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Highly Recommended

Why search here? Great starting point, with something for every subject!
What's included? Lots of full-text, mostly peer-reviewed and recent, with some older and popular sources.

Highly Recommended

Why search here? You need a variety of scholarly and professional sources like journal articles, books, reports, and proceedings.
What's included? Information about published sources, sometimes with links to the full-text, covering most disciplines.
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Highly Recommended

Why search here? It’s an excellent tool for scholarly articles and books/chapters from university presses, covering most disciplines.
What's included? The collection's strength lies in its complete back issues of journal titles covering 75 disciplines, while a weakness is a "moving wall" limiting access to the most recent journal issues - the coverage skews older, so it’s not always a great starting point for researching topics that need to have the most current sources.

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Why search here? You need primary sources on more than 100 years of modern Chinese history.
What's included? Full text searchable collection of 12 English-language Chinese historical newspapers that illuminate history through articles, editorials, cartoons and advertisements.

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Why search here? You may be a vocal performance student wanting to utilize translations of arias, art song, and liturgical texts for language comprehension and pronunciation.
What's included? 15,750 professionally translated and transcribed titles from languages such as French, Italian, German, Spanish, English, and Latin. Includes works from 925 composers and 1,141 poets.

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Why search here? The only official authorized book on MLA citation format.
What's included? Provides access to the current copy of the MLA Handbook, a video course that teaches the principles of the MLA documentation style and other MLA guides.

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Why search here? You need overviews of various communication topics, with leads for additional sources.
What's included? 279 bibliographies on individual topics, written by scholars. Each includes a one-paragraph introduction, several paragraphs of commentary on sub-topics, and 50-150 citations for further study.