Subject list of Databases

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 Arts & Humanities

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)  Full-Text

Multi-disciplinary database that provides peer-reviewed coverage on the arts, computer sciences, education, engineering, ethnic studies, humanities, language and linguistics, literature, medical sciences, and social sciences.

Art Fulltext (HWWilson)  Full-Text

Peer-reviewed coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.

ATLA Religion Databasewith ATLASerials Full-Text

Coverage begins in 1949 although indexing for some journal titles extends back into the nineteenth century.  Peer-reviewed articles and book reviews, from more than 80 journals selected by leading religion scholars in the United States are featured.

European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750
The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. With the assistance of the John Carter Brown Library, this resource has been created from the authoritative bibliography, European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750, which is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide.

Catholic Periodical & Literature Index (EBSCO)  Full-Text

Includes indexed citations to articles published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers. Access to peer-reviewed articles.

History Reference Center Full-Text

Offers access to reference books, encyclopedias, and peer reviewed journals. Historical documents, biographies of historical figures, photos, maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video are included in this comprehensive database.

Humanities International Complete (EBSCO)  Full-Text

Provides peer-reviewed coverage on the arts, education, ethnic studies, humanities, language and linguistics, literature, philosophy and theology.

Iter Bibliography

Includes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts, and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)

An index of journal articles, books and dissertations produced by the Modern Language Association. Subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.

Oxford Bibliographies - Renaissance & Reformation
Online bibliography of the Renaissance and Reformation periods.  Covers arts, history, and literature. 

Philosopher's Index

Indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields such as ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic.

Project Muse Full-Text
This interdisciplinary database offers full text access to current content from high quality, peer reviewed humanities and social sciences journals. 

Business

ABI/Inform (Proquest)  Full-Text

Access peer-reviewed articles on advertising, computers, economics, finance, human resources, marketing and taxation. Hoover's Profiles are now included for companies. Click on the blue "Information" circle to obtain the profile. Coverage dates from 1985.
 

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)  Full-Text

Multi-disciplinary database that provides peer-reviewed coverage on the arts, computer sciences, education, engineering, ethnic studies, humanities, language and linguistics, literature, medical sciences, and social sciences.
 

Banking Information Source (Proquest) Full-Text

Covers more than 250  publications that provide information on the financial services industry. Includes access to  leading journals and newspapers, industry newsletters, School of Bank Marketing Papers, Stonier theses, and the Bank Marketing Associations Golden Coin Awards competition entries.

Business Source Premier (EBSCO)  Full-Text

Provides peer reviewed coverage dating from 1965. The following disciplines of business are represented: accounting, economics. finance, management, and  marketing. Additional content includes company profiles, country reports, industry reports, market research reports, and SWOT analyses.

CCH IntelliConnect  Full-Text

Please create a new account with log in and password for the first time. For off-campus access, click "Continue to this website (not recommend)" to process when you have a browser warning page. A full text database of federal and state tax laws, news, and cases.

Hoover's Company Records (Proquest)  Full-Text

Featuring profiles of more than 40,000 companies, 600 industries, and 225,000 key executives, This comprehensive database provides: company overviews, company histories, officers and board members, competitors, products and operations, auditors, rankings, related industry information and historical financials.

Lexis Nexis Academic Full-Text

The world's largest full-text, online database.  Emphasis is on current news and legal, business, and medical information.
 

Marketline Full-Text                                                                              

Use to locate company, industry, and country profiles.  Contains business description, history, major products and services, locations and subsidiaries, top competitors for 10,000 U.S. and international public and private companies; includes SWOT analyses for the top 1000 companies.

Morningstar Investment Research Center
Morningstar Investment Research Center offers academic libraries a real-time turnkey solution for investment research. Patrons have access to many popular premium features including research and independent opinions on thousands of mutual funds, stocks, and exchange-traded funds. Institutions nationwide use Investment Research Center, which Morningstar specifically designed to fit the needs of library patrons and reference librarians.

Reference USA - Please click 'Reference USA' in the next page.

Regional Business News (EBSCO)  Full-Text

Comprehensive full text for regional business publications, including titles from Crain Communications. 1984 - present

Wall Street Journal (Proquest)  Full-Text

Eastern edition, updated daily. 1984 - present.

 Education

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)  Full-Text

Multi-disciplinary database that provides peer-reviewed coverage on the arts, computer sciences, education, engineering, ethnic studies, humanities, language and linguistics, literature, medical sciences, and social sciences.

