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Databases A to Z

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ABI/Inform Complete This link opens in a new window
Full-text journals, business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, and country/industry focused reports. International coverage gives a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of all academic disciplines, Academic OneFile is authoritative and comprehensive.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database, with more than 7,400 full-text periodicals, including more than 6,300 peer-reviewed journals. Updated daily.
Accounting, Tax, & Banking Collection This link opens in a new window
Global and scholarly journals with key resources for quick and precise results covering current news and topics, as well as the trends and history influencing important accounting and tax issues of the day.
Advanced Technologies & Aerospace This link opens in a new window
The Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database includes the renowned Aerospace Database and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
Agricola This link opens in a new window
Index to materials acquired by the National Agricultural Library and co-operating institutions. Includes journal articles and materials in many non-print formats covering a broad range of agricultural topics.
Agriculture Collection This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive view of agriculture and related fields. The database provides access to current and authoritative content that spans the industry -- from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.
Agriculture Science This link opens in a new window
This database contains the leading agricultural journals published in North America. ProQuest Agriculture Journals offers the complete text as well as complete images from such journals as Agricultural Research, Forest Products Journal, Journal of Animal Science, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation and Plant Physiology.
Ancestry Library This link opens in a new window
History and genealogy resource that includes more than 7,000 databases with billions of historical records on individuals, families, and places. Sources include censuses, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, and maps.
Applied Science & Technology Source This link opens in a new window
A diverse array of full-text and indexed content covering the full spectrum of the applied sciences and computing disciplines — from acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear engineering.
Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Index to journal articles, conference papers, books, monographs, theses, technical reports, and non-conventional literature covering all aspects of marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. International in scope. Updated quarterly.
Arts & Humanities This link opens in a new window
Access to 400 contemporary specialist arts titles combined with journals from related fields including ethnic studies, women’s studies, cultural studies, and more. Titles include both scholarly peer-reviewed journals and selected trade and consumer titles relevant to applied arts and cultural studies.
ArtStor This link opens in a new window
An unparalleled range of images from some of the world’s leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in one easily-navigated repository. Artstor facilitates research and education in numerous disciplines, including art, architecture, religion, anthropology, fashion, world history, and more.
Asian & European Business Collection This link opens in a new window
This database provides information pertinent to the study of business and finance topics across Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, newswires, and magazines.
Australia & New Zealand This link opens in a new window
This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Australia and New Zealand. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
AVON This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online delivers over 70,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Biological Science Database This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to a wide range of biology topics including some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government and public research environments.
Board Vitals This link opens in a new window
Board Vitals from STAT!Ref is a high-quality, effective, and powerful board review tool that can be used anytime anywhere.
Books & Authors This link opens in a new window
Books & Authors offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics - bringing readers and literature together. Through the use of expertly written and arranged content and a dynamic, cutting edge user interface, Books & Authors makes exploration of genre fiction and essential non-fiction fun!
Business This link opens in a new window
Full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management, and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications.
Business & Entrepreneurship This link opens in a new window
Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.
Business Market Research Collection (BMRC) This link opens in a new window
Conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from these sources: Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch, Barnes Reports and more.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts for more than 4,800 scholarly, trade, popular, and special interest serials in the fields of business and industry. Additional content includes financial data, books, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, and more.
Business Video Database This link opens in a new window
Business Video Database features executive interviews, corporate training video, case studies, “how to” features and documentary films that focus on all aspects of the global business environment.
Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) This link opens in a new window
This database, with 600 full text titles, is the most comprehensive Canadian reference collection available today. Accessible to readers and researchers at every level, CBCA Complete features a highly-respected, diversified mix of publications, including scholarly journals, trade publications, dissertations, books, newspapers and magazines.
Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
This database offers unparalleled access to the full text of over 190 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.
Career & Technical Education Database This link opens in a new window
The definitive source for vocational information. The database includes nearly 600 titles, with more than 500 available in full text for quick access to research on virtually any technical topic.
Chilton Library This link opens in a new window
ChiltonLibrary.com represents the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners. There are thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models. ChiltonLibrary.com gives you the confidence to service or repair virtually any system on your vehicle.
CINAHL with Full Text This link opens in a new window
A rich collection of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 610 journals indexed in CINAHL®. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. Full-text coverage dates back to 1981.
Communications & Mass Media This link opens in a new window
Access to academic journals and magazines focusing on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered in the database include advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and more.
Computer Science Database This link opens in a new window
This database is a premium resource for those who need access to comprehensive coverage of computer topics. The database includes numerous titles, most of them in full text, allowing users to search records dating back to the early 1990's.
