Research Databases
For your convenience, we have prepared lists of suggested databases for specific subjects, which you can choose from below.
Research Databases Sorted by Subject
Art
ARTICLE FIRST
Contains citations to articles on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.
Arts in Psychotherapy
This journal publishes peer-reviewed articles (including illustrations) by art, dance/movement, drama, music, and poetry psychotherapists, as well as psychiatrists, psychologists, and creative arts therapists, that reflect the theory and practice of these disciplines.
Art Source
This art research database covers a broad range of subjects from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. It features full-text articles, indexing, and abstracts for an array of journals, books, and more.
Art Therapy
The official journal of the American Art Therapy Association. Its purpose is to advance the understanding of how visual art functions in the treatment, education, development, and enrichment of people.
Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database with full text for thousands of journals and citation information for thousands more.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
“This service covers free, full text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3,490 journals in the directory. Currently 1186 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 190,907 articles are included in the DOAJ service.” —July 11, 2008
JSTOR
Available Collections: Arts & Sciences III, Arts & Sciences V, Ecology & Botany, 19th Century British Pamphlets
Full-text of journals in languages and literature; ecology and botany; and also essential titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture. There are hundreds of titles in these collections.
MasterFILE Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and more than 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books.
Business
Business Source Premier
Full text for more thousands of business journals and other sources, including full text for many peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage varies.
MasterFILE Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books.
PsycINFO
Contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in the field of psychology. Coverage is from the 1880s. Database links to full-text in other EBSCO databases.
Regional Business News
Full text coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers, and newswires from metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Education
ERIC
The Educational Research Information Center is the most comprehensive database of educational literature available online. Use this free version to locate citations on educational research.
MasterFILE Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
This database contains descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised psychological test instruments from the 9th to the 15th editions of the printed Mental Measurements Yearbook. Covers more than 2,200 commercially available tests in categories such as personality, developmental, behavioral assessment, neuropsychology, achievement, intelligence and aptitude, and education.
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books.
PsycARTICLES
Full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.
PsycINFO
Contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in the field of psychology. Coverage is from the 1880s. Database links to full-text in other EBSCO databases.
Environment
Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database with full text for thousands of journals and citation information for thousands more.
ARTICLE FIRST
Contains citations to articles on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.
Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients’ information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. In addition, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs. The database is updated on a weekly basis.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
“This service covers free, full text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3490 journals in the directory. Currently
1186 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 190,907 articles are included in the DOAJ
service.”—July 11, 2008
Ecopsychology
This quarterly online journal explores the relationship between environmental issues and mental health and well-being.
Science Reference Center
A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology, and wildlife.
GreenFILE
A bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns.
JSTOR
Available Collections: Arts & Sciences III, Arts & Sciences V, Ecology & Botany, 19th Century British Pamphlets
Full-text of journals in languages and literature; ecology and botany; and also essential titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture. There are hundreds of titles in these collections.
Legal Information Reference Center
Legal Information Reference Center contains more than 225 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms, with more content being added on a regular basis. A majority of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.
MasterFILE Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books.
Sustainability: The Journal of Record
This journal documents the implementation of sustainability programs in higher education and business, and provides the central forum for academic institutions, the business community, foundations, government agencies, and leaders of green-collar endeavors to share and learn about one another’s progress and programs.
General and Interdisciplinary
Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database with full text for thousands of journals and citation information for thousands more.
ArticleFirst
Contains citations to articles on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
“This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3490 journals in the directory. Currently 1186 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 190,907 articles are included in the DOAJ service.”—July 11, 2008
GPO
Index to publications of the U.S. government. Includes references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more. Coverage is from 1976.
JSTOR
Available Collections: Arts & Sciences III, Arts & Sciences V, Ecology & Botany, 19th Century British Pamphlets Full-text of journals in languages and literature; ecology and botany; and also essential titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture. There are hundreds of titles in these collections.
MasterFILE Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books.
WorldCat
Catalog of books and other materials held by libraries worldwide. Use this database to place an Interlibrary Loan for a book.
History
Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database with full text for thousands of journals and citation information for thousands more.
ARTICLE FIRST
Contains citations to articles on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
“This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3490 journals in the directory. Currently 1186 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 190,907 articles are included in the DOAJ service.”—July 11, 2008
Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
“Bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars…. Alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Continuously published since 1936, the handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.”
