Research Databases A - Z
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Individual Resources in Alphabetical Order
A-AL | AM-AZ | B | C-D | E | F-H | I-L | M | N-O | P-PR | PS-Q | R-T | U-Z
The St. Mary's College of Maryland Library subscribes to many online journals and databases that include indexes, abstracts or full text resources. These licensed resources are intended for educational use by St. Mary’s College of Maryland students, faculty, and staff and may only be used through networked computers on the SMCM campus. If you have any questions about how to use these databases, or about which databases are appropriate for your topic, please see a reference librarian.
ABI/Inform Global -- (Requires "cookie" acceptance. To see all choices "click" on "Collections" - you can choose individual newspapers or multiple titles/collections for searching.)
Contents: use to "..explore and understand business research topics. Search nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles. Now includes The Wall Street Journal."
ABI/Inform Global / with the Wall Street Journal, New York Times East Coast Late Edition (including Book Review & Magazine), Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, and Baltimore Sun, and Hoover's Company Records (ProQuest)
Scope: The current section of ABI/Inform starts in 1971. Newpaper coverage with start of coverage dates follow - the degree of full-text varies over time, with more recent years generally providing complete coverage. WSJ, 1984; NYT, 1980; CSM, 1988; BS, varies; WP, 1987
Academic Search Premier / (EbscoHost) -- some full text - (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 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. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost."
Scope: dates vary by journal
Access NewspaperARCHIVE / (NewspaperARCHIVE.com)
Contents: "Access NewspaperARCHIVE contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s. ... Use the archive to view, save and print full-page newspapers from around the world."
Accessible Archives (Accessible Archives, Inc.) -- with full text
Contents: The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800; The Civil War: a Newspaper Perspective, 1860-1865; African American Newspapers, the Nineteenth Century.
ACM Digital Library -- a vast collection of citations and full text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings
African American Newspapers, the Nineteenth Century / (Accessible Archives, Inc. )
Contents: This full-text database is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. They also contain large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.
AgeLine -- provided by AARP (public web access)
Contents: Records on every major agricultural subject, covers 5000 periodicals / National Agricultural Library (no full text).
Scope: starts in 1970.
AGRICOLA (public web access)
Alternative Press Index & Alternative Press Index Archive / (FirstSearch)
Contents: Indexes alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines.
Scope: Nearly 300 Publications
America: History and Life (EbscoHost)
Contents: Index and abstracts providing historical coverage of the United States and Canada.
Scope: Prehistory to the present.
American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies / (EbscoHost) -- some full text - (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "American Bibliography of Slavic & Eastern European Studies (ABSEES), produced by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, provides information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Coverage for ABSEES ranges from 1939-present."
The American Chemical Society / Journals (current and archive backfile, excludes e-journal only publications).
American Periodical Series Online, 1741-1900 (ProQuest)
Contents: "With more than 1,000 retrospective titles, APS Online is the definitive Web resource for the journalism that both shaped and reflected U.S. history in its early days."
Contents: The Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals in the The Anthropology Library at the British Museum (incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute library)
Scope: 1957+
Contents: Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public. This includes a complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003 plus current issues for 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications.
Contents: Art Abstracts, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for more than 450 international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins."
Scope: 1984 to the present.
Arts and Humanities Search / (FirstSearch)
Contents: a citation index for articles in the humanities (you can search to see who has cited an article or book in their own work).
Scope: 1980 forward.
Contents: "Asia-Studies Full-text Online is the premier database for the study of modern Asia-Pacific. As the exclusive licensee for the region’s most prestigious research institutions, Asia-Studies.com brings together thousands of full-text reports covering 53 countries* on a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues."
ATLA Religion Index/ (EbscoHost)
Contents: Provides abstracts and indexing for articles, essays, and book reviews in over 1550 journals and multi-author works dealing with religious and theological scholarship. International in scope and language coverage. Covers all types of religions and a wide range of academic areas including anthropology, philosophy, business, psychology, history, religion, law, sociology, medicine, and theology.
Scope: 1949 forward with selected records going back to 1818.
Contents: A site about contemporary authors whose books explore all aspects of teenage life.
Scope: Information on approximately 50 authors writing for young adults.
The Sun, daily newspaper from Baltimore, Maryland.
Scope: Varies
The Berkeley Electronic Press Journals (bejournals) -- Titles in economics, law, and political science.
Biological Abstracts 1969-present / (EbscoHost)
Contents: "Biological Abstracts®, produced by BIOSIS, is a complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally. This database contains nearly 7.7 million archival records from as far back as 1969, with more than 370,000 citations added each year."
