Access Library Databases
Access Library databases from a device located either on campus or off. If you are accessing from off campus, you will have to login using your Umsv Microsoft email and password.
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| Business | Environmental | Education |
| Biology | Communications | English/Literature |
| Medicine/Nursing | Government/Law/Military | Multidisciplinary |
| Encyclopedias | Newspapers | Psychology |
| Math | eBooks | Sociology |
| International | Religion | Technology |
| Streaming Video Trials | |
| Digital Theatre Plus | Digital Theatre Plus offers full-length filmed stage performances of classic and modern plays, along with interviews and workshops. |
| ProQuest Academic Video Online | Academic Video Online is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary video subscription that supports the entire range of curriculum, from anthropology to zoology. |
| Multidisciplinary: These databases cover most subjects | |
| Academic OneFile | Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources. |
| Academic Search Premier | Search most academic areas of study. |
| Arts & Humanities Database | This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. |
| Congressional Researcher | Locate issues in the news in depth each week. |
| Directory of Open Access Journals | Internet site offering scientific and scholarly journals. |
| Expanded Academic ASAP | Access scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers, covering arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology. |
| Fine Arts and Music Collection | Provides more than 150 full-text magazines and journals for research in drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. |
| General OneFile | News and periodical articles covering many general interest topics. |
| HeinOnline Academic | HeinOnline Academic includes many pages of multidisciplinary content in a wide range of subject areas, focusing on law and social issues. |
| JSTOR | Locate back issues of full text scholarly journals. |
| OriginalSources | Read original source and primary documents. |
| Popular Magazines | Full-text coverage of 1,000 of the most searched magazines across Gale’s InfoTrac product line, covering current events, sports, science, health and more. |
| Project Muse | Journals from numerous scholarly publishers. |
| ProQuest Research Library | ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to thousands of full-text periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. |
| Science Database | This database is a definitive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. |
| Social Science Database | This database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology. |
| Biology | |
| Biology Database | This database provides access to a wide range of biology topics including some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government and public research environments. |
| BioOne | Journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. |
| JSTOR Biological Sciences Collection | This collection of journals covers: biodiversity, conservation, paleontology, plant science, cell biology and zoology. View journal titles here. |
| PLoS Biology | PLoS Biology is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science. |
| Business | |
| ABI/INFORM Dateline | Access business publications. |
| ABI/INFORM Global | In-depth coverage of business and economic conditions. |
| ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry | Business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. |
| Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection | This database brings together global scholarly journals with other key resources for access to reliable information in this continuously evolving area of study. |
| Asian & European Business Collection | This database provides information pertinent to the study of business and finance topics across Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, newswires, and magazines. |
| Barron’s | This publication’s detailed indexing helps users quickly find the news information they need. Each issue is indexed thoroughly, so they have access to not only top news stories but also the information contained on the various sections of the paper. The indexing covers not only complete bibliographic information but also companies, people, products, etc. |
| Business Insights: Essentials | Includes company profiles, brand information, company histories, SEC reports, periodical articles. |
| Business Economics and Theory | Periodicals focusing on topics in economics, with more than 450 full-text journals regular feeds of videos from Forbes.com that contain business news coverage and interviews with CEO’s. |
| Business Market Research Collection | Conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research. |
| Business Source Premier | Business journal articles. |
| Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database | This database is a longstanding, comprehensive Canadian periodical collection covering multiple subjects and topics, with millions of full-text records. |
| OxResearch Database | This database provides succinct analytical articles covering world and regional economic and political developments of major significance. |
| Regional Business News | Journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. |
| Wall Street Journal | Read the financial newspaper of record. |
| Communications | |
| ComAbstracts |
Abstracts in communication serials.
