Alphabetical List of Databases
Alphabetical List of Databases | Databases
with Some Full-text | Multidisciplinary Databases
Databases by Subject
Arts & Humanities | Biography | Business
& Economics | Education | Government
& Law | News | Reference | Science,
Health & Medicine | Science,
Life | Science,
Physical | Social
Sciences
Alphabetical List of Databases
- ABI/INFORM
Global (via ProQuest) (Some
Full-Text)
- Index to over 1600 business and management periodicals. Some images
(e.g., tables, charts) in full-text.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1971. Updated weekly.
- ACM
(Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library & Portal (Full-Text)
- This service includes online access to all ACM publications and
selected co-distributed publications as well as online access to conference
proceedings, archives from the beginning (where available). It also
includes the ACM Online Guide to Computing Literature, with
over 500,000 bibliographic citations to computing literature from
1985 forward and annual updating of 20,000-25,000 items per year.
Materials
included. Note:
EMU does not subscribe to Online Computing Reviews Service.
- AgeLine
- Created by the AARP (formerly known as the American Association
of Retired Persons), this database provides "detailed
summaries of publications about older adults and aging, including
books, journal
and magazine articles, research reports, and videos."
Journals
indexed. Coverage started: 1978, with selected coverage of
the years 1966-1977.
Note: The total number of users who can search at any one time is restricted. If you are denied access, wait for 10-15 minutes and try again.
- AGRICOLA
- Indexes materials relating to all aspects of agriculture.
Journals
indexed. Coverage started: 1970. Updated monthly.
- African
American Biographical Database (Some
Full-Text)
- Largest collection of electronic biographical information on African
Americans, 1790-1950.
Updated bimonthly.
- America:
History and Life
- America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference
to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to
the present. Over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are
covered in the database. In addition to articles, each year America:
History and Life includes approximately 6,000 citations of book and
media reviews from a selection of over one hundred key journals in
US and Canadian history and related fields. The database also includes
citations to abstracts of dissertations published in thes areas.
Coverage started: 1964. Updated 3 times per year.
- American
Journey Online (Full-Text)
- Each key topic in American history and culture addressed by the
series encompasses hundreds of carefully selected, rare documents,
pictures, and archival audio and video - while essays, headnotes,
and captions by scholars set the sources in context. Full text searchability
and extensive hyperlinking provide fast and easy access and cross-referencing.
Topics: African-American Experience, American Revolution, Asian-American
Experience, Civil War, Constitution and Supreme Court, Great Depression
& the New Deal, Hispanic-American Experience, Immigrant Experience,
Native American Experience, Westward Expansion, Women in America.
- AncestryPlus (Full-Text)
- With over 1.2 billion records in over 3,000 databases, AncestryPlus
is a comprehensive online source of information for conducting genealogical
and local history research available. Included in AncestryPlus are
the digitized images of the U.S. Federal Census from 1790 forward,
the American Genealogical Biographical Index, Passenger and Immigration
Lists Index, and much more. An online tutorial is available.
NOTE: Available from on-campus only.
- Anthropological
Index Online
- This index "is based on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at the The British Museum (Museum of Mankind) which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around the world."
Coverage started: 1957.
- Applied
Science & Technology Abstracts (Some
Full-Text)
- Indexes 350 international and English-language periodicals, covering
engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer technology. Includes
articles, interviews, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, new product
reviews/announcements, and more.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1984. Updated monthly.
(via FirstSearch)
- Aquatic
Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts-1: Biological Sciences & Living
Resources
- Providing extensive coverage of basic and applied research on aquatic
organisms. All aspects of marine, freshwater, and brackishwater organisms
and environments are examined, including information on biology and
ecology of aquatic organisms, exploitation of living resources, and
related legal, policy, and socioeconomic issues. Monitors over 5,000
serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations
and limited distributions literature. Sponsored by four U.N. specialized
agencies.
Serials
source list. Coverage: 1978- . Updated monthly.
- Art
Index/Abstracts (1984-  ) (Some
Full-Text)
- Database cites articles from 420 art periodicals published throughout
the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals,
yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published
in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1984. Updated monthly.
(via FirstSearch)
- Art
Index Retrospective (1929-1984)
- Database cites articles from 420 art periodicals published throughout
the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals,
yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published
in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch.
List of periodical
titles. Coverage: cumulates citations to Art Index 1929
- 1984.
- ARTbibliographies
Modern
- Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs,
dissertations, and exhibition reviews. The scope extends from artists
and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late 19th century,
up to the most recent works and trends. Photography is covered from
its invention in 1839 to the present.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1974. Updated twice a
year.
- ArticleFirst (Some
Full-Text)
- Indexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social
science, business, the humanities, and popular culture and allows
browsing of contents pages.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1990. Updated daily. (via
FirstSearch)
- Arts
& Humanities Search (Some
Full-Text)
- Index to 1300 leading arts and humanities journals.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated weekly.
(via FirstSearch)
- arXiv.org (Full-Text)
- An electronic archive and distribution server for research papers covering the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. Both preprints and published papers are available.
- Associations
Unlimited (Full-Text)
- Contains information for approximately 444,000 international and
U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations
in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations.
For some 2,500 major U.S. national associations, provides full-text
association materials such as brochures, pamphlets, and membership
application forms.
- BasicBIOSIS (Some
Full-Text)
- Index to 375 life science journals most easily found in college
and university libraries.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage: Last 5 years. Updated monthly.
(via FirstSearch)
- Bibliography
of the History of Art (BHA)
- This link searches three databases: Bibliography of the History
of Art (BHA), including writings from 1973 to present, this database
covers visual arts in all media including traditional fine arts (painting,
sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture); decorative and applied
arts; material culture; photography and contemporary new media; visual
arts aspects of performing arts. International Repertory of the
Literature of Art (RILA) includes abstracts and indexes on all
aspects of European and American art and architecture. European art
is covered from late Antiquity (4th c.) to the present. American art
is covered from the European discoveries (16th c.) to the present.
Art reflecting the Western tradition in other parts of the world is
also included. Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeolgie (RAA) includes
abstracts and indexes on all aspects of European and American art
and architecture. European art is covered from late Antiquity (4th
c.) to 1939. American art is covered from the European discoveries
(16th c.) to 1939. Art reflecting the Western tradition in other parts
of the world is also included. All types of publication are covered:
books, periodical articles, reviews, conference proceedings, Festschriften,
collected essays, exhibition catalogues, museum publications, and
doctoral dissertations.
