Monmouth College Hewes Library databases

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Databases by title (with descriptions)

  • AAPG / Datapages
    The American Association of Petroleum Geologists's (AAPG) research database that provides full-text access to the current and back issues of periodical titles related to petroleum geology, along with the full-text publications of a number of AAPG chapters. Off-campus access.
  • Academic Search Premier
    EBSCOhost's academic-specific database indexes 8,000+ periodicals in all disciplines. 4,600 titles are full-text or full-image, and 3,500 are peer-reviewed. Coverage: generally since 1980, but back to 1965 for some titles. Title list; off-campus access.
  • AccessScience
    Online version of McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology (20 print volumes; find it in the Reference Collection at REF Q 121. M3 2002), plus several other reference and web resources. Off-campus access.
  • ACM Digital Library
    A "vast collection of citations and text" from the Association of Computing Machinery. Our subscription grants access to the full-text archive of 12 ACM publications. Password authentication is required for some searches / article views. Off-campus access.
  • ACS Publications
    Full-text access to over 35 ACS chemistry-related publications. Title list.
  • AGRICOLA
    Indexes materials relating to all aspects of agriculture. Coverage: since 1970. Updated monthly. Title list; Off-campus access.
  • AICPA Professional Standards
    Covers auditing, accounting and review services, attestations, consulting services, financial planning, and tax services.
  • Alternative Press Index
    Indexes 187,000+ records from 300+ international "alternative" press sources, on issues from anarchism and ecology to socialism. Coverage: since 1991. Updated quarterly. Title list; Off-campus access.
  • Alternative Press Index Archive
    Companion archive to the Alternative Press Index (see above). Coverage: 1969-1990. Title list; Off-campus access.
  • America: History and Life
    Indexes 1,700 journals from 1964 to present relating to U.S. and Canadian history. Also provides citations and links to book and media reviews. Off-campus access.
  • America's Newspapers
    Full-text articles from the electronic editions of over 600 American newspapers, including Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune.
  • American Heritage Dictionary
    Online version of the print AHD, featuring updates made over the 1992 3d edition (which can be found in the Reference Collection at REF PE 1628. A623 1992).
  • American National Biography
    Online version of the multivolume print set (find it in the Reference Collection at REF CT 213. A68), providing articles and bibliographies on notable Americans. Off-campus access.
  • Ancestry Library
    Unparalleled coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records: over 4,000 databases searching two billion names.
  • Anchor Bible Dictionary
    CD-ROM version of the 6-volume print resource (in our Reference Collection: REF BS 440. A54 1992). Provides 6,000+ entries from 800 scholars.
  • ArticleFirst
    Indexes 12,500+ journals in many disciplines. Coverage started: 1990. Updated daily. Title list; off-campus access.
  • Arts & Humanities Search
    Indexes 1,300 leading arts and humanities journals. Coverage: since 1980. Updated weekly. Title list; off-campus access.
  • ARTstor
    Provides online access to over 500,000 images and 950 virtual reality panoramas of important architectural locations, as well as descriptions for each item. Off-campus access.
  • BasicBIOSIS
    Indexes 375 life science journals found in academic libraries. Coverage: since 1994. Updated monthly. Title list; off-campus access.
  • Biography & Genealogy Master Index
    Indexes over 12 million biographical sketches from 2,700+ volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures. Title list; off-campus access.
  • Biology Digest
    Indexes 200+ periodicals covering the life sciences, for undergraduates and high school students. Coverage: since 1989. Updated nine times annually. Title list; off-campus access.
  • Books in Print
    Indexes in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books from 44,000+ North American publishers. Updated weekly. Title list available in-product. Off-campus access.
  • Business and Industry
    Contains important information about companies, industries, products, and markets. Includes trade magazines, newsletters, general business press and international business dailies. Coverage: since 1994. Updated daily. Title list; off-campus access.
  • Business and Management Practices
    Indexes 800+ business and management periodicals, focusing on the practical aspects and approaches to business management. Coverage: since 1995. Title list; off-campus access.
