This page provides an alphabetical list of all our databases.

Academic Search

Provides full text for over 2,940 scholarly publications including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, health sciences, and ethnic studies.

 

AccessScience

Online version of the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.[Off campus use requires browser set-up.]

 

 

ACM Digital Library

The ACM Digital Library is the ultimate online resource for those interested in the computing industry. It offers over 30 publications, all full-text conference proceedings, publication archives dating back to the 1950s, over 1.2 million pages of text, and over 850,000 bibliographic citations.

 

Acta Sanctorum

The Acta Sanctorum Database contains the text of the sixty-eight printed volumes of Acta Sanctorum published in Antwerp and Brussels by the Société des Bollandistes, from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940. [Please note that this site uses dynamic HTML and browsers below IE 5 and Netscape 6 are not supported.]

 

AGRICOLA

AGRICOLA is a bibliographic database which encompasses "all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition." NAL version (free)

 

America History and Life

1964-present. Comprehensive international database for research on all periods of U.S. and Canadian history, from prehistory to the current decade. Includes abstracts of journal articles and listings of books and dissertations. For world history, use Historical Abstracts.

 

American Humanities Index

A collection of bibliographic references to literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada. This database contains over 1,000 journals published from 1975 to the present.

AnthroSource

The premier online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public, including current issues for 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Anthropology and Humanism, Archaeological Publications of the American Anthropological Association, Cultural Anthropology, Ethos, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, NAPA Bulletin and PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review.

Armed Conflict Database

The database seeks to cover international and internal conflicts, as well as terrorism. It provides an interactive and user-friendly source of information on 70 armed conflicts including terrorism, refugees/ and returnees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), weapons used and their flows, fatalities, costs ($US), historical backgrounds, annual updates and timelines.

 

ARTstor

ARTstor is a non-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As part of its ongoing effort to become a community resource, ARTstor is developing a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's initial software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline. This community resource will be made available solely for educational and scholarly uses that are noncommercial in nature.

 

 

Arts and Humanities Search

A citation index to the literature of the arts and humanities, including over 8000 journals in English and other languages.

 

Asia-Studies Full Text Online

Asia-Studies Full-text Online is the premier database for the study of modern Asia-Pacific. As the exclusive licensee for the region’s most prestigious research institutions, Asia-Studies.com brings together thousands of full-text reports covering 53 countries on a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues.

 

 

ATLA Religion Database

The leading international database indexing journals, books and book chapters in the scholarly fields of religion. This resource covers such topics as Biblical studies, world religions, Church history, and religious perspectives on social issues, dating from 1949 to the present. Full text of approximately fifty religion journals are available here. [* Note: When off-campus you will get a login screen from Ebsco Publishing. In order to access the database, simply enter your 14-digit library barcode number.]

Bartelby.com

'Great Books Online'. Offers a selection of reference works including the Columbia Encyclopedia (2000), Roget's Thesaurus, and Bullfinch's Mythology.

 

BasicBIOSIS

Citations and abstracts to articles in core life sciences journals.

Biblical Archaeology Online Archive

The BAS Online Archive is an educational Web site containing the editorial content of each issue of the bimonthly magazine Biblical Archaeology Review from 1975 to present, as well as five books published by the Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS): Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple, Aspects of Monotheism: How God Is One, Feminist Approaches to the Bible, The Rise of Ancient Israel and The Search for Jesus: Modern Scholarship Looks at the Gospels.

 

Books In Print

In-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios and videos.

 

Biography Resource Center

a full-text database of biographical information on more than 150,000 people throughout the world, across history, and in all disciplines

 

BioOne

BioOne is the product of innovative collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector. BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne’s titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form. BioOne provides integrated, cost-effective access to a thoroughly linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

 

Britannica Online

Web version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

 

Business Source Premier (EBSCO)

Business Source Premier, designed specifically for business schools and libraries, contains 2,710 full text scholarly journals and business periodicals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, etc. Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Marketing, etc. The database also includes many leading journals in the areas of economics, finance, and accounting, as well as country economic reports from the EIU, DRI-WEFA, ICON Group and CountryWatch.

 

 

Catholic Periodical and Literature Index

The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index Online is the product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Library Association. The database includes indexed citations to articles published in Roman Catholic periodicals, papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers. This database contains more than 300,000 records covering Roman Catholic publications.

CenStats

Provides access to the following U.S. Census resources: County Business Patterns, USA Counties, Annual Survey of Manufacturers, ZIP Business Patterns, Census Tract/Street Index, Building Permits, International Trade Data, Occupation by Race and Sex, and Consolidated Federal Funds Report.

 

Chemical Abstracts

An academic account with STN provides access to Chemical Abstracts and the Registry file. Special training is required and hours of access are limited. [Password required.]

 

Child Abuse, Welfare and Adoption

" The foremost bibliographic resource on the maltreatment of children." Coverage: 1965 to present.

 

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online

A searchable database of international affairs documents and abstracts.

 

CINAHL Plus with Full Text

CINAHL with Full Text, provides indexing for 1,835 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 930 journals are also included. CINAHL with Full Text provides full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1982 are also included.

 

 

CINAHL Ovid - Cummulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature

index of nursing journals, professional publications, and nursing standards and instruments. Includes full text links to Copley's Ovid journal subscriptions.Please click on the 'Logoff' icon when finished

Clase and Periodica

Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.

 

CollegeSource

Features over 8,800 college catalogs. Dating from 1994 to the present.

 

ComAbstracts

Contains abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of communication(s) studies.

 

Communication & Mass Media Complete

Communication & Mass Media Complete offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources. In total, several hundred valuable sources are covered.

 

Communication Index

An index to over 30 communication studies journals.

 

 

Compustat Research Insight

Fully customizable and completely accessible through Microsoft® Excel, Research Insight allows for sophisticated financial modeling, backtesting, multiple regression, industry analysis and stock screening/selection. Note: To use the database you must first download and install the Research Insight Web Add-In for Excel on your computer. Once installed you access RI Web directly through Excel. Off-Campus Instructions

 

Conference Board's Research Database

TCB research is a searchable database of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics. Proprietary, nonbiased research includes studies of F500 companies on business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, HR, productivity, CRM and more. Economics material includes US and global economic indicators and analysis and forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions. Full-text coverage from 1995 to date.

CQ Electronic Library

Includes the following: CQ Researcher - provides in-depth analysis reporting on current and controversial issues of the day. CQ Weekly - expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering. CQ Public Affairs Collection - public policy content organized by 22 key topics, pulls together CQ's wealth of historic documents and primary source materials, statistical overviews, directory contact information, and in-depth reporting on current affairs. CQ Supreme Court Collection - combines CQ's unique historical analysis and summaries of the most important Supreme Court decisions together with Justice biographies, statistics, and a quantitative analysis on essential topics, an institutional history of the Court, and news feed on current events and public opinion surrounding the Court's decisions. Encyclopedia of American Government - a reference on Congress, the Presidency, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Election process.

 

Dissertations and Theses Full Text

The database includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Dissertations from 1997 to present are available in full-text PDF format.

 

 

 

Dow Jones Interactive (see Factiva)

a full-text database of over 5500 magazines, newspapers, and trade journals from a wide variety of disciplines. [Note: Dow Jones Interactive shut down on June 30 and was replaced by (Factiva.com). Factiva contains all Dow Jones content plus other business- related information. Factiva is now listed on our databases page and available for searching.]

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Earthscape

columbia earthscape selects, gathers, edits, and links the widest range of Earth resources available online.

EBM Reviews - Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness

Evidence Based Medical Reviews. Full description. Please click on the 'Logoff' icon when finished.

