Research Guides: A-Z Resource List: Databases by Subject

Subjects A-H

Art & Images

Business

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window Access to full-text scholarly journals in the area of business as well as financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.

Communication Studies

Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window Access to full-text scholarly journals and other research resources in the field of communication and mass media studies.

Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window Access to full-text access to academic and professional research resources in the areas of administration of justice, correctional science and related fields.
Police Quarterly This link opens in a new window

Current Issues & Controversies

Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window Extensive list of sample topics on front page leading to gateways of full-text resources including: book chapters, viewpoint essays, news, magazine and academic journal articles as well as some statistical data. Watch the How to Use Opposing Viewpoints video.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window Series of reports on current and controversial issues originally designed to provide background information on a topic for journalists. Good resource for a quick and thorough overview of a topic. Reports also include a chronology/timeline which can be valuable resource for a quick historical overview of an issue.

Education & Career

ERIC This link opens in a new window Access to education literature and resources including academic journal articles, conference papers, and more. Limited full-text.
Vocational Studies Complete This link opens in a new window Provides full-text coverage for trade and industry-related magazines and journals. Useful for finding career information.

Fashion

Bloomsbury Fashion Central: Fairchild Books Library This link opens in a new window

History, Politics & Government

America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window Wide variety of resources in American history. Includes some primary source material.
Country Watch This link opens in a new window Provides country-specific information on each of the countries of the world in the areas of geography, news, politics, economics and culture.
Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new window Includes pamphlets, and magazine and journal articles, many full-text, relating to the military and government fields. Useful for papers on foreign policy and military topics.
Political Science Complete This link opens in a new window Includes magazine and academic journal articles in the field of politics and government, many relevant to the history field.

Subjects: H-Z

Hotel & Food Services

Hospitality & Tourism Complete This link opens in a new window Covers scholarly research and industry news relating to field of hospitality and related disciplines.

Journalism

AP Stylebook This link opens in a new window

Literature

Literary Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new window Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors. Excellent for critiques on contemporary authors. Most useful for contemporary U.S. authors. There's a great timeline useful for assignments outside of the English/Literature field as well. Watch the How to Use Literary Reference Center Plus video.

Multidisciplinary

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Full-text access to articles out of academic journals as well as general interest magazines with excellent coverage in a wide variety of disciplines. Watch the How To Use Academic Search Complete video.
Films On Demand This link opens in a new window Includes access to over 25,000 videos in a wide variety of disciplines.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Access to full-text scholarly journals from a wide variety of fields. Contains the full archive of most journals, except for the current 1-5 years. Watch the How to Use JSTOR video.
Newspapers - US Major Dailies This link opens in a new window Full-text access to The New York Times (1980-present), Wall Street Journal (1984-present)Washington Post (1987-present), Los Angeles Times (1985-present), and Chicago Tribune (1985-present)
Oxford English Dictionary Online This link opens in a new window The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium containing the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
Oxford Journals-Community College Collection This link opens in a new window Access to over 50 key journals from Oxford University press covering a wide variety of disciplines.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
Access to a over 70 feature films in a wide variety of genres. Watch the How To Use Swank Digital Campus video.
Taylor & Francis Online This link opens in a new window Taylor and Francis Online provides access to articles from thousands of electronic journals, published by Taylor & Francis and its subsidiaries. Articles with green checkmark in results are full text.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window Covers life, health and physical sciences, social science and the humanities. Articles with full-text access indicated with an open lock icon.

Nursing & Health Sciences

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window Provides access to an index of magazines and journals articles in the medical disciplines. Many of the articles are available full-text.
Alt-HealthWatch This link opens in a new window Provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990, some with full text.
CINAHL Plus This link opens in a new window Provides indexing for current journals and publications in the nursing and allied health fields. Many articles are available full-text.
MedLine This link opens in a new window Contains journal citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from around the world. Limited full-text.
Ovid Nursing Community College Basic Journal Collection This link opens in a new window Full-text access to five core practitioner journals in the Nursing field including American Journal of Nursing and Nursing (201X).

Psychology & Sociology

PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window A source of full-text, peer-reviewed articles in the field of psychology.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window Contains full-text journal articles, books and monographs as well as conference papers in the field of sociology.

Science

Nature This link opens in a new window Full-text access to over 70 magazines and journals in the biological and medical sciences including Nature magazine.
Scientific American This link opens in a new window