  • Business Dateline
    Contains regional information vital to business. Title list; off-campus access.
  • Business Organizations
    Directory of organizations that serve business and industry; sources provided by the Gale Group. Off-campus access.
  • Business Source Elite
    EBSCOhost's business database indexes 3,800+ periodicals in all business- and management-related disciplines. 3,000+ titles are full-text or full-image, 1,000 of which are peer-reviewed. Coverage: back to 1950 for some titles. Title list; off-campus access.
  • Chemical Abstracts [password required; contact Dr. Kieft at x2369]
    Indexes and abstracts the world's chemical publications using the STN search service. For access and more information, contact Dr. Kieft in the Chemistry Department at x2369.
  • Chicago Tribune 1849-1984
    Provides article images (.PDFs) of nearly every page and article of the Chicago Tribune, from its first issue as the Chicago Daily Tribune in 1849, through 1984. Off-campus access.
  • Clase and Periodica
    Indexes 400,000+ documents in Latin American journals in many disciplines. Titles covered are 2,600+ scholarly journals in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and English. Coverage: since 1978. Updated quarterly. Off-campus access.
  • Communications & Mass Media Complete
    CMMC is primarily comprised of two excellent resources: CommSearch (formerly produced by the NCA, and providing extended coverage of many NCA titles), and Mass Media Articles Index (with 40,000+ citations in mass media studies). Title list; off-campus access.
  • Contemporary Authors, included in Literature Resource Center
    Online version of Gale's print set (find it in the Reference Collection at REF PN 453. C63), providing biographical data on contemporary authors.
  • Contemporary Women's Issues
    Indexes 35,000+ articles from 1,500+ periodicals. Coverage: since 1992. Title list; off-campus access.
  • CQ Researcher
    Online version of the weekly print publication noted for its in-depth, balanced coverage and analysis of contemporary issues. Coverage: since 1991 (.PDFs since 1996). Off-campus access.
  • Credo Reference
    Online collection of over 300 reference title from 59 publishers. Access to 3 million records. Off-campus access.
  • Current Biography Illustrated
    Biographical essays of notable figures with an international scope. Coverage: since 1940. Off-campus access.
  • Disclosure Corporate Snapshots
    Brief corporate and financial information on corporations whose shares are traded in the U.S.. Updated weekly. Off-campus access.
  • Dissertation Abstracts International
    Indexes dissertations and articles from more than 620 periodicals. Coverage: since 1969. Off-campus access.
  • EBSCOhost [multiple databases]
    Provides access to more than twenty databases as diverse as Academic Search Premier, MLA International Bibiliography, and Clinical Pharmacology. Title lists are available for each database in-product. Off-campus access.
  • EconLit
    Indexes dissertations and articles from more than 620 periodicals. Coverage: since 1969. Title list; off-campus access.
  • Electronic Collections Online (ECO)
    Indexes 100,000+ journals in many disciplines. Many page images(.PDF files) are provided. Coverage: since 1995. Updated daily. Title list available in-product. Off-campus access.
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
    The online version of Britannica's latest encyclopedia (our most recent print issue is in the Ready Reference Collection at RDY REF AE 5. E363 2002), plus thousands of unique online articles, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th ed.), the Britannica Book of the Year, and links to WWW sites. Updated daily.
  • ERIC
    Indexes and abstracts documents and journal articles on education research and practice. Coverage: since 1996. Updated monthly. Title list; off-campus access.
  • Europa World Plus
    Online version of the Europa World Year Book and the Europa Regional Surveys of the World covering political and economic information in over 250 countries.
  • Facts On File - World News Digest
    Indexes and provides access to world news as well as supplementary features. Coverage: since 1940.
  • FirstSearch [multiple databases]
    Provides access to over 40 databases, as diverse as FactSearch, MEDLINE, ERIC and WorldCat. Title lists are available in-product. Off-campus access.
  • GEOBASE
    Indexes worldwide literature on geology, geography and ecology. Coverage: since 1980. Updated monthly. Title list; off-campus access.
  • GPO Monthly Catalog
    Indexes all print publications of the United States Government Printing Office (GPO). Coverage: since 1976. Updated monthly. Off-campus access.
  • GreenFile