History Reference Center
Offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias, and nonfiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
MasterFILE Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books.
Literature and Writing
CompPile
“An ongoing inventory of publications in post-secondary composition, rhetoric, ESL, and technical writing: 1939–1999.”
Gale Literature Resource Center
The world’s most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature database, Literature Resource Center is uniquely relevant to today’s researchers. Its rich critical, biographical, and contextual content supports interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy and the development of critical-thinking skills. Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements.
JSTOR
Available Collections: Arts & Sciences III, Arts & Sciences V, Ecology & Botany, 19th Century British Pamphlets Full-text of journals in languages and literature; ecology and botany; and also essential titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture. There are hundreds of titles in these collections.
MLA International Bibliography
A bibliography of journal articles, books, and dissertations in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. The source material dated back to 1963 and contains more than 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.
NoveList
NoveList is a reader’s advisory for popular fiction.
Medicine and Health
CONSUMER HEALTH COMPLETE
Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients’ information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. In addition, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs. The database is updated on a weekly basis.
MasterFILE Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books.
PubMed
Includes more than 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950’s. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals.
PUBMED CENTRAL
U.S. National Library of Medicine’s free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Music
Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database with full text for thousands of journals and citation information for thousands more.
ARTICLE FIRST
Contains citations to articles on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
“This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 4278 journals in the directory. Currently 1602 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 302,847 articles are included in the DOAJ service.” —July 31, 2009
JSTOR
Available Collections: Arts & Sciences III, Arts & Sciences V, Ecology & Botany, 19th Century British Pamphlets Full-text of journals in languages and literature; ecology and botany; and also essential titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture. There are hundreds of titles in these collections.
MasterFILE Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books.
Peace Studies
Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database with full text for thousands of journals and citation information for thousands more.
GPO
Index to publications of the U.S. government. Includes references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more. Coverage is from 1976.
Human Rights Watch Publications
Selected full-text of reports on human rights violations and conditions around the world. Reports cover countries and specific issues. Coverage is 1990 to present.
International Relations & Security Network
Full-text materials on international relations, area studies, international business, security and military studies, comparative studies, and human rights.
Legal Information Reference Center
Legal Information Reference Center contains more than 225 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms, with more content being added on a regular basis. A majority of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.
MasterFILE Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books.
PUBLISHED INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE ON TRAUMATIC STRESS (PILOTS) DATABASE
Index to the worldwide scientific literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. Includes citations and abstracts to journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and government documents relevant to PTSD and other forms of traumatic stress.
RAND DATABASE OF WORLDWIDE TERRORISM INCIDENTS
The RAND Database of Worldwide Terrorism Incidents is a compilation of data from 1972 through 2009. They are still collecting data after 2009, however it has not yet been added to the online database. Some full-text online.
SocINDEX with Full Text
Comprehensive sociology research database. Features more than 1,600,000 records and full text for 253 “core” coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 “priority” coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.
Philosophy
Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database with full text for thousands of journals and citation information for thousands more.
ARTICLE FIRST
Contains citations to articles on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
“This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 4278 journals in the directory. Currently 1602 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 302,847 articles are included in the DOAJ service.”—July 31, 2009
MasterFILE Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and more than 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books.
Psychology
ART THERAPY
The official journal of the American Art Therapy Association. Its purpose is to advance the understanding of how visual art functions in the treatment, education, development, and enrichment of people.
Arts in Psychotherapy
This journal publishes peer-reviewed articles (including illustrations) by art, dance/movement, drama, music, and poetry psychotherapists, as well as psychiatrists, psychologists, and creative arts therapists, that reflect the theory and practice of these disciplines.
Association of Transpersonal Psychology Members Only Resources
Access to archives of all 35 years of the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, as well as audio archives of ATP conference presentations and a members networking directory.
Body, Movement, and Dance in Psychotherapy
Body, Movement, and Dance in Psychotherapy is an international, peer-reviewed journal exploring the relationship between body and mind whilst focusing on the significance of the body and movement in clinical therapeutic settings. It is the only scholarly journal wholly dedicated to the growing fields of body psychotherapy, somatic psychology, and dance movement psychotherapy.
Ecopsychology
This quarterly online journal explores the relationship between environmental issues and mental health and well-being.
Journal of Consciousness Studies
This journal provides interdisciplinary research into all aspects of the study of human consciousness.
Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy
This journal explores the complexities and controversies facing psychotherapists, publishing original peer-reviewed articles that critically analyze theory, research, or clinical practice. In addition, it offers empirical studies, panel discussions, essays, case studies, brief reports, and theoretical articles. Psychotherapists and clinical researchers will find this journal an important vehicle to review the challenges of treating a variety of patients.
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
Contains peer-reviewed original theoretical and empirical research papers on all major areas of nonverbal behavior. The coverage extends to paralanguage, proxemics, facial expressions, eye contact, face-to-face interaction, and nonverbal emotional expression, as well as other relevant topics which contribute to the scientific understanding of nonverbal processes and behavior.
MasterFILE Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
MEDLINE
Contains journal citations and abstracts related to the fields of medicine, psychiatry, nursing, the health care system, and preclinical sciences.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
This database contains descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised psychological test instruments from the 9th–15th editions of the printed Mental Measurements Yearbook. Covers more than 2,200 commercially-available tests in categories such as personality, developmental, behavioral assessment, neuropsychology, achievement, intelligence and aptitude, and education.
Mindfulness
This journal publishes peer-reviewed papers that examine the latest research findings and best practices in mindfulness. It explores the nature and foundations of mindfulness, its mechanisms of actions, and its use across cultures. In addition, Mindfulness features papers that address issues involving the training of clinicians, institutional staff, teachers, parents, and industry personnel in mindful provision of services.
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books.
PsycINFO
Contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations in the field of psychology. Coverage is from the 1880s. Database links to full-text in other EBSCO databases.
PsycARTICLES
Full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
A comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world’s largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
Psychotherapy.net Videos
Psychotherapy.net Videos provides high quality training videos in psychotherapy, counseling, and addiction. This faculty chosen collected set of 50 multi-user, online streaming videos is fashioned to provide training specific Naropa University’s particular counseling programs.
Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress (PILOTS) Database
Index to the worldwide scientific literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. Includes citations and abstracts to journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and government documents relevant to PTSD and other forms of traumatic stress.
Science Reference center
A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology ,and wildlife.
SocINDEX with Full Text
Comprehensive sociology research database. Features more than 1,600,000 records and full text for 253 “core” coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 “priority” coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.
Religion
Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database with full text for thousands of journals and citation information for thousands more.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
Collection of major religious and theology journals selected by religion scholars in the United States. Full text journals representing all major religious faiths, denominations, and language groups are included.
CDRI: Digital Resources for the Study of Religion
The CDRI database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture and iconography.
JSTOR
Available Collections: Arts & Sciences III, Arts & Sciences V, Ecology & Botany, 19th Century British Pamphlets Full-text of journals in languages and literature; ecology and botany; and also essential
titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture. There are hundreds of titles in these collections.
MasterFILE Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
Mindfulness
This journal publishes peer-reviewed papers that examine the latest research findings and best practices in mindfulness. It explores the nature and foundations of mindfulness, its mechanisms of actions, and its use across cultures. In addition, Mindfulness features papers that address issues involving the training of clinicians, institutional staff, teachers, parents, and industry personnel in mindful provision of services.
MLA International Bibliography
A bibliography of journal articles, books, and dissertations in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. The source carries materials dated back to 1963 and contains more than 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books.
RAMBI: THE INDEX OF ARTICLES ON JEWISH STUDIES
“Selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel.”
Research in Ministry
Indexes and abstracts for project reports and theses from more than fifty Doctor of Ministry and Doctor of Missiology programs accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada.
Sociology
Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database with full text for thousands of journals and citation information for thousands more.
Cross-Cultural Research: The Journal of Comparative Social Science
Examines topics that span societies, nations, and cultures, providing strategies for the systematic testing of theories about human society and behaviour. Research reports, review articles, methodological studies, bibliographies, and discussion pieces. Full text available from February 1999 to present.
MasterFILE Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books.
PsycARTICLES
Full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.
PsycINFO
Contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations in the field of psychology. Coverage is from the 1880s. Database links to full-text in other EBSCO databases.
SocINDEX with Full Text
Comprehensive sociology research database. Features more than 1,600,000 records and full text for 253 “core” coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 “priority” coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.
Theater and Dance
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text
The International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance represents the most comprehensive multicultural and interdisciplinary research tool available to theater students, educators and professionals. Includes full text for 100 titles.
