Databases A-Z
Information on the use of each database is available at each site.
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There are subject guides (LIBguides) available to help with database decisions.
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| A – Z Maps Online | AtoZMapsOnline.com is the worlds largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. | |
| Academic OneFile |
A multidisciplinary database that indexes more than 12,000 journals and magazines with full text included for more than 5,000 titles. It includes scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, and health sciences. A good place to start on any research topic used in conjunction with Academic Search Premier. |
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| Academic Search Elite | Academic institutions worldwide depend on this database as their core resource of scholarly information. Academic Search Elite contains full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,550 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study. | |
| Academic Search Premier | Indexes nearly 7300 journals in the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies; full text from 4,000. | |
| ACS Web Editions | Full text access to 30 plus journals published by the American Chemical Society; includes both tables of contents and keyword searching. |
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| ARTstor | A non-commercial, educational collection of more than 300,000 digitalimages and associated cataloging data designed for teaching and research in art history, the humanities, and other disciplines. The collection will expand to 500,000 images. | |
| AltPressIndex | Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change | |
| AltPressIndexArchive | Index of journals (1969-1990) covering cultural, economic, political & social change | |
| Art Full Text | Indexes more than 450 journals and magazines in the field of art going back to 1983; includes full text from around 120 titles going back to 1996; indexes 174 peer reviewed titles. |
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| ArticleFirst | OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals | |
| Avery Index | Index to Architectural Periodicals | |
| BioDigest | Life-science information written in a non-technical style | |
| Business & Company Resource Center |
“A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.” It indexes more than 4,900 items with nearly 3,600 in full text. |
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| Business Source Premier | Provides full text for more than 8,300 business sources, including more than 1,100 scholarly business publications covering all areas of business; includes country economic reports and profiles for more than 10,000 of the world’s largest companies | |
| Campus Research formerly West Law | A full text database of news, business, and legal information including newspapers, magazines, trade journals, newswires, and broadcast transcripts. It also includes comprehensive full text access to federal and state legal resources from Westlaw. | |
| Checkpoint | A comprehensive full-text tax research system. | |
| Communication & Mass Media Complete | An extensive database including full text articles from around 200 journals along with other materials. | |
| Countrywatch.com |
Political and economic information on the world’s 191 countries with full text news reports from ten international news organizations. |
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| Custom Newspapers | A full text newspaper databases drawing material from more than 1,200 national and international newspapers. | |
| CWI | Contemporary Women’s Issues (health and human rights) | |
| Directory of Open Access Journals | Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals; currently includes more than 2,000 journal titles.(Includes BioMed Central and Public Library of Science) | |
| Dissertations – from WorldCat | More than 5 million records for dissertations and theses from WorldCat. | |
| Ebooks | Contains around 150,000 electronic books, including U.S. government publications, public domain books published prior to 1923, and e-books from commercial services that Drury may or may not subscribe to. | |
| Electronic Journal Service- from EBSCO. | Access to full text articles from 136 journals that the Olin Library subscribes to in print. | |
| ECO | Access to the tables of contents of more than 4,600 journals in a broad range of disciplines. |
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| EconLit | Journals, books, and working papers on economics | |
| Education Full Text | Indexes more than 450 journals in the field of education going back to 1983; includes full text from more than 200 titles going back to 1996. |
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| eHRAF World Cultures | Human Relations Area Files: a cross-cultural database containing more than 350,000 pages of comparative data on human cultures from all over the world. | |
| ERIC | Journal articles and reports on education topics |
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| FirstSearch | A listing of all FirstSearch databases on a single menu. | |
| Gale Discovering Collection | A source of valuable full text reference information in five subject areas: history, literature, biography, science, and social studies; many entries include bibliographies for further research. | |
| General OneFIle |
A multidisciplinary database of more popular literature particularly strong in magazines, newspapers, newswires, and reference works. It indexes more than 12,000 titles and includes full text for more than 7,300 titles. |
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| Google Scholar | A Google database focusing specifically on scholarly literature, including "peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research." A useful supplement to the library’s specialized bibliographic databases. | |
| GreenFILE | An environmental database that contains more than 300,000 bibliographic records going back 35 years including scholarly journals, magazines, and other formats. Aims to be "a practical tool for everyday information and a resource for academic study and classroom activities." Indexes more than 600 titles | |
| Grove Music Online | The full text of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. | |
| Health & Wellness Resource Center |
A good source for consumer medical information. It indexes around 1,200 titles with nearly 900 in full text, including journals, reference materials, and pamphlets. It includes an Alternative Health Module. |
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| Health Reference Center Academic |