 

EBM Reviews - Best Evidence

Evidence Based Medical Reviews. Covers 1991 - present. Full description. Please click on the 'Logoff' icon when finished.

 

EBM Reviews - Cochrane Database

Evidence Based Medical Reviews. Full description. Please click on the 'Logoff' icon when finished.

 

EconLit

EconLit is an expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature. It contains bibliographic references and some abstracts for journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertations.

 

Economist Intelligence Unit

The Economist Intelligence Unit provides a constant flow of analysis and forecasts on more than 200 countries and eight key industries.Country analysis includes in-depth economic, political, business, and industry information. Trends, forecasts, market indicators, and more.

 

 

Emerald

Full text access to MCB University Press journals. Topics covered are management, accounting and engineering (mainly industrial).

eHRAF Collection of Ethnography

The eHRAF Collection of Ethnography is a Web-based, multi-cultural database for disciplines with an interest in cultural diversity. eHRAF contains over 300,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life with diverse topics ranging from religious beliefs, bringing up children, causes and cures of diseases, to economic and political behavior.

 

Energy, Science, & Technology Information Resources – U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Includes scientific and technical information resources of the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) in broad disciplines such as physics, chemistry, materials, biology, engineering, energy efficiency, and other related subject areas. Resources include tools for cross searching bibliographic citations, full-text technical reports, preprints, and journals citations residing in multiple databases and Web sites.

 

ERIC via EBSCO

Ebsco version allows you to limit to full-text and USD holdings. An index to education articles and research reports. Includes citations to counseling and child development literature.

 

EthnicNewswatch

News, culture, and history from over 240 publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Both English and Spanish search interfaces are available.

 

Evidence-Based Mental Health

Launched in 1998, the purpose of Evidence-Based Mental Health is to alert clinicians working in the field of mental health to important and clinically relevant advances in treatment (including specific interventions and systems of care), diagnosis, aetiology, prognosis/outcome research, quality improvement, continuing education, economic evaluation, and qualitative research.

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Factiva.com

Factiva includes the Dow Jones and Reuters news wires, The Wall Street Journal and over 8,000 other magazines, newspapers, and trade journals from a wide variety of disciplines. [Note: You must use either Internet Explorer version 5.5 or higher, or Netscape version 6.01 or higher in order to access Factiva. Mac users must use the Safari browser 1.2+ Consult the Factiva Supported Browsers page for more information]

FindArticles.com.

Open access to full-text articles from hundreds of magazines, journals and industry publications.

 

 

GEOBASE

Covers geography and geology

GRC Geothermal Research Library

The Geothermal Resources Council offers the most comprehensive bibliographic geothermal library in the world. Over 30,000 citations for individual articles from GRC and other geothermal publications can be found by simple keyword searches.Searches may be done without a password, however, to access full-text articles from this database contact Reference Librarian, Amy Besnoy at abesnoy@sandiego.edu or at extension 2368.

GLBT Life Full Text

GLBT Life is the definitive index to the world's literature regarding Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender issues. GLBT Life with Full Text contains all of the content available in GLBT Life as well as full text for some of the most important and historically significant GLBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized GLBT Thesaurus containing over 6,300 terms.

 

Grove Dictionary of Art Online

a comprehensive full-text reference resource for the visual arts from prehistory through the 1990's

 

Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Includes the full text of the new Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the Grove Dictionary of Opera.

 

HAPI - Hispanic American Periodicals Index

Index to journal articles, book reviews, original literary works and other materials. Covers Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. From 1970 to present.

 

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)

Contains descriptions of instruments of use in assessing health and behavior. Includes questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes, rating scales and tests. Please click on the 'Logoff' icon when finished.

 

Health Source Plus Nursing (EBSCO)

Links to a number of alternative and consumer health databases as well as a full-text database of about 480 scholarly health and nursing journals

 

Historical Abstracts

1954-present. International database for research on history of all regions (except the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the current decade. For US history, use America History and Life.

 

Journals@Ovid

Journal index which covers all subjects, with an emphasis on biomedical and allied health topics. The full-text is searchable for all journals, but only a few will allow full-text viewing.

 

JSTOR

A full-text, searchable archive of core scholarly journals. Current issues are not available on JSTOR. Read these JSTOR Search Tips.

Latin America Database

A full-text news and information database on political, social, and economic issues in Latin America.

 

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

A full-text database of over 5,000 newspapers, magazines, wire services, business publications and company information along with basic legal and medical resources.

 

Life and Works of Jorge Luis Borges

This new online database originates from the Jorge Luis Borges Collection and Documentation Center of the Fundación San Telmo, which contains the world’s largest collection of materials related to Borges’ life and works. The collection was begun in 1986 and includes manuscripts
and letters, books, periodicals, photographs, audio and video recordings, newspaper and magazine clippings, and other objects and documents. The Life and Works of Jorge Luis Borges is based on this extensive collection and is the first database to provide access to a wide range of materials on Borges, including those that are rare or appeared in unindexed national and provincial newspapers and journals. [More Information]

 

Literature Resource Center

Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Published by Gale Research.

 

Los Angeles Times

Full-text coverage of the LA Times from 1985 to present.

 

 

Marine, Oceanographic, and Freshwater Resources

index to aquatic sciences, fisheries, oceanographic, and marine environmental literature 1960 to present

 

MathSciNet

Online version of Mathematical Reviews . Indexes and reviews the mathematical literature.

 

MEDLINE via Ovid

MEDLINE is the major database on human biology and health. It also provides excellent coverage of cell and molecular biology topics. Please click on the 'Logoff' icon when finished.

 

MEDLINE via PubMed

MEDLINE is the major database on human biology and health. It also provides excellent coverage of cell and molecular biology topics. Must capitalize search operators (that is, AND, OR and NOT) when using PubMed

Mergent Onlline

Mergent online is a service offering financial information for 11,000 U.S. public companies and 17,000 non-U.S. public companies.

 

Mintel Reports

Mintel offers a series of research reports covering the US and European marketplace. Each market research report combines data & analysis of the competitive landscape, market-share analysis and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market.

 

MLA Bibliography

MLA (Modern Language Abstracts) lists journal articles and a variety of other types of materials on literature, languages, linguistics and folklore.

Music Index Online (1979 - present)

A subject-author guide to music periodical literature.Covering all styles and genres of music, The Music Index duly cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.

NBER Working Papers

NBER researchers initially report their findings in scientific papers aimed at other professional economists in academic institutions, business, government, and the business media around the world. Nearly 700 NBER Working Papers are published each year, and many subsequently appear in scholarly journals.

Newspaper Source (EBSCO)

Provides full text for 174 regional U.S. newspapers and eighteen international newspapers. For more complete coverage, use Dow Jones Interactive or Lexis-Nexis Acacemic Universe.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Ideal for those looking for pro and con arguments on a wide variety of contemporary social issues. Includes the opposing viewpoints series as well as links to reference materials, statistics, selected magazine and newspaper articles, images, primary documents, and Web sites.

 

Ovid databases

Access the complete listing of databases available through Ovid, including CINAHL, Journals@Ovid, and Medline.

 

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

An illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2000. Note: This database allows only one simultaneous user at a time. When finished please click on the logout button located in the upper right corner of the screen.

 

 

Oxford English Dictionary

An exhaustive, historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. To start searching, click on the "Sign In" icon.

 

Oxford Scholarship Online

Oxford Scholarship Online is a groundbreaking online resource, combining OUP's core scholarly books in four disciplines (Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science and Religion and Theology) and powerful research tools into one cross-indexed, fully searchable database. With 926 classic and newly published titles now available, OSO will be updated quarterly with an additional 200 titles added each year.

 

 

PAIS - Public Affairs Information Service

Indexes journals, books and book chapters in political science, international relations, and urban studies.