- Biography
Index (Some Full-Text)
- Coverage includes 2700 English-language periodicals and more than
1,800 books added each year. Includes autobiographies, bibliographies,
biographies, critical studies, fiction and drama, pictorial works,
poetry, juvenile literature, obituaries, journals, collections of
letters, book reviews, and interviews.
Coverage started: 1984. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
- Biological
& Agricultural Index (Some
Full-Text)
- Indexes 250 English-language periodicals in life sciences and agricultural
subjects, published in the U.S. and elsewhere. Includes book reviews.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1983. Updated monthly.
(via FirstSearch)
- Biology
Digest
- Indexes 181 periodicals covering the life sciences for undergraduates
and high school students.
List of periodical
titles. Coverage started: 1989. Updated nine times per year. (via
FirstSearch)
- BioOne (Full-Text)
- BioOne offers a browsable and searchable aggregation of the
full-texts of over 50 bioscience research journals. Most of these
titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers.
List
of journals and publishers. Coverage started: 2000.
- Blackwell
Synergy (Some
Full-Text)
- Blackwell Synergy holds the content for about 740 Blackwell Publishing journals,
the majority of which are published on behalf of international scholarly
and professional societies. While citations and abstracts for all
articles can be searched and displayed, full-text is available only for
articles from the 135 journals to which EMU subscribes.
List of EMU subscription titles. Coverage:
varies with title.
- Book
Review Digest (Some
Full-Text)
- Indexes 100 periodicals published in the U.S., Canada, and Great
Britain, covering over 7,000 adult and children's books each year.
Includes English-language fiction and nonfiction.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1983. Updated monthly.
(via FirstSearch)
- Books
in Print (via Bowker) (Some
Full-Text)
- Descriptions of over 4.4 million books, 337,000 videos,
and 157,000 audiobooks (new and forthcoming); 1.3 million
out of print titles; 763,000 full-text reviews from 12 sources.
Updated weekly.
- CINAHL
(via FirstSearch) (Some
Full-Text)
- Indexes 900 nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health
journals, publications of the American Nursing Association, and the
National League for Nursing.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1982. Updated monthly.
- CINAHL
(via ProQuest) (Some
Full-Text)
- Indexes 900 nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health
journals, publications of the American Nursing Association, and the
National League for Nursing. Includes the full text of over 2000 doctoral dissertations.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1982. Updated monthly.
- CQ
Researcher (Full-Text)
- For controversial topics of public interest, each weekly issue provides
background information, a clear statement of opposing positions, the
outlook for the future, and an annotated bibliography.
Coverage started: 11/91
- CQ
Weekly (Full-Text)
- Provides nonpartisan feature-length articles on a full array of
policy topics confronting the U.S. Congress, as well as updates on
committee activity, the status of bills and votes, side-by-side comparisons
of competing versions of bills.
Coverage started: 1983. Updated weekly.
- Chemistry
Journals (American Chemical Society [ACS]) (Full-Text)
- Search the full text of 28 American Chemical Society journals, either
individually or across all titles.
List of periodical titles.
Coverage started: 1879.
- Children's
Literature Comprehensive Database (Full-Text)
- Contains full-text of reviews of more than 110,000 children's
books. Reviews are provided by independent reviewers as well as 20
other organizational sources, including the American Library Association's
Booklist, ALAN, The Bulletin, CCBC
Choices, KIRKUS, KLIATT, and VOYA.
Under "Children's
Literature Comprehensive Database", click on 'Registered Users'.
- CiteSeer (aka ResearchIndex) (Full-Text)
- CiteSeer (also known as ResearchIndex) offers five million citations and over 400,000 full-text documents in the field of computer science. Papers are derived from proceedings of symposia, journals, books, and other sources.
- Clase and Periodica
- CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers Latin American journals specializing in science and technology. Offers access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
Coverage started: Clase: 1975- ,
Periodica: 1978- . Updated quarterly.
- Cochrane Library (Full-Text)
- "The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection
of evidence-based medicine databases, including The Cochrane
Database of Systematic Reviews, which "are full text
articles reviewing the effects of healthcare. The reviews are highly
structured and systematic, with evidence included or excluded on the basis of explicit quality criteria, to minimise bias."
Cochrane Library contents.
NOTE 1: To connect to the contents,
click the "Log on anonymously" button on the right side of the
screen. When you are done, please click the "Exit" button
at the top of the screen.
NOTE 2: If you have anti pop-up ads software enabled, you will need to disable
it while using the Cochrane Library.
NOTE 3: Up to two users at a time. Try again later if you cannot connect.
- College
Catalogs (Full-Text)
- CollegeSource® Online features over 7,800 College Catalogs in complete
cover-to-cover, original page format representing 2-year, 4-year,
graduate and professional schools.
While you can
search for schools by different criteria and view school profiles
(including admission requirements, financial aid options) from any
computer, full college catalogs can only be viewed in EMU's Bruce
T. Halle Library, Information Commons North, First Floor.
- Columbia
Earthscape (Full-Text)
- This "is an integrated, interdisciplinary resource that connects
the Earth and environmental sciences with their social, political,
and economic dimensions... [It also offers] a dynamic, inquiry-based
educational resource, featuring illustrated lectures, animations,
video and image banks, exercises and labs, syllabi, and basic textbook
readings. columbia earthscape also gives policy makers and professionals
a ... collection of environmental legislation, regional studies, international
environmental documents, and white papers. And it offers scientists
an educational venue in which to incorporate their research as well
as a growing archive of journal articles, journal abstracts, conference
literature, full-text monographs and selected chapters, and online
data sets."
- Columbia
Granger's World of Poetry (Some
Full-Text)
- This release "includes 13,000 poems in full text, and 250,000
poetry citations, in addition to several important new featurescommentaries,
biographies, bibliographies, notes on form, and a glossary of prosodic
terms, all written by William Harmon or written under his editorship.
Also new to this release is the ability to search by author category
(Asian-American, Irish, Polish, etc.)."
- Computer
& Information Systems Abstracts (Some
Full-Text)
- Citations, with abstracts, to the worldwide literature on theoretical
and applied computer science. Sources include books, journals, conference
proceedings, and government reports.