A more scholarly index to health-related literature. Indexes nursing, allied health, and medical journals along with magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, and other full text resources. Indexes more than 2200 titles with more than 1200 in full text. |
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| Hoover’s | A comprehensive database with information on more than 43,000 companies, 600 industries, 500,000 executives, and current business news from 3,000 sources. | |
| In the First Person | An index to more than 2,500 collections of letters, diaries, oral histories, and personal narratives from more than 9,000 individuals. | |
| Informe (Spanish) |
A unique Spanish-language indexing more than 450 popular Spanish-language magazines. |
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| InfoTrac Junior Edition |
A full text database aimed at middle school or junior high students. Includes some 330 magazine, newspaper, and reference titles. It includes lexiles. |
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| InfoTrac Kids InfoBits |
A database developed specifically for kindergarten through fifth grade. It permits searching my “Easy” and “More Difficult” reading levels. |
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| InfoTrac Student Edition |
A full text database aimed at high school students. It includes around 1100 magazine, newspaper, reference and podcast titles. |
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| Ingenta | A table-of-contents service for more than 25,000 journals going as far back as 1988; can personally notify of latest articles according to user-selected profiles. | |
| JSTOR | Full text access to complete runs of more than 670 journals. | |
| Kids Search | A full text database for K-6 students that searches Primary Search, Newspaper Search, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, and EBSCO Animals. Links to a separate database of teacher resources. | |
| Learning Express Library | A comprehensive, interactive platform of academic and licensing practice tests, including SAT, ACT, GRE, LSAT, Advanced Placement, civil service, military, real estate, law enforcement, citizenship, TOEFL, ESL, basic skills for elementary, middle and high school skills improvement, and much more. Just register and log in. | |
| Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts | Indexes more than 600 journals plus books, research reports, and proceedings in library and information science. Coverage extends to the mid-60s. | |
| MEDLINE-from NLM | The NLM’s premier bibliographic database containing over 11 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. | |
| MEDLINE-from OCLC | All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing | |
| MLA -Modern Languages Association | More than 1.7 million bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations from 1926 to the present in academic disciplines such as language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts. | |
| Naxos Music Library | A vast collection of streaming music, mostly classical, with a steadily expanding collection of more than 320,000 tracks of music. Naxos relies on cookies – if you need help click here. | |
| netLibrary | A collection of more than 14,000 electronic books in all subject area. |
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| NewsBank | Provides full text access to several important newspapers, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Kansas City Star. |
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| NCJRS | The NCJRS Abstracts Database provides citations and summaries to more than 180,000 criminal justice publications. | |
| OED Online | The Oxford English Dictionary online. Researchers can look for definitions of individual words or search the entire text of the dictionary for quotations, phrases, or occurrences of terms. | |
| PapersFirst | OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide | |
| Philosopher’s Index | An index to the contents of more than 550 philosophy journals since 1940. | |
| Proceedings | An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings | |
| Project Muse | Full text access to 116 journals in a range of disciplines. The collection can be searched using keywords or browsed by individual titles. | |
| PsycARTICLES | Full text access to 59 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations going back to 1894. | |
| PsycINFO | Indexes journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology and related fields going back to 1887. | |
| SciFinder Scholar | The comprehensive Chemical Abstracts and Medline databases that include more than 22 million citations from more than 9,000 scientific journals; includes much research in biology and life sciences, medical sciences, physics, geology, material sciences and engineering. To register to use this database and log into it, go the the LibGuide for Chemistry and click on the link Journal Articles. | |
| Small Business Resource Center |
“Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.” It indexes nearly 300 resource in full text. |
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| SocINDEX with Full Text | A comprehensive sociology and criminology database with full or selective coverage of some 4,000 journals, including full text from more than 360 journals along with books, monographs, and conference papers; also includes more than 10,000 author profiles. | |
| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | A dynamic reference work written and maintained by scholars at universities around the world selected for their expertise. | |
| Student Research Center | A full text database for middle school and high school students that searches Health Source – Consumer Edition; Newspaper Source; MAS Ultra – School Edition; and Columbia Encyclopedia. Assigns lexiles to all readings. Links to a separate database of teacher resources. | |
| Teacher Reference Center | Designed for professional educators, this database indexes more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines. | |
| U.S. Government Search | A Google service that searches all federal, state, and local government Web sites in the U.S. | |
| Wall Street Journal | Electronic version of the foremost business newspaper in the U.S. going back to 1984. | |
| Westlaw Campus | See Campus Research | |
| WorldCat | The world’s largest database of book and other literature, containing more than 60 million records for books, journals, newspapers, videos, music, scores, maps, Web resources, and other formats. | |
| WorldCat.org | A public version of the complete WorldCat database using a simplified search engine; includes links to libraries that own the books, videos, music, scores, maps, and other formats that it indexes. |
