
| ACLS Humanities E-Book |
ACLS Humanities (formerly History E-book Project) includes almost 1000 titles selected by historians in the fields of American, Asian, European, and Middle Eastern history, and the history of technology. Humanities E-Book is a digital collection offered by the ACLS in collaboration with ten learned societies, nearly 80 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. |
| ACM Digital Library |
| A service of the Association for Computing Machinery provides a vast resource of bibliographic information, citations, and full-text articles in computer science and applied computing. [On campus only] |
| Academic Search Complete |
Designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. |
| AccessScience |
AccessScience is an online encyclopedia of science and technology. It contains encyclopedia articles, dictionary terms, biographies, research updates, and science news and is the online version of McGraw Hill's Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. |
| Accounting Literature |
A subset of the Lexis-Nexis database service |
| African-American Poetry |
Contains the full-text of almost 3,000 poems written between 1760 and 1900. Poets included are among those listed in Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975. |
| Agricola |
Is compiled by the U.S. National Agricultural Library (NAL). This comprehensive source of bibliographic information consists of over 2.5 million citations to journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, and technical reports. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition. Auxiliary subjects that support NAL's Information Center activities, such as agricultural trade and marketing, rural information, and animal welfare are also included in the database. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970. |
| Alt Health Watch |
Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers an immediate resource of full text articles, from more than 170 international, and often peer reviewed, reports, proceedings, association and consumer newsletters. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. |
| American & English Literature |
Contains many works of poetry, drama, and prose, based on books and other sources originally published in print. Collections include: 20th Century African American Poetry Collection; 20th Century American Poetry Collection; 20th Century English Poetry Collection; African American Poetry 1700-1900 Collection; American Poetry 1600-1900 Collection; Bible in English; Bibliography of American Literature; Early American Fiction 1774-1850; Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare; Eighteenth-Century Fiction 1700-1800; English Poetry 600-1900 Collection; English Prose Drama 1280-1915; English Verse Drama 13-19th Centuries; W. B. Yeats Collections. |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) Journals |
Currently, over 30 magazines and peer-reviewed journals are published or co-published by the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society . Approximately 140,000 pages of research material are published annually both in print and on the Web, along with another 90,000 pages of additional Supporting Information available on the Web. This site publishes the full run of electronic text available for each of the ACS's journal. |
| America: History and Life |
published by ABC-CLIO provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. The database comprises about 400,000 entries and provides coverage fro 1964 to the present. Useful for research in history, interdisciplinary studies, popular culture, multicultural studies, American studies, women's studies/gender studies, anthropology, literature/folklore, sociology, genealogy, and the history of science, economics, business, education, music, art, and law. |
| American Drama |
Currently contains more than 700 plays from over 300 dramatists. When finished, American Drama will feature the complete texts of more than 2,000 plays written by American dramatists. |
| American Periodical Series (1740-1900) |
Contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741, when Andrew Bradford's American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine were launched, and 1900. Deriving from the acclaimed American Periodicals Series microform collection, APS Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years-from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal. |
| American Poetry |
Contains the full-text of over 40,000 poems by more than 200 writers from the 17th century to the early 20th century. Full-text of over 1,200 poetry collections listed in Bibliography of American Literature. |
| Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature (ABELL) |
Covers all aspects of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. More than 500,000 records can be searched in the annually updated database. |
| Annual Reviews |
Provides systematic, periodic examinations of scholarly advances in a number of fields of science and social science through critical authoritative reviews. |
| Anthropology Plus |
Brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present. |
| AP Images |
This is one of the world's largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery. The AP Images collection is updated every minute of the day and includes entertainment, fashion, news and sports coverage from The Associated Press and a diverse selection of content partners. |
| Art Abstracts |
Provides comprehensive abstracting and indexing for 313 leading international art publications. Indexing since September 1984 and updated monthly. |
| Art and Architecture Images |
Includes over 80,000 art and architecture images from commercial providers such as the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) and Saskia, Ltd. as well as contributions from OhioLINK institutions. This database is a component of the OhioLINK Digital Media Center. |
| Art and Architecture Images (World accessible) |
Contains art and architecture images contributed by OhioLINK institutions and publicly available to anyone in the world. |
| ARTFL: Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the Foreign Language |
A cooperative project between the Centre National de la recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago. The full-text database contains nearly 2,000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries are all represented with a smaller selection of medieval and Renaissance texts. |
| Arts and Humanities Citation Index (ISI) |
| Multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes over 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 7,000 major science and social science journals. A&HCI also provides access to an article's cited references or the footnotes from an author's bibliography. Cited items may be critical in nature or original creative works (novels, poems, works of philosophy, paintings, musical compositions, etc.). |
| ArticleFirst (OCLC) |
An index of the items listed on table of contents pages of over 12,000 journals. This index covers articles, news stories, letters and other items on topics as diverse as business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, sciences, social sciences, and technology. |
| ATLA Religion and Serials Databases |
ATLA Religion and Serials Databases are the fundamental tools for religious research. They are an essential collection of religion and theology journal articles, book reviews and collections of essays selected by leading religion scholars and theologians. These premier sources are available 24/7 online and feature partial full text search results. A complete listing of full-text items is available: ATLASerials List |
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| The Bible in English |
Contains the full-text of 21 editions of the Bible covering the Tenth through the Twentieth Centuries. |
| Bibliography of American Literature |
Contains bibliographical records of nearly 40,000 literary works of 281 significant authors from the Revolution era through 1930. |
| Bibliography of Native North Americans |
(BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present. The database is an essential research tool for anthropologists, educators, historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, legal and medical researchers, linguists, theologians, ethnobotanists, and policy makers. BNNA will appeal to anyone interested in exploring the contributions, struggles, and issues surrounding North America's indigenous peoples. |
| Biological Abstracts |
The leading abstracting and indexing reference publication for life sciences information. Provides informative abstracts, in English, of current research reported in the biological and medical literature. Approximately 6,000 journals worldwide are monitored for inclusion. |
| Biography Reference Bank |
