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Database details ABI/Inform

Scope: This database includes about 80% full-text articles from the business press, trade publications, academic journals, and newspapers (including full text of the Wall Street Journal). It is a great starting point for articles on broad business topics.
Notes: Some scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Business How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Academic OneFile

Coverage: 1980-present
Scope: A huge and highly heterogeneous multidisciplinary mix of scholarly, journalistic, practitioner and popular sources, with much direct full-text included. Use the tabs to identify scholarly, newspaper or other sources as necessary.
Notes: Scholarly, journalstic, practitioner, popular sources. Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Multidisciplinary How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details ACLS Humanities

Scope: A digital collection of over 1,700 full-text books offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twelve learned societies, nearly 95 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Humanities
Database details ACM Digital Library

Scope: A full-text repository of papers from publications that have been published, co-published, or co-marketed by ACM and other publishers.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Computer Science How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Alt-Health Watch

Scope: Complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness are included here. Many articles are available full-text.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Health Sciences How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details America's Newspapers

Coverage: 1999 - present
Scope: Detroit News: 1/1/1999 to the present Grand Rapids Press: 8/1/2000 to the present Lansing State Journal: 1/1/1999 to the present
Notes: Three newspapers. Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

News
Database details America: History & Life

Coverage: 1964 to present
Scope: The definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Provides indexing for 1,700 journals.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

History How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Applied Science & Technology

Coverage: 1983 to present
Scope: Provides information on management, careers and employment, and financial trends in the scientific and technological fields. Includes interviews, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, discussions, corrections, continued articles, new product reviews, new product announcements, buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings.
Notes: Some scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Science How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Art Abstracts

Coverage: 1984 to present
Scope: Provides access to a wide range of bibliographies, notices of competitions and awards, reports of conferences, exhibition listings, review articles, interviews, and film reviews.
Notes: Some scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Art How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Article 1st

Scope: Not a particularly useful multidisciplinary database. Academic OneFile or WilsonSelectPlus would be better starting points for general research and any of the discipline-specific databases would be better for in-depth research.
Notes: Some scholarly. Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Multidisciplinary How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Arts & Humanities Search

Scope: Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in nearly 1,130 of the world's leading arts & humanities journals.
Notes: Who has cited?
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Humanities How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Awards & Prizes Online

Coverage: Children's Book Awards
Notes: Limit 1 user. Please log off when done.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Anthropology
Database details Bibliography of Asian Studies

Coverage: 1971 - present
Scope: This bibliography is comparable to the print Bibliography of Asian Studies. This source is an index to western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

International Studies
Database details Biography & Genealogy Master Index

Scope: This index contains citations that point to over 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor.
Notes: Thanks to Mel
Full text: No links to full text available.
 

Biography
Database details Biography Index

Scope: It indexes articles, books, and autobiographies for biographical subjects from antiquity to the present.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Biography How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Biological and Agricultural Index

Coverage: 1983 to present
Scope: Includes popular and professional journals about biology and agriculture
Notes: Some scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Biology How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts

Coverage: 1982 - current
Scope: This database provides bibliographic coverage of ground-breaking research, applications, regulatory developments and new patents across all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering, including medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental and marine biology.
Full text: No links to full text available.
 

Biology
Database details Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

Scope: Comparable to the print version of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Sociology
Database details Book Review Digest

Coverage: 1983 to present
Scope: Includes book reviews for English-language fiction and non-fiction books that have appeared within 18 months of each book's publication.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Literature How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Business & Company Resource Center

Scope: Using a convenient arrangement on the screen, it brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. This is an easy-to-use database for beginners in the area of business research.
Notes: Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Business
Database details Business Source Premier

Scope: Broad scope - includes academic journals, trade publications, magazines, books, market research reports, and product reviews.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Business How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Business Source Premier - Enhanced Search

Scope: Covers many types of full-text sources, including articles in journals and magazines, Datamonitor industry analyses, company overviews, country profiles, and market research information.
Notes: Some full text.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Business How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Cambridge Companions

Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Humanities
Database details CAMIO - Art Museum Images

Notes: Images. Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Art
Database details Chilton Library.com

Notes: Car repair. Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Database details ChoiceReviews Online

Coverage: Sept. 1988-present
Scope: Book reviews of academic titles.
Notes: One simultaneous user.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Reference
Database details Chronicle of Higher Education

Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

News
Database details CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online

Scope: The most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs; publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional paper series from nongovernmental organizations, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

