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| GENERAL DATABASES (Johanna Alexander, 654-3256 ) |
| Academic Search Elite |
| Multidisciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,050 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,500 peer-reviewed titles covering virtually every area of academic study. |
| OmniFile Full Text Mega |
| Includes Business, Education, General Science, Humanities, and Social Sciences |
| Proquest Databases |
| Includes industry, business, and newspaper full text articles. |
| LexisNexis Academic Search |
| Full text of business, news, law, and medicine publications. |
| Google Scholar |
| ANTHROPOLOGY & ARCHAEOLOGY (Christy Gavin, 654-3237 ) |
| Anthropological Index Online |
| Covers cultural and ethnographical studies on peoples of the world. |
| JSTOR |
| Electronic full-image database of anthropology and archaeology |
| Sociological Abstracts |
| The key database for sociology. Major areas of coverage are social problems, globalization, social psychology, mass phenomena, theory, and methodology. |
| Humanities Full Text |
| Covers art, theater, literature, film, journalism and mass media, religion, and philosophy. |
| Academic Search Elite |
| Multidisciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,050 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,500 peer-reviewed titles covering virtually every area of academic study |
| Biological Abstract |
| Most complete collection of journal articles on life science and biomedical sciences. |
| Science Direct (Elsevier) |
| Journals in Biochemistry, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Immunology, and Microbiology |
| General Science Full Text |
| Select full text articles in Biology, botany, Genetics, Microbiology, and Zoology. |
| Wiley InterScience |
| Journals, Online Books, Reference Works, and Current Protocols in Biology and related disiplines. |
BUSINESS | More Info | Johanna Alexander, 654-3256
| Academic Search Elite |
| Multidisciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,050 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,500 peer-reviewed titles covering virtually every area of academic study. |
| Econlit |
| Index to economic literature from 1969-present with links to selected full-text articles. |
| IBIS World (Industry Reports) |
| Trial runs from Jan. 23rd - Feb. 23rd, 2013 |
| Morningstar Investment Research Center |
| Factiva |
| Full-text news and business articles. Factiva has replaced Dow Jones Interactive. |
| LexisNexis Academic Search |
Full text of business, news, law, and medicine publications. |
| ProQuest Databases (PROQUEST) |
Includes industry, business, and newspaper full text articles. |
| Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega |
Includes Business, Education, General Science, Humanities, and Social Sciences. |
CHEMISTRY (Ying Zhong, 654-3119)
| American Chemical Society’s Web Editions |
| Full text of the journals published by the American Chemical Society |
| Science Direct (Elsevier) |
| Full text of chemistry journals published by Elsevier |
| Springer |
| Full text of chemistry journals published by Springer-Verlag and Kluwer |
| Wiley Interscience |
| Full text of chemistry journals published by Wiley |
COMMUNICATION (Christy Gavin, 654-3237 )
| Communications & Mass Media Complete |
| The key database for communication studies. Covers communications, journalism, television, print media and related fields, including gender studies and race and ethic issues. |
| Lexis-Nexis Academic Search |
| Provides regional, national, and international news articles. The news portion of Lexis/Nexis does not contain scholarly articles. |
| PsycINFO |
| Most important database for the research literature in psychology and related fields. |
| Sociological Abstracts |
| The key database for sociology. Major areas of coverage are social problems, globalization, social psychology, mass phenomena, theory, and methodology. |
| ACM Digital Library |
| Collection of citations and full text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings. |
| IEEE Xplore Digital Library |
| A powerful resource for scientific and technical content published by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners |
| Science Direct (Elsevier) |
| Journal articles in Computer Science and subfields. |
| Wiley InterScience |
| Journals, Online Books, and Reference Works in CS and Information Technologies. |
| Safari Tech Books Online |
| IT books with reliable code examples and technical information for IT professionals. |
CRIMINAL JUSTICE | More Info | Sandra Bozarth, 654-3235
| Academic Search Elite |
| Scholarly and popular coverage of criminology and criminal justice. |
| Sociological Abstracts |
| Scholarly coverage of sociology and related disciplines, including criminology. |
| National Criminal Justice Reference Service |
| Federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. |
ECONOMICS | More Info | Johanna Alexander, 654-3256
| Academic Search Elite |
Multidisciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,050 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,500 peer-reviewed titles covering virtually every area of academic study. |
| Econlit |
| Index to economic literature from 1969-present with links to selected full-text articles. |
| Factiva |
Full-text news and business articles. Factiva has replaced Dow Jones Interactive. |
| ProQuest Databases (PROQUEST) |
Includes industry, business, and newspaper full text articles. |
| Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega |
Includes Business, Education, General Science, Humanities, and Social Sciences. |
EDUCATION | More Info | Kristine Holloway, 952-5072
| ERIC(EBSCO) |
| Education literature and resources, educational and education-related journals. |
| Education Full Text |
| Comprehensive coverage of multiple education subject areas. |
| PsycINFO |
| Psychology and related disciplines including psychological aspects of education. |
| Dissertations and Theses: Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Provides access to dissertations and theses in the humanities, education, business, and social sciences. |