Provides biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images. |
| Business & Industry (through 6/30/06) |
Provides information, facts, and figures dealing with public and private companies, industries, products and markets for all manufacturing and service industries at an international level. Coverage is from 1994 forward and approximately 60% of the database is full text. |
| Business Source Complete |
Contains far more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any other database currently available. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Complete is the overwhelmingly superior database for full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more. |
| Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities |
Maintains current information on the addresses, phone, e-mail and web sites for a large number of journals. Also, the company seeks to provide information on publication guidelines and review information. Currently subject areas include business, education and psychology. |
| Chicano Database |
Identifies all types of material on Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos. Updated quarterly, the Chicano Database covers at least 1967 to the present, with more than 48,000 records. Records added since 1992 have expanded its scoop to include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. The Chicano Database also includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database, covering psychological, sociological, and educational literature. |
| China Online Journals |
(Wanfang) provides access to Chinese language full-text online journals. |
| Christian Periodical Index |
A bibliographic citation index updated four times per year. It is produced and owned by the Association of Christian Librarians. Its purpose is to provide access to articles and reviews written from an evangelical Christian perspective or of interest to the evangelical community. Beginning in 1956 with twenty titles, CPI currently indexes over 130 selected publications from the broad spectrum of knowledge including religion, science, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, history, sociology, nursing, and education. Coverage is representative of the major doctrinal positions within evangelical Christianity. The online version includes added current indexing as well as ongoing efforts to provide retrospective indexing for titles back to their initiation or the beginning of the index. |
| CINAHL Plus (1937 to date) |
Provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL Plus with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters, as well as Evidence-Based Care Sheet. Searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals are also included. CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides full text 337 of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included. |
| Cleveland News Index |
Includes indexing of local news stories, feature articles and reviews from: the Plain Dealer, Cleveland Magazine (1983- ), Northern Ohio Live (Sept. 1990- ), and Ohio Magazine (Oct. 1990- ). Obituaries from the Plain Dealer and the Cleveland Press are included from 1976 to the present. This index does not provide full text access to these sources. |
| Columbia International Affairs Online |
From the Columbia University Press provides full-text books, conference proceedings, journals, policy briefs and other valuable links in the field on International Studies. |
| Communication & Mass Media Complete |
Communication & Mass Media Index provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of over 100 more, for a combined coverage of over 400 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for nearly 200 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDF's and searchable citations from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915). CMMC contains a sophisticated controlled vocabulary and comprehensive reference browsing (i.e. searchable citations for all peer-reviewed journals covered as “core”). To further develop and enhance this database, EBSCO has established two working groups of expert advisors represented by leading librarians, bibliographers, and professionals in the areas of communication and mass media. |
| Compendex |
Provides coverage of engineering with more than 5 million summaries from over 2,600 journals, technical reporters, and conference papers and proceedings. Updated weekly. |
| Computers & Applied Sciences Complete |
Covers the spectrum of the applied sciences, representing collected knowledge on traditional engineering challenges and providing material for research concerning the business and social implications of new technology. CASC provides indexing and abstracting for more than 1,300 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full Text is also available for more than 500 periodicals. Subject areas include the many engineering disciplines, computer theory & systems, new technologies, and social & professional context. Research is aided by the inclusion of searchable cited references for key journals. |
| Conference Board |
Creates and disseminates knowledge about management and the marketplace to help businesses strengthen their performance and better serve society. Working as a global, independent membership organization in the public interest, it conduct research, convene conferences, make forecasts, assess trends and publishes information and analysis. |
| Contemporary Women's Issues (through 6/30/06) |
Provides full-text access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, and research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies are easily accessed through CWI .Information on women in over 190 countries is compiled in a single collection bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education, business administration and political science. |
| CQ Researcher |
Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc. Reports typically cover issues in health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Each single-theme, 12,000 word report provides an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources. |
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| Digital Media Center |
Widespread access to images, sounds, video, numeric data, and other types of media information for the community and the world. |
| Directory of Open Access Journals |
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3668 journals in the directory. Currently 1259 journals are searchable at article level. |
| Dissertation Abstracts (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses) |
Provides citations to more than one million dissertations and master’s theses. Updated monthly. |
| Early American Fiction |
Contains 440 works of 80 novelists and short-story writers, 1774-1850. This database comprises the full texts of the first editions of American novels and short stories written before 1850 by authors of significance during their lifetimes. |
| Ebrary Electronic Business Books |
A collection of 5,000 books in business and economics, accessible over the Internet using a downloadable ebrary reader. |
| EBSCO Database Menu |
Link to the menu of all Ashland University and OhioLINK databases provided by EBSCO publishing. |
| Economia y Negocios |
A collaborative effort between EBSCO Publishing and ESAN (Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados). This continuously updated bibliographic database is 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 60,000 records, dating back to the early 1980s, provide coverage for over 200 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States and elsewhere. Active titles include Revista de la CEPAL, Revista de Administraçao, Estudios Empresariales, and Agroeconómico. |
| Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare |
The complete text of eleven major editions of Shakespeare’s works, including 24 separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than 100 adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. |
| Education Full Text |
Covers 423 core international periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues. English language books related to education published after 1994 are also indexed. Coverage begins in June 1983, and the database is updated monthly. |
| Education Research Complete |
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. Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals. This database also includes full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers. |
| Eighteenth Century Fiction |
Provides the complete text of 96 works of prose fiction written in the British Isles between 1700 and 1780. |
| Electronic Journal Center (EJC) OhioLINK |