International Studies
Database details CINAHL Plus with Full-text

Coverage: 1981-Present
Scope: The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) is a comprehensive and highly-authoritative database for research in nursing and health sciences.
Notes: Some scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Nursing How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Cochrane Library

Scope: This is a collection of databases that contain evidence for healthcare decision-making. Includes systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations and individual clinical trials.
Notes: Scholarly nursing and health sciences reports.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Health Sciences
Database details Communication Studies: SAGE Full Text

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Communication How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Computer Database

Notes: Some scholarly. Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Computer Science How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Congressional Universe

Coverage: 1789 to present
Scope: Includes full-text of many congressional publications (hearings, committee prints) as well as public laws. Provides a bill tracking service for recent legislation.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Government
Database details Contemporary Authors

Scope: Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Literature
Database details Credo Reference

Notes: Encyclopedias, almanacs, etc.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Reference
Database details Criminology: SAGE Full Text

Coverage: 1960-
Scope: Some of the articles indexed are full text.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Social Sciences How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Current Index to Statistics

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: No links to full text available.
 

Mathematics How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Dance in Video

Scope: View video clips on ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance. Contains about 201 hours of dance video.
Full text: No links to full text available.
 

Dance
Database details DARTS - full text NTIS documents

Scope: Provides full-text access to approximately 240,000 documents from government agencies such as the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS).
Notes: In library use only - ask for information at the Reference Desk.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Engineering
Database details Dictionary of Literary Biography

Coverage: DLB Complete Online includes the DLB main series, the DLB Documentary Series, and the DLB Yearbook Seri
Scope: Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Literature
Database details Dissertation Abstracts Online

Scope: Selectively covers masters theses and dissertations including dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe. Dissertation abstracts available since 1980 and thesis abstracts since 1988.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: No links to full text available.
 

Multidisciplinary How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Dissertations & Theses @ OU

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800

Scope: This full-text historical collection contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over three centuries. Take a look at our guide to EAI for an introduction on searching or browsing the imprints.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

History How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details ECO - Electronic Collections Online

Coverage: 1995 to present
Scope: Includes of the original content and images of articles from many disciplines. Lets you view abstracts and full-text articles from journals to which Kresge Library subscribes.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Anthropology How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details EconLit

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Economics How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Education Abstracts

Coverage: 1983 to present
Scope: Provides citations for articles from English-language periodicals and yearbooks. It covers ages and sectors of the educational community from preschool through college.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Education How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Education: SAGE Full Text

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Education How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Educator's Reference Complete

Notes: Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Education How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Emerald Management Xtra 40

Coverage: Varies by journal title; 1994-present for most.
Scope: 40 full-text business and management journals from Emerald Press
Notes: Scholarly
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Business
Database details Encyclopaedia Judaica

Scope: Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures, Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd edition is important to scholars, general readers and students.
Notes: Scholarly, 2nd ed.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Religion
Database details Encyclopedia of American Studies

Scope: This source brings together a wide range of disciplines related to the history and cultures of the United States, from pre-colonial days to the present. It features broad, synthetic articles covering areas such as history, literature, art, photography, film, architecture, urban studies, ethnicity, race, gender, economics, politics, wars, consumer culture, and global America.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Multidisciplinary
Database details Encyclopedia of Gender and Society

Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Sociology
Database details Engineering Village

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Engineering How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details ERIC via CSA

Coverage: 1966-present
Scope: The standard database for resources in education including journal articles from research/scholarly and practitioner literature, as well as ERIC documents. ERIC documents include such various sources as books, research reports, government documents, conference papers, bibliographies, curricula and lesson plans and other documents. The database contains over 1,100,000 records covering literature from 1966 through the present, with online direct full-text for ERIC documents from 1992-present.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Education How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details ERIC via FirstSearch

Coverage: 1966-present
Scope: The standard database for resources in education including journal articles from research/scholarly and practitioner literature, as well as ERIC documents. ERIC documents include such various sources as books, research reports, government documents, conference papers, bibliographies, curricula and lesson plans and other documents. The database contains over 1,100,000 records covering literature from 1966 through the present, with online direct full-text for ERIC documents from 1992-present.
Notes: Scholarly and practitioner literature. Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Education How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Essay and General Literature Index

Coverage: 1985 to present
Scope: Cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other collected works in the humanities and social sciences literature.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Literature How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Expanded Academic ASAP

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Multidisciplinary How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text

Scope: The definitive online tool for film and television research. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for 350 publications (and selected coverage of nearly 300), as well as full text for more than 100 journals.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Film How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Film Literature Index

Scope: Annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: No links to full text available.
 