    • Indexes and abstracts over 35 years of publications relating to environmental concerns. Full text for some articles is available.
  • Grove Art Online, available through Oxford Art Online
    Online version of Grove's 34-volume Dictionary of Art, with the addition of extensive internal links, and links to images from art collections around the world. Off-campus access.
  • HarpWeek
    Online access to images from every issue of Harper's Weekly, the 19th-century "Journal of Civilization."
  • HeinOnline
    Provides access to over 200 legal periodicals, Legal Classics Library, U.S. Federal Legislative Library, U.S. Presidential Library, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library. Off-campus access.
  • Health Source: Consumer Edition
    Over 130 full-text consumer health magazines focusing on the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Updated daily. Title list; off-campus access.
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
    Indexes 850 periodicals in nursing, clinical medicine and general health. 450 titles are peer-reviewed and either full-text or full-image. Coverage: back to 1975 for some titles. Title list; off-campus access.
  • Historical Statistics of the United States
    Online statistical information containing 37,000 data sets from 1,000 different resources.
  • Illinois Digital Maps [Sanborn]
    Provides access to digitized Sanborn fire insurance maps to over 500 cities and towns in Illinois. Coverage: 1867-1970.
  • JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)
    Full text of the Journal of the American Medical Association (and associated archives publications), a premiere publication addressing issues in health and medicine. Title list; off-campus access.
  • JSTOR
    Indexes and provides access to full-image (.PDF) articles from over 600 journals in all disciplines. Some holdings extend back into the nineteenth century.
  • LexisNexis Academic
    Indexes, abstracts and provides some full-text access to 5,600+ news sources both national and international.
  • LexisNexis Congressional
    Indexes and abstracts CIS's Index to the Publications of the United States Congress, and provides the full text of Congressional hearings, committee reports, bills, and other governmental publications.
  • LexisNexis Statistical
    Indexes, abstracts, and provides tables for all U.S. government statistical publications since 1973, 1,000 statistical publications of private and government sources since 1980, and more. Title list.
  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
    Indexes 600+ periodicals, plus books, reports and proceedings, covering librarianship, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage: since the mid-1960s. This product is freely available online.
  • Liebert Online
    Over 30,000 full-text papers from more than 60 journals focusing on biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, law, philanthropy, and enviromental science and sustainability.
  • Literary Index [Gale]
    Indexes all Gale series on literary criticism and biography in our Reference Collection, i.e. Contemporary Literary Criticism, Contemporary Authors, and others. This product is freely available online.
  • Literature Online (LION)
    Covers 350,000+ works of literature, including tens of thousands of primary sources, 880,000+ records of literary criticism via the ABELL index (138 journals of which are full-text), and eight renowned reference works. Coverage: since 1920. Off-campus access.
  • Literature Resource Center, including Contemporary Authors
    Contains 400,000+ full-text articles, 40,000+ critical essays, 122,000+ biographies, and more, covering all topics related to literature in all genres.
  • MagillOnLiterature Plus
    Provides online access to Salem Press' editorially reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries, combined with thousands of biographical records and images. Source materials include Masterplots, Masterplots II, and other Magill review publications. Off-campus access.
  • MEDLINE [FirstSearch]
    Indexes 3,500 international medical journals. Originated at the National Library of Medicine. Coverage: since 1965. Updated quarterly. Off-campus access.
  • MEDLINE PLUS [NLM]
    Indexes 3,500 international medical journals. Originated at and maintained by the National Library of Medicine. Coverage: since 1965. Updated monthly. This product is freely available online.
  • Milestone Documents in American History
    A collection of primary source documents from Salem Press relating to American History. Full text of documents and commentary is included.
  • Military & Government Collection
    Collection of academic journals, periodicals, and other publication containing current news regarding all branches of the military and government. 300 publications full-text and indexing and abstracts for another 400 titles. Title list; off-campus access.
  • MLA International Bibliography
    Indexes 4,000 international periodicals covering literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Coverage: since 1969. Updated ten times annually. Off-campus access.
  • New York Times 1851-2001
    Provides article images (.PDFs) of nearly every page and article of the New York Times, from its first issue as the New York Daily Times in 1851, through 2001: 3.4 million pages in all. Off-campus access.
  • Newspaper Abstracts
    Indexes and abstracts over 4.7 million newspaper articles, including reviews, editorials, commentaries, and more. Coverage: since 1989. Updated weekly. Title list; off-campus access.
  • Newspaper Source
    Provides cover-to-cover full text of 23 national and international newspapers, and selected full text of 180 regional newspapers. Updated daily. Title list; off-campus access.
  • Nineteenth Century in Print
    Provides access to 1,500+ nineteenth-century and 23 popular periodicals, all in full-image (.PDF) format. Title list available in-product. This product is freely available online. Off-campus access.
  • NoveList: Your Guide to Fiction
    Reader's advisory resource, assisting fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. Also provides a searchable database of stories based on story elements such as character or theme. Provides 1,000+ theme-oriented booklists and award lists. Off-campus access.
  • Oxford Art Online

