Research Databases

These databases provide thousands of full-text magazine and journal articles, newspaper articles, business information and much more. For help with this, visit the "Useful Information Page" that will answer many common questions.

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text articles for 3,614 academic journals, many of which are peer reviewed. (Available Titles)

Alt Health Watch
This alternative health database provides full text for more than 140 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals

American Periodical Series 1740-1900
An archive of historical American journals. A terrific way to view American history through primary sources.

Art Full Text and Art Museum Image Gallery
Two collections that provide both full text articles on art and a virtual museum of images.

Business Source Premiere
Definitive scholarly business database, providing indexing and abstracts for more than twice as many active, peer-reviewed, business related journals as any other database.

Cinahl (OVID)
An important index to articles involving nursing and allied health sciences. Although it's primary role is an index, it has several links to full text articles. (You may want to use Cinahl from EBSCO in conjunction with this database)

Cinahl Plus Full-Text (EBSCO)
An important index to articles involving nursing and allied health sciences. Provides full-text articles for over 5000 full-text journals. Although its primary role is an index, it has several links to full text articles. (Cinahl from OVID may be used in conjunction with this database) Also try searching Pre-Cinahl for articles that have not yet been added to the Cinahl database.

Clinical Pharmacology
Provides access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.

Columbia Grangers World of Poetry
Over 400,000 poem citations and more than 50,000 poems in full text. Also included is bibliographic information for 1,800 anthologies.

Communications and Mass Media Complete
Find sources for research in the fields of Communications and Mass Media.

Education Full-Text
From the Wilson Omni collection - Thousands of full-text education journals.

ERIC
This database indexes reports and articles in the field of Education. Several records are linked to full text articles.

Evidence Based Medicine Reviews
Research medical reviews.

General Science Collection (EBSCO)
A collection of full text articles from 60 magazines and journals in the field of general science. This collection focuses on "popular" science titles such as Discover and National Geographic. (Available Titles)

The Gerritsen Collection-Women's History Online, 1543-1945
An extensive collection of books, periodicals, and pamphlets which illustrate the theories and issues of the feminist and women's rights movement from 1543-1945.

Historic New York Times
Search the New York Times from its beginning.

Historic Los Angeles Times
Full-text and full-image articles for the LA Times

International Security and Terrorism Reference Center
Information about issues in security and terrorism.

JSTOR
A collection of arts and humanities journals.

LGBT Life  (w/Full Text)
The definitive index to the world’s literature regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues. Text includes The Advocate, Gay Parent Magazine, Girlfriends, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, James White Review, ISNA News, Ladder, Lesbian Tide, New York Blade, ONE, TANGENTS, Washington Blade, and many more. (Available Titles)

Learnatest
Take practice tests in a variety of areas such as PPST and NCLEX. You'll be asked to create a unique username and password.

LiOn (Literature Online)
a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 208 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

Literary Reference Center
References for literary research.

MasterFile Premiere  
A good place for general reference information. Masterfile Elite provides access to over 1,172 full text periodicals. It also contains the full text of 30 reference books and an image collection of more than 100,000 flags, maps, and photos. (Available Titles)

Medline
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine (Info Sheet)

Mergent Business Database
A comprehensive suite of authoritative financial information with the accuracy, timeliness and transparency required in today’s marketplace.

MLA International Bibliography
Provides a classified listing and subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is compiled by the staff of the MLA Office of Bibliographic Information Services with the cooperation of more than 100 contributing bibliographers in the United States and abroad. The MLA International Bibliography annually indexes over 66,000 books and articles.

Newspaper Source
Offers full text articles from over 240 newspapers and news sources, including USA Today, The Times, the Boston Globe, and more. (Available Titles)

OMNI
A collection of databases from Wilson, including Education Full-Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, Wilson Business Full Text

OVID Health Journals
This collection of OVID resources for nurses includes CINHAL, Medline, and a variety of specialized journals. A great place to do research in nursing.

Professional Development Collection]
A collection of full text educational journals. Here you can find articles from sources such as: Education, Education Digest, and the Journal of Learning Disabilities. (Available Titles)

Proquest Psychology
Complete information from over 400 top psychology and related publications

PsycInfo
Contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in the field of psychology, dating as far back as 1840.

PsycArticles
Covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 34,000 searchable full text articles from 43 journals published by the APA and 8 from allied organizations. (Info Sheet)

PsychBOOKS
Full text of approximately 500 APA titles in PDF format with copyright dates from 1953-2003. The database will also contain full text coverage of 100 out-of-print books as well as an additional 70+ classic books in psychology, and the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology. PsycBOOKS will also include the official Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms as found in PsycINFO. The database will be updated on a monthly basis.

PsychEXTRA]
Consists of technical and annual reports, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more. This database is the perfect complement to PsycINFO and the other APA databases. It contains extensive coverage of “gray” literature relating to psychology and related fields and contains approximately 45,000 records with over 30,000 additional records added annually. Additionally, this database includes the official Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms as found in PsycINFO.

Reference USA
A comprehensive residential and business database. Find phone numbers, business information and more.

Regional Business News
Provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications.