English Databases
Academic OneFile (Gale)
MEL.
Contains full text articles, which can be narrowed to scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. Subjects include the arts, literature and literary criticism, business, social sciences, technology, theology, and more. Also provides MLA citations, 12 different language translations, MP3 downloads, videos, and podcasts. Updated daily.
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America's News Magazines (NewsBank)
This is a full-text collection of 8 large circulation popular news magazines, covering fields of business, entertainment, lifestyle, news, science & technology, and sports. Coverage goes back to at least 2002, and in some titles as early as 1985. Titles include: Newsweek (1991-date), Slate (1996-date), and Foreign Affairs (1994-date). Articles are TEXT ONLY; accompanying illustrations are not displayed.
Database includes: Full-text
Off campus access: Requires authentication
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License Information
Copyright: protected by U.S copyright laws
Users: UDM students, faculty, staff, and onsite patrons
Number of Simultaneous Users: unlimited
Print Copy: single excerpt of the data; single copy for support of personal research needs
Use of Information: research and internal non-commercial use only; may not use as a component of, or basis for, a directory, database, or other publication prepared for sale or other form of distribution
Download: may not upload, download or transmit for sale or conveyance; may download electronically a single copy of excerpts of records for nonprofit educational and research purposes
Sharing: no third-party sharing of materials
Interlibrary Loan: interlibrary loan not permitted
Reserves: may not place materials on reserve
Persistent Links: links
Course Packs: no course pack allowed
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Black Women Writers (Alexander Street Press)
Black Women Writers celebrates the many voices of women from Africa and the African Diaspora. Offering fiction, poetry, and essays from three continents and 20 countries, the database gives an unparalleled view of black women’s struggles through time. New content is uploaded on a biweekly basis, giving users immediate access to a steadily growing treasury of extraordinary writings. The database currently features over 50,000 pages of poetry and prose.
Off campus access: Requires authentication
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License Information
Copyright: protected by Section 107 and Section 108 of Title 17 of the United States Code
Users: currently enrolled full- or part-time students, employees, faculty, staff, visiting scholars, and walk-in patrons
Number of Simultaneous Users: unlimited
Print Copy: fair use guidelines apply (one copy for personal use with no distribution)
Use of Information: information for scholarly and education use
Download: fair use guidelines apply (portion of print not to exceed 2,500 words)
Sharing: no third-part sharing of materials; may not modify, manipulate, or create a derivative work
Interlibrary Loan: interlibrary loan not permitted
Reserves: may not print and place materials on reserve
Persistent Links: links
Course Packs: no course pack allowed
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Citation Machine
Formats the citation for you in the MLA, APA, Turabian, or Chicago styles.
eBook Collection (Ebsco)
MEL.
eBooks by Ebsco is a collection of over 15,000 electronic books, made available through the University of Detroit Mercy and the Michigan Electronic Library. In addition to many current and recent titles, the collection includes over 3,000 classic texts that are no longer copyrighted. Books may be read online; printing options are limited.
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Ebook Central
Find over 50,000 fulltext, electronic books on many topics. Create a personal bookshelf and even save personal notes. View with Adobe Digital Editions (download available from ebrary), which is supported by most devices except Kindle.
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Fine Arts & Music Collection (Gale)
MEL.
With more than 200 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide your students with resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
Database includes: Full-text
Off campus access: Requires authentication
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License Information
Copyright: protected by U.S copyright laws
Users: UDM students, faculty, staff, and onsite patrons
Number of Simultaneous Users: unlimited
Print Copy: single excerpt of the data; single copy for support of personal research needs
Use of Information: esearch and internal non-commercial use only; may not use as a component of, or basis for, a directory, database, or other publication prepared for sale or other form of distribution
Download: may not upload, download or transmit for sale or conveyance; may download electronically a single copy of excerpts of records for nonprofit educational and research purposes
Sharing: no third-party sharing of materials
Interlibrary Loan: interlibrary loan not permitted
Reserves: may not place materials on reserve
Persistent Links: links
Course Packs: no course pack allowed
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HarpWeek
HarpWeek presents the full text of Harper's Weekly for the period 1857-1889. One of the leading newspapers of the 19th century, Harper's contains writings of many American literary figures and many illustrations.
Database includes: Full-text
Off campus access: Requires authentication
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JSTOR
Full text of over 1,200 core academic journals in most disciplines. Coverage starts with the first issue published, and continues, ending 3-5 years before the current year. An additional year of journals published is added annually. The Libraries own current paper issues of many titles in the collections. Follow this link to see a listing of all JSTOR collections available at UDM or download a complete list of all journals included in these collections.
Database includes: Full-text
Off campus access: Requires authentication
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License Information
Copyright: protected by U.S copyright and proprietary rights
Users: UDM students, faculty, staff, and onsite patrons
Number of Simultaneous Users: unlimited
Print Copy: reasonable printing; may not copy entire issue or issues of a journal
Use of Information: may not utilize materials for commercial purposes, including but not limited to sale of materials, fee-for-service use or bulk reproduction or distribution in any form
Download: may not download or attempt to download an entire issue or issues of a journal from the database
Sharing: no third-party sharing of materials; no infringing on the intellectual property rights of third party who contributed to database
Interlibrary Loan: may provide printed materials from the database in accordance with the Copyright Act of the U.S.; only printed materials, not electronic copies, may be used in interlibrary loan
Reserves: may not place materials on reserve
Persistent Links: links
Course Packs: no course pack allowed
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Michigan Authors and Illustrators
MEL.
