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Popular Databases

The most frequently-used databases

Armed Services & Government News (NewsBank)

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Armed Services & Government News is a comprehensive, full-text collection of select military and government newspapers, journals, and magazines: Air Force Times, Army Times, Marine Corps Times, Navy Times, Armed Forces Journal, C4ISR - The Journal of Net-Centric Warfare, Decision Times, Defense News, Federal Times, Military Times Association Guide, Special Sections, Training & Simulation Journal.

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)

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The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is the research and analysis division of the Economist Group, providing forecasting and advisory services through research and analysis, such as monthly country reports, five-year country economic forecasts, country risk service reports, and industry reports. The Library subscription includes: Country Analysis Advanced Global and Risk Briefing/Operational Risk Global editions with content about country reports, forecasts, data, commerce, full set of industry briefings, world commodity forecasts, market indicators and forecasts, and operational risk.

JSTOR

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Provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and more. All journals include the full archival run -- all issues, from volume 1, issue 1, are provided for every journal up to the moving wall (meaning, the past few years of publications are not included in JSTOR content.) Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or search full-text or citations/abstracts. New issues of existing titles and new titles are added approximately on a weekly basis. For title lists and descriptions of the content available through the Library's subscription, follow these links to JSTOR:

Arts & Sciences I - XV, JSTOR Essentials
Business IV
Security Studies, Security Studies Extension

NOTE: Off-campus users may need to return to the main JSTOR link, above, to re-authenticate and gain access to content.

Leatherneck Magazine (1921 - 1997)

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Full text articles. Coverage dates: November 1921 to December 1997 (Vol. 5 no. 1 - to Vol. 80 no. 12).

Leatherneck Magazine (1998 - present)

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Full-text articles. Coverage dates: January 1998 - present (Vol. 81 no. 1 - present).

Marine Corps Gazette (1916 - 1993)

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Marine Corps Gazette (1994 - present)

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Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.

Project Muse (Standard Edition)

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The Library subscribes to the Standard Edition. Access to articles is indicated by a check mark inside a green circle.
The Standard Edition is an interdisciplinary collection of high quality, peer reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences.

ProQuest Central

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Multidisciplinary database covering topics in Business, Health and Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Politics, Criminal Justice, Linguistics, Religion, and SciTech, Performing and Visual Arts, History, Philosophy, and Language and Literature. Content includes scholarly journals, high-value market research, country, economic, and industry reports, working papers, full-text dissertations, professional journals, general interest periodicals, and full-text global news sources. NOTE: Change the default search by clicking on the "Change Databases" link on the ProQuest Central home page. Check/uncheck the databases to include or remove them from your search.

RefWorks Citation Manager

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Online research management, writing, citation and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. Account access available for authorized MCU library patrons.

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