List
of source titles. Coverage started: 1981. Updated monthly.
- Computer
Abstracts International (Some
Full-Text)
- Indexes and abstracts the contents of over 200 computer
science periodicals.
List
of source titles. Coverage started: 1987. Updated monthly.
- Computer Database (Some
Full-Text)
- This database indexes about 600 periodicals that cover the computer,
telecommunications, and electronics industries and provides full-text
of some of the articles.
List
of source titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated daily.
- Conference Board Research Database (Full-Text)
- This "is a searchable database of full-text research reports on
the latest issues in business management and US and global economics.
Proprietary, nonbiased research includes studies of Fortune 500 companies
on business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence,
corporate governance, HR, productivity, CRM and more."
Coverage started: 1995.
- Consumers
Index (Some Full-Text)
- Provides access to evaluations, tests, alerts, warnings, and recalls
of specific products, services, and facilities as well as abstracts
of articles on all aspects of consumerism and consumer protection.
Entries link to the best Internet resources and print publications
for consumers. Web links provide free, direct access to the contents
of full-text journals (e.g. FDA Consumer), news releases, booklets,
recalls, and other sources available via the World Wide Web.
List of
periodical titles. Coverage started: 1986. Updated quarterly.
(via FirstSearch)
- Contemporary
Women's Issues (Full-Text)
- This is “a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings
together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray"
literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical
issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries.”
List of
titles. Coverage started: 1992. Updated 26 times per year.
- Criminal
Justice Abstracts
- Provides coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations
and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.
Coverage started: 1968. Updated quarterly. (via SilverPlatter)
- Criminology:
SAGE Full-Text Collection (Full-Text)
- This source includes the full-text of 15 journals published by SAGE
and participating societies. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice,
Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing,
Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.
List of
titles. Coverage: varies with title. Oldest starts 1982.
- Department
of Energy (DOE) Information Bridge (Full-Text)
- Full-text and bibliographic records of 60,000 Department of Energy
(DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials,
biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering,
computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.
Coverage started: 1995.
- Detroit
News & 4 Other Michigan Newspapers (Full-Text)
- In addition to the Detroit News (1999- ), other Michigan
newspapers included are the Battle Creek Enquirer (May 2002-
), Grand
Rapids Press (2002-
), Lansing State Journal (1999- ), Port Huron Times
Herald (1999-
).
Note: After connecting to database, click on "America's
Newspapers".
- Dissertation
Abstracts
- Index of doctoral dissertation accepted at accredited institutions.
Coverage started: 1861. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
- Dow
Jones Interactive see Factiva
- Dun
& Bradstreet Key Business Ratios (Full-Text)
- Provides 14 key business ratios for over 800 lines of business,
including solvency, efficiency and profitability ratios.
Updated twice a year.
- Eastern Michigan University Theses and Dissertations (Full-Text)
- Site offers the full-text (in PDF format) of many EMU theses and
dissertations mostly published after 1996. Search by keyword in title
or abstract, author name, or advisor name.
- EconLit (Some
Full-Text)
- Subject indexing and abstracts of about 400 economics journals and
over 500 collective volumes per year, plus books, dissertations, and
working papers.
List of
titles. Coverage started: 1969. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
- Education
Abstracts (Some Full-Text)
- Index to the contents of about 400 education periodicals.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1983. Updated monthly.
(via FirstSearch)
- Electronic
Collections Online (ECO) (Some Full-Text)
- Index to the contents of over 2700 journals in a variety of subject
areas. EMU is paying for access to online full-text for 664 of the
titles. Articles are presented in page image formats (predominately
PDF) that include all original content and images. The interface supports
cross-journal searching and browsing within selected journals. Users
can view bibliographic information for all journals and view full-text
articles from journals to which their institution subscribes. Adobe's
free Acrobat
PDF viewer and CatchWord's free RealPage
viewer are required to view the full-text articles.
List of titles available full-text to
EMU community. List
of all titles available. Coverage started: 1995, but varies by
journal. Updated daily. (via FirstSearch)
- eLibrary Elementary (K-6) (Full-Text)
- Geared to children in grades K-6, contains the full-text of selected
articles from: about 40 magazines (e.g., Ranger
Rick, Time for Kids, Sports Illustrated for Kids);
8 newspapers; about 40 reference books (e.g., Columbia Encyclopedia,
Encyclopedia Britannica Intermediate Ed); as well as maps,
pictures, TV & radio transcripts, more than 14,000 streaming audio
and video files, more than 100,000 editor screened and selected
websites indexed by topics appropriate to K-6 study.
Periodical coverage started: 1981. Updated daily.
- Emerald Fulltext (Full-Text)
- Fulltext articles from over 100 Emerald journals covering such fields as management, HRM, marketing, librarianship, mechanical engineering, electronic and electrical engineering.
List of periodical titles.
Coverage started: Varies by title; earliest 1988.
- ERIC (Some
Full-Text)
- The ERIC database contains abstracts of documents and journal articles
on education research and practice.
List of periodical titles.
Coverage started: 1966. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
- ERIC
Documents (ED) Full-Text (E*Subscribe) (Full-Text)
- The full-text (in Adobe PDF format) of ERIC Level 1 documents (those
cleared by the contributor for distribution in all media), and Level
2A (documents restricted to dissemination on microfiche and in electronic
subscriptions only). This represents about 80% of the collection of
the ERIC ED collection. (NOTE: This does not include the full-text
of journal articles indexed in the ERIC database Current Index
to Journals in Education [CIJE].)
Coverage started: 1993. Updated monthly.
Limited to 10 simultaneous users. Please click
'Logoff E*Subscribe' (on the left side of the screen), and then the
'Logout' button, when you complete your work.
- Essay
and General Literature Index (via FirstSearch)
- Bibliographic database that cites essays and articles contained
in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the
United States, Great Britain, and Canada; 300 volumes are indexed
annually. This database focuses on the humanities and social sciences,
with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and
history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.
Coverage started: 1985. Updated annually.
- Expanded Academic ASAP (Some
Full-Text)
- This multidisciplinary database indexes about 3,200 mostly academic
titles and offers full-text from about 2,000 of the titles.
List of periodical
titles.
Coverage started: 1980. Updated daily.
