Most Used Databases

Journals, books, and other resources on subjects including nursing, emergency services, nutrition, occupational therapy, physical therapy, optometry, public health, speech-language pathology &

Journal articles, books, and other resources across many subjects. Provides a "cited by" feature to indicate other papers containing a source paper as a reference.

Provides access to a variety of legal information, including federal and state case law, the United States Code Annotated, the Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register, state statutes and

Complete, searchable, full text articles from over 2,100 core scholarly journals. 1878 to the most recent 1-5 years (varies by title).

Journals, books, and other resources covering psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including: anthropology, business, education, law, linguistics, medicine, nursing, pharmaco

Journal articles covering biomedical research and the clinical sciences including nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health, and pre-clinical sciences.

Anatomy TV contains rotatable 3D models of the human body and anatomical layers which may be stripped away. Also included are common pathologies, radiological content, and interactive quizzes.

Journals, books, and other resources in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Also includes materials on film studies. 1926 to present.

ProQuest Central brings together databases across major subject areas including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as

Journal articles, books, and other resources relating to education--from early childhood to higher education.

Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more.

A multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 7,300 full-text, peer-reviewed journals.

Journal articles, books, and other resources on all aspects of sociology and related disciplines.

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language.

Provides the books, periodicals, and audiovisual materials available in Olson Library.

Books and other materials from Marquette's public library.

Access to nytimes.com.  Provides current paper and an archive (e.g. TimeMachine) of articles back to 1851.

JoMI is a streaming library of complete teaching videos of surgical procedures. Narrated by surgeon(s) performing procedure; filmed at teaching hospitals worldwide.

Many publishers who work with HighWire allow access to their content without a subscription. Take a look at a list of publications which offer free, full-text content.

A complete web-based automotive diagnosis and repair reference for professional automotive technicians.

UpToDate is an evidence-based clinical point-of-care full text resource. Aimed towards students, professionals, and patients, includes the latest information about drugs & diseases.

Access over 70,000 videos with unlimited/simultaneous access across a wide range of subjects, platform includes 360/VR functionality.

Birds of the World is a powerful new resource that brings together scholarly content from four celebrated works of ornithology (Birds of North America, Neotropical Birds, Hand

SciFinder-n is a new platform of SciFinder which provides more content than any SciFinder® product, including easy access to full-text, indexed patents, and millions of step-by-step syntheses index

The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) is a research project funded primarily by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and Micros

Wiley publishes peer-reviewed journals and books that cover the full spectrum of life, health and physical sciences, social science and the humanities.

Assists in selection of academic journals that are most likely to publish your manuscript.

The Michigan eLibrary Catalog (MeLCat) is a catalog of the books, audios, and videos from approximately 450 Michigan libraries that you can borrow and request for pick-up at Olson Library.

A catalog of books, sound recordings, artwork, and other resources from over 40,000 libraries. 

Offering more than 170,000 e-books, this collection of multidisciplinary eBooks includes titles from leading university presses and academic publishers.

Offers differing views on the latest social topics, from capital punishment to immigration, to marijuana.

Journals, books, research reports, and proceedings on librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Includes full text for more than 460 publications and indexing for hundreds of journals, as well as books, research reports and proceedings.

NMU Commons is the University's institutional repository, which preserves and provides access to the research and scholarly output of the University.

Auto Repair Source provides service and repair information for thousands of domestic and imported vehicles.

Published by the American Psychiatric Association, this classification and diagnostic tool is the authority in the United States for psychiatric diasnosis.

Covers all aspects of Philosophy and Religion.

Family history resource including more than 6 billion historical ​records from the United States, Europe, Latin America, and other regions.

Database offering access to more than 800,000 free electronic theses and dissertations.

Journal articles, newspapers, and reports covering all aspects of business. Direct company link to Hoover's company information & analysis. 1971 to present.

This database offers abstracts for thousands of children's picture books (preschool to grade three), suitable for teachers, librarians, and others who design interdisciplinary curricula for element

An online guide to test preparation. Includes practice tests for: academic, advanced placement, basic skills success, U.S.

Over 135,000 ebooks for students at all levels - from undergrad to post-doctoral research - and including topics across all disciplines. Over 1,000 new titles added each year.

The largest database of graduate dissertations and theses. Almost 5 million citations and over 2.6 million full-text works.

