Alpha Listing of Current Databases

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Academic Search Complete: Full-text articles covering the fields of philosophy, news, science (general), communication and journalism, and reference works.

Accessible Archives: Primary source materials from eighteenth and nineteenth century publications assembled into databases with full-text search capabilities.

ACS Publications: Full-text documents from the American Chemistry Society Journals, Books and C&EN Archives.  Access to this database is restricted to on campus locations and computers in the Library Resource Center.

AdViews: Part of Duke Univeristy Library's Digital Collections, AdView includes thousands of television commercials created or collected by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency, dated 1950s - 1980s.

Agricola: Bibliographic records of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library.

Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals: Subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals. This index contains citations since 1990 and is updated quarterly as the hard copy version of the AULIMP is released.

Alt Health Watch: Abstracts and full-text articles for more than 180 international journals, reports, pamphlets, booklets, original research reports and book excerpts covering holistic approaches to health care and wellness.

American Memory: Digitized collections from the Library of Congress.

Annual Reviews: Full-text of critical reviews written by leading scientists within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, Social Science and Economic disciplines.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials: Full-text of journal articles, book reviews and essays in the fields of religion from major religion and theology journals.

arXiv.org: An e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics. arXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution.

Atlanta Historic Newspapers: The Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive spans the years 1847- 1922 and includes the following titles: Atlanta Daily Examiner, 1857; Atlanta Daily Herald, 1873- 1876; Atlanta Georgian, 1906-1911; Atlanta Intelligencer, 1851, 1854-1871; Atlantian, 1911- 1922; Daily/Georgia Weekly Opinion, 1967-1868; Gate-City Guardian, 1861; New Era, 1869- 1872; Southern Confederacy, 1861-1864; Southern Miscellany, and Upper Georgia Whig, 1847; Southern World, 1882-1885; Sunny South, 1875-1907; Weekly Constitution, 1869-1882.

Bayou State Periodical Index: Indexes Louisiana periodicals from 1985 - Present.

Berman Jewish Policy Archive: Open access to a growing library of 13,000+ policy-relevant documents from leading authors, journals, and organizations.
Biographical Directory of Federal Judges: Covers all judges who have served since 1789 on the U.S. District Courts, the U.S. Courts of Appeals, the Supreme Court, and the former U.S. Circuit Courts.

Biography in Context: Full-text articles containing biographical information on over 185,000 people.

Biological Abstracts: Bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published in international journals.

Business Source Complete: Full-text journals in marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full-text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

DDM (Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology - Online): An international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online: Biographies covering the history of Canada's inhabitants and their culture.

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind: A free resource for all those interested in the philosophy of mind. This dictionary has a policy of blind peer review for all of its submissions.

Directory of Open Access Journals: This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Information Bridge: Developed and maintained by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), this database makes the Department Of Energy scientific and technical information electronically available.

Early Hebrew Newspapers Project: The Jewish National and University Library administers the David and Fela Shapell Family Digitization Project. This site provides access to images of the major titles of the early Hebrew press published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

eBooks: Full-text electronic books covering the disciplines art, biology, business, chemistry, communication, computer science, education, English, engineering, history, mathematics, music, pharmacy, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, sociology and theology.

Edgar:   SEC filings including 10K's, 10Q's, and proxy statements.

Encyclopedia Mythica: A free Internet encyclopedic reference work of mythology, folklore, and religion.

ERIC (Education Resource Information Clearinghouse): Bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information.

Ethnologue: An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,909 known living languages.

ETHXWeb: All types of literature relating to bioethics and professional ethics.

Fed-in-Print: Index to publications from the Federal Reserve Banks.

Federal Tax Forms: Contains current tax forms, instructions, publications, and the weekly Internal Revenue Bulletin, as well as prior year tax products beginning with 1992.

Film Literature Index Online: FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001.

Folk Music Index Recordings: Index of folk music includes songs, composers, performers, sources, publishers, and instrument tuning.

France in America: Conceived in partnership with France’s national library, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, France in America /France en Amérique is a bilingual digital library made available by the Library of Congress.

French National Library Online: National Library of France online resources.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia:  Full-text articles updated annually and covering a variety of subject areas.  Images and some brief biographies are also available.

Gallica: Provides access to all types of media: print (monographs, periodicals and press) in image and text mode, manuscripts, sound recordings, graphic material, maps and plans.

Glassdoor.com: Provides a look at company salaries, reviews and interview questions for thousands of companies.

Google Scholar: Google Scholar searches academic publishers, professional societies and pre-print archives.

GPO Access - GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted.

Green Book: Contains the Overview of Entitlement Programs by the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Ways and Means.

Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (CRC):  Full-text contents of the current edition of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.

Handbook of Contemporary Neuropharmacology: Full-text contents of this nervous system pharmacology handbook.

Handbook of Latin American Studies - HLAS: This Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, this multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.

HarpWeek:  Full-text medical journal articles including Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition:  Full-text medical journal articles including Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs.

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: An interactive chronology of the History of Art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Hemeroteca Digital (Historic Spanish Newspapers): La Hemeroteca Digital forma parte del proyecto Biblioteca Digital Hispánica, que tiene como objetivo la consulta y difusión pública a través de Internet del Patrimonio Bibliográfico Español conservado en la Biblioteca Nacional.

