Subject Specific Databases

General/Related Databases

Academic Search Premier  Full-text, 1970s – present

More than 4,500 journals on all different subjects: psychology, business, education, chemistry, and more.

FirstSearch  Some full-text

Journal articles and various media from several interdisciplinary databases on the humanities, medicine, literature and education.

JSTOR  Full-text, 1800s to 2005

Articles from a range of subject areas, including language and literature, philosophy, African American studies, and classical studies.

LexisNexis  full text, 1980s - present

Lexis Nexis provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. Some of this information includes:

  • National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources.
  • U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information.
  • Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789
  • Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.

Using LexisNexis to Find News Articles

Using LexisNexis to Find Company Information for Business

Social Sciences Citation Index  citations only, 1989 - present

Citations from 1,950 scholarly journals in the social sciences. Part of Web of Knowledge

Subject Specific Databases

General/Related Databases

Academic Search Premier  Full-text, 1970s – present

More than 4,500 journals on all different subjects: psychology, business, education, chemistry, and more.

Career Search

Made available through Arcadia’s Office of Career Development

Contains updated contact information for nearly two million companies, industries, and organizations across the country. Demographic information for over 250 cities and salary statistics for hundreds of career fields are also available.

Students must register to use Career Search.

Social Sciences Citation Index  citations only, 1989 - present

Citations from 1,950 scholarly journals in the social sciences. Part of Web of Knowledge

Finding Full Text Articles

Finding Full Text Articles

If a database lists an article that you really want, but the article is not available in full text, this tutorial will help you obtain the full text of that article.

Business Reference Books

Online Reference Books

Listed below are a few of our many online reference resources.

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Subject Specific Databases

General/Related Databases

Academic Search Premier  Full-text, 1970s – present

More than 4,500 journals on all different subjects: psychology, business, education, chemistry, and more.

CQ Researcher  full text, 1991 - present

Detailed summaries of current public affairs issues. Each report includes an overview, bibliography, and pro/con articles.

ERIC  1996-present

Contains citations and abstracts (and occasional full-text) for journals and other material related to education research. Created by the Department of Education, the database covers a wide range of subjects in the field of education.

PubMed  Some full-text, 1950s – present

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles dating back to the 1950’s. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals, including links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

ScienceDirect  Some full-text

Scholarly articles from scientific, technical, and medical journals. A product of the publisher Elsevier.

Web of Science  citations only, 1989 - present

Includes

  • Science Citation Index
  • Social Sciences Citation Index
  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index

The premier database for literature searches in many fields. Includes citations and abstractions from 23,000 journals.

Tutorials

Psychology Database Research Tutorial Get a tour of the PsychARTICLES database and learn a few tips for better database searching.

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Subject Specific Databases

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WorldCat

WorldCat contains over 54 million records for books and other materials found in libraries across the U.S. and worldwide.

Computer Science Websites

CompInfo

Portal to information on computing.

FOLDOC

“Free Online Dictionary of Computing.” Searchable collection of definitions on computing.

Webopedia

Dictionary of easy-to-understand definitions in plain language.

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