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Provides access to the 34 peer-reviewed publications of the American Chemical Society. Includes more than 750,000 articles spanning 130-plus years. Learn how to search this database.

Provides indexes and abstracts for anthropology and archaeology. Includes Harvard University's Anthropological Literature database as well as the United Kingdom's Anthropological Index. Limit of one simultaneous user.

Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) contains over 141,000 citations for books and journal articles from the U.S. and Canada covering Native American culture and history. This resource includes a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy.

Business Source Premier (BSP) provides full-text business journals and hundreds of scholarly, peer-reviewed publications covering all aspects of business marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more.

Briggs Library subscribes to more than 140 licensed databases. Learn how to search in a few of the most comprehensive ones, such as Academic Search Premier, Expanded Academic, and JSTOR.

EconLit is a comprehensive index to the world's economic literature from over 750 journals. An expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature indexes, the database also contains abstracts of published books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and working papers. Subject coverage includes economic theory and application.

Briggs Library subscribes to a campuswide license for the bibliographic software EndNote. Use it to organize your research sources, create bibliographies and footnotes using thousands of citation styles. 

ERIC provides access to educational-related literature including journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

Expanded Academic ASAP is a multidisciplinary database containing over 5,300 journals, scholarly and popular, from Gale. While many of the journals are available in full text, there are some publication limitations for the most current articles.

Google Scholar is a web search engine that searches specifically for academic journals and books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, technical reports, and court opinions and patents. It is NOT a library database. 

If there's a book, article, or some other item that you need and Briggs Library doesn't have it, don't worry. All you have to do is request the material through interlibrary loan. We can obtain items from all over the world. Learn how you can get what you need fast. 

Produced by the Modern Language Association, MLA International Bibliography includes 1.8 million citations from more than 4,000 journals and book publishers, as well as full-text articles.

Discover the differences between these types of sources and what it means for your research.

How do you tell the difference between a popular magazine and a scholarly journal? It's easier than you think. 

SciFinder Scholar provides access to the CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) databases covering the chemical literature, chemical substances and reactions, chemical catalogs and regulatory information, as well as the Medline database.

Most library databases provide the full text of the article. Click "view online," "PDF," or on the "Find it" button in the results to connect to the full text if we have it.  

Wiley Online Library provides access to 4 million articles from 1500 journals, almost 10,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases. Briggs Library may not have access to all of the citations in full text, but you can search the entire database and then order what you need through ILL.