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Library Databases by Subject
Due to licensing restrictions, remote access / off-campus access to some of the library's electronic resources is limited to current students, faculty and staff of New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Subjects
Art and Architecture
Biological Sciences
Biomedical Engineering
Business and Management
Career Research
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Computer Science
Design
Dissertations
eBooks
Economics
Education
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Engineering
Engineering Technology
Environmental Engineering
General
Biological Sciences
Biomedical Engineering
Business and Management
Career Research
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Computer Science
Design
Dissertations
eBooks
Economics
Education
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Engineering
Engineering Technology
Environmental Engineering
General
General
Databases HomeCoverage:
1970- Present
Funded by:
NJ State Library
Description:
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 8,500 journals, including full text for more than 4,600 peer-reviewed titles.PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
NJIT Library
Description:
Artstor provides faculty and students with a complete image resource in a wide array of subjects with the breadth and depth to add context and examine influences beyond the confines of your discipline. With approximately 300 collections composed of over 2.5 million images (and growing), scholars can examine wide-ranging material such as Native American art from the Smithsonian, treasures from the Louvre, and panoramic, 360-degree views of the Hagia Sophia in a single, easy-to-use resource.
Artstor also supports study across disciplines, including anthropology from Harvard’s Peabody Museum, archaeology from Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Art Archives, and modern history from Magnum Photos, making it a resource for your whole institution.
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
NJIT Library
Description:
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for more than 550 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of 737 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for over 440 journals.
Coverage:
1978 - Present
Funded by:
Externally Funded
Description:
Allows searching of copyright information by searching 3 databases which contain records and ownership documents. Includes, books, music, films, sound recording, maps, software, photos, art, multimedia, periodicals, magazines, journals, and newspapers.
Coverage:
Current year and previous year
Funded by:
Externally Funded
Description:
Citations and abstracts of dissertations and masters theses from current year and previous year only. Full text is available by self-purchase.
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
NJIT Library
Description:
This page allows users to simultaneously search EBSCO databases. To search within a single EBSCOhost database, click the database name listed. To select more than one database to search, check the boxes next to the databases and click Continue.
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
NJIt Library
Description:
Dow Jones Factiva.com is a premier business and general reference resource with a broad collection of sources that reach across disciplines from business and current events to communications and technology, politics, foreign policy, and more. Factiva.com combines more than 28,000 sources to give users access to premium content from 159 countries in 22 languages. This broad range of content provides both local insight and global perspective on every business issue. Factiva.com gives users the power to monitor current news, track industry developments and global market activity, and research a global company.
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
NJ State Library
Description:
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Coverage:
1994 - Present
Funded by:
Externally Funded
Description:
Catalog of U.S. Government publications
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
Trial
Description:
HeinOnline is an online database containing more than 182 million pages and 281,000 titles of historical and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. HeinOnline provides comprehensive coverage of 2,800+ law-related periodicals. HeinOnline contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
CHDS
Description:
The HSDL collection provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies. The resources are reviewed and selected by a team of homeland security researchers and organized in a unique homeland security taxonomy. HSDL content includes state-of-the-art multi-media offerings and other valuable assets identified by CHDS master's degree participants and instructors. CHDS and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are providing the HSDL to homeland security officials, researchers, educators, and students in an effort to support decision-making needs and assists homeland defense and security related research. Moreover, because we’re sponsored by DHS, this service is completely free of charge to the NJIT community.
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
NJ State Library
Description:
Database of full-text magazines, journals and encyclopedias.
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
NJIT Library
Description:
The JSTOR Essential Collection (consists of JSTOR I,II,III,IV, VII) and Life Sciences collection include over 800 core titles across amny disciplines including Humanities, Social Sciences, General Science and more. See title list at:
http://about.jstor.org/content/essential-collection#tab-title-list
http://about.jstor.org/content/essential-collection#tab-title-list
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
NJ State Library
Description:
Providing exclusive online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, Legal Information Reference Center contains more than 225 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms, with more content being added on a regular basis. A majority of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation's oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.
