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| Wiley Online Library | Oxford Journals Online | SpringerLink | |
| JSTOR | Project Muse (Standard) | Periodicals Archive Online | |
Readers' Guide (1890 - 1982) |
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Statistics Sources ProQuest Statistical DataSets |
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Databases Listed by Title
| Title
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Full-Text |
Access Restrictions |
| Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) | 8500
full-text 12,500 indexed |
USA ID or AVL |
| Accounting Research Manager: Click on Subscriber Login for access. Please logout when finished as we only have 1 simultaneous user. | Full-text |
USA ID |
| ACLS Humanities E-Book Project: formerly History E-Book Project | Full-text | USA ID |
| ACM Digital Library: Choose Search the Digital Library to search and Browse the Digital Library for tables of contents access. | 29
full-text journals |
USA ID |
| ACM Guide to Computing Literature: Includes bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing. Links to available fulltext from ACM Digital Library. | Citations;
Links to fulltext in ACM Digital Library |
USA ID |
| ACS Publications : USA has access to Web editions of the American Chemical Society journals only. Includes all journals from year of first issue. | 30 full-text journals |
USA ID |
| African American Newspapers, 1827-1998: Part of America's Historical Newspapers. | fulltext | USA ID |
| African Journals Online: full-text articles can be ordered -- see Article Order info | Citations
and abstracts |
Public |
| AGRICOLA: indexes to books and articles on agriculture. | Citations
only |
Public |
| Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals | Citations
only |
Public |
| Alabama Historical Newspapers: Part of America's Historical Newspapers. | Fulltext | USA ID |
| AlabamaMosaic: digital collection of materials on Alabama's history and culture | Full-text |
Public |
| Alt-Health Watch: covers holistic medicine | Contains
full-text |
USA ID or AVL |
| AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine) | Selected
full-text |
USA ID |
| American Mathematical Society Journals: access is for the journals to which we have print subscriptions, Conformal Geometry and Dynamics, Representation Theory, Journal of the AMS, Proceedings of the AMS, and Transactions of the AMS | Full-text |
USA ID |
| American Statistical Association Journals | Full-text
for journals to which we subscribe |
USA ID |
| AMS Journals: Access to American Meteorological Society journals Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (1970-current), Journal of Applied Meteorology (1962-2004, including Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climate, 1983-1987), Journal of Climate (1988-1996), and Weather and Forecasting (1986-2004). | Selected
Full-text |
USA ID |
| AnthroSource | Full-text |
USA ID |
ArchiveGrid: provides access to archival collection descriptions |
Descriptions only |
USA ID or AVL |
| Article1st Choose General & Subject Specific Databases. (FirstSearch) | Abstracts
only |
USA ID or AVL |
| ARTFL Project: contains nearly 2000 texts including classic works of French literature | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Arts & Humanities Citation Index: USA faculty may request a mediated search here: http://www.southalabama.edu/univlib/forms/database.html | Not full-text |
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| ARTstor: Art work can be viewed in color and printed in black & white on library workstations. Advanced features, such as the Offline Image Viewer, are available on personal computers and from home. | Images |
USA ID |
| ASCE Research Library: Civil Engineering. Full-text journal articles and conference proceedings. Includes backfiles to 1983 for journals and 1996 for proceedings. | 31
journals, 170+ conference proceedings in full-text |
USA ID |
| ASME Transactions Journals: Mechanical Engineering. Fulltext only available for Transactions Journals, 2000-present. 12 of the journals are also indexed in EBSCO's Academic Search Complete | 24
