Also see the Research Guide on Math, Statistics, & Research Methods, and the guide on Finding Statistical Information.
- Academic Search Complete
EBSCOhost. Our largest interdisciplinary database containing full-text and bibliographic content from a wide range of academic disciplines.
-------------------------------- - BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (partial full text)
Indexes open-access academic resources including journals, institutional repositories, and digital collections. About 60% of the sources are available in full text. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
-------------------------------- - BMC (open access journals)
Contains open-access peer-reviewed journals in fields as diverse as criminal justice, philosophy, computer science, education, the physical sciences, mathematics, engineering disciplines, psychology, and the environment.
-------------------------------- - CINAHL Plus with Full Text
EBSCOhost. Full-text and abstracts for over 770 nursing & allied health journals, dating back to 1937.
-------------------------------- - Computer Science Database
ProQuest. Full text of over 1,300 publications dealing with computer and information science, computer security, database design, software development, web commerce, networks, hardware, and software.
-------------------------------- - Environment Complete
EBSCOhost. Environmental journals with both full text and references, going back to 1888.
-------------------------------- - National Science Digital LibraryProvides online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines—both formal and informal, institutional and individual, in local, state, national, and international educational settings. The NSDL collection contains structured descriptive information (metadata) about web-based educational resources held on other sites by their providers. These providers have contribute this metadata to NSDL for organized search and open access to educational resources via this website and its services. Most are Open Educational Resources (OER).
-------------------------------- - Natural Science CollectionProQuest. Full text and abstracts of scholarly, trade, and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications. Fields covered include agriculture, biology, environmental, atmospheric, and Earth sciences, and aquatic sciences. The Database may be searched together or in subsets. The subsets include:
Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection (includes AGRICOLA) Biological Science Collection Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Collection Environmental Collection
-------------------------------- - OSTIsearch (USDOE)
Over 70 years of research results from the DOE and its predecessor agencies. Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia.
-------------------------------- - PLOS: Public Library of Science
A non-profit open-access science publisher.
-------------------------------- - PubChem
Information about molecules such as nucleotides, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, and chemically-modified macromolecules. Includes information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, and toxicity.
-------------------------------- - Science Reference Center
EBSCOhost. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc.
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- Amino Acid ExplorerExplore characteristics of amino acids by comparing their structural and chemical properties, predicting protein sequence changes caused by mutations, viewing common substitutions, and browsing functions of given residues in conserved domains. From the National Library of Medicine.
-------------------------------- - PsycArticles (APA PSycArticles)
EBSCOhost. Contains full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and other leading sources. Includes access to full-text issues from 1894 to the present.
-------------------------------- - PsycInfo (APA PsycInfo) (partial full text)EBSCOhost. Partial full text and abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology, educational psychology, behavioral science, and mental health dating back to the 1800s.
-------------------------------- - arXiv
Open access to 554,760 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, and Statistics.
-------------------------------- - CARDS: Computer Access to Research on Dietary Supplements
A database of federally funded research projects pertaining to dietary supplements. Contains projects funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Institutes and Centers (ICs) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) beginning with fiscal year 1999. - CINAHL Plus with Full TextEBSCOhost. Full-text and abstracts for over 770 nursing & allied health journals, dating back to 1937.
-------------------------------- - COBRA Collection of Biostatistics Research Archive
Preprints, working papers, some peer reviewed journal articles in biostatistics.
-------------------------------- - Consumer Health Complete
EBSCOhost. Consumer-oriented health content including mainstream, complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. Also includes the Clinical Reference System, a medical dictionary, and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs.
-------------------------------- - Global Index Medicus (partial full text)
Abstracts of worldwide biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries. Includes partial full text. From the World Health Organization.
-------------------------------- - Google Scholar
The academic form of Google, Scholar will search for scholarly articles and books instead of websites. This includes a large number of scholarly eJournal articles subscribed to by Murrell Library. To get full text articles, you must go to “Settings” and select Missouri Valley College in the “Library Links” the very first time you use Google Scholar on your computer. Your computer will save this information and you will not have to enter it again. Click here for a guide to setting up Google Scholar.
-------------------------------- - IRISProduced by the World Health Horganization, IRIS (Institutional Repository for Information Sharing) is a digital library of all WHO publications since 1948. It is freely accessible in the six official WHO languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.)
-------------------------------- - Medline Plus
Consumer health information from the National Library of Medicine.
-------------------------------- - Medline (abstracts with some links to full text)ProQuest. Abstracts of articles from over 4,800 journals, 1946- present, dealing with medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, preclinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine.
-------------------------------- - National Science Digital LibraryProvides online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines—both formal and informal, institutional and individual, in local, state, national, and international educational settings. The NSDL collection contains structured descriptive information (metadata) about web-based educational resources held on other sites by their providers. These providers have contribute this metadata to NSDL for organized search and open access to educational resources via this website and its services. Most are Open Educational Resources (OER).
