Online Databases

ATLA Historical Monographs Collection — a database that provides full-text access to historical books about religion and theology. Series 1 presents more than 15,000 titles from 13th Century through the 1893 World Parliament of Religions. Series 2 consists of nearly 15,000 titles published from 1894 through 1923 and presents a comprehensive picture of religion in America at the turn of the century.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials — an index for journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion and theology. It contains more than 620,000 article citations from over 1,746 journals; more than 250,000 essay citations from over 18,000 multi-author works; and more than 570,000 book review citations. Full-text access to over 380,000 electronic articles and book reviews is also provided.

Britannica Academic — a comprehensive online encyclopedia for general reference and research. It contains entries on subjects in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology; and provides access to thousands of related resources like magazine and journal articles, e-books, images, audio and video clips, and primary source documents.

Business Source Premier — a business research database that provides full text for more than 2,300 journals and contains 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. It covers all disciplines of business, including accounting, finance, economics, marketing, management, management information systems, and production and operations management. This database extends back to 1886 and has searchable cited references back to 1998.

Chronicle of Higher Education — a print and online publication that provides news, data, and special reports about colleges and universities in the United States. The online edition includes news reports, advice columns, discussion forums, and job listings related to higher education. The subjects covered regularly include faculty, students, administration, leadership and governance, and technology.

CINAHL Complete — a database that indexes over 5,500 nursing and allied health journals and provides full-text access to more than 1,300 of the publications. It also covers health care books, nursing dissertations, conference proceedings, standards of practice, audiovisual resources, book chapters and more. The database contains over 7.5 million records and full-text coverage dates back to 1937.

Communication & Mass Media Complete — a database that provides access to journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study. It indexes and abstracts more than 570 journals across the communication discipline; selectively covers nearly 200 more, and includes the full text for over 450 journals. For many of the major journals, the database also contains searchable cited references.

CQ Researcher — a database that provides access to reports on current public policy issues. For each issue, a report includes an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, and resources for additional research. Each report also contains graphics, photos and sidebar features.

eBook Business Collection — a searchable database of over 21,700 e-books for business research. It contains titles on general business concepts as well as publication that provide business information for special projects and entrepreneurial needs. The topics covered include marketing, finance, supply chain management, entrepreneurship, career growth, personal development, communication and networking, and more.

eBook Collection — a searchable database that contains over 205,000 of multidisciplinary e-book titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter, including art, business, education, history, law, mathematics, political science, religion, and science. For each title, the database provides access to the full-text of the publication.

Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) — a database that provides access to education literature and resources. It includes information from journals covered by the Current Index of Journals in Education and from non-journal sources covered by the Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1.6 million records and links to nearly 750,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.

Ellen G. White Writings — a database that contains the complete published writings of Ellen G. White in several languages. It includes books, periodical articles, pamphlets, manuscripts, and more. The database also provides access to biographical and reference works on Ellen G. White. The publications can be browsed, searched, downloaded, and shared.

Films On Demand— a streaming video service that provides access to a collection of more than 44,500 educational films from over 700 producers. The videos may be watched in segments or in their entirety, and the subjects covered include art, biology, business, communication, education, English, health, history, languages, mathematics, medicine, music, philosophy, religion, political science, psychology, physical sciences, technology, and more.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia — an online encyclopedia that contains over 25,000 entries on a wide variety of subjects. Each entry provides introductory information about its subject, and many of the entries include cross-references – keywords that are hyperlinked to access other encyclopedia entries related to the one being read.

Gale Literary Index — a guide to the major literature products published by Gale. This database indexes over 130 literary reference books, and provides access to over 165,000 author names and 215,000 literary titles. It is the starting point for finding the biographies about authors and critical essays on their writings found in Gale reference books.

Gale Literature — a database that provides e-book access to the full-text of several literary biography and criticism reference works. The titles include the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Poetry Criticism, and Drama Criticism. For each title, the volumes published in 2015 and later can be browsed, searched, and downloaded.

GreenFILE — a database that provides a collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles about the environment. It covers the environment and related disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. The database includes indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records and the full text for over 4,700 records.

Health Source: Consumer Edition — a database that provides access to consumer health information through nearly 80 full-text consumer health magazines. The topics covered by the database include the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition — a database that includes over 320 full text scholarly journals focusing on nursing and allied health professions. It covers topics like pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more. The database indexes and abstracts over 840 periodicals, and nearly 250 of the full-text journals are peer-reviewed.

HeinOnline is an online database that includes over 100 million pages of multidisciplinary content in more than 100 subject areas, including history, political science, criminal justice, religious studies, international relations, women’s studies, and pre-law. It provides access to 300+ years of information on political development and the complete history of the creation of government and legal systems around the world.

JSTOR — a database of academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. For each journal, the coverage begins at the first issue published and extends to a publication date within the past three to five years. The collection contains core journals in the fields of art, economics, history, political science, sociology, language, ecology, mathematics, literature, music, and religion.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts — a database that indexes publications related to library science, information science, and information technology. It covers more than 560 core journals, magazines, and newsletters as well as books, research reports and proceedings. The subjects indexed include librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

MasterFILE Premier — a multidisciplinary database that provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals. It covers virtually every subject area of general interest, contains the full text for nearly 500 reference books, and includes over 164,000 primary source documents. It also contains an image collection of over 592,000 photos, maps and flags.

