DATABASES
DATABASE VENDORS
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY JOURNALS
 Access to full-text journal articles, including high quality graphics and
illustrations for articles after 1999. Citations to articles prior to 1999 can also be
searched.
ANTHROPOLOGICAL INDEX - on web
ANTHROSOURCE – Full text of articles from American Anthropological Association.
BioONE – Full text access to articles in biology journals.
CAMBRIDGE SCIENTIFIC ABSTRACTS
 CSA Biological Collection Agricultural Chemicals, Agricultural Economics,
Agricultural Engineering, Agriculture and Agricultural Research, Animal
Sciences, Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Botany, Cytology, Ecology,
Entomology, Environmental Science, Fishery Sciences, Food Science, Forestry,
Genetics, Horticulture, Immunology, Limnology, Marine Biology, Microbiology,
Nutrition, Paleontology, Physiology, Plant Pathology, Soil Science, Veterinary
Medicine, Weed Sciences, Wildlife Management, Zoology. Bibliographic
citations with abstracts for periodical articles. Links to full text in other databases.
 Medline Citations to journals in the medical sciences. Links to full text in other
databases. Links to full text in other databases.
EBSCOHOST
 Academic Search Scholarly and popular periodical articles. Multidisciplinary:
science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and
popular culture. Some full-text access.
 America History and Life. History and culture of the United States and Canada
from prehistory to present. Links to full text in other databases.
 Bibliography of Native North Americans Sociology, Anthropology and
Archeology, Education, Literature and Folklore, Linguistics and Language, law,
Political Science. Bibliographic citations to books, journal articles, essays,
conference papers, and US and Canadian government documents. Links to full
text in other databases.
 Business Source Premier Business periodical articles- management, marketing,
investment. Some full-text access.
 Communication and Mass Media Complete Communications and media.
Scholarly and professional articles. Links to full text in other databases.
 Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text Partial full text.
 Historical Abstracts. Modern (1450 - ) world history, excluding the United
States and Canada (for these see America: History and Life). Links to full text in
other databases.
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MLA Bibliography Literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Article and
book chapter bibliographic citations. Links to full text in other databases.
Philosophers Index. Citations to articles in philosophy journals. Links to full
text in other databases.
PsycArticles Full text of articles from APA Journals
Psych Info All aspects of psychology: educational, experimental, and clinical.
Article and book chapter bibliographic citations with abstracts. PsycInfo also
citations and abstracts for reports and dissertations. Links to full text in
other databases.
Soc Index Full text. Social Studies including include abortion, criminal justice,
demography, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, marriage and family,
political sociology, religion, rural and urban sociology, social development, social
psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology,
sociological history, sociological research, and sociological theory. Scholarly and
professional articles.
SportsDiscus Full text. All areas related to sports, including physical therapy,
injuries, athletic training, coaching, education, and the sports industry.
ERIC.
 Education database with access to periodical articles and documents (research
reports, pamphlets, proceedings.). Available on the web. Some full text.
ETHNIC NEWSWATCH
 Full-text articles from the newspapers and magazines published by the ethnic,
minority and native press.
FIRST SEARCH
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GPO. Publications of the US Government. Bibliographic citations.
GeoRef. Journal articles, books and book chapters relating to geology.
Bibliographic citations. Links to full text in other databases.
WorldCat. Bibliographic citations for all type of materials catalogued in
libraries: books, proceedings, music scores, and many other materials.
HANDBOOK OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
JSTOR – Scholarly and multidisciplinary, full text, scholarly journal archive. Does not
include access to most recent issues of publications.
LEXIS/NEXIS (ACADEMIC UNIVERSE)
 News, both national and international, business, legal Research, medicine,
reference, and other journal and magazine full-text.
 News
 Business
 Legal Research
Math SciNet American Mathematical Society. Original publication is Mathematical
Reviews.
ProjectMUSE Full text current scholarly journals primarily for humanities and some
social sciences but not hard sciences.
PubMed – Journal in the medical sciences. Links to full text in other databases.
ScienceDirect
 Full text access to journal in the physical sciences.
WILSONWEB
 Art Abstracts Bibliographic citations and abstracts for periodical articles
covering fine
 And decorative arts, antiquities, architecture, television, and film.
 WilsonOmnifile Multidisciplinary database with full-text in art, humanities,
education, Humanities, law, information science, social sciences, business.
general science, technology, biology, and agriculture. Full-text access to
periodical articles.
DATABASES BY SUBJECT
Note: Academic Search, Academic Universe, Ethnic Newswatch and Wilson
Omnifile provide access to popular and scholarly sources. Consider limiting your
search to Peer Reviewed sources if you don’t want popular news sources.
Multidisciplinary – Use for all topics
Academic Search on EBSCO - partial full text
Academic Universe, Lexis-Nexis – full text
Ethnic News Watch – full text
JSTOR - full text
ProjecMUSE - full text (not for sciences – more for humanities and social sciences)
Wilson Omnifile – full text
Newspaper Indexing
Academic Universe, Lexis-Nexis – full text
Ethnic News Watch – full text
Consider the following databases for subjects/disciplines in addition to the
multidisciplinary databases noted above. Subject specific databases tend to provide
access to scholarly sources, but beware; they include books, book chapters, and
dissertations as well as journal articles.
Anthropology
Anthrosource
Bibliography of Native North Americans
Anthropological Index
Art
Art Abstracts (Wilson)
Biology
BioOne
CSA Biological Collection
Science Direct – Physical Sciences Collection
PubMed
Business & Economics
Academic Universe, Lexis-Nexis
Business Source Elite (EBSCO)
Chemistry
American Chemical Society Journals
Science Direct – Physical Sciences Collection
Education
ERIC (Open Web) - Academic Source Premier is a good multidisciplinary database for
Education
English & Communications
Communication and Mass Media Index
Film & Television Index with Full Text
MLA International Bibliography
Environmental Science
BioOne
CSA Biological Collection
Science Direct – Physical Sciences Collection
Greenfile
Exercise Science
SportsDiscuss
PubMed
Geology
GeoRef
Science Direct – Physical Sciences Collection
History
America: History & Life – U.S.
Bibliography of Native North Americans
Historical Abstracts – non U.S.
Medicine
PubMed (Consider searching in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical
Association. Use the Journal Finder to direct you to the journal online.)
Music
Naxos Music Library (audio database) Use JSTOR, ProjectMUSE and other
multidisciplinary databases
Native American and Indigenous Studies
Bibliography of Native North Americans
America: History & Life – U.S.
Anthrosource
Philosophy
Philosophers Index
Physics & Engineering
Science Direct – Physical Sciences Collection
Psychology
PsychInfo
SocIndex
Sociology
SocIndex
Bibliography of Native North Americans
Ethnic News Watch
PsychInfo