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| Title
|
Full-Text |
Access Restrictions |
| Academic OneFile (InfoTrac) | Full-text |
USA ID or AVL card |
| Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) | 4683
full-text 8172 indexed |
USA ID or AVL card |
| Accounting Research Manager: Click on Subscriber Login for access. Please logout when finished as we only have 1 simultaneous user. | 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 Journals: Web editions of the American Chemical Society journals. Includes all journals from year of first issue. | 30 full-text journals |
USA ID |
| African Journals Online: full-text articles can be ordered -- see Article Order info | Citations
and abstracts |
Public |
| AgeLine: social gerontology and aging-related articles, books, and reports. | Abstracts |
Public |
| AGRICOLA: indexes to books and articles on agriculture. | Citations
only |
Public |
| Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals | Citations
only |
Public |
| AlabamaMosaic: digital collection of materials on Alabama's history and culture | Full-text |
Public |
| Alabama's Major Microform Collections: index only. Title and keyword searching | Citations only |
Public |
| Alt-Health Watch: covers holistic medicine | Contains
full-text |
USA ID or AVL card |
| 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 |
| 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 card |
| Article1st Choose General & Subject Specific Databases. (FirstSearch) | Abstracts
only |
USA ID or AVL
card |
| ARTFL Project: contains nearly 2000 texts including classic works of French literature | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Arts and Humanities Search:citation index. Choose Per-Search databases. (FirstSearch) | Citations only |
USA ID |
| 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 Civil Engineering Database: ASCE's electronic information retrieval service to all its publications. Only journal articles are full-text. | 29
full-text journals |
USA ID |
| ASME Technical Publications: Mechanical engineering. 12 of the journals are indexed in EBSCO's Academic Search Premier | 22
full-text journals |
USA ID |
| Auto Repair Reference Center | Full-text |
USA ID or AVL card |
| Beilstein's Abstracts: available for free through ChemWeb but you must register. Registration is free. | Abstracts |
ChemWeb
Login |
| Bibliography of Asian Studies | Citations |
USA ID |
| Biography Reference Bank | Full-text |
USA ID |
| 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 |
| BioOne Abstracts and Indexes: does not contain full-text but links to full-text in BioOne 1. | links to
the full-text in BioOne |
USA ID |
| Books-in-Print | Citations |
USA ID |
| Britannica World Data Analyst | Full-text |
USA ID or AVL card |
| Business and Company Resource Center (InfoTrac) | Full-text |
USA ID or AVL
card |
| Business Index ASAP (InfoTrac) | Full-text |
USA ID or AVL card |
| Business Source Premier: (EBSCO): includes trade journals, country economic reports, industry reports and market research reports | 1131
peer-reviewed full-text 7594 full-text sources |
USA ID or AVL card |
| 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 card |
| CINAHL: nursing and allied health (EBSCO) | Full-text |
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 |
| CollegeSource Online College catalogs on the web. Our license is for use in the University Library building only. | Full-text |
University Library building only |
| ComDisDome Service: The Communications Sciences and Disorders Dome is an information database developed for educators, clinicians, researchers, and students in the fields of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. This is a Biomedical Library database. | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO) | over 200 full-text
journals |
USA ID |
| LexisNexis® Congressional: legislative information. | Selected
full-text |
USA ID |
| Contemporary Authors: bio-bibliographical. Current writers | Full-text |
USA ID or AVL card |
| Contemporary Women's Issues: cross-disciplinary approach to women's issues. Choose Per-Search Databases. (FirstSearch) | Full-text |
USA ID |
| CQ Researcher: current controversial topics. Please logout when finished as we only have 5 simultaneous users. | Full-text |
USA ID |
| 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: Choose Per-Search databases. (FirstSearch) | Abstracts |
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
Digests and ERIC Documents are full-text (1993-2004, if available) |
USA ID or AVL card |
| ERIC (1966 - current) http://www.eric.ed.gov/ | ERIC
Documents are full-text (1993-) if available |
Public |
| Ethnic Newswatch | Selected
full-text |
USA ID or AVL card |
| Evidence Matters: This is a Biomedical Library database. | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Expanded Academic ASAP 1980 - (InfoTrac) | 1402
full-text 2583 indexed |
USA ID or AVL card |
| 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 Professional Collection Online: includes over 300 fulltext journals for educators | Full-text and
abstracts |
USA ID or AVL card |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library: encyclopedias and reference materials | Full-text |
USA ID or AVL card |
| gender Inn: Women's and Gender Studies database | Abstracts |
Public |
| General Business File ASAP (InfoTrac) | 706
full-text 1183 indexed |
USA ID |
| General Reference Center Gold: newspapers, reference books and magazines. (InfoTrac) | Includes full-text |
USA ID or AVL card |
| GEOBASE: geology. geography and ecology. Choose Per-Search databases (FirstSearch) | Abstracts |
USA ID |
| 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 |
| GPO Access: access to the full-text of many government publications. | Selected
full-text |
Public |
| GreenFile: 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 card |
| 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 card |
| HealthSTAR: 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 card |
| Humanities E-Book Project: formerly History E-Book Project | Full-text |
USA ID |
