Library Databases

Coverage: This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 9,000 journals, including full text for nearly 7,700 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: 1975 - present. Coverage varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers full text articles for more than 180 international and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: 1984 to present. Coverage varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: Use this resource to search literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1955 to present, this database also provides full-text coverage of more than 200 journals and nearly 100 books.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: 1955 to present. Coverage varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences, along with a set of tools to view, present, and manage the images for research and teaching purposes. Entire collections of images have been contributed by museums, libraries' special collections, scholars, individual photographers and photo archives. This digital library of images will be useful in the fields of art, architecture and other visual arts, history, American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, classical studies, literature, Medieval studies, music, religious studies, Renaissance studies and more. Read more about ARTstor in the ARTstor F.A.Q.s. For useful tips, go to the ARTstor website and pull down the "Using ARTstor" menu or consult ARTstor's online Help. Images are available only for educational and scholarly uses that are noncommercial in nature. Strict copyright guidelines apply. Read about ARTstor technical requirements and log-in information.
Dates covered: Varies by collection, from 3000 B.C. to the present.
Subscription service: ARTstor.

Coverage: The Auto Repair Reference Center (ARRC) database contains the most comprehensive collection of automobile repair reference information in the market. It includes information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles. ARRC allows you to search the following for a vehicle for which you would like to access: • Technical Bulletins and Recalls • Diagnostic Information • Diagrams • Labor Times • Maintenance Intervals • Repair Information • Specifications.
Dates covered: Coverage of more than 37,000 vehicles from 1945 to present
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: A comprehensive collection of full-text biographies as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases.
Dates covered: From ancient to modern times.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: This database provides the full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles, and covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: Coverage varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: Book Index With Reviews is a comprehensive database that provides information on over 5 million book titles, in a wide range of formats. BIR also contains almost 800,000 full-text searchable book reviews from well-known library sources.
Dates covered: Coverage varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: This database provides access to journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. Offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 550 journals, and selected coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of 737 titles and includes full text for over 440 journals.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: Coverage varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: This is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. The database provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. In addition, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs. The database is updated on a weekly basis.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: Coverage varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: Country Reviews: Reports which offer demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information for 192 countries around the world. Country Wire: Country-by-country global news service that provides real time news from major international wire services, including UPI and Xinhua (New China News Agency). CountryWatch Data: Special search feature which allows users to compare statistical information for several countries of their choice.
Dates covered: Country Reviews updated twice per year in June and December. Country Wire - real time updates (i.e., updated as news stories come in from the wires).
Subscription service: CountryWatch.com.

Coverage: In-depth articles on current and controversial issues. Each article offers a lengthy discussion of the issue, pros and cons, background information, a chronology, future outlook, a bibliography and links to related CQ Weekly stories. (Download a list of the articles in CQ Researcher.)
Sources: Articles written by CQ researchers and staff.
Dates covered: 1991 to the present; updated quarterly.
Subscription service: Congressional Quarterly, Inc.

Coverage: A wealth of data on the properties of organic and inorganic compounds. Useful in the pure sciences, applied sciences, engineering and technology. TECHNICAL NOTE: In order to use the CRC Handbook from off campus, your web browser must be set to accept ALL cookies.
Sources: Data carefully evaluated by experts in each field.
Dates covered: Electronic version matches most recent print version.
Subscription service: Taylor & Francis Group.

Coverage: This database contains cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 250 journals and dozens of monographs. It includes indexing for all dentistry and oral sciences journals commonly purchased by dental schools and other related institutions.
Sources: Articles written by scholars and experts in their fields.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: Over 75,000 articles on a wide variety of topics, including hundreds of articles not found in the print version of Britannica. Includes links to 166,000 related websites, over 27,000 images and maps, plus 3,300 animations, videos, and audio files. Contains Britannica Book of the Year, Britannica's Lives (23,000 biographies of famous people), Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, and, "Week in Review" articles.
Sources: Articles written by scholars and experts in their fields.
Dates covered: Updated continuously as events occur, with major revisions released three or four times a year. "Events of the Year" material from Britannica Book of the Year is added once per year.
Subscription service: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.

Coverage: This resource offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
Sources: Articles written by scholars and experts in their fields.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: More than one million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles, compiled by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). ERIC is the most widely used index of educational literature in the world.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: 1986 - present. Coverage varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO

Coverage: This encyclopedia indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics, and contains various images, offering brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas.
Dates covered: Varies by topic. Updated annually.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: This multidisciplinary database covers all aspects of human impact on the environment, including content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. It provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 400,000 records, as well as full text for more than 4,700 records.
Sources: A variety of scholarly, government, and general-interest sources. See complete list of sources.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: This database provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health and includes the full text of nearly 80 consumer health magazines.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: 1984+. Varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: This database provides provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, and many more. In addition, this database includes Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: 1975+. Varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: This is a greatly expanded version of a 5-volume reference set standard in American libraries. Bringing together statistics from over 1000 sources, this set covers U.S. population, work and welfare, economic performance, governance and international relations. It includes statistics on thousands of topics such as slavery, migration, Native Americans, poverty, health, prices, crime and even the Confederate States of America. Essays by recognized experts place the numbers in historical context. Browse an index or search by keyword. Users can also graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest.
Sources: Over 1,000.
Dates covered: Varies by document.
Subscription service: Cambridge University Press.