Education Research Complete  Full-Text

A bibliographic and full-text database covering scholarly research relating to all areas of education. This database also includes full text for 133 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers. Links directly to all EBSCOHost databases. Access to peer reviewed articles.

Professional Development Collection

The most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world. It provides a highly specialized collection of 520 education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles and more than 200 educational reports.

ProQuest Education Journals
Provides full text peer reviewed literature on primary, secondary, higher education, special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.

Teacher Reference Center

Provides indexing and abstracts for over 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional educators.

PsycINFO (EBSCO) Full-Text

PsycINFO, produced by the American Psychological Association, is the ideal resource for over a century of information on psychology and its related disciplines. It contains citations and abstracts from over 1300 journals, and also indexes dissertations, chapters, reports and books. Coverage extends from 1887 to the present.

 General Reference

Biographies Plus Illustrated (HWWilson)  Full-Text 
Contains more than 95,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 26,000 photographs of the subjects.

Biography Collection Complete  Full-Text

Offers a comprehensive collection of biographies supporting the arts, business, entertainment, gender studies, government & politics, history, literature, multicultural studies, music, science, sports, and many other areas.

Book Index with Reviews  Full-Text

Includes access to over 4 million book titles, close to 700,000 music and DVD/video titles, over 650,000 Tables of Content, and over 800,000 Full-Text Searchable Reviews, which are updated constantly.

Choice Reviews  Full-Text 

This site contains the entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988. The online version of Choice allows faculty and librarians to create lists in their selection fields and read the reviews online.

CQ Researcher Full-Text
CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues; social, economic, political, and environmental. Each report is divided into specific sections to guide research. The researcher can go directly to the section they need or can read the entire report on a single topic.

Credo Reference
Credo is an online reference library providing access to 500 quality reference titles on every major subject from 60 publishers. Credo’s collection contains dictionaries, bilinguals, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online  Full-Text

Online version of the print encyclopedia.  Also includes the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, World Atlas, World Data Analyst, Notable Quotations, Gateway to the Classics, and multimedia.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia  Full-Text

A multidisciplinary encyclopedia that offers more than 25,000 articles on a wide variety of topics. Content is updated annually. This resource is best used in combination with Encyclopedia Britannica Online, an academic based encyclopedia. If the link does not work, go to 'EBSCOHost' and select ' Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia’.
 

Opposing Viewpoints (Gale Group) Full-Text

A premier full-text resource covering current and controversial social issues. It provides access to pro and con viewpoint articles, reference materials, magazines, newspapers, primary sources, statistics, and multimedia on various issues, from Terrorism to Stem Cell Research.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Full-Text

55,000 biographies describing the lives of people who shaped the history of the British Isles.  Replaces and expands upon the Victorian Dictionary of National Biography.

Oxford English Dictionary
It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million English words, both present and past. In this sense, it is a historical dictionary, in which the various groupings of senses are dealt with in chronological order according to the usage of words through quotation evidence. Therefore, the entry structure is very different from that of a dictionary of current English, in which only present-day senses are covered, and in which the most common meanings or senses are described first.

Points of View Reference Center

Gain access to scholarly articles, popular articles, TV and News transcripts, and point-of-view opinions on a variety of topics.  Useful for debates and opinion papers. This resource is best used in combiation with Opposing Viewpoints.

Reference USA - Please click 'Reference USA' in the next page.

Detailed information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses, 210 million U.S. residents, 855,000 U.S. health care providers, 1.5 million Canadian businesses, and 12 million Canadian households.  Information compiled from public sources.

Topic Search  Full-Text

Articles from newspapers, periodicals, opinion polls, and government publications compiled to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries, and other popular classroom topics.

Ulrich's Periodical Directory Online
Authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types: scholarly journals, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, ‘zines etc.

Worldcat - OCLC Online Union Catalog

Search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.

 Health Sciences

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)  Full-Text 

Multi-disciplinary database that provides peer-reviewed coverage on the arts, computer sciences, education, engineering, ethnic studies, humanities, language and linguistics, literature, medical sciences, and social sciences.

AccessScience  Full-Text 

Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. This database includes current news, biographies of scientists and inventors, study guides, scientific tables, and links to related Web sites.

Althealth Watch (EBSCO)  Full-Text 

Focuses on the holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Access to peer-reviewed and professional journals, reports, proceedings, association and consumer newsletters.

Cinahl with Full Text (EBSCO)  Full-Text 

With full-text coverage dating back to 1981, this database is a definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature. Access to peer reviewed articles.

Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography  Full-Text

This comprehensive e-Book includes the complete text of the 18-volume original, plus the New Dictionary of Scientific Biography.

Health and Wellness Resource Center  Full-Text

Provides up-to-date reference material. Access peer reviewed articles and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. It includes the respected Gale’s Encyclopedia of Medicine and HealthReferenceCenter.

Health Source: Nursing Academic Edition (EBSCO)  Full-Text

Provides access to peer reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

Health Reference Center (GALE)  Full-Text

Indexes publications in the health sciences and includes full-text dictionaries, textbooks, and pamphlets. It offers advanced searching, limiting to only general, peer reviewed, or professional literature.

Hubmed  Full-Text

Alternative search interface to the PubMed database of biomedical literature. Users can create clusters of related articles, export citation data in multiple formats, and receive daily updates of publications in their areas of interest.

Lexis Nexis Academic Full-Text

The world's largest full-text, online database.  Emphasis is on current news and legal, business, and medical information.

Magill’s Medical and Cancer Guide  Full-Text

Electronic version of the popular five-volume reference source.  Helps bridge the gap between medical encyclopedias for professionals and popular self-help guides.

Medline  Full-Text

National Library of Medicine’s bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.  Some full text.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection (EBSCO) Full-Text

Full text articles from nearly 400 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.

Proquest Nursing Journals  Full-Text

Reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, etc.  Over 650 titles in full-text, plus more than 11,000 full text dissertations in nursing and related fields.  1986 - present.

Pubmed  Full-Text
A free service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles.   1950 - present.

ScienceDirect (Elsevier) Please contact Reference Librarian if you cannot download articles.

Journal articles (from over 2,500 titles), eBooks, reference works, and handbooks in the areas of science, technology and medicine.

Science Full Text  Full-Text

Articles from 360 journals (some peer-reviewed) plus graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations that convey an abundance of scientific information.

Science Reference Center  Full-Text

Articles from  science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals.  Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, technology and wildlife.

Wiley Interscience   Full-Text

Provides access to article citations from more than 1400 journals in addition to some Full-Text in a variety of disciplines in the life, physical and social sciences, as owned perpetually by spc librariaes though Vale.

Interdisciplinary

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)    Full-Text

Multi-disciplinary database that provides peer-reviewed coverage on the arts, computer sciences, education, engineering, ethnic studies, humanities, language and linguistics, literature, medical sciences, and social sciences.

EBSCOHost  Full-Text 

Choose between seraching different EBSCOhost interfaces or all EBSCOhost research databases simultaneously.

Lexis Nexis Academic  Full-Text

The world's largest full-text, online database.  Emphasis is on current news and legal, business, and medical information.

Language & Literature

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry is an authoritative reference for anthologized poetry, with over 450,000 citations. It provides over 250,000 full text poems, 1,000 poem commentaries, 600 glossary terms, approximately 500 poet biographies, and full-text of 14 essential Columbia University Press titles of poetry history and criticism. The innovative split screen poem comparison lets users contrast poems -- translations, adaptations, parodies -- or any two poems side-by-side. The advanced search engine provides searching beyond the usual author, title, words in poem and subject by also supporting searching by gender, language, nationality, poem form, schools and movements, era, and nationality.

Contemporary Authors (GALE)  Full-Text

Updated monthly, Contemporary Authors allows users to search for an author by name, title of work, nationality, date and place of birth and death, subject/genre, personal and career information, awards and honors, and more.

Gale Literature Resource Center  Full-Text

Provides extensive critical analyses of authors’ works and literary genres. A Literary-Historical Timeline is also included. Access to biographies, work overviews, bibliographies, themes, links to web sites, and full text articles.  

Iter Bibliography

Includes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts, and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).

Literary Reference Center (EBSCO) Full-Text

A broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.  Provides full-text from reference works, books, literary journals as well as plot summaries, biographies, and work overviews.

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)

An index of journal articles, books and dissertations produced by the Modern Language Association. Subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.

NoveList  Full-Text

An electronic readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles.  Contains full-text reviews for adult, young-adult, children’s and easy fiction titles.

Newspapers

Lexis Nexis Academic  Full-Text

The world's largest full-text, online database.  Emphasis is on current news and legal, business, and medical information.

