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  • ABI/INFORM Collection features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as The Economist and Sloan Management Review, country-and industry-focused reports, and major news sources like the Wall Street Journal. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.

  • Academic OneFile provides articles from scholarly journals and other authoritative sources across a broad range of topics.

  • AVON provides unlimited access to a comprehensive selection of videos curated for the educational experience. Highlights include:

    • Counseling and Therapy Videos
    • Broadway HD
    • CNN Collection
    • BBC Studios
    • PBS
    • Shakespeare Series
    • Balanchine Collection

  • ACLS Humanities is a comprehensive online collection of high quality eBooks in the humanities. The collection includes monographs, critical studies, annotated primary sources, and essays—both in print and out-of-print—ranging from the 1880s through the present.

  • Full text of journals, magazines, and proceedings from the American Chemical Society.

  • Agricola offers a variety of source types related to agriculture, including citations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for this database dates back to 1979.

  • Series 1: This collection of periodicals from 1684 through 1820 focuses on history from throughout the world.

  • Series 2: This collection of periodicals from 1821 to 1837 represents the Jackosnian Democracy era in history and is broad in scope including agriculture, entertainment, history, literary criticism, and politics.

  • Series 3: This collection of periodicals from 1838 to 1852 reveals a rapidly growing young nation, where industrialization, the railroads, regional political difference and life on the western frontier were daily realities.

  • Series 4: This collection of periodicals from 1853 to 1865 focuses on the Civil War and a diverse record of the continuance of daily life for many Americans, both leading up to and during the war.

  • Series 5: This collection of periodicals from 1866 to 1912 reflects a nation that persevered through a difficult set of circumstances and provides overage of broad subject areas that reach into every facet of American life.

  • A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full-text coverage begins in 1997.

  • This resource provides superior coverage for several of the most popular and heavily-researched biographies and genres, including those contained within Biography Today and Biography (both dating back to the first issue published).

  • Birds of the World provides comprehensive life histories for all bird species and families. Image and video galleries show plumages, behaviors, habitat, nests and eggs, and more. In addition, this database features recordings of the songs and calls of their species. Contents are updated frequently, with contributions from researchers, citizen scientists, and designated reviewers and editors.

  • A comprehensive business resource for the undergraduate researcher seeking company news, the public library patron making personal investment decisions, or the high school student looking to major in business administration, Business Collection provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice.

  • Access to full-text academic journals and magazines--with a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit bibliographic index.

  • Business Source Premier features full text journal articles on business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting and much more. This resource contains popular business publications such as Business Week, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review, and hundreds of scholarly, peer reviewed journals.

  • CINAHL with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text articles for nursing and allied health journals, providing full text for more than 610 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative database contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index with no embargo. In addition, CINAHL also provides indexing for more than 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health.

    • The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR):
      A systematic review identifies an intervention for a specific disease or other problem in health care, and determines whether or not this intervention works. Authors locate, appraise, and synthesize, evidence from as many relevant scientific studies as possible. They summarize conclusions about effectiveness, and provide a unique collation of known evidence on a given topic, so that others can easily review the primary studies for any intervention.
    • The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE):
      DARE includes structured abstracts of systematic reviews from around the world, which have been critically appraised by reviewers at the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York, England.
    • The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL):
      CENTRAL includes details of published articles taken from bibliographic databases, notably MEDLINE, and other published and unpublished sources. CENTRAL records include the title of the article, information on where it was published, and often a summary of the article. They do not contain the full text of the article. About three-fifths of the records in CENTRAL are taken from MEDLINE.
    • The Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (CDMR):
      The CDMR contains two types of documents: cochrane methodology reviews and protocols. Cochrane Methodology Reviews are full-text systematic reviews of methodological studies. The reviews are both highly structured and systematic. Evidence from methodological research is included or excluded on the basis of explicit quality criteria, thus minimizing bias. Each review covers a specific and well-defined area of methodology. Data from studies are often combined statistically to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, which on their own may be too small to produce reliable results. In such cases, the review may also include graphs presenting the data from each individual study. Protocols provide place-markers for reviews, which are currently being written. They summarize the background and the rationale of the review.
    • The NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED):
      This database contains structured abstracts of articles describing economic evaluations of health care interventions. The articles are identified by searching through key medical journals, bibliographic databases, and less widely-available literature. A paper will be included if it provides a comparison of treatments and examines both the costs and outcomes of the alternatives. The quality of the database contents is controlled by ensuring that all reviewers work to specified guidelines, and that independent checks on the review process are carried out. The database also includes bibliographic details of articles examining relevant topics, and short abstracts of studies originally included in the Department of Health Register of Cost-Effective Studies. Records do not contain the full text of the original article.
    • Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA):
      This database contains information on healthcare technology assessments. The database contains details of ongoing projects and completed publications from health technology assessment organizations. HTA records follow a standard structure. Some records contain the title of the project, with the name of the center responsible and an indication of where further details can be obtained, (usually including both a postal address and a website). Other records contain publication details, with structured abstracts where available. Records do not, in either case, contain the full text of the report.
    • The Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR):
      The Cochrane Methodology Register is a bibliography of publications which report on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials. It includes journal articles, books and conference proceedings. The database contains studies of methods used in reviews and more general methodological studies which could be relevant to anyone preparing systematic reviews. CMR records contain the title of the article, information on where it was published, and often a summary of the article. They do not contain the full text of the article.