| Academic Search Elite |
| Covers education and other subjects. |
ENGLISH | More Info | Christy Gavin, 654-3237
| Contemporary Literary Criticism Select |
| Significant published criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights,short story writers, and other creative writers |
| Humanities Full Text |
| Covers art, theater, literature, film, journalism and mass media, religion, and philosophy. |
| JSTOR |
| Archives several key journals in literary criticism and linguistics. Coverage is not current; use MLA International Bibliography for current articles. |
| MLA International Bibliography |
| The key database for literary criticism. Major areas of coverage include literatures from all over the world, linguistics and language materials, and folklore. |
| Project Muse |
| Coverage includes literary criticism related to English, American, and comparative literatures. |
GEOLOGY | More Info | Norm Hutcherson, 654-2061
| GeoRef |
| Worldwide literature on geology and geophysics including journal articles, books, conference papers, government publications, theses, dissertations, reports, maps, and metting papers. |
| Academic Search Elite |
| Multi-disciplinary full text database. Full text information dates back to 1985. |
| Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega |
| Multi-disciplinary full text database. Full text information dates back to 1994. |
| Annual Reviews (1996-2007) |
| Comprehensive, critical reviews written by leading researchers published for 32 disciplines including Earth and Planetary Sciences 1996-present. |
| Science Direct (elsevier) |
| Indexing and full text to over 104 subscribed journal titles in earth and planetary science. |
| Springer Link |
| Provides indexing and full text for over 1,000 journal titles published by the Springer family of publishers. |
| Wiley Interscience |
| Indexing and full text for over 100 geology and earth science journal titles published by Wiley |
HISTORY | More Info | Curt Asher, 654-3251
| Academic Search Elite |
| Multidisciplinary database containing history articles. |
| America: History & Life |
| Citations and abstracts to scholarly and regional American history articles. |
| Historical Abstract |
| Citations and abstracts to world history articles about regions other than the U.S. |
| Humanities Full Text (Wilson) |
| Multidisciplinary humanities database containing history articles. |
| JSTOR |
| Archive of important history journals. |
| Project Muse |
| Collection of full text scholarly journals, including some history journals. |
LAW | More Info | Sandra Bozarth, 654-3235
| THOMAS |
| Most important source for United States bills and laws. |
| Official California Legislative Information |
| Most important source for California bills and laws. |
| LexisNexis Academic Search |
| United States and California court cases and legal codes; and, law reviews. |
MATHEMATICS | More Info | Ying Zhong, 654-3119
| MathSciNet |
| Mathematical Reviews on the web. |
| American Mathematical Society Journals |
| American Mathematical Society's Proceedings and Transactions available in full-text. |
| JSTOR |
| Core journals and proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics |
| General Science Full Text |
| Select full text articles in Mathematics after 1994 |
| Science Direct (Elsevier) |
| Journals articles in Mathematics. |
MODERN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES | More Info | Sandra Bozarth,654-3235
| Humanities Full Text (Wilson) |
| Small selection Spanish and French literary criticism. |
| JSTOR |
| Archive of some important literature journals in English. |
| MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO) |
| Bibliography of literary criticism. |
| Project Muse |
| Collection of full text scholarly journals, including literature journals. |
MULTICULTURAL STUDIES | More Info |Sandra Bozarth, 654-3235
| Ethnic NewsWatch |
| News, Culture and History from publications of the ethnic, minority and native press. Bilingual (English and Spanish). |
| Handbook of Latin American Studies Online |
| Bibliography of Latin America published since 1936. |
MUSIC (Christy Gavin, 654-3237)
| Oxford Music Online |
| Premier authority on all aspects of music. |
| Humanities Full Text |
| Scholarly and popular coverage of music |
| Academic Search Elite |
| Scholarly and popular coverage of music |
| Factiva |
| Full-text access to 9,000+ sources from 118 countries and in 22 languages. |
| LexisNexis Academic Search |
| Full-text access to 5,800+ news, business, legal, medical, and government sources. |
| ProQuest Newspapers |
| Full text access to 300+ United States and international news sources. |
| Ethnic Newswatch |
| Articles, editorials and reviews published in approximately 100 ethnic and minority newspapers, magazines and journals published in the United States. |
NURSING | More Info | Ying Zhong, 654-3119
| CINAHL Plus with Full Text |
| The most important database for nusing, providing articles, legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937 |
| PubMed |
| A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. |
| Science Direct (Elsevier) |
| Journals in Nursing and Health Professions, Medicine and Dentistry, Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine. |
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES | More Info | Curt Asher, 654-3251
| Humanities Full Text (Wilson) |
| Multidisciplinary humanities database containing philosophy articles. |
| MLA International Bibliography |
| Bibliography of literary criticism, often useful in philosophy. |
| Philosopher's Index(Cambridge Scientific) |
| Important bibliography of philosophy articles and books |
| JSTOR |
| Archive of some important philosophy journals. |
PHYSICAL EDUCATION( Kristine Holloway, 952-5072)
| Physical Education Index |
| Many publications regarding physical education. |
| ERIC(EBSCO) |
| Includes physical education related subject matter. |
| Education Full Text |
| Coverage of athletics and many other education related subject areas. |
PHYSICS (Ying Zhong, 654-3119)
| American Institute of Physics |