- Factiva (Formerly Dow
Jones Interactive) (Full-Text)
- Browse the latest issues of The Wall Street Journal, The
New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times,
Barron's, Business Week, Fortune, and Forbes.
Search and display the text of these as well as about 8,000 other
local and global newspapers, newswires, trade journals, newsletters, magazines and transcripts.
Review Sources.
Coverage started: varies by title. Updated daily.
Limited to 3 simultaneous users. To allow others
to use the database when you complete your work please click "logout" on
the right side of the navigation bar toward the top of the
screen.
- Facts.com (Full-Text)
- Answer questions about events, issues, statistics, and people of
the last 20 years with selected content from seven databases, including
Facts On File World News Digest, Issues and Controversies
On File, Today's Science On File, Editorials On File,
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, Reuters On-Line News
Service, and World Almanac and Book of Facts. Delivers
additional special features including maps, photographs, historic
documents, and overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events.
Coverage started: 1940. Updated weekly.
- FactSearch (Some
Full-Text)
- Contains full-text statistical statements on current social, economic,
political, and environmental public policy issues. Entries come from
more than 1,000 print sources as well as a wide range of Web-based
resources.
List
of publication titles. Coverage started: 1984. Updated quarterly.
(via FirstSearch)
- GenderWatch (Full-Text)
- GenderWatch (GW) is a full-text collection of international journals,
magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports, and
conference proceedings that focus on how gender impacts on a broad
spectrum of subject areas.
List
of titles. Coverage started: 1970.
- General BusinessFile ASAP (Some
Full-Text)
- This business database indexes about 3,000 periodical titles, provides
full-text for some of them, and offers 200,000 company profiles as
well as
more than 50,000 full-text Investext® reports.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated daily.
- General
Reference Center Gold (Some
Full-Text)
- An index to the contents of about 1000 periodicals, with about 60%
available with full-text.
List of periodical
titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated monthly.
NOTE: There is a delay when adding new issues
of certain titles to the database. List
of embargoed titles and their database inclusion delays.
- General
Science Abstracts (Some
Full-Text)
- Index to about 150 Journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great
Britain, covering such subjects as anthropology, astronomy, biology,
computers, earth sciences, medicine and health.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1984. Updated monthly.
(via FirstSearch)
- GEOBASE (Some
Full-Text)
- Index to the worldwide literature on geology, geography, and ecology.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated monthly.
(via FirstSearch)
- GPO
Monthly Catalog
- Index to the publications of the U.S. Government.
Coverage started: 1976. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
- Grove
Dictionary of Art (Full-Text)
- 45,000 articles on the art and culture of Asia, Africa, Europe,
the Americas and the Pacific from prehistory until today with links
to images and further information in museum and other art-related
web sites.
Updated continuously.
- Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Opera, Jazz (Full-Text)
- This site "comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002). Articles that have been updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen."
Updated quarterly.
NOTE: Only 1 user
at a time.
- HarpWeek
(Harper's Weekly 1857-1912) (Full-Text)
- HarpWeek contains all the pages of Harper's Weekly (1857-1912) as
scanned images, together with a series of indexes: subject, illustrations,
advertising, literary genre, people by occupation/role in society.
- Health
& Wellness Resource Center (Some
Full-Text)
- Indexes over 400 health/medical journals; nearly 2,200 general interest
publications (magazines and pamphlets) covering health care topics;
a broad collection of reference titles including The Gale Encyclopedia
of Medicine, The Gale Enclyclopedia of Childhood & Adolescence,
PDR Family Guide to Nutrition and Health, Medical and Health
Information Directory.
List of periodical
titles. List
of pamphlets. Coverage started: Magazines, Journals, Newsletters
1980. Updated monthly.
- Highwire Library of the Sciences and Medicine (Some Full-Text)
- Search citations and abstracts from about 375 Highwire-hosted journals
in the biological, medical, physical, and social sciences and/or search
Medline. Free access to about 700,000 full-text articles from the
Highwire-hosted journals.
Journals published online with Highwire assistance.
Journals with free full-text articles.
- Historical
Abstracts
- Historical Abstracts is your complete reference guide to the history
of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States
and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Over
2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in the database.
In addition to articles, each year Historical Abstracts includes approximately
3,000 citations to useful historical books as reviewed by the most
prestigious journals in the field and citations to abstracts of dissertations
completed worldwide of particular interest for historical research.
Coverage started: 1954. Updated 3 times per year.
- History Cooperative (Full-Text)
- Site offers the full-text of a collection of history journals:
American Historical Review,
Common-place,
Environmental History,
History of Education Quarterly,
The History Teacher,
Journal of American History,
Journal of World History,
Labour History,
Labour / Le Travail,
Law and History Review,
Western Historical Quarterly,
William and Mary Quarterly.
Coverage started: Varies, earliest: 1999.
- History E-Book Project (Full-Text)
- Site offers 775 books of high quality in the field of history.
These are works of major importance to historical
studies—books
that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are
frequently cited in the literature.
Title List.
- History Resource Center: US (Full-Text)
- The History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to
over 1,000 historical (primary) documents, more then 30,000 reference
articles, and over 65 full-text journals covering themes, events,
individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to
the present. The material also includes access to the citations for
over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific
Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
Title List.
- Humanities
Abstracts (Some Full-Text)
- Indexes about 400 periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film,
folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy,
religion, world history, and world literature.
List
of periodical titles. coverage started: 1984. Updated monthly.
(via FirstSearch)
- Index
to Legal Periodicals (Some
Full-Text)
- Indexes articles from 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.
List
of titles. Coverage started: 1981. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
- InfoTrac
Custom Full-Text Newspapers (Full-Text)
- Includes the full-text of articles from the last 365 days of the
New York Times. Other newspapers from around the United
States as well as Australia, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and
Mexico have varying full-text coverage dates.
List of newspapers
and coverage dates.
- InfoTrac
Junior Edition (Some
Full-Text)
- This database is comprised of a variety of full-text sources that
support the curriculum needs of junior high and middle school students.
It offers 100+ indexed and 90+ full-text general interest magazines,
thousands of newspaper articles from the Knight-Ridder/Tribune News
Service, and full-text reference books, e.g., Information Please™ Almanac,
Columbia Encyclopedia.
List
of titles. Coverage started: 2000. Updated daily.
