Databases A-Z
Alphabetical List of Databases
| ABC-CLIO Databases | Search Pop Culture Universe, The African American Experience, The American Indian Experience and The Latino American Experience. |
| Academic Search Premier | This multi-disciplinary, full-text database includes thousands of titles, including peer-reviewed scholarly journals in virtually every area of academic study. |
| Adjunct Nation | Find articles on a variety of topics in the field of higher education for both full-time and part-time instructors. |
| The African American Experience | Explore African American history, art, culture, literature, music, film, sports, business, politics, education and other subjects. This database includes primary documents, articles from reference books, images and authoritative web links. |
| Agricola | Agricola is the online catalog for the National Agricultural Library, indexing and summarizing journal articles in the field of agriculture and veterinary science. Minimal full-text. |
| The American Indian Experience | Provides in-depth historical accounts and cultural information about the indigenous peoples of North America. |
| America's News- Newsbank | Contains more than 2,000 news sources from around the country including St Louis Post Dispatch and the Kansas City Star. Find diverse perspectives on topics related to controversial issues, the environment, health, education, science, the arts, literature, business, economics, criminal justice, and more from a variety of current and retrospective news media including newspapers, newswires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, periodicals, videos and web-only content. |
| Artemis Literary Sources- Academic | Allows users to visualize trends in writing and culture with data compiled from primary sources, criticism, and analysis (via Literature Criticism Online's holdings).Contains articles from Contemporary Literary Criticism, The New York Times Book Review, Times Literary Supplement, and others. |
| Associates Programs Source | Designed specifically for two-year colleges, and provides comprehensive coverage of the most relevant associates program level content. Contains full-text journals as well eBooks. |
| Book Collection Nonfiction: Elementary School Edition | Contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for popular nonfiction books. |
| Book Collection Nonfiction: High School Edition | Contains informative abstracts and searchable full-text for popular nonfiction books. |
| Book Collection Nonfiction: Middle School Edition | Contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for popular nonfiction books. |
| Britannica Online | Combines Encyclopædia Britannica and Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, periodicals, atlas, world data, the Classics, biographies, news, and multimedia. |
| Business Source Premier | The industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for journals and peer-reviewed titles back to 1886. Includes market research reports, company and industry profiles, country profiles, as well as management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics information. Updated daily. |
| The Chronicle of Higher Education | This publication covers news in the field of higher education. Begins September 1989, and is updated weekly. |
| CINAHL with Full Text | CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature) includes full-text (complete articles) from nursing and allied health journals and other publications. |
| Consumer Health Complete | A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content such as articles, evidence-based reports, reference books and fact sheets. Covers all areas of health and wellness. Updated on a weekly basis. |
| CQ Researcher | Weekly reports offer in-depth, unbiased coverage of pressing political or social issues including health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Covers 1923-present. |
| Credo Reference | A collection of eBooks organized into millions of entries all interconnected by over 100,000,000 links providing access to tens of thousands of encyclopedia and dictionary entries as well as images and audio clips. |
| Critical Survey of Short Fiction:American Writers | This Salem Press eBook contains profiles of major American writers . Includes time line, major awards, categorical index, and alphabetical list of authors. |
| Critical Survey of Short Fiction: British, Irish, & Commonwealth Writers | This Salem Press eBook contains profiles of major British, Irish, and British Commonwealth writers .Includes time line, major awards, categorical index, and alphabetical list of authors. |
| Critical Survey of Short Fiction: Cumulative Indexes | Indexes of all Salem press Critical Survey resources. Including American, British, European, and World writers. Includes time line, major awards, and chronological list. |
| Critical Survey of Short Fiction: European Writers | This Salem Press eBook contains profiles of major European short-story writers. Includes time line, major awards, categorical index, and alphabetical list of authors. |
| Critical Survey of Short Fiction: Topical Essays | This Salem Press eBook contains topical essays from writers across the world. Topics include regional critiques of short fiction, time periods, and genres. |
| Critical Survey of Short Fiction: World Writers | This Salem Press eBook profiles of major world short-story writers from 44 countries. Includes time line, major awards, categorical index, and alphabetical list of contemporary authors. |
| Drama for Students (GVRL) | This eBook series provides an excellent introduction to frequently-studied plays. |
| eBooks on EBSCOhost | A subscription based database of eBooks available in a web-based reader for use on your computer,eReader and mobile device. |
| EBSCOhost Integrated Search | Search a number of EBSCOhost databases simultaneously. |
| Education full-text | Contains full-text articles from journals, magazines, and other publications in education and related fields. |
| ERIC | Available through the EBSCOhost interface, ERIC includes selected full text and indexing of over one million journal articles and documents in the field of education. |
This interface, designed for use by the general public, is graphically rich and provides access to a wide range of materials- contains overviews that provide a starting point for research and 60,000 top videos from the Associated Press, as well as material designed for children ages- including an interface designed specifically for K-6 students. | |
| Films on Demand | Films on Demand is a streaming video database of thousands of high-quality educational titles in dozens of subject areas from producers such as Films for the Humanities & Sciences, NOVA, BBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, The History Channel, Open University, TEDTalks and WideAngle. |
| Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia | This EBSCOhost database provides encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. |
| GODORT | GODORT stands for 'Government Documents Round Table' and is an annotated list of databases compiled by the American Library Association. There are over 200 databases-free to use- containing everything from access to CASEnet, lobbyist expense reports, to various government documents, and demographic information. |
| HeritageQuest Online | Collection of unique material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. Use HeritageQuest to find your ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled. |
| ImageQuest | ImageQuest is a collection 1,000,000+ images available for use (in keeping with copyright law of course) in the classroom setting. Take a look! |
| Issues and Controversies in American History | Explore both sides of controversial issues in American history with this Facts on File database. |
