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Need help learning how to use the library databases? Download a helpful hints sheet here or pick up a copy in the library.
 
Search a complete database comprising full-text business periodicals and news sources from ABI/INFORM Global, Dateline, and Trade & Industry. This combination of products, covering different aspects of business information, covers scholarly research, businesses traditions and trends, corporate strategies, management techniques, and competitive and product information.
 
Academic Search™ Premier contains indexing and abstracts for over 8,450 journals, with full text for more than 4,600 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
 
Find current and archived local, state, regional, national, and international full-text articles on issues, events, people, government, sports and more with over 2,800 newspapers and other key news sources including the Deseret News1988-Current), New York Times (1985-Current), Salt Lake Tribune (9/24/90), and the Washington Post (1977-Current).  Also includes Access Business News.
 
Access to 18th and 19th century newspapers from Pennsylvania, South Carolina and other Eastern states.
 
This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
 
America's Career Info Net
Find information all about careers, salaries and more.

America's Job Bank
Find state job listings with jobs listed by state.

American Civil War Letters and Diaries
This release contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs all related to the Civil War.

American Civil War Research
Online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War.

American Film Scripts Online
Contains 823 scripts by 969 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.
 
Watch a large collection of videos related to a variety of American History topics.
 
Search online through issues of the American Theatre Magazine.
 
Ancestry.com (on campus only)
Research Your Genealogy.

AP MultiMedia Photo Archives
Find images from all kinds of news and events.
 
Archives Direct is a suite of collections sourced from The National Archives, Kew - the UK government's official archive. With our new digital facility based at Kew, Adam Matthew Digital will be releasing major new content from this world famous archive of information over the coming years. Archives Direct titles are self-contained collections, clustered in a portal for ease of cross-searching and browsing. Your search results will include both documents your institution has purchased, and documents available elsewhere within the Archives Direct portal, giving you access to a huge range of documents from the UK government's archives.

Art Full Text
Full text articles on art and art history.
 
Read and learn all about Asian American Plays.
 
Listen to several plays and drama scenes. Learn about the scenes, the actors and actresses in them and about the playwrights.

Biography Reference Bank
Articles related to biographies of famous people.
Watch a tutorial on it here.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Biography and Genealogy Master Index enables users to locate biographical entries contained in more than 1,000 volumes and editions of important current and retrospective biographical reference sources. This index contains citations that point to over 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor.

Black Drama
Contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Blackwell Reference Business and Economics Collection
Explore several online business and economics volumes.

Britannica Online
Search the online version of the popular Britannica encyclopedia.
Includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters.
 
Over 400 business resources including extensive full-text coverage of accounting, banking, financial, and marketing news from well known journals, newsletters, newswires, magazines, and web only content.
 
Business Source Premier
Business Source® Premier, the industry's most popular business research database, features the full text for more than 2,150 journals. Full text is provided back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Premier's full-text coverage outshines its competitors in all business disciplines, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

BYU's digital collections.
Search BYU's digital collections for a wide variety of information and archives. Collections include items such as: Letters of Philip II, King of Spain, Provo Historical Images, Scholars Archive, BYU Studies, Journal of Discourses and much much more.
 
OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online — is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world.
 
Classical Scores Library
400,000 pages of the most important classical scores and manuscripts.
 
Articles about all aspects of computers and computer technology.
 
Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe
These historical documents capture the hidden history of war-torn Europe and offer researchers, teachers and students many new perspectives on politics, diplomacy and everyday life in the German-occupied countries. The collection includes detailed information indexed by year and section, from the occupied states of Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and the Vatican, and the neutral countries – Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, along with a day-by-day chronology of the war, photographs and posters from The National Archives, film footage of Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents in France from the Imperial War Museum, links to related resources and three newly commissioned essays by leading experts in addition to a comprehensive introduction by Dr. Michael Stenton.
 
is the single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support the information needs of patients, and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full-text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc.
 
Watch videos on a variety of counseling, pyschology and therapy related topics.

CQ Researcher
Covers one hot topic or controversial issue each week.
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Access a large selection of encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference materials.

Culture Grams
Information on the geography and culture of many different countries.
Watch a video tutorial on it.


Dissertations & Theses
Search through and obtain full texts of many dissertations and theses from many professors nationwide.

Deseret Morning News
Search current and archived local coverage from (1988-Current) of issues, events, people, government, sports and more.
 
