Godwin Library
Use OneSearch to do a general search in the libarary catalog and all library databases at the same time.
Click links in the table below to find databases for those subjects.
General Reference
Encyclopedia Britannica -Search Reference Articles, Journals and Magazines, the Web's Best Sites, Multimedia, and Curriculum Content.
Gale PowerSearch - Search all Gale databases at once. Results come from magazines, journals, and reference books.
SIRS Researcher and eLibrary - Articles from magazines, newspapers, and journals on current topics. SIRS has Pro and Con issues information.
Google Scholar - A place to "broadly search" for scholarly literature. (You will have to pay for a number of the articles you find here.)
Internet Public Library - A searchable index of websites covering many topics and maintained by library science professionals and graduate students.
English
Gale PowerSearch - Search all Gale databases at once.
Literature Resource Center - Research literary topics, authors,and literary works.
Biography Resource Center - People from all over the world and all time periods.
eLibrary - Current magazine, newspaper, and journal articles, plus maps, videos, audio files, websites, transcripts and more.
The Literature Network - Online classic literature, poems, and quotes.
Shmoop Literature Study Guides - Understand how literature is relevant today.
Shmoop Poetry Study Guides - Understand how poetry is relevant today.
SIRS Researcher - Great for those current topics papers.
Social Studies
Gale PowerSearch - Search all Gale databases at once.
ABC-Clio American History - U. S. History only
ABC-Clio Ancient History - Ancient era to 1500.
ABC-Clio World History - Modern Era - 1500 to the present
Britannica Annals of American History - Speeches, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, images and multimedia.
Britannica World Data Analyst - Facts, figures and comparisons.
SIRS Researcher - Pro/Con and good information on current topics.
eLibrary - Articles from newspapers, journals, magazines, as well as multimedia content
Shmoop U. S. History Study Guides - Understand how history is relevant today.
Library of Congress American Memory - Primary source material, photos, sound clips, maps.
U. S. History Topics - From the Federal Resources for Educational Excellence site.
Hyper-History Online - ". . .display(s) synchronoptically the panorama of world history: people, events, civilization timelines, and maps with hundreds of www links." --World History Compass
Science
Gale Powersearch - Science Reference Books and Journal, Magazine, and Newspaper articles.
SIRS Researcher and eLibrary - Articles and multimedia on a variety of science topics.
Directory of Open Access Journals - "Free, full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals."
Public Library of Science - Committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available resource.
Google Scholar - Journal articles; some full text and free; many are not free.
Highwire Press - Produced by Stanford University Libraries; many full-text journal articles; some free.
Scirus - Journal articles (some free, most not), university and institution websites, scientist websites.
Science Magazine Online - Free access to peer-review reports from past issues (more than one year old).
Other Science Journals and Websites
Health/PE
Gale Health and Wellness Resource Center - Provides integrated access to medical, statistical, health, and related information.
Salem Health - Website that goes with our print Magill's Medical Guide.
Healthfinder.gov - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services site to help you stay healthy.
Medline Plus - U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Mayo Clinic - Health Information and Tools.