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  • Computer Database provides access to leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries.

  • Credo Reference is multi-publisher collection of high-quality reference titles covering everything from the arts to astronomy, law to literature, and science to Shakespeare. The collection currently contains over 162 titles taken from 36 different reference publishers and more titles are being added. Available titles also include a range of multimedia options including thousands of high-quality diagrams, photographs, maps and audio files.

  • Delivers up-to-date, comprehensive, and practical information on over 5,000 trade name and generic drugs. This powerful resource contains everything you need to provide premium care to your patients including information on dosing and administration, safety, interactions, patient teaching, and much more.

  • On The Dictionary of Literary Biography features thousands of images and biographical and critical essays on the lives and works of the world’s most well-known authors. This series provides context on these writers within literary history and includes the Dictionary of Literary Biography main series, documentary, and yearbook volumes.

  • A comprehensive collection of academic ebooks.

  • EconLit features an indexed bibliography of economics and finance literature including journal articles, books, dissertations and working papers.

  • Education Full Text covers every age and sector of the educational community from preschool through college. It is a bibliographic database that cites every article of at least one column in length in more than 400 English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. It abstracts selected series and supplements and cites book reviews. Full text is included for many articles since 1996.

  • Addresses environmental concerns and research with coverage from journals and book reference content. Content includes articles relevant to Biology, Chemistry, and Geology as well as Environmental Studies.

  • The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. ERIC provides unlimited access to more than 1.3 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials. ERIC Document coverage includes peer-reviewed articles, conferences, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. A public version of ERIC is also available. This version may have fewer items than the EBSCO version.

  • The Test Collection at ETS (TestLink) is a database of more than 25,000 tests and other measurement devices most of which were created by authors outside ETS/ With information about tests from the early 1900s to the present.

  • The Fine Arts and Music Collection includes the full text of journal articles on topics relating to theatre, music, visual art, art history, and film.

  • Fuente Academica is a unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American, South American and Spanish publishers. This database provides full text and PDFs for more than 100 scholarly Spanish language journals.

  • For students and adults alike, the Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. This database is updated annually.

  • GenBank is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences.

  • Includes Academic Search Premier, Education Full Text, ERIC, and the Giovale Library Catalog.

  • Global Issues in Contexts integrates international news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, and statistics. This is a useful database when you are doing background research of searching for a topic.

  • In keeping with their commitment to environmental consciousness, EBSCO offers GreenFILE, a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. GreenFILE's initial release will include A&I for more than 600 titles, including comprehensive coverage from to volume 1, issue 1 to present for Bioscience (back to 1964), Conservation Biology (back to 1987), Journal of Ecology (back to 1913) and Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (back to 1948). The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles.

  • GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) is an electronic resource that focuses on the study of sustainability and the environment. Topics include global warming, food safety, access to health care, and the impact of economic development on international relations.

  • Discover periodicals and reference book content designed for both nursing and allied health students as well as consumer health researchers.

  • Health Source: Consumer Edition provides more than 500 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Clinical Nursing Research, Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Family Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses, Nurse Practitioner, Nursing, Nursing Diagnosis, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, Nursing Management, Patient Care for the Nurse Practitioner, RN, Western Journal of Nursing Research and many more.

  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides more than 500 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Clinical Nursing Research, Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Family Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses, Nurse Practitioner, Nursing, Nursing Diagnosis, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, Nursing Management, Patient Care for the Nurse Practitioner, RN, Western Journal of Nursing Research and many more.

  • Legal research collection of current and historical materials, including full-text law journals and texts; U.S. laws, regulations, cases and Congressional materials; international treaties and constitutions, foreign and comparative law materials, United Nations and League of Nations publications.

  • History Reference Center features full text primary source documents and informational texts for undergraduate research.

  • This database offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast. Full text is provided from leading hobby and craft magazines.

  • Home Improvement Reference Center features user-friendly “how-to” information covering all manner of home improvement/repair projects.