Main website for the Deseret News. Also access the archives.
 
Read the works of several others and explore literary biographies of many others.

Directory Library by Gale
Access online versions of directories of all types of associations and professions. Find information on national and international associations of all different types. Useful for job searching, networking and more.

Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
Contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of  letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters.

EBSCO - Main Menu
Access your choice of one or several of the EBSCO databases from this main menu.
Access thousands of ebooks in various categories. Ebrary is particularly strong with academic and critical works although there are several fiction and self help titles including some dummies books included as well.
 
EconLit™, the American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature. EconLit adheres to the high quality standards long recognized by subscribers to the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) and is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. It provides links to full- text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.
Full text articles all about education and related topics.
 
Even more education resources.
Over 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes), Includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more. Based on the English Short Title Catalogue. Works published in the UK during the 18th century plus thousands from elsewhere. Primarily in English - also includes other languages.
 
Access even more British journals via this British archive of Eighteenth century journals.

Encyclopedic History of the Church
Search through an encyclopedia of LDS church history.

EMarketer
Learn all about various aspects of marketing especially online marketing.

ERIC
Articles all about education and related issues.


Factiva
Factiva is a division of Dow Jones Company. This database provides business and research. information and services for the business and education communities. Factiva products provide access to more than 14,000 sources such as newspapers, journals, magazines,  news and radio etc. from 152 countries in 22 languages, including more than 120 continuously updated newswires.
 
Search this database for all kinds of information all about careers and career choices.

Film and TV Index
Film & Television Literature Index is the definitive index to film and television literature. It is a bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for 370 publications (and selected coverage for more than 250).
This database has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers.
Read, learn about and make notes on a variety of historical documents.
 
Fuente Académica™ is a collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. It is an indispensable tool of exceptional scope designed to make academic research readily accessible in PDF format.
All major subject areas are covered with particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion and sociology. Some of the titles in this unique collection are: Anuario de Derecho Internacional, APORTES: Revista de Mexicana de Estudios Sobre la Cuenca del Pacífico, Boletín del CEMLA, Ciencia Veterinaria, Comunicación y Sociedad, Cuadernos de Literatura, Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Perspectivas en Política, Economía y Gestión, Problemas del Desarrollo: Revista Latinoamericana de Economía, Psykhe, Revista de Contabilidade e Financas, Revista Internacional de Seguridad Social, Revista Geologica de America Central, and Revista de la CEPAL. Continuously expanding archives include Boletín del CEMLA (1955 - present) and the complete backfile of Darwiniana, published since 1922.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Access thousands of encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference volumes online by subject or search within the various volumes.
 
Search Virtual Reference Library and other Gale Databases at once plus access some other cool features from Gale.
This collection includes 14,020 photographic images.  We invite you to browse the collection or perform a search to view historic photos of people and places in Utah and elsewhere in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The photographs taken over his career demonstrate his artistry with a camera and his perfectionism. Both studio and environmental portraits of Utah residents are available in the thousands. Anderson's collection of negatives contains something of railroad history, mining, LDS temple building, and LDS historic sites.
Learn all about nearly ever country in the world. Visit them with pictures, learn about their culture, geography, politics and much more.

Gospel Link- First Time Users Only
Find gospel and church as well as scripture related resources and documents.
 
Gospel Link- On Campus Access Only
 
Information on evolution, habitat, behavior, and range for more than 4,000 species categorized by Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Insects, Invertebrates, Mammals and Reptiles.
Explore this database with a tutorial.

Green Info Online
Free open access information all about green and environmentally friendly topics.

HARPWEEK
Enables you to directly experience the richness and historical significance of Harper’s Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper.

HeritageQuest Online
Search books and census records from the 17th-20th centuries.

Hoovers
Information on companies, people, industries and news.

Humanities Ebook
Find ebooks on all different humanities related topics.
 
Access industry reports for many industries.
Civil War newspapers and magazines illustrated with pictures.
 
Search and browse images from the Civil War
Look up information on plants.
 
Access the internet archive and view websites as they used to be years ago as well as view additional content that is no longer available online.
 
JSTOR
Database for the sciences and humanities. Articles on literature, art, and more.
 
Explore and search the chronology of the LDS church.
 
Ebsco database with legal articles.
 
Another database full of articles on business, news and legal topics.
Learn all about libraries and information technology and get some related articles.
 
