Database Titles by Name - P-R
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DATABASE DESCRIPTION
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| Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection | Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection (InfoTrac) includes over 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine, providing researchers with access to many topics in the field, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses, and many more. |
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Points of View (Ebsco) is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of 250 current issues. Similar to the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.
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The PolicyArchive is a digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research that includes summaries and full texts, videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material of think tank, university, government, and foundation-funded policy research. (https://www.policyarchive.org/)
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The Political Database of the Americas contains information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, political constitutional studies, and other subjects related to the strengthening of democracy in the Americas. It contains 1,500 pages of information on 35 countries in the Western hemisphere. (http://pdba.georgetown.edu/)
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| Pop Culture Collection | Pop Culture Collection (InfoTrac) provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art or liberal arts course. This collection is made up of 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals. |
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Preserving and Digitizing Plant Images: Linking Plant Images and Databases for Public Access is a result of a two-year project by the Missouri Botanical Garden, sponsored by a National Leadership Award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Their purpose was to create a repository for plant images to which other botanical organizations can contribute. Currently over 10,000 images are available. (http://www.mobot.org/mobot/imls/)
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Professional Collection (InfoTrac) has articles from more than 300 full-text periodicals covering a variety of topics for teachers/educators, including: health and fitness, school law, drug and alcohol abuse, learning disabilities, sports, arts and humanities, social sciences, and psychology.
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| Project Gutenberg | Project Gutenberg is a collection of free digitized books whose copyright has expired. It contains more than 100,000 online books, which can be read on your screen or downloaded to an ebook reader. |
| Project Muse | Project Muse provides full-text access to current content from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. |
| ProQuest® Education Journals gives users access to over 790 top educational publications, including more than 615 of the titles in full text. ProQuest Education Journals covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education, but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics. Image articles include all the charts, tables, diagrams, and other graphical elements often used to enhance the editorial value of articles that focus on education topics. | |
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PsycARTICLES (Ebsco), from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 137,000 articles from 66 journals - 50 published by the APA, and its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychology Association and Hogrefe Publishing Group.
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| Psychology Collection | Psychology Collection (InfoTrac) explores what makes people "tick" from childhood to death. This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops -- and diminishes -- over time, and provides instant access to 200 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals. |
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The Public Library of Science is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource. Journals are available for the fields of biology, medicine, genetics, and others. (http://www.plos.org/index.php)
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Regional Business News (Ebsco) database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
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Religion & Philosophy Database (InfoTrac) has articles from more than 250 magazines and journals on religion, philosophy, archaeology, and anthropology, and covers the impact of religion on culture. Many articles are full-text.
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ResearchGate serves as a "Facebook for scientists," allowing for publication sharing, job searching, and for easy collaboration on research. Get feedback from fellow scientists on questions you encounter or obstacles you're facing. (http://www.researchgate.net/)
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