JSTOR
Available Collections: Arts & Sciences III, Arts & Sciences V, Ecology & Botany, 19th Century British Pamphlets Full-text of journals in languages and literature; ecology and botany; and also essential titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture. There are hundreds of titles in these collections.
New Theatre Quarterly
New Theatre Quarterly provides a vital international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theatre history has a contemporary relevance, that theatre studies need a methodology and that theatre criticism needs a language. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theatre studies.
MasterFILE Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
MLA International Bibliography
A bibliography of journal articles, books, and dissertations in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. This source carries material dated back to 1963 and contains more than 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books.
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Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database with full text for thousands of journals, and citation information for thousands more.
Art Source
This art research database covers a broad range of subjects from fine, decorative, and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. It features full-text articles, indexing and abstracts for an array of journals, books, and more.
Art Therapy
The official journal of the American Art Therapy Association. Its purpose is to advance the understanding of how visual art functions in the treatment, education, development, and enrichment of people.
Article First
Contains citations to articles on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Use this database to place an Interlibrary Loan for an article.
Arts in Psychotherapy
This journal publishes peer-reviewed articles (including illustrations) by art, dance/movement, drama, music and poetry psychotherapists, as well as psychiatrists, psychologists, and creative arts therapists, that reflect the theory and practice of these disciplines.
The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology
Access to archives of all 35 years of the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, as well as audio archives of ATP conference presentations and a members networking directory.
ATLA religion database with ATLASerials
Collection of major religious and theology journals selected by religion scholars in the United States. Full text journals representing all major religious faiths, denominations, and language groups are included.
Body, Movement, and Dance in Psychotherapy
Body, Movement, and Dance in Psychotherapy is an international, peer-reviewed journal exploring the relationship between body and mind whilst focusing on the significance of the body and movement in clinical therapeutic settings. It is the only scholarly journal wholly dedicated to the growing fields of body psychotherapy, somatic psychology, and dance movement psychotherapy.
Buddhist Studies Review
Peer-reviewed articles on any aspect of Buddhism, covering the different cultural areas where Buddhism exists or has existed (in South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia); historical and contemporary aspects (including developments in ‘Western’ Buddhism); theoretical, practical, and methodological issues; textual, linguistic, archaeological, and art-historical studies; and different disciplinary approaches to the subject (e.g. Archaeology, Art History, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Comparative Religion, Law, Oriental Studies, Philosophy, Philology, Psychology, Religious Studies, Theology).
NOTE: This journal is now available through the ATLA Religion Database. Please use the link above for access.
Business Source Premier
Full text for more thousands of business journals and other sources, including full text for many peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage varies.
CDRI: Digital Resources for the Study of Religion
The CDRI database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.
Colorado’s Historic Newspaper Collection
Ongoing collaborative project by the Collaborative Digitization Program, the Colorado State Library and the Colorado Historical Society creating a statewide historic newspaper database. Includes 44 newspapers dating from 1859 to 1880.
CompPile
An ongoing inventory of publications in postsecondary composition, rhetoric, ESL, and technical writing: 1939–current.
Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients’ information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. In addition, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs. The database is updated on a weekly basis.
Cross-Cultural Research: The Journal of Comparative Social Science
Examines topics that span societies, nations, and cultures, providing strategies for the systematic testing of theories about human society and behaviour. Research reports, review articles, methodological studies, bibliographies, and discussion pieces. Full text available from February 1999 to present.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
“This service covers free, full text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 4278 journals in the directory. Currently 1602 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 302,847 articles are included in the DOAJ service.” —July 31, 2009
EBSCOhost E-Book Collection
This collection of full-text electronic books replaces netLibrary and provides access to more than 3,000 books.
Ecopsychology
This quarterly online journal explores the relationship between environmental issues and mental health and well-being.
ERIC
The Educational Research Information Center is the most comprehensive database of educational literature available online. Use this free version to locate citations on educational research.
Gale Literature Resource Center
The world’s most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature database, Literature Resource Center is uniquely relevant to today’s researcher. Its rich critical, biographical, and contextual content supports interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy and the development of critical-thinking skills. Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements.
GPO
Index to publications of the U.S. government. Includes references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more. Coverage is from 1976.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government, and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
Bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars… Alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.
