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A to Z (EBSCO)
A comprehensive list of the library’s electronic journals. Searchable by title and pre-defined general subject areas. Includes links to full-text issues.
ABI/INFORM Complete
The most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, this comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
American History in Video
Over 1,000 hours of American history video which includes commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
American Society for Clinical Pathology
American Journal of Clinical Pathology (AJCP) is the leading clinical-oriented peer-reviewed pathology and laboratory medicine research journal.
Association for Computer Machinery Digital Library
Access to free portions of the ACM Digital Library Guide to Computing Literature including ACM TechNews, ACM CareerNews, and more.
Annual Reviews
Each year, Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide you to the principal contributions of the field and help you keep up to date in your area of research.
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Baywood Publishing Company
Since 1964, Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., has been committed to publishing scholarly and professional journals and books in the social sciences and humanities. We are dedicated to serving the academic and professional communities by providing the content they require in the format —print or electronic— that best meets their needs. We constantly strive to remain a leader in publishing, and keeping in print, authored and edited books that serve as "textual touchstones" for evolving academic fields. In effect, these texts formally record the current trends in theory, research, and practice within the disciplines while also charting promising new directions for researchers, teachers, and practitioners. Areas of interest include health policy, community health, gerontology, death and bereavement, computers in education, technical communication, and imagery.
Black Studies Center (Chadwyck-Healey)
Cross-searchable databases including the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, the Chicago Defender, Black Literature Index, and more. Includes the International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP) with current and retrospective bibliographies, citations, and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers, and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean. IIBP also provides full-text coverage of over 40 core Black Studies periodicals.
Britannica Online
Included in this database is Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica Concise, Videos, Images, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, journals and magazines, gateway to classics, videos, quotations, Year in Review, World Atlas, and World Data
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Cambridge Journals Online
In line with the commitment of Cambridge University Press to advance learning, knowledge and research worldwide, the Press currently publishes over 300 peer-reviewed academic journals for the global market. Containing the latest research from a broad sweep of subject areas, Cambridge journals are accessible worldwide in print and online.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Choice Reviews Online
Provides reviews of academic books, electronic media and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education.
Credo Reference
Ready reference electronic books covering every major subject. This online reference collection features full-text content from hundreds of reference books covering a broad range of subjects. This resource also includes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
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Dissertations & Theses
This database is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day and offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997.
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eBooks Collection (formerly Net Library)
Access to the library’s vast collection of eBooks (digital versions of print books). Includes a special electronic reference collection.
EBSCO Host Research Databases
Includes: Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete, CINAHL Full-Text Plus, Communication and Mass Media Complete, GREEN File, Hospitality and Tourism Complete, Literary Reference Center, Mental Measurements Yearbook, Points of View, Regional Business News, and SocINDEX with Full Text.
E-Journals from EBSCO
EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS) is your gateway to thousands of e-journals containing millions of articles from hundreds of different publishers, all at one web site.
Emerald Insight
Emerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,000 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.
Envrionmental Science Collection
The collection contains environmental science related full-text articles, granular access to figures and tables within articles, environmental impact statements, and the entire range of bibliographic records from Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (ESPM). ESPM provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences drawn from over 10,000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.
ERIC (A&I)
This database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
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Florida Electronic Library
This portal offers access to electronic magazines, newspapers, almanacs, encyclopedias, and books. Topics include current events, education, business, technology, and health issues. Homework help for students and resources for teachers are also provided. Includes OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online (CAMIO), Gales's Culinary Arts Collection, Gales's Criminal Collection, Gale's Fine Arts & Movie Collection, and much more.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
Full-text Reference E-books on a variety of subjects. Subjects covered include arts and humanities, biography and genealogy, business and industries, general and consumer interests, government and political science, health and medicine, law, science and technology, and social sciences. This resource also includes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
Google Scholar
Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.
GreenFILE
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Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2008)
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Hospitality & Tourism Complete
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IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL)
Access to more than 330,000 articles and papers from more than 3,500 conference proceedings and 27 Computer Society periodicals. Also includes Computing Now, which provides free articles and multimedia content, and Build Your Career, a collection of career-development resources.
International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
This database provides indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals from over 20 countries, plus full text for more than 140 of the indexed journals. The database currently includes over 770,000 records, the majority from the most recent ten years of publication. Some complete journal runs are included, with indexing back to 1874. Covers the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition.
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JSTOR
Full text and images of back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, anthropology, sociology, education, literature, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences from the 1800s to 3-5 years ago. Collections subscribed to include: Arts & Sciences I; Health & General Sciences; and Journal of Military History.
