Article Databases
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General/Multidisciplinary
- ABC-CLIO e-Book Collection: Full-text e-books, covering all academic subject areas. These are also accessible via Easley Library’s catalog.
- Academic Search Complete: A comprehensive, multidisciplinary database. Access to full text of current articles from scholarly journals, as well as magazines and newspapers.
- Article first: Index only, 1990 to present.
- Directory of Open Access Journals: Free web resource, full-text, scientific and scholarly journals.
- EBSCOhost e-Book Collection: Formerly NetLibrary; full-text e-books, covering all academic subject areas. These are also accessible via Easley Library’s catalog.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library: A collection of reference e-books in all subject areas.
- JSTOR (Journal Storage): A full-text, scholarly journal collection consisting of back issues (beginning approximately 2-5 years back from the current date) of journals in many different subject areas; some of the journals go back to the 1800s.
- Newspaper Source Plus: Provides cover-to-cover full text for 149 national and international newspapers and selective full text for more than 410 U.S. newspapers. The database also contains full-text television and radio news transcripts.
- Oxford English Dictionary: The 22-Volume 2nd Ed. (definitions, word origins, and quotations).
- PapersFirst: Index only, papers presented at conferences worldwide.
- ProceedingsFirst: Index only, worldwide conference proceedings.
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Database: The world’s most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text.
- ProQuest General Search
- World Catalog: Catalog of millions of books from libraries worldwide.
Business
- Business Insights: Includes full-text articles, company profiles, and financial reports. (Formerly Business & Company Resource Center)
- Business Source Complete: A full-text, scholarly, business database.
- Factiva: Full-text global news and business.
- Hospitality and Tourism Complete: Covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism.
- JSTOR (Journal Storage): A full-text, scholarly journal collection consisting of back issues (beginning approximately 2-5 years back from the current date) of journals in many different subject areas; some of the journals go back to the 1800s.
- Mergent Online: Provides tools for finding and organizing information about companies and industries.
Christian Studies
- Academic Search Complete: A comprehensive, multidisciplinary database. Access to full-text of current articles from scholarly journals, as well as magazines and newspapers.
- ATLA Religion Plus Serials (ATLAS): ATLA (American Theological Library Association) combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with their online collection of major religion and theology journals.
- Humanities International Complete: Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books, and other published sources from around the world. This database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records), plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 890 journals.
- JSTOR (Journal Storage): A full-text, scholarly journal collection consisting of back issues (beginning approximately 2-5 years back from the current date) of journals in many different subject areas; some of the journals go back to the 1800s.
- Religion and Philosophy Collection: Provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy, and the history of philosophy.
Criminal Justice, Public Safety, & Law
- Academic Search Complete: A comprehensive, multidisciplinary database. Access to full-text of current articles from scholarly journals, as well as magazines and newspapers.
- Homeland Security Today: A website that provides free access to articles and many other resources.
- JSTOR (Journal Storage): A full-text, scholarly journal collection consisting of back issues (beginning approximately 2-5 years back from the current date) of journals in many different subject areas; some of the journals go back to the 1800s.
- Legal Collection: This database contains full text for more than 250 of the world’s most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts, and trends of the legal world.
- Military and Government Collection: 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 pertinent content.
- ProQuest Criminal Justice: Formerly Criminal Justice Periodicals Index; focuses on U.S. and international criminal justice journals. Indexes and provides full text for many titles, including 286 scholarly journals, 128 trade journals, plus several magazines and reports from 1981 to the present.
Education
- Academic Search Complete: A comprehensive, multidisciplinary database. Access to full-text of current articles from scholarly journals, as well as magazines and newspapers.
- ERIC: Educational Resource Information Center, the world’s largest source of education information, contains more than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. Some full-text content. Use the thesaurus to know what search terms to use.
- Education Research Complete: Topics covered include all levels of education, from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,840 journals, as well as full text for more than 950 journals, 81 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.
- JSTOR (Journal Storage): A full-text, scholarly journal collection consisting of back issues (beginning approximately 2-5 years back from the current date) of journals in many different subject areas; some of the journals go back to the 1800s.
