Accessing Databases from Home or Off Campus
The following databases can be accessed by faculty and current Lincoln University
students (at the main campus and at The Graduate Center) from home.
Access to databases will require an authentication login.
For full instructions CLICK HERE.
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EBSCO Host Select Databases
Provides access to full text articles from various databases listed.
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Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Provides full text articles on today's news or search back more than 20 years, business,
legal research (federal,state and international legal materials), medical and health and some general references sources.
Newsbank
Collection of primary source information. Articles cover social, economic, environmental,
government, sports, people, the arts, health, and science issues and events. Sources: U.S. regional and national newspapers,
wire services, and broadcasts.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language
over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a
million words, both present and past.
Contemporary Authors
Contemporary Authors has over 120,000 references.
CRCnetBASE
This database provides unlimited access to trusted scientific and technical database collections. It is a comprehensive and highly interactive resource that allows you to search and extract essential data and tables.
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Ethnic News Watch
News, culture and history from 200 publications of the ethnic minority and native press with 400,000+ complete articles dating back to 1990.
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OmniFile Full Text Mega [formally General Science Index] has full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations on
virtually any subject. Full text of articles from over 1,750 publications and article abstracts and indexing from over 3,500 publications
including Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers' Guide, Social Sciences and Wilson Business all in Full Text.
Coverage back as early as 1982 ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad.
Wilson Biographies
Contains the full text of the biographies from more than 100 print volumes of biographical
reference books published by H.W. Wilson.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a database with scanned images of journal issues as they were originally designed,
printed, and illustrated. JSTOR is not a current issues database. There is a
gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between JSTOR and most recently published journal issues
PsychARTICLES - Full-text access to 53 of the most respected peer-reviewed psychology journals.
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Other useful off-campus databases.
The following databases can be accessed via the Internet without Lincoln ID.
The POWER Library allows you to access thousands of full text periodical articles, newspapers,
a major encyclopedia, plus photographs, pictures, charts, maps, reference materials for young people
and more. You will find materials of interest in most subject areas for all age groups from young
children to adults.
All you need is a Pennsylvania Library Card.
Access Pennsylvania is the largest statewide union catalog that includes the holdings of all types of libraries.
These items can be requested via Interlibrary Loan.
See the Interlibrary Loan page for instructions and limitations.