Congress.Gov This link opens in a new window
Congress.gov is the online database of United States Congress legislative information. Congress.gov is a joint project of the Library of Congress, the House, the Senate and the Government Publishing Office.
Consumer Health Database This link opens in a new window
This database includes journals and magazines covering an enormous range of health subjects, from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry.
Continental Europe This link opens in a new window
This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many European countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
Coronavirus Research Database This link opens in a new window
Including coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, this database curates openly available content related to coronaviruses. It includes thousands of open-access articles from the world’s leading publishers as well as current research from pre-print repositories such as arXiv and will continue to grow and evolve as more is learned about the pandemic.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
In-depth analysis on a wide range of political and social issues. CQ Researcher provides "a tool for selecting a topic to research and a comprehensive resource for exploring that topic."
Criminal Justice This link opens in a new window
Access to academic journals and magazines on topics in criminal justice and related fields. Key subjects covered in the database include law, law enforcement, security, and terrorism.
Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Criminal Justice is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. As well as U.S. and international scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, and crime reports.
Culinary Arts This link opens in a new window
Access to academic journals and magazines on all aspects of cooking and nutrition. The database includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.
CultureGrams This link opens in a new window
CultureGrams is a hidden gem - a sort of database within the ProQuest databases. Updated annually, CultureGrams is an insider's perspective on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.
Diversity Studies This link opens in a new window
Access to scholarly journals and magazines that explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community. The database is a must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework.
Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science This link opens in a new window
The Earth, Atmospheric, & Aquatic Science Database is an interdisciplinary resource of quality, curated A&I combined with full-text content from scholarly journals, trade journals, conference proceedings, and other sources.
East & Central Europe This link opens in a new window
This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in East European and Central European countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
East & South Asia This link opens in a new window
This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many East Asian and South Asian countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
EconLit This link opens in a new window
Economic literature including accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, and urban economics.
Economics & Theory This link opens in a new window
Access to academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics and related fields. The database has an emphasis on titles indexed in the American Economic Association's EconLit bibliography.
Education Journals This link opens in a new window
Access to over 900 top educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text. The coverage spans the literature on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling and adult education.
Educators' Reference Complete This link opens in a new window
Access to academic journals, reports, and many premier reference sources in the field of education. The database includes content in key subject areas including administration, bilingual education, child development and psychology, funding, health education, technology, and testing.
Engineering This link opens in a new window
Engineering related full-text articles on technological and engineering innovations going back to 1966. It provides titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
English/Spanish Dictionary This link opens in a new window
English-Spanish resource includes a dictionary and glossary.
Entrepreneurship This link opens in a new window
Access to academic journals and magazines perfect for both business school students and entrepreneurs. The database offers content that includes insights, tips, strategies and success stories.
Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
Coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine science, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, public policy, urban planning, and more. The database contains full text for more than 400 journals, such as Environment, Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc.
Environmental Science This link opens in a new window
The Environmental Science Database is a cross-disciplinary resource of full-text content of global literature across this field and related disciplines. It provides the most complete collection of resources available to support research and learning in environmental science and related fields.
Environmental Studies This link opens in a new window
This database focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues covering energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development.
Environmental Studies & Policy This link opens in a new window
Access to scholarly journals, magazines, and other reference sources covering environmental issues and policies. The database includes diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policymakers, and corporate interests.
ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts journal articles and documents on education research and practice, from 1966 to the present. Updated monthly.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Films On Demand is a streaming video service containing outstanding educational programs. Many programs from the History Channel, Biography Channel, BBC, PBS and other news channels are included in this collection. Films on Demand does not contain feature films.
Fine Arts This link opens in a new window
Access to scholarly journals and magazines that support research in areas including drama, music, art history, and film making. The database emphasizes full-text content for publications included in the Wilson Art Index and RILM bibliography.
Flipster This link opens in a new window
Flipster provides user-friendly, browsable access to popular magazines from a variety of publishers.
Food Science & Technology Abstracts (FSTA) This link opens in a new window
Over 500,000 references covering food science, food technology and human nutrition including basic food science and toxicology.
Gardening & Horticulture This link opens in a new window
Access to academic journals and magazines focused on both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies. The database offers bio-technologists, farmers, hobbyists, and landscape architects alike access to important content relevant to their pursuits.
Gender Studies This link opens in a new window
The Gender Studies collection provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society. The database offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
General OneFile This link opens in a new window
A one-stop source for news, magazine, and periodical articles across a wide range of general interest topics and academic disciplines. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, General OneFile serves a wide audience of readers.
