Electronic Resources Provided by Alabama Virtual Library (AVL): All Resources

Academic Search Premier is a giant database that covers more than 8,000 journals, 85% of which are peer-reviewed and over 55% are full text, and full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. It covers a wide variety of disciplines.

Articles on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.

Combination of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, thesaurus, magazines, periodicals, and many other research tools providing a variety of reliable sources students need for research.

Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia geared towards K-6

Understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through leading business and trade publications. Updated daily.

Journal articles in business, management, economics, finance, banking, and accounting.

Biographies and bibliographies of thousands of U.S. and international authors. Continuously updated.

Critical essays available through the Gale Literature Criticism database.

Explore the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres; multi-series.

Gain insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy. Best for educators, administrators, and education students.

Newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

Find lesson plans, curriculum standards, and other professional development resources for educators.

Journal articles in various subjects and arranged by categories, specifically geared towards grades K-6.

Journal articles in various subjects and arranged by categories, specifically geared towards grades 10-12.

Journal articles in various subjects and arranged by categories, specifically geared towards grades 7-9.

Journal articles in various subjects and arranged by categories, specifically geared towards grades K-12.

Research academic topics ranging from art and literature to economics and the sciences. Ideal for smaller academic libraries.

Encyclopedia articles and biographies in a variety of subject areas. Updated annually.

Gale Literary Sources integrates full-text literary content with metadata and subject indexing and provides workflow tools to analyze information. You can research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search across your library's Literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.

Explore this database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. For multidisciplinary research.

Access general interest magazines and key serials in a single resource. Best for general research.

A database focused on environmental issues; some full text, some indexing and abstracting.

Covers information on many health topics including medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

Index, abstracts, and full text focusing on many medical disciplines, particularly nursing and allied health.

Cover-to-cover full text for more than 650 historical encyclopedias and other non-fiction books

An Image Collection of over 500,000 photos, maps & flags.

A collection of Hispanic magazines in all subject areas.

Access general interest magazines and key serials in a single resource. Best for general research.

Introduce elementary students to database searching with resources featuring age-appropriate, curriculum-related content.

Explore the most extensive compilation of literary commentary available. Includes analysis from book excerpts, periodicals, and more.

Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras.

Literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays since 1976.

Journal articles in all subject areas.

Multidisciplinary database providing full text for nearly 1,700 general interest periodicals.

Covers >140 popular middle school magazines and thousands of biographies and historical essays. Contains full text articles which are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).

Covers engineering, public affairs, public policy, international affairs and countries of the world. Contains full text from >250 military-related periodicals.

Covers >160 major regional newspapers. Contains full text of national and syndicated content.

Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues.

Dictionary/English language.

100+ reference books and dictionaries.

100+ reference books and dictionaries.

K-12 resources for animals and science

Contains many core topics, each with an overview (objective background / description), point (argument), and counterpoint (opposing argument).

Covers many subjects at the primary school level. Contains full text for 50 children's magazines and more than 00 pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.

Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.

Covers regional business news sources including newspapers and business trade magazines.

Contains full text and links to news articles.

Explore the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, history, literature, and more.

Browse original scholarly essays on authors from around the world. Places authors and their works in personal and historical context.

Search magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference on a range of topics. Best for middle- and high-school students.

Journal articles covering a variety of topics of interest to teachers, including assessment, curriculum development, standards, and continuing education.

Find in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers. Includes influences of literary movements.

Covers trade and industry-related periodicals. Contains full text from >350 titles.