Specialized Databases On Campus
Galenet databases includes Biography and Genealogy Master Index, Literature Resource Center, Book Review Index Online, LitFinder, Something About the Author, and GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy & Natural Resources).
Opposing Viewpoints in Context is now included in InfoTrac. Other specialized InfoTrac databases are Chilton's and many subject specific databases containing ebooks, journals, magazines, newspapers and reports.
CQ Electronic Library includes CQ Researcher, CQ Weekly, and CQ Historic Document Series.
Science Direct College Edition Contains the full text of major social science encyclopedias with emphasis on the behavioral sciences. Titles include the encyclopedias of: Applied Psychology, the Human Brain, Information Systems, International Media and Communications, Language & Linguistics, Psychotherapy, Social Measurement and the International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Also contains scholarly journals in the social sciences.
ABC-CLIO Social Studies Databases includes American History, American Government, World History, State Geography, World Geography, and Social Issues research materials. Provided by ABC-CLIO.
ARTstor This database is comprised of "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." The images may be used for educational purposes.
Oxford African American Studies Center contains articles and reference books covering all aspects of African American history.
Oxford Islamic Studies contains materials covering the history and culture of Islam and provides full-text access to reference works, including The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, The Oxford History of Islam, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, two classic interpretations of the Qur'an and a Concordance of the Qur'an.
EBSCO Databases CINAHL, Magill Literature, Granger's Poetry, PsycBOOKS, EBooks (formerly netLibrary), Scientific American. EBSCO also provides free access to Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA). Also available are:
- Art Museum Image Gallery which contains digital art images and related multimedia gathered from distinguished museum collections around the world. Time period is from ancient to contemporary.
- Biography Reference Bank contains information on over 500,000 people from ancient through present.
- Book Review Digest Plus contains book reviews from 1983 to present. Includes fiction and non-fiction. The database includes children't books as well as books for adults and young adults.
- Children's Core Collection is used to select children's books and includes fiction and non-fiction works, story collections, picture books and magazines recommended for readers from preshcool through sixth grade.
- Essay and General Literature Index is an index to essays contained in anthologies and collections.
- OmniFile Full Text contains magazines and journals from many areas including business, technology, art, library and information science, education, biology, humanities and law. Also includes the general Readers' Guide for current issues.
- Play Index is an index to over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present.
- Readers' Guide Retro is an index to magazine articles published from 1890 to 1982. No full text is available in this database.
- Short Story Index is an index to over 96,000 stories and the full text of over 4,000 stories.
FirstSearch Comprised of 15 general and subject-specific databases of magazines, journals, books, and other sources.
PsychiatryOnline contains psychiatric journals, the DSM-IV-TR® and earlier editions of the DSM, handbooks, and comprehensive textbooks in the field of psychiatry.
Red Book Online contains information on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of 200 childhood infectious diseases. Contains a visual library of over 2,000 images, vaccine status information and infectious disease news. Published by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Available on campus only.
Who's Who biographical database.
WilsonWeb contains several databases: (These databases have moved to the EbscoHost databases.
1.) Art Museum Image Gallery contains digital art images and related multimedia gathered from distinguised museum collections around the world. Time period is from ancient to contemporary.
2.) Biography Reference Bank contains information on over 500,000 people from ancient through present.
3.) Book Review Digest Plus contains book reviews from 1983 to present. Includes fiction and non-fiction. The database includes children’s books as well as books for adults and young adults.
4.) Children's Core Collection is used to select children's books and includes fiction and nonfiction works, story collections, picture books and magazines recommended for readers from preschool through sixth grade.
5.) Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus is a database of articles covering a variety of current social, scientific, health, political, and global issues.
6.) Essay and General Literature Index contains nearly 65,000 essays contained in approiximately 5,300 anthologies and collections.
7.) OmniFile Full Text Select contains magazines and journals from many areas including business, technology, art, library and information science, education, biology, humanities, and law. Also includes the general Readers' Guide for current issues.
8.) Play Index is an index to over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present.
9.) Readers' Guide Retro is an index to magazine articles published from 1890 to 1982. No full text is available in this database.
10.) Short Story Index is an index to over 96,000 stories and the full text of over 4,000 stories. The periodicals included are those indexed in Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature and Humanities Index.
Search through library catalogs for books and other materials with no login required. Easy interface.
WorldCat library catalogs. Use to search for books and other materials held in other libraries. Same as above, but with advanced search options. This is one of the FirstSearch databases.