Library Databases - St. Norbert College

Databases

Journal Title Search

A-to-Z Journal Title Search
Use A-Z to locate the database in which a journal can be found. Enter the title of the journal, newspaper or magazine ( NOT the article title!) into the search box provided and you will be shown which periodicals we have full-text. Also provided are the inclusive years of each periodical and links to the database in which that particular periodical can be found.

-All of the databases below may be accessed through EBSCOhost.

Academic Search Elite (Coverage: 1990-present)
Provides full text for over 1,250 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies, education and much more.

ATLA Religion Database w/ ATLASerials (Coverage: varies)
Index to journal articles, book reviews and collections of essays in all fields of religion. More than 600 journals are indexed annually. Links are provided to 100,000 full-text articles from more than fifty journals.

Business Source Elite (Coverage: 1984-present)
Provides full text for over 960 journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting and much more.

Catholic Periodical and Literature Index (CPLI) (Coverage: 1981-present)
This database is the product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Library Association. The database covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle, and includes over 380,000 index citations of articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers.

ERIC (Coverage: varies)
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (Coverage: 1988-present)
This database is a 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, featuring searchable full text for nearly 300 journals.

Humanities International Complete (Coverage: varies)
Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,000 journals and 2 million records) plus unique full text content.

Humanities International Index (Coverage: varies)
Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), Humanities International Index provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 2,000 titles and contains more than 2 million records. Indexing and Abstracts Only! See Humanities International Complete for full text.

MasterFILE Premier (Coverage: 1975-present)
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.

MAS Ultra - School Edition (Coverage: approx. 1975-present)
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular high school magazines. MAS Ultra - School Edition also provides more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents and an image collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.

MEDLINE (Coverage: approx. 1996-present)
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

Military & 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 content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military and Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

MLA International Bibliography (Coverage: 1920-present)
Offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.

New Testament Abstracts (Coverage: 1985-present)
Product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. The database has become an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. The database contains more than 38,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 13,500 book abstracts and 50 software abstracts.

Newspaper Source (Coverage: 1985-present, unless otherwise noted)
Provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full-text television & radio news transcripts and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.

Old Testament Abstract (Coverage: 1978-present)
Product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association. The database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more.

Primary Search (Coverage: 1990-present)
Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.

Professional Development Collection (Coverage: varies)
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.

PsycARTICLES (Coverage: 1985-present, unless otherwise noted)
Contains searchable full-text articles from 50 journals published by APA and allied organizations from 1988 to the present, with earlier years in production. The articles are in html format and include internal links to tables, figures and references.

PsycCritiques (Coverage: 1956-present)
Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), this database is an electronic serial of book reviews featuring full-text reviews of current scholarly and professional books in psychology. It also publishes reviews from a psychological perspective of popular films and trade books.

PsycINFO (Coverage: 1887-present)
This database, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.

ProQuest -All of the databases below may be accessed through ProQuest.

Criminal Justice Periodicals (Coverage: indexing 1970-present, some full text)
Indexes over 150 trade and scholarly journals in criminal justice and related fields. This index covers U.S., British and Canadian journals.

Education Journals (Coverage: 1988-present)
Contains more than 550 titles on education with nearly 300 in full text.

Ethnic NewsWatch (Coverage: 1991-present, with archival material back to 1985)
Full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. The database is searchable in both English and Spanish, with publications in each language and more than 125,000 articles in Spanish.

Historical New York Times (Coverage: 1851-2001)
Full-text and full-image articles from the New York Times dating back to the 19th century. More recent articles can be found in ProQuest Newspapers.

Newspapers (Coverage: 1989-present)
Indexing, abstracting and full text of over 300 state, national and international newspapers. Includes full-text coverage of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Madison Capital Times.

InfoTRAC/Gale -The databases below may be accessed through InfoTRAC.

Literature Resource Center (LRC) (Coverage: 1926-present, linked to full text where available)
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.

OneFile (Coverage: 1980-present)
A source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

CSA Illumina - The databases below may be accessed through ProQuest CSA.

Philosopher's Index (Coverage: 1940-present)
Provides indexing and abstracts of journal articles, books, contributions to anthologies and book reviews published worldwide since 1940. Topics covered include aesthetics, axiology, philosophy of education, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, metaphilosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of science, social philosophy and the philosophy of religion.

Individual subscription databases and online products

ACS (Coverage: varies by title) Provides full-text access to the electronic journals published or co-published by the American Chemical Society (ACS), with the archives providing complete access to all issues of the journal.

