Online Databases

NOTE: These databases contain the complete (full text) journal, magazine or newspaper article or the full report.  User names and passwords for the databases have to be obtained by visiting or calling the library at (570)961-7831.

Biography in Context

• 600,000+ biographies on more than 525,000 influential people
• 170+ Gale reference titles
• A Gale Cengage Learning product

Credo Reference

• Contains 100 reference titles (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, crossword solver, and measurement converter) from many publishers
• Areas include art, biographies, business, food and beverage, geography, history, language, law, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, psychology, religion, science, social sciences, and technology

Issues and Controversies

• Contains objective and detailed articles on timely topics currently in the news
• Has pro and con viewpoints
• A Facts on File product

Literature Online

• Literature Online is the leading online resource for the study and teaching of literature in English. It is a fully integrated service that combines the texts of over 357,250 works of literature with huge resources of criticism and reference.
• Literature Online contains a full library of up-to-date, fully searchable criticism and reference resources in addition to the full text of poetry, drama, and prose fiction from the seventh century to the present day. It not only provides the materials for the historical study of almost every period and genre of literature in English but also features increasing numbers of works by the major authors of the twentieth century. Contemporary criticism is available through the full text of over 320 current literature journals that can be accessed through the renowned literary index, Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), which contains over 950,000 records of literary criticism from 1920 to current.

Literature Resource Center

• Contains more than 70,000 signed critical essays on authors and their works throughout history around the world
• Over 750,000 articles from 325 full-text journals and literary reviews
• A Gale Cengage Learning product

Opposing Viewpoints in Context

• Contains information on various issues
• Viewpoint essays which cover the pro/con argument on a particular issue
• A Gale Cengage Learning product

ProQuest

• ProQuest provides seamless access to and navigation of more than 125 billion digital pages of the world's scholarship, delivering it to the desktop and into the workflow of serious researchers in multiple fields, from arts, literature, and social science to general reference, business, science, technology, and medicine.

Project MUSE – Basic College Collection

• Full text scholarly journal articles in the humanities and the social sciences
• A product of the Johns Hopkins University Press

SIRS Issues Researcher

• Articles from over 1,700 U.S. and international magazines and newspapers
• Also statistical, web, and multimedia sources
• Has pro and con leading issues
• A ProQuest product.

Today’s Science

• Covers current developments in science
• Areas include biology, chemistry, the environment, space, physics, and technology
• Biographies of more than 2,000 scientists
• A Facts on File product

World Book Web

• An online encyclopedia and more
• Use World Book Student or World Book Advanced

User names and passwords for the databases have to be obtained by
visiting or calling the library at (570) 961-7831.