Multidisciplinary resource for supporting effective writing and research using APA style.
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Local newspaper for La Crosse, Wisconsin. Contact reference@viterbo.edu for username and password.

Containing resources that present diverse perspectives on important issues and events, Points of View has the information students need to better understand controversial issues and craft persuasive arguments ― in speech and in writing. The database covers more than 560 topics across dozens of categories.

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Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the abstracts or full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.  Google Scholar includes peer-reviewed online academic journals and books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, case law, and other scholarly literature.

This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

Includes access to the full contents of the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook, as well as MLA Guides to Digital Literacy and Undergraduate Research.  It also includes a video course that teaches the principles of MLA documentation style through a series of short videos paired with quizzes, plus a final assessment.

Publishes reports, handbooks, briefing papers, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets exploring and advocating on issues of human rights and justice. 

Contains more than 2,000 primary source documents on African American efforts to secure civil and human rights – from slavery to the present - focused on six different phases of Black Freedom: Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860), The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877), Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932), The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945), The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975), and The Contemporary Era (1976-2000).