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Online Databases
Alphabetical Listing
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P | Q | R | S |
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A
Database Name
(Database host) |
Description |
Academic
Search
Premier
(EBSCOhost) |
1887-
Daily
10,100
(mostly peer reviewed)
Yes, 50%
This is a multidisciplinary
database, covering virtually
every area of academic study. |
ACS Publications
(American Chemical Society) |
Number of Sources:
39
journals
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes, 100%
This contains 31 journals
published by the American
Chemical Society. |
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Ammons Scientific Publications |
Volumes
2004 - Current:
Perceptual and Motor Skills
Psychological Reports
Pre-2004 archives |
APA PsycNET (PsycARTICLES &
PsycINFO)
(APA PsycNET) |
Coverage:
PsycARTICLES 1998- ; PsycINFO
1872-
Number of Sources:
PsycARTICLES 49; PsycINFO 1,884+
Full Text, Approximate
percentage:
PsycARTICLES Yes, 100%; PsycINFO
No
PsycARTICLES - This contains
full text articles from the
American Psychological
Association and selected
Educational Publishing
Foundation journals.
PsycINFO - Contains
bibliographical references
worldwide from psychological
literature. |
ArticleFirst
(FirstSearch) |
Coverage: 1990-
Update Frequency:
Daily
Number of Records:
14.3 million+
Number of Sources:
12,000+
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: No
This contains information from
journals in science technology,
medicine, social science,
business, the humanities, and
popular culture. |
Arts and Sciences Collection II
& III
(JSTOR) |
Coverage:
depends on journal
Number of Sources:
409
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes, 100%
Archived articles are from
scholarly journals in political
science, history, sociology,
philosophy, mathematics,
business, art, literature,
language, music, religion, etc.
Note: JSTOR
databases are not separated, so
a search may include journals
found in another collection
depending on the search. |
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B
Database Name
(Database host) |
Description |
Biography
(EBSCOhost)
|
Includes more than 461,000
full-text biographies,
covering
over 500,000 people and
including more than 36,000
images.
Souces include
American National Biography,
Congressional Biographies,
Notable American Women,
and many other sources
that are not available in
other databases. |
Botany Collection
(JSTOR)
|
Coverage: 1890-
Number of Sources: 8
journals
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes, 100%
This contains full text archives
of 8 botany journals and 21
ecology journals.
Note: JSTOR
databases are not separated, so
a search may include journals
found in another collection
depending on the search. |
Business Source Premier
(EBSCOhost) |
Coverage: 1926-
Update Frequency:
Daily
Number of Sources:
8,800+
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes
Coverage includes virtually all
subject areas related to
business. |
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C
Database Name
(Database host) |
Description |
CAMIO
(First Search)
|
Full Text (images):
A premier resource of
high-quality art images frmo
around the world contributed and
described by leadingm useums,
all rights-cleared for education
use. |
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
(EBSCOhost)
|
Coverage: 1982-
Update Frequency:
Weekly
Number of Records:
750,000+
Number of Sources:
1,200+
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes
CINAHL covers nursing, allied
health, biomedical, and consumer
health journals. |
CollegeSource
(CollegeSource)
|
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes
This contains over 25,000
cover-to-cover college catalogs
representing 2-year, 4-year,
graduate, professional, and
international schools. |
CountryWatch
(CountryWatch) |
Full Text:
Yes
Provides critical
country-specific intelligence
and data. CountryReviews
has up-to-date series of
publications for each country
including demographic,
political, economic, business,
cultural and environmental
information. CountryWire
gives daily news coverage for
every country and archived
articles. There is also
CountryWatch Data
(compare data of one or more
countries), CountryWatch
Map Gallery,
CountryWatch at School
(curriculum options),
Global Guide
(international hot spots and
global thematic maps), and more.
|
Credo Reference
(Credo Reference) |
Number of Records:
100 Reference Books
This contains a listing of
library material held in most
libraries worldwide.
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes, 100%
This contains 100 reference
books from the world's leading
publishers, from all
disciplines. |
Critical
Insights
Salem Literature
(Salem Press) |
This
comprehensive
series distills
the best of both
classic and
current literary
criticism of the
world’s
most-studied
literature. Each
volume in the
series focuses
on an individual
author’s entire
body of work or
on a single work
of literature.
