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. Newspaper 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 Complete / (EbscoHost) -- substantial full text - (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "Academic Search Complete is ... [a] multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals."
Scope: dates vary by journal
AccessNewspaperARCHIVE - see Newspaper ArchiveAccessible Archives (Accessible Archives, Inc.) -- with full text
Contents: Primary source material from 18th & 19th century periodicals, including The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800; The Civil War: a Newspaper Perspective, 1860-1865; African American Newspapers, the Nineteenth Century.
Contents: a 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.
AGRICOLA (public web access)Contents: Records on every major agricultural subject, covers 5000 periodicals / National Agricultural Library (no full text).
Scope: starts in 1970.
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
Contents: 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."
America's Historical Newspapers: Early American Newspapers Series 1, 1690-1876
Contents: "Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 offers 350,000 fully searchable issues from over 710 historical American newspapers. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham’s “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820” and other authoritative bibliographies."
Contents: Literature reviews from the Annual Review series in the biomedical, life, physical and social sciences. For all titles full-text is available for volumes from volume 1 (starting dates vary) except for the most current five years. The moving wall adds full-text access annually. Current full-text online is available for the Annual Review of Sociology, Annual Review of Anthropology, and Annual Review of Computer Science. Check the SMCM catalog for other recent content available in print.
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.
ArchiveGrid (OCLC) / (FirstSearch)
Contents: "Provides online access to nearly a million descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide." "ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world."
Art & Architecture Complete / (EbscoHost)Contents: "Art & Architecture Complete provides full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and more than 220 books. In addition, this database offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 780 academic journals, magazines and trade publications, as well as for over 230 books. Art & Architecture Complete also provides selective coverage for 70 additional publications and an Image Collection of over 63,000 images provided by Picture Desk and others."
Contents: a citation index for articles from the contents pages of 16,000 plus journals
Scope: 1990 forward.
ARTstorContents: ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
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.
The Sun, daily newspaper from Baltimore, Maryland.
Scope: Varies
Biological Abstracts 1969-present / (EbscoHost) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)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
Contents: Electronic journals in the biological and medical sciences. (public web access).
Contents: Electronic bioscience journals. Full content for SMCM users. (public web access provides searching, abstracts, and some article access).
Contents: "BNA Online provides comprehensive life histories for each of the 716+ species of birds breeding in the USA (including Hawaii) and Canada." From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the American Ornithologists' Union.
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.
Britannica - see Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle online, 1841-1902 -- (public web access)
Business Source Complete / (EbscoHost) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "Business Source Complete ... [provides a] collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals."
Contents: "OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online — is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms."
Contents: "Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education."
Scope: 1988 to present
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+
Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR)
Collection of Archaeology - see eHRAF Collection of Archaeology
Collection of Ethnography - see eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) - see Literature Criticism Online (Gale)
CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition - see Historic Documents Online DatabaseCQ 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.
Credo ReferenceContents: "Credo Reference is an online reference collection, and it features full-text content from hundreds of reference books covering a broad range of subjects."
Data: the World Bank see World Bank: Data
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online / (Gale)
Contents: "Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres."
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 American Newspapers, Series 1, see America's Historical Newspapers
Contents: "Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War."
Contents: "Information about all online electronic books cataloged by OCLC members, including all subjects."
eBooks on EBSCOhost (eBook Collection) / (EbscoHost) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Content: Search and view the full text of selected eBooks. Includes numerous subject encyclopedias and dictionaries.
ECO (Electronic Collections Online) / (FirstSearch)Contents: Citation information from over 5000 scholarly journals. No abstracting or full text.Scope: 1995 forward.
Contents: citations from articles in journals and some books in economics, with more than 735,000 records.
Scope: 1969 forward.
eHRAF ArchaeologyContents: 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.
Encyclopaedia BritannicaContents: A combination of the "Encyclopedia Britannica, plus the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, and many other search tools..."
Encyclopaedia 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."
Environment Complete (Trial) / (EbscoHost) -- some full text - (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "Environment Complete contains more than 2.4 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888 (including over 1,350 active core titles) as well as more than 190 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 920 journals."
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)Contents note: Includes many ERIC Documents
European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 / (EbscoHost) / (MDL) -- (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "EBSCO Publishing, in cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, has created this resource from “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750,” the authoritative bibliography that is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750."
F-H
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 at BNet (public web access)
Contents: BNet Business Network, multi-disciplinary. Combination of free and "premium" articles.
Front for the arXiv (public web access)
Contents: UC Davis front end for the mathematics arXiv maintained at Cornell University. Computer science, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, physics, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia / (EbscoHost)
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Contents: Gale Virtual Reference Library offers eleven reference sources.
The Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online, 1543-1945
Contents: 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.)
GPO (Gov't Printing Office) Monthly Catalog / (FirstSearch)
Contents: Covers all types of U.S. government documents including Congressional, judicial, and administrative areas.
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 (public web access).
Contents: ".. the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth!" - Stanford Univ.
