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

  • Biography Reference Source
    More than 390,000 biographies. Includes complete full text run of Biography Today and Biography Magazine as well as thousands of narrative biographies.
  • Credo Reference
    Search online versions of nearly 1,000 specialized encyclopedias. A great place to start your research.
  • Oxford Classical Dictionary
    Find brief articles on major topics, places, and people relating to ancient Greece and Rome.
  • Oxford English Dictionary
    The most comprehensive dictionary of English, with detailed etymologies.

 

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.
  • Digital Theater Plus
    High quality video recordings of plays performed by the world’s top theater companies.
  • JSTOR
    JSTOR is a platform for discovering and connecting research, images, and primary sources.
  • 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.
  • Project Muse
    Article database focused on scholarly journals in the arts and humanities. Full-text access.
  • 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 and Economics (Films on Demand)
    Full-length video recordings on business and economics topics.
  • 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.
  • Small Business Source
    Covers all aspects of starting and operating a business. Includes information on accounting, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. State-specific information included.

Education

 

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.
  • 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.
  • European Views of the Americas
    Comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
  • HarpWeek
    Search issues from 1857 to 1912 of Harper’s Weekly, one of the most important American magazines in the 19th century.
  • History Reference Source
    Covering topics in U.S. and world history from the earliest civilizations through the 21st century, this database contains full-text journals, magazines, reference books and thousands of primary source documents.
  • LGBTQ+ Source
    LGBTQ+ Source is the definitive database for LGBTQ+ studies. It provides scholarly and popular LGBTQ+ publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines, newspapers, and videos. It also includes a specialized LGBTQ+ thesaurus containing thousands of terms.
  • Project Muse
    Article database focused on scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, including history. Full-text access.
  • 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.

 

Literature and Languages

  • Literary Reference Source
    Full-text literary database covering all genres and time periods. It includes thousands of synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals, and author biographies, plus full-text classic novels, short stories, and poems.
  • MLA International Bibliography
    Best and largest collection of scholarly journal articles, books, and dissertations on language and literature. Some full-text.
  • Oxford Classical Dictionary
    Find brief articles on major topics, places, and people relating to ancient Greece and Rome.
  • TOCS-IN
    Citations for scholarly journal articles in Classics (on ancient Greece and Rome). No full-text.
  • Oxford English Dictionary
    The most comprehensive dictionary of English, with detailed etymologies.

 

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.
  • Newspaper Source
    Full-text access to global and local newspapers.

 

Nursing

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Consumer Health Complete
    A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content.
  • Health Source – Nursing/Academic edition
    Another great source for scholarly info related to nursing, including info on prescription drugs and other supplements.
  • 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.

 

Psychology

 

Sciences

  • Academic Search Complete
    Huge collection of scholarly articles on many topics, including the sciences.
  • AGRICOLA
    From the National Agricultural Library. Contains citations about all aspects of agriculture and related fields. Includes: journal articles, monographs, proceedings, theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, computer software, and technical reports.
  • American Chemical Society Journals
    Full-text access to scholarly journals in chemistry and related fields.
  • Arxiv
    Open access database of articles and pre-prints in physics, math, and computer science.
  • GreenFile
    Interdisciplinary database of scholarly articles relating to the environment and environmental change.
  • Medline
    Database of biomedical and life sciences journal articles.
  • Public Library of Science
    Search several open access journals in biology and medicine. Also available in PubMed.
  • PubMed
    Largest index of citations for scholarly journal articles in health and medicine. Some full-text.
  • Science Reference Source
    Provides full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, reference books and high-quality videos. The database also contains science experiments, curriculum-aligned lesson plans, and a vast image collection.
  • 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.
  • Ethnic Diversity Source
    This full-text database is a dedicated resource covering the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America.
  • Legal Source
    A scholarly resource of current issues, studies, and trends of the legal world. For attorneys, educators, businesspeople, law librarians, students, and paralegals.
  • 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.