(OhioLINK) provides the full text of more than 4000 online research journals covering many subject areas. Many OhioLINK-managed electronic indexes link from article citations to the full text in the EJC. The EJC also links to the Institute for Scientific Information CitationIndexes (Arts & Humanities, Science, and Social Sciences) for information about cited references. Users can be notified by email about new relevant articles according to subject, author, or journal title. |
| Electronic Journal Finder (EFC) OhioLINK |
The OhioLINK Electronic Journal Finder is a list of journals whose full text can be found online in these OhioLINK databases: the Electronic Journal Center, LexisNexis Academic, Art Abstracts, Education Abstracts, the Directory of Open Access Journals, and EBSCO databases including Academic Search Complete, and Business Source Complete. |
| Electronic Book Center - OhioLINK |
Electronic Book Center (OhioLINK) contains the full texts of thousands of scholarly and reference e-books from several publishers, covering many subject areas. |
| Electronic Theses and Dissertation Center - OhioLINK |
Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center (OhioLINK) is a free online database of masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from graduate students in participating Ohio colleges and universities. |
| English Poetry |
Contains the full-text of over 160,000 poems written in English by approximately 1,350 poets between the years 600 and 1900. Contains the full-text of over 4,400 poetry collections listed in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. |
| English Prose Drama |
Covers a chronological period of more than 450 years and contains more than 1,800 plays by approximately 400 authors from the renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The bibliographic basis is the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The full text of each drama is included with any accompanying text written by the author and forming an integral part of the work. |
| English Short Title Catalog |
(ESTC) lists over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800 from the collections of the British Library. Mainly the entries are in English and were published in Britain and North America. |
| English Verse Drama |
Contains the full text of more than 2,200 plays, operas, tragedies, etc. by over 500 named authors and 300 anonymous works, from the late 13th century to the end of the 19th century. |
| Environment Complete |
Contains all of the content available in Environment Index, as well as full text for 400 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc. Environment Complete also provides full text for 80 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, etc. Further, the database offers full text for the conference papers of the North American Association of Environmental Education. |
| ERIC - EBSCOHost |
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,243,000 records and links to more than 224,000 full-text documents from ERIC. |
| ERIC - OhioLINK |
(Educational Resources Information Center) indexes education-related research from 1966 to the present that appears in ERIC documents and in more than 775 periodicals. It combines information from Resources in Education (RIE) and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Updated monthly. |
| ERIC - Government Portal |
"ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research." |
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| Feminea: Medieval Women and Gender |
Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. |
| Film & Television Literature Index |
A comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. It has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers. Publications include Film Journal International, Journal of British Cinema & Television, Film Criticism, Post Script, Variety, and more as well as technical publications such as SMPTE. Mirroring the international film & television industries and cultures, FTLI also includes publications such as Cahiers du Cinema, Filmihullu, SegnoCinema, and Kinetoscopio. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. |
| Foreign Language Videos |
Currently includes the ViewPoints Project - a collection of foreign language video clips in which native speakers elaborate on a wide variety of topics about their culture, family, daily life, and more. Each video clip is accompanied by a description of its contents, the country of the speaker, and additional grammar and vocabulary notes. Videos are available in Quick Time format. |
| FRANCIS |
Covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (63%), social sciences (33%), and economics (4%). FRANCIS is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. Updated monthly, FRANCIS covers 1984 to the present, with more than 911,000 records. |
| Fuente Academica |
A unique collection of scholarly journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This multi-disciplinary database offers full text content to many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology. This database provides full text (including PDF) for 260 scholarly Spanish language journals. Content is provided in Spanish from respected publishers worldwide, including Revista de Arquitectura, Estudios Sobre Educacion, Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, Comunicacion y Sociedad, Revista de Ciencia Politica, Revista Historia, and more. |
| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia |
Over 25,000 encyclopedic entries and is searchable by keyword and within entry. |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
“Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries.” (Gale). Ashland’s collection includes approximately 100 titles. |
| Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index |
The premier resource for access to articles about gardens and plants. Topics include horticulture, botany, garden and landscape design & history, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. A highlight of the database is its focus on environmentally sustainable horticultural and design practices. This index and abstract product is designed for gardening enthusiasts, professionals, and students of horticulture and of garden and landscape design & history. Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index covers a wide range of serial titles including general gardening titles of national, international, and regional interest, and titles devoted to specialty gardens and plant groups. Indexed and abstracted are more than 300 core titles, the majority of which are published in English. Coverage for many titles extends back further than a decade. Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index is a unique resource that brings together articles about plants and gardens into a single source, and it includes titles that are not available in any other index. |
| Gender Studies |
Produced by NISC, combines NISC’s popular Women’s Studies International and Men’s Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. GSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Several thousand links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the Web are available. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources. Several hundred links provide access to carefully selected and important web sites. This database includes more than 696,750 records with coverage spanning from 1972 and earlier to present. |
| GeoRef |
Indexes more than 2,000 journals, plus books and other materials, related to geology, geography, ecology and related disciplines. |
| GPO Access |
Government Printing Office. Provides online access to the Government Printing Office including: the Federal Register, Congressional Records Service, and Legislative Service. |
| GreenFile |
Indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well. |
| Guide to Social Science and Religion in Periodical Literature |
| For more than 40 years, National Periodical Library as published the Guide to Social Science and Religion in Periodical Literature. This publication provides essential data in such areas as: Religion, Psychology, the Arts, Sociology, Politics, Education, and more. Guide to Social Science & Religion is essential to any organization dealing with research science, and to any individual utilizing research science to gather pertinent information. |
| Hand Press Book Database |
A catalog of European printing in the early modern era (from the 15th century to the 1830s). HPBD is created by the Consortium of European Research Libraries, whose members represent national and university library in 25 countries. Some citations include copy specific information, including donor, previous owner, and more. This database supports research in intellectual history, social history, and transmission of thought, as well as in the history of printing and the history of the book. |
| Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) Online |