- LISTA: Contains extensive abstracting and indexing content from over 600 of the library science industry’s most well-known journals and periodicals.
- Teacher Reference Center: Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines.
Exercise, Sport Science & Health
- Academic Search Complete: A comprehensive, multidisciplinary database. Access to full-text of current articles from scholarly journals, as well as magazines and newspapers.
- Cochrane Library Database: The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration.
- Alternative HealthWatch: Provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full-text going back as far as 1990.
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text: A research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature with full-text of more than 770 journals. Includes Evidence-based Care Sheets and Quick Lessons.
- Consumer Health Complete: EBSCO’s interface designed for the everyday consumer of health care information. CHC provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: Provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
- Health Source: Consumer Edition: This database is the richest 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. Provides access to nearly 80 full-text consumer health magazines.
- JSTOR (Journal Storage): A full-text, scholarly journal collection consisting of back issues (beginning approximately 2-5 years back from the current date) of journals in many different subject areas; some of the journals go back to the 1800s.
- Medline with Full Text: This database provides full-text for many of the most-used biomedical and health journals indexed in MEDLINE. Many journals are available with no embargo, allowing doctors, nurses, health professionals, and researchers to access the information as soon as it is published.
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection: Provides coverage of more than 550 full-text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. The database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
- PsycINFO: Index only, from the American Psychological Association. Contains over two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines. Dates as far back as 1840.
- PubMed Central: The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
- SPORTDiscus: Comprehensive source for sport and sport medicine journals.
Fine Arts
- Academic Search Complete: A comprehensive, multidisciplinary database. Access to full-text of current articles from scholarly journals, as well as magazines and newspapers.
- ARTStor: Digital library of over 300,000 art images and associated information. Prehistoric to contemporary, international in scope, includes architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design. To use, enable cookies, Java scripts, and disable pop-up blockers.
- Digital Library of Appalachia: Access to archival and historical images and materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. Includes reproductions of photographs, reformatted typed pages, published books, unpublished manuscripts, personal diaries and correspondence, journal and newspaper articles, musical recordings, oral history recordings and transcripts, and other related reproductions.
- Humanities International Complete: Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books, and other published sources from around the world. This database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records), plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 890 journals.
- JSTOR (Journal Storage): A full-text, scholarly journal collection consisting of back issues (beginning approximately 2-5 years back from the current date) of journals in many different subject areas; some of the journals go back to the 1800s.
- NAXOS Music Library: Listen to music online; search by composer, title, or genre. Five simultaneous users allowed, and not available from off-campus.
- Oxford Music Online: A gateway that offers users the ability to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford’s music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content. Includes the contents of Grove Music, Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
History
- Academic Search Complete: A comprehensive, multidisciplinary database. Access to full text of current articles from scholarly journals, as well as magazines and newspapers.
- American Civil War: Letters and Diaries: More than 1,000 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs to provide access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war, including what was happening at home.
- Digital Library of Appalachia: Access to archival and historical images and materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. Includes reproductions of photographs, reformatted typed pages, published books, unpublished manuscripts, personal diaries and correspondence, journal and newspaper articles, musical recordings, oral history recordings and transcripts, and other related reproductions.
- Early American Imprints: Series I: Evans, 1639-1800: This historical collection contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents, and ephemera printed in America over three centuries. These are digitized copies of original documents. Part of the Archive of Americana.
- Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment: Diaries, letters, and memoirs about encounters between peoples, cultures, and the environment of North America.
- European Views of the Americas 1493-1750: A comprehensive index to printed records about the Americas, written in Europe before 1750.
- HarpWeek: Enables you to directly experience the full-text richness and historical significance of Harper’s Weekly, America’s leading 19th century illustrated newspaper.
- Humanities International Complete: Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books, and other published sources from around the world. This database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records), plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 890 journals.
- JSTOR (Journal Storage): A full-text, scholarly journal collection consisting of back issues (beginning approximately 2-5 years back from the current date) of journals in many different subject areas; some of the journals go back to the 1800s.
