Databases A - Z

Search all three mostly full-text ABI/INFORM business, finance, and management databases.
Coverage: 1971 - current

ABI/INFORM Dateline delivers over 175 journals, with more than 165 available in full text. Research employment opportunities, compile data on benefits and compensation, learn about corporate strategies, and other topics from a local and regional perspective. Dateline includes major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, and wire services along with hard-to-find local and regional business publications.
Coverage: 1985 - current

ABI/INFORM Global includes over 2,830 publications, with more than 1,850 available in full text, covering business conditions and trends; management techniques, practice and theory; and corporate strategy and tactics. Included is the Archive that contains complete runs of key business and management journals, providing a unique historical perspective on hundreds of topics, including corporate strategies, management techniques, marketing, product development, and industry conditions worldwide.

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry includes in-depth more than 1,240 publications, with over 1,150 in full-text, covering companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics.

Full-text articles from the world's leading journals, newspapers and reference sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
Coverage: 1980 - current

Academic OneFile contains over 60 million records from the following types of sources: Periodicals — General interest magazines; refereed academic journals; business publications; technology periodicals; plus specialty titles in law, health care and computers. Newspapers — The full text of The New York Times from 1990, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor. Newswires — 121 wire services covering agriculture, general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry topics, sports and current events from all over the world. Audio — listen to any National Public Radio program, as well as read transcripts, for shows produced by NPR from 1990 to present. Podcasts from government agencies such as the Census and the State Department are also available.

Full text for nearly 4,500 multi-disciplinary journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.
Coverage: 1975 - current (earlier for some titles)

In addition to full text, Academic Search Premier offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.

Comprehensive coverage of accounting and tax topics appearing in key industry publications and newspapers.
Coverage: 1971-current

ProQuest Accounting & Tax includes nearly 2,200 titles, as well as IASB, AICPA, and FASB accounting standards. It’s national and international in scope, providing information on accounting policies and standards, state and national legislation, corporate and individual taxation, compensation and pension plans, and corporate financial management. This database is the exclusive source for the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). IASB consists of 31 active standards ranging from accounting policies, revenue, assets, financial statements, joint ventures, cash flow, and more.

Over 1500 full text and fully searchable books of major importance, recommended and reviewed by scholars.
Coverage: 1956 - 2003

The ACLS HEB collection allows users to perform keyword and Boolean searches, search full text across all titles in the database, in selected titles, or in a single title, by author and title as well as by Library of Congress subject headings for highly accurate results. Users may also search important book reviews. Search engines allow readers to find text and graphics, and to perform complex string searches for names, dates, phrases, or concepts in great depth and context.
New XML titles are enhanced with hypertext links and search features, some with direct links to web-based digital archives of appropriate source materials so that the reader can access many of the original source materials used by the author; and some titles feature enhanced illustrations, graphs, charts, maps, and other visual materials, often in full color, as well as video, sound, and music in appropriate titles.

Collection of full text and citations from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings.
Coverage: 1985 - current

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Portal consists of the ACM Digital Library and ACM Guide. The DL is the full-text repository of over 69,000 articles from publications that have been published, co-published, or co-marketed by ACM and other publishers. The Guide is a collection of bibliographic citations and abstracts of works published by ACM and other publishers.

Content covers the areas of computer hardware, software, computer systems organization, data structures, encryption, coding and information theory, analysis of algorithms, information systems, artificial intelligence, computer applications, computers and education, legal aspects of computing, management of computing and information systems, personal computing.

Citations and abstracts from more than 600 journals, books, dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos addressing aging issues from individual, national, and global perspectives.

Produced by AARP, AgeLine focuses exclusively on the population aged 50+ and issues of aging. It includes aging-related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy. AgeLine also includes information for professionals working in aging-related fields and for consumers. AARP generates original abstracts for every citation, with index terms drawn from AgeLine's Thesaurus of Aging Terminology. AgeLine indexes over 600 journals, books, book chapters, reports, dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos. Designed for researchers, professionals, students, and general consumers, this database addresses aging issues from individual, national, and global perspectives.

