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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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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