    • Combines Grove Art and Oxford's art reference in one place. Thousands of images and artists biographies are available.Off-campus access.
  • Oxford English Dictionary (2d. ed.)
    Online version of the premiere etymological dictionary of the English language (20-volume set in print, found in our Reference Collection at REF PE 1625. N53 1933).
  • Oxford Reference Online
    Online versions of 100+ Oxford reference works: 1.5 million entries equivalent to 60,000 print pages. Title list; off-campus access.
  • PapersFirst
    Indexes papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received by the British Library Document Supply Centre: 4.9 million records in all. Coverage: since 1993. Updated twice monthly. Off-campus access.
  • Periodical Abstracts
    Indexes and abstracts (with some full text) over 3.3 million records from 2,000+ titles in various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage: since 1987. Updated weekly. Title list; off-campus access.
  • Physical Education Index
    Indexes 230,000+ records on P.E. topics including P.E. curricula, sports medicine, and dance. Coverage: since 1970. Updated monthly. Title list.
  • ProceedingsFirst
    Indexes every paper presented at every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop, and meeting received by the British Library Document Centre: 149,000+ records in all. Updated twice weekly. Off-campus access.
  • Professional Development Collection
    Full-text collection of 520 education journals, including 350 peer-reviewed titles. Built with educators in mind, it also contains over 200 educational reports. Title list; Off-campus access.
  • PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive)
    Complete image archive of all Physical Review to 1893, Physical Review Letters to 1958, and Reviews of Modern Physics to 1958. Mostly .PDF in format.
  • PsycARTICLES
    Provides 35,000+ full-text articles from 49 scholarly journals focusing on general, specialized, basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in the psychological sciences. Coverage: since 1988. Off-campus access.
  • PsycINFO (1887- )
    Indexes the contents of 1,400+ journals, book chapters, dissertations, and reports in psychology and related disciplines. Coverage: since 1887. Updated monthly. Off-campus access.
  • Regional Business News
    Contains full-text coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers, and newswires from metropolitan and rural areas of the United States. Updated daily. Title list; Off-campus access.
  • RIA Checkpoint (Tax Research) [password required; contact a librarian at x2301]
    Allows full-text searching of a myriad of state, federal and international tax publications. For access or more information, please contact a librarian at the Reference Desk: x2301.
  • SAGE Premier Online
    Provides access to over 485 journals in the fields of Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. Off-campus access.
  • Saskia Digital Art Images
    Contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, from collections worldwide. Off-campus access.
  • Scientific American Archive Online
    Provides full text and graphics of every Scientific American issue since 1993: 4,000+ articles in all. Off-campus access.
  • SPORTDiscus
    More than 350 full text sports and sports medicine journals. Coverage: since 1985. Off-campus access.
  • Teacher Reference Center
    Indexes and provides abstracts for more than 270 journals and magazines for educators and administrators. Off-campus access.
  • Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
    Fully searchable, the Times Literary Supplement contains a wide variety of contemporary literary review.
  • WilsonSelect Plus
    Indexes and provides full-text articles from 800+ periodicals. Coverage: since 1994. Updated weekly. Title list; off-campus access.
  • World Almanacs
    Provides online content for: The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the USA, The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids. Updated annually. Off-campus access.
  • WorldCat
    Provides bibliographic information and holdings for over 40 million library items held in 40,000+ libraries worldwide. Off-campus access.
  • Worldscope
    Indexes 32,000+ sources and documents from corporations in the U.S. and abroad. Coverage: current only. Off-campus access.

Assistance

If you would like assistance in choosing a database above, or if you are experiencing problems accessing or using any of the databases, please contact the Reference Desk at (309) 457-2301.

Off-campus access

Many of the above databases provide off-campus access. Monmouth College students, faculty and staff may obtain login / password information by contacting the Reference Desk at (309) 457-2301.

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