SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES AVAILABLE AT OWHL
BY DISCIPLINE
Disciplines: Art – Economics – Education - English – General Reference– History and Social Science – Mathematics – Music– Natural Sciences – Philosophy and Religion – Physical Education – Theatre and Dance – World Language
Remember to always check the General Reference section -- those databases apply to all disciplines.
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| 1980 to present; scholarly periodicals for research; also contains Ingenta links. |
Full text articles |
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| This database lets you choose any or all of the following resources: newspapers, magazines, books, maps, pictures, and tv/radio transcripts. Big Chalk E-Library includes the full text of many national ( including the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to the present ) and international newspapers. |
Full text articles |
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| Business Source Premier (EBSCOHost) | This comprehensive database offers full text for 2,260 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. | Full text articles, abstracts, and indexing |
| "Working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs." |
Full text articles |
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| 1980 to present; more scholarly periodicals for research; also contains Ingenta links. |
Full text articles |
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| Detailed company information and statistics. |
Full text articles |
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| A full text collection of scholarly journals, many going back to the first issue. |
Full text articles |
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| Project Muse | A full text collection of scholarly journals covering the last 5 years of publication | Full text articles |
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| ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) |
Contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals. |
Digests, citations, and abstracts |
| Designed for teachers and school administrators. Provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. |
Full text articles |
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| This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 1,850 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,300 peer-reviewed titles. Offers full text information dating back to 1985. |
Full text articles |
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| Biography Resource Center (Infotrac) | Almost a million biographies including full text of the complete Marquis Who's Who(R). Has the full content of Contemporary Authors. Source citation is at the end of each article. | Full text articles |
| Combines criticism with some biography. |
Full text critical essays |
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| 1980 to present; more scholarly periodicals for research; also contains Ingenta links. |
Full text articles |
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| A full text collection of scholarly journals, many going back to the first issue. |
Full text articles |
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| Literature Online | A databases containing "350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 168 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. " | Full text articles, books, compilations |
| The most authoritative English dictionary in the world, the OED Online has both a simple and advanced search interface. Look up words, quotations, first use, and pronunciations. |
English dictionary |
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| Project Muse | A full text collection of scholarly journals covering the last 5 years of publication | Full text articles |
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| This database lets you choose any or all of the following resources: newspapers, magazines, books, maps, pictures, and tv/radio transcripts. Big Chalk E-Library includes full text of many national and international newspapers. |
Full text articles |
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| Almost a million biographies including full text of the complete Marquis Who's Who(R). Has the full content of Contemporary Authors. Source citation is at the end of each article. |
Full text articles |
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| Boston
Globe |
This Newsbank Inc. database includes the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Christian Science Monitor, Springfield Union-News and Worcester Telegram and Gazette. |
Local newspapers including the Boston Globe |
| A variety of periodical databases topically organized, including health and business. |
Full text articles |
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| Encyclopædia Britannica Provided by Sidney R. Knafel, '48 in memory of classmates Charles Graydon Poore III and Arthur Peter Contas. |
EB Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and incorporates the yearly updates as published in the Britannica Book of the Year. |
Full text encyclopedia entries |
| This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. | Full text encyclopedia entries |
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| 1980 to present; 1900 full-text public library magazines, 15 reference books including the World Almanac and newspapers. To search any specific title, click on the Browse button under Limit the Current Search and choose up to ten titles. |
Full text articles and encyclopedia entries |
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| Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is available from this site. |
Full text encyclopedia entries |
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| "Investiga las noticias y eventos más corrientes, la información de negocios del momento, los artículos de salud más importantes, temas de cultura popular y muchas otras materias incluidas en las revistas hispánicas más populares." |
Full text articles from Hispanic magazines |
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| Designed for students in junior high school or middle school. |
Full text articles and encyclopedia entries |
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| Designed for students in grades K-6. |
Full text articles and encyclopedia entries |
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| Designed for high school students. |
Full text articles and encyclopedia entries |
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| Full text dating back to January 1990 for over 1,840 journals. Abstracts and indexing for over 2,780 journals, many dating back to 1984. Essential Documents in American History—a database of over 1,000 original historical documents. |
Full text articles, abstracts and indexing, primary source documents. |
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| Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 150 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. |
Full text articles and encyclopedia entries |