- North American Women’s Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950: Diaries and letters written by women in the Colonial Period to 1950.
- Women’s Studies International: Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage spans from 1972 and earlier to the present. This database supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science and economy, public policy, international relations, arts and humanities, business, and education.
Language, Literature & Communication
- Academic Search Complete: A comprehensive, multidisciplinary database. Access to full text of current articles from scholarly journals, as well as magazines and newspapers.
- Communication and Mass Media Complete: Cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for more than 440 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 640 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for 326 journals.
- Humanities International Complete: Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books, and other published sources from around the world. This database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records), plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 890 journals.
- JSTOR (Journal Storage): A full-text, scholarly journal collection consisting of back issues (beginning approximately 2-5 years back from the current date) of journals in many different subject areas; some of the journals go back to the 1800s.
- Newspaper Source Plus: Provides cover-to-cover full text for 149 national and international newspapers and selective full text for more than 410 U.S. newspapers. The database also contains full-text television and radio news transcripts.
- MLA International Bibliography: Index only, from the Modern Language Association. Information on languages, grammar, and literature.
Nursing
- Academic Search Complete: A comprehensive, multidisciplinary database. Access to full-text of current articles from scholarly journals, as well as magazines and newspapers.
- Cochrane Library Database: The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration.
- Alternative HealthWatch: Provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full-text going back as far as 1990.
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text: A research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature with full-text of more than 770 journals. Includes Evidence-based Care Sheets and Quick Lessons.
- Consumer Health Complete: EBSCO’s interface designed for the everyday consumer of health care information. CHC provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: Provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
- Health Source: Consumer Edition: This database is the richest 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. Provides access to nearly 80 full-text consumer health magazines.
- Medline with Full Text: This database provides full-text for many of the most-used biomedical and health journals indexed in MEDLINE. Many journals are available with no embargo, allowing doctors, nurses, health professionals, and researchers to access the information as soon as it is published.
- PsycArticles – APA PsycArticles is the only collection that provides full-text access to content from 119 APA-published and affiliated journals.
- PsycINFO – Index only, from the American Psychological Association. Contains over two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines. Dates back as far as 1840.
- PsycTherapy – Streaming demonstration videos for teaching and learning psychotherapy techniques.
- PubMed Central: The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Psychology & Sociology
- Academic Search Complete: A comprehensive, multidisciplinary database. Access to full text of current articles from scholarly journals, as well as magazines and newspapers.
- JSTOR (Journal Storage): A full-text, scholarly journal collection consisting of back issues (beginning approximately 2-5 years back from the current date) of journals in many different subject areas; some of the journals go back to the 1800s.
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection: Provides coverage of more than 550 full-text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. The database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
- PsycArticles – APA PsycArticles is the only collection that provides full-text access to content from 119 APA-published and affiliated journals.
- PsycINFO – Index only, from the American Psychological Association. Contains over two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines. Dates back as far as 1840.
- Psychotherapy.net – Educational videos for Counseling and Psychotherapy.
- Women’s Studies International: Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage spans from 1972 and earlier to the present. This database supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science and economy, public policy, international relations, arts and humanities, business, and education.
Science & Technology
- Academic Search Complete: A comprehensive, multidisciplinary database. Access to full text of current articles from scholarly journals, as well as magazines and newspapers.
- Computers and Applied Sciences Complete: Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also available for more than 730 periodicals.
- Environment Complete: Offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, geography, pollution and waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,957,000 records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles, dating back to the 1940s. This includes 1,125 active core titles. The database also contains full text for more than 680 journals and 120 monographs.
- JSTOR (Journal Storage): A full-text, scholarly journal collection consisting of back issues (beginning approximately 2-5 years back from the current date) of journals in many different subject areas; some of the journals go back to the 1800s.
- LISTA: Contains extensive abstracting and indexing content from over 600 of the library science industry’s most well-known journals and periodicals.
- PubMed Central: The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
EBSCO
You can search for a specific journal, magazine, or newspaper to see if it has full-text coverage in any of our databases.