General Databases
(These databases each cover a broad variety of subjects.
See also the more Subject Specific databases.)
[Indexes]
[Online Books]
- Indexes to Journals and Books:
- Academic
OneFile (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
 
- Formerly Expanded Academic ASAP, this authoritative and comprehensive
database provides peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading
journals and reference sources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences,
technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Updated daily.
- ProQuest
Research Library (ProQuest)
- (formerly PA Research II - Periodical Abstracts, Peer Reviewed, Newspapers)
provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including
arts, business, children, education, general interest, health,
humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology,
sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.
Coverage of more than 2,600 periodicals is designed to correspond to the most
popular college majors, and over 1,700 are available in full text.
Covers 1971 to the present.
(See Using ProQuest Databases for searching tips)
- Academic
Search Premier (Ebsco)
- Provides full text for more than 4,500 publications
(including over one hundred going back to 1975 or earlier and more
than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals), as well as indexing for
an additional 3,500 journals. This scholarly collection
offers information in nearly every area of academic study including:
computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language, linguistics,
arts, literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
Updated daily.
- ProQuest
Platinum Periodicals (ProQuest)
- Comprehensive coverage of all subjects including arts, business, humanities,
health, social sciences, sciences, and current affairs from over 2,200 magazines, journals,
and newspapers along with the full text of over 1,400 to meet a wide range of research demands
from general reference to advanced subject matter.
(See Using ProQuest Databases for searching tips)
- General
OneFile (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Formerly InfoTrac OneFile, a one-stop source for
news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics:
business, computers, current events,
economics, education, environmental
issues, health care, hobbies, humanities,
law, literature and art, politics,
science, social science, sports, technology,
and many general interest topics.
Millions of full-text articles many with images. Updated daily.
Covers back to 1980.
- MasterFile
Premier (Ebsco)
- This multidisciplinary database covers virtually every subject area of general interest
and provides the full text of nearly 1,750 general reference publications (some dating as
far back as 1975). Also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, full text from 86,017
biographies, 105,786 full text primary source documents, and an image collection of 400,972
photos, maps and flags.
- Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe (Lexis-Nexis)
- General news.
Company news, directory,
and financial information.
Industry and market news. Government
and political news (national and
regional - including latest six months of Newsday). Country and state profiles, statistics, and business analysis.
Biographical information. Reference books, directories
and business reference library.
General medical and health topics;
full-text of medical journals and
newsletters; abstracts.
Accounting, auditing, and tax information sources.
Legal newspapers, journals, magazines, and newsletters
from across the
country; federal case law;
U.S. Code, Constitution, and Court Rules;
state case law, constitutions, statutes,
and other legal materials.
- WilsonSelect
Full Text (FirstSearch)
- Provides indexed and abstracted records with
accompanying full text in periodicals from H.W. Wilson's
General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts,
Readers' Guide Abstracts, and Wilson Business Abstracts.
Includes U.S. and international professional
publications, academic journals, and trade magazines.
- Primary Search
(Ebsco)
- Contains the full text of nearly 70 popular magazines written for
elementary school students, all of which are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexile),
and abstracts for nearly 100 additional magazines. Includes over 100 student pamphlets,
the American Heritage Children's Dictionary (3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin),
and an image collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags. Full text
goes back to 1989, while indexing goes back to 1984.
- JSTOR:
The Scholarly Journal Archive (JSTOR)
- Provides access to long runs of backfiles
of scholarly journals, making complete archives of full text
available and searchable over the World Wide Web. Coverage begins with the very first issues,
many of which date from the 1800s, and extends to a "moving wall" of 2 to 5 years prior
to the most recently published issue. Includes 239 journals in African American Studies, African Studies,
Anthropology, Archaeology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,
Economics, Education, Finance, Folklore, Geography, History, History of Science & Technology,
Language & Literature, Latin American Studies, Mathematics, Middle East Studies, Philosophy,
Political Science, Population Studies, Slavic Studies, Sociology, and Statistics.
(More information)
- EbscoHost
Electronic Journals Service (Ebsco)
- ArticleSearch allows users to find articles by
searching for keywords or phrases in titles, abstracts
and full text. JournalSearch allows users to find electronic
journals that cover a particular subject and browse through
the contents.
- Emerald
Fulltext (Emerald Insight)
- Provides full text access to almost 150 journals.
Emphasis is on business, technology, and library & information science, but
some coverage is also given to education, health, science, public policy, and criminal justice.