Global Breaking Newswires This link opens in a new window
In the modern news world, newswires are the chief source of timely news and, with increasing pressures on the traditional news industry, newswires are often the only news coverage for many large regions of the globe. Global Breaking Newswires is the premier library news product providing timely access to the best newswire content available from around the globe.
GreenFile This link opens in a new window
GreenFILE provides information on all aspects of human impact to the environment, including such subjects as global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments.
Grove Music Online This link opens in a new window
More than 50,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works. Access includes companion resources including The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Health & Medical Collection This link opens in a new window
This database offers reliable, comprehensive journal coverage of clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration and more.
Health & Medicine This link opens in a new window
Access to medical and professional periodicals, health and fitness magazines, and reference books and pamphlets. The database is designed for both nursing and allied health students as well as consumer health researchers.
Health & Wellness This link opens in a new window
This comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices, and more.
Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window
Health topics including the medical sciences, psychology, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, health care law and general health.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 540 scholarly full text journals and abstracts and indexing for over 570 journals.
Healthcare Administration This link opens in a new window
The Healthcare Administration Database is designed for researchers studying the field of health administration. This high-demand healthcare management content provides the most reliable and relevant information on a wide range of topics, including hospitals, insurance, law, statistics, business management, personnel management, ethics, health economics, and public health administration.
History Now This link opens in a new window
Quarterly e-journal published by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Current and past issues of History Now explore topics in American history through articles, essays, primary sources, videos, and more.
History Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Covering both U.S. and world history topics, History Reference Center is a full-text database featuring historical reference books, magazines, journals and thousands of primary source documents.
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center provides full-text content for many of the most popular hobbies, crafts and recreation activities today. Including full text for more than 960 magazines and books, as well as access to more than 720 videos and more than 140 hobby profiles, this database offers detailed how-to instructions and creative ideas for arts & crafts; collecting; games & electronics; model building; home & leisure; needlework; outdoors & nature; and scrapbooking & papercraft.
Home Improvement This link opens in a new window
Access to titles covering topics including architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and others. The database offers content that meets the needs of hobbyists and professionals alike.
Hospitality & Tourism This link opens in a new window
Broad coverage of the cultural and economic aspects of travel and tourism. This database offers well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries.
In Context: College This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Learners can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals.
In Context: High School This link opens in a new window
Cross-curricular content aligned to national and state curriculum standards and reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, Integrating reference content, primary sources, academic journals and more, content comes together to provide background and guidance on a variety of topics.
India This link opens in a new window
The India Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in India. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, medical, science, technology, engineering, and social sciences.
Informe Académico This link opens in a new window
Informe Académico provides access to Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines. The database offers a wide range of content both from and about Latin America.
Information Science This link opens in a new window
Access to scholarly journals and trade publications essential for information professionals and other knowledge workers. The database offers coverage of topics including information infrastructure, metadata architecture, publishing, and more.
Insurance & Liability Collection This link opens in a new window
Access to academic journals and trade publications covering the insurance industry and topics such as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more. The database offers content of interest to individual property owners and multinational corporations alike.
International Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Provides the full text of more than 500 U.S. and international news sources. Includes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires. Years of coverage vary by title.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Access current and archival journals, as well as primary source documents, through JSTOR's Ecology & Botany I and Arts & Sciences I clusters. The Artstor image collection can now be searched via the JSTOR interface, too!
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service with access to over 30,000 documentaries, indie films, and cinema classics. Watch from your desktop or download apps for mobile, Roku, and AppleTV.
Latin America & Iberia This link opens in a new window
The Latin America & Iberia Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Latin American countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, medical, social sciences, education, arts, anthropology, law, and humanities.
Leadership & Management This link opens in a new window
Provides access to authoritative periodical content covering topics such as 21st-century skills, organizational dynamics and leadership, adult learning and continuing education, and more. This library is useful for researchers or any professional interested in career development.
Legal Forms This link opens in a new window
Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) This link opens in a new window
Covers subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings, with coverage dating back to the mid-1960s.
Library Science This link opens in a new window
This database gives users full-text access to over 150 top publications in library and information science. It covers a range of titles and topics relevant to the theoretical and applied study of library science, including trade publications aimed at the library profession as well as scholarly journals.
Linguistics This link opens in a new window
The Linguistics Collection is comprised of index and full-text databases covering all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.
Literature This link opens in a new window
Gale Literary Sources brings together all of Gale's literary databases into one seamlessly cross-searchable research and study environment. Whether you're researching authors and their works, literary movements or genres, or trying to find book reviews of bestsellers, you can search across all of your library's Gale literary databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism and analysis, reviews, author biographies, and a rich collection of expertly written work overviews.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Maine Memory Network This link opens in a new window
The Maine Memory Network, a project of the Maine Historical Society, provides access to thousands of historical items belonging to over 200 organizations from across Maine.