Film
Database details FirstSearch

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Multidisciplinary How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details General Business File ASAP

Scope: Analyses of companies, industry events and trends as well as the latest in economics and politics. Offers access to broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, and journals.
Notes: Scholarly. Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Business How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details General Reference Center Gold

Notes: Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Reference How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details General Science Abstracts

Coverage: 1984 to present
Scope: Covers everything from supernovas to marine pollution and is a good source for researchers seeking information on a variety of scientific topics. It includes articles from over 160 leading journals and magazines from the United States and Great Britain.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Science How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Global Market Information Database

Scope: International socioconomic data, including industry statistics, consumer behavior statistics, and country information.
Notes: Formerly known as Euromonitor.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Business
Database details Google Scholar

Scope: You can check the availability of article full text from within Google Scholar - see how!.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Multidisciplinary
Database details GPO - Government Printing Office

Coverage: 1976 to present
Scope: Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).
Notes: Thanks to Mel
Full text: No links to full text available.
 

Government How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Grove Art Online

Scope: Online version of The Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, as well as articles that have been added or updated since their appearance in print.
Notes: Limit 1 user. Please log off when done.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Art
Database details Grove Music Online

Scope: A peerless compendium of information about music and musicians of all periods and places.
Notes: Limit 4 users.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Music
Database details Harper's Weekly

Coverage: 1857-1889
Scope: Directly experience the richness and historical significance of Harper’s Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

History
Database details Health and Wellness Resource Center

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Health Sciences
Database details Health Reference Center Academic

Notes: Scholarly. Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Health Sciences How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Health Science: SAGE Full Text

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Health Sciences How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Health Sciences How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Heritage of the Printed Book

Coverage: ca. 1455-1830
Scope: Union catalog of European printing from the 15th century to the 1830s. Useful for research in intellectual history, social history, transmission of thought, and the history of printing and the history of the book.
Notes: Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

History How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details HeritageQuest

Notes: Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Database details Historical Abstracts

Coverage: 1955 to present
Scope: Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, the history of education, and more. Provides indexing of more than 1700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

History How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details History Cooperative

Scope: Full-text articles from 22 leading history journals, including "The Michigan Historical Review"
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

History
Database details History of Science, Technology & Medicine

Coverage: Includes international material selected from periodicals since 1975
Scope: Integrates four bibliographies to create the definitive international database for the history of science, technology, and medicine. It reflects the influences of these fields on society and culture from prehistory to the present and offers outstanding value for interdisciplinary research. Includes records of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, serials, maps and other materials
Notes: Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Science How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Horn Book Guide

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: No links to full text available.
 

Database details Humanities Abstracts

Coverage: 1984 to present
Scope: Abstracts covering diverse subject areas of the humanities. Includes feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Humanities How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details ICPSR

Coverage: Data set
Scope: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is the world's largest collection of digital social science data. These data can be used for secondary research, instructional activities, and to write articles, papers or theses.
Full text: No links to full text available.
 

Social Sciences
Database details IEEE Xplore

Coverage: 1988 to present; some content dating back to 1913
Scope: Full-text access to IEEE and IET journals, magazines, transactions, and annual conference proceedings. IEEE standards are also included.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Engineering How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Index to Legal Periodicals

Coverage: 1981 to present
Scope: International legal information covering all areas of jurisprudence; covers legal journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar association organs, law reviews, and government publications originating in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Law How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Informe! en Espanol

Notes: Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details InfoTrac - Thomson Gale databases

Notes: Thanks to Mel (for most)
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Multidisciplinary How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details InfoTrac Custom Newspapers

Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

News
Database details International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Theater How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

Notes: Scholarly, 2nd ed.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Social Sciences
Database details iPoll

Coverage: Data set.
Scope: iPoll is a comprehensive database of 500,000 questions and answers asked in the US since 1935. Also included is the Roper Center public opinion data which is the largest archives of public opinion information.
Full text: No links to full text available.
 