A full text database comprised of more than 190 newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.
Coverage: 1970 - current

Alt-PressWatch features over 502,000 articles from alternative newsweeklies like Eugene Weekly, Missoula Independent, and The Village Voice as well as over 190 other grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals. Click here for a complete title list.

A comprehensive collection of almost 400,000 bibliographic entries about the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Coverage: 1955 - current

America: History & Life is an excellent resource for a variety of disciplines including American History, Canadian History, Popular Culture, American Studies, Literature/Folklore, Genealogy, Women's Studies/Gender Studies, Multicultural Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, History of Science, Economics, Business, Education, Music, Art, and Law.
CLIO Notes is included in this resource and contains overviews of historical periods and detailed chronologies for major events and issues of each period.

Features free access to CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, a peer-reviewed journal that provides up-to-date information on all aspects of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

Published six times per year, CA is the most widely circulated oncology journal in the world, with a circulation of approximately 90,000, including primary care physicians; medical, surgical, and radiation oncologists; nurses; other health care and public health professionals; and students in various health care fields. It provides unparalleled information about cancer prevention, early detection, treatment of all forms, palliation, advocacy issues, quality-of-life topics, and more.

Full-text access to 35 prestigious journals published by the American Chemical Society in addition to its weekly newsmagazine.
Coverage: 1879 - currrent

American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications provides searchable access to over 130 years of original research in chemistry, including more than 750,000 articles contained in 3 million plus pages of chemistry findings, dating back to the introduction of the Journal of the American Chemical Society in 1879.

Full-text access to five IOP journals, including the journals of Applied Physics, Chemical Physics, Mathematical Physics, and Physical and Chemical Reference Data, as well as Applied physics letters.
Coverage: varies, 1931 to present.

Full-text access to The Quarterly of Applied Mathematics that contains original papers in applied mathematics which have a close connection with applications.
Coverage: 2005 - current

Offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women from all eras whose lives have shaped the nation.

Updated quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency, the ANB includes thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities. Appended to each article is a descriptive bibliography, which may include mention of primary sources, the most useful published biographies, articles or monographs about specific aspects of the person's career, and obituaries.

Includes digitized images of pages from over 1,100 American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
Coverage: 1740 - 1940 present, HaPI 1985-Present

APS Online covers three broad periods:
 * 89 journals published between 1740 and 1800 offer insights into America's transition from a British colony to an independent nation.
 * More than 900 titles from the first 60 years of the nineteenth century showcase "the golden age of American periodicals." General interest magazines, children's publications, and more than 20 journals for women are among the historically-significant content.
 * 118 periodicals published during the Civil War (1861-1865) and Reconstruction (1865-1877) eras reflect the nation in turmoil and growth, and titles from the 1880s through 1900 capture the settling of the West and the emergence of modern America.

Full-text access to the journals Physical Review A, B, C, and E along with Physical Review Letters.
Coverage: mostly 2004 - current.

Contains citations and abstracts of significant papers relevant to animal behavior, with subjects ranging from neurophysiology to behavioral ecology and genetics to applied ethology.
Coverage: 1982 - current

Under the editorial guidance of one of the world's leading ethologists, Animal Behavior Abstracts surveys all of the important journals dealing with the biology of particular taxonomic groups. Both field and laboratory inquiries are summarized.

Authoritative, analytic reviews in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
Coverage: 1996 - current

Annual Reviews synthesizes the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Editorial committees comprised of distinguished scholars in the discipline critically review, synthesize, and filter the vast amount of primary research in specific disciplines. Each AR article is written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Each article is its own search engine, providing a gateway to the essential primary research literature referenced within each topic. These AR publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information® (ISI).

Nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.
Coverage: Medieval - 20th century

Besides the Main ARTFL Database, resources include French Women Writers, Provençal poetry, Journal de Trévoux, full-text dictionary searching and the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) Database. Eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century texts are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century, medieval, and Renaissance texts. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. In most cases standard scholarly editions were used in converting the text into machine-readable form, and the data contain page references to these editions.