Gale takes literature, history and culture to the next level with its most extensive curated compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online. The 10 individual, award-winning Gale series that comprise Literature Criticism Online represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Imagine centuries of analysis — the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals — delivered in an easy format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. Gale literary references reach back 20 to 30 years and taken together as print, they could easily fill 230 feet of shelf space! Now, hundreds of volumes are digitized and ready to read 24/7 online. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. It's all designed to raise the level of research while providing around-the-clock remote access that today's researchers demand. With its complete and cross-referenced essay content, researchers will need to look no further.
 
Literature Online
A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 208 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
 
Literature Resource Center is the world's most current, comprehensive and reliable online literature database. Uniquely relevant to today's curriculum, the resource's rich critical, biographical and contextual materials support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills. Researchers will find the information they need on authors and their works, from all time periods and from around the world.
 
Magill
Access literary annuals, and other literature related journals, critiques and materials.
 
MEDLINE
MEDLINE® provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
 
Find most relevant and top ranked papers by keywords. Get an aggregated page for a certain paper. See top ranked paper in a conference/journal. See all the papers related to a certain author. 
 
The Middle East Online series delivers a central resource of primary source materials covering the political history of the Middle East in the 20th Century.
Based on British Government and other files in the UK national archives, the series makes a major contribution to research and teaching of Middle East Studies, the workings of diplomacy, of conflict resolution and peace-keeping.

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of these sites. 

Mint Global
Access detailed financial information, company stock reports and information from the Dow Jones and other stock markets as well as industry profiles.
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MLA International Bibliography
MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.2 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.
 
The Mountain West Digital Library is a portal to digital resources from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, and Hawaii. The MWDL has these goals: Create a distributed digital repository of significant, rare, and/or unique resources from the libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions of the Mountain West region. Provide a public portal accessing digital collections in the Mountain West for the benefit of MWDL partners, the scholarly community at large, and the general public. Expand the digital library vision and environment for the Mountain West region, and support the digital library development efforts of Collections Partners, including colleges, universities, public libraries, school libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, municipalities, counties, state agencies, and other entities as approved by the UALC Council.
 
Access thousands of ebooks on a variety of topics. Net Library is espcially strong with classic literature. Nearly every classic literature book you have read and heard of is available here including books by Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Balzac, Edgar Allan Poe and many many more. There are also books on other topics as well and new books are added regularly.
 
Find current and archived local, state, regional, national, and international full-text articles on issues, events, people, government, sports and more with over 2,800 newspapers and other key news sources including the Deseret News1988-Current), New York Times (1985-Current), Salt Lake Tribune (9/24/90), and the Washington Post (1977-Current).  Also includes Access Business News.
 
Search current and archived national news coverage from (1985-Current) including issues, events, business, finance, government, the arts, sports and more.
 
The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
Includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information, so providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.
 
Read, learn and listen to documents, and interviews all about North American Indian culture.
 
View and search dramas from the North American Indian Culture.

North American Women's Drama
Contains 1,517 plays by 330 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
 
A comprehensive reference tool designed to provide relevant clinical resources to nurses and other health care professionals, directly at the point-of-care. This database offers staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty and hospital librarians the best available and most recent clinical evidence from thousands of full-text documents.
 
Watch entire operas on video or view only a clip of an opera. View with or without subtitles in various languages, read summaries and information about the operas.
 
Find articles on the pros and cons of a wide variety of issues.
 
Oral History Online
Provides in-depth indexing to more than 2,700 collections of Oral History in English from around the world.

Original Sources
Gives students, teachers, and parents instant, affordable access to the path breaking creations and discoveries of history's greatest minds recorded in their own words, and in classic and firsthand accounts.

Oxford English Dictionary Online
Search the Oxford English dictionary online and access related information and resources.

Oxford Reference Online
Search through a wide variety of Oxford reference volumes including encyclopedias and dictionaries.
This online archive delivers essential primary sources for the study and understanding of the challenges facing the European peoples in the aftermath of World War II. It covers the politics and administration of the refugee crisis in Europe after World War II as well as the day-to-day survival of the refugees themselves.
 
Professional Development
Provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers. This collection offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice.

Proquest Newspapers
Search newspapers of all different types both from the U.S. and around the world.
 