  • Provides access to a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America.

  • Provides access to more major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes images, radio, and TV broadcasts and transcripts. Users can search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section, or other fields.

  • Vocations and Careers Collection provides access to journals and magazines that aid users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career. The database offers hundreds of current and applicable periodicals, from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.

  • Online encyclopedia that provides background information on key topics and individuals in all areas of philosophy. Most articles are original contributions by specialized philosophers, while others are temporary articles that have been adapted from older sources.

  • Access to Institute of Physics (IOP) Publications. Follow screen prompts to search or access specific titles.

  • Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service with access to award-winning collections including titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation and more.

  • LearningExpress Library features skill building tools for reading, writing, math, and science. There is test preparation for the GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MAT, MCAT and PCAT. The workplace resources include tools for job searching, exploring new careers, and preparing for occupational licensing exams such as the Praxis, NCLEX-PN and NCLEX-RN among others. Users are required to register/login to access the resources, use your Westminster email as your username.

  • Literature Resource Center provides access to author biographies, reviews, and literacy criticism for research on authors and texts from all time periods and from around the world.

  • Litfinder provides access to full text literature (poetry, short stories, and plays), literature citations, and author information from throughout history.

  • MarketLine Company Profiles is an add on to our Business Source Premier database that features company profiles for many public companies and some private companies.

  • Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for hundreds of popular high school magazines and reference books. In addition, it offers tens of thousands of biographies, thousands of primary source documents and a vast image collection.

  • This database features popular full-text magazines, reference books and other highly-regarded sources from today’s leading publishers, covering virtually every subject area of general interest. It also includes an extensive image collection containing photos, maps and flags.

  • MathSciNet is an electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Over 100,000 new items are added each year, most of them classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification. Authors are uniquely identified, enabling a search for publications by individual author rather than by name string. Continuing in the tradition of the paper publication, Mathematical Reviews (MR), which was first published in 1940, expert reviewers are selected by a staff of professional mathematicians to write reviews of the current published literature; over 40,000 reviews are added to the database each year. Extending the MR tradition, MathSciNet contains over 2 million items and over 1 million direct links to original articles. Bibliographic data from retrodigitized articles dates back to the early 1800s. Reference lists are collected and matched internally from over 400 journals, and citation data for journals, authors, articles and reviews is provided. This web of citations allows users to track the history and influence of research publications in the mathematical sciences.

  • MedicLatina is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 125 periodicals, including over 50 peer-reviewed medical journals.

  • MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses (MeSH) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy, and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,000 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, PREMEDLINE, AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE and HealthSTAR.

  • Mergent Intellect features detailed, accurate and comprehensive global company information including business descriptions, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock.

  • Designed for middle school libraries, this database contains full text for popular middle school magazines, full-text biographies and historical essays. In addition, it includes primary source documents, reference books and a vast image collection.

  • Produced by the Modern Language Association, this database offers citations for journal articles, books, and dissertations concerning literature, modern language studies, linguistics, and drama.

  • The National Film Board (NFB) of Canada has over 3,000 films online. Many are available for free and many contain closed captioning. At this time we do not have a subscription for films that are beyond a paywall. The collection includes documentaries, feature films, animation, and short films. NFB includes a collection of films by Indigenous directors.

  • This site allows users to search simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It allows users of NLM services to initiate searches from one Web interface, providing "one-stop searching" for many of NLM's information resources or databases. It also includes links to each separate database.

  • Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online offering over 550,000 tracks of Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. It includes the complete BIS, Chandos, Hänssler, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Naxos, Ondine and selected titles of other leading independent labels, with over 1,000 albums added monthly.

  • Provides selected full text articles from U.S. and international newspapers.

  • NoveList Plus is a reading recommendations database. It is a comprehensive source of information about books that includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more. NoveList has reading recommendations for both fiction and nonfiction, for all ages. NoveList's expertise in books and reading means that you'll always get the best help for finding your next read.

  • Provides access to authoritative content supporting nursing professionals already working in the field, as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.

  • Opposing Viewpoints in Context presents an overview of social, medical, scientific, ethical, historical, and current issues. The result is a dynamic online library of current event topics--the facts, as well as the arguments, of each topic's proponents and detractors. OVRC's unique features include Topic Overviews -- frameworks which allow students to explore each topic's many facets -- and exclusive electronic access to Gale's Information Plus reference program of statistics, government data, legislation and more.

  • On Ovid is a medical research platform that delivers key medical, nursing, and pharmacy texts from a variety of publishers to clinicians' desktops through the Books@Ovid database. Journals@Ovid is an aggregate of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies.

