Databases A - Z

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Abstracts in Anthropology
Abstracts in Anthropology covers a broad spectrum of significant, current anthropological topics from a vast number of periodicals. Online coverage from 2003 to present.
Academic Search Premier
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.
Access Science
Online version of the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
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.
African American Experience
Electronic research tool for African American history and culture from one of the most respected publishers in the field. The two primary goals: to provide rock-solid information from authorities in the field, and to allow African Americans to speak for themselves through a wealth of primary sources. Drawing on over 400 volumns, and designed under the guidance of leading librarians, this database gives voice to the black experience from its African origins to the present day.
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."
America: History & 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 Indian Experience
The American Indian Experience offers access to an online library, featuring more than 150 volumes of scholarship and reference content, hundreds of primary documents, and thousands of images. From Pre-contact to the present day, from the Inuit of the north to the Seminoles of Florida, AIE is meant for anyone wishing to learn more about America's Native Peoples.
AnthroSource
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
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 digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Provides access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references from more than 1,130 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. It also covers individually selected, relevant items from approximately 7,000 journals in the sciences and social sciences. (Dates of coverage: 1997-present.)
Asia Studies Full Text
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.
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Bartleby
'Great Books Online'. Offers a selection of reference works including the Columbia Encyclopedia (2000), Roget's Thesaurus, and Bullfinch's Mythology.
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
Books in Print
In-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios and videos.
Biography Resource Center
Combines Gale biographies with related full-text articles from magazines and newspapers, thousands of images, and links to vetted websites. Search for current or historic figures based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text.
BioOne
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.
Britannica Online
Web version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Business Source Premier
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.
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Cambridge Companions Online
Addressing topics and figures as diverse as Gothic Fiction and Arabic Philosophy, WB Yeats and Martin Luther, the online collection contains over 2,200 downloadable essays, taken from 237 Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics (144 volumes) and Philosophy, Religion and Culture (93 volumes).
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.
Chemistry Journals of the American Chemical Society (ACS)
A searchable database of all ACS journals, plus full-text access to journals which Copley subscribes.
Child Abuse, Welfare and Adoption
The foremost bibliographic resource on the maltreatment of children." Coverage: 1965 to present.
China Data Online
Provides comprehensive and updated information on China’s economic development at national, provincial, city, county, and industrial levels, which include the following databases: (1) Monthly Statistics - provides the monthly macroeconomic statistics at national, provincial and city levels from 1998 to current; (2) National Statistics - provides statistical data of China from 1949 to current; (3) Provincial Statistics - provides the statistical data of all provinces from 1949 to current; (4) City Statistics - provides yearly statistics of prefecture and county level cities from 1996; (5) County Statistics - provides the yearly county statistics from 1997; (6) Industrial Statistics – provides monthly and yearly statistics by industries from 1999; and (7) Statistical Yearbooks - includes a series of China national, provincial, city and professional statistical yearbooks, which will be expanded to cover all statistical yearbooks published by the National Bureau of Statistics of China.
Choice Reviews Online
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education.
Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
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.
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.
College Source
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 and Mass Media Complete
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline.
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. You must be on campus to use this database.
Conference Board 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.
Congressional Research Digital Collections
Includes full text Congressional Committee Prints from 1830 to the present, Congressional Research Service Reports from 1916 to the present and full text Congressional Committee Hearings, as well as related reports, statistical analyses, exhibits, and correspondence inserted into the record from 1824 to the present.
COS Funding Opportunities
COS Funding Opportunities is a compiled database of available opportunities for grants, fellowships, prizes and other type of funding. It is an extensive database with opportunities for recipients anywhere in the world, working in any discipline. Opportunity sponsors come from the public and private sector, including local, state and national governments, foundations and societies, and corporations.
COS Scholar Universe
COS Scholar Universe provides authoritative information about more than 1 million scholars and organizations around the world, together with verified affiliation and publication information. The database comprises international faculty at 4-year universities and their departments. Community of Scholars is a unique tool for finding researchers by specific area of study, providing keyword access to the community behind the content.
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.
Credo Reference
A digital reference library containing hundreds of high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers. Credo 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.
CRSP Stock Database (Contact our Reference Desk (619 260-4765) for access information.)
The CRSP US Stock Database contains end-of-day and month-end prices on all listed NYSE, Amex, and NASDAQ common stocks along with basic market indices, and includes the most comprehensive distribution information available, with the most accurate total return calculations.
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Daily Life Through History
