Snowden Library Databases by Subject

Accounting Criminal Justice Music
American Studies Economics Philosophy
Archaeology Education Political Science
Art English Psychology
Astronomy & Physics French Religion
Biology German Sociology & Anthropology
Business & Management History Spanish
Chemistry International Studies Theatre
Communications Mathematics Women's Studies

 

Accounting
Business Source Premier
Provides full text for nearly 7,600 scholarly business journals, trade publications, and other sources, and indexing for thousands more.
LexisNexis Academic
Covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K's, 10-Q's, and their exhibits.
Hoover's Online
Full-text in-depth access to company and industry information, including articles from Dow-Jones newswires, business and trade journals, and company reports. Includes capsules such as company histories, competitive landscapes within an industry, and product and operation information.
ReferenceUSA
Detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses; compiled from Yellow Page and Business White Page telephone directories; annual reports, 10-Ks and other SEC information; federal, state and municipal government data; Chamber of Commerce information; leading business magazines, trade publications, newsletters, major newspapers, industry and specialty directories.
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals.
ScienceDirect
Index to journals published by Elsevier Science, Academic Press, W.B.Saunders, Churchill Livingstone, Baillière Tindall and Mosby. Includes access to the full-content of Academic Press journals.
CQ Weekly
Full-text access to legislative news and analysis from the CQ Weekly Report.

 

 

American Studies
America's Historical Newspapers
Provides searchable full text with page and article images to the Early American Newspapers, Series 1 (1690-1876)
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Comprehensive digital coverage for the internationally renowned U.S. newspaper all the way back to the first issue in September 1851.
JSTOR
Provides access to digital, full text archives of core journals in discipline areas including Arts and Sciences I, II, and III, Business, and Language and Literature. JSTOR strives to provide an entire run of each title starting with volume one, issue one back to the early 1800s.
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
Biography in Context
Combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from more than 760 volumes of over 100 respected Gale Group sources.
ECO
Access to a growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas, some with full-image articles online. Full-image articles from Electronic Collections Online journals are linked to corresponding citations in databases throughout the FirstSearch service.
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) Must set up account on campus
Provides access to the world's largest archive of digital social science data sets. Users must set up an account while on campus, then register in order to download data sets.
LexisNexis Academic
Covers top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.
Project MUSE
An online collection of scholarly journal titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences from university and society presses. Snowden Library subscribes to the Basic Undergraduate Collection, a 112 title subset of the full Project MUSE collection.
SocINDEX
Provides citations and some abstracts to sociology and related disciplines for articles, books, and conference papers
ScienceDirect
Index to journals published by Elsevier Science, Academic Press, W.B.Saunders, Churchill Livingstone, Baillière Tindall and Mosby.  Includes access to the full-content of Academic Press journals.

 

 

 

Archaeology
ATLAReligion
A comprehensive reference database designed to support religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research.
AnthroSource
Provides access to journals, newsletters, and bulletins of the American Anthropological Association.
JSTOR
Provides access to digital, full text archives of core journals in discipline areas including Arts and Sciences I, II, and III, Business, and Language and Literature. JSTOR strives to provide an entire run of each title starting with volume one, issue one back to the early 1800s.
ARTstor (pop-ups must be enabled)
ARTstor is a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archaeology.
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles.
ECO
Access to a growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas, some with full-image articles online.
Religious and Theological Abstracts
Provides objective summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology. Lists a wide variety of periodical literature, including Christian, Jewish, and other world religions, and provide English language abstracts of articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages. For off-campus access, please contact a librarian for a username and password.
LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K's, 10-Q's, and their exhibits.

 

Art
ArtAbstracts
A dependable, comprehensive and authoritative information source about the world of the arts, from architecture to video.
ARTstor (pop-ups must be enabled)
ARTstor is a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections.
JSTOR
Provides access to digital, full text archives of core journals in discipline areas including Arts and Sciences I, II, and III, Business, and Language and Literature. Users can search or browse in more than one discipline and multiple journals or in just a single issue.
JSTOR strives to provide an entire run of each title starting with volume one, issue one back to the early 1800s. JSTOR delays inclusion of digital articles anywhere from three to five years previous to the most recently published volumes.
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals.
LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K's, 10-Q's, and their exhibits.
Biography in Context
Combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from more than 760 volumes of over 100 respected Gale Group sources.

 

 

Astronomy & Physics
ScienceDirect
Index to journals published by Elsevier Science, Academic Press, W.B.Saunders, Churchill Livingstone, Baillière Tindall and Mosby.  Includes access to the full-content of Academic Press journals.
ECO
Access to a growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas, some with full-image articles online. Full-image articles from Electronic Collections Online journals are linked to corresponding citations in databases throughout the FirstSearch service.
ERIC
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year.  In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
Federal Digital System (FDsys) U.S. flag icon
FDsys is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to over 1,500 databases of important information produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from FDsys can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted.
LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K's, 10-Q's, and their exhibits. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily.  Research areas in LexisNexis Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.