Scope: from 1969 to the present
BioMed Central -- Electronic journals in the biological and medical sciences. (public web access).
BioOne® -- Electronic bioscience journals. Full content for SMCM users. (public web access provides searching, abstracts, and some article access).
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online
Contents: definitions and explanations of the key concepts with both classical sociology and contemporary developments in the field. In print this encyclopedia is eleven volumes.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle online, 1841-1902 -- (public web access)
Business Source Premier / (EbscoHost) / (MDL) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "..providing the full text for more than 8,800 serials. Business Source Premier provides full text back to 1965 and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost." For company profiles, industry profiles, country reports, and market research reports, you may want to use the Enhanced Business Searching Interface
Christian Science Monitor (ProQuest)
Contents: A major daily newspaper covering national and international news and noted for unbiased, concise, and comprehensive coverage.
Scope: 1988 - current
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Contents: The Chronicle of Higher Education is a highly respected news and information source for those in academia. It provides information on all facets of higher education in the United States, Canada, and abroad, with reference lists of relevant research, books, seminars, workshops, fellowships, and grants; for senior administrative, business, and academic officers. Full-text covered is included back to 1995.
The Chronicle of Higher Education is also available through LexisNexis Academic, Academic Search Premier, or Masterfile Premier.
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online -- some full text
Contents: current news, working papers, conference proceedings, journal article abstracts, policy briefs and economic indicators, etc.
Scope: "..a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on.."
The Civil War, A Newspaper Perspective / (Accessible Archives, Inc. )
Contents: This database contains the full text of major articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865.
Clase/Periodica / (FirstSearch)
Contents: Clase indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. Periodica covers journals specializing in science and technology. To limit results to English language items, use "ingles" as "Language Phrase".
Scope: Clase, 1975+, Periodica, 1978+
Collection of Archaeology. See eHRAF Collection of Archaeology below.
Collection of Ethnography. See eHRAF Collection of Ethnography below.
Contemporary Women's Issues / (FirstSearch) -- full text
Contents: full text of newsletters, research reports, government agency reports, fact sheets, etc., on women . Multidisciplinary and international.
Scope: 1992 forward.
CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition / (Congressional Quarterly) -- full text
Contents:
Scope: 1972 forward.
CQ Weekly / (Congressional Quarterly) -- full text
Contents: "The CQ news team - by far the largest on Capitol Hill, with more than 100 reporters, editors and researchers - covers virtually every act of Congress, delivering nonpartisan news and analysis ..."
Scope: 1983 forward.
CQ Researcher / (Congressional Quarterly) -- full text
Contents: CQ Researcher provides "in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year.."
Scope: 1991 forward.
Daoist Studies (public web access)
Contents: "The Daoist Studies website contains scholarly information about Daoism, including books on Daoism, conferences, scholars, a bibliography and general resources for learning about Daoism."
Dissertation Abstracts / (FirstSearch)
Contents: information about doctoral dissertations and some master's theses. These are not always very easy for us to get for people.
Scope: 1861 forward.
Documenting the American South (public web access)
Contents: "Primary resources for the study of southern history, literature, and culture." UNC, Chapel Hill
Early English Books Online -- 1475 forward, with 125,000 individual titles
Ebsco Animals / (EbscoHost) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals."
Contents: citations from articles in journals and some books in economics, with more than 735,000 records.
Scope: 1969 forward.
Contents: a cross-cultural database that currently contains nearly 60,000 pages of information on the world's prehistory. This unique, annually-growing eHRAF database is organized by archaeological traditions and the full-text sources are all subject-indexed to the paragraph level.
Contents: a cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.
EJS E-Journals -- (may require "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: Currently provides access to indexing and abstracting to over 8000 journals. Some of these titles which are subscribed to in print by SMCM may provide free full-text online, though the majority of titles will either be restricted access or else require "pay-per-view".
Encyclopedia Judaica / (Gale)
Contents: "The Encyclopedia Judaica "features more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists."
Contents: "The English Short-Title Catalog (ESTC) is a vast database designed to include a bibliographic record, with holdings, of every surviving copy of letterpress produced in England or any of its dependencies, in any language, worldwide, from 1473-1800."
ERIC / (EbscoHost) / (MDL) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals."
Scope: 1966 forward.
ERIC (public web access)
Includes many ERIC Documents
ERIC Digests (public web access)
Contents: "short reports (1,000 - 1,500 words) on topics of prime current interest in education .. produced by the 16 subject-specialized ERIC Clearinghouses, and reviewed by experts and content specialists in the field."
Scope: 1992 forward.