MasterFILE Premier This link opens in a new window
MasterFILE™ Premier contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains reference books, primary source documents, and an Image Collection.
Materials Science This link opens in a new window
The Materials Science & Engineering Database is a purpose built resource to meet the needs of professionals, students, faculty, and researchers. Featuring content from 1962 to present, the database supports materials science research, covering topics such as metals, polymers, ceramics, composites, and biomaterials and dealing with areas such as corrosion, molding and casting, treatment, recycling, testing, finishing, welding, and forming.
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
National Library of Medicine index to more than 3,600 journals covering all areas of clinical and experimental medicine, nursing, dentistry and health administration.
Merriam Webster's Unabridged Dictionary This link opens in a new window
Includes definitions for over 470,000 words and 140,000 word etymologies. Search options allow users to search for definitions, spellings, rhymes,rhymes, homophones, and authors quoted.
Middle East & Africa This link opens in a new window
The Middle East & Africa Database features ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in the countries of these regions. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
Military & Intelligence This link opens in a new window
Access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. The database offers content in key subject areas including governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.
Military Database This link opens in a new window
This database covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering and more.
Nature This link opens in a new window
Nature is an international, interdisciplinary weekly journal of science. It publishes peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, and other factors. Nature also provides interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public.
New York Times (via ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
This is considered the official U.S. newspaper because it publishes the complete text of important documents, speeches and presidential press conferences. Digital coverage dates back to 1980.
New York Times: Student Pass This link opens in a new window
Login with your SMCC credentials and create an account to receive access to the full NYT website with no pay walls.
News This link opens in a new window
Access to full-text newspapers and allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other fields. The database offers a one-stop source for current news and searchable archives.
Newswires This link opens in a new window
Real-time access to world-wide news (30-day rolling archive) from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire.
Northeast Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Index to and full text coverage of Northeast regional papers, including five Maine newspapers. Database includes coverage of the Bangor Daily News and the Portland Press Herald.
NoveList Plus This link opens in a new window
Adds a non-fiction option to Novelist. Included are all fiction content from the database Novelist and non-fiction titles for high school students to adults.
Nurse Educator This link opens in a new window
This scholarly, peer reviewed journal for faculty and administrators in schools of nursing and nurse educators in other settings, provides practical information and research related to nursing education.
Nursing & Allied Health This link opens in a new window
Access to academic journals and other reference content covering all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration. The database offers current and authoritative content for professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
Nursing & Allied Health Database This link opens in a new window
This database offers reliable, comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals, video, dissertations, reference books and more.
Occupational Outlook Handbook This link opens in a new window
This US Department of Labor resource includes information like job growth and pay scales for hundreds of different careers.
Oceanic Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Oceanic Abstracts is focused exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. The database focuses on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics.
One Business This link opens in a new window
Developed in collaboration with faculty, students and business librarians, ProQuest One Business delivers a mix of practical and theoretical content. A business-focused interface intuitively guides users to content like journal articles, books, and
company, industry and country reports.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
Online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration, to violent video games. This cross-curricular research tool supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes.
Peterson's Career Prep This link opens in a new window
Whether you're choosing a new major or heading into the workforce, these career tools help you get a handle on what you're interested in, the skills and training you'll need, and what you can expect from your career path.
Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine This link opens in a new window
Access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of fitness and sports. The database offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.
Political Science This link opens in a new window
Access to over 450 leading political science and international relations journals. Political Science Database also includes thousands of recent, full-text, political science dissertations from U.S. and Canadian universities and other sources such as country reports and policy papers.
Pop Culture Studies This link opens in a new window
Access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.
Popular Magazines This link opens in a new window
Access to the most searched magazines across the InfoTrac products. All of the titles are selected based on actual publication searches performed by library patrons and the database includes many titles recommended by Bowker's "Magazines for Libraries".
Psychology This link opens in a new window
Access to academic journals and magazines that cover the study of emotions, personality, and the human mind. The database offers content of interest to both researchers and general users.
Psychology Database This link opens in a new window
This database provides abstracts and indexing for more than 640 titles, with over 540 titles available in full text. Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection provides hundreds of full-text psychology journals, including many indexed in PsycINFO. It offers particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and counseling.
Public Health Database This link opens in a new window
The Public Health Database is the ideal starting point for public health information for students, teachers, researchers, and professionals. It delivers core public health literature from thousands of publications, much of it in full text. Users can also access current newspaper articles to uncover the latest breaking news pertaining to public health.