Trace the Revolutionary War rebel cause, Reconstruction after the Civil War, American industrialization into the 20th Century, both World Wars, the Civil Rights Movement, and the development of a globalized economy in one source. ProQuest Historical Newspapers™-the definitive digital archive-offers full-text and full-image arhticles for significant newspapers dating back to the 18th Century.  As part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ program, every issue of each title includes the complete paper-cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images in easily downloadable PDF format.
 
is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.

PsycInfo
The PsycINFO® database, American Psychological Association's (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains over 2.6 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the early 1800s. Ninety-eight percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed.
A searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions.

Readers' Guide Retrospective
Articles from the readers guide to literature.

Regional Business News (EBSCO)
Regional Business News provides full text for more than 80 regional US and Canadian business publications.

Research Library
From business and political science to literature and psychology, ProQuest Research Library™ provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 4,070 titles—nearly 2,800 in full text—from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers. This combination of general reference volume and scope makes it one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer.
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RMA E-Statement Studies
Find information and annual reports for companies from a wide variety of industries.
Joseph Sabin’s Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time has been heralded as a cornerstone in the study of the history of the Western Hemisphere. Gale’s Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 takes the works currently captured from that bibliography and makes them available online.
 
Access a wide variety of technology ebooks including dummies books, step by step and other computer related ebooks.
 
Online Edition of this print encyclopedia. Learn all about various aspects of American History.
Online edition of this print encyclopedia. Learn all about common and not so common health conditions.
 
Search current and archived state news coverage from (9/24/90-Current) including issues, events, people, government, sports and more.
 
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
A definitive collection of 60 volumes of Romantic poetry composed by Scottish women.

Shakespeare Searched
Search all of Shakespeare's works by theme, character and more.

SIRS Government Reporter
Articles on government related topics.

SIRS Researcher
Articles on all different topics.
 
Find biographies, and autobiographies about many authors
 
Database of articles all about slavery.
 
Standard and Poors
Business and finance related articles.
Standard and Poors  Learn more about it with this tutorial.
This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books is now also offered free via the EBSCOhost platform. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.
Downloadable tutorial reference sheet.

Testaments to the Holocaust Digital Archive
Explore these documents all related to the Jewish Holocaust.

Testing and Education Reference Center
Study for a variety of tests and access several reference and career tools.
 
The Making of the Modern World
Full-text searching on more than 12 million pages provides researchers unparalleled access to this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.
Watch full length videos of plays or clips of plays online.
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985, is Gale's online historical archive, delivering every page as published from 200 years of The Times (London) to your library. The Times is the "world's newspaper of record" and covers all major international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War. For the first time users are able to search the full-text of the entire newspaper, including articles, editorials, and advertising. Click on the links at the left to learn how this powerful electronic tool can bring this never-before-available resource collection complete run of the world's oldest continuous published newspaper to your library.

Twentieth Century North American Drama
contains 1,386 plays by 209 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Utah Local History Bibliography
Find information on the local history of all Utah cities.
 
Gale has expanded our popular and comprehensive collection of primary legal documents with The Making of Modern Law’s second installment: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978.
This collection concentrates on the history of the Supreme Court from the final years of the court’s fourth chief justice, John Marshall, through the first ten years of the court’s 15th chief justice, Warren Earl Burger.
 
Learn all about what England was like during the Victorian era. View original images, documents and more from this time period.
 
The Walter Mason Camp digital collection includes 86 photographic images, centering on Camp’s interest in the Indian Wars of North America occurring between1865 and 1890. These images, from the larger collection of 218 photographs housed in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, are a significant contribution to further study of Native American Wars.
 
Search current and archived national news coverage from  (1977-Current) including business, finance, health,issues, events, people, government, and more.
 
Find basic information on all kinds of illnesses.
William Henry Jackson, 1843-1942, was one of the most renowned 19th Century landscape photographers of the American West. He was a man of great energy and love for the outdoors and especially the breadth and heights of the mountain west. His life spanned the first century of the new visual art of photography and the great era of westward expansion. He began his photography career in 1858 in New York as a photographic retouching artist in the burgeoning photography industry and ended it in New York City with his death in 1942.
 
Access documents related to women and social movements in the U.S. from 1600-2000.
 
World History Collection™ offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964. These hand-selected information sources cover a wide range of historical topics including anthropology, art, culture, economics, government, heritage, military, politics, regional issues, and more.

World Vital Records
World Vital Records provides access to a variety of family history resources including databases in the following categories: Census; Birth, Marriage, and Death; Military; Immigration; Family Trees; Family Histories; Newspaper Collections; and Location specific databases.