| Provides records and abstracts for more than 1.5 million articles from major physical science journals, magazines, and conference proceedings. Includes all APS journal content back to 1893. |
| Annual Reviews (1996-2007) |
| comprehensive, critical reviews written by leading researchers published for 32 disciplines including Astronomy and Astrophysics 1996-present, Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure 1996-present, Fluid Mechanics 1996-present, and Nuclear and Particle Science 1996-present. |
| Science Direct (Elsevier) |
| Indexing and full text to over 104 subscribed or complementary journal titles in physics and astronomy. |
| Wiley Interscience |
| Indexing and full text for over 100 physics and astronomy journal titles published by Wiley. |
| Academic Search Elite |
| Multi-disciplinary full text database. Full text information dates back to 1985.; |
| Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega |
Multi-disciplinary full text database. Full text information dates back to 1994. |
| Springer Link |
| Provides access to more than 1,000 journals published by the Springer family of publishers |
POLITICAL SCIENCE | More Info | Norm Hutcherson, 654-2061
| Military and Government Collection |
| provides full text from over 320 military and general interest publications. |
| Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) |
| Archive of social science data for research and instruction. |
| Annual Reviews (1996-2007) |
| Comprehensive, critical reviews written by leading researchers published for 32 disciplines including Political Science 1998-present. |
| Ethnic Newswatch |
| articles, editorials and reviews published in approximately 100 ethnic and minority newspapers, magazines and journals published in the United States. |
| Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) |
| comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs |
| Country Watch |
| News and analysis of political, economic, business and environmental trends on countries of the world. |
| ABI/INFORM |
Multi-disciplinary full text database focused primarily on business and news. Full text information dates back to 1985. |
| Academic Search Elite |
Multi-disciplinary full text database. Full text information dates back to 1985. |
| Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega |
Multi-disciplinary full text database. Full text information dates back to 1994. |
| LexisNexis Academic Search |
Full text articles, documents, and other materials from newspapers, trade journals, general interest magazines, and legal documents. |
| RAND California |
Extensive statistical data on California, its cities and counties. |
| CQ researcher |
| Covers current issues of the day with summaries, pros and cons, bibliographies and more. |
| CQ weekly |
non-partisan information on Capitol Hill. |
| Roper Center Public Opinion Archives |
PSYCHOLOGY | More Info |Norm Hutcherson, 654-2061
| PsycINFO |
| Most important database for the research literature in psychology and related fields. |
| PubMed |
| Most important database for biomedical research literature. |
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION | More Info | Johanna Alexander, 654-3256
| Academic Search Elite |
| Multidisciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,050 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,500 peer-reviewed titles covering virtually every area of academic study. |
| Econlit |
| Index to economic literature from 1969-present with links to selected full-text articles. |
| LexisNexis Academic Search |
| Full text of business, , law, and medicine publications. The law reviews are particularly useful for public administration students. |
| Military and Government Collection |
| Provides full text from over 320 government and policy periodicals. |
| ProQuest Databases (PROQUEST) |
| Includes government, industry, business, and newspaper full text articles. |
| Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega |
| Includes Business, Education, General Science, Humanities, and Social Sciences |
SOCIAL WORK | More Info | Christy Gavin, 654-3237
| Social Sciences Full Text |
| Includes anthropology, communications, family studies, gender studies, ethics, race and ethnic relations, social work, sociology, and urban studies. |
| Social Services Abstracts |
| The key database for social work. Coverage includes family and social welfare, mental health services, social policy, and community development. |
| Sociological Abstracts |
| The key database for sociology. Major areas of coverage are social problems, globalization, social psychology, mass phenomena, theory, and methodology. |
| PsycINFO |
| Most important database for the research literature in psychology and related fields. |
SOCIOLOGY (Christy Gavin, 654-3237 )
| Social Sciences Full Text |
| Includes anthropology, communications, family studies, gender studies, ethics, race and ethnic relations, social work, sociology, and urban studies. |
| Sociological Abstracts |
| The key database for sociology. Major areas of coverage are social problems, globalization, social psychology, mass phenomena, theory, and methodology. |
| JSTOR |
| Archives several key journals in literary criticism and linguistics. Coverage is not current; use MLA International Bibliography for current articles. |
| PsycINFO |
| Most important database for the research literature in psychology and related fields. |
THEATER (Christy Gavin, 654-3237 )
| Humanities Full Text |
| Covers art, theater, literature, film, journalism and mass media, religion, and philosophy. |
| Project Muse |
| Coverage includes literary criticism related to English, American, and comparative literatures. |
| MLA International Bibliography |
| The key database for literary criticism. Major areas of coverage include literatures from all over the world, linguistics and language materials, and folklore. |
| JSTOR |
| Archives several key journals in literary criticism and linguistics. Coverage is not current; use MLA International Bibliography for current articles. |
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