Historic Documents Online Database (CQ)
Contents:documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.
Scope: 1972 forward
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 - see RAMBI
Index Islamicus / (EbscoHost) -- some full text - (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "Index Islamicus is an international bibliography of publications in European languages covering all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world, including history, beliefs, societies, cultures, languages, and literature. The database includes material published by Western orientalists, social scientists and Muslims and contains indexing for 3,470 titles with coverage dating back to 1906. Index Islamicus is produced by Brill Academic Publishers."
Contents: Search for article content in over 15,500 publications. Free abstracts. Contains some full-text subscribed content.
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.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Contents: Abstracts only, see Reference H41 .I58 2001 for print version with articles.
IPA SourceContents: "Online since 2003, IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts."
Contents: Titles in the Arts & Sciences available in full text. Extensive archival material.
Contents: "JSTOR Plant Science is an online environment that brings together content, tools, and people interested in plant science. It provides access to foundational content vital to plant science – plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials, making them widely accessible to the plant science community as well as to researchers in other fields and to the public."LexisNexis Academic (A short tutorial on the interface is available here.)
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.
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (LC) - see Literature Criticism Online (Gale)
Literature Criticism Online (Gale)
Contents: Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (LC), Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (NCLC), Poetry Criticism (PC), Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC)
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
Contents: a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature
Scope: 1940+
Medline with Full Text / (EbscoHost) -- some full text - (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 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 / (FirstSearch) -- no full text
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: Newspaper 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.
New York Times 1851-2006 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)Contents: The New York Times (1851-2006) 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.
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."
Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (NCLC) - see Literature Criticism Online (Gale)
Contents: OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. We provide access to these digital resources by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records), using.. (the) Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
Scope: "OAIster currently provides access to 22,742,996 records from 1157 contributors."
OCLC (Online Library Computer Center) Electronic Books (Ebooks) see EbooksOCLC Electronic Collections Online (ECO) see ECO (Electronic Collections Online)
OCLC PapersFirst - see PapersFirstOCLC Proceedings - see ProceedingsFirst
Oxford Digital Reference Shelf
Contents: Scholarly reference titles in the Arts, Literature and Language, History and Culture, Science, Social Sciences, and Law. To search in any individual resource, click on the linked title. Note we do not have access to the "Continuum" titles nor to the "Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages." Content of all available titles can also be searched through the Oxford Reference Online web site listed below.
Oxford Music Online - see Grove Music Online
Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection
Contents: Oxford dictionaries including bi-lingual dictionaries, "companion" subject volumes across many disciplines, plus access to "Digital Reference Shelf" titles (as linked directly above) in a single search interface.
PapersFirst / (FirstSearch)Contents: " OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide." "Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre."
Scope: 1993 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."
Poetry Criticism (PC) - see Literature Criticism Online (Gale)
Political Science Complete / (EbscoHost) -- some full text - (requires "cookie" acceptance)
Contents: "Political Science Complete (PSC) provides full text for more than 520 journals, and indexing and abstracts for over 2,900 titles, (including top-ranked scholarly journals), many of which are unique to the product. The database also features over 340 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 36,000 full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association."
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."
ProceedingsFirst / (FirstSearch)
Contents: "OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings." "Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre."
Scope: 1993 forward.
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)
Project Muse Premium Collection
Contents: Project Muse provides content from journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, including "current content from over 400 titles representing nearly 100 not-for-profit publishers." 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: Coverage 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 (public web access)Contents: Full text science research articles.
PubMed / NLM Home Page (National Library of Medicine, public web access. See also MedLine.)
Contents: citations to articles from all types of medical journals; specialized databases such as AIDSLINE and TOXLINE.
Scope: 1966 forward plus ongoing retrospective additions.
PubMed Central -- Full text life science research articles (public web access).
RAMBI -- (public web access)
Contents: "a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel."
Readers' Guide Retrospective (From Wilson) / (EbscoHost)
Contents: Indexing the popular press to identify information on multiple subjects related to U. S. culture and history.
Scope: 1890-1982
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."
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
Contents: Online access to journals subscribed to by SMCM library
SciFinder ScholarContents: 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. To access this database you must first register from on campus. As part of the registration process, you must have an e-mail address with ".smcm.edu" as the domain. After registration you will be able to access SciFinder through Research Port from on campus, or from off campus with the requisite authentication.
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 Science Abstracts / (EbscoHost)Contents: "Social Sciences Abstracts™ provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language journals published in the U.S. and elsewhere, with abstracting and indexing of over 625 periodicals as far back as 1983, nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed. Social Sciences Abstracts™ covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences."
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.
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) - see Literature Criticism Online (Gale)
Contents: "Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs."
World Bank: Data (public web access)
Contents: The Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 indicators from World Bank data sources.
WorldCat / (FirstSearch)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.
WorldCat Dissertations / (FirstSearch)
Contents: Access to the WorldCat catalog records for "All dissertations, theses and published material based on theses cataloged by OCLC members, including all subjects.