A collection of over 23,000 electronic books on a wide range of subjects.

Access to more than 530 full-text journals. It has particularly strong coverage in child & adolescent psychology and various areas of counseling.

Springer is a publisher of peer-reviewed journals in medicine, life sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry and the social sciences and humanities.

Covers fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design.

Current data covering public and non-public companies and key executives.

A full-text database that combines information from thousands of reference works, books, and literary journals.

BioMed Central has an evolving portfolio of some 300 peer-reviewed journals in science, technology, engineering and medicine.

ScienceDirect publishes peer-reviewed scientific, technical and health journals that span 24 major scientific disciplines.

PLOS is a nonprofit Open Access publisher, publishing 7 peer-reviewed journals in science and medicine.

LGBT Life contains full text for more than 120 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 150 full-text monographs/boo

A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Previously know as Gale Virtual Reference Library.

An interdisciplinary collection of over 300 high quality, peer reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences.

Coverage spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education.

HeinOnline is a legal research database containing comprehensive coverage of U.S. statutory materials, U.S. Congressional Documents and more than 2,600 scholarly journals.

A full-text resource covering subjects such as: CAD, cosmetology, electrical technology, forensics, graphic arts, health information technology, law enforcement & criminal justice, paralegal st

Provides full text coverage for scholarly journals published in central and eastern European countries. Brought to you by the Library of Michigan via the Michigan eLibrary (https://mel.org).

A collection of high-quality full-text books in the humanities and social sciences. Over 4,300 titles and growing annually. 1900 to present.

Includes full text for more than 1,400 journals, with citations to over 3.5 million articles, including book reviews.

Contains over 175 reference works - dictionaries, encyclopedias, companions--from Oxford University Press.  Access limited to 5 concurrent users.

Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.

Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also includes abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.

A collection of electronic books dealing with computers and information technology. Close to 7,000 titles. Access limited to 2 concurrent users per title.

A collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducts research in a variety of physical and engineering sciences that promotes the nation’s technology infrastructure.

The United Nations Demographic Yearbook collects, compiles and disseminates official statistics on a wide range of topics.

DemographicsNow leverages Census data, consumer expenditures, retail spending, and Mosaic Lifestyle market segmentation groupings to helps users "crunch" data in easy-to-use report formats.

Free public access to the full text of official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

Full-text journals published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. Emphasis on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

Features full text for more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books.

Serves as the catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library, as well as a primary public source for world-wide access to agricultural information.

Cambridge University Press publishes peer-reviewed academic journals covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine.

Includes more than 860 full-text national and international newspapers. Also includes more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.

ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences.

Includes treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence dedicated to American Indian Law.

Contains over 400 full-text titles from leading academic journals, monographs, related articles from major periodicals and newspapers, and over 1600 biographies of leading historical and contempora

Ulrich's is the authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types academic and scholarly journals, Open Access

Sixty full text journals from the American Psychological Association and other publishers. 1985 to present.

PTSDpubs, formerly known as PILOTS, is a freely available, bibliographic database providing citations and abstracts to the worldwide literature on PTSD and other mental health consequences of traum

An index to plays found in collections, anthologies and periodicals. Helpful when you can't find a play in OneSearch.

Provides types of U.S. government documents.

A comprehensive Spanish-language database including 49,000 encyclopedia entries; 50,000 images; 2,500 health reports; a Spanish-English dictionary and full text for over 100 reference books and doz

Offers a comprehensive collection of more than 450,000 full text biographies. Brought to you by the Library of Michigan via the Michigan eLibrary (https://mel.org).

Includes over 1,200 full-text journals and over 2.5 million records, including book reviews and case citations.

Full-text coverage to scholarly journals and other key resources across all relevant disciplines including accounting, auditing, taxation, financial management, risk, and insurance information incl

Oxford University Press publishs journals in the humanities, social sciences, law, science, and medicine, two-thirds of which are published in partnership with learned and professional societies.

Sage publishes journals in the social sciences, humanities, health, life and biomedical sciences and engineering.

Both prescription and over-the-counter medications. Highly credible resource which includes side effects, precautions, dosage levels, etc.

Journals, books, and other resources containing new contributions to mathematical research.