Coverage: This database offers the full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: Varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a journal archive that holds the complete digitized collections of scholarly journals within several large collections. The collections cover a wide variety of topics in the arts, sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. All articles are included full text. Users can search the entire set at once or search subsets of journals by broad subject disciplines.

 

JSTOR does not include current journal issues. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, the so-called "moving wall" between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. Publishers determine the moving wall length in their license agreements with JSTOR. Moving walls may range from zero to ten years. In calculating the moving wall, the current, incomplete year is not counted.

 

Read JSTOR FAQs, about the Moving Wall and for more information, see Links to Recent Content.
Sources: See complete alphabetical list of journals. Browse complete list of journals by subject discipline.
Subscription service: JSTOR.

Coverage: This comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. Literary Reference Center contains full text for more than 35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticisms, more than 253,000 author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios), more than 460 literary journals, more than 693,000 book reviews, nearly 78,000 classic and contemporary poems, more than 19,600 classic and contemporary short stories, more than 6,500 author interviews, more than 8,200 classic texts and much more.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: Varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: This database is composed of approximately 35,000 critical analyses of individual works of literature, 6,500 biographical records, more than 1,000 images, and a glossary of 1,310 literary terms. It contains editorially reviewed critical essays, brief plot summaries, extended character profiles, and detailed setting discussions covering works by more than 8,500 long and short fiction writers, poets, dramatists, essayists, and philosophers. The biographical essays reflect extended coverage of the 2,500 most studied authors and include up-to-date lists of each author's principal works and current secondary bibliographies. In addition, 395 comprehensive genre-driven overview essays provide details about important literary genres, time periods, and national literatures.
Sources: Includes: Masterplots (12 volumes), Masterplots II (58 volumes), Cyclopedia of World Authors (5 volumes), Cyclopedia of Literary Characters (5 volumes), Magill's Literary Annual 1990-2005 (32 volumes), Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature (4 volumes) and Magill Book Reviews (6,800+). In addition, this database also includes Critical Surveys (35 volumes), Magill's Choice: Notable Poets (3 volumes), Magill's Choice: Shakespeare (1 volume), Magill's Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction (2 volumes) and World Philosophers and Their Works (3 volumes).
Dates covered: Varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. It is intended primarily for public libraries.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: Varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, PREMEDLINE, AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE, and HealthSTAR. MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: Varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: 1974+. Varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national and international newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, and other newscasts.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: Varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: Articles which present differing points of view on many controversial topics. Convenient for gathering pro and con arguments on controversial topics. Includes topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, magazine and newspaper articles and links to related websites.
Sources: A print set of reference books called Opposing Viewpoints and other books from Gale and Macmillan Reference publishers. (See list of sources included in the database for more detail here.
Dates covered: Varies by title. See list of sources for dates of coverage.
Subscription service: Gale.

Coverage: This database is designed for professional educators and provides a highly specialized collection of more than 750 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 900 journals.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: 1965+. Varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: Search the full text of some Northern California newspapers including the San Jose Mercury News, and the Press Democrat (Santa Rosa), plus selected coverage of other regional sources; 22 in total.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: Varies by title.
Subscription service: ProQuest

Coverage: Full-text and full-image articles from one of the country's leading newspapers, clear back to the mid-nineteenth century. Use front pages, articles, editorials, photos, advertisements, wedding and engagement announcements, cartoons, birth and death announcements, reviews, and more, to peek into the daily lives of ordinary people, as well as to witness major events from the past such as Reconstruction after the Civil War, American industrialization into the 20th Century, World Wars I & II, the Civil Rights Movement, and so forth.
Sources: New York Daily Times, 1851-1857, New York Times, 1851-2006.
Dates covered: 1851-2006.
Subscription service: ProQuest.

Coverage: Intended as a comprehensive source of material on psychology, this database provides nearly 550 full text publications, including more than 500 peer-reviewed journals. It covers covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: 1965+. Varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: This database incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: Varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: A comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. This database offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: 1975+. Varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: Science is the world's leading outlet for scientific news, commentary, and reports on cutting-edge research. Its articles consistently rank among the world's most cited research. Science online also offers forward and backward citation links, content awareness alerts, science career information and tools (a job search feature a Science Careers page on Facebook, etc.), information on grants and funding, and science podcasts and webinars.
Sources: Peer-reviewed articles are written by scientists around the world.
Dates covered: 1997 - present.
Subscription service: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Coverage: Information from and about the U.S. Government. Topics include the arts, history, the economy, education, energy, immigration, health care, scientific research and much more.
Sources: Government documents, historical documents, government directories and almanacs.
Dates covered: 1989 - present.
Subscription service: ProQuest-CSA.

Coverage:Thousands of general interest articles on a wide variety of topics. Some include accompanying illustrations, charts and/or maps.
Sources: Over 1,500 domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals and U.S. government publications.
Dates covered: 1989 - present.
Subscription service: ProQuest-CSA.

Coverage: This comprehensive database covers all major areas of starting, operating and maintaining a business from financing, management, marketing, accounting, taxes and more.
Sources: Approximately 300 business journals.
Dates covered: 1999 - present.
Subscription service: Gale.

Coverage: The database covers subjects as wide-ranging as alcohol & drug abuse counseling, audiology, biotechnology, computer & data processing, CAD, cosmetology, electrical technology, fashion design, forensics, graphic arts, health information technology, interior design, law enforcement & criminal justice, paralegal studies, robotics, travel & tourism, veterinary assisting, and dozens more equally varied areas of study.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: Varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.