Online Databases
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| Database | Description |
| Academic Search Premier | The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 4,000 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,100 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. |
| Agricola | Agricola has citations in these subject areas: botany, biotechnology, forestry and agriculture and more. It is the complete database of citations from the National Agricultural Library. |
| American Chemical Society Web Editions | Index and full-text of over 30 journals published by the American Chemical Society - from current back to the first issues. |
| BioDigest ($OCLC) | Citation only database of Non-technical digests in biology, ecology, and health.Database is a pay per search database:Library pays for each search that is conducted. |
| Biography Resource Center | Combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources and full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Tutorial |
| Biology Journals | ProQuest Biology Journals provides access to a wide range of biology topics. The database includes over 370 titles, with more than 325 available in full text. Covers a wide range of biology-related topics, such as Botany,Environmental studies, Microbiology and more. |
| Biomedical Reference Collection | Designed for doctors, research scientist, students and clinical specialists, this database provides full text for over 100 journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study. |
| BioOne | Includes both the BioOne.1 and BioOne.2 databases of full-text journals covering the biological, ecological, and environmental disciplines. |
| Business Source Premier | Index of over 1500 titles and full-text for nearly 960 business periodicals. |
| Database | Description |
| Chemical & Engineering News | Weekly chemical news journal. |
| Chemical Journal Index | Index and full-text of 30 journals published by the American Chemical Society. |
| Chronicle of Higher Education | Full-text of the Chronicle of Higher Education including archives back to 1998. |
| Chronicle of Philanthropy | Full-text of the Chronicle of Philanthropy including archives back to October 1997. |
| CollegeSource Online | Nearly 4,000 U.S. and international catalogs representing 2-year, 4-year, and graduate institutions, as well as law, medical and specialty schools. (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view catalogs.) This site requires the Internet Explorer browser to view documents. |
| Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report | The pre-eminent resource for nonpartisan information on Capitol Hill. Consistently hailed for its accuracy and comprehensiveness. The CQ Weekly on the Web includes access to the full text of all articles published since 1983. |
| Contemporary Authors Online | Contemporary Authors Online offers current and bibliographic data on more than 120,000 modern authors. Includes author updates, awards, and bibliographies. |
| Corporate Resource Net | Corporate ResourceNet is designed to meet the diverse information needs of today's companies. This database contains full text articles from nearly 1,200 quality magazines and journals. |
| CredoReference | A collection of searchable reference books, including dictionaries and encyclopedias. Titles include general encyclopedia works as well as fine arts, foreign languages, humanities, social sciences and science sources. |
| DOAJ (free) | The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) provides free access to scientific and scholarly journals. There are 2752 journals in the directory with 830 journals searchable at the article level. |
| Database | Description |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica | Complete text of encyclopaedia plus many links to online resources. |
| ERIC (EBSCO) | Citation and abstract information from more than 750 educational journals and related documents. |
| FACTS.COM | Brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest and a live newsfeed from Reuters to answer questions about events, people, issues, facts, and figures from 1940 to the present. Facts On File World News Digest @ FACTS.com also delivers maps, photographs, historic documents, and special overviews of key issues, newsmakers, and events since 1940. |
| Films on Demand | Films on Demand streaming video collections offer curriculum-focused content in these subject Categories- Humanities and Social Sciences and Guidance and Counseling. Over 600 videos added every year from Films for the Humanities and Sciences, BBC, CNBC, Wide Angle, PBS and more. |
| Health Source | Indexes 500 health periodicals, with full-text of >200 titles. |
| HighWire Press | HighWire Press hosts a large repository of free, full-text, peer-reviewed content for researchers in the biological and medical sciences. Many full-text articles that are not free in this database can be found in our other full-text databases. New! |
| Hoovers | Hoovers provides insight and analysis about companies, industries, and people. Includes public and private company profiles and advanced search and listing features. |
| Indiana Memory | Indiana digital library, is a collaboration of Indiana libraries, museums, archives, and related cultural organizations to enable access to Indiana's unique cultural and historical heritage through a variety of digital formats and free distribution over the Internet. |
| Informe | A collection of Hispanic full-text journals. |
| Issues and Controversies | Explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture. |
| Database | Description |
| JOSPT | The Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy is the official professional journal of the Orthopaedic Section and the Sports Physical Therapy Section of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). |
| JSTOR | Full-text articles of scholarly journals from the humanities and sciences. Years of coverage vary for each title. [No current issues - back-issues only.] |
| LexisNexis Academic | Indexes and provides full-text to articles from major US newspapers and several international newspapers. Good source for both business and legal information. |
| LitFinder | Includes: Poem Finder [100,000+ full-text poems and 800,000 citations and excerpts] Story Finder [thousands of full-text short stories]; and Essay/Speech/Play Finder [essays from standard collections; best and best known speeches of the past 2,500 years; over 1,000 complete plays covering the range of dramatic expression: including one-act plays, puppet plays, tragedies, gothic, children's, religious, romantic, historical, and comedic plays. |
| Mango Languages | Mango is an online language learning system that can help you learn languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Italian, Farsi, Russian and much more. Once on Mango, you can personalize your lessons by creating a unique log in, which will remember your completed lessons OR you can simply press "Start Learning." |
| Marketline | Marketline is a comprehensive collection of company, industry and country information, extending across 200+ countries and every major industry sector. Includes industry profiles and comparison reporting capabilities. |
| MasterFILE Premier | Indexes over 3100 journals and magazines, and provides full-text articles of more than 1900 of these. |
| McClatchy-Tribune Collection | The McClatchy-Tribune Collection includes a 90-day archive of approximately 290 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, including the Indianapolis Star. Updated daily. |
| Medline (EBSCO) | Indexes about 3,000 clinical and research medical journals going back as far as 1966. Provides full-text articles from selected journals. |
| Medline (PubMed) | Indexes about 3,000 clinical and research medical journals going back as far as 1966. |
| Database | Description |
| Military & Government Collection | Covering the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other resources. Provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles. |
| MLA Bibliography | Literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide. 1963 to the present. Updated 10x/ year. |
| Monthly Catalog (GPO) | Monthly catalog of US government publications. Published by the Government Printing Office. |
| NAXOS Music Library | Over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk, and Chinese music. This site works best with MS Internet Explorer. Limit of 10 simultaneous users. You must LOG-OUT using NAXOS's logout button in the top left corner. |
| New York Times - Historical | Provides full-text access to the NYT from the beginning in 1851 to 2006. For current articles, go to the Lexis-Nexis Academic Web site. |
| Newspaper Source | Newspaper Source provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. Includes selections from the Indianapolis Star. Updated daily. |
| Opinion Archives | Opinion Archives searches the deep archives of 8 leading opinion magazines: American Spectator, Commentary, Commonweal, Harpers Magazine, NACLA, The Nation, The National Review,and The New Republic. |
| Oxford Art Online | Oxford Art Online is the new gateway into art research and the access point for Oxford art reference titles. Titles include Grove Art Online, Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art. |
| Oxford English Dictionary | The most respected and complete English language dictionary. |
| Oxford Music Online | Oxford Music Online is a new gateway into music research and the access point for new and forthcoming Oxford music reference titles. Titles include Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and Oxford Companion to Music. |
| Database | Description |
| Oxford Reference Online | Brings together over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database. Includes key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. |
| Project Muse | Project MUSE Premium Collection offers over 300 quality journal titles covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. |
| PsycArticles | From the American Psychological Association (APA), come a definitive source of full-text peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 45,000 articles from 57 journals. Coverage spans from 1985 to present. |
| PsycINFO 1887- | Rich resource for current and historical research in psychology and related disciplines; contains citations and summaries of journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations. Coverage is back to 1887. [This version of PsycINFO automatically links to any full-text articles that are available in the PsycArticles database. |
| PubChem Central | PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It is a component of the National Institute of Health's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative. |
| PubMed Central | PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. |
| Regional Business News | Provides comprehensive full text for regional U.S. business publications (including titles from Crain Communications) covering business, politics, and economics. |
| SAVI | SAVI is a community information system that seeks to improve decision-making in Central Indiana organizations and agencies that serve human needs. SAVI provides data from approximately 40 data providers and tools to access and analyze the information. It provides 1990 and 2000 U.S. Census data for the Indianapolis MSA counties: Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Madison, Marion, Morgan, and Shelby. (Also information from the 2000 U.S.Census for Brown and Putnam counties.) |
| Small Business Resource Center | Small Business Resource Center features a wealth of resources, including the entire Business Plans Handbook Series, which contains sample business plans by real-life entrepreneurs as well as Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources, Encyclopedia of Management and Small Business Management- A Framework for Success. |
| SocINDEX with Full Text | SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study; features over 10,000 Author Profiles; contains full text for 289 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 75 "priority" coverage journals; also includes full text for 547 books and 6,711 conference papers. New! |
| Database | Description |
| Sociology- Research Starters | Research Starters are concise topic summary articles written by researchers, scholars and other subject matter experts in sociology. Designed for the beginning research phase, please use the bibliographies and further reading recommendations to augment your research. |
| SPORTDiscus | Featuring more than 230 full text titles, SPORTDiscus is the most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text from more than 415 journals indexed in the database. Limited to 2 to 4 users at a time. Be sure to log off when finished. |
| Statistical Abstract | The authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations. |
| Television News Archive Collection | The Television News Archive Collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from ABC,CBS, NBC and CNN and news related programming since 1989. Important note! Access to online video from CNN and NBC Material only. In order to view the video, you will need to have the RealOne media player from RealNetworks. |
| Testing & Education Reference Center | Includes online practice exams for the GRE, MCAT, GMAT, PRAXIS and many more. You will be asked to create an individual user account. This account enables you to track course progress and save test results. |
| U.S. Department of Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics | A government website from the U.S. Department of Labor with data about consumer wages & spending, employment & unemployment, and business industries. |
| Who's Who on the Web | Over 1 million biographies taken from 20 Marquis Who's Who print titles. Updates to biographies made daily, and new biographies added daily. Biographies can be printed and downloaded. Limited to one user at a time. Be sure to log off when finished |
| World News Digest | Brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news from the renowned Facts On File World News Digest in print. |
| WorldCat | Contains records for more than 50 million items including books, videos, periodicals, maps, etc., and tells which libraries have each item. |