Contains journal articles, books, and other resources on the subjects of corrections, courts, drugs, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, domestic preparedness, and victims.

Covers over 6 million papers published in numerous symposium, conference, exposition, workshop, and meeting proceedings.

MasterFILE Complete provides full-text periodicals covering an extensive range of subject areas including business, health, education, fitness, sports and leisure, personal finance, general science

Science.gov searches over 38 databases and 1,950 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information, including research and development results.

Contains thousands of legal forms and more than 310 full-text legal reference books. Brought to you by the Library of Michigan via the Michigan eLibrary (https://mel.org).

A collection of full-text poetry and short stories, ranging in period from antiquity to the present, as well as biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and te

A community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers.

This resource offers full text for almost 1,200 journals.

Ebooks encompassing a variety of business topics, such as marketing, finance, supply chain management and entrepreneurship.

A full-test resource presenting a wide range of views on social and political issues. Provides access to magazine and academic journals as well as primary source documents related to the issues.

An additional resource from the American Psychiatric Association containing the DSM-V and a number of psychiatric reference materials, books, journals, and self-assessment tools.

The ACS Web Edition provides patrons with unrestricted access to the entire portfolio of current ACS journals and, new in 2017, Chemical & Engineering News, including more than 60 peer-reviewed

USA.gov is your online guide to government information and services. USA.gov searches only federal, state, and local government websites available to the public.

This collection offers full text titles for K-8 students across all academic subjects from History, to Language and Literature, to Science & Technology.

A comprehensive readers' advisory resource for fiction and nonfiction that will help you to decide: What should I read next?

Mammalian Species is published by the American Society of Mammalogists with 25-35 individual species accounts issued each year.

Articles from journals held by The Anthropology Library at the British Museum.

Provides the latest insight into topics relevant to entrepreneurship and small business.

Covers approximately 200,000 published symposiums, conferences, expositions, workshops and meetings.

A comprehensive readers' advisory resource for fiction and nonfiction designed to help you integrate reading across the curriculum and support young readers.

Contains nearly 400 full-text periodicals and over 450 full-text reference books.

Provides full text coverage of more than 80 regional business publications. Brought to you by the Library of Michigan via the Michigan eLibrary (https://mel.org).

Mammalian Species is published by the American Society of Mammalogists with 25-35 individual species accounts issued each year.

Provides unlimited access to WSJ.com on desktop, tablet and mobile devices, including the WSJ mobile app.

Provides open access to thousands of humanities and social science ebooks from several university presses and initiatives.

Launched on Project MUSE in January 2012, provides access to thousands of high-quality ebooks in the humanities and social sciences from major university presses and scholarly publishers.

JoVE Education is collection of thousands of streaming videos illustrating key concepts, lab techniques/experiments, and demonstrations in a variety of disciplines primarily in the sciences & s

Draw it to Know it teaches gross anatomy and neuroanatomy through a series of online, interactive illustrated, and narrated tutorials.

With our campus-wide license, you have full access to Education Week, which features daily news, commentary and analysis on policy, legislative and overall shifts and trends in the U.S.

Open Book Publishers (OBP) is a leading independent open access academic press that publishes peer-reviewed, award-winning monographs, edited collections, textbooks, critical trans

Academic streaming video collection containing over 5,000 educational titles as well as U.S. and international feature films. Some titles include transcripts and closed captioning.

IBISWorld provides trusted industry research on thousands of industries worldwide. NMU's subscription provides access to 700 US NAICS Industry Reports at the 5-digit level of the NAICS code.

Gale Literature Resource Center is Gale’s most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature resource, offering the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works, inclu

Over 150 world-class performances of theatre from some of the top producers across the globe since 2009.

The mission of UPLINK is to collaboratively manage and sustain a low-cost, secure, and geographically distributed digital preservation and access service for locally created digital primary source

ArchivesSpace is the Central Upper Peninsula and NMU Archives collection management program.

 IPA Source is designed to assist singers with foreign language diction and communication.

A portal to USDA-authored and other highly relevant agricultural research.

Dance Studies Collection presents the historical context of 20th and 21st century dance through 150,000 pages of exclusive photographs, correspondence, magazines, dance notation, and reference mate

HaPI is a bibliographic database that contains over 240,000 records providing detailed, comprehensive information about behavioral and psychosocial measurement tools for researchers across diverse