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Covers over 8,000 journals from all fields of study. It includes a mix of magazine and journal articles.

A very large general academic database covering a broad range of topics. It includes a mix of magazine and journal articles. Many items are full text.

Contains biographical information from encyclopedias, biographical dictionaries, and other publications.

Focuses on topics such as clinical medicine, the health care system, and dentistry. Good source of scholarly articles.

Offers dynamic, accurate, and up-to-date topical business information and company and industry intelligence on thousands of global companies.

Includes journal articles from all aspects of business plus research reports, industry reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses.

Includes topics such as nursing, consumer health, and alternative medicine. Includes both scholarly and consumer articles.

The premier evidence-based medicine database, contains systematic reviews and other types of medical information that can guide clinical decision making.

Try this academic database to find information about communications, mass media, and advertising.

This is an excellent database for critical essays about an author or an author's works.

Includes more than 330 videos focusing on social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Includes examples of consultations, counseling sessions, interviews, lectures, and more.

Covers essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology.

Contains hundreds of hours of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century.

Provides descriptive information on over 300 psychological scales, questionnaires, and inventories. All items are sport-specific and include information about the availability of the instrument.

An evidence-based medical information database with nearly 3,000 summaries of clinical topics. Updated daily.

Search and view the full text of e-books. Includes fiction and nonfiction titles.

A collection of thousands of e-books covering all academic subjects.

Includes more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. The content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education.

Provides excellent overviews of thousands of subjects. Great place to get background information on a topic.

Covers journal and report literature in disciplines related to education.

A streaming video service that provides users with access to hundreds of videos related to the Humanities and Social Sciences. Users can watch, mark, and share videos.

A collection of reference books on many topics that can be searched and read online.

Index of business and trade journal articles on business, finance, mergers, trade, banking, and information for over 150,000 companies.

General interest database of magazines, newspapers and reference sources. For information on current events, popular culture, the arts, sciences and sports.

Information on key issues and events across the world, broken down by issue and by country. Issues are framed by editorial essays and updated with current int'l news information.

Google Scholar is a free online resource which will allow you to quickly search hundreds of thousands of academic citations to articles, books, and more. Check full text access through Journal titles A-Z or order the items you find through Interlibrary Loan.

Over 12,000 funding opportunities from federal agencies, foundations, and research institutes.

Includes scholarly, government, and general interest resources that focus on the environmental impact of human beings, corporations, and governments. Topics include global warming, sustainable agriculture, recycling, and more

Up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources.

Covers topics such as nursing, nutrition, family health, and alternative medicine. Great source for consumer information for the general public.

Full text of 46 journals that span the literary cultures of many countries. The journals focus on both language and literature.

An enormous aggregation of news, business, legal, medical, and reference information. Includes the full text of the New York Times (1980-present).

Provides information on approximately 140,000 authors from a wide range of literary disciplines and time frames as well as plot summaries, synopses, and overviews of their works. In addition, it also includes 14,500 short stories and 54,000 poems.

Contains biographical information, critical essays, and overviews of authors and their works.

One of the best sources for scholarly medical information on a huge range of topics. Articles are generally geared toward medical professionals and students.

A comprehensive guide to over 2000 testing instruments, including information needed to evaluate or test products within areas such as psychology, education, business, and leadership.

Articles, assessments, care plans and other materials intended for nurses and other care providers.

Search or browse through many current topics of interest here. Includes news, opinions and academic articles.

Indexes theses and dissertations in the Human Movement Studies collection housed at the U. of Oregon.

Provides access to four key resources on the visual arts--painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography.

Contains the definitions to over half a million words along with their pronunciations, etymology and examples of use.

This database is good for detailed research in sport and exercise sciences. It has both popular and research materials in it.

Full contents of the New York Times (1851-2007) and Washington Post (1887-1994).

Information on psychology and related disciplines, including journal articles and book chapters.

Citations describe articles from medical journals and include abstracts.

RefWorks allows you to enter bibliographic citations by hand or import them directly from library databases. You can then organize and automatically format your references according to one of hundreds of different citation styles, including APA, MLA, AMA, and most other styles currently used at Springfield College.

An evidence-based clinical reference tool for use by rehabilitation clinicians at the point-of-care. Accessible content includes nearly 200 Clinical Reviews, more than 100 research instruments, information from AHFS on over 11,700 drugs and their manufacturers, more than 9,800 exercise images, and much more.

Includes research reports and charts, trade publications, international reports, and industry trends.

Topic overviews on science topics with content pulled from reference books, biographies, periodicals, and images banks.

Indexes citations to journals and dissertations in social work and social issues related to casework.

An excellent source of information on sociology and the social sciences, including full text for journals and information on books, dissertations, etc.

Contains information on all aspects of sports, physical education, health, etc.

Indexes over 260 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books in education

Topic-based overviews of historical issues, events, and people. Each topic includes reference information, relevant news and journal articles, and some primary sources.

Full text, 1984-present.

Topic overviews in world history, covering major figures, countries and cultures, historical eras, and other historical topics. Pulls from a huge collection of reference books, periodicals, and images.

Search for books, videos, and more from over 10,000 libraries worldwide. You can see if Babson Library owns an item by clicking on the title and entering our zip code 01109 in the Enter Location Information box located at the top of the page.