Article & Research Databases

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ABI/INFORM DatelineFull Text More >Searches "news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications."
Coverage: 1985 to present

ABI/INFORM GlobalFull Text More >Searches almost 1,800 journals covering "business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more."
Coverage: 1971 to present

ABI/INFORM Trade & IndustryFull Text More >Searches "more than 1200 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. "
Coverage: 1971 to present

Annual Review of PsychologyFull Text More > Provides keyword searching of this journal via the Bowman Library online catalog.
Coverage: 1996 to present

Article First More > Indexes articles from the table of contents pages of journals.
Coverage: 1990 to present

Arts & Humanities Search More > Searches over 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
Coverage: 1980 to present

Biography Resource CenterFull Text More > A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people throughout history and around the world. It combines biographies from 70 Gale Group publications, the complete Marquis Who's Who, Merriam-Webster's collegiate and biographical dictionaries, and full-text articles from over 250 periodicals. The Biography Research Guide will help you get started doing biographical research.
Coverage: Varies

Books In Print More > Includes information on "in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios and videos, with optional reviews."
Coverage: 1979 to present

Business & Company Resource CenterFull Text More > A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories and chronologies. You can also search industry descriptions and for topics in over 4,000 business, economics and technology journals.
Coverage: Updated continuously

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Cabell's Directory of Publishing OpportunitiesFull Text More > Provides information on more than 3,300 journals in the fields of accounting, economics, finance, management, marketing, psychology, and psychiatry. Most entries include editorial contact information, information about the review process (including acceptance rates), and manuscript submission guidelines. The journal database is searchable by title, subject, publisher, type of review process, and acceptance rate, so it's especially useful for authors who want to identify the journals that are most appropriate for their work.
Coverage: Updated continuously

Conference Board Research Online CollectionFull Text More > A searchable collection of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics. It includes studies of Fortune 500 companies on business trends, corporate citizenship and sustainability, corporate governance, ethics, human resources, operations and business process and productivity.
Coverage: Varies

Contemporary Women's IssuesFull Text More > A database of English language articles from numerous periodicals about women's issues. It may be searched using words or phrases, from a list of topics, or by geographic region. It "brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, 'gray' literature, and the alternative press - with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries."
Coverage: Approximately 1992+

CountryWatchFull Text More > Provides up-to-date information and news on 194 countries of the world. Includes political, economic, and business information for its clients in the form of Country Reviews and the Country Wire. Country Reviews provides a political and economic survey for each of the 194 countries. Country Wire provides online information updates from ten international news organizations. Country Watch Forecast provides forecasting data for global markets, as well as trends for the six major energy markets. CountryWatch staff provides periodic data updates on the latest political, economic, corporate and environmental topics for individual countries.
Coverage: Updated continuously

CQ ResearcherFull Text More > Provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on current events, including summaries and bibliographies. Controversial topics are addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner in the Congressional Quarterly tradition.
Coverage: 1991 to present

Credo ReferenceFull Text More > Provides full-text reference books in 20 subject areas. It includes over 180 titles and 65,000 images "powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context." All titles are also available using ROSIE's subject, title or keyword search.
Coverage: Varies

Dissertation Abstracts Online More > Selectively contains "dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe." Abstracts are available since 1980 for dissertations and from 1988 for masters theses.
Coverage: 1861 to present

EconLit More > Contains citations and abstracts for "journals, books, and working papers on economics."
Coverage: 1969 to present

Electronic Collections OnlineFull Text More > Provides online access to an extensive collection of general and specialized databases covering a wide range of subject areas. It features links to abstracts, articles, indexes, reviews, and full text of journal articles, dissertations, reports, and conference proceedings and papers.
Coverage: 1995 to present

Encyclopaedia Britannica OnlineFull Text More > Consists of a fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative articles from the print Encyclopedia Britannica and its yearbooks; the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary; plus many other sources. Some special features include a world atlas, country information and statistics, timelines, the "year in review," and famous quotations.
Coverage: Updated continuously

Encyclopedia of American GovernmentFull Text More >"Provides answers to the full range of questions ...about the institutions of U.S. government. Based on the CQ Press ready-reference American Government A to Z series, EAG offers thousands of concise, up-to-date explanations of the who, how, and why of American democracy." It is organized into five categories: Presidency, Supreme Court, Congress, Elections, Constitution.
Coverage: Updated continuously

ERICFull Text More > Contains published and unpublished journal articles and reports in the education field, from the U.S. Department of Education.
Coverage: 1966 to present

Euromonitor Global Market Information DatabaseFull Text More > Provides statistics and market reports for 205 countries around the world. The reports include historical trends and forecasts, analysis of key political and economic indicators, company profiles, and consumer market research.
Coverage: Updated continuously

FirstSearchFull Text More > Provides online access to an extensive collection of general and specialized databases covering a wide range of subject areas. It features links to abstracts, articles, indexes, reviews, and full text of journal articles, dissertations, reports, and conference proceedings and papers.
Coverage: 1966 to present

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Gale Virtual Reference LibraryFull Text More > Allows you to search a single eBook or multiple eBooks at once, including multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, and specialized reference sources. Subjects covered include Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, Social Science, and more.
Coverage: Updated continuously

Google Scholar More > Provides access to scholarly literature "across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations." Note that many articles contain only the citation and no full text; if full text is not available, you can order articles or books via Interlibrary Loan.
Coverage: Varies

GPO AccessFull Text More > "A service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. Use GPO Access to search or browse official, full-text information from the three branches of the Federal Government. Databases are updated based on their print equivalent and generally date back to 1994."
Coverage: 1994 to present