What did people eat, wear, or use? What did they hope for, invent, and sing?Daily Life Online explores ordinary life through time and across the globe.
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.
DRAM Online (Off Campus Link)
A scholarly resource of recordings, including CD quality audio, liner notes and essays from New World, Composers Recordings and other important lables. The basis for the current collection is the diverse catalogue of American music recordings by New World Records. From folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond.
Ebrary Academic Complete
Academic Complete is a highly interactive eBook database from ebrary® that covers all academic subject areas. The collection currently includes more than 30,000 titles from more than 220 of the world’s leading academic, STM, and professional publishers. Note: you must first download and install the ebrary reader on your computer before accessing E-books.
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.
Educational Administration Abstracts
Educational Administration Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Emerald
Full text access to MCB University Press journals. Topics covered are management, accounting and engineering (mainly industrial).
EHRAF World Cultures
eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life.  The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized by cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text documents are subject-indexed at the paragraph level
Energy, Science, and Technology Information Resources
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
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC.
Ethnic Newswatch
News, culture, and history from over 240 publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Both English and Spanish search interfaces are available.
Euromonitor GMID
Euromonitor International’s Global Market Information Database is an online business information system providing business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries. It offers integrated access to statistics, market reports, company profiles and information sources.
Evidence Based Medical Reviews: Cochrane DSR, ACP Journal Club, DARE, CCTR, CMR, HTA, and NHSEED
This multifile database allows you to search simultaneously the seven Evidence Based Medicine Reviews databases.
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.
Factiva
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]
Family Studies Abstracts
Family Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
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GEOBASE
Worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology
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.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments
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
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
Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
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.
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.
IEEE/IET Electronic Library
IEEE/IET Electronic Library features content from the IEEE and UK’s Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The IEL contains almost one-third of the world’s current literature in electrical engineering, communications and computer science. It includes access to 143 IEEE Journals, Transactions and Magazines, 24 IET Journals, 850+ annual IEEE Conferences, 23+ annual IET Conferences, and 1,900+ IEEE (Active & Archived) Standards.
Institute of Physics (IOP) Journals
Provides access to all tables of contents and to abstracts and full article text in Acrobat, PDF or PostScript formats for those journals to which USD subscribes.
International Index to the Performing Arts (Full Text)
A performing arts journal resource with over 465,000 indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1864 to the present. IIPA covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, circus performance, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art and more.
International Medieval Bibliography (Brepolis IMB)
Multidisciplinary Bibliography of Europe, North Africa and the Near East (300-1500).
International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center
This database offers information on virtually every dimension of security & counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process, as well as enhance the general understanding of security and terrorism-related issues.
Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Iter, meaning a journey or a path in Latin, was created for the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) . ITER resources include the Iter Bibliography, Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624-1700: Revised and for the Years 1701-1799 , Iter Italicum, Early Theatre (volume 1 (1998) to the present, and Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réform.
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
JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
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Latin America Database
A full-text news and information database on political, social, and economic issues in Latin America.
Latino American Experience
The Latino American Experience (LAE) is the first-ever full-text database focusing on the history and culture of Latinos living in the United States. LAE’s content spans from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas, through the Spanish and Mexican settlement of much of what is now the United States, to the triumphs and challenges facing present-day U.S. Latinos.
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
LGBT Life Full Text
LGBT Life with Full Text contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for 55 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 100 of full text monographs. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms.
Library, Information Science & technology Abstracts (LISTA)
ndexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
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.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) 1973-current
CSA Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations.
Literature Online (LION)
A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 231 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
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.
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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.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. First published by Oscar K. Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable judgments and informed selection decisions about the increasingly complex world of testing. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present.
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
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.
Nature (2005 to Present)
A weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science andtechnology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public.
Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of over 170,000* tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music.