JSTOR Arts & Sciences I Archive Collection
JSTOR Health & General Sciences Archive Collection
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Legal Information Reference Center Main Edition
Lexis Nexis
Full-text databases and indexes for current news, company, industry, and financial information, government and political news, foreign language news, country and state profiles, biographies, general reference and directories, medial abstracts, accounting, auditing, and tax information, more than 200 law reviews and law journals, Federal case law, U.S. Code, U.S. Constitution and court rules, and state legal research. Also includes primary sources for African-American History.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)(A&I)
LION (Literature Online)
A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 358 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
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M.E. Sharpe
Founded in 1958, M.E. Sharpe is a privately held publisher of books and journals in the social sciences and humanities, including titles in economics, political science, management and public administration, and history. We also publish both original works and translations in Asian and East European studies.
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Naxos(On-Campus Use Only)
Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world´s largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 67,470 CDs with more than 969,300 tracks, standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month.
Nursing & Allied Health Source
This database offers reliable, comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals, video, dissertations, reference books and more.
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OCLC Electronic Collections Online
Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online is the gateway offering users the ability to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location.
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Points of View Reference Center
ProQuest
Cross-searchable databases of academic journals, popular magazines and newspapers related to business, education, history, hospitality management, psychology, religion, nursing, science, and much more.
ProQuest Biology JournalsThis database provides access to a wide range of biology topics including some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government and public research environments.
ProQuest Education Journals
ProQuest® Education Journals gives users access to over 900 top educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text. The coverage spans the literature on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling and adult education. Many titles are indexed in the ERIC database.
ProQuest Newsstand
This database's detailed indexing helps users quickly find the news information they need. Each issue of each newspaper is indexed thoroughly, so researchers have access to not only top news stories but also the information contained on the various sections of the papers. The indexing covers not only complete bibliographic information but also companies, people, products, etc.
ProQuest Psychology Journals
This database provides abstracts and indexing for more than 640 titles, with over 540 titles available in full text. Many titles are indexed in PsycINFO. Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics.
ProQuest Science Journals
This database is a definitive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. With coverage dating back to 1986, ProQuest Science Journals features over 1030 titles, with more than 760 available in full text. Search over 2.7M records, dating back to the mid 1980s.
PsycTESTS (EBSCO Publishing)
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Research Gate
ResearchGate is the world?s largest professional network for scientists and researchers. We provide researchers with access to around 40 million abstracts and tens of thousands of Full texts, uploaded by the authors themselves. Researchers can search through 7 of the largest databases simultaneously, such as PubMED, IEEE & CiteSeer; by using the literature search.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
This database is a comprehensive guide to publications in music from all over the world. It covers articles, books, catalogues, dissertations and other publications from the 1830s to the present.
Royal Society of Medicine Press
These journals range in scope from primary research to clinical practice, covering topics from experimental medicine to venous disease. The flagship Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine is one of the most widely read and enjoyed general medical periodicals, providing insight into a broad spectrum of issues facing medical professionals.
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Sage Journals
Use the following alphabetical list to select a journal. Limit your browse to My Favorite Journals or SAGE Journals
SAGE Premier
SAGE Premier provides online access to an interdisciplinary collection of over 645 peer-reviewed, scholarly journals, including high-impact research titles published on behalf of over 245 scholarly and professional societies. This journal collection spans many subject areas including psychology, business, criminal justice, humanities, social sciences, science, technology, medicine and more. Dates of coverage for most titles is 1999 to the present.
Salem Health
Salem Health brings online access to Salem Press’ award-winning health reference works. The first reference set included is Salem Press’ best-selling Magill’s Medical Guide.
Salem History Online
Full-text versions of certain Salem Press titles owned by the library. Search by title or browse by category, geographical location, or curriculum area.
Salem Literature
Salem Literature is a robust online database that includes the complete content of printed reference sets. Purchasing printed reference delivers online access at no additional cost.
Salem Science
Salem Science is a robust online database that includes the complete content of printed reference sets. Titles such as, Applied Science, Earth Science: Earth’s Surface & History, Earth Science: Physics & Chemistry of the Earth and, Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues, Revised Edition
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database hosted on Elsevier’s SciVerse platform. The database offers journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books. Bethune-Cookman has licensed the journal collection Health and Life Sciences (College Edition), which is a subset of this large database. After conducting a search, the results list will display a green icon in front of each result if it is part of our journal subscription -these results offer full-text access. For full-text access to any of the other materials, please submit a request (one for each item) through the library’s free interlibrary loan service.
SocINDEX
SocINDEX™ is the world's most comprehensive and highest-quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study.
SpringerLINK Journals
Providing researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works.
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Taylor & Francis
The online platform for Taylor & Francis Group content
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Westlaw - *please contact library for access at 386-481-2186 or askalibrarian@cookman.edu
Westlaw is one of the primary online legal research services for lawyers and legal professionals in the United States and is a part of West. In addition, it provides proprietary database services. Information resources on Westlaw include more than 40,000 databases of case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, newspaper and magazine articles, public records, law journals, law reviews, treatises, legal forms and other information resources.
Wiley Online Library (formerly Blackwell Synergy)
Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, over 11,500 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.
Worldcat
Search collections of local libraries & thousands more worldwide. (Use B-CU Library's free Interlibrary Loan Service to borrow items the library does not have.)
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