 

Biology
Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS) Ten simultaneous users only
Biological Abstracts 1995 is a complete collection of bibliographic references to life science journal literature published internationally. This database gives users easy access to the latest developments and makes it simple to retrieve millions of records from earlier research in virtually every life science discipline.
PubMed U.S. flag icon
Covers all areas of medicine, including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and much more. Now includes the MeSH browser.
BioOne. 1
Provides full text articles from bioresearch journals included in this collection
May be searched through BioOne Abstracts and Indexes Database (BAID) as well
GreenFILE
Provides citations and abstracts for information on the relationship between human beings and the environment
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
JSTOR (use for Ecology or the History of Science topics)
Provides access to digital, full text archives of core journals in discipline areas including Arts and Sciences I, II, and III, Business, and Language and Literature. Users can search or browse in more than one discipline and multiple journals or in just a single issue.
JSTOR strives to provide an entire run of each title starting with volume one, issue one back to the early 1800s. JSTOR delays inclusion of digital articles anywhere from three to five years previous to the most recently published volumes.
ScienceDirect
Index to journals published by Elsevier Science, Academic Press, W.B.Saunders, Churchill Livingstone, Baillière Tindall and Mosby.  Includes access to the full-content of Academic Press journals.
AGRICOLA U.S. flag icon
Covers every major agricultural subject, including agricultural engineering and marketing, animal breeding, entomology, environmental pollution, farm management, foods and feeds, pesticides, rural sociology, veterinary medicine, and water resources. Citations consist of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, conference proceedings, serials, technical reports, and other materials on a range of agricultural topics.
LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K's, 10-Q's, and their exhibits. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily. Research areas in LexisNexis Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.
ECO
Access to a growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas, some with full-image articles online. Full-image articles from Electronic Collections Online journals are linked to corresponding citations in databases throughout the FirstSearch service.

 

 

Business
Business Source Premier
Provides full text for nearly 7,600 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.

Business Source Premier Company Profiles

LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K's, 10-Q's, and their exhibits. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily. Research areas in LexisNexis Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.
Hoover's Online
Full-text in-depth access to company and industry information, including articles from Dow-Jones newswires, business and trade journals, and company reports. Includes capsules such as company histories, competitive landscapes within an industry, and product and operation information.

iPOLL

A comprehensive database of 600,000+ questions and answers asked in the US since 1935

ScienceDirect
Index to journals published by Elsevier Science, Academic Press, W.B.Saunders, Churchill Livingstone, Baillière Tindall and Mosby. Includes access to the full-content of Academic Press journals.
Sage Journals Online
Sage Premier offers full text access to over 485 journals in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences.
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
ReferenceUSA
Detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses; compiled from Yellow Page and Business White Page telephone directories; annual reports, 10-Ks and other SEC information; federal, state and municipal government data; Chamber of Commerce information; leading business magazines, trade publications, newsletters, major newspapers, industry and specialty directories.
Encyclopedia of Associations - National Organizations of the U.S.
Entries provide basic information about organizations, such as address, e-mail, Web site, phone and fax numbers, a contact person, a brief description, SIC numbers, and a subject.
JSTOR
Provides access to digital, full text archives of core journals in discipline areas including Arts and Sciences I, II, and III, Business, and Language and Literature. Users can search or browse in more than one discipline and multiple journals or in just a single issue.
JSTOR strives to provide an entire run of each title starting with volume one, issue one back to the early 1800s. JSTOR delays inclusion of digital articles anywhere from three to five years previous to the most recently published volumes.
Biography in Context
Combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from more than 760 volumes of over 100 respected Gale Group sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with full-text articles from more than 250 magazines including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, and U.S. News and World Report.
Marquis Who's Who on the Web Single user access
A 'high-speed', searchable online database, features comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment and sports. Recognized globally since 1899 as the premier biographical data provider, Marquis Who's Who now gives you the ability to conduct powerful searches of its entire database of achievers from around the globe. Search by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and much more.
CQ Weekly
Full-text access to legislative news and analysis from the CQ Weekly Report.
Gallup Brain
The Gallup Brain is a searchable, living record of 70 years of public opinion. Inside, you'll find answers to more than 136,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935.
National Journal Group's Policy Central
Includes unlimited access to all of the following databases and features:

 