Full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications.
Coverage:Indexing 1984+, Abstracting 1994+, “select” Full Text 1997+

Features full text articles from some 160 journals. Now offers new expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. Also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) database provides full text to 30 journals, abstracts to other publications, and an online journal archive that contains over 23,000 articles.
Coverage: 1970 - currrent

The ASCE Civil Engineering Database provides access to over 100,000 bibliographic and abstracted records including full text to 30 highly cited and relevant journals covering every discipline within the civil engineering profession as well as access to all online Proceedings (100+ title archive plus all new titles in 2008).

Full-text access to all 11 journals of the American Society for Microbiology.
Coverage: varies by journal, oldest dated from 1916

ASM Journals Online is the browsable and searchable online collection of all journals published by the American Society for Microbiology. The Society's journals "cover the spectrum of microbiology, from molecular and cellular biology to biomedical research and technology." ASM Journals Online site also includes the Minireview Collection, a collection of ASM minireviews published in the last 12 months.

Full-text access to all 22 journals of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Coverage: varies by journal, oldest dated from 1916

The ASME Product Catalog page has additional links to more than 2,500 titles, including books, conference proceedings, technical papers, and newsletters published by ASME International. There are also links to other information about the organization such as Councils, Engineering Forums, Career Opportunities, and other suggested outside resources.

Multidisciplinary forum for reporting experiences with test methods and the results of interlaboratory testing and analysis that provides the scientific basis for both new and improved ASTM International standards.
Coverage:Full text from Sep. 1998 - current, abstracts from Jan. 1994.

View, download, and print any of 12,000+ ASTM standards.

ASTM International is one of the largest voluntary standards development organizations in the world-a trusted source for technical standards for materials, products, systems, and services. Known for their high technical quality and market relevancy, ASTM International standards have an important role in the information infrastructure that guides design, manufacturing and trade in the global economy.

Free access to reference books, fiction, nonfiction, and verse, featuring the Columbia Encyclopedia and American Heritage Dictionary.

Full-text access to the The Economists' Voice and Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
Coverage: 2004 - current.

Bibliographic citations covering books, exhibition catalogues, conference proceedings and journal articles.
Coverage: 1973-current

Published by the Getty Research Institute, the BHA citations encompass the fine arts — painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, and architecture — as well as decorative and applied arts — crafts, graphic arts, folk and popular art. It includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: Répertoire d’Art et d’Archéologie (RAA) from 1973 to 1989 and International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) from 1975 to 1989. The database contains more than 700,000 records drawn from 1,400 journals, as well as books, conference proceedings, essays, exhibition catalogues, selected art dealers’ catalogues, doctoral dissertations and microform publications. Records feature detailed abstracts in English or French.

Indexes citations from more than 1,000 volumes and editions of important current and retrospective biographical reference sources.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index combines historical and biographical encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, and who's who editions from multiple publishers that cover over 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor. Over 50 titles alone are devoted to African Americans.

Citations of biographical articles and books of individual and collective biography as well as biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books.

Biography Index cites biographical articles that appear in the entire WilsonWeb periodicals databases plus some 2,000 current books of individual and collective biography. Besides biographies and autobiographies, you’ll find citations to interviews, obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, juvenile literature, book reviews, bibliographies and exhibition reviews. People covered range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.

Offers bibliographic information on over 5.8 million in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming book, audio, and video titles.

Integrates over 1,000 volumes of Thomson Gale publications with full-text magazine articles, images, and website links. Search for current or historic people by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, or by keyword and full text. Marquis Who's Who provides quick reference information on over 1 million additional people whose entries have appeared in more than 20 Marquis sources published from 1985 to the present. Narrative biographies provide an in-depth overview of the subject's life and accomplishments. Over 538,000 full-text magazine articles bring coverage of the subject up-to-date and broaden the view of his or her place in history, society, a particular field of endeavor, or the news

Article citations and abstracts from about 6,000 sources including journals, patents, conference proceedings, books, and reports covering the subjects of biomedicine, zoology, ecology, biotechnology, veterinary science, and agriculture.
Coverage: 1982 - current

The Biological Sciences Collection combines abstracts and citations from 25 individual databases covering research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this CSA database provides access to literature from over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.