Access NewspaperARCHIVE (Coverage: varies by title)
Created by Heritage Microfilm, an archival microfilm and newspaper digitization company. Contains digital images of newspapers from around the world.

Choice (Coverage: online edition published every month)
Current reviews for academic libraries is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media and internet resources of interest to those in higher education.

Chronicle of Higher Education Online (Coverage: online edition published every weekday, articles archived since September 1989)
A source of news, information and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. The Chronicle includes access to all of the web site and to Academe Today, the daily e-mail newsletter.

Credo Reference
Its full-text, aggregated content covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference. Database includes: dictionaries of legal materials, foreign languages, wine, art, computing, medicine; encyclopedias of many types; biographical materials like Who's Who, and much more.

DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 2858 journals in the directory. Currently 910 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 151959 articles are included in the DOAJ service.Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 2858 journals in the directory. Currently 910 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 151959 articles are included in the DOAJ service.

Encyclopaedia Britannica (EB) Online (updated regularly)
Access the academic version of EB online.

GeoRef (Coverage: 1785-present)
Published by the American Geological Institute. Covers worldwide technical literature in geology and geophysics.

Greenwire (updated daily)
Is written and produced by the staff of E&E Publishing, LLC. The one-stop source for those who need to stay on top of all of today's major energy and environmental action with an average of more than 20 stories a day, Greenwire covers the complete spectrum, from electricity industry restructuring to Clean Air Act litigation to public lands management.

JSTOR (Coverage: varies from title to title, but approximately from the 1800s-1994)
Includes full-text back files of nearly 400 of the most important journals in Business, Ecology, Economics, Finance, Management, History, Mathematics, Political Science, Population Studies, Language, Literature and Science. Entire text of each journal is searchable. JSTOR database is unique because the complete backfiles of core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which reach back to the 1800s. The database now contains over 2 million pages and new titles and fields are being added constantly (approximately 100,000 pages are added to the database each month).
Highwire Press Online contains free full-text science articles. As of 10/12/07, we are assisting in the online publication of 1,803,175 free full-text articles and 4,463,048 total articles. There are 9 sites with free trial periods, and 44 completely free sites.
Lexis-Nexis (Coverage: 1990-present)
Academic Universe provides access to nearly 5,000 publication on a wide range of news, business, legal and reference information.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online (historical coverage, updated regularly)
Online access the 20-volume Second Edition and the three Additions Series volumes, plus at least 1,800 new and revised entries each quarter.

Project MUSE (Coverage: 1995-present)
Provides full-text access to journals published by the Johns Hopkins University. Project Muse contains the full text of over 190 journals with emphasis on the humanities including literary theory, history and cultural studies. Other disciplines included are political science, film, theatre and performing arts.

Sage Journals Online (Coverage: 1999-present)
Access Sage Publications 444 plus online journals.

Science Direct College Edition (Coverage: varies by title)
Databases offered include journals (ONLY, no books!) from the Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and the Humanities. Our access does not include the physical science or engineering titiles!
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FirstSearch - Provides access to a wide range of databases, includes citations and abstracts when available (not full text)

Agricola Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture, forestry and animal science.

AltPressIndex Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change.

AltPressIndexArchive Index of journals (1969-1990) covering cultural, economic, political and social change.

ArticleFirst OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals.

BasicBIOSIS Basic information about biology and other life sciences.

BioDigest Life-science information written in a non-technical style.

BooksInPrint In-print, out-of-print and forthcoming books, audios and videos, with optional reviews.

BusDateline Regional information vital to businesses.

BusIndustry Business and industry facts, figures and key events.

BusinessOrgs Organizations that serve business and industry.

BusManagement Practical aspects and approaches to business management.

ClasePeriodica Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.

CWI Contemporary Women's Issues (health and human rights).

Disclosure Directory information on companies publicly traded on exchanges.

Dissertations Dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe.

Ebooks OCLC catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide.

EconLit Journals, books and working papers on economics.

FactSearch Facts and statistics on topics of current interest

GEOBASE Worldwide literature on geography, geology and ecology.

MediaRevDigest Reviews of educational media and entertainment resources.

PAISArchive Retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues.

PAISInternational Database chronicling global public policy and social issues.

Papers First OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.

PerAbs Periodical abstracts from general and academic journals.

Proceedings An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings.

SIRSResearcher Social, scientific, economic and political issues worldwide.

WorldCat OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

Worldscope Basic financial information on public companies worldwide.

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