  • National Journal online... track the development of public policy with archives dating back to 1977.
  • CongressDaily... get forward-looking, twice-daily insight on the key players, behind-the-scenes deals, and political strategies and alliances that drive the legislative process.
  • The Hotline... plug into American politics and campaigns with coverage of the media's coverage of important developments from hundreds of print, online and broadcast sources.
  • Technology Daily... understand IT politics and policy with twice-daily coverage of significant national and international news and events.
  • Almanac of American Politics online... get analysis and data on every member of Congress and their states and districts.
  • Poll Track... research public opinion with the largest database of over 5,000 public opinion surveys on political races, important issues and national figures.
  • Markup Reports... follow the status of specific legislation with chronological, narrative summaries of all congressional markup sessions.
  • Ad Spotlight... track political and issue campaigns with streaming video of 3,500 television advertisements.
  • Earlybird... get quick-read summaries of the morning's top news stories and editorials drawn from leading media outlets. Also includes links to the source articles.
  • Daybook... select from 24 issue areas, such as Defense and Trade, and receive a customized e-mail of the day's events by 6 a.m.
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) Must set up account on campus
Must set up account on campus
Provides access to the world's largest archive of digital social science data sets. Users must register in order to download data sets.

 

 

Chemistry

ACS
Full-text/full-image access to all 29 periodicals published by the American Chemical Society, searchable by subject, article or periodical title, and author.

SciFinder Scholar
Provides citations for articles on chemistry and biomedical subjects.
Please click here if you have not yet set up an account.
ScienceDirect
Index to journals published by Elsevier Science, Academic Press, W.B.Saunders, Churchill Livingstone, Baillière Tindall and Mosby.  Includes access to the full-content of Academic Press journals.
Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS)
Biological Abstracts 1995 is a complete collection of bibliographic references to life science journal literature published internationally. This database gives users easy access to the latest developments and makes it simple to retrieve millions of records from earlier research in virtually every life science discipline.
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
PubMed U.S. flag icon
Covers all areas of medicine, including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and much more. Now includes the MeSH browser.
AGRICOLA U.S. flag icon
Covers every major agricultural subject, including agricultural engineering and marketing, animal breeding, entomology, environmental pollution, farm management, foods and feeds, pesticides, rural sociology, veterinary medicine, and water resources. Citations consist of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, conference proceedings, serials, technical reports, and other materials on a range of agricultural topics.
LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K's, 10-Q's, and their exhibits. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily.  Research areas in LexisNexis Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.

 

 

Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice Abstracts
Provides abstracts and citations to articles, books, and dissertations on criminology and related disciplines
Sage Journals Online
Sage Premier offers full text access to over 485 journals in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences.
SocINDEX
Provides citations and some abstracts to sociology and related disciplines for articles, books, and conference papers
NCJRS Abstracts Database small flag icon
Search more than 160,000 criminal justice titles with summaries in the NCJRS Abstracts Database, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.  Search more than 1,500 full-text online publications on this site and on NCJRS partner agency web sites.
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K's, 10-Q's, and their exhibits. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily.  Research areas in LexisNexis Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.
PsycINFO
Rich resource for research in psychology and related disciplines. Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines.
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) Must set up account on campus
Provides access to the world's largest archive of digital social science data sets. Users must set up an account while on campus, then register in order to download data sets.

Other Databases Available on the Web:

CSPV Violence Literature Database (VioLit)

 

 

Communications
The Snowden Library sponsors the college's membership in the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS), which provides access to several services:

 

  • CIOS Resource Library
    Full text searching in Comserve's resource library.
  • ComAbstracts
    Citation index to abstracts of articles in 40+ communication journals. Includes table of contents listing.
  • Indexes to Communication Serials
    Search index data by author or title for more than 80 scholarly journals in communication, rhetoric, and journalism.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Communication and Mass Media Index incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields.
SocINDEX
Provides citations and some abstracts to sociology and related disciplines for articles, books, and conference papers
ScienceDirect
Index to journals published by Elsevier Science, Academic Press, W.B.Saunders, Churchill Livingstone, Baillière Tindall and Mosby.  Includes access to the full-content of Academic Press journals.
PsycINFO
Rich resource for research in psychology and related disciplines. Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. Over 55,000 references are added yearly. Descriptors from the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms are assigned to records from 1967 to allow precise searching using the language of the discipline. Includes indexed materials from journals published in 50 countries and in 30 languages. Chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1887 to the present.
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
JSTOR
Provides access to digital, full text archives of core journals in discipline areas including Arts and Sciences I, II, and III, Business, and Language and Literature. Users can search or browse in more than one discipline and multiple journals or in just a single issue.
JSTOR strives to provide an entire run of each title starting with volume one, issue one back to the early 1800s. JSTOR delays inclusion of digital articles anywhere from three to five years previous to the most recently published volumes.
LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K's, 10-Q's, and their exhibits. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily.  Research areas in LexisNexis Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Comprehensive digital coverage is available for this internationally renowned U.S. newspaper through the ProQuest online system.  The complete text of recent articles is provided in the ASCII format.  Through ProQuest Historical Newspapers, digital reproductions of every page of every issue--cover to cover--are available all the way back to the first issue in September 1851. That means researchers can find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements but also historical photos, drawings, maps, charts, and advertisements.
Readers' Guide Retrospective
Indexes a key list of abstracts of popular magazines from 1890 to 1982. Covers business, consumer affairs, current events, education, fine arts, health, news, and more.
ERIC
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year.  In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
Biography in Context
Combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from more than 760 volumes of over 100 respected Gale Group sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with full-text articles from more than 250 magazines including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, and U.S. News and World Report.