Abstracts and indexes of domestic and international literature in the area of life sciences.
Coverage: 1989 - current

Biology Digest sciences is primarily intended for an audience at the high school or undergraduate college level. Its purpose is to aid in keeping students and instructors current on the latest developments in biological research. Each of over 20,000 records contains an original abstract averaging about 325 words.

Offers bibliographic information on over 5.8 million in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming book, audio, and video titles.

BooksInPrint.com Professional features over 30,000 full-text previews, 140,000 tables of contents, and over 700,000 reviews of titles by over 200,000 publishers. Cover images, author biographies and annotations are just a few of the many other database benefits.

Search capabilities allow you to combine up to 31 search criteria and now features BIP ALERT that allows you to save search criteria and receive an e-mail any time a title is released that matches your previously saved search settings.

Full text of the Globe offers authoritative coverage of local, national and international news.
Coverage: September 1980 - current

Access to full-text coverage of the Boston Globe through detailed indexing that covers not only complete bibliographic information but also subjects, companies, people, products, and geographic areas. In addition, items such as editorials, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters to the editor from well-known people are also made easily accessible through the searchable index.

Offers every issue in complete paper–cover-to-cover with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.
Coverage: March 4, 1872 - Dec. 31, 1924

The Historical Boston Globe covers not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements. Each article and page image is available as searchable ASCII text. Users can search by keyword and Boolean operators as well as employ more advanced searching techniques. The results list generated by a search includes detailed bibliographic information for the articles retrieved such as article title, publication, issue date, author, page, etc.

Full text of the Boston Herald offers authoritative coverage of local, national and international news.
Coverage: 1991 - current

Access to full-text coverage of the Boston Herald through detailed indexing that covers not only complete bibliographic information but also subjects, companies, people, products, and geographic areas. In addition, items such as editorials, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters to the editor from well-known people are also made easily accessible through the searchable index.

Offers up-to-date topical business information and company and industry intelligence on thousands of global companies.

The Business & Company Resource Center provides business, company, and industry content in the following areas:
* Periodical articles, news articles, and press releases
* Detailed information for domestic and international companies and associations, including information on corporate hierarchical structures
* Company financials and earning estimates
* Investment reports
* Corporate chronologies and company histories
* Brands and product information
* Industry and company rankings
* Market Share data
* Industry Overviews
* HR Law Case Digests

Full text for more than 2,300 journals, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles, covering all aspects of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
Coverage: 1922 - current

Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals as well as more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country economic reports from the EIU, company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies and SWOT analyses.

Provides enhanced searching and browsing capabilities for Companies Profiles, Country Reports, Industry Profiles, and Market Research.
Coverage: 1922 - current

Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals as well as more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country economic reports from the EIU, company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies and SWOT analyses.

Full-text access to 24 journals covering a variety of disciplines. Titles include the Harvard Theological Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of economic history, and Philosophy.
Coverage: varies, many from 1997.

Full-text access to Chapman & Hall/CRC’s premier chemistry references, with all of their facts, formulas, tables, illustrations, and references.

CHEMnetBASE offers the following resources. Each product is a separate entity and can only be searched on its own. Combined Chemical Dictionary (CCD) - combines the following titles into one searchable database: Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds, Dictionary of Drugs (Formerly Pharmasource), Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds, Dictionary of Natural Products, Dictionary of Organic Compounds
The Handbook of Chemistry & Physics, now in its 87th Ed. - with the most heavily used tables updated and expanded.
Polymers: A Property Database - is fully searchable and offers the ability to produce tables customized to user preference.
Properties of Organic Compounds - contains over 29,000 of the most commonly sought organic compounds, featuring physical data, spectral data, and structures.

Citations and abstracts of research on on the maltreatment, safety, permanency and well-being of children.
Coverage: 1965 - current

Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption is now a free database that requires registration to attain username and password access. Citations and abstracts cover books, journal articles, final reports from federally-funded grant, conference papers, unpublished paper, reports on completed or continuing research, as well as descriptions of service programs and prevention and treatment strategies. Primarily English-language, U.S. based.