Publicly Available Content This link opens in a new window
Designed to complement other databases and collections, this multidisciplinary database brings together links to full text for publicly available scholarly content from a number of different sources from around the world, all of which are open access or license-free. It includes content from major subject repositories such as arXiv as well as open access journals.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed Central (U.S. National Library of Medicine) is an archive of free full-text articles from selected biomedical journals. Content is accessed by keyword searching all journals or by browsing individual journals.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
A collection of news information from all over the world. Information provided by these sources covers business, political, economic and other diverse, international news events. This resource contains the most recent 30 days of information from each of these wire sources.
Religion This link opens in a new window
This database provides a wide range of primarily full-text, international periodicals for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies of major religions, as well as the most recent trends and scholarly thought. Included are titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations.
Religion & Philosphy This link opens in a new window
Access to scholarly journals and magazines of interest to both researchers and general users. The database offers balanced content that covers topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions.
Research Library This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to thousands of full-text periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, professional and trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 subjects and topics.
Science This link opens in a new window
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and one of the world's top academic journals.
Science This link opens in a new window
Access to scholarly journals and magazines covering the latest scientific developments. Key subjects covered by the database include biological sciences, computing, engineering, and technology.
Science Database This link opens in a new window
This database is a definitive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. With coverage dating back to 1986, ProQuest Science Journals features over 1030 titles, with more than 760 available in full text.
Scribner Writers Series This link opens in a new window
Original, scholar signed essays on the lives and works of authors from around the world from all time periods. Entries include concise essays, citations, and biographical information that places the author and their works in personal and historical context.
Social Science Database This link opens in a new window
This database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.
Sociology This link opens in a new window
Sociology Database gives users access to the full-text of more than 300 journals in sociology and social work. This database covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction, and more.
Statista This link opens in a new window
One of the first statistic portals in the world to integrate data on over 80.000 topics from over 18.000 sources onto a single professional platform. Statista.com provides companies, research institutions, and the academic community with direct access to quantitative data from a variety of sources.
Teacher Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 periodicals. Topics include: Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Administration, and Teacher Education.
Telecommunications Database This link opens in a new window
This database is an essential resource for anyone researching the industry or its technology. The database includes over 140 titles, with more than 115 available in full text. Search more than 600,000 records, dating back to the early 1990's.
Turkey This link opens in a new window
The Turkey Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Turkey. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, medical, social sciences, political science, and humanities.
Twayne's Author Series This link opens in a new window
Offers critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, and to the development of literary genres.
U.K. & Ireland This link opens in a new window
The U.K. & Ireland Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
U.S. Census - Explore Census Data This link opens in a new window
Population, housing, economic, and geographic information. The Census Bureau conducts nearly one hundred surveys and censuses every year.
U.S. History This link opens in a new window
Access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work being established in the field.
U.S. Newsstream This link opens in a new window
U.S. Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries. U.S. Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers, and is cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.
Value Line Research Center for Academic Libraries This link opens in a new window
Publications cover stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.
Vocations & Careers Collection This link opens in a new window
Access to journals and magazines that aid users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career. The database offers current and applicable content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
Wall Street Journal (via ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
The preeminent publication for business news and information on financial markets worldwide. Full-text articles available from 1984 to present.
War & Terrorism This link opens in a new window
Access to academic journals and magazines of interest to analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science. The database offers balanced coverage of both historic and contemporary topics in the fields of war and terrorism.
Washington Post (via ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
The Washington Post is well known for not only in-depth news and analysis of American politics but also insightful coverage of national and international trends and events. Comprehensive coverage back to 1987 is available.
World Factbook This link opens in a new window
The CIA's World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
World History This link opens in a new window
Access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.
World Politics Review This link opens in a new window
Includes multiple areas of study, with thousands of articles in its archives and original content produced each month. This robust and authoritative database covers topics of key relevance to foreign policy, international politics, and foreign affairs.

Why Databases?

Databases provide quick access to millions of individual articles drawn from thousands of different publications. If you need the most up-to-the-minute information on a topic, consider searching the databases for content in:

Newspapers. They will cover the most current information and provide users with both factual and opinion-based content.
Magazines. This is content created to entertain and informs the general reader - no subject area expertise required.
Trade Journals. Written for those with knowledge of the given field, trade journals are a great way to locate information on industry trends, professional organizations, and new products or techniques relevant to the field.
Academic Journals. These sources will include peer-reviewed articles regarding original scholarly research. They'll describe methodolgy and theory in a way most useful for scholars, professionals, and current students.