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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
Provides full text for 174 regional U.S. newspapers and eighteen international newspapers. For more complete coverage, use Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.
New Testament Abstracts
New Testament Abstracts Online is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. The database has become an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. The database contains more than 40,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 14,900 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts.
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Old Testament Abstracts
Old Testament Abstracts Online is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association. The database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more.
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 Online Databases
Access the complete listing of databases available through Ovid, including Journals@Ovid, Medline, and Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online is an innovative new gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. With the 2007 complete redesign of Grove Art Online, as well as the addition of substantial new Oxford reference content, Oxford Art Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online art resource available today.
Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Oxford Biblical Studies Online provides a comprehensive resource for the study of the Bible and biblical history. The integration of authoritative scholarly texts and reference works has tools that provide ease of research into the background, context, and issues related to the Bible.  Texts from selected Oxford Bibles can be viewed in side-by-side display with the user's choice of commentary and annotations from the Study Bibles, the stand-alone Oxford Bible Commentary, and A-Z concordances for the NRSV and NAB translations. The Bible content is supplemented by collections of major apocryphal Old and New Testament texts in translation.

In addition to the Bible texts, Oxford Biblical Studies Online offers quick access to over 5,000 A-Z entries from the Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Oxford Companion to the Bible, and a number of other Oxford references. Users can easily navigate to hundreds of topical essays within the Oxford study Bibles themselves, in The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, The Oxford History of the Biblical World, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible, Oxford Bible Atlas, and other works, and access hundreds of searchable images and maps from these major scholarly publications.
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 Music Online
Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content.
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.
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Papers Invited
The database consists of detailed information and deadlines about calls for papers for forthcoming conferences and special issues of scholarly journals. These calls for papers are issued by professional bodies, journal editors and other conference organizers in all disciplines and from all over the world. Thus, the database serves as an alerting service for researchers, scholars and students that are seeking opportunities to present and publish their research.
Patrologia Latina
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
The Philosophers Index™, produced by the Philosophers Information Center, is a current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. The Philosopher's Index contains research published since 1940 including nearly 570 journals from 43 countries with content representing a variety of languages.
Physical Reviews Online Archive (PROLA)
Contains nearly complete electronic copies of Physical review journals from their initial volumes through 1997.
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.
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.
Public Affairs International Service (PAIS)
Indexes journals, books and book chapters in political science, international relations, and urban studies.
PubMed
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
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Reference USA
Includes information on 10 million business, including officers, addresses, sales, subsidiaries, branches. etc. Updated monthly.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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 Online
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.
Sage Premier Journals
The Premier package provides access to virtually all of the SAGE journal titles in the social sciences, business, humanities, medicine, physical and life sciences, including a backfile dating back to 1999.
San Diego Business Directory (Inside Prospects)
Provides the only locally compiled database of businesses for San Diego.
Science (1997 to Present)
Provides the full text of the journal's news stories, research reports, and commentary articles in a searchable database, enhanced by additional information, links, multimedia, and user services, as well as a database of scientific-product information.
Science Citation Index Expanded
Science Citation Index Expanded provides access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references from approximately 5,900 of the world’s leading scholarly science and technology journals covering more than 150 disciplines. (Dates of coverage: 1997-present.)
ScienceDirect
Provides access to full-text articles from over 400 journals including: agricultural & biological sciences, biochemistry, genetics & molecular biology, chemistry, earth & planetary sciences, medicine, and social science. Note: Full text availabe for subscribed journals from 1997 to present.
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 go to the SciFinder user registration page. You must connect to the user registration page while on campus and provide a valid USD email address.

After you register, use this link (SciFinder) to connect to the database on or off-campus.

It is possible that you are unable to begin working with SciFinder immediately because all seats for the web version of SciFinder are currently in use. If this occurs, try logging in later.]

*** See the PDF SciFinder User Registration Guide for detailed instructions.***
Smithsonian Global Sound
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms. Note: You must create a user account in order to save playlists. Faculty who wish to set up course folders should contact Michael Epstein epstein@sandiego.edu
Social Sciences Citation Index
Social Sciences Citation Index provides access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references from over 1,700 of the world’s leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. It also includes individually selected, relevant items from approximately 3,300 of the world’s leading science and technology journals. (Dates of coverage: 1997-present.)
SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 344 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 129 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 700 books and monographs, and full text for 6,800 conference papers. SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study.
SpringerLink Journals
Includes access to over 1,500 journals in the social sciences, business, humanities, medicine, physical and life sciences.
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage is a comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to popular Standard & Poor's research products such as Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, The Outlook, Mutual Fund Reports among others.
STAT-USA
Access to the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB), Economic Bulletin Board plus numerous economic and trade-related resources.
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Tests In Print
Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
Theatre in Video
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. This release contains 279 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. Included are landmark performances such as The Iceman Cometh, Awake and Sing, Dom Juan, Bérénice, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Playboy of the Western World, Krapp's Last Tape, and the complete works of Shakespeare as produced by the BBC and other theatrical companies. Notable actors include Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Dreyfuss, Walter Matthau, Meryl Streep, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and more.Theatre in Video is optimized to operate with Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher, and Firefox 1.0 or higher.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
A digital library of Greek literature that currently provides access to 3,800 authors and 12,000 works, approximately 99 million words.
Ulrich's Periodical Directory
Provides publication information for magazines, journals, newsletters, newspapers, and other periodicals. Coverage is international in scope
Up to Date
A clinical information resource created by a community of 3,000 expert clinicians that provides current answers to clinical questions across all of Internal Medicine, including its sub-specialties, as well as Family Medicine, OB/GYN and Pediatrics. Note: Off campus access is not available for this database.
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.
Web of Science
Web of Science provides access to the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It offers current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references and allows users to conduct broad-based, comprehensive searches that uncover all the relevant information they need. It provides cited reference searching, the unique ISI search and retrieval feature that lets users track the literature forward, backward, and through the database. Web of Science is updated weekly. (Dates of coverage: 1997-present.)
WetFeet Career Resource Site
Conduct in-depth research on companies, careers and industries while also receiving expert career advice. You will also be able to download Insider Guides in three areas: Company Guides, Industry Guides and Career Management Guides (for help with resumes, interviewing and networking.)
Note: This tool requires Adobe 6 or 7 to view the encrypted PDF's of the WetFeet Insider Guides. There is a link to Adobe Reader on the resource if you do not already have it.
Wiley Interscience Journals
Includes access to over 250 journals in the social sciences, business, humanities, medicine, physical and life sciences.
WorldCat
Bibliographic database containing approximately 40 million records. Includes books, films, music scores, and many other types of materials. Not a journal index.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1963 and 2006.
Zoological Record
The world’s leading taxonomic reference and oldest continuing database of animal biology. (1997-present)
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