Edited and
written by some
of academe's
most
distinguished
literary
scholars,
Critical
Insights
provides
authoritative,
indepth
scholarship
suitable for
students and
teachers alike. |
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D
Database
Name
(Database host) |
Description |
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E
Database Name
(Database host) |
Description |
eStatement Studies
(RMA) |
You’ll find everything you’ve
come to rely on in the
two-volume set Financial Ratio
Benchmarks and Industry Default
Probabilities and Cash Flow
Measures... and a whole lot
more! eStatement Studies even
enables you to break out the
data by region. |
Ecology Collection
(JSTOR) |
Coverage: 1867-
Number of Sources: 21
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes, 100%
This contains full text
archives of 21 ecology journals
and 8 botany journals
Note: JSTOR
databases are not separated, so
a search may include journals
found in another collection
depending on the search. |
Education Full-Text
(EBSCOhost) |
Coverage: 1983-
Update Frequency:
Daily
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes, 70%
This contains information
relating to many education
topics from around the world. |
Electronic Collections Online
(FirstSearch)
|
Update Frequency:
Daily
Number of Records:
1.3 million+
Number of Sources:
4,300+
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: No
This collection gives you access
to a growing collection of
journals in a variety of subject
areas. |
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
(Britannica)
|
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes
This is an online version of
Encyclopedia Britannica. |
ERIC (Education)
(EBSCOhost)
|
Number of Sources:
3,200+
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes, most
ED's |
ERIC (Education)
(FirstSearch) |
Coverage: 1966-
Update Frequency:
Monthly
Number of Records: 1
million+
Number of Sources:
1,016
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes, most
ED's
The Educational Resource
Information Center (ERIC)
contains published and
unpublished sources on thousands
of educational topics. All "ERIC
documents (ED's)" are full-text. |
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F
Database Name
(Database host) |
Description |
Funk & Wagnall's New World
Encyclopedia
(EBSCOhost) |
Number of Records:
25,000+
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes
This encyclopedia covers a
variety of subject areas. |
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G
Database Name
(Database host) |
Description |
GPO
(FirstSearch)
|
Coverage: 1976-
Update Frequency:
Monthly
Number of Records:
455,000+
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: No
This consists of records
published by the Government
Publishing Office including
congressional committee reports
and hearings, debates, documents
from executive departments, and
more. |
Great Events from History
Salem Press |
Details the significant events
during the decades of the
twentieth century. Essays
also address important social
and cultural developments in
daily life: major literary
movements, significant
developments in the arts and
motion pictures, trends in world
population and immigration, and
landmark social legislation. |
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H
Database Name
(Database host) |
Description |
Health Source: Consumer Edition
(EBSCOhost) |
Number of Sources:
1,547+
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes, 20%
This provides information on
many health topics including
medical sciences, food sciences,
nutrition, childcare, sports
medicines, and general health. |
Health Source: Nursing/Academic
(EBSCOhost) |
Update Frequency:
Daily
Number of Sources:
1,450+
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes, 70%
This provides scholarly journals
focusing on many medical
disciplines, especially nursing. |
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J
Database Name
(Database host) |
Description |
JSTOR
(JSTOR) |
Coverage:
depends on journal
Number of Sources:
445
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes, 100%
Archived articles are from
scholarly journals in political
science, history, sociology,
philosophy, mathematics,
business, art, literature,
language, music, religion,
botany, ecology, etc. |
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K
Database Name
(Database host) |
Description |
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L
Database Name
(Database host) |
Description |
LATLearnATest
(Learning Express) |
Update Frequency:
Yearly
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes,
Sharpen your skills and improve
your score with online practice
tests, instant scoring,
personalized evaluations, and
self-paced courses. Examples of
tests; GRE, Praxis, NCLEX, GMAT,
Law Enforcement. |
LexisNexis Academic
(LexisNexis) |
Update Frequency:
Daily
Full Text: Yes,
90%
Full-text documents from over
5,900 news, business, legal,
medical, and reference
publications |
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M
Database Name
(Database host) |
Description |
MasterFILE Premier
(EBSCOhost) |
Coverage: 1975-
Update Frequency:
Daily
Number of Sources:
1,100+
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes, 45%
This is designed specifically
for public libraries and is a
multidisciplinary database,
