Frequently Used Electronic Databases

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Academic Search Full Text Elite (EBSCO) - Index to article citations, including some full text journals.

American: History and Life - Abstracts of the scholarly literature on the history and culture of the North American continent from prehistoric times to the present. Includes citations to book reviews, media reviews and dissertations.

ATLA Religion Database - Index to articles; content includes Religion Index and Book Reviews in Religion/Theology.

Art Full Text - Indexes and abstracts articles on archaeology, architecture, art, motion pictures and photography in international periodicals (including full-text of selected periodicals). Titles covered are English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. Art Full Text also indexes reproductions of works of art in these periodicals.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals - Indexes over 2,000 international periodicals on architecture, archeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation published from the 1930s to the present, with selective coverage back to the 1860s.

Education Abstracts Full Text - Index to education related journals, 1983-present, including some full text

Expanded Academic ASAP INFOTRAC - Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for 3,000+ scholarly journals and general interest periodicals embracing all academic disciplines (citations only for The New York Times).

Grove Dictionary of Art Online - Articles on all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the 1990s; art and culture of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific, with links to images and additional information in museum and other art-related web sites.

LexisNexis Academic - Index to full text newspapers, journals, news wires and directories for general, business and legal topics.

MLA International Bibliography - Index to article citations in literature, language, linguistics and more.

MasterFile Premier (EBSCO) - Provides citations and full text in general reference, business, consumer health, general science and multicultural periodicals.

PCI : Periodicals Contents Index - Historical index to periodicals in the humanities and social sciences covering the time period 1770-1995; includes journals in many Western languages.

PsycINFO - Provides citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines

Sociological Abstracts - Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

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ABI/INFORM - Premier source of business information for more than 30 years. The database contains content from thousands of journals that help researches track business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies and industry specific topics worldwide.

Business and Company Resource Center - Index to article citations and some full text in management, ecomonics and politics;also has investment reports.

Business Source Premier (EBSCO) - Index to article citations and some full text covering management, finance, accounting, international business and more.

Factiva (Dow Jones News Service) - News, financial data and company profiles; Dow Jones & Reuters newswires, business journals, market research reports, analyst reports, full-text of the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and other periodicals.

Mergent Online (formerly FIS Online) - provides access to fully searchable data on more than 10,000 companies on the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq exchanges, including SEC filings and annual reports. Replaces print products from Moody's (Mergent): Bank and Finance Manual, Transportation Manual, International Manual, Public Utility Manual, OTC Unlisted Manual, OTC manual.

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Biological Abstracts - Indexes and abnstracts international research in Life Sciences.

Compendex - Index to engineering literature.

CrossFire - The Beilstein and Gmelin databases are available as part of the Crossfire system.
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GeoREF - American Geological Institute's geoscience database.

INSPEC - Indexes and abstracts serials, conference proceedings, standards and reports in the physical sciences, electrical engineering & computer science.

MathSciNet -Reviews and citations to the world's research literature in mathematics and related areas.

Medline - Cooresponds to the print indexes Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index. Includes thousands of records with substantial abstracts.

Scifinder Scholar - retrieves information contained in databases produced by Chemical Abstracts Service

Web of Science - Index to article citations and some full text from approximately 8,500 international research journals.