Historical New York TimesFull Text More > Indexes the full text of The New York Times from 1851 through 2005.
Coverage: 1851-2005

Historical Statistics of the United StatesFull Text More > The standard source for quantitative indicators of American history from colonial times to the present. It includes fully searchable text and tables for each of the five parts v. 1. Population - v. 2. Work and welfare - v. 3. Economic structure and performance - v. 4. Economic sectors - v. 5 Government and international relations.
Coverage: Colonial times to 2006

JSTORFull Text More > A full-text collection of more than 400 journals in business and the liberal arts, with especially strong coverage of business, finance, economics, history, regional studies, education, and sociology. (Our subscription includes the Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences IV, Business I, and Business II collections.) JSTOR is notable for the high quality of the journals it includes. The most recent three to five years of each journal are usually excluded from JSTOR, however.
Coverage: Varies

LexisNexis AcademicFull Text More > Provides full-text access to a wide range of news, business, trade, legal, environmental, computers, patents, entertainment and medical publications. The service covers newspapers, magazines, federal and state statutes, and federal regulations. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily. This extensive database is searchable by words or phrases.
Coverage: Updated continuously

Literature Resource CenterFull Text More > Provides full text criticisms, biographies, bibliographies, and work overviews. "Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world, supplemented by the scholarly materials of the Scribner Writers Series and Twayne's World, U.S., and English Authors Series."
Coverage: 1992 to present

MEDLINE More > Contains citations and abstracts for more than 17 million articles in medicine.
Coverage: 1950 to present

Mergent OnlineFull Text More > Provides access to a wide range of financial and business information, including U.S. and international company data, industry reports, global company financials, executive profiles, equity research reports, records from private companies, annual reports, risk ratings and information, and global equity pricing data. Offers the ability to build custom financial reports.
Coverage: Updated continuously

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Full Text More > Provides access to full text of working papers and archives from 1973 to the present, as well as Economic Indicators and Releases and the NBER Digest. Patrons may register for e-mail notification service.
Coverage: 1973 to present

NewsbankFull Text More > Find current and archived state, national, and international articles on issues, events, people, government, and more with this collection of newspapers and other news sources, including The New York Times (1985-present), San Diego Union-Tribune (12/5/1983-present), San Francisco Chronicle (1985-present), and Washington Post (1977-present).
Coverage: 1980s to present

O*NET (Occupational Network) OnLineFull Text More > "Serves as the nation's primary source of occupational information, providing comprehensive information on key attributes and characteristics of workers and occupations." You can search the database by either occupations or skills.
Coverage: Updated continuously

Opposing Viewpoints Resource CenterFull Text More >Brings together vital information for analyzing today's important social issues: "pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more." A trial subscription is available until February 28, 2011.
Coverage: Updated continuously

Oxford English DictionaryFull Text More >A comprehensive dictionary that also traces the development of English words from approximately 1150 AD up to the present day. Click on "Simple search" in the lower left corner of the database page to be able to search for words in the definitions, quotations, and more.
Coverage: Updated continuously

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P-Z

ProQuestFull Text More > Provides searching of over 7,000 newspapers, magazines and journals across all subjects. Most articles are full text. Separate databases include National Newspapers, ABI/Inform, Research Library, Historical New York Times, PsycArticles and PsycInfo.
Coverage: Varies

ProQuest NewspapersFull Text More > Contains coverage of the country's leading newspapers, such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Washington Post.
Coverage: Varies

ProQuest Research LibraryFull Text More > Provides coverage in a wide range of magazines and journals across a broad subject area.
Coverage: Varies

PsycARTICLESFull Text More > Searches "over 50 top full-text psychology publications covering the disciplines of Human Physiology, Personality Psychology, Social Psychology, Educational Psychology, and more." The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of advertisements and editorial board lists.
Coverage: Varies

PsycINFO More > Provides access to abstracts of international literature in psychology and related disciplines, including psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.
Coverage: Varies

RAND CaliforniaFull Text More > Provides information on California and U.S. public policy issues with an emphasis on statistics. California Statistics contains nearly 100 statistical databases, ranging from employment to social security payments to SAT scores. Much of the data is available at the national, state, county, city, and zip code levels. All of the data is updated on a regular basis. Online Library indexes recent research and other publications from leading California public policy and research institutions. In most cases, a hyperlink leads users to publications.
Coverage: 1991 to present

SBRnet: Sports Business Research NetworkFull Text More > Provides market research and industry news covering the sporting goods and sports marketing industry. Data is provided by the National Sporting Goods Association; the U.S. Department of Commerce; various sports governing bodies; and full-text articles from 14 magazines and newsletters.
Coverage: 1995 to present

STAT-USAFull Text More > Provides data on U.S. business, economic and trade community, including current and historical economic and financial releases and economic data. It also contains current and historical trade-related releases, international market research, trade opportunities, country analysis, and the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB).
Coverage: Updated continuously

UniversityConnectFull Text More > "An internship programs directory providing information on over 2,800 U.S. based internship programs in forty-five industry/career categories. " You may search by company, industry, state, and city.
Coverage: Updated continuously

ValueLine Investment Survey ReportsFull Text More > Provides the ability to search by Company Name, Stock Ticker or Industry for the most recent reports, analyst commentaries and rankings on the 1,700 stocks covered by the Value Line Investment Survey.
Coverage: Updated continuously

WilsonSelectPlusFull Text More > Provides full-text articles in science, humanities, education and business. Search over 2,000 journals simultaneously. Includes US and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines.
Coverage: 1994 to present

WorldCat More > Allows you to search the catalogs of libraries worldwide.
Coverage: Updated continuously

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