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Databases by Subject

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Biology	Business and Economics	Career
Chemistry	Communication	Computer Science
Criminal Justice	Dental Education	Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Biographies
eBooks	Education	English
Environmental Science	Fine Arts	Free 4 All
Gender Studies	General Academic	General Interest
Geosciences	Government	Health Information Management and Administration
Kid-Friendly	Law	Library Science
Magazines, Collections, and Periodicals	Mathematics and Actuarial Science	Military
Minority Studies	Modern Languages	Newspapers
Nursing and Medicine	Performing Arts	Philosophy
Physics	Political Science	Psychology
Public Affairs and Administration	Religion	Radiologic Sciences
Social Work	Sociology and Anthropology	U.S. History
Video	World History

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Biography Reference Center
Biography Reference Center offers a comprehensive collection of more than 460,000 full-text biographies, including the complete full-text run of Biography Today and Biography, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases.
Digital Theatre Plus
Digital Theatre+ provides ways to connect ELA and Theatre students with dramatic texts, poetry and performance. Education-based content includes exclusive video resources and interviews to detailed study guides, essays and lesson plans
Gale eBooks
Formerly called Gale Virtual Reference Library. Virtual Reference Library electronically provides complete encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs and more in many areas of study.
GISDegree.org
Resource focused on GIS (Geographic Information Systems) degrees and certificates in the United States.
Google News
Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
HeinOnline
HeinOnline Academic includes more than 100 million pages of multidisciplinary content in more than 100 subject areas, including history, political science, criminal justice, religious studies, international relations, women’s studies, pre-law, and many more.

Trial lasts until August 31, 2025.
IUN Student Newspapers
Digitized by the IUN Archives, this collection covers every Indiana University Northwest student-run newspaper from 1959 to 2012. Their names included The Centurion, The Northwest Student, The Northwest Phoenix, and The Redhawk Review.
Nursing & Allied Health
Formerly CINAHL Complete. Nursing & Allied Health provides comprehensive and multi-media coverage of the fields or nursing and allied health, as well as alternative and complementary medicine.
Research and learning information is presented from leading scholary and trade journals, books, full-length training videos, reports, pamphlets and ephemeral works, and websites.
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center is a full text database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications.
PolicyMap
PolicyMap is an online data and mapping tool that lets you create maps covering Demographics, Incomes & Spending, Housing, Lending, Quality of Life, Economy, Education, and Health.
Research Methods: Primary Sources
Designed as a tool to support students of the humanities and social sciences, Research Methods Primary Sources introduces the key approaches to working with source materials and historical evidence.
Royal Shakespeare Company Archives
Royal Shakespeare Company Archives provides a comprehensive record of the performance history of the Royal Shakespeare Company and its predecessor, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre.
Browse and compare almost 1,400 prompt books to uncover how productions took shape, and explore the creative process behind the company's most important presentations in extensive additional documentation including production records, costume designs, music files and photographs.
Skillport Engineering Collection
Skillport Engineering Collection provides online access to books focused on engineering. It includes topics such as aerospace, chemical engineering, mathematics, physics, sustainability and many other topics.
Skillport Well-Being Collection
Skillport BusinessPro Collection provides online access to books focused on well-being. It includes topics such as family and caregiving, health and wellness, nutrition and weight loss, and many other topics.