- Academic Search Complete
EBSCOhost. Our largest interdisciplinary database containing full-text and bibliographic content from a wide range of academic disciplines.
-------------------------------- - AgBio Forum
Focuses on the interactions of agriculture and agrobiotechnology with economics, ethics, and sociopolitical processes.
-------------------------------- - AgEcon Search
Full text scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural and applied economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food security and supply, energy and natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, international trade, and economic development. Content includes conference presentations, working papers, journal articles, government documents, theses, and dissertations.
-------------------------------- - 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.
-------------------------------- - 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.
-------------------------------- - CINAHL Plus with Full Text
EBSCOhost. Full-text and abstracts for over 770 nursing & allied health journals, dating back to 1937.
-------------------------------- - Environment Complete
EBSCOhost. Environmental journals with both full text and references, going back to 1888.
-------------------------------- - 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.
-------------------------------- - 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 Collection
ProQuest. 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.
-------------------------------- - PubAgIncluded in the Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection with AGRICOLA from ProQuest.
-------------------------------- - 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.
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- 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.
-------------------------------- - CINAHL Plus with Full TextEBSCOhost. Full-text and abstracts for over 770 nursing & allied health journals, dating back to 1937.
-------------------------------- - 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.
-------------------------------- - Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia (full text)
EBSCOhost. Contains over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subjects.
-------------------------------- - IssueLab
Candid's online catalog of research reports, case studies, issue briefs, literature reviews, and annual reports published or funded by U.S. foundations. Links to the full text reports are provided. Covers 1971-present.
-------------------------------- - IssueLabCandid's online catalog of research reports, case studies, issue briefs, literature reviews, and annual reports published or funded by U.S. foundations. Links to the full text reports are provided. Covers 1971-present.
-------------------------------- - Issues & Controversies (Facts on File/InfoBase)
Balanced coverage of international topics and how historical events and conflicts have influenced U.S. and world history. The database is divided into four sections—American History Eras, World History Eras, History Regions, and History Subjects. Includes videos, teacher lesson plans/handouts, primary sources, encyclopedia articles, editorial cartoons, court cases, and timelines.
-------------------------------- - 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.
-------------------------------- - Opposing Viewpoints (Gale)
Provides pro and con articles providing in-depth information for all sides of controversial current topics. The database contains primary documents, topic overviews, and statistics. This is a good place to find supporting arguments for speeches, papers, and debates.
-------------------------------- - Points of View
EBSCOhost. Designed to assist researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. Can be used as guide to debating, developing arguments, writing position papers, and developing critical thinking skills. Includes thousands of supporting articles from political and societal publications.
-------------------------------- - Public Affairs Index (abstracts only)
EBSCOhost. Abstracts of articles on global contemporary public policy issues including public health, the environment, housing, human and civil rights, international conflict, and natural disasters. This database draws on a diverse array of scholarly publications, conference papers, government documents, and current reference works.
-------------------------------- - Science Reference Center
EBSCOhost. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc.
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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.
-------------------------------- - C-SPAN Video Library
Video programming of floor proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, public affairs events, congressional hearings, press briefings, speeches, and news conferences related to public affairs.
-------------------------------- - 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.
-------------------------------- - 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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