A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources. With the introduction of HLAS Online, the Handbook becomes available in three formats: the original print volumes, now published by the University of Texas Press; the CD-ROM produced and updated by the Fundación Histórica TAVERA (Madrid, Spain); and this Internet version. Updated weekly, HLAS Online provides rapid, comprehensive access to future, current, and retrospective volumes of the Handbook. |
| Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) Web |
| Library of Congress database, contains bibliographic records from volumes 50-64 of the Handbook of Latin American Studies. The database includes citations for books, journal articles, conference papers, and web sites that pertain to the disciplines covered by HLAS. For Humanities, coverage includes: Art, History, Literature, Music, and Philosophy. For Social Sciences, coverage includes Archeology, Ethnology, Economics, Geography, Government and Politics, International Relations, Political Economy, and Sociology. All citations that appear in an HLAS print volume contain scholarly annotations written by subject specialists. The database is updated instantaneously, although records for volumes 62 onward are in a preliminary editorial stage. |
| HarpWeek: The Civil War Era |
Civil War era (1857-1865) editions of Harper's Weekly , a leading, national weekly during the second half of the nineteenth-century. The full-text database includes stories, illustrations, book reviews, serialized novels, advertising and maps from the weekly. |
| Health Source: Consumer |
"A rich collection of consumer health information. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 300 consumer health periodicals, plus indexing and abstracts for over 300 periodicals. Also included is searchable full text for nearly 1,100 health-related pamphlets; 136 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society, and more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish). In addition, this database includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for U.S. prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs. Health Source provides access to Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. This database covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985." (OhioLINK) |
| Health Source: Nursing Academic |
"Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. In addition, this database includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for U.S. prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs. Health Source provides access to Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1975." (OhioLINK) |
| Historical Abstracts |
Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more - essential for libraries supporting upper-division and graduate research. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. History and social science researchers have used Historical Abstracts to discover significant and groundbreaking work for more than 50 years. |
| Historical Statistics of the United States |
Historical Statistics of the United States is the standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. HSUS provides data on social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences including history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade - quantitative facts of American History. The fully searchable and downloadable electronic edition permits users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest. |
| History & Archives Digital Media |
History & Archives Digital Media contains various collections of digital pictures, archives, and oral histories from Ohio history. |
| History of Science, Technology & Medicine |
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine is an international bibliography of history of science, technology, and medicine. HSTM indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, serials, maps and other materials. |
| Humanities International Complete |
Humanities International Complete provides indexing, abstracting, and full text of journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), Humanities International Complete provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,900 titles, and full text of hundreds of journals books and other publications. The database includes citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. Humanities International Complete is a resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought. |
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| IBISWorld Industry Reports |
IBISWorld provides market research reports for more than 700 North American industries, arranged by five-digit NAICS code numbers. Each report can be viewed section-by-section using links at the upper left of the report, or it can be downloaded in its entirety in PDF or MS Word. A sample of IBISWorld products to which the library does not subscribe, such as selected global industry reports, is also accessible from the IBISWorld main page. |
| IFS: International Finance Statistics |
Produced by the International Monetary Fund, this database presents data on more than 200 countries in 32,000 time series beginning in 1948. |
| Images MD |
More than 55,000 images from more than 90 collections ranging from allergy to urology, each accompanied by detailed and informative text contributed by more than 2,000 medical experts. Images are derived from Current Medicine's renowned series of illustrated atlases. |
| In the First Person |
A landmark index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. Working with archives, repositories, publishers, and individuals the database has indexed first person narratives from hundreds of published volumes—those that are publicly available on the Web and those that are held by repositories and archives around the world. The intent is to make it possible to find and explore the voices of more than 300,000 individuals. |
| Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals |
Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals indexes 42 art periodicals published in the United States during the 19th century. It describes articles, art notes, stories, poems and advertisements. This database offers essential information on artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decoration, and collecting. |
| INSPEC (1969 - present) |
Index and abstracts to scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, information technology, production, and manufacturing and mechanical engineering. |
| INSPEC Archives (1898 - 1968) |
Inspec Archive 1898-1968 provides electronic access to Science Abstracts Journals 1898-1968. The Inspec Archive covers over 70 years of international scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical and electronic engineering, and computing and control engineering. |
| Insurance Periodicals Index |
Insurance Periodicals Index indexes and abstracts over 200 of the most respected and widely-read insurance industry journals and magazines. IPI will interest researchers in economics, social scientists, and insurance and government organizations. IPI features a controlled vocabulary of index terms which reflect current industry terminology. |
| International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance |
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance provides full text of journal articles on all aspects of theater and performance, plus indexing for books, book articles and dissertation abstracts. IBTD with Full Text is a multicultural and inter-disciplinary research tool for theater students, educators and professionals. IBTD was initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research and continued by the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College. |
| International Political Science Abstracts |
International Political Science Abstracts includes current indexing and abstracts of the world's leading journals in political science. |
| Inter-Play |
Provides access to the locations of printed plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals. Most of the plays cited are not indexed in the standard printed play indexes such as Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections or H. W. Wilson's Play Index. For plays by the most familiar authors (e.g. Shakespeare), you should also consult your local library's catalog. Approximately 16,130 locations are currently cited to plays in many languages. Separately-published plays are not included as these may also be located through local library catalogs. Inter-Play is updated frequently in order to include recent publications. |
| I.S.I. Citation Databases |
The combined title for Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index. These citation databases are also know as the Web of Science. The Web of Science is a subset of the I.S.I. Web of Knowledge. ISI Citation Databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. It is indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work. |