History Reference Center
Offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias, and nonfiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Human Rights Watch Publications
Selected full-text of reports on human rights violations and conditions around the world. Reports cover countries and specific issues. Coverage is 1990 to present.
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text
The International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance represents the most comprehensive multicultural and interdisciplinary research tool available to theater students, educators, and professionals. Includes full text for 100 titles.
International Relations & Security Network
Full-text materials on international relations, area studies, international business, security and military studies, comparative studies, and human rights.
Journal of Consciousness Studies
This journal provides interdisciplinary research into all aspects of the study of human consciousness.
Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy
This journal explores the complexities and controversies facing psychotherapists, publishing original peer-reviewed articles that critically analyze theory, research, or clinical practice. In addition, it offers empirical studies, panel discussions, essays, case studies, brief reports, and theoretical articles. Psychotherapists and clinical researchers will find this journal an important vehicle to review the challenges of treating a variety of patients.
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
Contains peer-reviewed original theoretical and empirical research papers on all major areas of nonverbal behavior. The coverage extends to paralanguage, proxemics, facial expressions, eye contact, face-to-face interaction, and nonverbal emotional expression, as well as other relevant topics which contribute to the scientific understanding of nonverbal processes and behavior.
JSTOR
Available Collections: Arts & Sciences III, Arts & Sciences V, Ecology & Botany, 19th Century British Pamphlets
Full-text of journals in languages and literature; ecology and botany; and also essential titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture. There are hundreds of titles in these collections.
Legal Information Reference Center
Legal Information Reference Center contains more than 225 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms, with more content being added on a regular basis. A majority of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.
MasterFILE Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
Mindfulness
This journal publishes peer-reviewed papers that examine the latest research findings and best practices in mindfulness. It explores the nature and foundations of mindfulness, its mechanisms of actions, and its use across cultures. In addition, Mindfulness features papers that address issues involving the training of clinicians, institutional staff, teachers, parents, and industry personnel in mindful provision of services.
MLA International Bibliography
A bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations in the language arts. Dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
This database contains descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised psychological test instruments from the 9th to 15th editions of the printed Mental Measurements Yearbook. Covers more than 2,200 commercially available tests in categories such as personality, developmental, behavioral assessment, neuropsychology, achievement, intelligence and aptitude, and education.
New Theatre Quarterly
New Theatre Quarterly provides a vital international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theatre history has a contemporary relevance, that theatre studies need a methodology and that theatre criticism needs a language. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theatre studies.
NoveList
NoveList is a reader’s advisory for popular fiction.
Points of View Reference Center
The Points of View Research Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books.
PsycARTICLES
Full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber.
PsycINFO
Contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in the field of psychology. Coverage is from the 1880s. Database links to full-text in other EBSCO databases.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
A comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world’s largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
Psychotherapy.net Videos
Psychotherapy.net Videos provides high quality training videos in psychotherapy, counseling, and addiction. This faculty chosen collected set of 50 multi-user, online streaming videos is fashioned to provide training specific Naropa University’s particular counseling programs.
Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress (PILOTS) Database
Index to the worldwide scientific literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. Includes citations and abstracts to journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and government documents relevant to PTSD and other forms of traumatic stress.
PubMed
“Includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950’s. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals.”
PubMed Central
U.S. National Library of Medicine’s free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
RAMBI: The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
Selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel.
RAND Database of Worldwide Terrorism Incidents
The RAND Database of Worldwide Terrorism Incidents is a compilation of data from 1972 through 2009. They are still collecting data after 2009, however it has not yet been added to the online database. Some full-text online.
Regional Business News
Full text coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Research in Ministry
Indexes and abstracts for project reports and theses from more than 50 Doctor of Ministry and Doctor of Missiology programs accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada.
Science Reference Center
Comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology, and wildlife.
SocINDEX with Full Text
Comprehensive sociology research database. Features more than 1,600,000 records and full text for 253 “core” coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 “priority” coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.
Sustainability: The Journal of Record
This journal documents the implementation of sustainability programs in higher education and business, and provides the central forum for academic institutions, the business community, foundations, government agencies, and leaders of green-collar endeavors to share and learn about one another’s progress and programs.
TopicSearch
Over 139,800 articles on current events topics like aging, crime, drugs, energy, health, human rights, and world affairs, from over 4,800 sources, with 1,650 full text periodicals.