- InfoTrac
OneFile (Some
Full-Text)
- This multidisciplinary database indexes nearly 8,000 titles and includes more than 4,200 full-text titles. It includes indexing of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor; full-text from 89 wire services covering agriculture, general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry topics, sports and current events from all over the world; and indexing and some full-text from general interest magazines; refereed academic journals; business publications; technology periodicals; plus specialty titles in law, health care and computers.
List
of titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated daily.
- InfoTrac
Professional Collection (Some
Full-Text)
- This database is a custom selection of more than 300 full-text
journals geared to the needs of professional educators.
List
of titles. Coverage started: 1983. Updated daily.
- InfoTrac
Student Edition (Some
Full-Text)
- This database is comprised of a variety of full-text sources that
support the curriculum needs of secondary school students. It offers
330+ indexed and 270 full-text periodical titles, more than 40,000
full-text newspaper articles, 14 full-text reference books, 500 historical
images and more than 300 full-color maps.
List
of titles. Coverage started: 1985. Updated daily.
- Ingenta (Some
Full-Text)
- Search and browse the contents of over 27,000 periodicals. Full
text of some articles available via EMU Library subscriptions.
Periodical
titles. Coverage started: 1985. Updated daily.
- International
Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Full-Text)
- Covering both the social and behavioral sciences, this full-text
encyclopedia includes over 3,800 signed articles and 90,000 bibliographic
references.
- Internet
& Personal Computing Abstracts
- Index to about 180 popular magazines and professional journals on
microcomputing in business, education, industry, and the home.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1989. Updated monthly.
(via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
- Investext® (included
with General BusinessFile ASAP) (Full-Text)
- Provides the full text of about 50,000 company, industry, and geographic
research reports written by analysts at more than 600 leading investment
banks, brokerage houses and consulting firms worldwide. When you
enter General BusinessFile ASAP, click the link that says [Investex
].
- Issues & Controversies
@ FACTS.com (Full-Text)
- This full text reference database "presents and enhances the
full backfile of Issues and Controversies on File, which has probed
more than 250 controversial topics in the news since its debut in
September 1995. Chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars,
bibliographies and contact information augment the balanced, accurate
coverage of current and historical events."
- JSTOR (Full-Text)
- Complete text of the backfiles of about 600 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and the social sciences.
List of full text periodicals by title
and discipline.
- Kids InfoBits (Full-Text)
- This database is designed for grades K-5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
- Kluwer
Online (Full-Text)
- Complete contents of about 265 Kluwer journals in subjects including
sciences, social sciences, technology, and humanities.
List of full text
titles and start dates.
- Kraus
Curriculum Development Library Online (Some
Full-Text)
- This searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards
brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies,
and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and
Adult Basic Education. Documents starting with the 20th edition (2001)
are available in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat reader required).
Over 200 of the documents included in past editions of KCDL are available
through hyperlinks to the issuing agencies' web sites and all other
indexed materials from 1993-2000 are available full-text on microfiche
on the 2nd floor of the Halle Library.
- LearnATest (Full-Text)
- LearnATest.com/Library is the leading source of test preparation
materials and interactive practice exams, based on official tests.
The purpose of this service is to help individuals improve scores
on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and
certification exams. LearnATest provides immediate scoring, complete
answer explanations, and individualized analysis of an individual’s
score. In addition, course and study material is available for individual
use.
- LegalTrac (Some
Full-Text)
- This legal database indexes about 1300 periodicals, including major
law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, international
legal
journals and law-related articles from business and general-interest
titles. Over 100 titles include full-text.
List
of source titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated daily.
- LexisNexis
Academic (Full-Text)
- Access to a wide range of FULL-TEXT news, business, legal and government
information sources, as well as company, country, financial, market
research and industry reports, biographical and medical and health
information.
List
of titles. Updated daily.
- LexisNexis
Congressional (Full-Text)
- In addition to the indexing and abstracting of the CIS's Index
to the Publications of the United States Congress, it provides the
FULL-TEXT of Congressional hearings, committee reports, bills, selected
committee prints, public laws, Congressional Record, Federal Register,
U.S. Code.
- Library
Literature (Some Full-Text)
- Indexes about 200 library and information science periodicals.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1984. Updated monthly.
(via FirstSearch)
- Linguistics
& Language Behavior Abstracts
- This indexing/abstracting service covers all aspects of the study
of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and
semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics
including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical
linguistics.
List of periodical
titles. Coverage started: 1973. Updated monthly.
- Literature Online (LION) (Full-Text)
- Literature Online contains
criticism and reference resources in addition to the full text of poetry,
drama, and prose fiction from the seventh century to the present day.
Contemporary criticism is available through the full text of 120 current literature
journals that can be accessed through the Annual
Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), which
contains over 880,000 records of literary criticism from 1920 to date.
- Literature
Resource Center (Full-Text)
- LRC combines biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information
to deliver a complete reference/resource package on authors and their
works (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism).
Centering on Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary
Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism, this data
set is augmented with full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical
material illuminating an oeuvre or era. In partnership with Merriam-Webster,
Inc., LRC offers the Encyclopedia of Literature including over
10,000 entries for authors, works, literary landmarks, literary and
critical terms, mythological and folkloric figures, fictional characters,
literary movements, and prizes.
- MathSciNet (Some
Full-Text)
- Access to the contents fo Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical
Publications.
List
of periodical titles. Updated daily.
- MDX
Health Digest
- Indexes about 200 health-related publications.
List of
periodical titles. Coverage started: 1988. Updated monthly. (via
FirstSearch)
- Media Review Digest (Some
Full-Text)
- Provides extensive review coverage of educational media, along with strong supplemental coverage of entertainment resources from 1989 to the present. In addition to providing citations to reviews of media resources in several leading print publications, the Media Review Digest database also contains links to over 300,000 full-text reviews and related resources accessible on the Internet.
List
of periodical titles. Updated quarterly.
- MEDLINE
(via FirstSearch) (Some
Full-Text)
- Indexes about 3500 medical journals published internationally.
Journal
database browser. Coverage started: 1965. Updated monthly.
- Mental
Measurements Yearbook (Full-Text)
- Contains descriptive information and critical reviews of more than
2,000 commercially-available standardized English-language educational,
personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence
tests. It contains the text of test reviews starting with the Ninth
Mental Measurements Yearbook.
Updated every six months.