full-text journals |
USA ID |
| Beilstein's Abstracts: available for free through ChemWeb but you must register. Registration is free. | Abstracts |
ChemWeb
Login |
| Biological Abstracts: 1969 - present (EBSCO) Biological Abstracts: indexing and abstracting for life sciences. Includes links to full-text articles in ScienceDirect, BioOne1, and other databases (Ovid/SilverPlatter) |
Abstracts
+ links to full-text articles in other databases |
USA ID |
| BioOne 1: fulltext bioscience research journals | 72
full-text journals and 1 full-text book |
USA ID |
| Britannica World Data Analyst | Full-text |
USA ID or AVL |
| Business Insights: Essentials (Gale): Formerly Business and Company Resource Center | Full-text |
USA ID or AVL |
| Business Index ASAP (Gale) | Full-text |
USA ID or AVL |
| Business Source Complete: (EBSCO): includes trade journals, country economic reports, industry reports and market research reports. Also Enhanced Business Searching Interface | 1131
peer-reviewed full-text 7594 full-text sources |
USA ID or AVL |
| Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities: The University Library subscribes to Accounting, Economics & Finance, Management, Marketing, and Educational Curriculum & Methods | USA ID | |
| Cambridge Journals Online: full-text is only available for journals that we also receive in print | Full-text |
USA ID |
| CAMIO: catalog of art images online (OCLC) Images are rights cleared. | Images |
USA ID or AVL |
| CINAHL: nursing and allied health (EBSCO) | Full-text |
USA ID |
| The Civil War: Antebellum to Reconstruction, 1843-1877: Historical newspapers and documents | Fulltext | USA ID |
| ClasePeriodica: Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities (FirstSearch) | Citations
only |
USA ID |
| Clinical Pharmacology: The Clinical Pharmacology website contains information on prescription, OTC, new and investigational drugs; herbal and nutraceutical products. This is a Biomedical Library database. | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: The premiere resource for Evidence-Based Medicine reviews. This is a Biomedical Library database. | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO) | over 200 full-text
journals |
USA ID |
| ProQuest Congressional: legislative information. | Selected
full-text |
USA ID |
| Contemporary Authors: bio-bibliographical. Current writers | Full-text |
USA ID or AVL |
| CQ Researcher: current controversial topics. Please logout when finished as we only have 5 simultaneous users. | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Directory of Open Access Journals | Full-text |
Public |
| Dissertation Abstracts/Digital Dissertations | Abstracts.
Free USA dissertations in pdf format PDF -- $ |
USA ID |
| Dissertation Express: free access to the citations, without abstracts, of the dissertations in Dissertation Abstracts. Ordering database only. Search by author, title or UMI order number. | Citations
only |
Public |
| DynaMed: A medical information database with over 1,800 clinical topic summaries. Designed for use at the point of care, providing best available evidence and updated daily. This is a Biomedical Library Database. | Full-text |
USA ID |
| EBSCO Electronic Journal Service: e-journals that accompany print subscriptions. | Full-text |
USA ID |
| EconLit: USA faculty may request a mediated search here: http://www.southalabama.edu/univlib/forms/database.html | Abstracts |
USA ID |
| EdITLib Digital Library:(Education & Information Technology Digital Library). AACE journals and conference proceedings | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Education Research Complete (EBSCO)Over 1500 professional and scholarly journals. | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Emerald Library: journals in engineering, business, management, marketing and information science. | 160
full-text |
USA ID |
| ERIC (1967 - current) (EBSCO)
ERIC (1966 - current) http://www.eric.ed.gov/ Public access |
ERIC
Digests and ERIC Documents are full-text (1993- if available) |
USA ID or AVL |
| Ethnic Newswatch | Selected
full-text |
USA ID or AVL |
| Evidence Matters: This is a Biomedical Library database. | Full-text |
