Assumption College: Library

*Databases marked with an asterisk are funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, except for LexisNexis which is funded by CMRLS.

Academic Onefile contains 8,000 academic journals, the majority in full-text, available in HTML and PDF formats. In addition it contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content to 1995.

Citations concerning cultural, economic, political & social change from nearly 300 alternative periodicals, newspapers, and magazines.

Index of journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change.

Firsthand descriptions of historical characters and events, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events and personages, accounts of sufferings at home, and a rich battles database.

Indexes over 400 leading art publications from around the world.

Presents extensive data on the habitats and ecosystems of more than 1,200 species identified as endangered or threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service.

A comprehensive collection of articles on all aspects of biological science, including its history and issues. Includes articles on biology-related careers and important individuals, as well as topics from active transport to zoology research.

Presents more than 2,500 graphs, charts, maps, and November 24, 2008 facts about every country on the planet.

More than 4 million records, updated weekly. Records describe in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios and videos from more than 44,000 North American publishers and U.S. distributors and wholesalers.

Full text articles available.

Personal writings of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, spanning more than 400 years.

Covers 350 prominent individuals who have made significant contributions to business and industry. Profiles range from 1,250 to 2,500 words in length.

The industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 8,800 serials, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications.

A reference book covering individual designers and fashion houses that have been active throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors selected from the printed edition of Contemporary Literary Criticism.

Contains biographical/critical essays on the most important living novelists writing in English worldwide.

Provides biographical and bibliographical infor-tion on 789 of the world's most important contemporary English-language poets, including 120 new to this edition.

Citations from over 1,500 sources covering women's issues in more than 150 countries.

Published 44 times a year, the single-themed CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.

Over 100 searchable and browsable reference books from a collection of the world's leading publishers.

Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876
Funded by a grant from the Moggio Foundation.

Over 350,000 fully searchable issues from over 710 historical American newspapers focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Within some of the full text, image links are available for the Windows client. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic.

Indexes over 600 journals, books, and working papers on economics.

Use this mainly full-text collection of over 1100 periodicals and 200 reports for educational research from preschool to college. Every educational specialty can be found here including technology, health and bilingual education, testing, and issues in administration, funding and policy.

Contains additional materials, including maps, flags, tables, and links to related sites on the World Wide Web.

Includes the complete encyclopedia, Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and links to more than 130,000 selected websites.

Provides a comprehensive, subject specific guide to the history, uses, scientific principles, and technologies of espionage, intelligence, and security.

Provides expanded, up-to-date coverage of demographic topics both in the core field and in neighboring disciplines.

Covering the “long” Enlightenment, from the rise of Descartes' disciples in 1670 to the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1815, these 700 articles by leading scholars range from discussions of mercantilism and democracy to the battlefield to the dissemination of ideas in salons and coffeehouses.

Provides 3,000 concise and detailed articles on all aspects of the period from the fifth to the fifteenth century. It explores art, architecture, religion, law, science, language, philosophy, and theology, as well as cultural, religious, intellectual, social and political history.

A database of citations and abstracts from nearly 1,000 educational journals plus full text of educational documents and papers.

A database of periodicals covering all major academic disciplines including many articles in full text.

A bibliographic and full text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries and images covering a variety of subject areas.

Presents current, unbiased information on alternative and complementary medical practices, including reflexology, acupressure, acupuncture, chelation therapy, kinesiology, yoga, chiropractic, Feldenkrais, polarity therapy, detoxification, naturopathy, Chinese medicine, biofeedback, Ayurveda, and osteopathy.

Provides clear, complete information on genetic disorders, including conditions, tests, procedures, treatments and therapies, in articles that are both comprehensive and easy to understand in language accessible to laypersons.

Includes information on more than 1,600 medical disorders and concepts. Each article includes in-depth discussion of causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, procedures, and other related topics.

Contains 8,000 to 12,000 word essays on specific culture groups in the United States, emphasizing religions, holidays, customs, and languages in addition to providing information on historical background and settlement patterns.

This title presents 1,000 entries, era overviews, event/movement profiles, biographies, business/industry profiled, geographic profiles, and more.

A database of business related periodicals and other resources, many in full text.

A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles. Updated daily.

General interest database of articles, many in full text, from periodicals and reference books.

Contains over 2000 sources worldwide on geography, geology, and ecology.

US government publications.

Contains grant information as well as a searchable database of funding opportunities.

18th through 21st centuries

Primary source documents focuses on some of the leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries: immigration and multiculturalism.

Designed for junior high and middle school students. Access to full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books.

Designed for high school students. Access to full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books.

Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

A full text database which provides access to news, business, legal, and reference information.

This world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

A full text database that combines information from major reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO.

Designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for more than 700 popular, high school magazines.

Contains full-text articles gathered from almost 50 sources that directly relate to Massachusetts history.

Contains full text information about English-language standardized tests and also contains test reviews. This is the online version of the printed volumes.

Modern Language Association's index to international scholarly materials on literature. Citations are from nearly 4,400 journals, plus relevant books and other formats.
Includes MLA Directory of Periodicals

Offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography.

Containing thousands of articles, extensive hyperlinking, bibliographies and links to other sources of information on the Web. The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online is updated monthly.

E-books for searching, reading & checkout. Access to main Library books requires registration.

Provides rich detail on all aspects of the Renaissance in 14^th to 17^th century Europe. It includes comprehensive coverage of the art, literature, science, culture, philosophy, religion, economics, history, and conflict of the period.

Provides 650 biographies of influential women and over 600 topical articles covering topics such as geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies.

(You must log out of the database since we only have a one user license. Closing the browser window instead will cut off access for 15 minutes.)

Index provides abstracts of books and journals in philosophy.

A database of over 100 full text scholarly journals mainly within the past five years.

PsycARTICLES™ is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of ads and editorial board lists.

Comprehensive international coverage of scholarly literature in psychology. Includes articles from more than 1300 periodicals in over 25 languages.

Comprehensive index to articles in the field of medicine.

Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Includes more than 2,700 signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference.

Collection of 174 E-journals with emphasis on science.

A complete reference database containing thousands of entries covering almost many science fields.

References include social, scientific, economic, and political issues worldwide from over 1,200 domestic and international newspapers, periodicals and government publications.

A collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included.

Web of Knowledge
(formerly Science Citation Index Expanded-Web of Science)

Provides direct access to more than 800 development indicators, with time series for 209 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2007, where data are available.

A comprehensive guide to the concepts, theories, discoveries, pioneers, and issues relating to topics in earth science.

OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide, comprising a total of over 50 million records.