New York Times Full-Text (depending on date needed):
1851 - 2001, via Proquest
1980 - present, via Lexis-Nexis OR Proquest - Banking Information Source

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)  Full-Text

Multi-disciplinary database that provides peer-reviewed coverage on the arts, computer sciences, education, engineering, ethnic studies, humanities, language and linguistics, literature, medical sciences, and social sciences.

AccessScience  Full-Text

Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. This database includes current news, biographies of scientists and inventors, study guides, scientific tables, and links to related Web sites.

Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography  Full-Text

This comprehensive e-Book includes the complete text of the 18-volume original, plus the New Dictionary of Scientific Biography.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract

Indexes more than 600 periodicals in the areas of  librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management.

Mathscinet 

Coverage of the world's mathematical literature including reviews of math articles, conference proceedings, and books of mathematics research.  1940 - present.

Nature Communications
This online journal is dedicated to publishing high-quality research in all areas of the biological, physical and chemical sciences. The scope of the journal reflects Nature Publishing Group's core strengths in the biological, chemical and physical sciences, In addition, Nature Communications encourages submissions in fields that aren't represented by a dedicated Nature research journal; for example developmental biology, plant sciences, microbiology, ecology and evolution, paleontology and astronomy.

Proceedings of the NAS

Search journals and books published by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Research Institute, and the Institute of Medicine.  Fee for current articles; those older than 6 months are free.

ScienceDirect (Elsevier) Please contact Reference Librarian if you cannot download articles.

Journal articles (from over 2,500 titles), eBooks, reference works, and handbooks in the areas of science, technology and medicine.

Science Full Text  Full-Text

 Articles from 360 journals (some peer-reviewed) plus graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations that convey an abundance of scientific information.

Science Reference Center  Full-Text

Articles from  science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals.  Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, technology and wildlife.

Wiley Interscience   Full-Text

Provides access to article citations from more than 1400 journals in addition to some Full-Text in a variety of disciplines in the life, physical and social sciences, as owned perpetually by spc librariaes though Vale.

 Social Sciences

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)  Full-Text

Multi-disciplinary database that provides peer-reviewed coverage on the arts, computer sciences, education, engineering, ethnic studies, humanities, language and linguistics, literature, medical sciences, and social sciences.

Anthropological Index

Index is based on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at the British Museum.

Communications & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)  Full-Text

This database incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) Access to peer reviewed articles.

Criminal Justice Periodical Index (Proquest)  Full-Text

Provides information on administration, corrections, criminal and family law, drug rehabilitation, industrial security,  law enforcement, and social work. Coverage dates from 1981. Access to peer reviewed articles.

Education Research Complete  Full-Tex

Covers scholarly research relating to all areas of education. This database also includes full text for 133 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers. Links directly to all EBSCOHost databases. Access to peer reviewed articles.

ERIC (EBSCO)   Full-Text

Provides access to bibliographic records of peer reviewed journal articles and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new records added twice weekly. If available, links to full text are included. Within the ERIC Collection, you will find records for books, conference papers, policy papers, and research syntheses.

Ethnic News Watch (ProQuest)
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic, minority, and native presses. 1990-present.

Gender Watch (Proquest)  Full-Text

Supports gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) studies; family studies; gender studies, and women’s studies with a unique interdisciplinary approach. Sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, day care, and the workplace are searchable  via peer reviewed publications. Dates from 1970.

Handbook of Latin American Studies

The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.

Humanities International Complete (EBSCO)  Full-Text

Provides peer-reviewed coverage on the arts, education, ethnic studies, humanities, language and linguistics, literature, philosophy and theology.

Points of View Reference Center

Gain access to scholarly articles, popular articles, TV and News transcripts, and point-of-view opinions on a variety of topics.  Useful for debates and opinion papers.

PsycArticles (EBSCO) Full-Text

Articles from 63 journals in the subject area of psychology; includes some historical content.  1894 - present.

PsycINFO (EBSCO) Full-Text

Bibliographic citations, abstracts, cited references from over 2,000 scholarly publications in the behavioral and social sciences. 1894 - present.

Socindex (EBSCO)  Full-Text

Sociology database containing full text for 708 journals, 780 books and monographs, and over 9,000 conference papers.  1908 - present.

Lexis Nexis Academic  Full-Text

The world's largest full-text, online database.  Emphasis is on current news and legal, business, and medical information.

Project Muse Full-Text
This interdisciplinary database offers full text access to current content from prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. Project Muse contains the most reliable source of titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, journals with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields. It is collection of high quality, peer reviewed journals with continued growth by new titles added selectively annually.