Off-Campus Access
Britannica Online
Encyclopedia Britannica is the world’s most comprehensive reference product, a distinction it has held since its first publication in 1768. Encyclopedia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopedia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
Collins Dictionaries
Collins Dictionaries contains a dictionary, thesaurus, word and language studies and word games.
Directory of Open Access Journals
The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals.
EBSCOhost®
EBSCOhost® offers access to online databases covering a wide range of topics. Most of the databases contain the full text of many journal articles and related materials. Users may access EBSCOhost® Off campus by clicking on the heading above.
Video tutorial for Ebscohost.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
JSTOR helps you explore a wide range of scholarly content through a powerful research and teaching platform. They collaborate with the academic community to help libraries connect students and faculty to vital content while lowering costs and increasing shelf space, provide independent researchers with free and low-cost access to scholarship, and help publishers reach new audiences and preserve their content for future generations.
JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization that also includes Artstor, Ithaka S+R, and Portico.
Lexis-Nexis
Lexis-Nexis provides access to full text journals, newspapers and other materials covering news, business, legal research, medicine and reference sources.
Video tutorial for LexisNexis
Mergent Intellect
Hoover’s Online provides comprehensive company, industry, and market information, covering twenty four million firms.
Naxos Music Library
Classical Music plus six other genres including Jazz, Blues, World and Chinese music. Naxos contains over one million tracks of music.
Video tutorial for Naxos Music Library
Contact the WVU Parkersburg Library for user name and password.
New York Times
The New York Times databases covers all articles appearing in the Times from 1851 to the present.
Video tutorial for New York Times.
Open Access Library
Open Access Library provides access to over 2 million academic journal articles.
OverDrive Ebook, Audiobook and Video Collection
OverDrive provides ebooks, audiobooks and videos that may be downloaded to computers, tablets and cell phones.
ProQuest powers research in academic, corporate, government, public and school libraries around the world with unique content.
Scholastic BookFLIX
BookFLix pairs electronic books and related videos in nine categories.
WV Library Network
Catalog for the WVU Parkersburg library collections and the collections of the Mountain Library Network.