MAS Ultra: School Edition — a database that contains the full text for nearly 500 popular magazines of interest to high school students. It also includes more than 360 full text reference books, nearly 86,000 biographies, and over 107,000 primary source documents. There is also an image collection of over 500,000 photos, maps, flags, and PDFs.

Medline — a database that provides access to authoritative information about medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, the database includes citations and abstracts from over 5,400 current biomedical journals and full-text access to selected publications.

Military & Government Collection — a database designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. It provides access to periodicals, academic journals, and other content relevant to those areas of study. The database includes the full text for nearly 300 magazines and journals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.

MLA International Bibliography with Full-Text — a database that provides detailed bibliographical information for journal articles, books, and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the database dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.7 million citations for books, articles, dissertations, websites, and more. It also includes full-text articles from more than 1,000 journals.

Music Index with Full-Text — a database that provides indexing, abstracting, and full-text for articles about music, musicians, and the music industry. It covers every aspect of both classical and popular fields of music, indexes more than 475 periodicals since 1970, and includes news, book reviews, and obituaries.

National Newspaper Core — a database of searchable national and local newspapers, including The Baltimore Sun, The Christian Science Monitor, The Lansing State Journal, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. For each newspaper, the database provides access to the full-text dating from the 1980s or 1990s to the present.

Naxos Music Library — a database of online classical music. It offers streaming access to nearly 154,000 CDs and over 2.3 million tracks of both standard and rare repertoire. The library includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues plus the complete catalogues or selected titles from over 650 record labels. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month. Along with classical music, jazz, world, and pop/rock are also represented.

Nursing Reference Center — a database that provides evidence-based information for nursing point of care, continuing education, and research. It contains quick reference materials like care sheet and patient education handouts; provides access to original nursing research and best practices; and includes continuing education course materials and competency tests.

Oxford English Dictionary — an online historical dictionary of the English language. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 past and present words from across the English-speaking world. The dictionary covers over 1,000 years of the English language and includes over 3 million quotations illustrating its usage.

Oxford Music Online — a database that provides access to an online collection of dictionaries and encyclopedias about music and musicians. They include The Grove Dictionary of American Music, The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The Oxford Companion to Music, and the Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Encyclopedia of Popular Music.

Oxford Reference — a searchable database of more than 300 academic subject, language, and quotations dictionaries published by Oxford University Press. The topics include art, history, language, law, literature, medicine, music, performing arts, quotations, philosophy, religion, science, social sciences, technology, and more.

ProQuest Ebook Central — a multidisciplinary database that provides access to over 187,000 ebooks about a wide range of subject areas. These include anthropology, business, economics, education, engineering, history, language, law, life sciences, literature, medicine, physical sciences, political science, religion, and sociology.

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source — a database that provides access to healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and more. It indexes and abstracts or provides full-text to nearly 2,000 periodicals. The database also includes nursing reference books, dissertations, and videos. The topics represented include cytology, nutrition, oncology, pediatric care, public health, and radiology.

ProQuest Religion — a database that provides access to over 200 full-text journals on religion. It contains scholarly content that supports religious and theological studies programs as well as other academic fields and general interests. These include journals, magazines, books, theses, dissertations, conference papers, newspapers, and more.

ProQuest SciTech Premium — a collection of databases covering 11,000 periodicals in scientific and technological disciplines. It includes citation and full-text access to journal articles, conference proceedings, reports and theses, and books and ebooks on subjects in the biological sciences, computer sciences, electronics and communications, and mechanical engineering.

PsycARTICLES — a database of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains over 200,000 articles from nearly 100 journals published by organizations like the American Psychological Association and the Canadian Psychological Association. The database includes journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from psychology publications dating back to 1894.

PsycINFO — a database that provides abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in the field of psychology. It contains over 4 million records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s. The database coverage of journals spans from the 1800s to the present and includes international materials selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages.

Regional Business News — a database that provides full-text access to regional business publications from the United States and Canada. It includes more than 40 publications covering both metropolitan and rural areas in North America, and contains content taken from newspapers, radio and television news transcripts, trade publications, magazines and newswires. Full-text access is available back to 1990.

Seventh-day Adventist Obituary Index — a database that provides citations for obituaries found in Seventh-day Adventist Church sponsored and published periodicals. It includes obituaries that were reported to the periodicals and does not record all deceased church members. The database covers the period 1850 to the present.

Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index — a database that provides citation indexing to over 70 past and present Seventh-day Adventist journals and magazines. The index covers the years 1973 to the present. The exception is the Review and Herald which is currently undergoing retrospective indexing beginning with 1972 at the rate of roughly one year’s worth of articles a month.

Teacher Reference Center — a database that provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators. The range of topics covered include assessment, best practices, curriculum development, instructional media, literacy standards, school administration, and teacher education.

University Press Collection — a database of nearly 37,000 multidisciplinary scholarly e-books from more than 90 university presses from around the world. The e-books cover a wide variety of topics in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences and technology, and include publications appropriate for varied audiences – from introductory level texts to high level research.