USA ID |
| FDsys (formerly GPO Access): access to the full text of many government publications | Selected full-text | Public |
| FedStats: statistics from U.S. government agencies. | Full-text |
Public |
| FirstSearch | Citations
and abstracts |
USA ID |
| Gale Literary Index: index to the printed literary series published by Gale, including Contemporary Literary Criticism and Contemporary Authors. Some, but not all, of these titles can be found in the Library's Reference Department. | Citations |
Public |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library: encyclopedias and reference materials | Full-text |
USA ID or AVL |
| gender Inn: Women's and Gender Studies database | Abstracts |
Public |
| General Business File ASAP (Gale) | 706
full-text 1183 indexed |
USA ID |
| General OneFile (Gale) | Includes full-text | USA ID or AVL |
| General Reference Center Gold: newspapers, reference books and magazines. (Gale) | Includes full-text |
USA ID or AVL |
| GeoRef: Index to articles about geology and the earth sciences. (Ovid/SilverPlatter) | Abstracts |
USA ID |
| GPO: choose General & Subject Specific Databases (FirstSearch) | Citations |
USA ID |
| GreenFile: (EBSCO) covers the human impact on the environment. | Links to full-text |
USA ID |
| Health and Psychosocial Instruments: abstracts, reliability and validity scores for measurements | Abstracts
|
USA ID |
| Health Business Fulltext Elite: articles from over 400 journals. (EBSCO) | Selected
full-text |
USA ID |
| Health Source: Consumer Edition: full-text access to articles, pamphlets and reference books. (EBSCO) | 280
full-text |
USA ID or AVL |
| Health Source: Nursing/Academic: full-text access to scholarly articles and other information in nursing and allied health. (EBSCO) | 480
full-text 510 indexed |
USA ID or AVL |
| HealthSTAR:(Ovid) health services, technology, administration, and research | Selected
full-text |
USA ID |
| HeinOnline | Full-text |
USA ID |
| History Cooperative Journals: includes American Historical Review, Journal of American History and William and Mary Quarterly | Full-text |
USA ID |
| History Reference Center:encyclopedias, reference books and primary material (EBSCO) | Full-text |
USA ID or AVL |
| Humanities E-Book Project: formerly History E-Book Project | Full-text |
USA ID |
| ICE (Institution of Civil Engineers) Proceedings: Access only to fulltext for the Proceedings. Coverage varies by title, approximately 2001-current. | Full-text |
USA ID |
| IEEE Xplore: USA has access to the IEEE All-Society Periodicals which includes full-text access to IEEE journals, transactions and magazines (1998-current). We do not have access to the proceedings or to IEEE Spectrum or IEEE Potentials. IET titles are indexed but include no links to full-text. | Yes
(1998 - ) |
USA ID |
| IET Digital Library: Full-text of IET Journals 2007-current and the previous titles, IEE Proceedings, 1994-2006. The University Library also has 1980-2006 issues in print. Does not include Electronics Letters and Micro & Nano Letters. | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Index Translationum: information on books translated and published in Unesco Member States. Covers natural sciences as well as literature, humanities and social science. | Citations |
Public |
| ¡Informe! (Revistas en Español): Hispanic magazines. (Gale) | Includes full-text |
USA ID or AVL |
| Integrated Medical Curriculum: This is a Biomedical Library Database | Full-text |
USA ID |
| International Data Base (IDB): demographic and statistical data for all countries of the world. | Full-text |
Public |
| International Financial Statistics (IMF) | Full-text |
USA ID |
| JSTOR: the University Library subscribes to the Arts & Sciences Collections 1,2,3,5 and 8, as well as to the Business I Collection, the Ecology & Botany Collection, and the Music Collection. [Note: The original Arts & Sciences Collection was funded by a grant from the USA Foundation.] | Full-text | USA ID |
| Labor and Employment Law Library: BNA's Labor Relations Reporter | Full-text | USA ID | LexisNexis® Academic: database of news, business and legal research. For educational activities only. | Full-text |