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| Communication & Mass Media Complete | Literature in all areas of communication studies. |
| Communication and Mass Media Collection | More than 250 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field including advertising and public relations, linguistics, and literature. |
| eBooks | |
| Ebrary Academic Complete | Academic Complete provides in excess of 48,000 ebooks in a wide variety of disciplines. These items are also listed with the College’s other holdings in the catalog. |
| Ebsco EBooks | NetLibrary provides access to the digital version of books. |
| Google Book Search | Preview and search for “full-view” books that reside in the public domain – about Google Books. |
| Education | |
| Career & Technical Education Database | ProQuest Career & Technical Education is the definitive source for vocational information. |
| Education Database | ProQuest Education Journals gives users access to over 900 top educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text. |
| ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) | Education-related journals and research. |
| Library Science Database | This database allows you to search the full-text of leading library and information science journals. |
| Linguistics Database | This database includes full-text journals and other sources in linguistics, including many titles indexed in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA). |
| Teacher Reference Center (TRC) | This database provides coverage on key education topics. |
| Professional Development Collection | Education-related journals. |
| English/Literature | |
| JSTOR Language & Literature Collection | This collection includes core journals in the diverse fields of literary criticism – view journal titles here. |
| MLA Bibliography | Citations covering literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. |
| Environmental | |
| Environmental Studies and Policy | Coverage of environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests. |
| Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture | More than 100 journals focused on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. |
| GreenFile | A bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns. |
| Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure | Provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism fields. |
| Government/Law/Military | |
| Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text | Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology. |
| Criminal Justice Collection | More than 700 journals covering law, law enforcement, forensic science, and Homeland Security. |
| Criminal Justice Database | ProQuest Criminal Justice is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. |
| Gun Regulation and Legislation in America | HeinOnline’s Gun Regulation and Legislation in America brings together essential periodicals, compiled legislative histories, CRS reports, Congressional hearings, United States Supreme Court briefs, monographs, and other related materials on the difficult and controversial topic of regulating firearms in the United States. |
| Military and Government Collection | Information on all branches of the military and government. |
| Military Database | The Military Collection provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more. |
| National Criminal Justice Services | Internet site offering justice and substance abuse information. |
| Political Science Database | This database gives users access to hundreds of leading political science and international relations journals, providing full-text of many core titles indexed in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. |
| Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law | This HeinOnline collection brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. |
| International | |
| Australia & New Zealand Database | This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Australia and New Zealand. |
| Continental Europe Database | This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many European countries. |
| East & South Asia Database | This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many East Asian and South Asian countries. |
| East Europe, Central Europe Database | This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in East European and Central European countries. |
| India Database | ProQuest Indian Journals is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary resource providing full-text, scholarly journals, all published in India. |
| Latin America & Iberia Database | This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal. |
| Middle East & Africa Database | This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many Middle Eastern and African countries. |
| Turkey Database | This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Turkey. |
| UK & Ireland Databse | This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. |
| Math | |
| MathSciNet | A searchable database of reviews, abstracts, and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. |
| Medicine/Nursing | |
| Access Medicine | AccessMedicine from McGraw Hill Medical is a comprehensive online medical resource that provides a complete spectrum of knowledge from the best minds in medicine, with essential information accessible anywhere. |
| CINAHL Plus with Full Text | Cumulative Index with full text to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. |
| Electronic Journal Service (EJS) | EJS offers full-text access to Nursing journals. Articles are viewed from publisher’s web sites. |
| Family Health Database | This database includes journals and magazines covering an enormous range of health subjects, from sports injuries to women’s health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry. |
| Health & Medical Collection | This database offers reliable, comprehensive journal coverage of clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration and more. |
| Healthcare Administration Database | This database is a collection of reliable and relevant resources in the field of health administration, including journals and dissertations. |
| Health Reference Center-Academic | Covers fitness, health, and health care. |
| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition | Focuses on many medical disciplines. |
| MEDLINE | Index and Abstracts from 1966 on, in medicine, nursing, dentistry, and veterinary medicine. |
| National Library of Medicine | Locate research concerning medical topics. |
| NetAnatomy | NetAnatomy is designed to teach human anatomy to students of the health professions, including undergraduate medical and health sciences students. |
| Nursing and Allied Health Collection | Over 1,100 journals, provides full-text coverage of many of the titles cited in CINAHL. |
| Nursing & Allied Health Database | This database offers reliable, comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals, video, dissertations, reference books and more. |
| Ovid Nursing Collection II | Search here for up-to-date, respected nursing titles. |
| PLoSMedicine | PLoS Medicine is an open-access, peer-reviewed medical journal published monthly and online by the Public Library of Science. |
| Public Health Database | This database allows you to search the core literature in the field of public health. |
| Newspapers | |
| Canadian Newsstream | This database offers unparalleled access to the full text of over 190 Canadian newspapers from Canada’s leading publishers. |
| Gannett Newstand | This database’s detailed indexing helps users quickly find the news information they need. |
| InfoTrac Newsstand | Collection of more than 1,000 newspapers, with over 60 million articles. |
| International Newsstream | International Newsstream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. |
| National Newspaper Index | Access indexing for America’s top seven newspapers. |
| National Newspapers Premier | Includes coverage of 27 newspapers including the New York Times. |
| New York State Newspapers | Read major newspapers published in the state of New York, including: New York Times and the New York Post. |
| Newspaper Source | Locate U.S. and international newspapers. |
| US Newsstream | US Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. |
| The New York Times | Read the U.S. newspaper of record from 1999 to Present. |
| The New York Times Historical | Full text database of the New York Times starting with the first issue published on September 18, 1851 and continuing through 2003. |
| Psychology | |
| PsycArticles | Articles on current issues in psychology. |
| PsycInfo | Access psychology index and abstracts. |
| Psychology Collection | Nearly 500 full-text periodicals providing a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions, and how the human mind develops and diminishes over time. |
| Psychology Database | Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 640 titles, with over 540 titles available in full text. |
| Religion | |
| Religion Database | This database provides a wide range of primarily full-text, international periodicals for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies of major religions, as well as the most recent trends and scholarly thought. |
| Sociology | |
| Sociological Abstracts | Access abstracts to the world’s literature in sociology. |
| Sociology Database | This database covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more. |
| Technology | |
| Computing Database | This database is a premium resource for those who need access to comprehensive coverage of computer topics. |
| Telecommunications Database | This database is an essential resource for anyone researching the industry or its technology. |
| Encyclopedias | |
| Encyclopedia Britannica Online | Encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, and the Britannica Book of the Year. |
| Oxford English Dictionary Online | Widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language, OED is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words from across the English-speaking world. |