Peer-reviewed and general interest full-text articles for academic libraries. Subjects include physical and social sciences, technology, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and many others. You may also wish to browse by discipline.
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Provides full text access to differing points of view on current social issues in primary source documents, articles, statistics, websites and multimedia.
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This legal research database includes thousands of journals from their initial volumes to the present, topical legal databases, Federal and Iowa state case law, and a comprehensive collection of U.S. government documents. It also includes the "FastCase" tool for case law research. You may browse the different legal collections with the above URL, or use the Advanced Search to search all collections. Access during this 6-month trial is available district-wide and remotely.
A vast collection provides primary sources and personal accounts of humankind’s social, political, legal, and religious development, as well as some of the greatest discoveries, insights, and literary achievements in the words of the actual authors, discoverers, and knowledge-seekers.
Find primary sources across twelve subject areas: World History, U.S. History, Political Science, Law, Literature, Science, Mathematics, Social Science, Philosophy, Religion, Language, and Language Arts. This resource may be browsed by subject, author, or events, and may also be searched using basic or advanced features.