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What's Included in Discovery?

  • Databases
  • Streaming videos
  • Websites

A note for assistive technology users. The three items above (databases, streaming videos, and websites) are accessible tabs. If you're on desktop, activate them the same way you would by activating a link. If you're on mobile, double tap to activate.

Discovery searches several of the Library's research databases. They are marked yes in the list below.

In some cases Discovery allows you to continue your search in other databases by clicking the database link in the upper right corner of the Discovery screen. These databases are marked continue.

  • EBSCOhost databases:
    • Academic Search Premier - yes
    • Alt HealthWatch - yes
    • Biography Reference Bank - yes
    • Business Source Elite - yes
    • CINAHL Plus with Full Text - yes
    • eBook Collection - yes
    • ERIC - yes
    • Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia - yes
    • GreenFILE - yes
    • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - yes
    • Legal Information Reference Center - yes
    • MAS Complete - yes
    • MasterFILE Complete - yes
    • MEDLINE - yes
    • Middle Search Plus - yes
    • Newswires - yes
    • OmniFile Full Text Select - yes
    • OpenDissertations - no
    • Primary Search - yes
    • Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection - yes
    • Regional Business News - yes
    • Science & Technology Collection - yes
    • Small Business Reference Center - yes
    • Vocational and Career Collection - yes
  • ALLDATA Collision & ALLDATA Repair - no
  • Artstor Digital Library - yes
  • Axis 360 (audiobooks) - no
  • Biography Reference Center - yes
  • Britannica Academic - yes
  • Catalog (WebPAC) - yes (updated monthly)
  • Chronicle of Higher Education - continue
  • Consumer Health Complete - yes
  • Consumer Health Reference eBook Collection - yes
  • Ferguson's Career Guidance Center - continue
  • First Research - no
  • FirstSearch - no
  • Flipster - yes
  • Gale eBooks - yes (included in WebPAC catalog)
  • Global Road Warrior - yes
  • Greenhaven eBooks - yes
  • LearningExpress Library - yes
  • LitFinder - continue
  • Literature Resource Center - yes
  • Mometrix eLibrary - no
  • MyHeritage Library Edition - no
  • New Play Exchange - no
  • Nexis Uni - Law Reviews only (listed as LexisNexis Academic Law Reviews)
  • NoveList K-8 Plus - no
  • NoveList Plus - no
  • Omaha Star - no
  • Omaha World-Herald - yes
  • Opposing Viewpoints in Context - yes
  • Oxford English Dictionary - no
  • Points of View Reference Center - yes
  • PubMED - no (but EBSCO's version of MEDLINE is included)
  • Reference Solutions - no
  • SIRS Issues Researcher - continue
  • Statista - continue
  • Wall Street Journal - continue
  • Women & Social Movements in the United States - no
  • World Religions - yes
  • WorldCat  - no

Discovery searches several of the Library's streaming video collections. They are marked yes in the list below.

  • Academic Video Online - yes
  • Digital Theatre Plus - no
  • Docuseek yes (included in WebPAC catalog)
  • Films on Demand
    • Allied Health Collection - no
    • Sociology Collection - no
    • Individually licensed titles - yes (included with WebPAC catalog)
  • Kanopy - yes
  • Microsoft Stream - yes (included in WebPAC catalog)
  • Swank Digital Campus - yes (included in WebPAC catalog)
  • AGRIS - Produced by the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Contains research from more than one hundred participating countries covering a broad array of agricultural science & technology related fields such as forestry, animal husbandry, aquatic sciences, fisheries and human nutrition.
  • Archive of European Integration - An electronic repository and archive for research materials on the topic of European integration and unification.
  • arXiv - Open access to 962,528 e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics. Hosted by Cornell University Library.
  • BC Open Textbook Project - Open source textbooks provided by British Columbia's BCcampus.
  • British Library EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service) - Doctoral research theses from the United Kingdom.
  • ClinicalTrials.gov - The U.S. National Library of Medicine's database of privately and publicly funded clinical studies conducted around the world.
  • CogPrints - Electronic archive for papers related to cognition.
  • DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard) - A central, open-access repository of research by members of the Harvard community.
  • Directory of Open Access Books - Provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books.
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.
  • Europeana - Provides digital access to European cultural heritage material including artworks, books, music, and videos on art, newspapers, archaeology, fashion, science, sport, and much more.
  • HBO Kennisbank - Results of research done by Dutch Universities of Applied Science.
  • Henry Stewart Talks - More than 2,000 online seminars by leading world experts, covering biomedicine, life sciences, management, marketing, finance and many more topics.
  • J-STAGE (Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic) - Leading scholarly e-journals from Japan. Developed by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
  • JSTOR Open Community Collections - Provides access to artworks, photographs, publications, recordings, and other artifacts available from libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies around the world.
  • LibreTexts - Provides access to more than 2,000 open educational resources (OER) created by instructional faculty.
  • LUNA Commons - Educational content (photographs, maps, manuscripts, books and more) from digital collections built in the Insight software from Luna Images, Inc.
  • Manuscriptorium - Provides access to historical resources (manuscripts, incunabula, early printed books, maps, charters and other types of documents) otherwise scattered in various libraries around the world.
  • Milne Open Textbooks - A catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
  • OAIster - A catalog of 50 million plus digital open access resources.
  • OAPEN Library - Freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences.
  • Open Research Library - A comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed open access books.
  • Open Textbook Library -Hundreds of textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed.
  • OpenStax - Free, peer-reviewed textbooks.
  • Pressbooks Directory - Provides access to over 5,000 open educational resource (OER) books published by 140+ colleges, universities, libraries, non-profits, presses, and other organizations using the Pressbooks open publishing platform.
  • SciTech Connect - Developed by the U.S. Department of Energy, SciTech Connect provides access to energy-related R&D results from the 1940s to today. NOTE: SciTech Connect is now a part of OSTI.GOV but it still labeled SciTech Connect in Discovery.
  • SSOAR (Social Science Open Access Repository) - Produced by GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, SSOAR provides published documents on social sciences and related disciplines for research and educational purposes.
  • TDX (Theses and Dissertations Online) - Digital cooperative repository of doctoral theses presented at some Spanish universities.
  • USPTO - Produced by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), the federal agency responsible for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks, the USPTO patent databases allow inventors to search existing patents and patent applications to see if a patent has already been filed or granted that is similar to their own patent.