Published every weekday, the Chronicle is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe.
Coverage: September 1989 - current

The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online Curriculum vitæ management, salary databases, and more.

Full-text material from 70 journals plus indexing for nearly 3,000 more from the fields of nursing and allied health.
Coverage: 1982 - current

CINAHL offers complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses’ Association, covering nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,170 journals are also included. Full text material includes 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.

The CogNet Library is a growing, searchable collection of books, journals, reference works, OpenCourseWare links and conference materials.

The CogNet Library is a growing, searchable collection of books, journals, reference works, OpenCourseWare links and conference materials. Content and resources are provided by The MIT Press and other publishers, professional associations, institutions, and individuals who are willing to share public access to online work:
 * Full-text of 6 MIT Press journals plus searchable abstracts of over 30 journals from other publishers.
 * Full-text of 7 major reference works from the MIT Press.
 * Over 450 full-text books in cognitive science from The MIT Press are included.
 * Links to relevant MIT OpenCourseWare in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
 * On-demand video relevant to the Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
In addition, CogNet contains a growing variety of helpful academic information: News, Profiles of Graduate Programs, Graduate Application information and Funding Resources, Conference Schedules, Conference Proceedings, Virtual poster sessions, Calls for Papers, Seminar Series, and Job Listings.

Contains over 9 million bibliographic records and abstracts plus references to over 5,000 international engineering sources including journal, conference, and trade publications.
Coverage: 1996 - current

Engineering Village is a combination of several extensive databases:
Compendex contains bibliographic information and abstracts for over 175 disciplines and major specialties within engineering and applied science.
GEOBASE is multidisciplinary database supplying bibliographic information and abstracts for the Earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human geography, and oceanography. The database covers approximately 2,000 international journals, including both peer-reviewed titles and trade publications;
Inspec, produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers, contains over eight million bibliographic records taken from 3,500 scientific and technical journals and 1,500 conference proceedings;
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) database from the U.S. Department of Commerce;
Referex Engineering contains engineering reference titles in eBook format.

Provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world.
Coverage: 1982 - current

Since 1995, the subject emphasis of Conference Papers has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. The information is derived from final programs, abstracts, booklets and published proceedings, as well as from questionnaire responses. Records include complete ordering information to obtain preprints, abstracts, proceedings and other publications derived from the conference, together with title and author information needed to track the specific papers.

Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.

Contemporary Authors contains biographical details on current writers, along with the most-studied literary figures of the early 20th century, as well as authors from around the world. In many cases, information provided by the authors themselves is used to create sketches. In instances where an author is deceased or direct responses to questionnaires and query letters are unavailable, details are drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors’ publishers.

Extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors now living or who died after December 31, 1959.

CLC Select presents significant published criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers. Each entry contains the following: a biographical essay that discusses the author's life, works, and critical importance; critical essays or excerpts taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers, and scholarly journals; and, where available, interviews with featured authors. A complete bibliographical citation prefaces each critical essay and most essays are introduced by a brief annotation that establishes a context and purpose for the criticism. Entries also provide suggestions for further reading.

Provides in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.
Coverage: 1991 - current

CQ Researcher, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc., contains single-themed, 12,000-word reports researched and written by seasoned journalists. Each report provides an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources. Reports are browsable by topic or date or searchable by keyword.

Contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.
Coverage: 1968 - current

Criminal Justice Abstracts covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice.

Consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as full-text of 23 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years.
Coverage: 1976 - current

Criminology encompasses over 5,500 articles covering such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.

Full-text access to nearly 3,000 free journals covering all subjects and languages.
Coverage: varies.

Bibliographic citations and abstracts for over 2.3 million dissertations and theses from around the world, with over 750,000 available for download.
Coverage: 1861 - current

Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than 60,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Over 1.9 million dissertations and theses are available from the UMI vaults on microfilm or in hardcopy, and researchers can preview many recent titles electronically. Where available, PQDT provides 24 Page Previews of dissertations and theses. In addition, more than 750,000 are available for download in PDF format (Digital dissertations and theses are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be Native PDF, some PDF Image).

