Alphabetical Listing of Databases

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   1. Academic Search Premier

      Multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 4,650 scholarly journals, including 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. Subject coverage includes (but is not limited to) psychology, sociology, medical sciences, ethnic studies, art and literature.

   2. Article First

      OCLC's index of articles from the contents pages of over 16,000 journals, from 1990 to present. Topics include business, humanities, social sciences, medicine, technology and popular culture. Some full-text is available.

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   1. Business Source Elite

      Full-text coverage of nearly 1,100 business publications and economics journals (including nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications), and indexing and abstracts for more than 1,750 journals. Also includes detailed company profiles for the world's top 10,000 companies. Full-text coverage ranges from 1985 to present. Updated daily.

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   1. CARLI Digital Collections

      A growing image and special collections research resource for faculty, staff, students, and the public.

   2. Chronicle of Higher Education

      Independent newspaper covering news and information related to higher education issues. Web version is updated daily.

   3. Clase and Periódica

      Index of documents published in Latin American journals specializing in social sciences, humanities, science, and technology. Offers access to more than 400,000 bibliographic citations in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English, from 2,600 publications edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, or focusing on Pan-American issues.

   4. Counseling and Therapy in Video

      Collection of video relating to the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Includes footage of counseling sessions and demonstrations, consultations, lectures, and interviews of well-known therapists discussing their work. Each video also includes a fully searchable transcript.

   5. Credo Reference

      Multi-disciplinary, full text reference site. Coverage includes general dictionaries and encyclopedias, as well as subject-specific resources for art, geography, history, law, literature, medicine, music, religion, science, and the social sciences.

   6. Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text

      Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text contains more than 300,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline. This resource includes full text for more than 200 magazines and journals, as well full-text books & monographs.

   7. Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video

      A collection of documentaries, training videos, and interviews illustrating the strategies, techniques, and experiences of professionals serving on the front lines of justice and public safety.

   8. Criminal Justice Periodicals

      Comprehensive database of U.S. and international research support literature for students interested in careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. Includes abstract and indexing for over 230 titles, with more than 80 available in full-text.

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   1. Dissertations & Theses: Adler School of Professional Psychology

   2. Dissertations & Theses: The Sciences and Engineering Collection

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   1. Ebrary

      An online digital library of full texts of over 4,000 scholarly e-books.

   2. ERIC

      Educational Resource Information Center database. Provides access to education literature and resources from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
      
      Select an interface to begin your search:
      ERIC via EBSCOhost
      ERIC via OCLC FirstSearch 
       

An online digital library of full texts of over 4,000 scholarly e-books.

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   1. Filmakers Library Online

      Award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.

   2. Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

      Over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas, including some entries with images. Some biographical entries. Updated annually.

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   1. Gale Virtual Reference Library

      Selected reference texts from Gale-Cengage publishers. Topics include criminal justice, religion, & gender issues. 
       

   2. GenderWatch

      A full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch is a repository of important historical perspectives on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgendered community, and the changes in gender roles over the years. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, and NGO, government and special reports.

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   1. Health Source: Consumer Edition

      Provides full-text access to consumer health magazines and health-related pamphlets from the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health disciplines. Includes full-text coverage of 130 health reference books, Merriam- Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary, and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide. Also contains more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports in English and Spanish.

   2. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

      Database of nearly 550 scholarly full text journals (including nearly 450 peer-reviewed) from medical disciplines, with particularly strong coverage of nursing and allied health. Also includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs.

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   1. LexisNexis Academic

      Provides access to over 6,000 news, business, and legal sources. News coverage includes national and regional newspapers, wire services, blogs, and TV/radio broadcast transcripts. Business coverage includes detailed company profiles and financial performance measures. Legal coverage includes citations for federal and states court cases back to 1789. 

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   1. MEDLINE with Full Text (via EBSCOhost)

      Full-text access to the National Library of Medicines bibliographic database and ProQuest Medical Library journals. Coverage from 1950-present, including over 11 million articles from 4,800 indexed titles.