| JSTOR Journals |
Journal Storage Project. Assists academic libraries in archiving and preserving major scholarly journals. The JSTOR project provides complete electronic backfiles of core journals in a variety of subjects. Full text coverage begins at the first issue of each journal and usually ends within five years of the present. Recently published issues are not available. Disciplines include anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, and sociology. You may search the entire database, search selected journals, or browse journal tables-of -contents. |
| Kids Search (Grades K-5) |
Kids Search (grades K-5) is a colorful, easy-to-use search interface for students in grades K-5. Kids Search provides access to magazine articles, pictures, encyclopedias, and a dictionary. The interface facilitates searching by topic, enabling users to easily enter keywords, or select topics or subtopics to search. Users can filter results by source type (magazines, newspapers, biographies, pictures, etc.). |
| LANDSAT 7 Satellite Images |
Digital snapshots of Ohio from space. Images of Ohio are available for download or web viewing. Several views are provided, including infrared and true color composite. New imagery is available every 16 days. |
| LearningExpress Library |
Offers students and adults unlimited, 24/7 access to targeted skill-building interactive courses in math, reading, and writing, as well as hundreds of online interactive practice tests that prepare them for several types of exams including grade school achievement tests, the SAT, GED, U.S. Citizenship, and civil service positions. Complete answer explanations accompany each response so that patrons understand why a particular answer is correct or incorrect. All practice tests include instant diagnostic score reports that help patrons to target those skill areas that need the most attention. To help students master the SAT and recently added essay, instant score reports provide immediate feedback on how well they performed in each of five writing skill areas. LearningExpress Library can be accessed from any web-enabled computer in the library, computer lab, office, or home.To take a test at LearningExpress Library, you first set up your own individual account. Note: You must set up your account while at an authenticating site (on campus or at an Ohio public library or school). Thereafter, the account is accessible from anywhere. |
| Legal Collection |
Legal Collection is a collection of respected, scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies. Legal Collection offers full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. This database provides information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment and much more. This database is a source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world. |
| Lexi-PALS Drug Database |
Lexi-PALS Drug Guide is a database of Patient Advisory Leaflets from Lexi-Comp that provides vital education on medications for patients. The approach for each pamphlet is to present each medication in an easy to follow and understand question-and-answer format. The leaflets are designed in a manner that supports successful patient education in both the hospital and outpatient setting. |
| LexisNexis Academic |
LexisNexis Academic provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, and reference information from nearly 5,000 sources, most of them available in full text. The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily. |
| LGBT Life |
LGBT Life provides indexing and abstract coverage of the world's literature regarding Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender issues. LGBT Life with Full Text covers LGBT-specific core periodicals, core books and reference works, with full text of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers. LGBT Life covers traditional academic, cultural, lifestyle, and regional publications plus data mined from additional periodicals. Other source-types are also represented, such as monographs and reference books, with dozens of full text monographs, as well as grey literature, including newsletters, case studies, speeches, etc. |
| Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts |
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts provides full text of journal articles and indexing of books, research reports and conference proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing. LISTA with Full Text coverage extends back as far as the mid-1960s. |
| Literary Reference Center - EBSCOHost |
Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive database that provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames. LRC combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. |
| Literature Resource Center - Gale |
Information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. Some of the sources it draws from are Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, 19th Century Literature, 20th Century Literature, and Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. In addition it provides links to online articles from 74 literary journals and over 5,000 web sites. |
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| MAS Ultra - School Edition (High School) |
MAS Ultra: School Edition (for high school students) provides full text from over 515 periodicals covering general reference, health, science, and other areas. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for 581 magazines. Full text is also available for many biographies and primary source documents, pamphlets, reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts), and an Image Collection of 91,000 photos, maps & flags. |
| MasterFILE Premier |
MasterFILE Premier (popular magazines) provides full text for more than 1,900 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,510 periodicals. The database also contains full text for reference and travel books; biographies; primary source documents; and an image college of photos, maps, and flags. |
| Math/Sci/Net |
MathSciNet provides access to over 60 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications (from 1940 to the present). |
| MedicLatina |
A Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. A wide range of topics are covered including neuroscience, cardiology, nephrology, biomedicine, clinical research, pediatrics, human reproduction, clinical pathology, cancer research, and hematology. Publications covered in this database include Revista Medica del IMSS, Revista Mexicana de Patologia Clinica, Boletin Medico del Hospital Infantil de Mexico, Archivos de Neurociencias, Revista Biomedica, Veterinaria Mexico, Salud Publica de Mexico, ACIMED, and more. |
| MEDLINE - EBSCOHost |
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. |
| MEDLINE: Full text - EBSCOHost |
MEDLINE with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,370 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than 1,340 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE, and of those, 528 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search, Health Source or Biomedical Reference Collection. |
| Mental Measurements Yearbook |
Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. First published by Oscar K. Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable judgments and informed selection decisions about the increasingly complex world of testing. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present. |
| Mergent Online |
Business information, including financial reports, company news and securities data. Mergent Online contains company data and annual reports for both U.S. and international companies. U.S. company data includes SEC (EDGAR) filings. Mergent Online is the successor to FIS online, which was created when Mergent acquired the Financial Information Services division of Moody’s® Investors Service. |
| Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary |
Merriam-Webster OnLine dictionary; also includes Spanish-English, and Thesaurus resources |
| Middle Search Plus (Middle School) |
Middle Search Plus (for middle school students) provides full text from over 140 popular middle school magazines. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 170 magazines. Full text is also available for biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books including the Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia and American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition from Houghton Mifflin, the Encyclopedia of Animals and an Image Collection. |
| MLA Directory of Periodicals |
MLA Directory of Periodicals contains all information available on the journals and series on the MLA bibliography's Master List of Periodicals. Over 5,500 titles are included; of these, over 4,400 are currently indexed. The entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines. |
