Periodical Databases

The sites listed below are great online resources for researching general academic, business, nursing, religion and psychology topics.

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Chronicle of Higher Education

This award-winning publication based in Washington, D.C. is a standard source of “news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators,” but is also a valuable resource for students who are investigating trends in higher education, reviewing academic books, or researching statistics in higher education. In addition, The Chronicle Review (included in Section A) focuses on the arts and the world of ideas.

The Library online subscription is available 24/7 and is published every weekday. The paper subscription is available in the Library Atrium with other hard copy newspapers and is published weekly excepting biweekly publication during the summer and last two weeks of December.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Coming Soon!)

A major source of information for those involved in philanthropy (whether fund- or grant-seekers or grantors), The Chronicle of Philanthropy is published 18 times per year, whether in hard copy or digital format. In addition to ideas, statistics, hints, lists of available grants, and fund-raising news for general and specific fields, the publication also reports recent “tax and court rulings,” including those for non-profit organizations.

New Online Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia Britannica Online Academic Edition carries over 75,000 articles and 23,000 biographies from Encyclopedia Britannica, Year in Review (1993-2010), World Data Analyst, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus, BBC and New York Times daily headlines, and an online world atlas.

EBSCOhost

Search the following databases:
  • Academic Search Premier – over 4000 full-text academic journals
  • Business Source Premier – full text for 1,050 business journals
  • CINAHL – Nursing Database
  • PsycINFO & PsycARTICLES – Psychology databases
  • ATLA – Religion Database
  • Communications and Mass Media Complete

InfoTrac Web

Broad-based undergraduate research database. Includes ten databases with many full-text articles.

FirstSearch

Search OCLC’s WorldCat (Online Union Catalog) to conduct research in the world’s largest shared catalog (books, periodicals, videos, music, scores, and archival materials).

CCH Essentials

A database of federal tax news, documents, and tools.

CQ Researcher

Updated weekly, this site covers current issues with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies, and more.

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe

Provides access to a wide range of news, business, medical, legal, and reference information.

ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health

Full-text access to Proquest Nursing and Allied Health, a database that includes over 12,000 dissertations, evidence summaries and best practice documents along with more than 780 journal titles, most in full-text. It includes titles from 1986-to date.

HeritageQuest

ProQuest’s Genealogy & Local History Collection allows full-text searching of over 25,000 family and local history books, and complete census records from 1790-1930.