USA ID |
| LexisNexis® Statistical:(now ProQuest Statistical Insight). index to government documents; full-text of Statistical Abstracts of the United States. | Selected |
USA ID |
| Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (EBSCO) | Citations
and abstracts |
USA ID |
| Literature Resource Center: includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select and the Dictionary of Literary Biography, as well as full-text journal articles. (Gale) | Full-text
|
USA ID or AVL |
| LitFinder: (Gale) includes poems, essays, stories, plays and speeches | Selected |
USA ID or AVL |
| Making of America: Primary sources - approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. | Full-text |
Public |
| Marcive: covers federal documents published since 1976. | Abstracts |
USA ID |
| MathSciNet: database for mathematics and statistics. | Provides
direct links to full-text articles from Science
Direct and JSTOR |
USA ID |
| MDConsult: Includes medical texts, journal articles and practice guidelines among other reference sources. | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Medline with Fulltext (EBSCO) | Fullt-text |
USA ID |
| Medline (OVID): via PubMed The National Library of Medicine's free search service to MEDLINE, Pre-Medline and other related databases. Also try PubGet to retrieve full-text. | OVID
has selected full-text. PubMed contains abstracts + links
to full-text journals held by USA |
USA ID(OVID), Public (PubMed) |
| MEDLINEplus:provides extensive consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health and other reliable sources on over 600 diseases and conditions. | full-text |
Public |
| Mental Measurements Yearbook: information about and reviews of English-language standardized tests. (Ovid/SilverPlatter) | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Mergent Online: Company information from Moody's Manuals and Fact Sheets. | Full-text
|
USA ID |
| Mergent InvestorEdge: corporate bond reports, annual reports, and industry reports | Full-text | USA ID |
| Mergent WebReports: corporate manuals back to the 1900s | Full-text | USA ID |
Metapress:
online access to journals to which USA subscribes. Registration
is necessary to retrieve the full-text. Journals with this icon
 are
the ones that have full-text. |
Full-text |
USA ID |
| Micromedex: Micromedex database provides excellent clinical information on drugs, diseases, acute care, toxicology and alternative medicines. It also contains an array of patient education materials. Biomedical Library database. | Full-text |
On Campus Access Only |
| Military and Government Collection (EBSCO) | 320
full-text 360 indexed |
USA ID or AVL |
| MLA: via EBSCO: links to some full-text via JSTOR and other EBSCO databases | Citations
only |
USA ID |
| Mobile Press-Register: 1992 - present. Data from 10/01 to 1/10/03 is currently unavailable | Full-text
|
USA ID |
| NASA Astrophysics Data | Abstracts |
Public |
| National Conference on Social Welfare Proceedings: (1874 - 1982) | Full-text |
Public |
| National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database: citations and abstracts for criminal justice literature from the U.S. government. | Abstracts |
Public |
| National Geographic Publications Index | Citations
only |
Public |
| Newspaper Source: index to 143 U.S. and international newspapers. (EBSCO) | Selected |
USA ID or AVL |
| Nursing Reference Center: patient education, drug information, skills and procedure | Full-text | USA ID |
| OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web | Public | |
| Open Science Directory: search tool for open access science journals | links to Full-text |
Public |
| Opposing Viewpoints In Context:(Gale) covers controversial topics | Full-text | USA ID |
| Oxford Journals Online: Multidisciplinary collection of journals, access 1996-current | Full-text | USA ID |
| Periodicals Archive Online: backfiles for periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. The Library subscribes to collections 1 through 9. | Full-text | USA ID |
| Philosopher's Index (EBSCO) Funded by Mr. Ross Sloan's Albert Schweitzer Endowment.