Coverage:
1960s - Present
Funded by:
Free from EBSCO. This database will be disabled if EBSCO changes its status.
Description:
EBSCO Publishing is proud to provide the Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) database as a free resource to anyone interested in libraries and information management. This world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Delivered via the EBSCOhost platform, LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
NJ State Library
Description:
This database includes about 1,000 magazines and 45 full-text reference books as well as more than 1.4 million photos, maps and flags. It is designed specifically for public libraries, this database provides full text for magazines, periodicals and reference books covering a wide-range of subject areas. It also includes an extensive image collection containing photos, maps and flags.
Coverage:
1851 to Present
Funded by:
NJIT Library
Description:
Important: To obtain access to the NEW YORK TIMES. you must first register using your NJIT username.
NJIT has purchase institution-wide access to the New York Times. This provides users with 24/7 digital mobile access to The New York Times and includes breaking news stories, multimedia content, videos and the ability to share, save, set-up alerts, and comment on articles. It also provides access to limited archive content back to 1851. During the date range from 1923 to 1980, users are limited to 5 articles per day. During dates outside of this time frame, access is unlimited. This subscription also includes access to the InEducation academic resources or learning tools.
NJIT has purchase institution-wide access to the New York Times. This provides users with 24/7 digital mobile access to The New York Times and includes breaking news stories, multimedia content, videos and the ability to share, save, set-up alerts, and comment on articles. It also provides access to limited archive content back to 1851. During the date range from 1923 to 1980, users are limited to 5 articles per day. During dates outside of this time frame, access is unlimited. This subscription also includes access to the InEducation academic resources or learning tools.
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
NJIT Library
Description:
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
Coverage:
1982 - Present
Funded by:
NJIT Library
Description:
More than 2,500 periodicals: business, humanities, science, education, & social science journals, plus popular magazines. Full text of more than 1,100 periodicals as far back as January 1994. Abstracting of more than 2,500 periodicals as far back as September 1984. Indexing of more than 2,500 periodicals as far back as August 1982. Includes Wilson\'s Education, Business, Humanities, Social Social Sciences, General Science, and Readers\' Guide indexes and full text editions. Includes full text editions titles only of Art, Applied Science, and Library Literature.
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
NJIT Library
Description:
Ebook Central provides more than 155,000 electronic book titles from the most authoritative publishers across the globe. These books are accessible on campus and remotely. Ebook Central titles can be read online or downloaded to or transferred to an eReader that support Adobe Digital Editions. In addition, titles can be downloaded to devices like the iPad or iPhone using the Bluefire applications.
Coverage:
1894 - Present
Funded by:
Distance Learning Fees
Description:
PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals.
The database can be searched in several ways including by specifying keywords that may occur in the article title, abstract, or the full-text, or by author names and journal titles. Each retrieved record has a link to the corresponding full-text article, which is almost always available in PDF format (so Adobe Acrobat reader is needed for viewing) and in HTML format. Each record also has a link to the Table of Contents (TOC) for the issue in which the article is published.
The database can also be searched for articles of interest by browsing directly through the journal titles and then clicking to the tables of contents for the respective volumes and issues.
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
NJ State Library
Description:
Reference USA offers cutting-edge, advanced technology to provide real-time access to the world\'s most comprehensive databases of 14 million U.S. businesses; 250 million U.S. consumers; 732,000 U.S. physicians, surgeons and dentists; 1.2 million Canadian businesses; and 12 million Canadian consumers.
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
NJ State Library
Description:
Regional Business News is a supplemental database for customers of Business Source Premier. This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
Other
Description:
The Statistical Abstract is the Nation\'s best known and most popular single source of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the country. The Abstract has been published since 1878. As the National Data Book it contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included. The Abstract is also your Guide to Sources of other data from the Census Bureau, other Federal agencies, and private organizations.