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| Selected full text for over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers. |
Full text articles, indexing and abstracts |
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| New York Times: Archives | Full text of The New York Times: Archives 1852-1999 |
Full text articles from NY Times newspaper |
| New York Times: Current | Full text of The New York Times: Current 1999-present |
Full text articles from NY Times newspaper |
| WorldCat: a world wide catalog of books and other materials, including selected websites. See the reference librarians for InterLibrary Loans from this database. |
Library catalog |
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| The most authoritative English dictionary in the world, the OED Online has both a simple and advanced search interface. Look up words, quotations, first use, and pronunciations. |
English dictionary |
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| Designed for students in grades K-6. |
Full text articles and encyclopedia entries |
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| An electronic version of the Readers' Guide Index to Periodical Literature. Indexes several hundred periodicals, from 1900 to 1982. Also available in print from 1900 to present. (Ground floor index tables) |
Bibliographic entries to periodical articles |
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| Business telephone number directories with reverse lookup. |
Phone numbers |
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| Full text coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. |
Full text articles |
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The library provides acces to a large number of databases that can be used to research topics in history and social science. The databases most useful for research supporting History 300 topics include:
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| Detailed abstracts of American and Canadian history from over 2.000 journals. Prehistory to present. |
abstracts |
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| Almost a million biographies including full text of the complete Marquis Who's Who(R). Has the full content of Contemporary Authors. Source citation is at the end of each article. |
Full text articles |
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| A full text collection of scholarly journals, many going back to the first issue. |
Full text articles |
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| An electronic version of The Nation, from the first issue in 1865 to the present. |
Full text articles from this one periodical |
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| Full text of The New York Times: Archives 1852-1999 |
Full text articles from NY Times newspaper |
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| WorldCat: a world wide catalog of books and other materials. See the reference librarians for InterLibrary Loans from this database. |
Library catalog |
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| Project Muse | A full text collection of scholarly journals covering the last 5 years of publication | Full text articles |
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An electronic version of the Readers' Guide Index to Periodical Literature. Indexes several hundred periodicals, from 1900 to 1982. Also available in print from 1900 to present. (Ground floor index tables) |
Bibliographic entries to periodical articles |
Other databases that focus on current news and historical events from the last twenty to thirty years include:
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| This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 1,850 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,300 peer-reviewed titles. Offers full text information dating back to 1985. |
Full text articles |
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| Bibliographic references to over 700 literary, scholarly and creative journals published from 1975 on in the United States and Canada. |
citations to articles, essays, illustrations, poems, etc |
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| This database lets you choose any or all of the following resources: newspapers, magazines, books, maps, pictures, and tv/radio transcripts. Big Chalk E-Library includes full text of many national (including the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to the present) and international newspapers. |
Full text articles |
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| This Newsbank Inc. database includes the full text of the Boston Globe (1980-current), the Boston Herald (1997-current), and Worcester Telegram and Gazette (1989-current). |
Local newspapers including the Boston Globe |
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| "Working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs." |
Full text articles |
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| 1980 to present; more scholarly periodicals for research; also contains Ingenta links. |
Full text articles |
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| 1980 to present; 1900 full-text public library magazines, 15 reference books including the World Almanac and newspapers. To search any specific title, click on the Browse button under Limit the Current Search and choose up to ten titles. |
Full text articles and encyclopedia entries |
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| Full text dating back to January 1990 for over 1,840 journals. Abstracts and indexing for over 2,780 journals, many dating back to 1984. Essential Documents in American History—a database of over 1,000 original historical documents. |
Full text articles, abstracts and indexing, primary source documents. |
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| Selected full text for over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers. |
Full text articles, indexing and abstracts |
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| New York Times: Current | Full text of The New York Times: Current 1999-present |
Full text articles from NY Times newspaper |
Additional databases useful for researching topics in the social sciences include:
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| "The award-winning CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week." An invaluable source for learning about an important topic of the day quickly and factually, each article also contains a yes-no discussion and bibliographies. |
Full text articles |
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| Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed
social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core
reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources
to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social
issues. |
Topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles |
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| This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 1,850 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,300 peer-reviewed titles. Offers full text information dating back to 1985. |
Full text articles | |