Political Science
Database details Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

Scope: Historical survey of the most important critics and theorists, critical schools, and movements in literary theory and criticism. Includes more than 240 alphabetically arranged entries, including the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.
Notes: Scholarly
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

English
Database details JSTOR

Coverage: 1665 to present
Scope: Full text of core scholarly journals from their beginning to approximately one year ago. Disciplines include botany, business, ecology, general science, humanities, mathematics, social sciences, and statistics. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines. Especially good for historic or classic articles in most fields.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Humanities How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Keesing's Record of World Events

Coverage: Over 95,000 articles, first from 1931-87 as Keesing’s Contemporary Archives, and then as Keesing’s Record of World Events from 1987 to the present.
Scope: Concise, accurate and unbiased account of important developments in each of the world’s countries, major international organizations and within selected thematic topic
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Political Science
Database details Legal Information Institute

Scope: Access to US laws and court decisions including all US Supreme Court opinions since 1992, over 600 historic Court decisions, other state and federal court decisions, the US Code, congressional bills, topical libraries, directories, and other public legal information.
Notes: Scholarly
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Law
Database details LegalTrac

Scope: Provides indexing for approximately 875 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals; also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Law How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

Scope: NEWS: full text access to newspapers, magazines, trade journals, newsletters, news wires, and transcripts. News sources are never scholarly, but they can give you up-to-date information on current events. BUSINESS: access to financial and business information for specific companies. It's most accurate when you limit your search by sources, such as Hoover's Company Reports, S&P Corporate Descriptions, American Markeplace, and Tax Analysts Publications. LEGAL: you can search for legal information such as court decisions, legal codes, legal news, and law journals. The coverage includes information both at the state level and at the federal level.
Notes: Some scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Multidisciplinary How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Library Literature

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Library Science How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details LLBA - Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

Coverage: 1973 - current
Scope: LLBA contains abstracts and indexes to 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.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Linguistics
Database details Management & Organization Studies: SAGE Full Text

Scope: Includes the full text of 40 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 60 years.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Business How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Materials Science: SAGE Full-Text

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Engineering How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details MathSciNet

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Mathematics How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Coverage: Science & Technology
Scope: 10th edition
Notes: scholarly
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Science
Database details Medline via FirstSearch

Scope: Database includes peer-reviewed journal articles in the life sciences including life sciences, health sciences, nursing, medical and allied health. Medline was created by the National Library of Medicine.
Notes: Scholarly. Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Health Sciences How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Medline via Web of Science

Coverage: 1950-present
Scope: MEDLINE is the premier database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It contains over 12 million records of journal articles in the life sciences, with particular emphasis on biomedicine.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Health Sciences How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Mental Measurements Yearbook

Coverage: Corresponds to volume 9 to present of print Mental Measurements Yearbook.
Scope: Here you'll find descriptions and reviews of current testing instruments.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Psychology How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Mergent Online

Scope: Financial data on US and international publicly traded firms; includes annual reports, SEC filings, news, and other information.
Notes: Limit 7 users. Log off after using!
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Business
Database details Michigan Newspapers

Scope: The electronic editions of The Detroit News, The Grand Rapids Press, and Lansing State Journal. Each paper provides coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community.
Notes: Three newspapers. Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

News
Database details Million Dollar Directory - replaced by Ward's Directory

Scope: Ward's contains information on public and private companies in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Ward's is searchable through the Business and Company Resource Center.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Business
Database details MLA Bibliography

Coverage: 1925-
Scope: a subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and contains over 2 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Literature How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details MLA Directory of Periodicals

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: No links to full text available.
 

Literature
Database details Morningstar

Notes: Limit 1 user. Please log off when done.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Business
Database details Music Index

Notes: Some scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Music How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details NAXOS Music Library

Coverage: Streaming classial, jazz, world, folk and Chinese music
Scope: Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of over 262,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. While listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database.
Notes: Listening service.
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Music
Database details Net Library

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Multidisciplinary
Database details New York Times - current

Coverage: 1995 - present
Scope: Full-text from 1995 to the present date.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

News How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details New York Times Historical

Scope: Offers full-text, full-image articles from1851 – 2003 of The New York Times. The database can be used to search national and international news, editorials, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, plus historical photos and advertisements. The documents are downloadable in PDF format
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

News How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Newsbank - Michigan

Notes: Three newspapers. Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

News
Database details Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets

Coverage: 19th century
Scope: Online access to the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries. Focus is on the political, economic and social issues of the time.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Anthropology
Database details NoveList

Coverage: Provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles.
Full text: No links to full text available.
 

