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Members of the Western Governors University community have access
to over sixty databases at no charge. Citations and full-text documents
can either be downloaded, printed or sent to an Email
address. All PASSWORDS are listed in the window when you click on Library from the WGU Portal.
ATTENTION: All of the EBSCO databases have a NEW INTERFACE. A new Tutorial is forthcoming. The
current one should work fine for learning the basics of searching. Email at the Questions link for help.
For any topic, FIRST try EBSCO's Academic Search Complete database.
Provides full text for nearly 5,990 serials, including more than 5,030 peer-reviewed titles. Updated daily.
For additional help searching, click here for
Tutorial
View a list of FirstSearch database descriptions and
connect to over 60 databases. Choose WILSONSELECTPLUS for full text.
For additional help searching, click here for
Tutorial
For direct access to ERIC (Education Resources Information Center -- U.S.
Dept. of Education), an education database, here is a
shortcut.
If your subject area is Business, Management or Computers, try the
business database.
For health care topics, try EBSCO's Health Business Fulltext Elite.
This database provides full text coverage for nearly 450 well-known
administrative journals. Health Business Elite provides comprehensive journal
content detailing all aspects of health care administration and other non-clinical
aspects of health care institution management. This database is updated on a daily
basis.
For nursing, try EBSCO's CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) Plus with
Full Text database.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing &
allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of
those, nearly 400 have cover-to-cover indexing in CINAHL. With more than 600,000 full-text
articles dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all
areas of nursing and allied health literature.
For additional help searching this database, click here for Tutorial.
For medical topics, try EBSCO's MEDLINE with Full Text database.
MEDLINE with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical
journals, providing full text for nearly 1,200 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than
1,000 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE. With more than 1,400,000 full-text articles
dating back to 1965, MEDLINE with Full Text is the definitive research tool for medical
literature.
To search one or more EBSCO databases at once.
If you can not find your articles "full-text" in the above
databases, or have citations to any articles you need,
order your
articles through Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad).
If your mentor has requested you read material on reserve, use the
Electronic Reserves link.
For more detailed help in using databases, see how to that
below.
Questions?
Contact
Barbara
Rosen, WGU Librarian
Email:
wguclr@unm.edu
Phone: 505-277-7176
Office hours: 8am - 5pm MST, Mon.-Fri.
(Requests will be processed within 24-48 hours)
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