  • The Oxford English Dictionary is a historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. It aims not only to show the current meanings of words, but also to trace their development through time. Entries contain detailed etymological analysis and are illustrated by quotations from a wide range of English language sources from around the world, making the OED a unique historical record.

  • This bibliographic database offers informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology and book reviews.

  • Offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more with access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of fitness and sports.

  • A full text database that provides access to classic and contemporary poems, short stories, bibliographies, and essays on literary forms and movements.

  • This database provides encyclopedia-like overviews of controversial issues.

  • Designed specifically for elementary school libraries, this database contains full text for popular children's magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedic entries and a vast image collection. Students can learn about a variety of topics, such as endangered species, famous musicians, fitness, space exploration and more.

  • Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. Also contains more than 200 educational reports.

  • Project Muse offers full text coverage of journals and ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, with a focus on resources published by university presses.

  • ProQuest News stand Full text of U.S. and international news sources, including selective coverage of The Salt Lake Tribune.

  • PubMed is the freely accessible version of MEDLINE and is the NLM's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,600 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The file contains over 11 million citations dating back to the mid-1960's. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts.

  • The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects.

  • This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

  • This database contains information about journal articles on topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy, and the history of philosophy and religion.

  • ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters. Journals are guided by eminent editorial boards and articles are rigorously peer-reviewed. Books on ScienceDirect cover 24 subject collections across disciplines such as biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, chemistry, clinical medicine, engineering and environmental science.

  • This database provides easy access to a wealth of full-text, science-oriented content including science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and other reliable sources. In addition, the database includes a vast collection of images from sources such as UPI, Getty, NASA, National Geographic and the Nature Picture Library.

  • Small Business Reference Center features small business reference books, as well as the necessary tools and instructions to address a wide-range of small business topics. In addition, it provides business videos, a help and advice section, and information on how to create business plans.

  • Springer eJournals Collection provides full-text access to over 1900 peer-reviewed journals covering numerous disciplines from the Sciences such as Biomedical Sciences, Chemistry, Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences, Physics, Public Health and more. When searching all of SpringerLink, refine your results under Content Type by Journal Articles to limit your results to full text articles.

  • This comprehensive online encyclopedia contains entries about all aspects philosophy written and kept up to date by experts in the field. Use it as a starting point to find background information on important individuals, concepts, and schools of thought.

  • Swank Online Video Library provides access to selected streaming for films and television shows from major motion picture studios and independent producers. These films are licensed for education use and do not include public performance rights.

  • Contains detailed definitions for more than 65,000 medical terms.

  • The Utah Education Network (UEN) is a broadband and digital broadcast network serving public education, higher education, applied technology campuses, libraries, and public charter schools throughout the state of Utah. UEN provides innovative education methods through digital learning, creating access and opportunity for all Utah students and educators. eMedia makes content openly accessible to all, as well as additional licensed content available to Utah users with appropriate permissions, customized alignment tools for the Utah Core Standards will provide additional value for Utah educators, with evaluation rubrics to facilitate content vetting.

  • Ulrichsweb.com is an authoritative knowledgebase of information about serials of all types from around the world—academic and scholarly journals, peer-reviewed titles, online publications, newspapers and other resources. Bibliographic records provide details such as ISSN and title, publisher, online availability, language, subject area, abstracting and indexing coverage, searchable tables of contents, and full-text reviews.

  • Provides periodical content covering events in U.S. history as well as scholarly work established in the field.

  • Utah Collections Multimedia Encyclopedia features digital collections of Utah-related information and media items, specifically about the history, culture, geography, and land forms of the state. It is a project designed to give educators, students and the general public ready access to Utah-related information.

  • Digital Newspapers contains digitized copies of historical newspapers from throughout the state of Utah and is browseable by county or title and searchable by keyword.

  • Utah newspaper archive via the Utah Academic Library Consortium. Used by millions for genealogy and family history, historical research, crime investigations, journalism, and entertainment. Search for obituaries, marriage announcements, birth announcements, social pages, national and local news articles, sports, advertisements, entertainment, fashion and lifestyle pages, comics, and more.

  • Provides full-text coverage of trade and industry periodicals in professional fields such as management, nursing, advertising, and information technology along with many others.

  • WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. Connect to the collections and services of libraries worldwide.

  • Provides balanced coverage of events in world history with relevant articles updated daily - both current thinking and established scholarly work.

  • World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean serves the needs of students and researchers by bringing together in a single place a rich collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean; academic journals and news feeds covering the region; reference articles and commentary; maps and statistics; audio and video; and more.

  • Online citation management tool. Download citations directly from databases and generate bibliographies.