Education
Database details OneFile

Notes: Some scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Multidisciplinary How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Open Access Journals - DOAJ

Notes: Scholarly e-journals.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Multidisciplinary
Database details Opposing Viewpoints

Scope: The premier full-text resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints; brings together all the information that’s needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more!
Notes: Limit 4 users. Please log off when done.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Multidisciplinary How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Oxford Art Online

Scope: Online version of The Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, as well as articles that have been added or updated since their appearance in print.
Notes: Limit 1 user. Please log off when done.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Art
Database details Oxford English Dictionary

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Reference
Database details Oxford Music Online

Scope: A peerless compendium of information about music and musicians of all periods and places.
Notes: Limit 4 users. Please logout when done.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Music
Database details Philosopher's Index

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Philosophy How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details PILOTS (Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress)

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Health Sciences How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Political Science: SAGE Full Text

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Political Science How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Project Muse

Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Humanities How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details PsycARTICLES

Coverage: 1894 - present.
Scope: PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. Most of the 58 APA journals included in PsycARTICLES now go back to volume 1, issue 1. The earliest journal is Psychological Review, which was started in 1894.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Psychology How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Psychology: SAGE Full Text

Coverage: 1944 - present.
Scope: This database includes the full text of 34 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 63 years, and encompasses over 44,400 articles.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Psychology How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details PsycINFO

Coverage: 1806 - present.
Scope: PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. PsycINFO is a department of the American Psychological Association (APA) and contains over 2,487,286 records as of December 2007.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Psychology How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details PubMed

Scope: PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. View the Customizing PubMed to link to Kresge Library Resources guide.
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Health Sciences How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Readers' Guide Abstracts

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Multidisciplinary How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Regional Business News EBSCO

Scope: Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Notes: Crains Detroit News
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Business How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Science Citation Index

Notes: Who has cited?
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Science How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Science Direct

Notes: Elsevier journals.
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Science How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Scipio - art/rare book catalogs

Notes: Art/rare book catalogs. Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Art How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Scirus

Notes: Search engine.
Full text: No links to full text available.
 

Science How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Scitation

Scope: Index or "finding aid" to scientific literature.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Science
Database details Social Sciences Abstracts

Coverage: 1983-
Scope: Use this for sociology, anthropology,psychology and economics. Some links to full text.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Social Sciences How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Social Sciences Citation Index

Coverage: 1980-
Scope: Use this for sociology, anthroplogy.,political science and economics.It will tell you who cited someone's research.
Notes: Who has cited?
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Social Sciences How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Social Services Abstracts

Coverage: 1960
Scope: Indexes scholarly articles;some are full text.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Social Work How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Social Work Abstracts - EBSCO

Coverage: 1965 to the present.
Scope: Indexes more than 450 social work and human services journals.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Social Work How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Social Work Abstracts - Ovid

Coverage: 1977 - present
Scope: The Social Work Abstracts database, produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., contains more than 45,000 records, spanning from 1977 to the present, from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more.
Notes: Scholarly
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Social Work How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Sociological Abstracts

Coverage: 1960-
Scope: Some of the entries are full text.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Sociology How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Sociology: SAGE FullText

Coverage: 1960-
Scope: Acess to full text articles.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Sociology How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details SPORTDiscus

Coverage: Includes international references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, 1800 to the present.
Scope: Topics include physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, physical education, kinesiology, health education, biomechanics, movement science, injury prevention, physical therapy, rehabilitation, nutrition, exercise physiology, sport psychology, occupational health & therapy, and public health.
Notes: Scholarly & practitioner.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Health Sciences How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details STAT-USA

Scope: Source for current federal business, trade and economic information.
Notes: Limit 2 users; in-library access only
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Government
Database details Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

Scope: Updated daily. Provides information on almost every active and ceased periodical, annual, irregular publication, and monographic series published in the United States and throughout the world. Includes contact information for over 80,000 publishers.
Notes: Directory.
Full text: No links to full text available.
 

Reference
Database details Urban Studies & Planning: SAGE Full Text

Coverage: 1960-
Scope: Full text articles in topics that will interest sociologists.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Social Sciences How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Ward's Business Directory via BCRC

Scope: This is a replacement for Million Dollar Directory. It contains information on public and private companies in the US, Canada, and Mexico.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Business
Database details Web of Science

Coverage: 1980 to present
Scope: Web of Science provides access to Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). These citation indexes contain references which have been cited by other articles. You can use these citations to undertake cited reference searching, that is, locating articles which cite an earlier publication.
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Science How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details Wilson Business Abstracts

Scope: Contains abstracts to articles in business and economics journals and magazines. Includes some full-text articles.
Notes: Scholarly.
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Business How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details WilsonSelectPlus

Scope: A great place to get a few good articles. Almost all of the articles are available full-text or PDF.
Notes: Thanks to Mel
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Multidisciplinary How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details World Almanac

Notes: Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Multidisciplinary How to export citations to RefWorks
Database details WorldCat

Notes: Thanks to Mel
Full text: Some links to full text available.
 

Multidisciplinary How to export citations to RefWorks

 


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