Recommended Databases
Full-text access to 12 reference books and dictionaries mostly covering world religions but also including two works focused on
philosophy.
Coverage: Publication dates 1993 - 2005
A bibliographic database with informative abstracts covering scholarly research
in all areas of philosophy.
Coverage: 1940 - current
The
Philosopher's Index monitors over 550 journals from more
than 40 countries and is updated quarterly. The literature covered includes
journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology,
and book reviews. Extensive indexing includes personal and proper names along
with subject terms; there is also the capability to search for the authors of
book reviews.
Databases
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.
Full-text access to 144 core scholarly journals covering diverse subject areas
in the liberal arts and sciences.
Coverage: 1863 - 2005
UML has access to these two JSTOR collections:
Arts & Sciences I includes the complete back runs of 119 titles
in fifteen disciplines. It includes many of the core research and society
published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as
well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This
collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented
fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.
Arts & Sciences IIcontains 125 titles covering economics,
history, and Asian studies. It also offers core journals in several new
disciplines, such as archaeology, classics, and African, Latin American, Middle
Eastern, and Slavic studies.
Citations from over 6,000 journals, books, essay collections, bibliographies,
working papers, and dissertations in the fields of language, linguistics,
literature, and folklore.
Coverage: varies by title, oldest is 1980 - current
MLA International Bibliography(produced by the Modern Language
Association), contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals
& series, and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is
international and includes journal abbreviations and acronyms for almost 3,500
titles and nearly 11,000 subject names and terms. Subjects consist of
literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism,
dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of
teaching language and literature are also included. In addition to the
bibliography, the database includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals.
Full-text access to nearly 500 titles from MIT Press on the topics of Psychology, Philosophy, Neuroscience, Linguistics,
and much more.
Coverage: Publication dates 1992 - current
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.
Complete, full-text access to more than 4,100 ebooks covering all major subject areas, including over 280 titles related to
Psychology.
Coverage: Publication dates 1963 - 2006
