Databases with Description

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO host) The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

AGRICOLA (EBSCO) Citations consist of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, conference proceedings, serials, technical reports and other materials on a range of agricultural topics.

American Institute of Physics (AIOP) Collections of relevant papers from a broad range of source journals in the physical sciences. Highly citied, highly respected, and highly relevant, AIP Journals are the cornerstone of many physics collections.

American Society for Microbiology (ASM) The society's 11 journals covers the spectrum of microbiology, from molecular and cellular biology to biomedical research and technology.

Annual Reviews (Annual Reviews) Publishes authoritative, analytic reviews in 30 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature.

Anthropological Index Online (Royal Anthropological Institute) Based on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at the The British Museum (Museum of Mankind) which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around the world.

Books In Print (FirstSearch) Provides complete, publisher-verified information on all U.S. books in print. Contains in-print and forthcoming books, audios and videos. Also includes books, audios and videos declaredout-of-print or out-of-stock since 1979.

Business and Company Resource Center (Infotrac/GaleGroup) Business and Company Resource Center is 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.

Business Source Elite (EBSCO host) Full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 450 peer-reviewed business publications. Indexing back to 1985.

Cabell's Business Directories click on "Members" (bottom left) Directories of journals in the fields of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Management and Marketing with helps for professors, graduate students and researchers to publish their manuscripts. Journal descriptions help you determine those journals that are most likely to publish your manuscript. The index in each Directory helps you match the characteristics of your manuscript to the topic areas the journal emphasizes, the type of review process, acceptance rate and number of external reviewers.

Cabell's Education Directories click on "Members Area (across top)

CSA--Physical Education Index--CSA Illumina provides access to more than 100 full-text and bibliographic databases published by CSA and its publishing partners.

ChoiceReviewsOnline (ALA) Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. Begun in 1964,CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. Each year CHOICE publishes more than 6,500 reviews by subject experts.

CINAHL (EBSCO) The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature and the CINAHL Thesaurus. CINAHL covers nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health journals, publications of the American Nursing Association, and the National League for Nursing.

CIOS Communication Institute for Online Scholarship A not-for-profit organization for communication scholarship and education.

Classical Music Library For the first time, recordings from a major label have been made available in a library music service. As the world's largest multi-label database of recordings for listening and learning in libraries, Classical Music Library now offers performances by great artists.

Computers and Applied Sciences Complete

CQ Researcher (CQ Press) Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each report is on a single topic--more than 12,000 words of text and extensive bibliographies.

Current Jobs in Art (one user license)

Dictionary of Literary Biography (Infotrac/Gale Group) Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch) Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the US at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.

EBSCO (EJS) Electronic Journals Service consolidates over 8,000 e-journals from all major publishers, covering practically all disciplines from scholarly, peer-reviewed journals.

Education Research Complete

Electronic Collections Online (FirstSearch) Access to a growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas, all with full-image articles online. Full-image articles from Electronic Collections Online journals are linked to corresponding citations in databases throughout the FirstSearch service.

Environment Complete

ERIC (EDRS) ERIC Document Reproduction Service offers 3 options for database searching: Express Search (if you know the document ED Numbers), Easy Search (simple keyword search), and Expanded Search (permits complex, Boolean searching).

Expanded Academic ASAP (Infotrac) Scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images across all academic disciplines from arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology.

Foundation Directory Online Grant Searches, 990 Searches, and Foundation Searches.

General Business File ASAP (Infotrac/Gale Group) Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.

General Reference Center Gold (Infotrac/Gale Group) A variety of sources for articles from newspapers, reference books and periodicals; many with full-text and images of the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies and more.

GeoRef (EBSCO) Provides access to the geoscience references in journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.

GPO Monthly catalog (FirstSearch) Consists of records published by the GPO since July 1976. Includes references for documents to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments and more.

Grove/Oxford Art (Grove Publications) Provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art with ongoing additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links.

Grove/Oxford Music (Grove Publications) Comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition.

Health Reference Center Academic (Infotrac/Gale Group) Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.

