Articles and Databases

American History in Video
A rich collection of video for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. Analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. Currently provides 3,146 titles, with videos from Pennebaker-Hegedus Films, Ken Burns and PBS and The History Channel, and dozens more years of Universal Newsreel, equalling approximately 765 hours.

ARTstor
Provides approximately 300,000 digital images from curated collections of art images and includes the images' associated data. User-friendly search and management tools allow users to fully utilize the collections for their educational needs.

BioMed Central
An independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. All research articles and most other content in BioMed Central's journals are fully and rapidly peer-reviewed. All the original research articles in journals published by BioMed Central are immediately and permanently available online without charge or any other barriers to access.

BioOne
A database with full text of eighty high-impact bioscience research journals covering the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. BioOne offers a broad selection of peer-reviewed journals published by small societies and other publishing organizations formerly available only in printed form.

Environment Complete
Index of over 1.5 million records covering agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, and urban planning. Coverage of 1,500 domestic and international journal titles going back to the 1950s as well as 100 monographs. The database also contains full text of 400 journals and 80 monographs. Funded by the Maine State Library and University of Maine System.

Environmental Law Reporter
Issues available: 1971–present (contact library staff for user name and password)
The essential resource for the environmental, health and safety, toxic tort, natural resource, and land use professionals. Enjoy full coverage and analysis of tens of thousands of documents, including many found only at the Environmental Law Institute, in well-organized, easy-to-use databases.

Global Road Warrior : The Ultimate Guide to the World
Contains more than 10,000 pages of editorial and image content on 175 nations and territories. Constantly updated, Global Road Warrior covers topics in Society and Culture, Business Culture, Currency, Travel and much more. All country information is presented in a consistent framework, allowing rapid utilization of the database and offering clear, easy-to-use information. Valuable for research into particular countries or cultures for academic purposes or travel preparation.

JSTOR — The Scholarly Journal Archive
Current collections: Arts & Sciences II, III, and General Science Collections
JSTOR maintains a trusted archive of important scholarly journals offering researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines.

LexisNexis Academic
Provides full-text information from over 5,600 sources including National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources, U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information, Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789, and business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.

Marvel! Maine's Virtual Library
Access to thousands of periodical articles through a varied collection of research databases ranging from Academic Search Premier (most articles available in full text) and the Wall Street Journal to Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstract and Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide, two databases offering worldwide coverage of the literature in these respective fields. Funded by the Maine State Library and University of Maine system.

WorldCat
Search the collections of libraries worldwide for books, music CDs, videos, audiobooks and other research materials. Over 400 languages and 10,000 libraries are represented at a one-stop, easy-to-use, bibliographic interface.

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