General Information Research Databases

Academic Search Premier

Subjects: wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general science, education. Contents: Provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals, plus the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Christian Science Monitor. Full-text available online for 1,000+ journals, with 380+ titles from 1990-present. Coverage: varies. Updated daily.

Biography Resource Center

A comprehensive database of biographical information on over 320,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 400,000 biographies from over 800 volumes of more than 130 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, Writers Directory, and many more, with full-text articles from more than 265 magazines including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, and U.S. News & World Report.

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) is a search and retrieval service that provides bibliographic records of U.S. Government information products. Use it to link to Federal agency online resources or identify materials distributed to Federal depository libraries. Coverage begins with January 1994 and new records are added daily.

CollegeSource

Contents: CollegeSource features over 10,000 college catalogs in complete cover-to-cover original page format for 2-year, 4-year, graduate, and professional schools. Multiple search options including criteria (tuition, enrollment, affiliation, major) and geographic search. Offers links to college home pages, financial aid resources, and career information sites. Coverage: Current.

CQ Researcher

Includes topical summaries of current topics on a wide variety of interest (i.e. same sex marriages, Islam and women, human cloning, etc.) The articles generally run about 20-25 pages and provide background, history, chronology, and a bibliography for additional research. This resource is ideal for speeches, expository writing papers and other lower division courses. An index includes previous topics. There are usually four new summaries published each month. The database also includes resources on political science and issues that are currently being discussed within the congressional and judicial systems.

Credo Reference

Credo Reference is an online reference library that provides you with full-text access to a selection of reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, as well as a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law. Find out about the titles in Credo Reference.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals.

Dissertation Abstracts

Subjects: Full range of academic subjects. Contents: Index to virtually every American dissertation accepted at accredited institutions since 1861. Selectively indexes masters theses, Canadian dissertations, British & other European dissertations. Coverage: 1861-present (abstracts July 1980-present, doctoral dissertations; Spring 1988-present, masters theses). Updated monthly.

Google Scholar

This search narrows the Google web to a more manageable, more reliable set of information--determined "scholarly" and thus more appropriate for research projects. Though not all results will be available for free, Google Scholar is an excellent identification tool, from which you can search library databases or request articles and book chapters through Zondervan's Interlibrary Loan service. This advanced search screen allows you to specify phrases to search, words to exclude, author last names, and even subject categories.

Ingenta

Incorporating and augmenting what was formerly known as CarlUncover, Ingenta claims to be the world's largest website for research articles with coverage of over 20,000 publications. Ingenta is a vast resource for identifying articles but full-text is available only at a significant cost, usually $25.00 or more per article. Please check the Zondervan Library periodicals list for availability of articles that you find in Ingenta. Alternately, many of these articles could be obtained through interlibrary loan.

JSTOR

JSTOR (Journal STORage) presents the searchable full text of the complete back files for over 100 important scholarly journals. Coverage generally includes the first volume through issues published prior to the most recent 3-5 years (current issues are not available in JSTOR). Includes journals for the following disciplines: African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics.

Library PressDisplay

With more than 500 newspapers from Algeria to Zimbabwe available the day they are published, PressDisplay offers current world news coverage like no other service out there. There are more than thirty newspapers from the UK alone. Not only can you read the latest edition of these papers online, you can print, email, or even blog an article. "Smart navigating" is available for select newspapers, a feature which allows you to activate an audio version of an article and create an English (or other) translation. (The title list indicates these options through an icon.) You can also search for keywords across the newspapers available through PressDisplay. For example, a search on "Putin and Iran" returns over 500 articles. The up-to-date coverage goes back 60 days, thus providing only the most current news.

MasterFILE Premier

Subjects: General interest, business, health, social sciences, humanities, education, science, news & current events. Contents: Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 3,200 periodicals, plus the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Full-text available online for 1,500 titles, with some dating back to 1990. Also features searchable full-text for Magill's Book Reviews. Coverage: varies, 1984-present. Updated: daily.

NetLibrary (eBooks)

Provides full-text access to several thousand eBooks on a wide range of subjects. eBooks can be viewed for 15 minutes at a time or, after creating a free netLibrary account and logging in, can be checked out for 24 hours at a time.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

Provides information on the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 500,000 words.

Oxford Reference Premium Online

Oxford Reference Online Premium offers almost 200 fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range.

 

Resources for College Libraries

A "core list of over 65,000 titles (mostly books) in 61 curriculum-specific subjects. Titles have been selected for your academic library by more than 300 subject specialists and bibliographers."

Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select

Subjects: All core undergraduate subjects included in the general Wilson databases Reader's Guide, General Science, Education, Humanities, Business and Social Sciences. Contents: Quality indexing and abstracting from 2,900 publications and full-text from 1,500 publications. Coverage: 1982-present. Updated four times a week.

WorldCat

Subjects: Every imaginable subject. Contents: The world’s most comprehensive bibliography, with over 37 million bibliographic records representing 370 languages. Describes items owned by libraries around the world including books, manuscripts, films, maps, musical scores, sound recordings, journals, magazines, newspapers (but not individual articles or book chapters). Coverage: 1000 A.D.- present. Updated daily.

Last revised August 04, 2009 - 10:54 PM