search Complete – Indexes, abstracts, and provides selected full-text of articles published in scholarly publications from many disciplines. |
Academic Video Online: Premium – Academic Video Online: Premium contains over 66,000 streaming videos with coverage in all academic subject areas. |
America’s News – Provides full-text of almost 1200 U.S. news sources and newspapers, including the Advocate (1986-current) and the Times-Picayune (1989-current). |
Bayou State Periodical Index – Indexes articles in popular Louisiana magazines and newsletters. |
Biography in Context – Provides full-text biographical information on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. |
Black Freedom Struggle in the U.S. – A website centered on the experience and perspectives of African Americans, including input from Black history scholars and advisors. Contains approximately 2,000 primary source documents spanning different phases of Black Freedom from 1790 – 2000. |
Black Life in America – Sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources, including over 400 current and historical Black publications. Covers from pre-Revolution America (early 18th century) to the modern era (early 21st century) |
Book Collection: Nonfiction – Abstracts and provides full-text of popular non-fiction books. Includes images of maps and flags as well as photos of people, places, history, and natural science. |
Books at JSTOR – Books at JSTOR contains over 32,000 ebooks published prior to 2016 from a number of academic publishers with subject strengths in the humanities and social sciences. |
Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest) – Indexes all doctoral dissertations completed at U. S. accredited institutions since 1861. Provides abstracts of doctoral dissertations since 1981. Includes some master’s theses and foreign language dissertations. Provides 24-page previews of recent dissertations. |
EndNote Web – A web-based tool for managing and citing references in papers and creating bibliographies. |
Fuente Academica – Indexes and abstracts multi-disciplinary scholarly academic journals from Latin American and Spanish publishers and includes full text coverage for hundreds of scholarly Spanish language journals. |
JSTOR – Provides full-text of scholarly journals in the fields of ecology, economics, education, finance, history, mathematics, political science and population studies. Southeastern users have access to JSTOR Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, V and Complement Collections and JSTOR Biology Collection. |
LearningExpress Library (now PrepSTEP; listed below) – Provides test preparation materials and practice tests. New users will be asked to register and create an ID and password whether using LearningExpress on campus or off campus. |
LOUISiana Digital Library – Provides collections of images from Louisiana libraries, archives, museums, and cultural institutions. |
Mango Languages – An online language-learning program for over 70 languages, including English. Lessons range from basic to comprehensive language and grammar skills, and can include casual conversations, films, and specialty courses in culture. Users can create a profile to track their language learning progress. |
MAS Complete– Provides full-text for popular magazines, biographies, primary source documents, pamphlets, and reference books. Provides an Image Collection of photos, maps & flags. |
MasterFILE Complete – Includes full-text magazine and journal articles, full-text reference books, primary source documents, photos, maps, flags, and videos from the Associated Press (AP). |
Nexis Uni™ – Provides access to titles in news, business, and legal information. Includes company financial information, industry and market news, foreign and U.S. newspapers, magazines, and trade journals, federal and state case law, accounting information, medical news and abstracts, law reviews, state and country profiles. |
PrepSTEP (formerly LearningExpress Library) – Provides test preparation materials and practice tests. New users will be asked to register and create an ID and password whether using LearningExpress on campus or off campus. |
Project MUSE (Journals) – Provides full-text articles from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. |
Research Library (ProQuest) – Indexes and abstracts popular and scholarly periodicals, including full-text, full images, or text and graphics of articles from thousands of titles. |
Statistical Abstract of the United States, Online Edition – The Statistical Abstract of the United States, Online Edition is a comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the U.S. with over 1400 browseable and searchable tables. |
Statistical Abstracts of the World, Online Edition – The Statistical Abstracts of the World provide summaries of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of many different countries.
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CQ Researcher – Investigates a single current events topic every week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education, and science and technology. |
GovInfo – A service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) that provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government. |
GreenFILE – Indexes and abstracts scholarly, government, and general-interest titles regarding the environmental effects of individuals, corporations, and local/national governments. |
Oxford English Dictionary – Provides thousands of word entries and about two and a half million quotations, arranged chronologically. Includes words in current usage as well as old words and describes the history of each word in detail. |
Oxford Reference – Includes approximately 50 subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, and subject companion books, published from 2002 to present. Many of these are award-winning reference books. |