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Academic Search Premier
Coverage:
1970- Present
Funded by:
NJ State Library
Description:
Academic Search Premier is the world's largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. With the most valuable and most numerous collection of peer-reviewed full text journals, Academic Search Premier offers critical information from many sources found in no other database. This resource contains full text for nearly 3,200 scholarly publications
Communication & Mass Media Complete
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. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Communication & Mass Media Complete provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media.
Education Full Text (Omnifile Full Text Mega Edition - H.W. Wilson)
Coverage:
1995 - Present
Funded by:
NJIT Library
Description:
Education Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from 757 and yearbooks with full text for 394 journals including over 40 Open Access journals. English-language books relating to education published in 1995 or later are also indexed. Indexing coverage is from 1983, Full Text from 1995.
ERIC - Education Social Science - Public
Coverage:
1966 - Present
Funded by:
Externally Funded
Description:
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), the U.S. Department of Education's database, with more than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, will be available for free. ERIC may be also accessed through Ebsco Masterfile
ERIC - Education Social Science - VALE
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
Free to NJIT from EBSCO
Description:
ERIC with some full text
Humanities Full Text (Omnifile Full Text Mega Edition - H.W. Wilson)
Coverage:
1995 - Present
Funded by:
NJIT Library
Description:
Humanities Full Text is a bibliographic database that cites articles from 630 periodicals, plus the full text of 286 periodicals. Indexing is from 1984. Full-text coverage begins in January 1995.
JSTOR - Arts & Sciences I, II, III, and Health & General Science Collection
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
NJIT Library and Distance Learning Fees
Description:
A full-text database of over 100 scholarly journals in economics, ecology, statistics, mathematics, history and philosophy among other fields.
LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts)
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.
OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition - H.W. Wilson
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.
PsycArticles
Coverage:
1894 - Present
Funded by:
Distance Learning Fees
Description:
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 more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.
Readers Guide Full Text (Omnifile Full Text Mega Edition - H.W. Wilson)
Coverage:
1994 - Present
Funded by:
NJIT Library
Description:
Readers' Guide Full Text is a database containing comprehensive indexing and abstracting of 422 general-interest periodicals, plus the full text of 231 periodicals. Indexing begins in 1983. Full-text coverage begins in January 1994.
Scopus
Coverage:
1960 - Present
Funded by:
NJIT Library
Description:
Scopus covers 14,000 international journals from more than 4,000 publishers in Science, Medicine, and Technical subjects.
Social sciences Full Text (Omnifile Full Text Mega Edition - H.W. Wilson)
Coverage:
1995 - Present
Funded by:
NJIT Library
Description:
Social Sciences Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts 653 periodicals plus the full text of 257 periodicals in all aspects of Social Sciences. Indexing begins in 1983. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.
