Library Databases by Subject

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.
 

Art Abstracts™ is a comprehensive resource for art information featuring high-quality indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals dating back to 1984, including 280 peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations, and indexing of almost 200,000 art reproductions, which provide examples of styles and art movements, including works by emerging artists. The database covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus.
 

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.
 

Citations and abstracts of dissertations and masters theses from current year and previous year only. Full text is available by self-purchase.
 

ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources. The content includes: 1.6+ million records, links to 750,000+ full-text documents, and an education-specific thesaurus containing 11,700+ terms dating back to 1966. Documents from articles, conference papers, curriculum guides, dissertations, and policy papers. Sponsored by the Institute of Education of Sciences, Department of Education.
 

GreenFILEs initial release will include A&I for more than 600 titles, including comprehensive coverage from to volume 1, issue 1 to present for Bioscience (back to 1964), Conservation Biology (back to 1987), Journal of Ecology (back to 1913) and Journal of Environmental Planning & Management (back to 1948). The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and the full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles.
 

Database of full-text magazines, journals and encyclopedias.
 

Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform for public libraries and universities that offers films and documentaries. Everyone from film scholars to casual viewers will discover remarkable and enriching films on Kanopy. Available until August 2021.  
 

Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a comprehensive database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works and is an essential resource for public, academic and high school libraries.
 

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.
 

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.
 

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an authoritative and comprehensive reference work devoted to philosophy that will remain useful to those in academia and the general public.
 

Access to more than 300 detailed case studies of completed projects ranging from low-income housing to mixed-use downtown developments to commercial and industrial projects. The case studies provide photographs and site plans, information on costs and rents, innovative features and strategies of the project, and an explanation of the entire development process. It covers projects from 1985 to the present. Thirty new case studies are added every year.