This is a database of the works of Michigan authors--those either born in Michigan or lived in Michigan. Brief biographical information is included for most authors.
Database includes: Indexes only
Off campus access: Free (public) database
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Michigan Newspapers (Newsbank)
MEL.
Full text of 90 Michigan newspapers, incuding January 1999-date of the Detroit News, July 200-date of the Grand Rapids Press, and July 2006-date of the Michigan Chronicle. Links from this page lead to a wide selection of regional, national and international newsoaoers.
Database includes: Full-text
Off campus access: Requires authentication
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License Information
Copyright: protected by U.S copyright and patent laws
Users: UDM students, faculty, staff, and onsite patrons
Number of Simultaneous Users: unlimited
Print Copy: single excerpt of the data; single copy for support of personal research needs
Use of Information: research and internal non-commercial use only; may not use as a component of, or basis for, a directory, database, or other publication prepared for sale or other form of distribution
Download: may not upload, download or transmit for sale or conveyance; may download electronically a single copy of excerpts of records for nonprofit educational and research purposes
Sharing: no third-party sharing of materials
Interlibrary Loan: interlibrary loan not permitted
Reserves: may not place materials on reserve
Persistent Links: links
Course Packs: no course pack allowed
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OmniFile Full Text (Ebsco; formerly H.W. Wilson)
Contains full text articles, which can be narrowed to scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. Subjects include the arts, literature and literary criticism, business, social sciences, technology, theology, and more. Also provides MLA citations, 30 different language translations, MP3 downloads, and a UDM library chat box. Updated daily.
Database includes: Full-text
Off campus access: Requires authentication
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License Information
Copyright: protected by U.S copyright, trade secrets, and trademark
Users: UDM students, faculty, staff, and onsite patrons
Number of Simultaneous Users: unlimited
Print Copy: may make a limited number of hard copies of any search output that does not contain a significant segment of a database, which copies may be used only internally but may not be sold
Use of Information: may not sell, distribute, or commercially exploit the databases, software, or associated material
Download: may make one copy of any search output in electronic form to be used for editing or temporary use only
Sharing: no third-party sharing of materials
Interlibrary Loan: interlibrary loan not permitted
Reserves: may not place materials on reserve
Persistent Links: links
Course Packs: no course pack allowed
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale)
MEL.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context provides information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, it contains "viewpoint" articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Database includes: Full-text
Off campus access: Requires authentication
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License Information
Copyright: protected by U.S copyright laws
Users: UDM students, faculty, staff, and onsite patrons
Number of Simultaneous Users: unlimited
Print Copy: single excerpt of the data; single copy for support of personal research needs
Use of Information: research and internal non-commercial use only; may not use as a component of, or basis for, a directory, database, or other publication prepared for sale or other form of distribution
Download: may not upload, download or transmit for sale or conveyance; may download electronically a single copy of excerpts of records for nonprofit educational and research purposes
Sharing: no third-party sharing of materials
Interlibrary Loan: interlibrary loan not permitted
Reserves: may not place materials on reserve
Persistent Links: links
Course Packs: no course pack allowed
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Project Muse
Project Muse is a collection of 530 academic journals in the social sciences and humanities, initiated by Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins. Most titles start in 1997, and complement UDM's holdings in JSTOR.
Database includes: Full-text
Off campus access: Requires authentication
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Wiley Online Library
The Wiley Online Library includes all electronic book and journal publications from Wiley. Journals formerly in the Blackwell Synergy collection are now included in the Wiley Online Library. Full text is available for these journals from at least 2001 (except for new journals) and coverage for some goes back to the 1970s. Volumes available through UDM are preceded by an open padlock icon.
Database includes: Full-text
Off campus access: Requires authentication
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License Information
Copyright: protected by U.S copyright, English law
Users: UDM students, faculty, staff, and onsite patrons
Number of Simultaneous Users: unlimited
Print Copy: single printed or electronic copies of single articles at the request of individual authorized user
Use of Information: neither the licensee nor authorized or walk-in users may provide, by electronic means, to a user at another library or elsewhere, a retained electronic copy of any part of the licensed material; scholarly sharing prohibited
Download: may not upload, download or transmit for sale or conveyance
Sharing: no third-party sharing of materials
Interlibrary Loan: electronic interlibrary loan not permitted; may supply to an authorized user of another library (whether by post, fax or secure transmission, using Ariel or its equivalent, whereby the electronic file is deleted immediately after printing), for the purposes of research or private study, a singe paper copy of an electronic original of an individual document; may not provide by electronic means to a user at another library or elsewhere a retained electronic copy of any part of the licensed materia
Reserves: may place materials on reserve
Persistent Links: links
Course Packs: authorized users may incorporate parts of a licensed material in print or electronic course or study packs for the use of the authorized users in the course of instruction; each such item shall carry appropriate acknowledgment of the source, listing title and author of extract, title and author of work, and publisher; copies of such items shall be deleted when they are no longer required for such purpose
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eJournal Finder
Full Text Journal Finder
Have a citation or reference? Use the Full Text Journal Finder to locate the journal within the library's databases.