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1980 to present; more scholarly periodicals for research; also contains Ingenta links. |
Full text articles |
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A full text collection of scholarly journals, many going back to the first issue. |
Full text articles |
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| 1980 to present; more scholarly periodicals for research; also contains Ingenta links. |
Full text articles |
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| Over 45,000 articles on people and places, instruments and techniques, genres and styles. |
Full text encyclopedia entries |
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| A full text collection of scholarly journals, many going back to the first issue. |
Full text articles |
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| Project Muse | A full text collection of scholarly journals covering the last 5 years of publication | Full text articles |
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| Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, including images. |
Full text encyclopedia entries |
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| Drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. |
Full text articles |
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| Columbia Earthscape | Columbia earthscape is a comprehensive resource for research in the Earth and Environmental Sciences. It publishes a wide range of scholarship featuring exercises and labs, syllabi, and basic textbook readings. | Full text articles, case studies, maps & statistics, animations, video-clips, conference literature, full-text monographs and selected chapters, image banks, syllabi, and online data sets. |
| EBSCO's description: "General Science Collection provides information on all aspects of the scientific world. The database offers full text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications including Archaeology, Astronomy, International Wildlife, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, and many others. |
Full text articles |
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| 1980 to present; academic journal articles on health and medicine |
Full text journal articles |
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| Journal articles on health and medicine, Stedman's Medical Dictionary, full text of health research books |
Full text journal articles, abstracts, medical dictionary, essays on health topics |
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| More than 520 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. |
Full text journal articles |
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A full text collection of scholarly journals, many going back to the first issue. |
Full text articles |
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| Project Muse | A full text collection of scholarly journals covering the last 5 years of publication | Full text articles |
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Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals. |
Abstracts |
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Full text of articles from this magazine. |
Full text articles |
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| DATABASE |
DESCRIPTION |
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| This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 1,850 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,300 peer-reviewed titles. Offers full text information dating back to 1985. |
Full text articles |
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| 1980 to present; more scholarly periodicals for research; also contains Ingenta links. |
Full text articles |
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1980 to present; 1900 full-text public library magazines, 15 reference books including the World Almanac and newspapers. To search any specific title, click on the Browse button under Limit the Current Search and choose up to ten titles. |
Full text articles and encyclopedia entries |
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| A full text collection of scholarly journals, many going back to the first issue. |
Full text articles |
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| Project Muse | A full text collection of scholarly journals covering the last 5 years of publication | Full text articles |
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DESCRIPTION |
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This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 1,850 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,300 peer-reviewed titles. Offers full text information dating back to 1985. |
Full text articles |
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| A variety of periodical databases topically organized, including health and business. |
Full text articles |
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1980 to present; academic journal articles on health and medicine |
Full text journal articles |
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| Almost a million biographies including full text of the complete Marquis Who's Who(R). Has the full content of Contemporary Authors. Source citation is at the end of each article. |
Full text articles |
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| Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCOHost) | "An invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media." | Indexing, abstracts and some full text articles. |
| 1980 to present; scholarly periodicals for research |
Full text articles |
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| 1980 to present; 1900 full-text public library magazines, 15 reference books including the World Almanac and newspapers. To search any specific title, click on the Browse button under Limit the Current Search and choose up to ten titles. |
Full text articles and encyclopedia entries |
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| Over 45,000 articles on people and places, instruments and techniques, genres and styles. |
Full text encyclopedia entries |
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| A full text collection of scholarly journals, many going back to the first issue. |
Full text articles |
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| Project Muse | A full text collection of scholarly journals covering the last 5 years of publication | Full text articles |
| DATABASE |
DESCRIPTION |
contents |
| This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 1,850 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,300 peer-reviewed titles. Offers full text information dating back to 1985. |
Full text articles |
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| 1980 to present; more scholarly periodicals for research; also contains Ingenta links. |
Full text articles |
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"Investiga las noticias y eventos más corrientes, la información de negocios del momento, los artículos de salud más importantes, temas de cultura popular y muchas otras materias incluidas en las revistas hispánicas más populares." |
Full text articles from Hispanic magazines |