Databases and Electronic Resources

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ABI-Inform

Available through Proquest.
Covers more than 2,500 worldwide business journals, many with full-text articles.

Academic Search

Available through Lexis-Nexis.
Extensive indexing to 3,000+ legal, business, news and medical resources, with thousands of full-text articles.

Academic Search Complete

Available from Ebsco.
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals.
Indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and nearly 10,000 publications including monographs, reports and conference proceedings.

ACLS Humanities E-book

This electronic resource includes approximately 2800 full-text books in the humanities selected by scholars for their continuing importance for research and teaching.
Areas include: African, American, Asian, Latin American, Canadian, Caribbean, European (Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern), Middle Eastern, World/Comparative, Byzantine/Mediterranean and Australasian/Oceanian history, plus women's history, Jewish studies, history of the Native Peoples of the Americas and of Science and Technology. Plus archaeology, art & architectural history, dance & performance history, film & media studies, folklore, religion, musicology, and political science.

Agricola - National Agricultural Library

National Agricultural Library Catalog and journal literature database.
Agriculture and allied disciplines, including nutrition and environmental sciences.

Alt Health Watch

Available from Ebsco.
Provides perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
Offers full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports.

Alternative Press Index

Available through FirstSearch.
Indexes journals dealing with cultural, economic, political and social change.

American Chemical Society Journals Online

Full-text access to 33 core journals in chemistry.
Coverage from 1996 to the present.

Anatomy TV

Available through Primal Pictures
The world's most detailed 3D model of human anatomy online.

AP Images

Available through FirstSearch.
Indexes 1,300 leading arts and humanities journals.

Arts and Humanities Search

Available through FirstSearch.
Indexes 1,300 leading arts and humanities journals.

ARTstor

Contains 550,000 art images for education and scholarship
Includes the tools to view, present, and manage images
Requires Java, Flash Player, pop-up blocking removed, Cookies enabled
Create personal login to use classroom features

ARTstor (slower response)

Contains 550,000 art images for education and scholarship
Includes the tools to view, present, and manage images
Requires Java, Flash Player, pop-up blocking removed, Cookies enabled
Create personal login to use classroom features

Associates Programs Source

Available from Ebsco.
Primary focus is on disciplines of study within associate degrees and certification programs.

Blackwell Synergy Journals

A collection of over 1 million full text articles in 850 journals
Covers the disciplines of business, health sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, life and physical sciences.

Books in Print with Reviews

Available through Bowker.
Nine million titles books currently being published.
Provides publisher, ISBN and price information.
Includes thousands of full-text book reviews.

Business Source Complete

Available through Ebsco.
The world's definitive scholarly business database, providing bibliographic and full text content to 3,100 journals in business, management and finance.
Full-text is available for many of the journals indexed.

CAIRSS (Institute for Music Research)

Available from the Institute of Music Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
An index to the literature of music psychology, music therapy, music medicine and music education.

Cambridge Journals Online

Full-text access to more than 200 journals from Cambridge University Press.

Child Care and Early Education

Available through Research Connections.
Provides access to more than 9,000 research reports on child care and early education.

CIA Factbook

Available from Ebscohost.
Indexing more than 3,000 nursing and allied health journals, going back to 1981.
Includes Pre-CINAHL.

CIAO

From Columbia University Press.
Comprehensive database on the theory and resources of international affairs, with full-text for 50 journals.
Includes Pre-CINAHL.

CINAHL

Available from Ebscohost.
Indexing more than 3,000 nursing and allied health journals, going back to 1981.
Includes Pre-CINAHL.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text

Available from Ebscohost.
Indexing more than 3,000 nursing and allied health journals, with full text for 600+ titles.
Includes Pre-CINAHL.

Clase and Periodica (ClasePeriodica)

Available through FirstSearch.
Provides indexing to 2,600 scholarly Latin American journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French or English

Cochrane Library

Available from the Cochrane Collaborative and Wiley Press
A full-text database of systematic reviews and other information on the effects of healthcare.

Communication and Mass Media Complete

Available through Ebsco.
Offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for over 420 journals, and selected coverage of nearly 200 more.
This database includes full text for 301 journals.

Computers and Applied Sciences Complete

Available through Ebsco.
Covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines.
Provides indexing and abstracts for 1,720 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection.
Full text is also available for more than 670 periodicals.

Consumer Health Complete

Available from Ebsco.
Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
Full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health.

Contemporary Authors

Full-text reference database for information on writers active in the last century.

Contemporary Women's Issues

Available through FirstSearch.
Provides full-text access to information on women, from 1992 to the present.

CQ Researcher

Available from Congressional Quarterly.
CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.

CQ Voting and Elections Collection

Available from Congressional Quarterly.
CQ Voting and Elections Collection integrates a wealth of data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material to provide a powerful research and reference tool on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships.