Contents: "Faculty of 1000 Biology is the next generation literature awareness tool. It is a revolutionary new online research service that will comprehensively and systematically highlight and review the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers."
Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text / (EbscoHost)
Contents: Film & Television Literature Index is a comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. It has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
Find-Articles.com (public web access).
Front for the Mathematics ArXiv -- UC Davis front end for the mathematics arXiv maintained at Cornell University (public web access).
The Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online, 1543-1945 -- books and periodicals. “The Gerritsen curators gathered more than 4,700 publications from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, dating from 1543 through 1945."
Google Scholar (To show access links in the search results for SMCM use the "Scholar Preferences" option and enter "St. Mary's College of Maryland" in the "Library Links" box.)
Contents: Government Printing Office. Information about government publications of all types.
Scope: 1976 forward.
GreenFILE / (EbscoHost) -- some full text - (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records."
Grove Music Online (Oxford University Press)
Contents: ".. comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002). Articles that have been updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen."
Health Source: Consumer Edition / (EbscoHost) / (MDL) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: ".. collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis."
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition / (EbscoHost) / (MDL) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis."
HighWire Press -- ".. one of the two largest archives of free full-text science on Earth!" - Stanford Univ. - (public web access).
Historical Abstracts (EbscoHost)
Contents: Index and abstracts providing historical coverage of the world (excluding the United States and Canada).
Scope: 1450 to the present.
Hoover's Company Records (ProQuest)
Contents: Find up to date proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover's, widely recognized as a leading provider of corporate data, delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more.
Scope: Varies
Humanities International Complete / (EbscoHost)
Contents: Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (over 2,000 titles and 2 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. Humanities International Complete is an essential collection for libraries looking to provide comprehensive coverage of the humanities with full text content..
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) (some open access areas)
Contents: Access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data. Includes information on topics including the following: crime, international conflict, mass political attitudes, census data, health care, etc.
Scope: Depends on subject area.
Index of Articles on Jewish Studies (RAMBI) (public web access)
Contents: "a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel."
Ingenta (public web access)
Contents: tables of contents of over 17,000 journals and magazines covering all subjects. Some abstracting.
Scope: 1989 forward
Contents: "providing abstracts and indexing to the world's scientific and technical literature. Containing over 8 million records, Inspec provides coverage from over 3,400 journals, 2,000 conference proceedings as well as numerous books, dissertations and reports. This database is produced by the IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers)."
Scope: 1969 forward.
Contents: Titles in the Arts & Sciences available in full text. Extensive archival material.
LexisNexis Academic (formerly Academic Universe/LexisNexis)
Contents: information about current news, business, company financial overviews, medicine, government, law, and general reference. There is some full text. You must select a broad subject category to search.
Scope: dates vary depending on the category you choose.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts / (EbscoHost)
Contents: "Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more."
Scope: Varies, as far back as the mid-1960s.
MagPortal.com® - search for magazine articles from free sources online (public web access).
MAS Ultra - School Edition / (EbscoHost) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 700 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost."
MasterFILE Premier / (EbscoHost) -- some full text (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
MathSciNet from the American Mathematical Society
Scope: a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940.
Medline / (EbscoHost) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "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, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals."
Medline with Full Text / (EbscoHost) -- some full text - (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "MEDLINE with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,350 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than 1,330 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE, and of those, 515 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search, Health Source or Biomedical Reference Collection."
Medline/PubMed, NLM Home Page (National Library of Medicine, public web access)
Contents: citations to articles from all types of medical journals; specialized databases such as AIDSLINE and TOXLINE.
Scope: 1966 forward plus ongoing retrospective additions.
Military and Government Collection / (EbscoHost) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles."
MLA Directory of Periodicals / (EbscoHost) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines."
MLA International Bibliography / (EbscoHost) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and 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 almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text."
Scope: 1926 forward.
The Nation Archive / (EbscoHost) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "The Nation is America’s oldest weekly magazine and one if its premier journals of opinion since its inception in 1865. The Nation has long been regarded as one of the country’s definitive journalistic voices of writing on politics, culture, books, and the arts, and continues to stand as the independent voice in American journalism."
Scope: "The Nation Archive contains indexing, abstracting, and full text for the complete archive of The Nation, beginning with its first issue in 1865 all the way to the present."
National Newspapers from ProQuest: includes the Wall Street Journal, New York Times East Coast Late Edition (including Book Review & Magazine), Washington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor. (To include the Baltimore Sun, select it from the list of all ProQuest databases. Requires "cookie" acceptance.)