NOTE: Up to four
users at a time. Try again later if you cannot connect.
- Mergent (formerly Moody's) Online (Full-Text)
- Service includes: Company Data Direct/U.S. -- Covers 10,000+
public companies and their SEC (EDGAR®) filings; Company Data Direct/International
-- More companies from more countries than any other international
database, with global searching across databases; Country Statistical
Profiles.
Click on 'Enter
Mergent Online' to begin. NOTE 1: 3 simultaneous users.
NOTE 2: Mergent Online is currently not compatible with Netscape 4.7
or older and the Apple Macintosh® operating system.
- Michigan Authors and Illustrators
- This "is a database of information on authors and illustrators born in Michigan, who live in Michigan, or who have written books about or set in Michigan. Each entry includes biographical information, lists of works by the person and lists of works about the person. More complete information is available for those authors and illustrators who provided information to us." A collaboration of the Michigan Association for Media in Education, the Library of Michigan and the Michigan Center for the Book.
Updated: continuously.
- MLA
Bibliography (Some
Full-Text)
- Index to about 4000 periodicals published worldwide covering literature,
languages, linquistics, and folklore.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1963. Updated ten times
per year. (via FirstSearch)
- National
Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database (Some
Full-Text)
- Contains summaries of more than 140,000 criminal justice publications,
including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research
reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Most documents
published by NCJRS sponsoring agencies (the National Institute of
Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention,
Office for Victims of Crime, Bureau of Justice Statistics, and Bureau
of Justice Assistance, all part of the Office of Justice Programs,
U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of National Drug Control
Policy) since 1995 are available in full text online at the NCJRS
Web site, the Justice Information Center, at http://www.ncjrs.org/.
Coverage started: early 1970's.
- National
Journal Group's Policy Central (Full-Text)
- Includes the National Journal, a leading weekly on politics,
policy and government; Markup Reports & Bill Status, comprehensive
coverage of every House and Senate committee and subcommittee markup
session; Technology Daily, monitoring news and trends in information
technology politics and policy; Almanac of American Politics,
analysis and data on every member of Congress and their states and
districts; and a few other politics and policy databases.
Coverage started: 1977- (National Journal archives). Updated
daily.
- netLibrary
(eBooks) (Full-Text)
- eBooks are electronic versions of printed books. Through this service
we now have access to about 14,000 copyrighted books in addition to
about 4,000 public domain titles.
Complete list of titles is available as two Excel spreadsheets: eBooks
Michigan and MEL
Ebooks
- New
York Times (June 1980- ) (Full-Text)
- Text-only articles from June 1980. When connected, click the word
'Sources' on the top right menu, type 'new york times' (without the
quotes) in the Source List search box, click the 'Find Title'
button, click 'Search This Title' below 'New York Times, The'. In
the search dialog box that appears, fill in your search terms. (In
Step Four, you might want to expand the time frame of your search
beyond six months.)
- New
York Times Backfile (1851-2001) (Full-Text)
- Every backfile issue from 1851-2001 has been digitized from cover
to cover in pdf format, including news stories,
editorials, photos, graphics, and advertisements.
- NewsBank-NewsFile (Full-Text)
- Full-text news resource containing coverage of current issues and
events from over 500 US and Canadian newspapers, news sources and
domestic and international newswires. More than 70,000 articles selected
annually provide regional, national and international perspectives
and coverage of the arts, and people and professions in the news.
List of titles.
Coverage started: 1991. Updated daily.
- Nursing
Journals Full-Text (via ProQuest) (Full-Text)
- Search and display the text of about 275 nursing journals.
List
of titles. Coverage started: 1992 (Varies by title). Updated as
published.
- OAIster (Full-Text)
- "OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Services [whose] goal is to create a collection of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources that are easily searchable by anyone."
- Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center (Full-Text)
- Provides full text information on about 70 controversial social
issues. It "brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic
overviews, government and organizational statistics, court cases,
profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper
and magazines articles, as well as links to more than 1,000 reviewed
and subject-indexed web sites."
NOTE: Two users
at a time. Try again later if you cannot connect.
- Ornithological Worldwide Literature (OWL)
- "OWL is a compilation of citations and abstracts from the worldwide
scientific literature that pertain to the science of ornithology.
A major attraction is its coverage of the 'grey' literature, which
are not abstracted by commercial databases such as Zoological Record
or the Science Citation Index.
OWL deals chiefly with serial publications such as periodicals but also announces
new and renamed journals and provides abstracts of other serial publications,
conference proceedings, reports, and doctoral dissertations. Papers
dealing exclusively with domestic and pet birds and their husbandry
are excluded unless they are applicable to non-domestic birds."
- OT
Search (formerly OT Bibsys)
- Indexes the literature of occupational therapy and related subjects,
including journals, monographs, proceedings, doctoral dissertations
and master's theses.
List
of periodical titles.
- OTDBASE
- Indexes and abstracts articles from 18 occupational therapy journals.
List of periodical
titles. Coverage started: 1970.
Password required.
Consult a librarian.
- Oxford English Dictionary Online (Full-Text)
- "The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3)...The OED is currently being revised, with the aim of producing a completely updated third edition by the year 2010. Draft material from the revision programme will also be published online..."
Updated quarterly.
- PAIS
International (Some
Full-Text)
- Index of articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents,
book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs.
List
of titles. Coverage started: 1972. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
- PapersFirst
- Index to papers included in every congress, conference, exposition,
workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library.
Coverage started: 1993. Updated 24 times per year. (via FirstSearch)
- Periodical
Abstracts Full-Text (Some
Full-Text)
- Index to about 2000 general and academic journals, covering business,
current affairs, economics, literature, religion, psychology, women's
studies, and others.
List of periodical
titles. Coverage started: 1987. Updated weekly. (via FirstSearch)
- Philosopher's
Index
- Provides indexing and abstracts of articles from about 480 international
journals as well as books on philosophy.
Coverage started: 1940. Updated quarterly. (via SilverPlatter)
- Physical
Education Index
- This database indexes materials "from peer-reviewed journals, report
literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles
from the popular press, and many other publications. Beginning in
January 2001, enhancements to the database include the addition of
abstracts, e-mail addresses, expanded publisher and author information..."
Coverage started: 1970. Updated monthly. (via Cambridge Scientific
Abstracts)
- Physics
Journals (Full-Text)
- Full-text of a collection of physics journals published by the American
Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, the American
Vacuum Society, and the Institute of Physics.
