Resources for Academic Research
Academic Search Premier includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of over 7,000 active global OA journals. Once validated and certified for inclusion, these OA journals are treated with high-quality subject indexing and sophisticated, precise/accurate full-text linking. In addition, The Academic Search Video Collection contains more than 6,700 videos from The Washington Post along with content from other reputable providers. Ranging from in-depth news reports to issue-focused segments across disciplines, the collection offers timely, credible, and professionally produced content to support student research.
Recent news and analysis from
- Bloomberg, Forbes, Fortune, and other business publications
- Academic journals and conference proceedings
- Trade publications
Company and industry profiles and surveys from private and government sources.
Find biographical information on more than 149,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Sketches typically include personal information, contact information, career history, writings, biographical and critical sources, authors’ comments, and informative essays about their lives and work. Search by author’s name or book title and optionally refine the search using dates, publisher, or other details.
Data Axle from Reference Solutions
For the business professional or job seeker, Data Axle provides instant, real-time access to in-depth information on U.S. and Canadian businesses. Information includes names and contact information for executives, financial performance, and significant corporate relationships. Newly formed businesses and historical (closed) businesses are separated for easy search and analysis. Lifestyle profiles for over 320 million American individuals are also available. White pages support the creation of postal mailing lists by zip code, town, state, or even street. Data Axle provides job listings for government job opportunities and links to independent job boards for non-government job openings.
For consumers, search U.S. and Canadian white pages to find postal addresses and phone numbers for friends and relatives. Contact information for doctors and other healthcare professionals are separated into their own data set.
Tens of thousands of (mostly) non-fiction, (mostly) academic e-books. Titles come from industry-leading publishers of academic source material. Depending on the publisher, books can be downloaded as PDFs, read online, or both. Some publishers limit the number of pages that can be downloaded. Books are available in over a dozen languages and a few children’s books are also available.
A top-notch, one-stop database that covers over 4,600 journals and newspapers with expansive search capabilities. Full text for 1/3 of citations. Web-based interface, updated daily. Courtesy of the New Jersey State Library.
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. It provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
GreenFILE covers the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
Subjects include
- Global climate change
- Green building
- Pollution
- Sustainable agriculture
- Renewable energy
- Recycling
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition is a trusted full-text database covering nursing and allied health topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health nursing, nursing management, medical law, and more.
It provides nurses, allied health professionals, researchers, and medical educators with access to scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It includes indexing, abstracts, and full-text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals, many of which are peer-reviewed.
Legal Information Reference Center
Legal Information Reference Center contains hundreds of full-text publications and thousands of legal forms, with more content being added on a regular basis. Access the latest editions of titles from Nolo Press on divorce, how to be a landlord, tenant rights, small claim courts, business formation, and other topics important to consumers. Download legal forms for patent filings, wills and living trusts, bankruptcy, and almost any other legal topic you can imagine.
Library, Information Science, & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
LISTA indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
A comprehensive literary reference database, providing a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.
For those who like to browse large data sets or really get into the weeds on a search, MasterFILE Elite is the place to start. MasterFILE Elite brings together all the data in most of the other databases. It provides full text for magazines and publications covering many general interest topics including business, health, education, general science and multicultural issues. It also includes an image collection of more than 2 million photos, maps and flags.
Military & Government Collection
EBSCO’s Military & Government Collection features full-text journals and periodicals relevant to all branches of the military and government. Content is designed to help you stay up-to-date on current news and events. It includes more than 270 full-text journals and periodicals, indexing and abstracts for 440 journals and periodicals, and searchable pdfs. Subjects include aviation and aircraft, diplomacy and international relations, military history and science, military policy, military technology, peace and conflict studies, politics and government, and more.
Ebsco Open Dissertations (previously “American Doctoral Dissertations”), is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Created with the generous support of the H.W. Wilson Foundation and the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston, it incorporates EBSCO’s previously released American Doctoral Dissertations, and features additional dissertation metadata contributed by select colleges and universities from around the world. Spanning from the early 20th century to the present, this database will continue to grow through regular updates and new partnerships with graduate degree-granting institutions.
Referencia Latina es una base de datos integral en español que ofrece acceso a una amplia variedad de fuentes de informacion, incluyendo mas de 49,000 articulos de enciclopedia. Muchas de estas entradas estan disponibles como imagenes digitalizadas de las publicaciones impresas originales.
Referencia Latina, a comprehensive Spanish-language database, offers content from a variety of sources including 49,000 encyclopedia entries. Many are scanned images of original print publications.