CQ Weekly

Available from Congressional Quarterly.
Expert coverage of the US Congress.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

Provides full-text access to standard reference materials in chemistry and physics.

Credo Reference

Credo Reference provides full text access to 100 major reference books in all subject areas.

Dissertation Abstracts

Available through FirstSearch.
An index to doctoral dissertations from universities in the U.S. and abroad.

DSM Premium

Available through PsychiatryOnline.com.
Online access to the DSM-IV-TR along with the Hanbook of Differential Diagnosis, Casebook, and the Treatment Companion.
Included are 15 reference books and 5 peer-reviewed journals.

ebrary

Available through ebrary.
Offers over 44,000 electronic books from major publishers such as Routledge and Taylor and Francis.

EconLit

Available through Cambridge Scientific.
Indexes and abstracts from more than 400 journals and books in economics.

Economia y Negocios

Available through Ebsco.
An indispensable tool for research conducted in the areas of business and economics.
Search functionality is enhanced through the incorporation of author keywords supplied in Spanish and English.
More than 70,000 records, dating back to the early 1980s, provide coverage for over 300 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States and elsewhere.

Education Research Complete

Available through Ebsco.
Offers the world's largest and most complete collection of full text education journals, relating to all areas of education.
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,820 journals, as well as full text for more than 900 journals.
Also includes full text for more than 71 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.

Encyclopedia of Popular Music

Includes the full-text of the 4^th edition of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music.
Linked to the Grove Music Online.

Environment Complete

Available through Ebsco.
Covers agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
Contains more than 1,772,000 records from more than 1,500 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s as well as more than 100 monographs.
Contains full text for more than 600 journals.

ERIC (Cambridge Scientific)

Available through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.
An index to education journal literature and research reports, from 1966 to the present.
Full-text links to ERIC documents on the ERIC website.

ERIC (Ebscohost)

This version recommended by librarians
Available through Ebscohost.
An index to education journal literature and research reports, from 1966 to the present.

ERIC - Education Resources Information Center

Access to more than 107,000 ERIC documents (ED), from 1993 - date.
Indexing for entire ERIC database
Reading documents requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Factiva

Full-text resource from Dow Jones and Reuters.
Coverage of thousands of publications in business and the news.
Corporate and industry reports.

Facts.com

Complete text of the Facts on File news digest from 1940 to the present.
The Web authority for current events research.

FedWorld

The FedWorld.gov web site is a gateway to government information.
This site is managed by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) as part of its information management mandate.

Find Articles

Access to full-text articles from nearly 300 general interest magazines.
Coverage from 1998 to the present.

FirstSearch

Indexing and abstracting resource, some full-text articles.
A collection of 18 databases in a variety of subject areas.
Includes WorldCat, Dissertation Abstracts, Medline.

Free Medical Journals

Open access to nearly 700 medical journals with full text.

Fuente Academica

Available through Ebsco.
A collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain.
All major subject areas are covered with particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion, and sociology.
Currently offers the full text for more than 450 publications from 18 countries.

GEOBASE

Available through FirstSearch.
An index to the literature of geology, geography and ecology.

Global Road Warrior

Available through World Trade Press.
Covers 175 countries.
Research culture, communication, travel, business, and maps.

Google Scholar

Familiar Google interface but linked to scholarly journal and monographic literature.
Google Scholar is linked to Shenandoah resources though our online catalog and Article Linker.

GPO Access

Available through FirstSearch.
Lists and indexes U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, executive branch documents and judicial materials.

GPO Monthly Catalog

Available through FirstSearch.
Lists and indexes U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, executive branch documents and judicial materials.

Grove Music Online (Included in Oxford Music Online)

Includes 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.
Linked to the Encyclopedia of Popular Music.

HarpWeek: the Civil War and Reconstruction (1857-1877)

Provides indexing to Harper's Weekly, between 1857 and 1877.
Enables users to browse pages from issues of an important 19th-century periodical.

Health Source: Consumer Edition

Available from Ebsco.
Provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines,
Includes searchable full text for more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets and more than 130 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society.
Contains more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish)

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Available from Ebsco.
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, plus abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
Includes Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

Hospitality and Tourism Complete

Available from Ebsco.
Provides scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism.
This collection contains more than 721,000 records, with coverage dating as far back as 1965, with full text for more than 360 publications.

Humanities International Complete

Available from Ebsco.
Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world.
This database includes all data from Humanities International Index (over 2,000 titles and 2 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases.
The database includes full text for more than 670 journals.

Ingenta Connect

A fee-based indexing and document delivery service.
Indexes nearly 18 million articles in 28,000 journals, reports and publications.
Database can be searched free of charge.
Full-text access for about 60 titles subscribed by SU.