| IEEE Xplore: Electronic access to the full-text of IEEE journals (1998-current) except IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Potentials, and Proceedings of the IEEE. Journals and proceedings not subscribed to may only be searched for citations. The University Library also has older issues on microfiche. | 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 |
| Informaworld: electronic access to journals to which USA subscribes | full-text |
USA ID |
| ¡Informe! (Revistas en Español): Hispanic magazines. (InfoTrac) | Includes full-text |
USA ID or AVL card |
| InfoTrac OneFile | Includes
full-text |
USA ID or AVL card |
| IngentaConnect: Full-text is available for journals to which the University Library subscribes. | Includes
full-text |
USA ID |
| 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 |
| ISI Web of Science: Online version of Science Citation Index and Journal Citation Reports for journal impact factor | No Full-text |
USA ID |
| JSTOR: online access to digitized journals. USA subscribes to the Arts & Sciences I Collection , the Arts & Sciences II Collection, the Arts & Sciences III Collection, the Ecology & Botany Collection, the Business Collection, the Language & Literature Collection and the Music Collection. Initial funding for several collections provided by the USA Foundation. | Full-text
except last 3- 5 years depending on the journal |
USA ID |
| Journal Citation Reports - Evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals. Part of ISI Web of Science. | No
Full-text |
USA ID |
| Knovel K-Essentials: Choose My Subscription to gain full-text access to USA's subscriptions. Choose Permanent Access Titles for access to Knovel Critical Tables and International Critical Tables among other titles. | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Labor and Employment Law Library: (BNA's Labor Relations Reporter) | Full-text |
USA ID |
| LegalTrac: law reviews and journals. (InfoTrac) | Selected
full-text |
USA ID or AVL card |
| LexisNexis® Academic: database of news, business and legal research. For educational activities only. | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Lexis Nexis® Government Periodicals: index to government magazines and newsletters | Citations |
USA ID |
| LexisNexis® Statistical: 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. (InfoTrac) | Full-text
|
USA ID or AVL card |
| LitFinder: includes poems, essays, stories, plays and speeches | Selected |
USA ID or AVL card |
| 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. | 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 |
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 |
Contact
Biomedical Library Reference at 251-460-7044 for ID and password |
| Military and Government Collection (EBSCO) | 320
full-text 360 indexed |
USA ID or AVL card |
| MLA: via EBSCO: links to some full-text via JSTOR and other EBSCO databases | Citations
only |
USA ID |
| Mobile 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 card |
| OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web | Public | |
| Open Science Directory | Full-text |
Public |
| Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center | Full-text |
USA ID or AVL card |
| Ovid/SilverPlatter | USA ID | |
| Journals@Ovid LWW Total Access Collection: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins journals | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Books@Ovid: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins books | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Oxford English Dictionary | USA ID or AVL card | |
| Oxford Journals Online | 152 full-text |
USA ID |
| Oxford Reference Center Premium | Full-text |
USA ID or AVL card |
| PapersFirst: all conference papers received by the British Library. Choose General & Subject Specific databases. (FirstSearch) | Citations
only |
USA ID or AVL card |
| Periodicals Archive Online (PCI Full Text): backfiles for periodicals in the humanities and social sciences | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Philosopher's Index (EBSCO) Funded by Mr. Ross Sloan's Albert Schweitzer Endowment.
|
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 |
| 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 card |
| Professional Development Collection: educational topics.(EBSCO) | 239
full-text 325 indexed |
USA ID or AVL card |
| Project Muse | Full-text |
USA ID |
| Proquest Newspapers | Full-text |
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. | 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 |
Campus only |
| Royal Historical Society Bibliography: indexes books and journal articles | No Full-text |
Public |
| Sage Journals Online: Full-text available for 450 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 any web browser - 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. About SciFinder Scholar USA has only 3 simultaneous users, shared with 5 other schools. |
Citations Abstracts |
USA ID required; Remote access Now Available -- NEW |
| 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: critical articles | Full-text |
USA ID or AVL card |
| SIRS Knowledge Source: information by and about the U.S. government | Full-text |
USA ID or AVL card |
|
Not full-text |
|
| 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. |
Full-text journals |
USA ID |
| Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage | USA ID | |
| Statistical Abstract of the United States | Selected |
Public |
| 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: world, English and U.S. authors | Full-text |
USA ID or AVL card |
| Ulrich's International Periodicals | No Full-text |
USA ID or AVL card |
| 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 card |
| Web
of Science:Science
Citation Expanded. Also includes Journal Citation Reports. If you get the message: "Your session
has expired..." click on "establish a new session" to reconnect. For Social Sciences Citation Index, USA faculty may request a mediated search here: http://www.southalabama.edu/univlib/forms/database.html |
Not full-text |
USA ID |
| Wiley InterScience Journals: access is to 1997 to current. Backfiles available for the 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 card |
| 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 |