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Multi-Discipline
  • INSPIRE-Indiana: collection of multi-discipline databases funded by the State of Indiana.
  • InspireKids: includes Middle Search; Primary Search; Funk & Wagnall's; Newspaper Source; and EBSCO Animals.
  • Academic Search Premier:8,200 indexed and abstracted journals with full-text for nearly 4,500; in addition 3,600 of the full text titles are peer-reviewed journals.
  • American Memory from the Library of Congress : 125 thematic collections.
  • Bibliographic Index: Index Tables (1943 -)
  • Biography Index: Index Tables (1946 - )
  • Biography Resource Center: biographies, full-text periodical articles and weblinks if sufficient metadata is available.
  • Book Review Digest: Index Tables (1905 -)
  • Book Review Index: Index Tables (1965 -)
  • Career Collection (NetLibrary): 100 full text electronic books covering writing resumes and cover letters, interviewing, job hunting, and changing careers. Adobe Acrobat Reader software is required. Career Collection tutorial.
  • Essay & General Literature Index: Reference PN 6141 .E78 (1900 - )
  • Google Scholar: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, universities and other scholarly organizations.
  • Harvard University Library Open Collections Program: Women Working, 1870 - 1930 provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources.
  • ¡Informé!: popular Spanish-language magazines and pamphlets with both Español and English interfaces.
  • Ingenta: citation indexing of over 27,000 English-language periodicals; tables of contents also provided; full-text document delivery is available for a fee.
  • JSTOR: full-text of all but the last 2 - 5 years of core scholarly journals in 15 disciplines within the social sciences and humanities.
  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) : Subject coverage for librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
  • McClatchy-Tribune Collection: 90-day archive of approximately 100 newspapers updated daily.
  • MasterFILE Premiere: full-text of 2,050 general interest publications.
  • New York Times Newspaper Index: Index Tables (1907-2004)
  • Newspaper Source: full-text of 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers, and television and radio news transcripts.
  • Population Index
  • Project Muse: 100% full-text access to journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.
  • Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature: Index Tables (1901 - 2003)
  • TOPICsearch: social, political and economic issues from 4,800 diverse sources
  • WorldCat: searchable index of all the materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries.
ART and HUMANITIES
  • Academic Search Premier:8,200 indexed and abstracted journals with full-text for nearly 4,500; in addition 3,600 of the full text titles are peer-reviewed journals.
  • Art Abstracts: comprehensive indexing and abstracts for 378 leading international publications pertaining to a variety of art types; includes some full-text.
  • Art Index: Index Tables (1929-2004)
  • ARTstor: 300,000 digital images and related data of visual material from different cultures and disciplines.
    Access rights to the ARTstor Collection have been provided by the Barbara Duncan, Class of 1975, Memorial Fund, established by Barb's Saint Mary's College friends and Rome Program 'family' in recognition of her spirit and passion for Saint Mary's College, the arts and education.
  • ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials: index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion; includes some full text.
  • Catholic Periodicals and Literature Index: Index Tables (1930 - )
  • Google Scholar: Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities
  • Harvard University Library Open Collections Program: Women Working, 1870 - 1930 - selected digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources.
  • Humanities Index: Index Tables (1974-1998)
  • JSTOR: full-text of all but the last 2 - 5 years of core scholarly journals in 15 disciplines within the social sciences and humanities.
  • Library of Congress's American Memory : 125 thematic collections.
  • Literature Resource Center: full-text of biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers from every age and literary discipline if sufficient metadata is available.
  • LitFinder: Poem Finder; Story Finder; Essay / Speech / Play Finder
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association): citations to journal articles, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies in the fields of language, literature, linguistics, and folklore; includes some full-text.
  • MLA Directory of Periodicals (Modern Language Association): detailed information on 7,100 journals, including editorial contact information, frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
  • Oxford Music Online! full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Funding for access to this database was through a collaborative venture between the Library and the Music Department.
  • Philosopher's Index: Index Tables (1967 - )
  • Religion Index One: Index Tables (1953 -2006 )
BUSINESS
  • Hoover's : in-depth information on companies, industries, and key people.$
  • JSTOR: full-text of all but the last 2 - 5 years of core scholarly journals in 15 disciplines within the social sciences and humanities.
  • Regional Business News: full-text coverage of regional business publications.
  • SEC EDGAR Database
EDUCATION
  • Academic Search Premier:8,200 indexed and abstracted journals with full-text for nearly 4,500; in addition 3,600 of the full text titles are peer-reviewed journals.
  • ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center): citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals as well as ERIC documents; includes some full-text.
  • JSTOR: full-text of all but the last 2 - 5 years of core scholarly journals in 15 disciplines within the social sciences and humanities.
LANGUAGE and LITERATURE
  • Academic Search Premier:8,200 indexed and abstracted journals with full-text for nearly 4,500; in addition 3,600 of the full text titles are peer-reviewed journals.
  • Humanities Index: Index Tables (1974 - 1998)
  • ¡Informé!: popular Spanish-language magazines and pamphlets with both Spanish and English interfaces.
  • JSTOR: full-text of all but the last 2 - 5 years of core scholarly journals in 15 disciplines within the social sciences and humanities.
  • Literature Resource Center: full-text of biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers from every age and literary discipline if sufficient metadata is available.