| JSTOR | JSTOR consists entirely of scholarly journal articles from titles in various disciplines. Topics include: archeology, art & art history, Asian studies, biology, botany, business, ecology, economics, education, history, language & literature, law, music, psychology, political science, sociology, and more. |
| Latino American Experience | The latest version of the first-ever database dedicated to the history and culture of Latinos–the largest, fastest growing minority group in the United States. |
| Learning Express Library | Offers practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help you succeed on the academic or licensing tests. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. |
| LegalTrac | LegalTrac provides indexing and selective full-text for all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers. The database offers coverage of federal and state cases, laws and regulations, legal practice and taxation, as well as British Commonwealth, European Union, and international law. |
| LexisNexis Academic | LexisNexis provides access to searchable documents and records from legal, news and business sources from all over the world. Includes full-text articles from U. S. and foreign newspapers. with 20-year backfiles, broadcast transcripts, business, legal, and non-english news sources. |
| Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts | This EBSCOhost product indexes periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings in Library Science and Information Technology. |
| Literature Criticism Online: 20th Century Literary Criticism | Searchable digitized journal collection with articles available on various aspects of literary criticism. Results are categorized by content-type including biography, criticism, reviews, and news. Use the Artemis Literary Sources visualization tool to graph the frequency of common terms throughout history, or to create word clusters, which aid in tracking the development of literary movements, as well as making critical connections between associated ideas. |
| Literary Index | Search for an author to find a complete list of titles, or search by title to find an author with this useful resource. |
| Literary Reference Center | Combines information from major respected reference works, books, and literary journals, as well as original content. Includes plot summaries, synopses, articles of literary criticism, author biographies, full text from literary journals, book reviews, poems, short stories, author interviews, and images of key literary figures. |
Literature of War (GVRL) | Discusses socio-cultural, and historical context of literature dealing with themes of armed conflict in various places, and at various points throughout history. Focuses on the experience of war, as well as how society deals with and understands it. |
| Magill's Medical Guide | Covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders. |
| Contains full text for popular high school magazines. It also provides additional full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an Image Collection of photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. | |
| Masterfile Premier | Has many popular periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains reference books, primary source documents, and images including maps & flags.Contains the popular title Consumer Reports. |
| MEDLINE | Created by the National Library of Medicine. MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Search MEDLINE through EBSCOhost's interface. |
| Middle Search Plus | Provides full-text for popular middle school magazines. All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Contains biographies, primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags. |
| Newspaper Source | Provides cover-to-cover full text for U.S. & international newspapers, selective full-text for regional U.S. newspapers, and television radio news transcripts are also provided. |
| Novels for Students (GVRL) | Provides an excellent introduction to frequently-studied novels. |
| Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) | Provides access to emerging and advanced research in various disciplines. Theses and dissertations are available to download in .pdf format for free as part of the open access model, which aims to make scholarly research more readily available. |
| Opposing Viewpoints in Context | Find pro and con viewpoint articles on controversial topics. Includes periodical articles along with thousands of podcasts. |
| Oxford Dictionary Premium | Oxford’s largest modern English dictionaries and thesaurus. Word entries, definitions, synonyms, and antonyms from one of the most credible sources available. |
| Oxford Reference Online Titles | Oxford Digital Reference Shelf Titles are Oxford's award-winning scholarly reference titles provided as eBooks in a variety of subject areas such as Art, Literature and Culture. |
| Poetry for Students (GVRL) | This Gale eBook series provides an excellent introduction to frequently-studied poems. |
| Points of View Reference Center | Provides students with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Also included are articles from periodicals, books, biographies, radio and television transcripts, primary source documents, images and videos. |
| Pop Culture Universe | This ABC-CLIO database contains a comprehensive and authoritative collection of information on popular culture in America and the world, both past and present. |
| Primary Search | Provides full text for popular magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. |
| Professional Development Collection | Designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of high quality education journals, including peer-reviewed titles, educational reports, and is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world. |
| PsycARTICLES | From the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains articles from journals published by the APA, and its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychology Association and Hogrefe Publishing Group. |
| Psychology & Mental Health | This eBook provides notable theories, people, social issues, life stages, the physiology and anatomy of the nervous system, and various mental illnesses or conditions, all in a simple, easy to use A-Z format. |
| Regional Business News | This database includes articles from regional business magazines, journals and other publications covering metropolitan and rural areas in the United States. |
| Science Reference Center | Contains full-text science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. |
| Short Stories for Students (GVRL) | This eBook series provides an excellent introduction to frequently-studied short stories. |
| SIRS Knowledge Source | Contains information on controversial topics of current interest. Provides topic overviews, links, full-text popular sources, multimedia, and websites that are carefully selected from thousands of domestic and international sources. |
| The Sixties in America | Comprehensive coverage of the impact of the 1960's on the United States and Canada; articles on civil rights, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, the social revolution, as well as the arts, media, and music. |
| St. Louis Business Journal | The St. Louis Business Journal is a weekly trade publication for local entrepreneurs, business people, and folks interested in the economy of the Greater St. Louis Area. In addition to articles on businesses and prominent figures, the SLBJ publishes an annual 'Book of Lists' ranking companies by size and wealth, as well as providing information for shareholders and more. |
| St. Louis Post Dispatch | This newspaper database contains articles from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1988 to the present. |