IPA Source

IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
Covers more than 4400 texts including 714 aria texts.

Journals@Ovid Full Text

Available through Ovid.
An index to scientific, technical and medical journals accessed through Ovid.
Full-text links to more than 200 journals in nursing, medicine and psychology, including the Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins Total Access Collection.

JSTOR

JSTOR is a full-text archive of more than 500 important scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities.
SU subscribes to Collections I, II, III, IV, VII and Music.

Legal Collection

Available from Ebsco.
A collection of respected, scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies.
Offers full text for more than 250 of the world's best law journals.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Search

Available through Lexis-Nexis.
Extensive indexing of legal, business, news and medical resources.

Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA)

Available from Ebsco.
Indexes about 600 periodical titles in library and information science.

Literature Resource Center

Available through Infotrac.
Full-text resource.
Includes Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twayne's Author Series and Scribner's Writers Series.
Incorporates MLA Bibliography.

MarketLine Business Information Centre

MarketLine is a business information database covering 10,000 companies and 2,000 industries in fifty countries.

Marquis Whoâ??s Who on the Web

Available from Ebsco.
Provides full text for more than 1,750 general periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more.
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,400 titles.
Features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, nearly 500 full text reference books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts; full text from 86,019 biographies, 105,787 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 293,480 photos, maps and flags.

MasterFILE Premier

Available from Ebsco.
Provides full text for more than 1,750 general periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more.
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,400 titles.
Features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, nearly 500 full text reference books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts; full text from 86,019 biographies, 105,787 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 293,480 photos, maps and flags.

MD Consult

MD Consult brings the leading medical resources together into one integrated online service to help physicians efficiently find answers to pressing clinical questions and make better treatment decisions.
The site is designed to meet the exacting needs of clinical practitioners, providing practical and time saving features that let you quickly access the precise information you need.
Includes the complete text of over 50 leading medical reference books. Users can search the entire collection simultaneously to pinpoint the specific information needed. Also, search and compare over 50,000 high-quality images.
Full-Text Journals and Clinics of North America: Full text articles are available through a powerful search engine that includes the complete contents of over 80 journals and Clinics of North America. PDFs are available for many of the journal and Clinics of North America articles.

MedicLatina

Available from Ebsco.
A Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers.
Provides access to full text for nearly 120 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish.

MEDLINE

This version recommended by librarians
Available through Ebscohost.
An index to medical literature from the National Library of Medicine.

MEDLINE

Available through FirstSearch.
An index to medical literature from the National Library of Medicine.

Mergent Horizon

Mergent Horizon provides users with seamless capabilities for finding, filtering and organizing information about companies and industries.
Comprehensive coverage is provided for all companies that are actively traded on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ.

Mergent Online

Mergent Online delivers a comprehensive suite of authoritative financial information.

Micromedex

Micromedex healthcare Series
Includes a wide range of clinical databases, including unbiased, referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine.
Provided free of charge by Thomson Healthcare, to be used exclusively for the education and training of health professionals.

Military and Government Collection

Available from Ebsco.
Offers current news related to all branches of the military.
Provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals, and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

Million Dollar Directory - Selectory

From Dun and Bradstreet
Contains full text of Million Dollar Directory, including 14 million records of virtually all U.S. companies.

MLA International Bibliography

Available through Infotrac.
A comprehensive index to articles and books on the world's languages and literature.

Music Index Online

Indexing and abstracting resource.
Covers more than 640 international music periodicals from 1979 to the present.

Music-In-Print Series

Includes Music-In-Print volumes on Sacred Choral, Classical Vocal, Orchestral, String, Classical Guitar, Woodwind, and Piano Music and more.

National Library of Medicine Gateway

Available to all users.
Available through the National Library of Medicine.
The Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at NLM, including Medline, PubMed and others.

Natural Standard Database

Published by Natural Standard, the authority on integrative medicine.
Provides high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies.
This international multidisciplinary collaboration includes contributors from more than 100 eminent academic institutions.

Naxos Music Library

Virtual recording collection of more than 75,000 items.
Classical, jazz and world music included.
Requires Windows Media Player (free) for PC and Macintosh.

Naxos Music Library - Jazz Collection

Virtual jazz recording collection of more than 15,000 items.
Requires Windows Media Player (free) for PC and Macintosh.

NCJRS - National Criminal Justice Reference Service

Available to all users.
Available through the National Library of Medicine.
The Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at NLM, including Medline, PubMed and others.