| MLA International Bibliography |
MLA International Bibliography is an index to books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Coverage includes literature from all over the world. Folklore is represented by folk literature, music, art, rituals, and belief systems. Linguistics and language materials range from history and theory of linguistics, comparative linguistics, semantics, stylistics, and syntax to translation. Other topics include literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theater), and history of printing and publishing. The MLA Directory of Periodicals and the Association's proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the bibliography are also included. |
| National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) |
NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. |
| Natural & Alternative Treatments |
Natural & Alternative Treatments contains more than 700 evidence-based articles covering medical conditions, alternative therapies, herbs and supplements, functional foods, drug interactions, and homeopathy. |
| Naxos Music Library (audio) |
| Comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Users can also read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in the database. |
| NCBI: National Center for Biotechnology Information |
NCBI and its search engine Entrez offer a single source for searching numerous databases in the life sciences. |
| netLibrary |
NetLibrary is a library of electronic books (e-books) on many academic subjects. The collection includes thousands of titles purchased by OhioLINK, plus thousands of public-domain e-books. Users can preview an e-book online, peruse a page, read each page in depth, jump to specific chapters or pages, or use links in the Table of Content or Index to go directly to specific chapters of interest. Every word in every book is searchable. NetLibrary operates on the library check-out model, where readers check out e-books for a specified amount of time. |
| New York Times Historical (1851-2006) |
Includes every page of every issue of The New York Times from 1851-2006. The New York Times is the paper of record for the United States and the definitive voice of American journalism since 1851. This is an unparalleled source of history as it was reported and is an excellent source of historical information on nearly every topic. You may expect to find national, international, and local news, photographs, maps, editorials, advertisements, obituaries, and book reviews. |
| New Testament Abstracts |
Product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. The database has become an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. The database contains more than 38,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 13,500 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts. |
| NewsBank Newspapers |
Collection of full-text newspapers available online. The database includes four (4) major Ohio Newspapers (Columbus Dispatch, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Toledo Blade, and Dayton Daily News), plus other major newspapers from other states. Content includes local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded. |
| Newspaper Source |
Newspaper Source contains selected full text for 245 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six news wires, nine newspaper columns, and cover-to-cover full text for The Christian Science Monitor and The Los Angeles Times. This database also contains indexing and abstracts for four national newspapers. |
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| OCLC ArticleFirst |
OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals. This database includes "items listed on the table of contents pages of journals; describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal in each record; and provides a list of libraries that have the journal title for most items." (OCLC) |
| OCLC Papers First |
This database "covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by the British Library Document Supply Centre." (OCLC) |
| OCLC Proceedings First |
This database "covers every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by the British Library Document Supply Centre." (OCLC) |
| Official Documents of the United Nations |
(ODS) covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are added on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. |
| Ohio Capitol Connection |
Ohio Capitol Connection provides information about current and past legislation of the Ohio General Assembly. Updated daily, it has the complete status and full text of bills introduced in the Ohio General Assembly. This database includes rosters of House and Senate members searchable by name or location, and addresses and biographies of the General Assembly members. While the database focuses on Ohio, information about the Federal government is also available. |
| OhioLINK Central Catalog |
OhioLINK Library Catalog is a combined catalog of over 7.8 million books and other library materials from many of Ohio's universities, colleges, community colleges and the State Library of Ohio. OhioLINK's design allows you to transfer a search from your local library catalog to the OhioLINK combined catalog with the touch of a button. The OhioLINK catalog provides immediate access to the library holdings of the whole system, including current availability status. Requested books and other materials are delivered to your library within a few days. Catalog entries for electronic books and journals link directly to those resources. |
| OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository |
OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository allows researchers to search finding aids across institutions to locate archival materials and primary sources across the state. |
| OhioLINK Quick Search |
Search multiple research databases together with OhioLINK's Quick Search meta search service. Choose preset subject sets or create your own. |
| OhioLINK Reference Tools: Facts and Stats |
Collection of database resources provided by OhioLINK for reference resources. |
| Old Testament Abstracts |
Partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association. The database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Abstracts from over 450 journals are included. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more. Coverage in the database dates back to 1978. |
| Oxford Art Online |
"Oxford Art Online is an innovative new gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. With the 2008 complete redesign of Grove Art Online, as well as the addition of substantial new Oxford reference content, Oxford Art Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online art resource available today, a virtual art reference library of unparalleled scope and depth." |
| Oxford English Dictionary |
Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. |
| Oxford Music Online |
"Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content." |
| Oxford Reference Online |
Oxford Reference Online Full text of over 100 dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press. |
| Oxford Scholarship Online |
Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable library containing the full text of important scholarly books from Oxford University Press. Oxford Scholarship Online includes both classic and newly-published works in the humanities and social sciences. Subject collections are available in Economics & Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. New books are added regularly. |
| PAIS International |
PAIS International is an index to the literature of public affairs -- current issues and actions which affect the world communities, countries, people, and governments. This database covers important political, economic, and social issues. PAIS concentrates on topics that are or might become the subject of legislation. It contains references to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. |
| PapersFirst |
PapersFirst is an index of papers presented at conferences. It cites the papers from every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library Document Supply Centre. PapersFirst covers a wide range of subjects. |
| PBS Video Database of America's History & Culture |
Access to hundreds of video volumes on American History and Culture indexed into more than 37,000 program segments. |
| Physical Education Index |
Entries are indexed and classified from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications. . PEI abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, health education, kinesiology, motor learning, physical therapy, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. |
| Population Index |
Includes 42,000 citations related to population studies from the Population Index database from 1986-present.
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| Primary Search (Elementary School) |
Primary Search (for elementary school students) provides full text from 57 children's magazines appropriate for elementary schools and children's reading rooms. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 80 magazines. Other full text sources include: The World Almanac of the U.S.A. and The World Almanac for Kids; The Encyclopedia of Animals; Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia; and full text for over 100 pamphlets. |
| ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source |
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source covers nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, consumer health, and much more. This database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides abstracting and indexing for more than 525 titles, with over 470 titles in full-text. |
| Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection covers emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. This database includes nearly 515 full text titles and over 490 peer-reviewed journals. |
| PsychINFO 1967 - present |
PsycINFO 1967- is an electronic bibliographic database providing abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. The database includes material of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. |
| PsychINFO Historical (1800's - 1966) |
PsycINFO Historical, early 1800s to 1966 is an electronic bibliographic database providing abstracts and citations to historical scholarly literature in psychology |
| PubMed |
MEDLINE (PubMed) provides free access to MEDLINE, the NLM database of more than 11 million bibliographic citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. Includes access to additional selected life sciences journals not in MEDLINE. Links to the full-text of articles at participating publishers web sites. Links to the molecular biology databases maintained by NCBI. Interface developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Links to full-text of selected articles are available using this URL to access PubMed. |
| PubMed Central |
U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. |
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| Regional Business News |
Regional Business News is a collection of full text news wires that incorporates news information from all over the world. Information provided by these sources covers business, political, economic and other diverse, international news events. In order to maintain the most current collection of news, this database contains the most recent 30 days of information from each of these wire sources. |
| Religion Index (ATLA) |
A reference database designed to support religious and theological scholarship. It contains more than a million citations from 1,400 + international titles. The database also includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews from ATLA (American Theological Library Association) print indexes. Coverage begins in 1949. |
| Religion and Philosophy Collection |
Religion and Philosophy Collection covers such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. With over 290 full text journals and unparalleled coverage of the subject areas, the Religion & Philosophy Collection is an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. |
| Religious and Theological Abstracts |
| Religious and Theological Abstracts prepares summaries of articles from scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology. Summaries are composed from the core of volunteer abstractors located throughout the USA, Canada, and several other countries. The variety of periodical literature includes Christian, Jewish and other World religions. Religious and Theological Abstracts provides English language abstracts of articles in Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages. This helpful resource assists with any research pertaining to the fields of Religion and Theology. |
| RILM (Abstracts of Musical Literature) |
An international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines. RILM provides a broad, international coverage and concise abstracts. All scholarly works are indexed (articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, films and videos, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, reviews, etc.). Concert reviews, recording notes, pedagogical manuals, etc. are indexed if they are of scholarly interest. |
| Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies |
Describes material on the social sciences and humanities published in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe — books, manuscripts, dissertations, and articles from more than 10,000 periodicals. More than 700,000 records cover from 1992 to the present, with bimonthly updates. |
| Safari Books Online |
Safari Books Online provides electronic books in computer science, information technology, business, and related fields from O'Reilly, Pearson, and other IT and business publishers. |
| Sage Full Text Collection |
CSA Illumina provides access to more than 100 full-text and bibliographic databases published by CSA and its publishing partners; Arts & Humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, and technology. |
| Sanborn Digital Maps |
Sanborn Digital Maps are large scale street plans produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance company from 1867 to 1970. Sanborn Maps show the outline of each building including the location of windows and doors together with street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. |
| SearchaSaurus (Elementary School) |
Searchasaurus (for elementary and middle school students) is a colorful, easy-to-use search interface for elementary and middle school students. Searchasaurus provides access to magazine articles, pictures, encyclopedias, and a dictionary through an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages students to enhance and develop basic search methodologies. Lexile limiters allow searchers to specify the reading level of materials retrieved. |
| Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI Web of Science) |
Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI Web of Science) provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in approximately 5,900 of the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 150 disciplines. |
| Science Online |
Science Online offers a comprehensive, curriculum-oriented overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines. |
| Scientific American Archive Online |
A comprehensive, searchable science and technology resource containing the full text and graphics of every Scientific American issue from 1993 to the present. The archive features the writings and colorful graphics that readers of Scientific American have come to depend upon and enjoy. Each of the more than 4,000 articles in the archive is available to view online or to download in color PDF, and presented exactly as originally printed in the magazine. In addition to the regular monthly issues of the magazine, users will find all of the Scientific American special issues included in the archive as well. Among the topics covered in the archive are: health and medicine, cosmology and astronomy, chemistry, life sciences, physics, oceanography, medicine, mathematics, archaeology, and much more. |
| SCIPIO (Art & Rare Books Catalog) |
SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales/Auction Catalogs describes art and rare book sales and auction catalogs dating from the late 16th century to currently scheduled auctions that have not yet been held. SCIPIO is a joint project of 25 different fine arts organizations, combining their art catalog collections. |
| Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI Web of Science) |
provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references, covering more than 1700 of the world's leading social sciences journals in a broad range of disciplines. It also covers individually selected, relevant items from leading natural and physical science journals. The ISI Citation Databases collectively index more than 8,000 high quality, peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover, providing complete bibliographic data, searchable author abstracts (science and social sciences), and cited references. Researchers can search the citation data (the footnotes of each article), taking a known, relevant paper and finding other, more recent papers that cite it. |
| Social Sciences Digital Media |
Social Sciences Digital Media contains images and other media related to the social sciences. Currently, the database contains two collections: Greek and Latin Inscriptions and Mayan Archaeology. |
| Social Work Abstracts |
Contains information on the fields of social work and human services from 1977 to present. The database provides coverage of more than 450 journals in all areas of the profession, including theory and practice, areas of service, social issues, and social problems. |
| SocINDEX |
