SALEM STATE COLLEGE LIBRARY

 

 

DATABASES

 

 

 

 

 

 

ART AND CULTURE

 

ART DATABASES

 

 

Art Index Retrospective

 

Citations to articles in scholarly journals covering all aspects of art; it is the online version of Art Index (from 1929 until 1984). 55 years of art literature from more than 600 publications.

 

 

 

Art Abstracts

 

Citations to articles in 200+ leading art publications.  Covers all aspects of art from architecture to video, including international art journals.  It is an online version of the paper Art Index, 1984-Present.

 

 

 

Arts and Humanities Search

 

Citations 1300+ art & humanities journals and 5800 social science and science journals; indexes bibliographies and online version of Arts & Humanities Citation Index

 

 

 

Clase Periodica

 

CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Documents published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.

 

 

 

Informe

 

Spanish language, full-text database that indexes popular Hispanic magazines. A wide variety of subjects are covered.

 

 

 

JSTOR

 

      Comprehensive online journal archive of full-text scholarly journals. JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily humanities and social sciences with links to the music discipline.

 

 

 

      MLA International Bibliography

 

Indexes critical material in journal articles and monographs on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore with options for articles in other languages.

 

 

 

Project Muse

 

Full-text journal collection from Johns Hopkins University Press. SSC subscribes to the Standard Collection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

EDUCATION DATABASES

 

 

Education Research Complete

 

Bibliographic and full text resource covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education.

 

 

 

Educator’s Reference Complete

 

Educator's Reference Complete indexes more than 1,100 periodicals (450 are full-text academic journals) as well as hundreds of full-text ERIC reports. The database is intended for the K12 educator or administrator as well as education students, faculty, and researchers. It covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college; topics include educational specialties such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing, and also issues in administration, funding, and policy.

 

 

 

ERIC

 

ERIC is a large database containing references to information in the field of music education. Material comes from the Resources in Education and the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education, as well as information produced by the Educational Resource Information Center.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HISTORY

 

HISTORY DATABASES

 

 

Historical Abstracts; ABC-CLIO

 

This database is equivalent to the print, Historical Abstracts and covers the subject area of history of the world, excluding the United States and Canada from 1450 to the present (see America: History and Life for the history of the US and Canada).

 

 

 

Handbook of Latin American Studies/HLAS Online; Library of Congress

 

HLAS Online is a searchable bibliographic database on Latin American studies. Each year over 5,000 works are included in this multidisciplinary work, which is equivalent to the print Handbook of Latin American Studies.

 

 

 

Index Islamicus

 

The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere.

 

 

 

Oxford Reference Collection with World Civ. and LC

 

Online collection of dozens of Oxford University Press' reference products. Includes access to Oxford's The Western Civilization Collection, and The Literature Collection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LINGUISTICS

 

 

DATABASES BY NAME (Click on first letter of Database name)

 

 

CINAHL Plus with Full Text

 

Journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with coverage dating as far back as 1937. Also included are: Evidence-Based Care Sheets, full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.

 

 

 

Communication and Mass Media Complete

 

Offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources.

 

 

 

EBSCOhost EJS (Electronic Journal Service)

 

A database of electronic journals the SSC library subscribes to through EBSCO Subscription Service

 

 

 

Education Research Complete

 

Bibliographic and full text resource covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education.

 

 

 

Literary Reference Center

 

Comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a comprehensive database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.

 

 

 

SocINDEX with Full Text

 

Offers coverage from all subdisciplines of sociology. Contains full text for journals dating back to 1895. This database also includes full text for books and monographs, and full text for conference papers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INTERDISCIPLINARY

 

INTERDISCIPLINARY DATABASES

 

 

Academic OneFile

 

Academic OneFile contains 8,000 academic journals, mainly in full-text, available in HTML and PDF formats. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content to 1995

 

 

 

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)

 

Provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more. Also offers full text for over 2,300 journals with many dating back to 1990. Includes coverage of over 1,700 peer-reviewed journals.

 

 

 

eLibrary

 

General subject, full-text database that indexes reference books, magazines, radio/television transcripts, maps, newspapers, and pictures.

 

 

 

Expanded Academic ASAP

 

Use this SearchBank database to find information on: astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications, and the general sciences. This is a full-text version of Expanded Academic Index (InfoTrac).

 

 

 

General OneFile

 

Database system that provides access to many full-text databases

 

 

 

Lexis-Nexis Academic

 

This database system includes the full-text of thousands of journals and newspapers. Special collections include business, congressional, environmental, legal, medical, and statistical information. (note: within LexisNexis Academic are links to LexisNexis Statistical, LexisNexis Environmental, and LexisNexis Congressional)

 

 

 

MasterFILE Premier

 

Over 2700 journals are indexed by this general subject database and 1500 of the journals include full text.