Journals can be browsed issue by issue or searched by keyword.
- IngentaConnect
(Ingenta)
- Provides full text access to over 130 journals covering many different
subjects. Journals can be browsed issue by issue or searched by keyword.
- ScienceDirect
(Elsevier)
- Collection of full-text journals covering science, medicine,
technology, business, social sciences, and more.
- Alternative
Press Index (FirstSearch)
- Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical, and left
periodicals, newspapers, and magazines.
Includes selected abstracts from research
journals. International and interdisciplinary coverage of the humanities,
social sciences, anarchism, indigenous peoples, democracy, labor,
ecology, national liberation, feminism, socialism,
gay and lesbian issues. Covers 1991 to the present
- Alternative
Press Index Archive (FirstSearch)
- International and interdisciplinary coverage of alternative viewpoints
on internationally significant subjects from alternative, radical, and
left periodicals, newspapers and magazines, published from 1969-1990.
- Books in Print
Professional (Bowker)
- Bibliographic database with more
than 5 million in-print, out-of-print, forthcoming,
audio book, and video titles. Includes full-text reviews from 15 respected,
professional sources such as Booklist, Publishers
Weekly, Library Journal, and Choice, as well as the first chapter of more than
30,000 entries.
- Clase
and Periodica (FirstSearch)
- Offers access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations to
articles, essays, book reviews,
monographs, conference proceedings, technical
reports, interviews, and brief notes published in scholarly journals
edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the
Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on
Pan-American issues published in the Spanish, Portuguese,
French and English languages. Covers the social sciences and
humanities from 1975 to the present as well as science and
technology from 1978 to the present.
- Dissertation
Abstracts Online (FirstSearch)
- Dissertations on all academic topics accepted at
accredited institutions since 1861. Selectively
covers masters theses as well as
dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe.
- Electronic Library for Government
Information
- Government information is a tremendous
resource for research on
a broad range of topics including business and economics, criminal
justice, education, environment, geology, health and nutrition, and
population to name just a few. Much of this information is available
from the Internet, and the C.W. Post Government Information Department
has compiled an extensive list of resources.
- NetFirst (FirstSearch)
- Indexes internet sites including abstracts,
subject headings, and classification codes.
Includes a variety of Internet accessible
resources including World Wide Web
pages and Listservs. New resource types,
including Usenet newsgroups, FTP sites,
Gopher servers, and electronic publications
in many formats will be coming soon. NOTE: NetFirst has been absorbed into WorldCat.
- OCLC
ArticleFirst (FirstSearch)
- An OCLC index of articles from nearly 12,500 journals
covering:business, science, humanities, social science,
medicine, technology, popular culture. Now incorporates the
ContentsFirst database that contains tables of contents from
more than 12,500 journals in English and other languages.
- OCLC
FirstSearch Electronic Collections
Online (FirstSearch)
- Covers: agriculture, library science, anthropology,
literature, business, medicine, economics, philosophy,
education, political science, fine arts, psychology,
geography, religion, history, science, language,
social sciences, law, technology.
- OCLC
PapersFirst (FirstSearch)
- An index of papers presented at conferences worldwide
dealing with wide variety of subjects discussed at
the covered meetings. Covers published information
received by The British Library Document Supply Center.
- OCLC
WorldCat : The OCLC Online Union
Catalog (FirstSearch)
- Lists the holdings of all OCLC member libraries
worldwide. Includes: books, manuscripts, computer
data files, maps, computer programs, musical scores,
films and slides, newspapers, journals, sound recordings,
magazines, videotapes. (Note: WorldCat has absorbed the OCLC Union List of Periodicals).
Remote access link (no password required)
- OCLC
WorldCat Dissertations and Theses (FirstSearch)
- This subset of OCLC WorldCat provides citations to over 5 million dissertations and
theses, as well as published material based on theses, that have
been cataloged by OCLC member libraries around the world.
- ProceedingsFirst
(FirstSearch)
- An index of worldwide conference proceedings. Provides
citations of every congress, symposium, conference,
exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British
Library. Contains in each record a list of the papers
presented at each conference.
- LIUCat
on the Web:
- The online public access catalog of Long Island University's
six campuses. This can be searched from any computer. No password is needed.
- Trial Databases:
- New databases available for a brief trial period.
Let us know which ones you think are worth keeping.