Coverage started: 1995 or 1997.
- Poole's
Plus-The Digital Index of the 19th Century
- Currently includes: Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906),
Stead's Index to Periodicals (1890-1902), Nineteenth Century Monographs
File, Nineteenth Century Serials Masterfile, and Library Journal Cumulative
Index (1876-1897).
- ProceedingsFirst
- Index of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop
and meeting received at The British Library.
coverage started: 1993. Updated 24 times per year. (via FirstSearch)
- Project
Muse (Full-Text)
- Project Muse is an online journal collection containing the full-text
of 112 titles in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
List of
periodical titles. Coverage: varies with journal; often starts
with 1995. Updated when new issues are available.
- The
Prokaryotes (Full-Text)
- The electronic version of The Prokaryotes begins with an
online implementation of the content currently found in the printed
reference work, The Prokaryotes: Second Edition (1992). Approximately
25% of the content will be fully updated each year over a four-year
period until the work is completely revised. Thereafter, material
will be continuously added to reflect developments in Prokaryotic
microbiology.
- PsycARTICLES (Full-Text)
- "PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals
published by the American Psychological Association, the APAs Educational
Publishing
Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.
It contains all the material (with the exception of ads and editorial
board lists) from nearly 50 top psychology publications."
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1988+. Updated monthly.
- PsycINFO (Some
Full-Text)
- Index to the contents of about 1400 journals, chapters, books, dissertations
and reports on psychology and related fields.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1887. Updated monthly.
(via FirstSearch)
- PubMed Central (Full-Text)
- PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of the full-text of about 90 health and life sciences journals.
Coverage: varies with title.
- Readers'
Guide Abstracts (Some
Full-Text)
- Index to the contents of about 180 popular periodicals published
in the U.S. and Canada.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1983. Updated monthly
(via FirstSearch)
- Readers'
Guide Retrospective (1890 - 1982)
- Index to the contents of popular magazines published in the U.S.
and Canada.
List of periodical
titles. Coverage: 1890-1982.
- Reference
USA
- Proprietary databases of 11 million U.S. businesses. The "U.S.
Business database is compiled from hundreds of annual reports, Chamber
of Commerce and industry directories, business magazines and newspapers,
telephone directories, SEC and government data..."
- RILM
Abstracts of Music Literature
- Index to the contents of about 1400 internationally-published music
periodicals.
List of periodical
titles. Coverage started: 1969. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
- Safari
(Information Technology Books Online) (Full-Text)
- Read or browse online the full texts of what will be a collection
of 100 information technology/programming books. Conduct searches
across the complete texts of all the books.
NOTE: Up to two
users at a time. Try again later if you cannot connect.
- Schwann
Online
- "Schwann Online is the electronic edition of the classical
recording catalog information of Schwann Opus and the pop,
rock, jazz, world music recording information of Schwann Spectrum...Schwann
Online includes the music of yesterday--details on all the titles
that have been available over the last 5 years. Plus, Schwann Online
includes the music of tomorrow--articles and features, sneak previews
of the music about to be released."
- Science Citation Index Expanded (Some Full-Text)
- A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts,
covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,900
major journals across 150 scientific disciplines. Part of the Web of Science.
Coverage started: 1995. Updated daily.
3 Simultaneous Users Only.
Please log off when you finish to allow access to others.
- ScienceDirect (Some
Full-Text)
- Search and browse descriptions of articles in over 1,200 science,
social & behavioral science, technology, and medical journals.
Search and browse the full text of about 100 journals EMU subscribes
to. You can limit your search to only those full text titles subscribed
to by EMU.
Full text journals subscribed
to by EMU. Coverage started: 1995 (EMU Full text: 1997).
- Scirus
(Science web sites and journal articles) (Some
Full-Text)
- Covers "over 105 million science-related pages, consisting of 90
million Web pages, as well as 17 million records from sources such
as ScienceDirect, IDEAL, MEDLINE on BioMedNet, Beilstein on ChemWeb,
BioMed Central, US Patent Office, E-Print ArXiv, Chemistry Preprint
Server, Mathematics Preprint Server, CogPrints and NASA."
Updated daily.
- Short
Story Index (Some Full-Text)
- The electronic version of the standard reference work Short Story
Index. An index to short stories written in or translated into
English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals.
Content indexes approximately 65,000 stories; 56,000 stories from
approx. 3,400 collections; 8,300 stories from 182 periodicals in Humanities
Index and Readers' Guide. The full text of about 900 stories
are included.
Coverage: 1984-1997. Updated annually.
- SIRS
Discoverer (K-9) (Full-Text)
- Geared to children in grades K-9, contains thousands of full-text
articles selected from more than 1,200 magazines, newspapers, and
government documents. Also included are The World Almanac for Kids,
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, and Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.
Updated monthly.
- SMEALSearch (Full-Text)
- "SMEALSearch is a niche search engine that searches the web and
catalogs academic articles as well as commercially produced articles
and reports that address any branch of Business. The search engine
crawls websites of universities, commercial organizations, research
institutes and government departments to retrieve academic articles,
working papers, white papers, consulting reports, magazine articles,
and published statistics and facts. For certain documents, the database
only stores the hyperlinks to those documents. SMEALSearch performs
a citation analysis of all the academic articles accessed and lists
them in order of their citation rates in academic papers (the most
cited articles are listed first). Articles available through the
SMEALSearch engine can be downloaded (for fair use) without any charges.
However, some articles may have only the abstracts listed, and may
have to be purchased directly from the appropriate sources."
- Social
Sciences Abstracts (Some
Full-Text)
- Index to the contents of about 400 English-language periodicals
in sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science,
and law.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1983. Updated monthly.
(via FirstSearch)
- Social Sciences
Citation Index (Some Full-Text)
- A multidisciplinary database, with searchable
author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social
sciences.
It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well
as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300
of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Part of the Web
of Science.
Coverage started: 1995. Updated daily.
3 Simultaneous Users Only.
Please log off when you finish to allow access to others.
- Social Services Abstracts
- CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,406 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.
List of Periodical Titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated monthly.
- Social
Work Abstracts
- Index of articles from social work journals. Also available, both
on- and off-campus, is the "NASW
Register of Clinical Social Workers."
