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Off-Campus Users: Go
here
to access these databases if you are a Bluefield College student or
faculty/staff member.
Databases highlighted in green are freely available on the web and are
not subscription databases.
Academic OneFile - a database with more than 9,000 titles in all academic
subjects, of which nearly 7,000 are peer-reviewed, also includes the
full-text of the NY Times from 1995, the full-text of the
Financial Times, and Times of London from 1985.
Alternative Press Index
(via FirstSearch) - indexes almost 300 alternative, radical and left
periodicals, newspapers, and magazines.
American Chemical Society
- web editions of approximately 33 journals.
American Civil War:
Letters and Diaries - more than 1,000 sources of
diaries, letters, and memoirs to provide access to thousands of views on
almost every aspect of the war, including what was happening at home.
American Education Research
Association (AERA) - E-Journals in Education.
Scholarly, peer-reviewed, full-text journals.
Anistoriton - An
electronic journal of History, Archaeology, Art History. It has
scholarly papers from 1997 on and is searchable. All submissions to
the journal are peer-reviewed.
Article First
(via FirstSearch) - index to articles from 12,500 journals; 1990 to present.
Arts & Humanities Search
(via FirstSearch) - index to 1,300 arts and humanities journals, 1980-
ARTstor -
digital
library of over 300,000 art images and associated information. Prehistoric
to contemporary, international in scope, includes architecture, painting,
sculpture, photography, decorative arts and design. To use, enable
cookies,
Java scripts, disable pop-up
blockers.
Technical help.
Associations Unlimited - online version of
Encyclopedia of Associations (trade and not-for-profit organizations).
ATLA Religion Database and ATLAS
(full-text journals) - Subjects: Biblical
studies, church history, history of religions, sociology & psychology of
religion, and related topics. Contents: Religion Index One, Religion Index
Two, and Index to Book Reviews in Religion are combined to provide access to
450+ journals, plus essays, book reviews, and dissertations. Now includes
full-text to approximately
75
periodicals. Published by the American Theological Library Association.
Coverage: 1949-present. Updated twice yearly.
Biography Resource Center
- comprehensive database
of biographical information for persons from virtually every field and era.
Reference sources include American Decades, Contemporary Authors,
Encyclopedia of World Biography, Contemporary Musicians, Contemporary Black
Biography, Directory of American Scholars, Religious Leaders of America,
International Dictionary of Art and Artists - and many more. Coverage:
varies. Updated every 1-3 months (periodicals daily).
Britannica Online -
full-text encyclopedia, plus Internet Guide and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate
Dictionary.
Business
& Company Resource Center - by company, industry,
subject, place, or personal name, provides full text articles and press
releases, investment reports, detailed corporate hierarchies, company
histories, brand and product information, industry and company rankings,
financial and industry overviews, and HR law case digests for domestic and
international companies. Includes full content of 2458 periodicals.
Consumer Index
(via FirstSearch) - index to consumer information from
240 periodicals, 1996-
Contemporary Women's Issues
(via FirstSearch) - information on women world-wide, bringing together the
areas of sociology, psychology, health, education, & human rights. Coverage:
full-text access to journals, newspapers, newsletters, fact sheets,
bibliographies, research reports. 1992-present. Updated bimonthly.
Criminal Justice
Periodicals Index-
includes full-text of over 75 journals and indexes and abstracts over 190 US
and international journals, from 1981 forward.
Digital Library of Appalachia
- seeks
to provide online access to archival and historical images and materials
related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. The
over 1000 items in the database include reproductions of photographs,
reformatted typed pages, published books, unpublished manuscripts, personal
diaries and correspondence, journal and newspaper articles, musical
recordings, oral history recordings and transcripts, and other related
reproductions.
Directory of Open Access Journals
- covers free, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly
journals.
Dissertations
(via FirstSearch) - index to dissertations and
theses from institutions in North America and Europe.
Early American
Imprints
-
full-text
digitization of the microform set Early American Imprints, Series I
(1639-1800), which was itself based on the American Bibliography of Charles
Evans (14 vols., 1903-34, 1955-59).
Early Encounters in
North America - sources from diaries, letters, and
memoirs about the people, cultures, and environment.
Electronic Journals Library
- Multidisciplinary. Search for journals by title or subject and
access content.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
- the web version of a twenty-volume encyclopedia, updated regularly.
ERIC
- offers
citations & abstracts to journal articles & resources related to the field
of education. Indexes curriculum materials, teaching guides, lesson plans,
program descriptions, research reports, conference proceedings, plus
articles from over 800 educational and education-related journals. Produced
by the Educational Resource Information Center. Coverage: 1966-present.
Updated monthly.
Expanded
Academic Index ASAP - full-text articles and
abstracts in all academic subject areas.
Factiva
-a
web-based information service that provides powerful tools for searching and
monitoring global news and business.
FactsonFile.com
- full-text version of Facts-on-File. Note:
failure to access database may occur when campus network system is heavily
used.
Geobase
(via FirstSearch) - index to worldwide literature on geography, geology, and
ecology.
Google Scholar
-
searches scholarly literature,
to include peer-reviewed papers, dissertations, book citations, preprints,
abstracts and technical reports from a variety of content providers. Some
full text material is available. (About)
GPO Database
(via FirstSearch) - index to U.S. Government agencies.
Grove Art Online
- provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art
(1996, 34 vols.) with annual additions of new material and updates to the
text.
Grove 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.
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HarpWeek
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enables you to directly experience the full-text richness and
historical significance of Harper’s Weekly, America's
leading 19th century illustrated newspaper.
History Resource Center - access to more than 5,000 original
documents, over 100 journals and other periodicals with full-text
access to articles, references resources including the 9-11 Commission
Report; search by person, subject or time period use a chronological
timeline; use the Student Research Guide for help writing
history papers. Also includes resources for faculty.
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Ingenta - internet-based index to over 33,000
academic and professional publications, by subject area.
Internet Public Library
- "An educational, research, and service
laboratory...maintaining a balanced and broadly representative collection of
web sites for information, reference and research."
JAKE
- a
free resource that identifies databases worldwide that index a journal. Just
type in the title of your journal. (not always up to date)
JSTOR
- (Journal Storage)
a full-text scholarly journal
collection consisting of back issues of journals in many different subject
areas; some of the journals go back to the 1800's.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
- Subjects: news, business, legal, medical and reference information.
Contents: Provides access to a variety of full-text sources, including
world-wide newspapers, magazines, news wires, and trade journals. Also
features government documents, state & federal laws and regulations, case
law, company and industry information, reference directories and
biographical sources. Produced by Lexis-Nexis. Coverage: varies; strong for
1980s-present. Updated daily.
LISTA -
contains extensive abstracting
and indexing content from over 600 of the library science industry's most
well-known journals and periodicals.
Literature Resource Center - full-text access to
biographical information on authors, literary criticisms, journal articles
and essays, and links to web sites.
MediaReviewDigest
(via FirstSearch) - reviews of educational media and entertainment
resources.
Medline
- A comprehensive
database of biomedical literature produced by the National Library of
Medicine, coverage 1966-present. Updated monthly.
(Also see PubMed below)
MLA International Bibliography
-Subjects:
literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Contents: Provides access
to scholarly research in over 4,000 journals and series published
world-wide. Other materials indexed include books, dissertations, book
chapters, & essay collections. No abstracts. Produced by the Modern
Language Association of America. Coverage: 1963-present. Updated 10 times
yearly.
netLibrary
- full-text electronic books, approximately 38,000 titles, covering all
academic subject areas. These books are also in the online catalog. If you
are off-campus, it's a good idea to create a personal account (you'll see
the link to the right when you click on netlibrary. Your netlibrary account
allows you to access the books remotely and to save notes and bookmarks.
North American Women's
Letters and Diaries - sources from diaries,
letters, and memories from Colonial to 1950
OAIster
- a collection
of freely available, academically-oriented digital
resources that are easily searchable.
Occupational Outlook Online
- searchable index to current career information.
Online Reference Books - over ten full-text
encyclopedias covering subjects education, history, science, religion, and
social science.
Oxford English Dictionary
- full-text of the 22-volume 2nd ed. (definitions, word origins,
quotations).
Papers First
(via FirstSearch) - index to papers presented at conferences worldwide,
1993-
Polling the Nations - contains the full-text of
400,000 questions and responses from 14,000 surveys conducted by 700 polling
organizations since 1986 in the US and 80 other countries.
Proceedings First
(via FirstSearch) - index to worldwide conference proceedings, 1993-
Psychology and Behavioral
Sciences Collection -
provides coverage of more than 550
full-text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. The database
covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry &
psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and
experimental methods. Nearly every full-text title included in this database
is indexed in PsycINFO, a database of the American Psychological
Association.
PsycINFO
- Subjects: Psychology and related fields. Contents: Citations, most with
abstracts, for more than 1,300 journals published in 50 countries & 28
languages. Also indexes books, dissertations, and technical reports.
Produced by the American Psychological Association. Coverage: 1887-present.
Updated monthly.
PLoS
- Public Library of Science - Biology, Genetics, Medicine
PubMed
- a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12
million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science
journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles
and other related resources.
Statesmans' Yearbook Online
- provides
accurate information on the current
political, economic, and social status of every country.
Statistical Abstract of the
United States - contains a collection of
statistics on social and economic conditions in the US.
Union Lists
(FirstSearch) - List of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries.
Working Women,
1870-1930 - Focuses
on women's roles in the U.S. economy and provides access to digitized
historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard
University's library and museum collections. The collection features
approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images including 7,500 pages of
manuscripts, 3,500 books and pamphlets, and 1,200 photographs.
World Almanac
(via FirstSearch) - the famous almanac online.
World FactBook - CIA maps and demographic information
on countries and regions (published annually).
World Catalog
(via FirstSearch)- Subjects: Every imaginable subject. Contents: The world’s
most comprehensive bibliography, with over 37 million bibliographic records
representing 370 languages.
WorldScope
(via FirstSearch) - basic financial information on public companies
worldwide.
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