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Databases

Academic Search Elite

Scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers in almost every subject area. A great starting point for any topic.

Comprehensive index to scholarly journals and general periodicals in all subject and interdisciplinary areas, including full text. Coverage prior to 1990 is sparse.
Business Source Elite

Hundreds of active full-text journals and magazines covering business, management, economics, banking, finance, and accounting. Helpful when looking for company and industry information.

The industry’s most used business research database, providing full text, indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals back as far as 1886. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 25,000 most-cited authors in the database.

Candid
Formerly Guidestar and Foundation Center, two companies which combined to form Candid. Provides comprehensive data on more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations. Some content is available immediately for free. The free version of Guidestar provides basic information on NGOs. The free Foundation Directory Online Quick Start tool searches basic information on grant-making institutions.

You will need to create an account to access free content.