Scope: Newpaper coverage with start of coverage dates follow - the degree of full-text varies over time, with more recent years generally providing complete coverage. WSJ, 1984; NYT, 1980; CSM, 1988; BS, varies; WP, 1987
Naxos Music Library -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: Classical music recordings.
Contents: Full-text coverage of the US newspaper of record. Offers superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts.
Scope: 1980-Current
New York Times 1851-2004 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Contents: The New York Times (1851-2004) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Open Science Directory -- search tool for open source journals and journals in special programs for developing countries. Each program has its own website and/or search engine. (public web access)
Contents: Public Affairs Information Service. Citations to articles in journals, books, government reports,etc., on all aspects of public policy (international).
Scope: 1972 forward.
The Pennsylvania Gazette / (Accessible Archives, Inc. )
Contents: Considered The New York Times of the 18th century, this full-text database provides the reader with a first hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods.
Philosopher's Index / (EbscoHost) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "..a current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. The Philosopher’s Index, considered the most thorough index of journal literature on the subject, features author-written abstracts covering scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews. The Philosopher's Index contains research published since 1940 including nearly 570 journals from 43 countries with content representing a variety of languages."
Primary Search / (EbscoHost) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost."
Professional Development Collection / (EbscoHost) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world."
Project Gutenberg -- (public web access)
Contents: Project Muse provides content from journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Please note that we do not have full-text access to all titles in the database. When using the "Search" function, you have the option to limit your search to titles for which SMCM has full-text access.
PsycArticles / (EbscoHost) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "contains more than 45,000 articles from 57 journals - 46 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal." All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.
Scope: Coverge spans 1985 forward.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection / (EbscoHost) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost."
PsycINFO 1887 - Current / (EbscoHost) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "PsycINFO , from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from approximately 2,050 periodicals in more than 25 languages."
Scope: 1887 forward.
Public Library of Science -- Full text science research articles (free web access).
PubMed Central -- Full text life science research articles (public web access).
RAMBI - see "Index of Articles on Jewish Studies" above.
ReferenceUniverse (Paratext)
Contents: "Over 12 million authoritative citations to more than 28,000 specialized print and electronic encyclopedias."
Regional Business News / (EbscoHost) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis."
ResearchIndex (Formerly CiteSeer) (public web access)
Contents: citations and documents in the sciences
Resources for College Libraries (RCL) (Bowker)
Contents: "The core list features 65,000 titles in 58 curriculum-specific subjects. Titles have been selected for ... by more than 300 subject specialists and bibliographers."
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature / (EbscoHost) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale) Abstracts of Music Literature published by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, New York, contains records in over 100 languages; entries include original-language titles, title translations in English, full bibliographic information, and abstracts in English, as well as author, journal, and in-depth subject indexes. RILM currently contains nearly 500,000 entries."
The Royal Society of Chemistry / Online access to journals subscribed to by SMCM library
Science Resource Center / (Gale)
Contents: Science Resource Center has 2,500,000 documents related to science and mathematics from basic to advanced levels.
SciFinder Scholar (no Web Access, read on)
Contents: This database provides research materials for chemistry and related disciplines. It has content from Chemical Abstract and Medline for literature searching, as well as the ability to search by chemical structure. Because this database is not available through the web, you need to access it from computers with the SciFinder program installed. These include most of the public access computers in the library, the computer lab in Schaefer Hall, and the computers of some Biology and Chemistry Departments faculty. If you would like to have the SciFinder program client software installed on your computer and you are a member of the St. Mary's College community, please contact Rob Sloan by e-mail or by telephone at 240-895-4268.
Scirus (public web access)
Contents: "Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 250 million science-specific Web pages.."
Social Sciences Abstracts / (EbscoHost)
Contents: "Social Sciences Abstracts, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, contains indexing for 620 publications on a wide range of interdisciplinary fields such as addiction studies, anthropology, corrections, economics, gender studies, gerontology, minority studies, political sciences, psychology, sociology, and more."
Scope: Indexing goes back to 1983 and abstracts back to 1994.
SocINDEX with Full Text / (EbscoHost)
Contents: "SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,600,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 253 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers."
Teacher Reference Center / (EbscoHost)
Contents: Provides indexing and abstracts for over 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional educators.
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest)
Contents: The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news.
Scope: 1984 - Current
Contents: Coverage of national, international, and local news. The Washington Post is renowned for its political reporting, editorials and columnists.
Scope: 1987-Current
World News Digest from Facts on File
Contents: ".. 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."
Contents: combined list of entire library holdings for all 40,000 libraries in the OCLC consortium. Good for searching for books on a topic or to get information about a book (like the publication date).
Scope: updated daily.