Newspaper Source Plus

Available from Ebsco.
Provides cover-to-cover full text for 131 national & international newspapers, including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), The Age, The Australian, The Toronto Star, The Irish Times and others.
Selective full text for more than 335 U.S newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, Daily News (New York), San Jose Mercury News, etc.
Full-text television & radio news transcripts are provided from ABC News, CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, National Public Radio (NPR),

OT Search

Available through AOTA.
An index to occupational therapy literature.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

Full-text resource
Contains the entire text of the 22-volume Oxford English Dictionary, second edition.
Definitions, pronunciations and the history of each word with examples from literary sources.

Oxford Music Online (Including Grove Music Online)

Available from Oxford University Press. The home of Grove Music Online and the access point for new and forthcoming Oxford music reference subscriptions and products.
Includes Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and The Oxford Companion of Music.

Oxford Reference Online - Premium Edition

Available through Oxford University Press.
Full text access to more than 140 specialized dictionaries and reference works published by Oxford.
Covers virtually all subjects in the humanities, social sciences, business, science, language and general reference.

Oxford University Press Journals Online

Full-text access to more than 233 journals from Oxford University Press.

PAIS International

Available through Cambridge Scientific.
An index to government and public policy literature.

ProceedingsFirst

Available through FirstSearch.
Indexes those conference proceedings received by the British Library.

Project Muse - Basic Undergraduate Collection

Full text resource
Provides access to 100 scholarly journals from the Project Muse Basic Undergraduate Collection.

PsycARTICLES

Available through Ebsco.
Full-text coverage to 53 peer-reviewed, scholarly journals including those published by the APA.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

Available from Ebsco.
Comprehensive database providing nearly 575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed journals
Linked to full text from citations within PsycINFO.

PsycINFO

Available through Ebsco.
An international index to psychological journal literature, with links to full-text PsycArticles.

PubMed

Free access to millions of citations through Medline.

PubMed Central

A full text archive of life sciences journals, from the National Library of Medicine.

ReferenceUSA

Lists 14 million U.S. Businesses as well as 835,000 healthcare providers.

RefWorks

A web-based, bibliographic citation management service.
Import citations from online databases to create your own personal bibliographic database. Automatically format your papers and bibliographies in any of almost 150 bibliographic formats (e.g. APA, MLA, etc.).
To begin, set up your personal profile by creating a unique username and password. Click here for more information and a searchable guide that can be printed.

Regional Business News

Available from Ebsco.
Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Religion and Philosophy Collection

Available from Ebsco.
A comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Offers nearly 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

Available through EBSCOHost.
An index to more than 200,000 citations in music literature.
Scope is international, from 1969 to the present.

Science.gov

Available through Elsevier.
Full-text access to more than 900 titles in the health and life sciences, and to 370 journal titles in the social sciences and humanities

ScienceDirect College Editions

Available through Elsevier.
Full-text access to more than 900 titles in the health and life sciences, and to 370 journal titles in the social sciences and humanities

Scirus

A comprehensive science-specific search engine.
Searches more than 250 million web sites.

Social Services Abstracts (CSA)

Available through Cambridge Scientific
An index to social services journal literature from 1980 to the present.

Sociological Abstracts (CSA)

Available through Cambridge Scientific
An index to sociological journal literature since 1963.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text

Available through Ebscohost.
Indexing to sport and sports medicine literature, with full-text for 415 journals.
Coverage back to 1982.

Standard and Poors NetAdvantage

Full-text resource.
Contains eleven financial/business databases from Standard and Poors.
Includes Corporation Records, Stock Reports, Industry Surveys, and Outlook.

Teacher Reference Center

Available through Ebscohost
Indexes more than 260 titles in teacher education and educational administration.
Free access to all

Ulrich's Periodical Directory

Provides comprehensive and authoritative information about serials published throughout the world.

Value Line Research Center

Provides online access to Value Line's financial data and publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities.

Vente et Gestion

Available from Ebsco.
Provides full text coverage for French language business journals serving both the academic and the professional researcher.

Virtual Reference Shelf

Available from the Library of Congress.
Selected Web resources compiled by the LOC.

Wiley Interscience

Available from Wiley Interscience.
Abstracts and tables of contents available for 12 month period only.
Indexes approximately 400 journals published by Wiley Interscience, with 8 full-text subscriptions.

Wilson OmniFile Full-Text, Mega Edition

Indexing to 2,900 publications with full text articles from 1,484 journals
This database includes several important sub-files:

Women's Studies International

Available from Ebsco.
Coverage includes more than 586,600 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to present.
Supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education.
Nearly 800 essential sources.

World Scope

Available through FirstSearch.
Provides company records derived from corporate and 10K reports and other documents.

World Shakespeare Bibliography Online

112,300 annotated entries for Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions, from 1962 to the present.

WorldCat

Available through FirstSearch.
Contains more than 60 million records of items owned by libraries around the world.
Each record lists library holdings; updated daily.