Recommended Databases
(to see information about a particular database, refer to the complete database list below)
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| General |
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Academic Search Premier · New York Times · WorldCat · Facts on File Online |
| Bible & Religion |
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ATLAReligion · Restoration Serials Index · Christian Periodical Index · Old Testament Abstracts · New Testament Abstracts |
| Business |
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ABI/INFORM · Business Source Elite · Value Line · Regional Business News · LexisNexis Academic Universe · Hoover's Company Records |
| Communication |
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ComDisDome · PsycINFO · MEDLINE · ERIC (EBSCO access) · Academic Search Premier |
| Computer Science |
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Computer Science Index · FAITS |
| Education |
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ERIC (EBSCO access) · ERIC (FirstSearch access) · Children's Literature Comprehensive Database · Professional Development Collection · Education Research Complete |
| Humanities |
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Humanities Abstracts · MLA · America: History and Life · Historical Abstracts · Literary Index |
| Kinesiology |
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Physical Education Index · MEDLINE |
| Nursing and Medical |
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CINAHL · MEDLINE · Health Source - Consumer Edition · Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition · Clinical Pharmacology |
| Psychology and Behavioral Sciences |
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PsycINFO · Social Sciences Abstracts |
| Science |
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American Chemical Society Web Editions · Biological and Agricultural Abstracts · BioOne Abstracts and Indexing · Science Direct |
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Complete Alphabetical List of Databases
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| ABI/INFORM |
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"covers scholarly research, businesses traditions and trends, corporate strategies, management techniques, and competitive and product information" |
| Academic Search Premier |
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"provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost." |
| America: History and Life |
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"Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present" |
| American Chemical Society Web Editions |
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Full-text and limited back files for twenty-nine chemistry journals published by the American Chemical Society. Access is available on-campus only. |
| American Religion Data Archive |
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"includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations)" |
| Arkansas Legal Index (ARLI) |
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indexing of 7 Arkansas legal journals--currently includes over 6,700 article citations |
| ArticleFirst |
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An OCLC index of articles from the contents page of nearly 12,500 journals |
| ATLAReligion (with ATLASerials) |
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"covers Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. This database is an essential resource for theology students and researchers seeking information pertaining to social sciences, history and humanities. With coverage dating as far back as 1949, this database contains over one million bibliographic records." |
| Biological and Agricultural Index |
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"provides access to more than 490,000 citations from agricultural and biological literature. This database indexes articles, reports of meetings, review articles, special supplements, and book reviews, dating 1983 to the present." |
| BioOne Abstracts and Indexing |
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"an indexed and fully-searchable collection of abstracts that link to the full-text articles available from the BioOne organization." More than 16,000 records dating back to 1998. If you know which article you need, access the full-text of the database's journals directly by going to BioOne. |
| Business Source Elite |
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provides full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 450 peer-reviewed business publications. Dates back to 1985. |
| Children's Literature Comprehensive Database |
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"offers 900,000 MARC records and more than 150,000 reviews of children's books-all full text searchable from 27 sources." Click on "Registered Users" to access. |
| Christian Periodical Index |
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"Beginning in 1956 with coverage of 20 titles, CPI currently indexes over 100 selected publications from the broad spectrum of knowledge including science, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, history, sociology, nursing, and education. Coverage is representative of the major doctrinal positions within evangelical Christianity." |
| CINAHL (with Full Text) |
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"CINAHL provides indexing for over 2,737 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. Offer[s] complete coverage of Englsih-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association..."
See Also: Pre-CINAHL - "A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to researchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing."
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| CINAHL Select |
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"a valuable resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database contains more than 170 full text journals with PDF coverage back as far as 1973 including 120 peer-reviewed publications." |
| ClasePeriodica |
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"Indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. The databases provides citations for documents written in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages, published in 2,600 scholarly journals and edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues."
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| Clinical Pharmacology |
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"provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs." |
| ComDisDome |
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"the premier information service developed for educators, clinicians, researchers, and students in the fields of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology |
| Computer Science Index |
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"covers computer science at the highest scholarly and technical levels. Subjects areas include artificial intelligence, expert systems, system design, data structures, computer theory, computer systems and architecture, software engineering, human-computer interaction, new technologies, social and professional context, and much more." |
| Country Watch |
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up-to-date information on all the countries of the world. |
| Directory of Open Access Journals |
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offers 598 "full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals" |
| Dissertation Abstracts |
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Dissertations and theses from institutions in the North America and Europe (Access requires consultation with a librarian.) |
EBSCO Databases
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See the complete list of EBSCO databases that are available for searching. The databases cover many subject areas, including nursing, the humanities, and psychology. |
| Education Research Complete |
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"...offers the world's largest and most complete collection of full text education journals. It is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing...areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues." |
| eMedicine |
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"comprises the largest and most current Clinical Knowledge Base available to physicians and other healthcare professionals" |
| ERIC (EBSCO access) |
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"Journal articles and reports in education"
The Educator's Reference Desk - "access AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses"
ERIC - "The new ERIC online system, released September 2004, provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966"
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| ERIC (FirstSearch access) |
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| FAITS |
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"...help[s] both providers and end users understand the implications surrounding the frequent shifts and breakthroughs in the rapidly-converging world of computing, data networking, and telecommunications. Faulkner covers the broad spectrum of IT and converging communications issues in its subscription-based information services.