which includes reference
sources, biographies, primary
source documents, and images. |
MEDLINE with Full-Text
(Medicine)
(EBSCOhost) |
Coverage: 1965-
Update Frequency:
Daily
Number of Records: 12
million+
Number of Sources:
9,584+
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Unknown
MEDLINE with Full Text is the
world's most comprehensive
source of full text for medical
journals, providing full text
for more than 1,240 journals
indexed in MEDLINE. Of those,
more than 1,220 have
cover-to-cover indexing in
MEDLINE. |
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N
Database Name
(Database host) |
Description |
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Newsbank |
Supports all academic
disciplines
Provides
unique primary sources not found
in other resources
Offers complete electronic
editions of thousands of
authoritative U.S. and global
news sources
Includes thousands of broadcast
transcripts, newswires, video
clips, and news blogs
Gives
over 219 million current and
archived articles— growing daily |
National Newspaper Abstracts
(ProQuest) |
Update Frequency:
Daily
Number of Sources:
215+
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes, 100%
This provides full text for over
180 regional US newspapers,
international newspapers, news
wires, newspaper columns and
other sources. |
NoodleTools
(NoodleTools) |
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: NA
Generate, edit, and publish an
MLA Works Cited list or APA
References list that complies
with the rules of the current
MLA Handbook and APA Publication
Manual. NoodleBib takes care of
punctuation, alphabetization and
formatting, producing a polished
source list for import into
Word. |
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P
Database Name
(Database host) |
Description |
PapersFirst
(FirstSearch) |
Coverage: 1993-
Update Frequency:
Biweekly
Number of Records:
4.4 million+
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: No
This database covers every
congress, symposium, exposition,
workshop, and meeting added to
the British Library Document
Supply Centre's vast
proceedings. |
Primary Search (For Elementary
Students)
(EBSCOhost) |
Coverage: 1990-
Update Frequency:
Daily
Number of Sources:
260+
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes, 60%
This provides information from
popular magazines for elementary
school research. |
ProceedingsFirst (Conference
Proceedings)
(FirstSearch) |
Coverage: 1993-
Update Frequency:
Biweekly
Number of Records:
135,000+
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: No
This provides tables of contents
of papers presented at
conferences worldwide. |
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ProQuest Central |
An
aggregated, full-text database
offering resources in popular
areas of business and health
care to core journals in social
sciences and humanities, and the
largest aggregation of current,
full-text newspapers across the
globe.
This multidisciplinary
service covers more than 160 subjects.
For more details see this
ProQuest brochure. |
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R
Database Name
(Database host) |
Description |
Regional Business News
(EBSCOhost) |
Update Frequency:
Daily
Number of Records: 75
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes
This database contains journals,
newspapers, and news wires from
all metropolitan and rural areas
within the United States. |
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T
Database Name
(Database host) |
Description |
Topic Search (Current Events)
(EBSCOhost) |
Number of Records:
64,000+
Number of Sources:
3,000+
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes, 50%
This current events database
allows researchers to explore
social, political, economic,
scientific, and other popular
topics. |
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V
Database Name
(Database host) |
Description |
Vocational and Career Collection
(EBSCOhost) |
Coverage:
Current
Number of Sources:
400
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes
This database includes full text
coverage for 400 trade and
industry-related periodicals. |
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W
Database Name
(Database host) |
Description |
Wiley
Online Library
(Wiley) |
One of the most comprehensive database
in the library that provides
access to full-text journals
across a wide range of subject
areas, including
Business,
Economics, Finance and
Accounting,
Chemistry,
Earth and
Environmental Science,
Education,
Engineering,
Humanities
and Social Sciences,
Information
Science and Computing,
Law and
Criminology,
Life,
Sciences,
Mathematics
and Statistics,
Medical,
Veterinary and Health Sciences,
Physics and
Astronomy,
Polymers,
and Materials Science,
Psychology. |
WorldAlmanacs
(FirstSearch) |
Coverage:
Current
Update Frequency:
Quarterly
Number of Records:
32,000+
Full Text, Approximate
percentage: Yes, 100%
This provides information on
five almanacs: The World Almanac
and Book of Facts, The World
Almanac of the USA, The World
Almanac of US Politics, The
World Almanac for Kids, and Funk
& Wagnall's New Encyclopedia. |
WorldCat (Library Catalogs)
(FirstSearch)
|
Coverage: 2100
BC
Update Frequency:
Daily
Number of Records: 1
billion+
This contains a listing of
library materials held in most
libraries worldwide. |
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