Academic Search Premier

Want to have full text access to more than 4,700 publications, including 3,600 that are peer- reviewed? We now subscribe to a new expanded version of Academic Search Elite that offers this capability, as well as provides indexing and abstracting to all of the 8,175 publications in its collection. It is called Academic Search Premier and it is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database.

Academic Search Premier is designed specifically for academic institutions. A look at the titles indexed in Premier will show publications in social sciences, humanities, engineering, linguistics, ethnic studies and more. It offers expanded indexing and PDF backfiles for more than 100 top scholarly academic journals, some of which date back to 1965. It is updated daily via the database provider, EBSCOhost.

Keyword, author, title, subject, and journal name are some of the searches you can do in ASP. You can also limit your search results to publication or document type, number of pages, or articles from peer-reviewed journals. This is a particularly helpful feature for students looking for material from scholarly sources. Search results can be saved, printed or emailed.

Basic funding for Academic Search Elite is provided by Inspire, while the enhanced content included in Premier is paid for by the University Libraries.

Academic Search Premier is a valuable addition to anyone’s list of Frequently Used Databases.

-Linda Sharp, Reference Librarian

Related links:
Expanded Academic ASAP
Business Source Premier

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

The online version allows you to search the lives of thousands of individuals who have lived in the Briitsh Isles and Ireland in dozens of creative ways, including by gender, "field of interest," time period, place of birth, education, and religion among others. You can also search for portraits both by subject and by artist.

A fabulous new feature for research purposes is the detailed list of archives holding an individual's papers. Another feature is called "likenesses" and provides sources of a subject's portraits. Sources for further reading include both works contemporary to the subject and recent scholarship. The Oxford DNB is a boon to scholars of British history, literature, art, and other fields.

- Laura Fuderer, Subject Librarian for English and French Language and Literature