- Online Encyclopedias and Books:
- ebrary (ebrary)
- Currently
offers over 25,000 full-text books, sheet music titles, maps, reports, and other authoritative documents from more
than 180 leading academic, trade, and professional publishers. The collections are particularly strong in
business, economics, education, computers, technology, science, medicine, history,
language, literature, humanities, politics, and social sciences. Publishers include The McGraw-Hill Companies,
Random House, Penguin Classics, Taylor
& Francis, Yale University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Greenwood, and more.
- Note: to use ebrary, you must first download and install the
ebrary Reader on your computer (more information).
- Credo
Reference/XreferPlus (Credo/xrefer)
- List of titles.
Provides access to over 250 reference books from 50 publishers that cover
every major topic, including art, medicine, history, technology, science, law, literature, quotations,
business, social sciences, and more for a total of over 2 million entries. Includes 180,000 audio
pronunciation files; 66,000 art, science, & medical images; and 90,000 atlas images of
places & geographic features, as well as customizable, exportable data tables from the
US Census & other sources. Entries also provide cross-reference links ("xreferences")
to related entries from other books and publishers across the entire collection and interactive,
visual "concept maps" of cross-references.
- Gale
Virtual Reference Library (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- List of titles.
Full text of over 200 encyclopedias and specialized reference
sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the
library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
- Britannica
Online Academic Edition (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
- Includes all of the articles from the printed Encyclopaedia Britannica
plus thousands more, as well as the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and
Thesaurus, maps, photos, illustrations, videos, multimedia clips, and the
Britannica Yearbooks dating back to 1993. World Data Analyst Online is a
comprehensive database of comparative statistics on every nation of the world, and
Gateway to the Classics provides the text of 225 significant works of history,
literature, philosophy, and science. Also includes headlines from the New York Times,
the BBC, and the SBS Australian News Service as well as full-text articles from hundreds
of periodicals.
- Points
of View Reference Center (Ebsco)
- Provides essays on controversial issues, presenting multiple sides, along with questions for
further thought. Essays are accompanied by relevant periodical and newspaper articles, radio and
television news transcripts, primary source documents, biographies, and images.
- MasterFile
Premier (Ebsco)
- This multidisciplinary database covers virtually every subject area of general interest
and provides the full text of nearly 1,750 general reference publications (some dating as
far back as 1975). Also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, full text from 86,017
biographies, 105,786 full text primary source documents, and an image collection of 400,972
photos, maps and flags.
- Brewer's
Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Brewer's
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (17th ed) (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Britannica
Concise Encyclopedia (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Columbia
Encyclopedia (Credo/xrefer)
- Provides authoritative factual information about our world in its many guises -
physical, historical, geographical, political, scientific, religious, and cultural.
- Crystal
Reference Encyclopedia (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Funk
& Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
(Ebsco)
- Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering an array of
topics. The database contains various
images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas.
- Funk
& Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and Four Almanacs (FirstSearch)
- (formerly World Almanac) Contains the full text of Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia,
The World Almanac & Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A.,
The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids.
Includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts,
and statistics covering: American life, people in the
news, arts & entertainment, science & technology,
computers, sports, economics, taxes, the environment,
profiles of U.S. states and territories, historical
anniversaries, U.S. cities & states, national defense,
vital statistics, nations of the world, and much more.
- Hutchinson
Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide (Credo/xrefer)
- Comprehensive encyclopedia covering the worlds of science,
technology, history, geography, politics, and the arts. Includes images,
an integrated atlas, weather guide, animations, video, sound clips, quotations, and links
to web sites.
- Key
Contemporary Concepts (Credo/xrefer)
- Roadmap to the key concepts that frame our understanding of society and culture,
spanning a range of disciplines, to provide an insight into the current scientific and intellectual
state of society. Each entry provides the history and current meaning of a concept, outlines its
place in the work of a key author, and interprets the term's past and current significance.
- Macmillan
Encyclopedia (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- New
Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Houghton Mifflin (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Philip's
Encyclopedia 2008 (Credo/xrefer)
- Includes an A-Z encyclopedia, a history of the world, ready reference
information, and identification guides to stars & planets, the human
body, mammals, birds, butterflies, and trees - all with many illustrations.
Database descriptions are adapted from each database's website.
NOVEL (New York Online Virtual
Electronic Library) is a statewide virtual library provided free to
the public by the New York State Library.
It is currently a pilot project funded through a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA)
grant to the NY State Library by the Federal Institute of
Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
HTML by Robert Delaney
robert.delaney@liu.edu
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