 

Patrologia Latina Database

an electronic full-text Latin version of the works of the Church Fathers from 200 A.D. to 1216 A.D. It contains all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and index.

 

Philosopher's Index

provides abstracting and indexing for books and journal articles in philosophy and related fields from 1949 to present. Updated quarterly. [Note: You must disable pop-up blocking in order to access this database.]

 

Proceedings First

Citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library.

 

Project Muse

Provides online access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

 

PsycARTICLES®

PsycARTICLES® contains more than 25,000 full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Coverage includes general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.

 

 

PsycCRITIQUES™

PsycCRITIQUES™, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), is an electronic serial of book reviews featuring full text reviews of current scholarly and professional books in psychology. It also publishes reviews from a psychological perspective of popular films and trade books. PsycCRITIQUES also includes a searchable backfile of more than 5,400 reviews dating back to 1995. PsycCRITIQUES replaces the print journal Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books.

 

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO)

includes over 460 full text titles in psychology, mental health, and behavioral sciences. Most of the journals are peer-reviewed. For more comprehensive coverage in this area, use the PsycINFO database.

 

PsycINFO

Includes psychology and relevant materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, animal behavior, and organizational behavior. Allows you to limit to USD holdings and includes links to full-text for some articles.

Reference USA

Includes information on 10 million business, including officers, addresses, sales, subsidiaries, branches. etc. Updated monthly.

 

 

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online

A fully searchable and extensively cross-referenced dynamic Web version of the original encyclopedia. Includes more than 2000 articles covering Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy.

Routledge Religion Resource

Provides online access to the best reference titles on Religion in a single fully searchable and extensively cross-referenced resource. With some 14,000 pages of content, this site comprises thousands of authoritative, signed articles on world religions, the sociology of religion, and the history of religion.

San Diego Business Directory - Inside Prospects

Provides the only locally compiled database of businesses for San Diego.

 

 

ScienceDirect

Provides access to full-text articles from over 600 journals in six subject collections including: agricultural & biological sciences, biochemistry, genetics & molecular biology, chemistry, earth & planetary sciences, medicine, and social science. [Important Note]

 

SciFinder Scholar

SciFinder Scholar® is a point-and-click desktop research tool that provides easy access to the information in the CAS databases (>41million substances from 1957 to date, >22 million references from 1907 to date, >6 million reactions from 1974 to date, >750 chemical supplier catalogues and regulatory information), as well as Medline (references from 1958 to date). Includes a comprehensive and current collection of published scientific research, taken from 8,000 journal titles and 35 patent-issuing organizations, through a variety of ways - by author or organization names, research topics, substance identifiers, chemical structures and reactions. *** [Important Note: When you click on the link above you will be asked to enter your USD user name and password. You will then be taken to USD's SciFinder download area which contains instructions for installing the software on either Windows or Macintosh machines. SciFinder is an on-campus only database and limited to two simultaneous users at one time. Please be sure to logoff when you are finished with your session. You will be asked to read and accept the SciFinder user agreement before connecting to the database.***

 

 

 

STAT-USA

Access to the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB), Economic Bulletin Board plus numerous economic and trade-related resources.

 

Visual Collections: Images of art, history and culture

View maps, fine artwork, photographs and other items from over thirty renowned collections. Search for a particular artist, time period, or medium, and use powerful tools to zoom, pan, view image data and save groups of images.

 

WorldCat

Bibliographic database containing approximately 40 million records. Includes books, films, music scores, and many other types of materials. Not a journal index.

 

 

Xreferplus

xreferplus is a digital reference library containing hundreds of high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers. xreferplus offers access to millions of individual entries and contains all types of reference books including dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, books of quotations and atlases. It also includes thousands of images and audio files, together with subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to astronomy and science to Shakespeare.

 

Zack's Investment

For each company you will find several informative reports. Updated daily, details which companies reported earnings exceeding or falling short of a significant percentage of analysts' projected estimates.