Bibliographic citations and abstracts plus some full text for dissertations and theses from UMass Lowell.
Coverage: 1986 - current

Access citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses UML graduate students have published through UMI Dissertation Publishing. In addition to citations and abstracts, the service provides free access to 24 page previews and the full text in PDF format, when available. In most cases, this will be graduate works published in 1997 forward.

Local database that contains author, title, and UML library location of UML Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses.
Coverage: 1949 - 1985

Full text for more than 2,300 journals, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles, covering all aspects of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
Coverage: 1969 - current

the American Economic Association’s electronic database, EconLit, provides links to full text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more. It also includes abstracts of books, journal articles, and working papers published by the Cambridge University Press. These sources bring the total records available in the database to more than 785,000.

Full text and bibliographic database that covers English-language journal articles, yearbooks and books about education.
Coverage: Articles indexed and abstacted from January 1994 - current. Full text from January 1996 - current. Books indexed from 1994 - current.

Education Full Text indexes over 600 periodicals as far back as 1983, over 400 of which are peer-reviewed. Full text is provided for over 350 journals. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source documents. Over 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of individuals, schools, and institutions are included along with over 1,500 names of educational tests. Especially thorough coverage is offered for special education with over 50 journals devoted specifically to this important topic.

Articles from over 760 top educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text.
Coverage: 1991 - current

ProQuest Education Journals offers complete text and images from journals covering not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics. Image articles include all the charts, tables, diagrams, and other graphical elements often used to enhance the editorial value of articles that focus on education topics.

Full text from more than 450 academic journals, hundreds of reports, and many premier reference sources focuses on educational principles and best prectices, child development and psychology.
Coverage: 1980 - current

Educator's Reference Complete provides full-text results for nearly half of the journal titles found in ERIC. With nearly 7 million articles, this database covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also focuses on issues in administration, funding and policy.

Search over 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts--plus thousands of maps, pictures, and audio/video files for material mostly selected for K-12 curriculum levels.
Coverage: most material 1994 - current

E-Library is especially useful for its teacher tools that include the Book Cart for reading lists and lesson plans, access to standards-aligned articles and other resources, plus educator-approved websites from Homework Central. BookCart functionality allows librarians and educators to build persistent links to pre-selected content, creating reading lists, subject and topic pages, standards-linked lessons and activities, community interest pages, and even pre- or post-assessments. E-Library Reference offers combined searching of over 30 encyclopdias, almanacs and atlases plus multiple other resources many of which recommended for the K-12 curriculum level.

Full-text access to over 100 journals covering a variety of disciplines, mostly in the areas of Management and Marketing.
Coverage: varies.

Free access to over two million science research citations and over 140,000 electronic documents.
Coverage: citations from 1948 - current; documents, primarily from 1994 - current

The ECD includes scientific and technical research results in disciplines of interest to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. It includes bibliographic citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.

Citations and abstracts covering the research, manufacturing practices, properties and applications of of polymers, ceramics, and composites.
Coverage: Approximately 1986-current (the oldest record was published in 1953; about 50% of the records have publication dates of 1993 or later)

Engineered Materials Abstracts include the following subfiles with combined coverage of over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases:
Advanced Polymers Abstracts-- captures technical information about the uses, manufacturing, and properties of thermoset and thermoplastic resins.
Composites Industry Abstracts -- focuses on polymers and ceramics reinforced with fibers, honeycombs, whiskers and laminates.
Engineered Materials Abstracts, Ceramics -- captures complete worldwide information about ceramics.
Polymer Library (formerly Rapra Abstracts) -- information on rubbers, plastics, adhesives and polymeric composites.

Contains over 9 million bibliographic records and abstracts plus references to over 5,000 international engineering sources including journal, conference, and trade publications.
Coverage: 1996 - current

Engineering Village is a combination of several extensive databases:
Compendex contains bibliographic information and abstracts for over 175 disciplines and major specialties within engineering and applied science.
GEOBASE is multidisciplinary database supplying bibliographic information and abstracts for the Earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human geography, a