NURSING and MEDICINE
  • Academic Search Premier:8,200 indexed and abstracted journals with full-text for nearly 4,500; in addition 3,600 of the full text titles are peer-reviewed journals.
  • Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic Access to more than 100 full text journals in such disciplines as clinical medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pre-clinical sciences and the health care system.
  • CancerLit: citations and abstracts from biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses.
  • CINAHL: citations and abstracts for articles in over 1,700 nursing and allied health journals; includes some full-text.
    • PRE-CINAHL: companion database of new journal articles.
  • Google Scholar: Biology, Life Sciences, and Environmental Science; Chemistry; Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics; Medicine, Pharmacology,Veterinary Science; Physics, Astronomy, and Planetary Science.
  • Health Source: Consumer Edition: information on the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
  • Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition: full-text, abstracts and indexing for scholarly journals in many medical disciplines.
  • Lexi-PALS Drug Guide: patient advisory leaflet service.
  • MEDLINE: citations and abstracts from 4,600 journals covering medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences; includes some full text.
PSYCHOLOGY
  • Academic Search Premier:8,200 indexed and abstracted journals with full-text for nearly 4,500; in addition 3,600 of the full text titles are peer-reviewed journals.
  • JSTOR: full-text of all but the last 2 - 5 years of core scholarly journals in 15 disciplines within the social sciences and humanities.
  • PsycARTICLES: full text articles from 53 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations.
  • PsycINFO: citations and abstracts to journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports in the field of psychology dating back to the 1880s; includes some full-text.
RELIGION
  • Academic Search Premier:8,200 indexed and abstracted journals with full-text for nearly 4,500; in addition 3,600 of the full text titles are peer-reviewed journals.
  • ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials: index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion; includes some full text.
  • Catholic Periodicals and Literature Index: Index Tables (1967-)
  • Guide to Social Science and Religion in Periodical Literature: Index Tables (1965-2006)
  • Philosopher's Index: Index Tables (1967 - )
  • Religion Index One: Index Tables (1953-2006)
SCIENCE
  • Academic Search Premier:8,200 indexed and abstracted journals with full-text for nearly 4,500; in addition 3,600 of the full text titles are peer-reviewed journals.
  • AGRICOLA: bibliographic database of citations to agricultural literature in biological sciences.
  • Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic Access to more than 100 full text journals in clinical medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pre-clinical sciences and the health care system.
  • BioText a freely available Web-based application that provides biologists with new ways to access the scientific literature.
  • Google Scholar: Biology, Life Sciences, and Environmental Science; Chemistry; Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics; Medicine, Pharmacology,Veterinary Science; Physics, Astronomy, and Planetary Science.
  • GreenFile: a bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns
  • JSTOR- Ecology and Mathematics journals: full-text of all but the last 2 - 5 years of core scholarly journals in 15 disciplines within the social sciences and humanities.
  • PubMed Central: the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
  • SciFinder Scholar: comprehensive chemical and related scientific information including patents, journal references, substance information, regulated chemicals, chemical reactions, and chemical supplier information. Accessible only on cluster computers in Trumper, Library Reference, Library Classroom, Madeleva, Moreau, Regina, Science, and Le Mans.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
  • Academic Search Premier:8,200 indexed and abstracted journals with full-text for nearly 4,500; in addition 3,600 of the full text titles are peer-reviewed journals.
  • AnthroSource : citations to articles in 31 scholarly journals; full-text $.
  • ComAbstracts: citations and abstracts to articles in the communication field.
  • Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC) - indexing and abstracts for nearly 600 journal titles with full text for more than 285 of these.
  • ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center): citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals as well as ERIC documents; includes some full-text.
  • Gender Studies Database™ covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia, spanning from 1972 to the present.
  • Google Scholar: Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities
  • Guide to Social Science and Religion in Periodical Literature: Index Tables (1965-2006)
  • Index to Journals in Communication Studies: Index Tables (1990-1995)
  • JSTOR - Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, and History journals: full-text of all but the last 2 - 5 years of core scholarly journals in 15 disciplines within the social sciences and humanities.
  • Library of Congress's American Memory : 125 thematic collections.
  • Military & Government Collection: full text for almost 300 journals and periodicals.
  • Professional Development Collection: full text journals and peer-reviewed titles for the professional educator.
  • PsycARTICLES: full text articles from 53 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations
  • PsycINFO: citations and abstracts to journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports in the field of psychology dating back to the 1880s; includes some full-text.
  • Social Science Index: Index Tables (1974 -1998)
  • Women and Social movements in the United States 1600 - 2000: WASM is a full-text quarterly online journal for organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600-2000. The subscription to this database is made possible by a gift from Saint Mary’s alumnae, Leslie Wilson ’76 and Jenni Wilson ’86.
IMAGE DATABASES
  • Art Abstracts: bibliographic database that indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
  • ARTstor: 300,000 digital images and related data of visual material from different cultures and disciplines.
    Access rights to the ARTstor Collection have been provided by the Barbara Duncan, Class of 1975, Memorial Fund, established by Barb's Saint Mary's College friends and Rome Program 'family' in recognition of her spirit and passion for Saint Mary's College, the arts and education.
  • Harvard University Library Open Collections Program: Women Working, 1870 - 1930 provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections.
 

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