Database	Description	Access
Britannica Online	Access Encyclopedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Quotations, maps, and country statistics.
ERIC	Search abstracts of articles about education research and practice.
FedStats	Explore the government's gateway to statistics from US federal agencies.
GPO Access	Access important federal government information databases.
iCONN - Connecticut Digital Library	Access a variety of databases provided by the Connecticut State Library and Department of Higher Education.
Ingenta	Search citations from journals across all disciplines.
MEDLINEplus	Access health information, drug information, medical dictionaries and other health resources from the National Library of Medicine.
Oxford University Press Journals	Collection includes some of the world's most highly cited and prestigious journals, in a broad range of subject disciplines.
PubMed	Search citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals from this service of the National Library of Medicine.
Thomson Gale PowerSearch	PowerSearch gives you all the tools you need to search across multiple Gale collections of periodical and reference content, while efficiently managing your results.
Science Online	Search within Science and across a multitude of scientific journals.
US Census Bureau Publications	Browse full text publications by topic.

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  If you are working from inside the Rensselaer at Hartford building, then you do not need any special codes to access these databases. If you are doing your research outside the building, then you may need the library barcode on the back of your student ID card. If you do not have a barcode, then bring your ID card to the library, and we will give you one.
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  These databases are freely available, so you do not need any special codes for access.

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