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| Facts on File Online |
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"brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest and a live newsfeed from Reuters® to answer questions about events, people, issues, facts, and figures from 1940 to the present" |
| FirstSearch |
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a collection of databases indexing a wide variety of materials representing all disciplines:
Basic Collection
Special Collection (Access requires consultation with a librarian.)
Periodical Titles in OCLC FirstSearch
**Please note that each of the OCLC FirstSearch databases are listed separately. |
| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia |
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Contains more than 25,000 records covering an array of topics, and includes various images and brief biographies. |
| Genamics JournalSeek |
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"the largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet. The database presently contains 60458 titles." |
| Gospel Advocate Obituary Index |
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An index of obituaries published in the Gospel Advocate between the years of 1855 and 1994 |
| GPO |
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U.S. government publications |
| Guide to Social Science and Religion in Periodical Literature |
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indexes article citations in the fields of social science and religion |
| Health Source - Consumer Edition |
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"search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health" |
| Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition |
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"provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines" |
| Historical Abstracts |
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"Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada)" |
| Hoover's Company Records |
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"Find up to date proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives...widely recognized as a leading provider of corporate data, delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more." |
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Human Nutrition (Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews: Series A)
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indexes articles in the field of nutrition and covering topics such as food composition and nutritive value, human health and nutrition, disease and therapeutic nutrition, and physiology and biochemistry of nutritents. The database covers the last ten years of articles--older articles may be found in the print index. |
| Humanities Abstracts |
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"cites articles from over 500 periodicals, including scholarly journals, in the diverse subject area of the humanities. Indexing dates back to 1984, and abstracts start in 1994." |
| ingenta |
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"supplies access to 6,000+ full-text online publications and 27,000+ publications." Note: Many articles are only available with a pay-per-view fee. |
| Legal Collection |
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"full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals" |
| LexisNexis Academic Universe |
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"provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options" |
| Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts |
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... indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. |
| Literary Index |
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"a master index to the major literature series published by The Gale Group" |
| MasterFILE Premier |
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"provides full text for nearly 1,950 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines...[and] features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, nearly 500 full text reference books...; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,135 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 188,323 photos, maps and flags." |
| MDConsult |
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"MD Consult operates a family of electronic information resources that meet the clinical content needs of physicians and other health care professionals" |
| MEDLINE |
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All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing |
| Micromedex Healthcare Series |
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"A wide range of clinical databases, including unbiased, referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine." |
| MLA International Bibliography |
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Database "...of journal articles, books and dissertations, dating back to 1963. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, and dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included." |
| MLA (Directory of Periodicals) |
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Provides information about the journals and series included in the MLA International Bibliography. |
| Newspaper Source |
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"selected full text for over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers" |
| New Testament Abstracts |
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"a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. The database contains more than 33,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 12,600 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts. Article coverage in the database dates back to 1985" |
| New York Times |
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"Full-text coverage of the US newspaper of record. Offers superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts." Coverage: 1999-current |
| Human Nutrition (Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews: Series A) |
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indexes articles in the field of nutrition and covering topics such as food composition and nutritive value, human health and nutrition, disease and therapeutic nutrition, and physiology and biochemistry of nutritents. The database covers the last ten years of articles--older articles may be found in the print index. |
| Old Testament Abstracts |
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"features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more." |
| PapersFirst |
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An index of papers presented at conferences worldwide |
| Periodical Titles in OCLC FirstSearch |
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Please note that each of the OCLC FirstSearch databases is listed separately. |
| Physical Education Index |
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An index of more than 200,000 article citations and abstracts dating back to 1970 and covering topics such as health, coaching, dance, physical therapy, recreation, and much more. |
| Proceedings |
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An index of worldwide conference proceedings |
| Professional Development Collection |
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"provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, including more than 300 peer-reviewed titles" in the field of education |
| PsycINFO |
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"nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year." |
| PubMedCentral |
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the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature. |
| Regional Business News |
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"comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications" |
| Restoraton Serials Index |
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an index to articles in 72 journals, magazines and other periodicals related to the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement. The index lists author, title, publication, volume, issue, date and up to four related subjects. |
| Science Direct |
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"Users can access more than 7 million full-text articles and more than 75 million abstract records, from all fields of science" |
| Social Sciences Abstracts |
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"contains indexing for more than 500 publications covering a wide range of interdisciplinary fields such as addiction studies, anthropology, corrections, economics, gender studies, gerontology, minority studies, political sciences, psychology, sociology. Indexing coverage dates back to 1983, and abstracts date back to 1994." |
| Topic Search |
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"explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. Contains full text for over 64,000 articles from more than 3,000 diverse sources, including more than 1,500 full text periodicals." |
| Value Line |
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Database designed "to help investors get the most accurate and independently created research information available, in any format they choose, and teach them how to use it to meet their financial objectives." |
| Wall Street Journal |
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To access, choose Wall Street Journal from the title list. Full text is available from 1984 - current. |
| WorldAlmanac |
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"Funk and Wagnalls new encyclopedia and 4 World Almanacs" |
| WorldCat |
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"OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide" |
