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The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae online is a digital collection of most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. The library no longer has a subscription to TLG, but you can access the Abridged TLG, the Canon bibliographies, and TLG’s lexica without a subscription.

Please note that each user will be asked to create a user profile (login name and password).

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MEDLINE is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information, produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM, United States). It contains millions of references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. It indexes literature published from 1966 to the present.

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IEEE Xplore is a research database for discovery and access to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical standards, and related materials on computer science, electrical engineering and electronics, and allied fields.

This database now only provides citation information and not access to full-text articles. Please use the library's InterLibrary Loan service to acquire articles.

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Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world´s largest online classical music library. It offers streaming access to over 150,000 CDs of both standard and rare musical repertoire and catalogues or titles from over 950 record labels, with over 600 new titles added to the collection each month. NML includes a wide breadth of musical genres - instrumental, orchestral, chamber music, choral, opera, musical, jazz, blues, rock, world, new age, and more - and is also searchable by works, people, instruments, countries, and historical periods.

Playlists can be created by students and professors for private use or for in-class discussion and analysis, but please NOTE: NML is a streaming-only resource, and any downloading or burning from NML violates both copyright law and the Terms of Use agreement. NML allows 15 simultaneous users - if it is busy, please try logging in later.

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Google Scholar provides access to scholarly literature on the web. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. If Calvin has access to an electronic journal, links to the articles in that journal will appear in Google Scholar.

Link Google Scholar to Hekman Library to optimize your access to scholarly resources. Check out our video to walk through this process on the Hekman Library Youtube channel.

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EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system that offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers.

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GreenFILE focuses on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and more.

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Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.

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The First Nations Periodical Index contains journal citations of mainly Canadian Native content. This Index is a tool providing access to information about First Nations for students, educators, instructors and researchers. It is a joint project of the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, Saskatoon Campus, the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre and the Library Services for Saskatchewan Aboriginal Peoples committee.

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Derwent Innovations Index facilitates rapid, precise patent searching, letting you conduct patent and citation searches of inventions in chemical, electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering. 

Searching Web of Science will automatically search the contents of this database.

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The Victorian Women Writers Project is a collection of the full text of works of British women writers from the Victorian period.

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Science Citation Index Expanded, accessed via Web of Knowledge, provides bibliographic and citation information from the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Full-text links included.

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ProQuest One Business is an intuitive and comprehensive business library containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos, and more. Topics include business, accounting, taxation, banking, marketing, market research, entrepreneurship, economics, Asian and European business, and company and industry research. For search tips and more information, visit https://proquest.libguides.com/pq1business/home.

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Ministry Matters offers practical inspiration for preachers, teachers, and worship leaders. It includes thousands of original articles and blogs, unique book reviews, and weekly worship and preaching helps. In addition, there are full text commentaries for student research such as The New Interpreter's Bible and Abingdon Old and New Testament Commentaries.

This research resource will be of primary interest to seminary students. 

NOTE: We have capability for only 10 simultaneous users. If you are turned away you may have to wait a few minutes until a spot opens up.

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TRID is the world's largest and most comprehenxive bibliographic resource on treansportation research information. Many records contain links to full-text documents.

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The ProQuest databases give you access to all kinds of documents, from newspapers and television and radio broadcasts to scholarly journals, dissertations, ebooks, and government documents.

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Social Sciences Citation Index, accessed via Web of Knowledge, provides essential data from the world's leading social sciences journals across 50 disciplines with full-text access.

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Wright American Fiction is considered the most comprehensive bibliography of American adult fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries. It includes full-text works by well known writers along with lesser known writers whose works were popular in their own time.

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Cambridge Core provides access to unique, scholarly content published by Cambridge University Press, in one user-friendly and fully searchable online platform. The search interface includes both electronic books and journals.

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EBSCOhost eBook Collection is a wide-ranging multi-subject platform of ebooks covering everything from literary criticism to cybersecurity. Originally known as NetLibrary, this database has been combined with many others and relaunched under its new name. Also contained as subsets of this larger collection are the resources: eBook Academic Collection (EBSCO) and eBook Business Collection (EBSCO).

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Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

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SAGE Knowledge hosts full-text reference e-books. Hekman Library owns 62 reference titles in this library as of June 2020.

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The Zoological Record is the world's oldest continuing database of animal biology, going back to 1864. It acts as an unofficial register of animal names. The broad scope of coverage ranges form biodiversity and the environment to taxonomy and veterinary sciences.

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Archon is an online catalog for the holdings of Hekman Library's Heritage Hall and allows for searching of collection inventories. Heritage Hall serves as the official repository for records of Calvin University, Calvin Theological Seminary, and the Christian Reformed Church in North America. In addition, Heritage Hall has nearly 600 manuscript collections of personal papers and organizational records. Collections readily provide primary source materials for research in a wide range of disciplines, such as History, Economics, Psychology, Literature, Theology, Political Science, and more.

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The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception is the first comprehensive reference work on the Bible and its reception. It records how biblical texts have been read, interpreted and integrated into thought, science and culture throughout the centuries, making it an essential resource for scholars in biblical, cultural, and religious studies and related fields.

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The Hekman Library no longer has access online to the Grand Rapids Press. The link provided here will take users to the MLive site, which offers a 14-day searchable archive of the GR Press and other Michigan newspapers. People with valid Grand Rapids Public Library cards can search a more extensive archive of the press.

Hekman does have microfilm of the Press (1893-1931; 1992-2008).

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Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides authoritative information about authors from all time periods and from all parts of the world while placing them in the larger perspective of literary history.

This online set provides access to all volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography series, the Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook.

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This innovative and medically accurate interactive 3D atlas and clinical reference is perfect for speech language pathology and communication disorders educators, students and practitioners. Featuring a comprehensive selection of 3D views covering key body systems and visually stunning head and neck views, it is complemented by a wealth of multimedia clinical content covering swallowing, phonetics and many commonly presenting disorders.

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The Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition) is considered the preeminent publication for business news and information on financial markets worldwide with full-text coverage.

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