 

 

Economics

Business Source Premier
Provides full text for nearly 7,600 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.

Hoover's Online
Full-text in-depth access to company and industry information, including articles from Dow-Jones newswires, business and trade journals, and company reports. Includes capsules such as company histories, competitive landscapes within an industry, and product and operation information.

iPOLL

A comprehensive database of 600,000+ questions and answers asked in the US since 1935

JSTOR
Provides access to digital, full text archives of core journals in discipline areas including Arts and Sciences I, II, and III, Business, and Language and Literature. Users can search or browse in more than one discipline and multiple journals or in just a single issue.
JSTOR strives to provide an entire run of each title starting with volume one, issue one back to the early 1800s. JSTOR delays inclusion of digital articles anywhere from three to five years previous to the most recently published volumes.
ScienceDirect
Index to journals published by Elsevier Science, Academic Press, W.B.Saunders, Churchill Livingstone, Baillière Tindall and Mosby.  Includes access to the full-content of Academic Press journals.
CQ Weekly
Full-text access to legislative news and analysis from the CQ Weekly Report.
LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K's, 10-Q's, and their exhibits. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily.  Research areas in LexisNexis Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.
National Journal Group's Policy Central
Includes unlimited access to all of the following databases and features:

 

  • National Journal online... track the development of public policy with archives dating back to 1977.
  • CongressDaily... get forward-looking, twice-daily insight on the key players, behind-the-scenes deals, and political strategies and alliances that drive the legislative process.
  • The Hotline... plug into American politics and campaigns with coverage of the media's coverage of important developments from hundreds of print, online and broadcast sources.
  • Technology Daily... understand IT politics and policy with twice-daily coverage of significant national and international news and events.
  • Almanac of American Politics online... get analysis and data on every member of Congress and their states and districts.
  • Poll Track... research public opinion with the largest database of over 5,000 public opinion surveys on political races, important issues and national figures.
  • Markup Reports... follow the status of specific legislation with chronological, narrative summaries of all congressional markup sessions.
  • Ad Spotlight... track political and issue campaigns with streaming video of 3,500 television advertisements.
  • Earlybird... get quick-read summaries of the morning's top news stories and editorials drawn from leading media outlets. Also includes links to the source articles.
  • Daybook... select from 24 issue areas, such as Defense and Trade, and receive a customized e-mail of the day's events by 6 a.m.
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) Must set up account on campus
Provides access to the world's largest archive of digital social science data sets. Users must register in order to download data sets.
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
SocINDEX
Provides citations and some abstracts to sociology and related disciplines for articles, books, and conference papers

 

Education

ERIC Small U. S. Flag icon
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year.  In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
SocINDEX
Provides citations and some abstracts to sociology and related disciplines for articles, books, and conference papers
PsycINFO
Rich resource for research in psychology and related disciplines. Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. Over 55,000 references are added yearly. Descriptors from the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms are assigned to records from 1967 to allow precise searching using the language of the discipline. Includes indexed materials from journals published in 50 countries and in 30 languages. Chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1887 to the present.
JSTOR
Provides access to digital, full text archives of core journals in discipline areas including Arts and Sciences I, II, and III, Business, and Language and Literature. Users can search or browse in more than one discipline and multiple journals or in just a single issue.
JSTOR strives to provide an entire run of each title starting with volume one, issue one back to the early 1800s. JSTOR delays inclusion of digital articles anywhere from three to five years previous to the most recently published volumes.
Project MUSE
An online collection of scholarly journal titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences from university and society presses. Snowden Library subscribes to the Basic Undergraduate Collection, a 112 title subset of the full Project MUSE collection.
Marquis Who's Who on the Web  Single user access
A 'high-speed', searchable online database, features comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment and sports. Recognized globally since 1899 as the premier biographical data provider, Marquis Who's Who now gives you the ability to conduct powerful searches of its entire database of achievers from around the globe. Search by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and much more.
Biography in Context
Combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from more than 760 volumes of over 100 respected Gale Group sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with full-text articles from more than 250 magazines including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, and U.S. News and World Report.

 

English

MLA
Indexes critical literary and language scholarship and provides access to journals and serials published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Nearly 45,000 records are added annually.

Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
MagillOnLiterature Plus
This database is composed of approximately 35,000 critical analyses of individual works of literature, 6,500 biographical records, more than 1,000 images, and a glossary of 1,310 literary terms. MagillOnLiterature Plus contains editorially reviewed critical essays, brief plot summaries, extended character profiles, and detailed setting discussions covering works by more than 8,500 long and short fiction writers, poets, dramatists, essayists, and philosophers. The biographical essays reflect extended coverage of the 2,500 most studied authors and include up-to-date lists of each author’s principal works and current secondary bibliographies. In addition, 395 comprehensive genre-driven overview essays provide details about important literary genres, time periods, and national literatures.
Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
Old English Corpus
Dictionary of Old English (600-1150 A.D.)
JSTOR
Provides access to digital, full text archives of core journals in discipline areas including Arts and Sciences I, II, and III, Business, and Language and Literature. Users can search or browse in more than one discipline and multiple journals or in just a single issue.
JSTOR strives to provide an entire run of each title starting with volume one, issue one back to the early 1800s. JSTOR delays inclusion of digital articles anywhere from three to five years previous to the most recently published volumes.
Project MUSE
An online collection of scholarly journal titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences from university and society presses. Snowden Library subscribes to the Basic Undergraduate Collection, a 112 title subset of the full Project MUSE collection.
International Medieval Bibliography Single user, on-campus access only
Provides citations to articles in journals and books on all subjects relating to the Middle Ages within the date range 300-1500 AD.

Times Digital Archive
Search the complete digital edition of The Times (London) from 1785-1985, using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. Includes all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.

Sunday Times Digital Archive

ARTstor (pop-ups must be enabled)
ARTstor is a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archaeology.
Biography in Context
Combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from more than 760 volumes of over 100 respected Gale Group.

 

French, German, & Spanish

Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.

MLA
Indexes critical literary and language scholarship and provides access to journals and serials published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Nearly 45,000 records are added annually.
Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
JSTOR
Provides access to digital, full text archives of core journals in discipline areas including Arts and Sciences I, II, and III, Business, and Language and Literature. Users can search or browse in more than one discipline and multiple journals or in just a single issue.
JSTOR strives to provide an entire run of each title starting with volume one, issue one back to the early 1800s. JSTOR delays inclusion of digital articles anywhere from three to five years previous to the most recently published volumes.
ARTstor (pop-ups must be enabled)
ARTstor is a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archaeology.
LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K’s, 10-Q’s, and their exhibits. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily.  Research areas in LexisNexis Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.
CD-ROM Universalis:  A-Z:  Texte Intégral CD-ROM icon
Le plus vaste fonds documentaire en langue française soit l'intégralité des textes de l'Encyclopédie ( 52 millions de mots, 30,000 articles signés par 4,000 auteurs, 350,000 liens intelligents entre les différents documents de l'Encyclopédie), un dictionnaire de 120,000 définitions, 100,000 références bibliographiques internationales.
Clase y Periodica
CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities and PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology.
ClasePeriodica offers access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages and Contain information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.
Biography in Context
Combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from more than 760 volumes of over 100 respected Gale Group sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with full-text articles from more than 250 magazines including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, and U.S. News and World Report.

 

History

JSTOR
Provides access to digital, full text archives of core journals in discipline areas including Arts and Sciences I, II, and III, Business, and Language and Literature. Users can search or browse in more than one discipline and multiple journals or in just a single issue.
JSTOR strives to provide an entire run of each title starting with volume one, issue one back to the early 1800s. JSTOR delays inclusion of digital articles anywhere from three to five years previous to the most recently published volumes.

Project MUSE
An online collection of scholarly journal titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences from university and society presses. Snowden Library subscribes to the Basic Undergraduate Collection, a 112 title subset of the full Project MUSE collection.
America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876
Offers 350,000 fully searchable issues from over 700 historical American newspapers 23 states and the District of Columbia.
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
The complete text of recent articles is provided cover to cover all the way back to the first issue in September 1851. That means researchers can find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements but also historical photos, drawings, maps, charts, and advertisements.

Times Digital Archive
Search the complete digital edition of The Times (London) from 1785-1985, using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. Includes all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.

Sunday Times Digital Archive

International Medieval Bibliography   Single user, on-campus access only
Provides citations to articles in journals and books on all subjects relating to the Middle Ages within the date range 300-1500 AD.
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
ECO
Access to a growing collection of scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas, including History, Geography, Social Sciences and Military Sciences, some with full-image articles online.
Access Pennsylvania Digital Library
A statewide digitization service for the storage and retrieval of digitized collections created by libraries and other entities located throughout Pennsylvania. Primary focus is on collections of interest to the citizens of Pennsylvania.
ARTstor  (pop-ups must be enabled)
ARTstor is a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archaeology.
Biography Resource Center
Combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from more than 760 volumes of over 100 respected Gale Group sources.
Old English Corpus
Dictionary of Old English (600-1150 A.D.)
LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, and certain government documents. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily.
Dialog  See librarian for assistance
Use to access America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts
Provides access to over 600 databases from a broad range of disciplines. For more information about a specific database, see the Dialog Bluesheets.
SocINDEX
Provides citations and some abstracts to sociology and related disciplines for articles, books, and conference papers

 

International Studies
LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, and certain government documents. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily. Research areas in LexisNexis Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) Must set up account on campus
Provides access to the world's largest archive of digital social science data sets. Users must set up an account while on campus and then register in order to download data sets.
Business Source Premier
Provides full text for nearly 7,600 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.
Political Science Complete
Provides indexing and some abstracting for journal articles, conference papers and some reference resources in political science, international relations, and law with many full text articles
Facts on File
Facts On File World News Digest and a live newsfeed from Reuters® answer questions about events, people, issues, facts, and figures from 1940 to the present. Also delivers maps, photographs, historic documents, and special overviews of key issues, newsmakers, and events since 1940.

