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List of frequently accessed databases

Database:  Academic Search Premier (ASP)
Vendor: EBSCO
Description: A very large, multidisciplinary database, which includes scholarly journals as well as newspapers and popular magazines. It indexes over 8,000 journal titles, including more than 4,700 full text journals.

Database:  Business Source Premier (BSP)
Vendor: EBSCO
Description: Business Source Premier provides full text for journals covering business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting and more. The database contains popular business publications such as Business Week, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review, and hundreds of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals.

Full text back files for some journals go back to January 1965. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Database:  ERIC
Vendor: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) OR EBSCO
Description: ERIC lists citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals, primarily American with some Canadian and British publications.  

ERIC Documents (conference proceedings, curricula, research reports, theses and unpublished monographs) are also indexed. In ERIC, most ERIC document items from 1993- link to full text.

Database:  Education Index Full Text
Vendor: HW Wilson
Description: Education Index Full Text includes indexing to more than 500 English language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere, from 1983 onward and full text from 1996-

Database:  EconLit
Vendor: EBSCO
Description: EconLit is a comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature, produced by the American Economic Association. It includes coverage of over 750 major journals as well as articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers.

Records in EconLit contain basic bibliographic data plus subject and geographic descriptors. Abstracts are included in records added to the database starting in 1987.

Database:  CBCA Education (formerly Canadian Education Index)
Vendor: ProQuest
Description: CBCA Education provides indexing and full text access to the principal education literature published in Canada. Items of both practical and research value are indexed. It includes coverage of 267 publications.  Journal articles, government and research reports, monographs, book announcements, curriculum documents, and graduate dissertations in education are included. Indexes both English and French publications.