Coverage started: 1977. Updated quarterly. (via SilverPlatter)
- Sociological
Abstracts
- CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature
in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
The database provides abstracts of journal articles
and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,809 serials publications,
and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations,
and conference papers.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1963. Updated monthly.
- SPIN
(Searchable Physics Information Notices)
- SPIN contains the abstracts of over 80 scientific journals published
by the American Institute of Physics and its Member Societies as well
as selected articles from other scientific journals.
Coverage started: 1975. Updated every two weeks.
- SPORT
Discus
- "SPORT Discus is a unique resource for both practical and research
literature on sport, physical fitness and physical education topics.
Records cover sports medicine, exercise psychology, biomechanics,
psychology, training, coaching, physical education and fitness, and
other sport- and fitness- related topics. SPORT Discus also provides
comprehensive indexing of the microform publications collection of
dissertations and theses of the International Institute for Sport
and Human Performance. Also included are all citations from the previous
Sport & Leisure bibliographic database of SIRLS, covering the
research literature for the social and psychological aspects of sport
and leisure, including play, games and dance."
Coverage started: 1975. Updated quarterly.
- Textile
Technology Digest
- Produced by the Institute of Textile Technology, this database contains
bibliographic citations with abstracts from a variety of formats, such
as journals, books, conferences, theses, technical reports, trade
literature. "Coverage includes the various aspects of textile
production and processing and the automation and management systems
of these operations. Coverage also includes the major resources from
the apparel, home furnishings, flooring, and polymer industries."
Coverage started: 1978. As of June 2003 no abstracts have been added
or modified.
- THOMAS - U.S.
Congress on the Internet (Full-Text)
- Created by the U.S. Library of Congress, this site contains a vast
array of information about the work of the U.S. House and Senate.
Included, among other things, are: Bill Summary & Status [93rd
through 107th Congresses (1973 - present)]; Bill Text [101st - 107th
Congresses (1989 - present)]; Public Laws by Number [93rd through
107th Congresses (1973 - present)]; full text of Congressional Record
[(1989 - present)]; full text of Committe Reports [104th - 107th Congresses
]; House and Senate directories; US Congressional Documents and Debates
1774-1873.
Updated daily.
- Times
Literary Supplement Centenary Archive (Full-Text)
- Full-text of the Times Literary Supplement from 1902-1939, plus
the TLS Index. Issues to the end of 1990 will be added by the end
of 2000.
Click on 'Subscribers'.
- TOXNET (Toxicology
Data Network) (Some
Full-Text)
- The U.S. National Library of Medicine sponsors TOXNET, a collection
of databases covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related
topics. The databases include: CCRIS (Chemical Carcinogenesis Research
Information System), ChemID_plus_, DART/ETIC (Developmental and Reproductive
Toxicology), EMIC (Environmental Mutagen Information Center), GENE-TOX
(Genetic Toxicology), HSDB (Hazardous Substances Data Bank) and HSDB
Structures, IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System), NCI-3D Database,
TOXLINE (Toxicology Literature Online), and TRI (Toxics Release Inventory).
- Ulrich's
Periodicals Directory
- A directory describing more than 250,000 serials (scholarly journals,
magazines, newspapers, newsletters) on all subjects from over 80,000
publishers in more than 200 countries.
Updated weekly.
One user at a time. Please click on
'Logout' when done.
- Union
List of Periodicals
- Lists the periodical holdings of thousands of libraries.
Updated semiannually. (via FirstSearch)
- Wall
Street Journal (via Factiva) (Full-Text)
- Full-text of articles from January 1984. When connected, put a
check next to "Your Current Source List" under 'Select Sources';
Click the phrase Source browser; Type wall street journal in
the search box; Select Publication: The Wall Street Journal and
click the Add Selected Sources button; Click the
Add to Search button; set the range of dates you
want to search, where to search, e.g., full article, headline and
lead paragraph, and type your search terms.
Limited to 3 simultaneous users. To allow others
to use the database when you complete your work please click "logout" on
the right side of the navigation bar toward the top of the
screen.
- Wall
Street Transcript Archives (Full-Text)
- Interviews with leaders of financial markets--CEOs, analysts, money
managers--providing opinions and investment recommendations.
Coverage started: September 1, 1997. Updated weekly.
- Web
of Science (Some Full-Text)
- Two databases are available. Science Citation Index Expanded:
A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts,
covering
the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,900
major journals across 150 scientific disciplines. Social Sciences
Citation Index: A multidisciplinary database, with searchable
author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social
sciences.
It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well
as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300
of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
Coverage started: 1995. Updated daily.
3 Simultaneous Users Only.
Please log off when you finish to allow access to others.
- What Do I Read Next?
- This readers' advisory database includes over 100,000 recommended
titles, more than 58,000 plot summaries, and awards information from
562 awards, all to help users uncover new reading adventures, find long-remembered
favorites, and discover award-winning titles. Search by genre, subject,
author, title, series, locale, and more.
- Who's Who on the Web (Full-Text)
- Over 1 million biographies taken from 20 Marquis Who's Who print titles.
Updates to biographies made daily, and new biographies added daily.
NOTE: Up to two users at a time. Try again later if you cannot connect.
- Wiley
Interscience Journals (Full-Text)
- Site offers browsable and searchable full-text of over 500 science
and social science journals. EMU has access to the text of about
260 of the titles.
List of EMU subscribed titles.
- Wilson
Business Abstracts (Some
Full-Text)
- Indexes 300 International English-language business magazines, covering
accounting, finance, management, and small business.
List
of periodical titles. coverage started: 1986. Updated monthly.
(via FirstSearch)
- Wilson
Select Plus (Full-Text)
- Index to the contents of about 1300 periodicals, all with ASCII
full text online.
List
of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1994. Updated weekly.
(via FirstSearch)
- World
Almanacs (Full-Text)
- The World Almanacs database includes the contents of: The World
Almanac and Book of Facts 1998; The World Almanac of the U.S.A.; The
World Almanac of U.S.; Politics; The World Almanac for Kids.
Updated annually. (via FirstSearch)
- WorldCat
- WorldCat is the OCLC Online Union Catalog, containing more than
35 million records describing items owned by the Library of Congress,
EMU, and about 19,000 libraries around the world; each record contains
library holdings.
Coverage started: 1000 A.D. Updated daily. (via FirstSearch)
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