   2. Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print

      Contains full-text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks. Plus, the Tests in Print database, which provides the most current descriptive test data, including test descriptions, publishers, pricing, in-print status, etc.

   3. Military & Government Collection

      Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Provides full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and 245 pamphlets. Indexing and abstracts included for nearly 400 titles.

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   1. Newspaper Source

      Cover-to-cover full text for 25 US & international newspapers and selected full text for more than 260 regional US newspapers. Full-text television and radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.

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   1. Papers First

      Index of papers originally delivered at congresses, symposiums, conferences, expositions, workshops, and meetings. 1993 to present.

   2. Proceedings First

      Index of proceedings from congresses, symposiums, conferences, expositions, workshops and meetings, both domestic and international. Records include lists of the papers presented at each conference.

   3. Professional Development Collection

      Specialized collection designed for professional educators providing full-text access to 520 high quality education journals (including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles) and more than 200 educational reports. Indexing and abstracts provided for more than 700 journals. Full- text content dates as far back as 1965.

   4. ProQuest Psychology Journals

      Contains abstracts and indexing for more than 610 titles (with over 520 titles available in full text), and encompasses a wide range of topics in clinical and social psychology from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications. Also covers related disciplines including genetics, psychology of business and economics, communication, criminology, addiction, neurology, public health, and social welfare.

   5. PsycBOOKS

      Contains full text (PDF) of scholarly books published by the American Psychological Association. As of 2007, the database includes approximately 1,400 titles, 300 archival resources in psychology, and the exclusive electronic release of the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology. New content is added monthly.

   6. PsycCRITIQUES

      Contains reviews of material relevant to psychology. Updated weekly with approximately 18–20 reviews of psychological books most from the current copyright year, and a review of a popular film from a psychological perspective. Other content includes videos, comparative reviews, and retrospective reviews.

   7. PsycINFO
      

      Definitive database for psychology, psychiatry, and related mental health disciplines (including social, behavioral, and health sciences). Also includes material in related fields such as management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. Contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, dating as far back as the 1800s. 98% of the covered material is peer-reviewed. New content added weekly. Select a date range to begin your search:
      
      PsycINFO (2002 to Present)
      PsycINFO (1987 to Present)
      PsycINFO (1967 to Present)
      PsycINFO (1806 to Present)
      PsycINFO (1806 to 1966)

   8. PsycTESTS

      A research database providing downloadable access to psychological tests, measures, scales, and other assessments as well as descriptive and administrative information.  The database's coverage focuses on both published and unpublished tests developed by researchers but not made commercially available.

   9. PsycTHERAPY

      A database containing more than 300 videos featuring therapy demonstrations showing clinicians working with individuals, couples, and families.

   10. PsychiatryOnline

       Full-text access to APPI books and journals, including the DSM-IV-TR, The American Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, and a collection of standard psychiatry textbooks.

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   1. Regional Business News

      Full-text access to 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Includes Crain's Chicago Business (and other Crain Communications editions).

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   1. SAGE Journals Online

      Full-text access to over 400 SAGE journals in the areas of business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology, and medicine.

   2. Saskia Art Images (CARLI)

      A collection of 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections: the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt.

   3. SocINDEX with Full Text

      Full-text access to over 700 journals in sociology and its sub-disciplines. Subjects covered include criminology & criminal justice, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, substance abuse & other addictions, and violence. Also includes full-text access to nearly 800 books and over 9,000 conference papers.

   4. SPORTDiscus with Full Text

      A full-text bibliographic database covering sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law & legislation, college & university sport, disabled persons, facility design & management, intramural & school sport, doping, health, health education, biomechanics, movement science, injury prevention rehabilitation, physical therapy, nutrition, exercise physiology, sport & exercise psychology, recreation, leisure studies, tourism, allied health, occupational health & therapy, public health and more.

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    1. World Almanacs

       Collects five general reference works in one searchable database: Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, World Almanac and Book of Facts, World Almanac of the U.S.A., World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and World Almanac for Kids.

    2. WorldCat

       WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.