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Try these popular databases to get started, or select a specific database from the A-Z tabs on this page.

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Ultimate is our largest single comprehensive database. It includes records for some 40 million items, with 25+ million immediately available in full-text. It covers all subject areas and includes newspapers and other news sources, general and specialized magazines, and scholarly journals. It is an excellent starting place for most undergraduate research.
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Contents indexed in Ship Library Discovery Search.
Gale E-Books (Gale Virtual Reference Library) This link opens in a new window
Search across 1,000+ Gale reference books and encyclopedias by keyword or subject.
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Westlaw This link opens in a new window
Westlaw is our major legal database that includes secondary and primary legal sources. It contains statutes, codes, arbitrations, and case law. Westlaw also includes the legal encyclopedias, journals, treatises, and law reviews. In addition to legal materials, it also has extensive collections of national and state/local news sources, as well as regional business magazines.
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Proquest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
A large book collection which is available to Shippensburg University students, faculty, & staff. You will need to log in with your S.U. username and password to access Ebook Central. This interface now also contains ebooks formerly accessible through the ebrary interface.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is our most comprehensive interdisciplinary archive of scholarly journal articles. It includes the full-run of some 4,000 journals, from the journal's first issue up until the most recent 3-5 years (typically). Covers a wide variety of subjects, including the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and mathematics, as well as extensive area studies collections and applied fields, such as business and criminal justice.
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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.
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Oxford Reference Online: Premium This link opens in a new window
Search across an extensive collection of authoritative Oxford reference books and encyclopedias by keyword or subject.

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Ship Discovery Search This link opens in a new window
Use this search to find articles and books in a wide variety of databases to which Ship Library subscribes. Useful for when you are not finding many results in a more-targeted database.
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Library Databases

Ezra Lehman Memorial Library subscrbes to over 150 individual databases from dozens of vendors. What kind of information can be found in these databases?

Scholarly articles from many disciplines of study
Major Newspapers, National and International coverage
Some local Pennsylvania newspapers
Popular magazines
Authoritative indexes and abstracts
Links from indexes and abstracts to full content in other databases
Links to Interlibrary loan for items which are not immedeately available online

Many of these databases focus on a specific discipline or source of data. If you are looking for information on a specific subject, select that subject or the closest match from the disciplines listed in the next section. The Research Guides list below is your gateway to the Subject Guides and Course Guides created by your librarians.

Course Guides

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