IEEE Xplore- (Users are reminded to logout of IEEE after using the database) : AbstractPlus records and full text published since 1998 from IEEE journals, transactions and magazines; AbstractPlus records and full text published since 2005 from Spectrum. (Users are reminded to logout after using IEEE)

IDIS  (Iowa Drug Information Systems): : Drug information database produced by the University of Iowa, College of Pharmacy with full-text articles about drugs and drug therapy in humans.

Informa HealthCare: Full-text articles from the journal Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods.

IOP Science:  Scientific information accessed through community websites, magazines and conference proceedings. 

IPA - International Pharmaceutical Abstracts: Provides international coverage of pharmaceutical science and health related literature from 1970 to the present, and is updated monthly. Subjects included are drug therapy, toxicity, and pharmacy practice as well as legislation, regulation, technology, utilization, biopharmaceutics, information processing, education, economics, and ethics as related to pharmaceutical science and practice.

JSTOR : Full-text journal articles published prior to the advent of digitization searchable by keyword.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe: Full-text newspaper articles, television and radio program transcripts and searchable blogs and videos.  US and international legal references, landmark cases and law journals.  Company dossiers, profiles and SEC filings.  Information about accounting, environmental studies, health and medical care, government, politics, people and consumer information.

LlibraryMusicSource:Western Classical sheet music that can be downloaded as a PDF for Woodwinds, Brass, Strings, Percussion, Piano/Keyboard, Guitar, Harp, Vocal/Choral, Opera Vocal Scores and other miscellaneous instruments.

Literati by Credo:Full-text journal articles, books, images and videos covering the disciplines criminal justice, education, environmental studies, gender and women’s studies, general health, wellness, political science, psychology, contemporary issues and controversies.

Literature Criticism Online:  Browse topics or works of authors from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (CMLC), Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Drama Criticism (DC), Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (NCLC), Poetry Criticism (PC), Shakespearean Criticism (SC), Short Story Criticism (SSC) and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (TCLC).

Literature Resource Center: Biographies, news, literary criticisms, bibliographies and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.

MAS Ultra - School Edtion:  Designed for high school students this database provides basic full-text articles from popular high school magazines including America's Civil War, American Heritage, American History, Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times, Congressional Digest, Discover, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II, etc.

MathSciNet: An electronic publication offering access to a searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.

MEDLINE:  A comprehensive database of biomedical literature produced by the National Library of Medicine and covering 1966 - present.

Military & Government Collection:  Full-text articles of current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government

MLA Directory of Periodicals:  The MLA Directory of Periodicals contains all information available on the journals and series on the bibliography's Master List of Periodicals.

MLA International Bibliography:  MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations.

Mergent Online: U.S. public company information on more than 10,000 companies (including EDGAR (SEC filings).

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NAXOS Music Library (NML): The largest classical music library offers streaming access to CDs, opera synopses and catalogs of classical, jazz and world music labels searchable by composer, work or label.

netLibrary:   NetLibrary ebooks: This resource has been moved to the EBSCO interface. The new collection is called eBook Collection.  This link will redirect you to the new ebooks site.

Newsbank: Times Picayune full-text content and U.S. news content from other local, regional and national sources including print and online newspapers, blogs, journals, newswires, broadcast transcripts and videos.

OVID:  Full-text articles for professionals, researchers and students in the scientific and healthcare communities.  If you have an OVID account please click here.  If you have an OVID account please click here

Oxford English Dictionary (OED): A guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of over 600,000 words.

Past Masters®:  Full-text humanities databases focused on Classical Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, British Philosophy, American Philosophy, English Letters, Women Writers, Religious Studies, Social Science and History of Science.

PubMed Central (OED): A digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

Primary Search:  This database contains full-text articles for popular elementary school magazines.  All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).

ProQuest:  Full-text articles in The Arts, Business, Dissertations & Theses, Health & Medicine, History, Literature & Language, News & Newspapers, Science & Technology and Social Sciences.

PsycINFO:   Citations and summaries in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines from 1887 - present.

Regional Business News:  Full-text articles from regional U.S. and Canadian business publications.

Sage Journals Online: Browsable journals within the disciplines of Health Sciences, Life & Biomedical Sciences, Materials Science & Engineering and Social Sciences and Humanities.  The availability of full-text articles is limited.  To obtain a full-text copy of an article, please contact our Interlibrary loan Department or a librarian.

ScienceCareers:  Career information for today’s science professionals, researchers and students.

SciFinder: 

SciVerse Science Direct:  Full-text scientific database with journal articles and book chapters.

Serials Directory:  This database contains bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials.  Included are U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; historical data ; data from publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses; Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications for every entry.

Springer Ebooks:  Searchable journals, books, eReferences and protocols.  Subjects included are architecture, design, behavioral science, biomedical and life sciences, business,  economics, chemistry, materials science, computer science, earth and environmental science, engineering, humanities, social sciences, law, mathematics, statistics, medicine, physics, astronomy and applied computing.

Wiley Handbook of Current and Emerging Drug Therapies:  Authoritative, primary reference dealing with numerous biomedical applications, especially in the fields of therapeutics, pharmacology, and drug discovery and delivery

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