Times Digital Archive
Search the complete digital edition of The Times (London) from 1785-1985, using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. Includes all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.

Sunday Times Digital Archive

SIRS Researcher
Perfect for school and public library researchers, SIRS is a general database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues. Articles are carefully selected from domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications. Brief summaries accompany all articles added to the database since 1994. Images are available for some articles.
Biography in Context
Combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from more than 760 volumes of over 100 respected Gale Group sources.
PapersFirst
Covers every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop, and meeting added to The British Library Document Supply Centre's (BLDSC) vast proceedings collection since October 1993.
ProceedingsFirst
Provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at each conference. Like its companion, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst provides access to The British Library Document Supply Centre's vast collection of conference proceedings.
Also see the database lists for the individual departments involved in the International Studies program.

 

 

Mathematics

Business Source Premier
Provides full text for nearly 7,600 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.

iPOLL

A comprehensive database of 600,000+ questions and answers asked in the US since 1935

ScienceDirect
Index to journals published by Elsevier Science, Academic Press, W.B.Saunders, Churchill Livingstone, Baillière Tindall and Mosby. Includes access to the full-content of Academic Press journals.
JSTOR
Provides access to digital, full text archives of core journals in discipline areas including Arts and Sciences I, II, and III, Business, and Language and Literature. Users can search or browse in more than one discipline and multiple journals or in just a single issue.
JSTOR strives to provide an entire run of each title starting with volume one, issue one back to the early 1800s. JSTOR delays inclusion of digital articles anywhere from three to five years previous to the most recently published volumes.
LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K's, 10-Q's, and their exhibits. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily. Research areas in LexisNexis Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) Must set up account on campus
Provides access to the world's largest archive of digital social science data sets. Users must register in order to download data sets.
ECO
Access to a growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas, some with full-image articles online. Full-image articles from Electronic Collections Online journals are linked to corresponding citations in databases throughout the FirstSearch service.
Biography in Context
Combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from more than 760 volumes of over 100 respected Gale Group sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with full-text articles from more than 250 magazines including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, and U.S. News and World Report.

 

Military Studies
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
ECO
Access to a growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas, some with full-image articles online. Full-image articles from Electronic Collections Online journals are linked to corresponding citations in databases throughout the FirstSearch service.
Federal Digital System (FDsys) U.S. flag icon
FDsys is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to over 1,500 databases of important information produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from FDsys can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted.
JSTOR
Provides access to digital, full text archives of core journals in discipline areas including Arts and Sciences I, II, and III, Business, and Language and Literature. Users can search or browse in more than one discipline and multiple journals or in just a single issue.
JSTOR strives to provide an entire run of each title starting with volume one, issue one back to the early 1800s. JSTOR delays inclusion of digital articles anywhere from three to five years previous to the most recently published volumes.
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Through ProQuest Historical Newspapers, digital reproductions of every page of every issue--cover to cover--are available all the way back to the first issue in September 1851. That means researchers can find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements but also historical photos, drawings, maps, charts, and advertisements.
LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K's, 10-Q's, and their exhibits. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily.  Research areas in LexisNexis Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.
Project MUSE
An online collection of scholarly journal titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences from university and society presses. Snowden Library subscribes to the Basic Undergraduate Collection, a 112 title subset of the full Project MUSE collection.
SocINDEX
Provides citations and some abstracts to sociology and related disciplines for articles, books, and conference papers
Biography in Context
Combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from more than 760 volumes of over 100 respected Gale Group sources.

Other Databases Available on the Web:

The Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP) Small flag icon

Staff College Automated Military Periodicals Index (SCAMPI) Small flag icon

 

Music

Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.

Biography in Context
Combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from more than 760 volumes of over 100 respected Gale Group sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with full-text articles from more than 250 magazines including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, and U.S. News and World Report.

 

Philosophy

Philosopher's Index
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

JSTOR
Provides access to digital, full text archives of core journals in discipline areas including Arts and Sciences I, II, and III, Business, and Language and Literature. JSTOR delays inclusion of digital articles anywhere from three to five years previous to the most recently published volumes.
Project MUSE
An online collection of scholarly journal titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences from university and society presses.
ScienceDirect
Index to journals published by Elsevier Science, Academic Press, W.B.Saunders, Churchill Livingstone, Baillière Tindall and Mosby.
Biography in Context
Combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from over 100 respected Gale Group sources.