HighWire Press (Stanford) HighWire Press at Stanford University develops and maintains the Web versions of important journals in biomedicine and other disciplines. A list of journals with free full-text articles online is available.

History Reference Center

eHRAF (Human Relations Area Files) The eHRAF Collection of Ethnography is a cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life.

Informe! (Infotrac/Gale Group) Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.

Infotrac Junior Edition (Infotrac/Gale Group) Designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Infotrac Kid's Edition (Infotrac/Gale Group) Designed for elementary school students, with easy access to full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

InfoTrac Professional Collection (Infotrac/Gale Group) Over 250 Full Text Magazines for Education Professionals.

Infotrac Student Edition K-12 (Infotrac/Gale Group) Designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

JSTOR:  Arts and Sciences Collection I and II (JSTOR) This service offers the ability to download articles in TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) as well as PDF and PostScript formats. Also provides faithful replications of the original print journals.

Kluwer Journals Online (Kluwer) SpringerLink is one of the world's leading interactive databases for high-quality STM journals, book series, books, reference works and the Online Archives Collection. SpringerLink is a powerful central access point for researchers and scientists.

Learning Express (LearningExpressLibrary) Professional, licensing or prep practice tests online. **You create your own login to look at or to take a test.** For FAQ (frequently asked questions) click on Help at the database page.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO)

Literature Resource Center-Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. Full-text of Contemporary authors, contemporary author's new revisions, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Multiple Literature Monographs & Sets.

LitFinder (Roth) Formerly Essay, Poem, Short Story Finder. This focuses on the humanities and social sciences, including biographies and literary criticism. Subjects include literature, history, economics, sociology, art and architecture, philosophy, psychology, science and drama.

MEDLINE (National Library of Medicine) Website for all aspects of health information and research from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine.

Mental Measurements Yearbook (Ovid) 9th to 16th Yearbooks July 2005.

MLA Bibliography (EBSCO) Indexes critical literary and language scholarship and provides access to journals and serials published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies. Includes the MLA Thesaurus.

MLA Directory of Periodicals (EBSCO)

NetLibrary (AMIGOS) The eBooks can be viewed online on any PC connected to the Internet. You can browse eBooks for quick research and reference or check them out and read them at your leisure. Note: also available are publicly accessible eBooks – classic works of literature and history.

NewsBank

Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive (EBSCO)

Physical Education Index (CSA) Abstracts featuring content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Also includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology, health education and physical therapy.

Points of View

Polk City Directory (Polk) Printed directories for local cities dating back to 1870.

Pre-CINAHL (EBSCO) 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 searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.

Professional Collection (InfoTrac) Over 250 Full Text Magazines for Education Professionals.

ProQuest Research (UMI)

PsycINFO (EBSCO) For research in psychology and related disciplines. Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines.

PubMed Central (NIH-Life Sci)

Regional Business News (EBSCO)

RMA Statement (Only one user at a time) RMA eStatement Studies contains composite financial data. Balance sheet and income statement information is shown in common size format, with each item a percentage of total assets and sales. RMA is organized according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), a product of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.

Science Direct (Elsevier) The world's largest scientific, technical and medical (STM) database. The journal collection is supplemented by relevant bibliographic databases to expand literature searches further and a growing program of online reference works.

Teacher Reference Center (EBSCO)

University of Chicago Press Journals Includes nearly 50 journals and hardcover serials, presenting original research from international scholars in the social sciences, humanities, education, biological and medical sciences, and physical sciences.

Westlaw Campus (Thomson) Offers an extensive collection of legal resources, news, and business and public records information. West's reference attorneys are bar-admitted lawyers with representation from more than 20 states, and the company's customer service departments are staffed 24 hours a day.

Wilson Select Plus (FirstSearch) Covers high-quality periodicals with in-depth indexing and abstracts. All records point to complete online full text. Includes articles from periodicals indexed in other H.W. Wilson databases.

WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) (FirstSearch) The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 49 million bibliographic recordsrepresenting 400 languages. Covers information from 2100 B.C. to the present. Includes holdings information from libraries across the world. Includes the Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus.