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| Database Name | Description | Supplier |
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| Academic Search Complete | Our largest interdisciplinary database, ASC indexes over 9,990 magazines and journals, more than 5,990 of which are full-text. Also indexes monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 journals. 1887 - present. fulltext? partial [*] |  |
| Black Newspapers | Contains the full-text *Afro-American Red Star*, *Chicago Defender*, *Michigan Chronicle*, *New York Amsterdam News*, *Los Angeles Sentinel*. Indexes and abstracts *Call & Post*, *Houston Post*, *Muslim Journal*, *New Journal & Guide*. 1991 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text [*] |  |
| Chronicle Campuswide - NEW! | Contains current issue of *The Chronicle of Higher Education* and the entire backfile back to September 1989; the weekly magazine, *The Chronicle Review*; all content from the annual *Almanac*; plus additional content including special, single-topic reports, slide shows, podcasts, video, and email newsletters. fulltext? Yes. [*] |  |
| CQ Researcher | Reports on social issues, environment, health, education, and science and technology written by journalists and featuring comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue. 1991 - present. fulltext? yes. [*] Limited to 5 concurrent users. |  |
| Dissertation Abstracts | Dissertation Abstracts Online is searchable by author, subject, title, advisor, etc. 1861 - present. fulltext? No full-text. [*] |  |
| Early American Newspapers, Series II and III | Online access to digitized collections of over 200 American newspapers dating from 1758-1900 (Series II) and 1829-1922 (Series III). Includes a selection of newspapers from across the United States. fulltext? Full-text. [*] |  |
| EBSCOhost EJS | EJS (Electronic Journals Service) provides a gateway to many electronic journal subscriptions not available through other databases. Users may browse available journals or search for specific journals or articles. fulltext? yes. [truncation not supported] |  |
| Google Scholar | Use Google's search engine for "scholarly literature" via the Andruss Library Web site to link to subscribed sources on and off-campus. Look for "CheckAvailability@BloomU" or "FullText@BloomU" links. fulltext? partial, via links. [If off-campus, you will be asked for your Lib#.] |  |
| GPO | The finding tool for federal publications. Direct links to those available online are provided. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general key word, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options.
1976 - present. fulltext? [*] |  |
| IngentaConnect | The free service provides article summaries from over 31,700 publications, with links to full-text journals to which Andruss Library subscribes. Some content back to 1900. fulltext? Partial full-text. [* but not used in 'title' field.] |  |
| JSTOR | A searchable collection of over 600 full text journals, some dating back to the 19th century. Recent issues of most journals are embargoed. Only plurals truncation is available. fulltext? Full Text [use + for plural JSTOR tutorial] |  |
| LexisNexis Academic | Searches business, legal, news information in a single interface. Includes newspapers and new magazines from the U.S. and around the world; TV and radio broadcast transcripts; wire services; business news and analysis publications; industry and market new; company information; country profiles; law reviews and journals; U.S. case law; and U.S. statutes. fulltext? Full-Text. [!] |  |
| Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts | Indexes 600+ periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Covers librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. 1965 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| Library Literature & Information Science | Library Literature & Information Science Full Text indexes more than 234 library and information science periodicals. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed. Full-text coverage begins in 1994. 1984 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] 1 simultaneous user. |  |
| netLibrary | A catalog of over 12,000 ebooks, plus over 3,000 books in the public domain, provided through the Access Pennsylvania Database project, a statewide library union catalog funded by the Pennsylvania Legislature and administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Office of Commonwealth Libraries, Bureau of Library Development. fulltext? Full-text. [*] |  |
| NewsBank | Articles from over 500 newspapers from U.S. and Canada only from 1986-1998. fulltext? Full-text. [For use in Library only.] |  |
| Newspaper Source | Selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Novelist Plus | Comprehensive readers' advisory for fiction. Search for titles based on level, subject, title or author. fulltext? No full-text. [*] |  |
| Papers First | Papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library. 1993 - present. fulltext? No full-text. [*] | |
| Points of View Reference Center | Provides help in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. Use as a guide to debate, developing arguments, writing position papers, and for development of critical thinking skills. Each essay includes a series of questions and additional material to generate further thought.
fulltext? Full-text [*] | |
| Proceedings First | An index of conference publications. 1993 - present. fulltext? No full-text. [*] | |
| Project MUSE | A searchable collection of over 300 full text academic press journals covering literature, history, the arts, education, philosophy, political science and more. 1990 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [*] |  |
| ProQuest Classic | Contains all the ProQuest databases: ABI/Inform, ProQuest Newspapers, and Research Library. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| ProQuest Newspapers | Citations from over 25 papers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. 1982 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Research Library | An interdisciplinary database indexing more than 3,820 periodical titles, over 2,550 of which are full-text. 1971 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| Sage Journals Online | Over 460 full-text journals in business, humanities, education, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. 1999 - present. fulltext? [*] |  |
| Vocational and Career Collection | Provides coverage for 400 full text trade and industry-related journals and indexes 650 additional journals. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Washington Post (1877 - 1993) - NEW! | Historical Newspaper offering full page and article images with searchable full-text. (May NOT be searched in combination with non-historical databases.) fulltext? Yes. [*] | |
| Web of Science | Provides access to ISI's Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index. SCI indexes 6400+ major journals across 71 disciplines, and SSCI covers 1800+ social sciences journals spanning 54 disciplines. "Cited reference searching" identifies papers citing a previously published paper.
Click on "Article Finder" icon to see if Andruss Library owns.
1986 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] |  |
| Wiley Interscience | Provides access to 150+ full-text journals in the sciences, health sciences, and social sciences, including business, education, and psychology. Also provides abstracts to additional journals, books, and other materials. If prompted for user name and password, we do not have access. 1997 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] |  |
| World Cat | Over 40 million records of books, Internet sites and other materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries worldwide. Updated daily. fulltext? No full-text. [*] |  |
| World News Digest | Facts On File World News Digest since 1940 and selected content from Issues and Controversies On File, Today's Science On File, Editorials On File, Reuters On-Line News Service, etc. fulltext? Full-text. [*] |  |
Business/Economics |
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| Database Name | Description | Supplier |
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| ABI/Inform | Indexes approximately 2,890 business periodicals and newspapers with full text for for about 1,920 (including the Wall Street Journal). 1971 - present. fulltext? partial [*] | |
| Business Source Premier | Our largest business database, BSP provides the full-text for more than 2,300 journals, including many peer-reviewed titles. Also includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses. 1965 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| CCH Tax Research Network | Federal, state, and international tax service from Commerce Clearing House. fulltext? Full-text. [!] 35 concurrent users. |  |
| Company Profiles | These Datamonitor profiles do not contain the highly detailed breakdowns found in premium reports but give the most important qualitative and quantitative summary information - including predictions and forecasts. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Core Reference | Includes annual and quarterly financial statements, stock price charts and company lists, annual and quarterly business segment financials, officer & director information and summaries of stock ownership, dividends and short interest. Updated daily to provide latest stock price data and pricing calculations data for the last 5 years. fulltext? Full-text. [automatically searches word stem] 3 concurrent users. |  |
| Econlit | Provides comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more. 10 concurrent users. 1969 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| Global Market Information Database | Provides macro data from Euromonitor for 207 countries, ranging from GDP trends to media expenditure, plus consumer lifestyle data, world consumer markets categories, forecasting information, and country profiles. 1977 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [Click on 'Accept' to begin. Select search type on left menu. Global Market Information Database Tutorial ] |  |
| IBISWorld | Includes reports on over 700 US industries and over 8,000 publicly traded US companies; also includes information on economic factors affecting the business environment. Four databases available: Industry Market Research, Industry Risk Ratings, Company Research, and Business Environment. fulltext? Full-text. [Updated quarterly.] |  |
| Lexis-Nexis Business | Specializes in trade magazines and newspapers, plus company financial reports and other information. fulltext? Full-text. [!] | |
| MediaMark Reporter | Comprehensive demographic, lifestyle, product usage and exposure to all forms of advertising media collected from a single sample. fulltext? Full-text. [For use in Library only.] | |
| ReferenceUSA | Contains detailed information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses and 210 million U.S. residents. Useful for market research; sort by geographic area, business name or size including sales, type of business, and more. fulltext? Full-text. [*] |  |
| Regional Business News | Provides comprehensive full text coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| SRDS Media Solutions | Access to the full-text of Consumer Magazine Advertising Source® and Newspaper Advertising Source®. fulltext? [Click on link to access, then select either either subscription on 'My Services'.] |  |
| Value Line Investment Survey | A survey of over 1300 companies provides information for both investment and market research. fulltext? Full-text. [5 simultaneous users.] |  |
| Wall Street Journal | The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance. All citations are full text. 1984 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
Arts & Humanities |
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| Database Name | Description | Supplier |
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| AHSearch | ISI's Arts & Humanities Citation Index, indexing over 5400 periodicals. 1980 - present. fulltext? No full-text. [*] | |
| Arden Shakespeare | Narrative and dramatic sources of Shakespeare; an extensive bibliography of 4,600 works; works on the grammar and language of Shakespeare, and more. fulltext? No full-text. [For use in Library only.] | |
| Art Abstracts | Indexes 450+ international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. (Use as alternate for Art Full Text.) 1984 to present. fulltext? Links to full text. [*] | |
| Art Full Text | Provides full-text for approximately 160 journals from 1997 to the present. In addition, indexes 480+ periodicals from 1984 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| ARTstor | ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. Users may view, present, and manage images for research and teaching purposes.
fulltext? [*] |  |
| CAIRSS for Music | Citations from 1,354 different music journals. Covers music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine. fulltext? No full-text. [To see if the library owns a journal, check our Periodical Title List.] |  |
| Communication & Mass Media Complete | Indexes 660+ journals in communications and mass media literature; 350 of these are full text. In addition to the Communication Thesaurus, also includes over 5,000 Author Profiles. 1920 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Essay and General Literature Index | Indexes nearly 65,000 essays found in over 5,300 printed anthologies and collections published in the U.S., Great Britain, and Canada. (New interface replaces EBSCOhost version.) 1985 - present. fulltext? No full-text. [*] | |
| Grove Music | The Grove Dictionary of Music Online now includes 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. fulltext? Full-text. [*] |  |
| Humanities International Complete | Provides full text of over 770 journals, books and other published sources from around the world, covering all aspects of the humanities. fulltext? Full-Text. [*] | |
| MLA Directory of Periodicals | A directory (not an index) of over 7,100 journals which includes editorial contacts, frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines. fulltext? No full-text. [*] | |
| MLA International Bibliography | A bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations produced by the Modern Language Association. It has citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. 1963 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| Music Index | Coverage from 1976 to the present. Indexes 775 international music periodicals from over 40 countries, with English translations from 22 languages. fulltext? Use Article Linker to check availability. [*] | |
| Philosopher's Index | Abstracts for books and over 450 journals of philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields. 1940 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] 1 concurrent user. | |
| Play Index | Indexes over 30,000 plays written from antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present. fulltext? No full-text. [*] 1 user. | |
| Religion and Philosophy Collection | Contains more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| World Shakespeare Bibliography Online | Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, etc. related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1968 to the present. [*]. fulltext? No full-text. [*] |  |
Education |
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| Database Name | Description | Supplier |
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| Book Collection: Nonfiction | Full text of 4,000+ nonfiction books on subjects including careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills and more. K-12th grade. Limit searches to Lexile reading levels. (Formerly called BookSource: Nonfiction) 1983 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Children's Literature Comprehensive Database | CLCD contains more than 280,000 reviews of children's books from 36 sources as well as listings for over 440,000 book awards and book lists. Includes teaching tools (lesson plans & teaching guides) and allows limiting by age or grade level. fulltext? [Truncation is done by selecting 'word variants' on search screen.] |  |
| Education Full Text | Full text from 350+ journals from 1996 - present. In addition, indexes 750 periodicals from 1983 - present. Coverage includes about 79 journals (37 with full text) not covered by ERIC’s CIJE. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| Education Research Complete | Indexes 1,500+ journals; contains full-text for 750+ journals and 100+ books & conference papers. fulltext? [*] | |
| ERIC | Provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals. 1966 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| Kraus Curriculum Development Library Online | A searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards that brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education. fulltext? Many recent documents are full-text. [*] |  |
| MAS Ultra School Edition | Provides full text to nearly 600 popular general interest and current events publications. Also provides full text to more than 500 pamphlets, 268 reference books, over 84,000 biographies, and over 88,000 primary source documents, in addition to an Image Collection of over 107,000 photos, maps, and flags. 1975 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| NoveList K-8 Plus | Identifies stories by geographical area, cultures and relationships, etc. Limits include Lexile ranges. fulltext? No full-text. [*] | |
| Primary Search | Provides indexing of nearly 100 children's magazines with full text for over 60 titles with Lexile reading levels included. Over 100 children's pamphlets and over 100,000 photos, maps, and flags. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Professional Development Collection | Provides a highly specialized collection of more than 750 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. It is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world. 1965 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
Medicine/Health |
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| Database Name | Description | Supplier |
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| Alt Health Watch | Provides access to complementary and alternative medicine literature published in over 180 full text publications (including some peer-reviewed journals). 1984 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Annual Reviews Biomedical Sciences | Synthesizes primary research literature in 29 scientific disciplines. Search across all disciplines or limit search to subject area. Full text articles indicated by a green checkmark; if prompted for a user name/password, we do not subscribe to that journal. 1930 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] |  |
| CINAHL | The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature database indexes over 2,900 journals. Full text material includes 72 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments, clinical trials. 1981 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| Cochrane Library | Systematic literature reviews of healthcare interventions. 1800 - present fulltext? Full-text. [*] 1 user |  |
| Consumer Health Complete | Contains consumer-oriented health content from mainstream medicine, and also complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. Contains a variety of sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, fact sheets, evidence-based reports, videos, animations, and images. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Health Source: Consumer Education | Indexing for nearly 600 periodicals (half in full text) as well as pamphlets and book sections for general health, nutrition and professional health care. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition | Provides access to 550+ scholarly full text journals, most of which are peer-reviewed. Indexes and abstracts an additional 800+ journals. Also contains the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide (generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names). 1975 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Journals@Ovid | Full-text for 25 health care journals and searchable abstracts for more than 2,000 health science & science journals. To limit to full-text, check "Ovid Full Text Available" near bottom of search screen. 1966 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [$] 1 user. |  |
| MEDLINE | Provides abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals indexed by the National Library of Medicine. 1966 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| PubMed | PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Links to Andruss Library holdings via Article Linker (from the abstract). 1950 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] |  |
| SPORTDiscus with Full Text | Indexes books and journals for exercise physiology, sports medicine, physical therapy, physical fitness, training, coaching, etc. Journal coverage ranges from 1985 to the present; over half of journals are full text. 1985 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| ʍ Wired.MD streaMed Patient Education Solution | Consumer health and patient education videos developed by leading physicians and educators. They present important information regarding common health conditions, diagnoses, procedures, and treatments. fulltext? [Requires video player] |  |
Sciences/Technology/Math |
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| Database Name | Description | Supplier |
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| ACM Digital Library | Contains the full text of all articles published by the Association for Computing Machinery, plus articles co-published or co-marketed by ACM and other publishers.
1952 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [*] |  |
| ACS Publications | Current and back issues of over 30 journals published by the American Chemical Society. 1909 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [*] |  |
| Agricola | Indexes more than 4.1 million records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library, including journal articles, books, theses, patents, and technical reports. 1970 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| American Association of Physicists in Medicine Reports | The AAPM has made over 100 reports available for free online. 1977 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [The Library has some reports in print, too.] |  |
| Annual Reviews Physical Sciences | Synthesizes primary research literature in 29 scientific disciplines. Search across all disciplines or limit search to subject area. Full text articles indicated by a green checkmark; if prompted for a user name/password, we do not subscribe to that journal. 1930 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| Applied Science and Technology Full Text | Includes the full text for approximately 185 journals from 1997 to present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| Biological Abstracts | Abstracts and indexes life science journal literature; 4,000+ journals covering agriculture, biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, botany, ecology, environment, microbiology, neurology, pharmacology, and public health; international scope. 1997 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| BioOne | Contains the full-text of over 80 academic journals published by American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) member societies and other related organizations. fulltext? Yes. [*] |  |
| Chemical Abstracts: SciFinder | The most complete collection of chemical information, with over 18 million abstracts of journal articles, etc. PREREGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO OBTAIN A USER NAME AND PASSWORD. CONTACT THE DATABASE COORDINATOR, LINDA NEYER, x4801, FOR THE REGISTRATION URL. 1907 - present. fulltext? Links to full-text. [1 shared seat.] |  |
| Computers & Applied Sciences Complete | Indexes 1,300+ scholarly and professional publications, 500+ of which are full-text. Covers engineering, computer theory & systems, new technologies, and social & professional context. fulltext? [*] | |
| EBSCO Animals | Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| FAITS: Faulkner Advisory for Information Technology Studies | Contains hundreds of online technology reports created for the academic community. Covers IT infrastructure, telecom, wireless communications, data networking, security, enterprise systems, the Internet and WWW, in addition to technology vendors. fulltext? Full-text. [Can also explore by topic or report type.] |  |
| GEOBASE | Abstracts from over 2000 journals covering the worldwide literature on geology, geography, and ecology. 1980 - present. fulltext? No full-text. [*] | |
| Geo Ref | Records covering subjects such as mineralogy and crystallography. Bibliographic records from more than 3,000 journals are included in the database as well as books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| GreenFILE | Information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment, including scholarly, government and general-interest titles with content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. fulltext? [*] | |
| IEEE Computer Society Digital Library | Access and search the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Computer Society full-text journals, transactions, and conference proceedings. 1979 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [*] |  |
| IOPscience | Provides access to over 80 full-text journals in physics, across scientific, technical and medical disciplines. 1874 - present. fulltext? [*] |  |
| MathSciNet | The online version of Mathematical Reviews, which provides timely reviews or summaries of journals (over 1700) and books containing contributions to mathematical research. 1940 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] |  |
| Nature.com - NEW! | Provides access to the journal Nature in addition to letters, blogs, file-sharing and social networks. 2004 - present fulltext? Full-text to Nature only. [*] |  |
| Science Citation Index Expanded | Subset of ISI's Web of Science. Select 'Science Citation Index Expanded' on the 'Web of Science' search screen to limit your search to 6400+ major journals across 71 disciplines. 1986 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| ScienceDirect | Provides access to over 50 subscribed, full-text journals, including the journal, *Digital Investigation: The International Journal of Digital Forensics & Incident Response* and the reference book, *Encyclopedia of Virology*. fulltext? Partial full-text. [!] |  |
| Science - NEW! | The American Association for the Advancement of Science provides access to the journal Science here as well as to additional information including news reports, podcasts, videos, images, and more. 1997 - present. fulltext? Yes. [*] |  |
| Scirus | Scirus is a free, science-specific database indexing over 18 million full-text articles & abstracts, 13 million patents, and 167 million Web pages. NOTE: Check Andruss Library's 'Periodical Title List' for possible access to journal articles. 1920 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] |  |
| Scitopia | A free, federated search portal which searches journal content, conference proceedings, and patents. Publishers include the Acoustical Society of erica, American Geophysical Union, American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, AVS, The Electrochemical Society, IEEE, Institute of Physics Publishing, Optical Society of America, SPIE,
Society of Automotive Engineers,
and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. fulltext? [To see if the Library has a journal, search the Periodical Title List.] |  |
| SPIN Web | To search, click on radio button for "SPIN." Full-text access to *American Journal of Physics*, *The Physics Teacher*, and *Physical Review Letters*. If you are prompted for user name and password, we do not have access to that journal in SPIN, and you should check our Periodical Title list to see if we own. 1975 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] |  |
Social Sciences/Law |
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| Database Name | Description | Supplier |
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| Abstracts in Anthropology | Abstracts and indexes journal articles in the field of anthropology and its subfields: Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, Archaeology, and Linguistics. 2001 - present fulltext? no. [Search the Periodical Title List to see if Library has journal.] |  |
| America: History and Life | Indexes over 1,700 scholarly U. S. and Canadian history journals. Good source for book and media reviews and dissertation information. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| Annual Reviews Social Sciences | Synthesizes primary research literature in 29 scientific disciplines. Search across all disciplines or limit search to subject area. Full text articles indicated by a green checkmark; if prompted for a user name/password, we do not subscribe to that journal. 1930 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| AnthroSource | Provides online access to 15 American Anthropological Association journals including *American Anthropologist*, *American Ethnologist*, *Anthropology and Education Quarterly*, and *Medical Anthropology Quarterly*. 1980 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [truncation is automatic] |  |
| Civil War Official Army Records | A compilation of the official records of the union and confederate armies, with 131,000 pages. fulltext? Full-text. [For use in Library only.] | |
| Contemporary Women's Issues | Abstracts and/or citations and footnotes from 1500 periodicals on contemporary women's issues. Use "Subject Heading" rather than "Subject". 1992 - present fulltext? No full-text. [*] | |
| Criminal Justice Abstracts | Abstracts of current books, government reports, and dissertations published worldwide, plus coverage of over 500 journals. 1968 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| eHRAF World Cultures | Formerly called the Ethnography Collection, the database contains sections of books, articles, and dissertations for various cultures or ethnic groups and organized by the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF). (Approx. 155 out of 385 cultures are online; remainder are available on microfiche in Andruss Library. Ask at Ref Desk for help.) fulltext? Full-text. [*] |  |
| Historical Abstracts | Database of the world's scholarly literature in history (except U. S. & Canada) and related fields. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| Historical Atlas of the Holocaust | Presents maps and textual background information produced for the Wexner Learning Center of the U. S. Holocaust Museum. fulltext? Full-text. [For use in Library only.] | |
| History Reference Center | Provides full-text for 750+ historical encyclopedias & books and 55+ history journals, covering topics from 4,000 B.C to present. Also includes full-text biographies, pamphlets, newspapers, as well as images (photos & maps) and streaming video from the Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century. 1964 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Homeland Security Digital Library | Access to policy and strategy documents from federal, state, and local government agencies; international governments and institutions; and research institutions, universities, and think tanks. [NOTE: Some browsers may require you to allow an add-on to run.] fulltext? Full-text. [truncation or wildcards not supported] |  |
| In the First Person | Primary sources (first-person English language narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories). Contains both free and subscription materials (which are not accessible). ca 1600 - present, updated quarterly. fulltext? Partial full-text. [* ] |  |
| Legal Collection | Full text for approximately 250 peer-reviewed law journals. Covers criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment and more. 1965 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Lexis-Nexis Congressional | Contains legislative information including texts of bills, legislative histories, and Congressional committee hearings. Dates vary by topic. fulltext? Partial full-text. [!] | |
| Lexis-Nexis Legal Research | Legal newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and reviews; case Law; codes & Regulations; European Union law; tax Law; patents; lawyers, law firms, & law schools. fulltext? Full-text. [!] | |
| Mental Measurements Yearbook | Produced by the Buros Institute, the MMY contains test entries with descriptive information, professional reviews, and reviewer references on commercially available, English language tests. 1938 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Military and Government Collection | Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 450 periodicals with cover-to-cover full text for more than 350 titles. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| PsycARTICLES | Full text articles on current issues in psychology from more than 40 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO. 1987 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection | Contains full text for nearly 550 journals, most of which are full-text. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| PsycINFO | Citations and/or summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports for psychology and related disciplines from nearly 2000 journals, most of which are peer reviewed [P]. 1887 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| Social Sciences Citation Index | Subset of ISI's Web of Science. Select 'Social Sciences Citation Index' on the Web of Science search screen to limit your search to 1800+ social sciences journals spanning 54 disciplines. 1986 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] | |
| Social Work Abstracts | Indexes and abstracts the social work literature. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers. 1977 - present. fulltext? Partial full-text. [*] 1 user only - please logoff when finished! | |
| SocINDEX with Full Text | Indexes journal articles, books, & conference papers, many of which are full-text including over 300 journals. Disciplines covered include sociology, anthropology, criminal justice, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, social psychology, social work, and more. 1895 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Sociological Collection | Contains full text for nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all 523 journals in the collection. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Tests in Print | Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, TIP serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. Includes information on test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). fulltext? No full-text. [*] | |
| U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 | Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Westlaw Campus Research | Online access to American Jurisprudence, 2d; American Law Reports; 800+ law reviews and journals; and many primary law sources (USCA, Federal Register, etc). fulltext? [!] |  |
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| American Heritage Dictionary | Part of the MAS Ultra School database, this is the 4th edition of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, published in 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| APA Style Guide to Electronic References - NEW! | Expanded and updated from the Electronic Resources section of the Fifth Edition of the *Publication Manual of the APA*. fulltext? yes, PDF format. [NOTE: According to the Library's site license, users may print a single copy for personal use ONLY.] |  |
| AP Images | AP photos, graphics (maps, charts, graphs, logos, etc.), and 4600+ hours of audio clips (1920 - present). BU students and faculty may freely use contents for educational purposes only. 1820 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [*] 1 simultaneous user. |  |
| ARBAonline | Contains 15,000+ reference book reviews published in the American Reference Books Annual, beginning with Volume 28. 1997 - present. fulltext? Full-text. [*] |  |
| College Blue Book | Electronic access to 6 volume set providing information on colleges & universities in the U.S. and Canada, their programs, degrees, and financial aid sources. Arranged geographically and by subject. 33rd ed. fulltext? Full-text. [*] |  |
| Contemporary Authors | Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television. fulltext? Full-text. [*] |  |
| Dictionary of Literary Biography | Provides access to the entire print DLB, including 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, including historians, journalists, publishers, and screenwriters. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Encyclopaedia of Islam Online | Full-text to the Encyclopedia of Islam (English), volumes I to XI and Supplement (Volume XII). Search for keyword or browse the Table of Contents. fulltext? [1 user] |  |
| Encyclopedia of Aesthetics - NEW! | Includes more than six hundred essays on approximately four hundred individuals, concepts, periods, theories, issues, and movements in the history of aesthetics, ranging from the most ancient aesthetic traditions around the world to the Greco-Roman era, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Modernism, and Postmodernism, up to the present. fulltext? Yes. [*] |  |
| Encyclopedia of Evolution | Articles on essential concepts and theories, present methods, models and findings, covering both the history of the field and current controversies. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Encyclopedia of GIS - NEW! | Covers nearly 200 topics, including major overviews, such as Geoinformatics, Spatial Cognition, and Location-Based Services; shorter entries such as the Global Positioning System, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model, and Remote Sensing. fulltext? yes. [] |  |
| Encyclopedia of Global Change | Addresses a host of topics pertaining to global change, e.g., tsunamis, elephant conservation, ocean pollution, mining regulation, permafrost melt, etc. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Encyclopedia of Social Problems - NEW! | Over 600 entries on all of the major theories, approaches, and contemporary issues in social problems. fulltext? Yes. [*] |  |
| Encyclopedia of Social Work - NEW! | 20th edition, published the NASW Press and Oxford University Press. fulltext? Yes. [*] | |
| Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment | Includes not only Western Europe but also North America, Brazil, and Iberian, Russian, Jewish, and Eastern European cultures. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages | All aspects of the period from the fifth to the fifteenth century. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia | Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art & Architecture - NEW! | More than 1000 articles spanning the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome as well as the earlier Minoan, Cycladic, Helladic (including Mycenaean) and Etruscan cultures. fulltext? Yes. [*] | |
| Image Collection - NEW! | Search for images across multiple EBSCOhost databases including Academic Search Complete, Business Source Premier, Communication & Mass Media Complete, EBSCO Animals, Education Research Complete, GreenFILE, History Reference Center, SPORTDiscus with Full Text, and Teacher Reference Center and more. fulltext? [*] | |
| International Encyclopedia of Dance | Covers all types of dance, plus music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| International Encyclopedia of Linguistics | Full range of topics in linguistics, including historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, philosophical, and sociolinguistics. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| OED Online - NEW! | Online access to the Oxford English Dictionary, the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. fulltext? Yes. [*] |  |
| Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium | 1,100 years of Byzantine history. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance | Covers the art, literature, science, culture, philosophy, religion, economics, history, and conflict of the period.
fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature | 350 essays encompassing the range and depth of American literary history from the 1600s to the present day. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt | The social, political, religious, cultural and artistic history of the 5,000-year civilization. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature | History of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the major literary languages (Anglo-Saxon, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Latin). fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature | Essays on all genres of children's literature, individual works, and prominent trends and themes, as well as general essays on the traditions of children's literature in countries throughout the world.
fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History | Provides an overview of the history of economics. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America | A history of food in America. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States | Over 900 articles addressing such broad topics as identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history. fulltext? [*] | |
| Oxford Encyclopedia of Rhetoric - NEW! | Contains approximately two hundred entries, ranging in size from very short for certain figures of speech to the longer entries such as the one on classical rhetoric. fulltext? Yes. [*] | |
| Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance | Covers dance, opera, radio, film, television, and popular performances. fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation | Covers not only issues of church polity and theology but also developments in politics, economics, demographics, art and literature.
fulltext? Full-text. [*] | |
| Reference Universe - NEW! | Interdisciplinary index to over 10,000 specialized encyclopedias, compendia and handbooks, in both print and electronic formats. Customized to our Library, helps you identify the best resources to help you begin your research with truly authoritative articles. 1985 – present. fulltext? No. [Select plural or singular forms of words.] |  |
| Serials Directory | Contains over 182,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers, historical data for an additional 20,000 titles and data from over 85,000 publishers worldwide. fulltext? No full-text. [*] | |
| Ulrich's Web | Contains bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types — academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world. fulltext? [*] |  |