SocINDEX provides full text of journal articles, and indexing and informative abstracts for "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, plus "priority" coverage journals and "selective" coverage journals. Extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources is included. SocINDEX with Full Text features subject headings from a sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. Searchable cited references are also provided. |
| Sociological Abstracts (1963-2005) |
Sociological Abstracts 1963-2005 is an index to research sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, including anthropology, criminology, demography, education, law, penology, race relations, social psychology, and urban studies. The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and non evaluative abstracts of journal articles. Sociological Abstracts subscription ended June 2005. |
| Sociological Collection |
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This database provides coverage of more than 500 full text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. Sociological Collection offers information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. This database is updated daily. |
| SPORT Discus |
SPORTDiscus provides indexing and abstracting of articles and other publications on sport, fitness and related disciplines, with more than 240 full text journals. SPORTDiscus with Full Text offers international coverage of journal and magazine articles; books and book chapters; conference proceedings; and dissertations and theses. |
| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy includes articles on people, concepts, books, and other topics in philosophy. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a dynamic reference work. Each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. |
| Stat-USA |
STAT-USA a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, delivers vital economic, business, and international trade information produced by the U.S. Government. |
| Student Research Center (Grades 6-12) |
Student Research Center (grades 6-12) is a search interface designed for students in grades 6 through 12. SRC provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools to easily obtain the information that they need from their EBSCO databases. |
| Tests in Print |
(TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). TIP is produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska. |
| Thesaurus of the English Language |
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus. Containing 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references in an easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features succinct word definitions and an innovative hyperlinked category index. |
| TOPIC Search |
TOPICsearch is a current events database that allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for articles from magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, biographies, book reviews, public opinion polls, EBSCO's Current Issues database, and government information. |
| Toxline (National Library of Medicine) |
Covers toxicological information from a diverse set of sixteen separate sources. With coverage from 1966 to the present, TOXLINE offers over 2 million bibliographic records with in-depth abstracts. The U.S. National Library of Medicine supplies the majority of the information on TOXLINE. It provides references to published material, as well as research in progress, on many topics such as: adverse drug reactions, air pollution, carcinogenesis via chemicals, drug toxicity, food contamination, occupational hazards, pesticides and herbicides, toxicological analysis, water treatment, and more. Almost all of TOXLINE's bibliographic citations include abstracts, indexing terms, and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry Numbers. |
| 20th Century African-American Poetry |
20th Century African-American Poetry contains 12,000 poems by more than 100 African-American poets, including Audre Lorde, Langston Hughes, Rita Dove, and emerging poets. Biographical profiles accompany each poets work. |
| 20th Century American Poetry |
20th Century American Poetry contains 52,000 poems from collected works and individual volumes of poetry covering the works of most major twentieth-century American poets. The database includes the works of most major twentieth-century American poets, beginning with the traditionalists; continuing through the modernists, represented by such poets as Wallace Stevens; and moving on to the contemporary works of the 1990s. |
| 20th Century English Poetry |
20th Century English Poetry contains over 44,000 poems by 288 poets, incorporating the Modern Poetry Collection and The Faber Poetry Library. The complete text of each poem is included, and any integral images are also scanned. Introductions and prefaces to the volumes are included, as are all notes and any prose sections. |
| Vente et Gestion |
Vente et Gestion provides full text coverage for French language business journals serving both the academic and the professional researcher. This collection also includes publications covering topics such as accounting & tax, administration, industry & manufacturing, marketing, logistics, technology and others. Formerly French Business Source. |
| Vocational and Career Collection |
Vocational and Career Collection is designed for meet vocational and technical research needs. The collection provides index, abstracts, and full text for 350 trade and industry related periodicals. |
| Wall Street Journal |
The financial newspaper of record. It offers in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news. |
| Web of Science (ISI Citation Database) |
Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI Web of Science) provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in approximately 5,900 of the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 150 disciplines. |
| Women Writers Online |
Text base of the Women Writers Project. "The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Our goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. We support research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship." (WWP) |
| Women's Studies International |
Women's Studies International covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Nearly 800 essential sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, Web sites & Web documents, and grey literature. Women's Studies International supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. |
| World Almanac |
World Almanac includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, and statistics. This database incorporates the full text of The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, The World Almanac for Kids, and the World Almanac Knowledge Source. The World Almanac and Book of Facts is a single reference source that covers arts and entertainment, information about U.S. cities and states, people in the news, the nations of the world, sports, the environment, vital statistics, science and technology, computers, taxes, economics, national defense, historical anniversaries, and much more. |
| World Book Web |
World Book Web is a suite of online research tools that delivers encyclopedia articles, primary source collections, educator tools, student activities, pictures, audio, and video, complemented by current periodicals and related Web sites. All the databases are editor-screened for authenticity and age-appropriate content. |
| WorldCat |
WorldCat is the OCLC union catalog, containing more than 43 million records describing books and other items owned by libraries around the world. Each record contains library holdings. WorldCat covers thousands of subjects and includes records for items as far back as 1000 B.C. Materials covered in the catalog include: books, internet resources, computer data files, computer programs, films, journals, magazines, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, slides, sound recordings, and videotapes. WorldCat does not include individual article titles or stories in journals, magazines, newspapers, or book chapters. |
| WorldCat Dissertations and Theses |
WorldCat Dissertations and Theses is a catalog of dissertations, theses and published material based on theses and dissertations. This catalog is created by OCLC member libraries worldwide and includes dissertations, theses, etc. in all subject areas. |
| WorldCat First Search |
FirstSearch provides seamless electronic access to dozens of databases and more than 10 million full-text and full-image articles. |
| Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (through 6/30/06) |
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts 1975-2006 provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. Worldwide Political Science Abstracts subscription ended June 2006. |
| Yeats (William Butler) Collection |
William Butler Yeats Collection is a complete electronic edition of William Butler Yeats work, bringing together 22 printed volumes and including critical and fictional prose, poetry, plays, and autobiographical works. |
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