 

Political Science

Political Science Complete
Provides indexing and some abstracting for journal articles, conference papers and some reference resources in political science, international relations, and law with many full text articles

CQ Weekly
Full-text access to legislative news and analysis from the CQ Weekly Report.

iPOLL

A comprehensive database of 600,000+ questions and answers asked in the US since 1935

ECO
Access to a growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas, some with full-image articles online. Full-image articles from Electronic Collections Online journals are linked to corresponding citations in databases throughout the FirstSearch service.
Federal Digital System (FDsys) U.S. flag icon
FDsys is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to over 1,500 databases of important information produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from FDsys can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted.
JSTOR
Provides access to digital, full text archives of core journals in discipline areas including Arts and Sciences I, II, and III, Business, and Language and Literature. Users can search or browse in more than one discipline and multiple journals or in just a single issue.
JSTOR strives to provide an entire run of each title starting with volume one, issue one back to the early 1800s. JSTOR delays inclusion of digital articles anywhere from three to five years previous to the most recently published volumes.
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) Must set up account on campus
Provides access to the world's largest archive of digital social science data sets. Users must set up an account while on campus, then register in order to download data sets.
Marquis Who's Who on the Web Single user access
A 'high-speed', searchable online database, features comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment and sports. Recognized globally since 1899 as the premier biographical data provider, Marquis Who's Who now gives you the ability to conduct powerful searches of its entire database of achievers from around the globe. Search by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and much more.
LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K's, 10-Q's, and their exhibits. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily. Research areas in LexisNexis Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.
National Journal
Includes unlimited access to all of the following databases and features:

 

  • National Journal online... track the development of public policy with archives dating back to 1977.
  • CongressDaily... get forward-looking, twice-daily insight on the key players, behind-the-scenes deals, and political strategies and alliances that drive the legislative process.
  • The Hotline... plug into American politics and campaigns with coverage of the media's coverage of important developments from hundreds of print, online and broadcast sources.
  • Technology Daily... understand IT politics and policy with twice-daily coverage of significant national and international news and events.
  • Almanac of American Politics online... get analysis and data on every member of Congress and their states and districts.
  • Poll Track... research public opinion with the largest database of over 5,000 public opinion surveys on political races, important issues and national figures.
  • Markup Reports... follow the status of specific legislation with chronological, narrative summaries of all congressional markup sessions.
  • Ad Spotlight... track political and issue campaigns with streaming video of 3,500 television advertisements.
  • Earlybird... get quick-read summaries of the morning's top news stories and editorials drawn from leading media outlets. Also includes links to the source articles.
  • Daybook... select from 24 issue areas, such as Defense and Trade, and receive a customized e-mail of the day's events by 6 a.m.
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
Project MUSE
An online collection of scholarly journal titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences from university and society presses. Snowden Library subscribes to the Basic Undergraduate Collection, a 112 title subset of the full Project MUSE collection.
SIRS Researcher
Perfect for school and public library researchers, SIRS is a general database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues. Articles are carefully selected from domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications. Brief summaries accompany all articles added to the database since 1994. Images are available for some articles.
SocINDEX
Provides citations and some abstracts to sociology and related disciplines for articles, books, and conference papers
Biography in Context
Combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from more than 760 volumes of over 100 respected Gale Group sources.

Other Databases

 

Psychology

PsycINFO
Rich resource for research in psychology and related disciplines. Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. Over 55,000 references are added yearly. Descriptors from the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms are assigned to records from 1967 to allow precise searching using the language of the discipline. Includes indexed materials from journals published in 50 countries and in 30 languages. Chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1887 to the present.

ScienceDirect
Index to journals published by Elsevier Science, Academic Press, W.B.Saunders, Churchill Livingstone, Baillière Tindall and Mosby. Includes access to the full-content of Academic Press journals.

iPOLL

A comprehensive database of 600,000+ questions and answers asked in the US since 1935

Communication and Mass Media Complete
Communication and Mass Media Index incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields.
PubMed U.S. flag icon
Covers all areas of medicine, including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and much more. Now includes the MeSH browser.
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) Must set up account on campus
Provides access to the world's largest archive of digital social science data sets. Users must set up an account while on campus, then register in order to download data sets.
Sage Journals Online
Sage Premier offers full text access to over 485 journals in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences.
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
ECO
Access to a growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas, some with full-image articles online. Full-image articles from Electronic Collections Online journals are linked to corresponding citations in databases throughout the FirstSearch service.
LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, and certain government documents. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily. Research areas in LexisNexis Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.
SocINDEX
Provides citations and some abstracts to sociology and related disciplines for articles, books, and conference papers.
ERIC
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

 

Religion

ATLAReligion
A comprehensive reference database designed to support religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. Contains citations from international titles and multi-author works related to the field of religion. Includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews from ATLA print indexes.

