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Academic Search Complete
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(EBSCOhost) This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 8,500 publications, including more than 7,300 scholarly journals. This database also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Some content goes back as far as 1887. Highly recommended for all academic subjects.

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American History in Video
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A collection of video available online for the study of American history. It contains commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. A video guide can be found here. Instructions on sending links to mobile devices are here.

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AP Images
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Contains photos, graphics and audio clips from the Associated Press archives.

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Art Museum Image Gallery
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An online collection of high-quality, digital documentation of works of art from around the world. Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works.Art Museum Image Gallery documents over 155,000 works of art. Works licensed for non-commercial educational use only.

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ARTstor
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A digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Users must register for mobile version of site. Details are here.

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Cinema Image Gallery
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Covers the history of movie and television images, from classics and blockbusters to B movies. It includes still images, links to film reviews and other articles about titles, links to biographies of the stars of film and TV, portrait photography and more.Works are licensed for non-commercial educational use only.

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Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
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EBSCO Image Collection
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A collection of over 400,000 photos, maps and flags.

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History Reference Center
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Full-text access to history reference books and encyclopedias, as well as magazines and journals. Also, includes historical documents, biographies, photos, maps, and videos.

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Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing...
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Features medical images. Developed to provide authoritative, up-to-date information concerning health and health care terminology, includes encyclopedic definitions for many key terms; comprehensive entries for numerous drugs; more than 2,450 high-quality full-color illustrations and photographs throughout.

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National Geographic Archive
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Archive of the popular magazine from 1888-1994.

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Opposing Viewpoints in Context
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A one-stop source for information on today's most controversial and talked about social issues. This database features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. (100% Full Text)

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Underground & Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels
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"Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is the first ever scholarly, primary-source database focused on adult comic books and graphic novels."

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