-------------------------------- - PEDro, the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (partial full text only)
Partial full text. Over 45,000 randomized trials, systematic reviews, and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. PEDro trials are independently assessed with quality ratings to guide users to trials that are more likely to be valid and to contain sufficient information to guide clinical practice.
-------------------------------- - Psychology Database w/ PTSDpubs (ProQuest)
Full text articles on a wide range of topics from leading psychological and psychosomatic publications in clinical and social psychology, genetics, psychology of business and economics, communication, criminology, addiction, neurology, social welfare, and education.
PTSDpubs indexes material on PTSD and mental health consequences of exposure to traumatic events, attempting to include all relevant publications from 1871 to the present without limitations of origin, discipline, language, or geography. Created by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Links to some full text.
-------------------------------- - PubMed Central®
A free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine.
-------------------------------- - Sage Health Practice & Services Collection
The Sage Collection has 68 eJournal titles, 1999 to the present.
-------------------------------- - UpToDate
Evidence-based material for point of care nursing and health care decisions at both basic and advanced levels. Search by disease, symptom, lab abnormality, or drug; filter by adult or pediatric topics or inclusion of graphics. Practice guidelines contain graded recommendations using a number (the strength of the recommendation) and letter (the quality of the supporting evidence). Over 185 medical calculators, drug information, and food and drug interactions. Includes patient education briefs and Continuing Medical Education (CME). Drug information includes “Boxed Warnings,” dosing (including for special populations), generic forms, administration, labeled indications, label and off-label use, adverse reactions, warning and precautions, drug and food interactions, and reproductive and pregnancy considerations. All information cites references. Mobile app available.
To use UpToDate, sign in with your MOVAL username and password. After being logged in, you will be prompted to create an individual account. Online video tutorials are available.
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- American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Streaming access to over 7,000 historic public radio and television programs along with data records for approximately 2.5 million items.
-------------------------------- - Bookshelf (NLM)A collection of online full text biomedical books the National Library of Medicine.
-------------------------------- - Credo Reference eBooks
Full-text reference eBooks, images, audio & video files, real-time research on controversial issues, and pro/con arguments. Includes special tools such as a Mind Map, topic search, and image search.
-------------------------------- - eBooks from EBSCO (eMO)
Full text eBbooks, including academic, general, science, K-12, open dissertations, and nursing/health books.
-------------------------------- - Films on Demand (InfoBase)
Full-length streaming videos in a variety of core subject areas.
-------------------------------- - National Agricultural Library Digital Collections
Full-text historical documents in agriculture and food sciences. More digitized materials available in the National Agricultural Library's Internet Archive collection.
-------------------------------- - Open Dissertations
EBSCOhost. Provides citations to graduate theses and dissertations from the early 20th century to the present. Incorporates the American Doctoral Dissertations database.
-------------------------------- - Overdrive eBooks, Audiobooks, Video
eBooks, audiobooks, and streaming video. Materials include popular fiction, literature, career materials, and a variety of academic titles including nursing, business, and computer science. Use Overdrive may be used on computer or tablet. For mobile use, download the Libby App from the Apple App Store, Google Play, or the Microsoft Store. Overdrive and Libby App instructions are available here.
-------------------------------- - Sage Knowledge eBooks
Sage ebooks include scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, business cases studies, and streaming video. Find Sage eBooks by searching MVC's Avalon library catalog, or directly on the Sage site.
-------------------------------- - Salem Press eBooks
eBooks from Salem Press.
-------------------------------- - Springer Open Access eBooks
983 eBook titles from Springer.
-------------------------------- - Taylor & Francis Open eBooks
Over 1,650 eBooks from a prominent publisher.
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- Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection with AGRICOLA
ProQuest. A subset of our Natural Science Collection subscription. The collection contains agricultural science related full-text articles, and figures and tables within articles. Contains all records from AGRICOLA, which indexes agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
-------------------------------- - Amino Acid ExplorerExplore characteristics of amino acids by comparing their structural and chemical properties, predicting protein sequence changes caused by mutations, viewing common substitutions, and browsing functions of given residues in conserved domains. From the National Library of Medicine.
-------------------------------- - Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management (CHEMM)
Enables first responders and other healthcare providers and planners to plan for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of mass-casualty incidents involving accidental or terrorist chemical releases.
-------------------------------- - Chemical Identification Plus Database (ChemIDplus)Online dictionary of chemicals, including names, synonyms, and chemical structures.
-------------------------------- - National Agricultural Library Digital CollectionsFull-text historical documents in agriculture and food sciences. More digitized materials available in the National Agricultural Library's Internet Archive collection.
-------------------------------- - PubAgIncluded in the Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection with AGRICOLA from ProQuest.
-------------------------------- - PubChemInformation about molecules such as nucleotides, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, and chemically-modified macromolecules. Includes information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, and toxicity.
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