North Park University: Focus on the Important
Databases and Indexes by Subject

 

General                    Business                    Education                    Health/Nursing  

  Humanities               Sciences                    Social Sciences            Theology

 

To find out where a journal is available in full-text, use Serials Solutions.

 

General

Academic Search Premier:  General (all subjects); some full-text articles
Chicago Tribune (1985 to present):
  Full-text newspaper articles; historical archive as well. 

CQ Researcher:  In-depth coverage of political and social issues.
Facts on File: World news digest with historical events back to 1940; full-text.
FirstSearch:  A variety of indices, both full-text and citation/abstract.
JSTOR: Interdisciplinary; full-text; complete back runs of scholarly journals in 15 different disciplines.
Lexis-Nexis Academic  News, legal, business, medicine; full-text. Includes New York Times and other major newspapers full-text. 
(Historical) New York Times Full-text of the New York Times, including cartoons, photos, and ads, from the first edition published until 2003.

Oxford English Dictionary: An historical dictionary that demonstrates how the definitions of words have changed over time.
Periodical Abstracts: Periodical abstracts from general and academic journals.
WilsonSelectPlus
:
Some full-text articles; interdisciplinary.

Business

ABI/Inform: Business; some full-text articles.
Business Source Elite:  Business; some full-text articles.
Chronicle of Philanthropy: Nonprofit news and research; includes full-text of the current Chronicle of Philanthropy back through October 1997.
Dun and Bradstreet's Key Business Ratios and Industry Norms:  
Hoover's Online  Business; full-text company information. 
Lexis-Nexis Academic: News, legal, business, medicine; full-text. Includes New York Times and other major newspapers full-text.

MarketLine Business Information Center (MBIC): (formerly Datamonitor) Economic reports on companies, industries, and 50 countries.
Value Line: Business; full-text investment reports on stock and industries.

Education

CollegeSource Online: College catalogs and profiles online.
Chronicle of Higher Education: Articles, reports, and news updates on the state of higher education, including full-text of the current Chronicle and past issues back to September 1989.  
ERIC: Education, some full-text articles and ERIC documents; mostly citations and abstracts. 
Kraus Curriculum Development Library This searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.
Novelist: A fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, and annotations for over 125,000 fiction titles (including children's literature)
Professional Development Collection:  A comprehensive collection of full-text education journals
PsychInfo (1887-current): Psychology and related subjects; some full-text articles; strong in educational psychology 

Health and Nursing

ABI/Inform: Some nursing journal coverage with some full-text articles.
CINAHL: Nursing; some full-text articles; mostly citations and abstracts  
Clinical Pharmacology: up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs
Health Source: Nursing/Academic  Some full-text articles and reference sources.
Lexis-Nexis AcademicNews, legal, business, medicine; full-text. Includes New York Times and other major newspapers full-text.
Medline: Medicine, some full-text articles; mostly citations and abstracts.
Physicians Desk Reference Electronic Library Online (PDR) 
Proquest Nursing Journals:  Full text of over 250 journals in nursing and allied health.

Humanities:

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online: The definitive source in English for locating a poem in anthologies on library shelves.
Gale Literary Databases:  Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Grove Music Online: a dynamic music resource.
JSTOR: Interdisciplinary; full-text; complete back runs of scholarly journals in 15 different disciplines.
Library, Information Science, & Technology Abstracts (LISTA): indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings on topics related to library science and technology.
MLA(Modern Language Association) Literature, languages, linguistics, folklore; no full-text, citations only.
NAXOSMusic reference, with audio files.
Project Muse:  User-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
RILM Music Abstracts:  RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

Saskia Digital Archive:  Over 32,000 images documenting both Western and Eastern cultures.

 

Sciences

Academic Search Premier:  General (all subjects); some full-text articles Environment Complete: articles and book chapters about ecology, pollution, urban planning, and related subjects. Some full-text available.
Lexis-Nexis AcademicNews, legal, business, medicine; full-text. Includes New York Times and other major newspapers full-text.
WilsonSelectPlus: Some full-text articles; interdisciplinary.

 

Social Sciences

Communication & Mass Media Complete:   Research  in areas related to communication and mass media.
Facts on File: World news digest with historical events file back to 1940; full-text.
JSTOR: Interdisciplinary; full-text; complete back runs of scholarly journals in 15 different disciplines.
Lexis-Nexis Academic: News, legal, business, medicine; full-text. Includes New York Times and other major newspapers full-text.
PsychInfo (1887-current): Psychology and related subjects; some full-text articles; mostly citations and abstracts.  
Sociological Abstracts:  abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Theology

ATLA Religion Database: Religion; index to articles; book reviews, and chapters in books (essays); some full-text articles. American Theological Library Association.  
 

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