- Academic Search Complete
- Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including 6,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,000 journals and a total of 11,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers full text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women’s studies, and other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals. Academic Search Complete is updated daily.
URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=a9h - ERIC (EBSCO)
- A national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. It provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals. This is a good choice for ERIC because of the increased full-text linkage from all EBSCO databases.
URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=eric - Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
- Library/Information Sciences & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) was formerly Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA). EBSCO continues ISTA’s coverage (beginning in 1960) and increases the amount of library science covered. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management, the information industry. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings.
URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=lxh
General Interest Databases
Academic Search Complete—is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for over 5,300 scholarly publications, including more than 4,400 peer-reviewed publications. Offers indexing and abstracts for 9,300 journals on nearly every area of academic study.
Gale Virtual Reference Library—is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely at all times.
JSTOR Arts and Sciences 1 (119 titles) is JSTOR’s first collection—includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities, social sciences, ecology, mathematics, and statistics. Arts and Sciences IV (112 titles) has a strong focus on the professions of business, education, and law, and also includes titles in psychology, public policy and administration.
Newsbank—provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for nearly 500 U.S. newspapers – including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun Times.