Religious and Theological Abstracts
Provides objective summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology. Lists a wide variety of periodical literature, including Christian, Jewish, and other world religions, and provide English language abstracts of articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages. For off-campus access, please contact a librarian for a username and password.
JSTOR
Provides access to digital, full text archives of core journals in discipline areas including Arts and Sciences, Business, and Language and Literature. Includes Religion, Middle East and Asian Studies, Jewish Studies, and Archaeology.
JSTOR strives to provide an entire run of each title starting with volume one, issue one back to the early 1800s. JSTOR delays inclusion of digital articles anywhere from three to five years previous to the most recently published volumes.
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
ECO
Access to a growing collection of scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas, including Religion, Theology, and Archaeology, some with full-image articles online.
ARTstor (pop-ups must be enabled)
ARTstor is a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archaeology.
AnthroSource
Provides access to journals, newsletters, and bulletins of the American Anthropological Association.
Biography in Context
Combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from more than 760 volumes of over 100 respected Gale Group sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with full-text articles from more than 250 magazines including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, and U.S. News and World Report.
LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K's, 10-Q's, and their exhibits. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily. Research areas in LexisNexis Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.

 

Sociology & Anthropology

SocINDEX
Provides citations and some abstracts to sociology and related disciplines for articles, books, and conference papers

AnthroSource
Provides access to journals, newsletters, and bulletins of the American Anthropological Association.
Sage Journals Online
Sage Premier offers full text access to over 485 journals in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences.

iPOLL

A comprehensive database of 600,000+ questions and answers asked in the US since 1935

JSTOR
Provides access to digital, full text archives of core journals in discipline areas including Arts and Sciences I, II, and III, Business, and Language and Literature. Users can search or browse in more than one discipline and multiple journals or in just a single issue.
JSTOR strives to provide an entire run of each title starting with volume one, issue one back to the early 1800s. JSTOR delays inclusion of digital articles anywhere from three to five years previous to the most recently published volumes.
ICPSR (Inter-Univeristy Consortium for Political and Social Research) Must set up account on campus
Provides access to the world's largest archive of digital social science data sets. Users must set up an account while on campus, then register in order to download data sets.
PsycINFO
Rich resource for research in psychology and related disciplines. Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. Over 55,000 references are added yearly. Descriptors from the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms are assigned to records from 1967 to allow precise searching using the language of the discipline. Includes indexed materials from journals published in 50 countries and in 30 languages. Chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1887 to the present.
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
ScienceDirect
Index to journals published by Elsevier Science, Academic Press, W.B.Saunders, Churchill Livingstone, Baillière Tindall and Mosby. Includes access to the full-content of Academic Press journals.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Communication and Mass Media Complete incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields.
LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K's, 10-Q's, and their exhibits. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily. Research areas in LexisNexis Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.
Marquis Who's Who on the Web Single user access
A 'high-speed', searchable online database, features comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment and sports. Recognized globally since 1899 as the premier biographical data provider, Marquis Who's Who now gives you the ability to conduct powerful searches of its entire database of achievers from around the globe. Search by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and much more.

 

SPANISH - SEE FRENCH, GERMAN, & SPANISH

 

Theatre

Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.

MLA International Bibliography
Indexes critical literary and language scholarship and provides access to journals and serials published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Nearly 45,000 records are added annually.
Project MUSE
An online collection of scholarly journal titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences from university and society presses. Snowden Library subscribes to the Basic Undergraduate Collection, a 112 title subset of the full Project MUSE collection.
Biography in Context
Combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from more than 760 volumes of over 100 respected Gale Group sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with full-text articles from more than 250 magazines including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, and U.S. News and World Report.
Marquis Who's Who on the Web Single user access
A 'high-speed', searchable online database, features comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment and sports. Recognized globally since 1899 as the premier biographical data provider, Marquis Who's Who now gives you the ability to conduct powerful searches of its entire database of achievers from around the globe. Search by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and much more.
ARTstor (pop-ups must be enabled)
ARTstor is a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archaeology.

 

Women's Studies

SocINDEX
Provides citations and some abstracts to sociology and related disciplines for articles, books, and conference papers

NCJRS Abstracts Database small flag icon
Search more than 160,000 criminal justice titles with summaries in the NCJRS Abstracts Database, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Search more than 1,500 full-text online publications on this site and on NCJRS partner agency Web sites.
Biography in Context
Combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from more than 760 volumes of over 100 respected Gale Group sources.
Feminae:  Medieval Women and Gender Index
Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
WILD:  Women in Leadership Database
"A portal to unique scholarly resources about women's leadership found in selective archival and manuscript collections at Rutgers University."
ARTstor (pop-ups must be enabled)
ARTstor is a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archaeology.