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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.

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.

Anthropology Resources on the Web
A selective listing of important Internet resources in anthropology and archaeology.

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.
 

 

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.]

 

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
 

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

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.

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.

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.
 
 
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.
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.

Data on the Net

links to data sets on the Internet, including governmental and non-governmental sites

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

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.

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.

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.

 

Infonation
Social, demographic and economic information from the United Nations.

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

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

Nursing Resources on the World Wide Web

Ovid databases
Access the complete listing of databases available through Ovid, including ERIC, 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 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.

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

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.
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.

 

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.

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

PubList - Internet Directory of Publications
a directory listing of over 150,000 periodical and serial publications

ScienceDirect
Provides access to over one million full-text articles in all fields of science, from 1995 to the present. Includes over 1,200 journal titles.

 

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

Statistical Abstract of the United States

Utilizing OVID Databases in Library Research
Instructions on how to use the OVID system to search databases such as ERIC, CINAHL, PsycINFO, HAPI and Medline.