DATABASES BY SUBJECT

 

  • Search All Library Resources
    Search across all of the content that the library owns, from books in the library to article databases, online encyclopedias, and streaming video.
  • Academic Search Complete
    This huge database is a good place to start for scholarly articles and news on almost any topic. It contains a subset of the articles available in Search All Library Resources.

 

Subjects

 

Reference

  • Credo Reference
    Search online versions of nearly 1,000 specialized encyclopedias. A great place to start your research.

 

Arts

  • Academic Search Complete
    Search this huge collection of articles across all subjects, including good representation of the arts. Full-text is plentiful but not complete.
  • Project Muse
    Article database focused on scholarly journals in the arts and humanities. Full-text access.
  • Digital Theater Plus
    High quality video recordings of plays performed by the world’s top theater companies.
  • Musical Theater Songs
    Musical Theater Songs easy-to-use interface lets you enter up to 20-plus parameters (character age, ease for accompanist, popularity, tempo, vocal range with interactive keyboard, year, etc.) plus over 100 descriptive tags, to generate a list of songs tailored to your needs from an ever-growing database. MusicalTheaterSongs.com draws from 150 years of musical theater repertoire, ranging from well-known standards to rare finds to the latest work from today’s new creators, to help you find the right songs quickly and easily.
  • Theater in Video (Alexander St Press)
    Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world‘s leading plays, including works by Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, and Terence McNally, together with more than 100 film documentaries.
  • Saskia Fine Art Images
    The collection contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from the world’s top museums.
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Business

  • Business Source Elite
    Best place to start for business info. Find journal articles on business topics, business-oriented trade magazines, and Datamonitor company profiles. Plentiful full-text.
  • EDGAR
    An electronic database of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to access corporate filings.
  • HeinOnline
    HeinOnline is an online research platform that provides more than 194 million pages of multidisciplinary periodicals, essential government documents, case law, international resources, and much more. The platform is composed of fully-searchable image-based PDFs, and each image is an exact replication of its print counterpart.
  • The Observatory of Economic Complexity
    An online resource for international trade data and economic complexity indicators available through interactive visualizations of countries and products.
  • Regional Business News
    Find articles from publications that cover business news locally and regionally. E.g., Crain’s, Indianapolis Business Journal, etc. Plentiful full-text.

 

Education

  • ERIC
    Largest collection of articles and other resources in the field of education. Some full-text.
  • MAS Ultra – School Edition
    Designed specifically for high school libraries, and contains magazine articles, encyclopedias, biographies, and images.
  • Primary Search
    Designed specifically for elementary school libraries, and allows you to filter by reading level.

 

History

  • Academic Search Complete
    Huge collection of articles across all subjects, including history. Full-text is plentiful but not complete.
  • African-American History
    Organized around the history of African-Americans in the U.S., this collection contains primary source documents and scholarly essays on African-American history.
  • Project Muse
    Article databased focused on scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, including history. Full-text access.
  • Black Freedom Struggle in the U.S.
    Contains open primary source documents including historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, and correspondence from specific time periods in U.S. history marked by the opposition African Americans have faced on the road to freedom.
  • Black Thought & Culture
    Contains complete published non-fiction works, interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, and letters of leading African Americans through history.
  • Women and Social Movements
    Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection contains primary source documents and scholarly essays on women’s history.
  • HarpWeek
    Search issues from 1857 to 1912 of Harper’s Weekly, one of the most important American magazines in the 19th century.

 

Literature and Languages

  • MLA International Bibliography
    Best and largest collection of scholarly journal articles, books, and dissertations on language and literature. Some full-text.
  • TOCS-IN
    Citations for scholarly journal articles in Classics (on ancient Greece and Rome). No full-text.

 

News

  • HeinOnline
    HeinOnline is an online research platform that provides more than 194 million pages of multidisciplinary periodicals, essential government documents, case law, international resources, and much more. The platform is composed of fully-searchable image-based PDFs, and each image is an exact replication of its print counterpart.

 

Nursing

  • CINAHL Complete
    Best place to start for scholarly journal articles and trade magazines related to all aspects of health and medicine, selected specifically for field of nursing. Mostly full-text.
  • Medline
    Database of biomedical and life sciences journal articles.
  • PubMed
    Largest index of citations for scholarly journal articles in health and medicine. Some full-text.
  • AHFS Consumer Medication Information
    Published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, AHFS includes more than a thousand drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers.

 

Psychology

  • PsycTests Covers non-proprietary tests and measures in psychology.

 

Sciences

  • Medline
    Database of biomedical and life sciences journal articles.
  • PubMed
    Largest index of citations for scholarly journal articles in health and medicine. Some full-text.
  • Arxiv
    Open access database of articles and pre-prints in physics, math, and computer science.
  • Agricola
    Agriculture-related scholarly journal articles. Little full-text.
  • GreenFile
    Interdisciplinary database of scholarly articles relating to the environment and environmental change.
  • SciTech Connect
    Open-access database covering Science, Technology, and Engineering from the U.S. Department of Energy.

 

Sociology & Criminal Justice

  • Anthropological Index Online
    Free searchable database of citations for articles in field of anthropology, maintained by the Royal Anthropological Institute. No full text.
  • Civic Sociology Civic Sociology is an open access journal from the University of California Press that aims to reconstruct the disciplinary knowledge of sociology.
  • Criminological Highlights
    Criminological Highlights offers a look at currently published criminological inquiry with a focus on policy-relevant research.
  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service
    NCJRS is a federally funded database with articles and other information on crime, justice, and drug use, affiliated with the Department of Justice. Includes some full text.
  • Perspectives on Terrorism
    Perspectives on Terrorism seeks to provide a unique platform for established and emerging scholars to present their perspectives on the developing field of terrorism studies and scholarship.
  • Qualitative Report
    The Qualitative Report is a peer-reviewed, online monthly journal devoted to writing and discussion of and about qualitative, critical, action, and collaborative inquiry and research.