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Abstracts |
USA ID |
| Physical Review Online Archive | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Physics Reviews: review articles published in Institute of Physics journals -- full text is available for Journal of Physics B, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Measurement Science and Technology | Full-text
for journals to which we subscribe |
USA ID |
| Points of View Reference Center: covers controversial topics. (EBSCO) | Full-text | USA ID |
| Population Index | Citations
only |
Public |
| ProceedingsFirst: index to conference publications received by the British Library. Choose General & Subject Specific Databases. (FirstSearch) | Citations
only |
USA ID or AVL |
| Professional Development Collection: educational topics.(EBSCO) | 239
full-text 325 indexed |
USA ID or AVL |
| Project Muse: Standard Collection | Full-text |
USA ID |
| ProQuest Congressional: legislative information. | Full-text | USA ID |
| ProQuest Newstand | Full-text |
USA ID |
| ProQuest Statistical Insight: index to government documents; full-text of Statistical Abstracts of the United States. | Selected | USA ID |
| PsycARTICLES: includes APA journals (EBSCO) | Full-text |
USA ID |
| PsycINFO Citations and abstracts for the literature of psychology. (EBSCO). | Abstracts
|
USA ID |
| PubMed: the National Library of Medicine's free search service to MEDLINE, Pre-Medline and other related databases. Also try PubGet to retrieve full-text. | Abstracts
+ links to full-text journals held by USA |
Public |
| Rand Abstracts: citations and abstracts for Rand publications. Rand's research area of interest is public policy research and analysis. | Abstracts |
Public |
| Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890 - 1982 | Citations |
USA ID |
| Regional Business News: (EBSCO) Includes wire services from all over the world | Full-text |
USA ID |
| RIA Checkpoint: federal tax database | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Sage Journals Online:(Premier 2007 and Premier 2011 Collections) Full-text available for 574 journals | Full-text |
USA ID |
| ScienceDirect: Full-text journals available 1995 to current | Full-text
for journals subscribed to in Alabama |
USA ID |
| SciFinder Scholar - Register for access : SciFinder may now be used through web browsers - users must register with CAS and receive a login name and password. Access through the client software version of SciFinder is no longer available. Connect to SciFinder Scholar: For USA faculty and students only - register first through the link above. Note: CAS does not support the Internet Explorer 6 platform for the web version of SciFinder. If you are using IE6 and are having problems, please upgrade your browser. About SciFinder Scholar USA has only 3 simultaneous users, shared with 5 other schools. |
Citations Abstracts |
USA ID |
| Scitation: searches AIP, APS, ASCE, ASME journals | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Scopus: includes the ability to do citation searching | Citations Abstracts |
USA ID |
| Scribner's Writers Series: (Gale) critical articles | Full-text |
USA ID or AVL |
| Social Sciences Citation Index: USA faculty may request a mediated search here: http://www.southalabama.edu/univlib/forms/database.html | Not full-text |
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| Social Work Abstracts (EBSCO): USA has only 4 simultaneous users. | Abstracts |
USA ID |
| SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO): covers social sciences | 300 + full-text
journals |
USA ID |
| SPORT Discus: materials on sports sciences. (EBSCO) | some full-text |
USA ID |
| SpringerLink: full-text access to 1,961 journals, 1997 to current. Also includes access to e-books. | Full-text journals and e-books |
USA ID |
| Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage | USA ID | |
| Statistical Abstract of the United States | Selected |
Public |
| Statistical DataSets: interactive database with U.S. and international data | USA ID | |
| STATref!: Database including full-text online medical books on surgery, internal medicine, dermatology, pharmacology, family medicine, immunology and more. Biomedical Library database. | Full-text |
USA ID |
| TC Library: articles on technical communications | Full-text |
Public |
| This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape | Full-text |
Public |
| Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet | Full-text |
Public |
| Twayne Authors Series: (Gale) world, English and U.S. authors | Full-text |
USA ID or AVL |
| US Patent and Trademark Office Patent Databases | Full-text |
Public |
| Vocational and Career Collection: includes Magill Book Reviews full-text.(EBSCO) | 153
full-text 522 indexed |
USA ID or AVL |
| Wiley Online Library: access is to 1997 to current. Backfiles available for the Education, Psychology, Business & Management, Biotechnology, Biochemistry & Biophysics, and Earth & Environmental Sciences collections. | Full-text |
USA ID |
| WorldCat: OCLC's database of library holdings around the world. Includes ILL request link. (FirstSearch) | Citations
only |
USA ID or AVL |
| WorldCat.org: Public access to WorldCat, enter zip code or state to find local libraries | Citations only No links to ILL |
Public |
| xxx.lanl.gov: electronic archive of full-text research papers in physics, computation and language, math and nonlinear sciences. | Full-text |
Public |
Database Addresses for On-Campus Use Only
| Lexis Nexis | |||
| ScienceDirect | |||
Readers' Guide (1963 - 1982) |
IEEE Xplore |