Databases/Article Indexes for Interdisciplinary


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Recommended resource
Contains the complete text of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, including the Propedia, Micropedia, Macropedia, and Book of the Year.
Recommended resource
a database of over 200 reference books covering various disciplines.
Recommended resource
Expanded Academic
1980-current
A searchable database providing access to humanitities, social science, science and technology journals.
Recommended resource
Google Scholar
Dates vary

To link to Drexel full text from Google Scholar, first add Drexel in the Library Links within Scholar Preferences;Open Access
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
Recommended resource
Large database covering federal and state court opinions, statutes, and regulations. Also has extensive coverage of news publications, news transcripts, and company information.
Recommended resource
Proquest Research Library indexes more than 3,880 journal titlesover 2,620 in full textfrom 1971 forward.
Recommended resource
The interface for access to the ISI Citation databases: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Science Citation Index.
Recommended resource
Multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
Recommended resource
WorldCat
1200-current
Records for materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries. WorldCat offers holdings information vital for collection development, cataloging, authority control, and retrospective conversion services.
 
Provides searching across over 11000 periodicals, and over 4300 fulltext titles
 
AccessScience
Dates vary.
A collection of Reference e-books in the sciences, including The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology 9th edition online.
 
ACLS Humanities E-Books
Dates vary

formerly known as ACLS History Ebook Project
Offers a searchable collection over 1700 full-text humanities books, as well as reviews.
 
Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.
 
AP Images
1826 - Current

formerly AccuNet/Associated Press Multimedia Archive 1 user maximum
an International photo archive (1826-present), a Graphics Database which contains graphics, maps, illustrations and logos, and an AP Audio Database which contains searchable audio clips dating back to the 1920s.
 
ArticleFirst
1990-current
An index of journal article citations from over 15,000 serials across a broad subject area.
 
Biographies of hundreds of notable figures from all areas of study and popular culture.
 
Blackwell Synergy
1997-current
The Blackwell Publishing Full Collection comprises 803 journals from across Science, Technology, Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences collections.
 
Book Review Index Online is a comprehensive guide to book reviews that includes more than 5 million review citations from thousands of publications. Now with unlimited simultaneous users.
 
Provides access to publication information for over 3.5 million books in-print, out-of print, and forthcoming.
 
Books24x7
Current

5 concurrent users maximum.
Search, browse and view fulltext of nearly 5000 books covering IT and systems.
 
DartClix is a catalog of websites and their components in a keyword-searchable interface available through Access PA.
 
CIA World Factbook
Current

Open Access
Prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency, the World Factbook provides national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies.
 
Community of Science (COS) Papers Invited -- NEW!
current

Available through the CSA Illumina platform
The database consists of detailed information and deadlines about calls for papers for forthcoming conferences and special issues of scholarly journals. These calls for papers are issued by professional bodies, journal editors and other conference organizers in all disciplines and from all over the world. Thus, the database serves as an alerting service for researchers, scholars and students that are seeking opportunities to present and publish their research. Approximately 10,000 conferences are listed each year along with 1,200-1,500 special issues. Also searchable from within any of Drexel's CSA databases
 
Community of Science (COS) Scholar Universe -- NEW!
current

Available from the CSA Illumina platform
COS Scholar Universe provides authoritative information about more than 1 million scholars and organizations around the world, together with verified affiliation and publication information. The database comprises international faculty at 4-year universities and their departments. Also searchable from within any of Drexel's CSA databases. A complement to COS Expertise.
 
Weekly publication providing original in-depth analysis of the most current major and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, pros and cons, two bibliographies and more.
 
With more than 1.5 million entries, UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database is the one central, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
 
ebrary
Dates vary

Required one-time download of free ebrary Reader before accessing titles.
Access to over 21,000 electronic books. One-time ebrary reader download is required.
 
EBSCOhost is a collection of databases and reference resources, including Academic Search Elite, Clinical Reference Systems, Health Source Plus, USP DI Volume II (Advice to the Patient), Alt-HealthWatch, Biomedical Reference Collection and Nursing & Allied Health Reference Collection.
 
Contains all of the e-book records cataloged by OCLC member libraries.
 
ECO provides access to electronic journals from a number of participating publishers, cross-linked with the FirstSearch databases.
 
Contains information for approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations.
 
Federal Register
1995-current

Open Access
Includes U.S. federal agency announcements and information, such as presidential documents, agency meetings, grant opportunities, and proposed federal regulations. A new edition of the Federal Register is published every business day.
 
First Search
Dates vary

Open Access
Provides searching platform for a number of periodical databases covering the Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Humanities, and Social Sciences.
 
FirstGov.gov
Dates vary

Open Access
Search engine for government information, with more than 186 million web pages from federal and state governments, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories.
 
Searchable database of foreign doctoral dissertation abstracts.
 
Provides searching platform for a number of periodical databases covering the Sciences, Technology, Business, Arts & Humanities, and Social Sciences.
 
GovSearch
Current
A directory of contact information and organization charts for U.S. government at the Federal, State, and Municipal and County levels, including government agencies.
 
GPO Access
1994-current

Open Access
Use GPO Access to search or browse official, full-text information from the three branches of the Federal Government.
 
GPO Monthly Catalog
1974-current

Open Access
A catalog of all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records judiciary materials and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.)
 
The 4th edition of HSUS, published by the U.S. Census bureau. Contains data on social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences including history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade - quantitative facts of American History.
 
IngentaConnect
Dates vary
Large multidisciplinary database covering many academic and professional publications.
 
Contains Open Educational Resources and university lectures culled together on the Internet Archive. This library contains hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the United States and China. Many of these lectures are available for download. The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
 
thousands of videos (65,000 as of March 2008) were contributed by Archive users and community members. These videos are available for free download. The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
 
The Open-Access Text Archive is a collection open to the community for the contribution of any type of text, many licensed using Creative Commons licenses. Includes collections culled from other Open-Access digital book projects, such as Project Gutenberg, American Libraries, Canadian Libraries, Universal Library and more. The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
 
iPoll
1935-current

Users must fill out a one-time registration and agree to Terms of Use before using this resource.
iPOLL is and up-to-date source for US nationwide public opinion polls. It is full-text retrieval system organized at the question-level, and includes nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys since 1935. The data is updated daily.
 
Journal Citation Reports presents quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic, objective way to evaluate journals and their impact and influence in the research community.
 
Journals@OVID
Dates vary
Provides access to hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies.
 
JSTOR
Dates vary
Interdisciplinary collection of journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
 
This digital version of the Yellow Book directories provides current directory information for government, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations.
 
Includes Serial Set, CRDC Historical, Statutes at Large, and Congressional Indexes from LexisNexis.
 
Includes tables, abstracts, and links to statistical information from State, US, and International sources through LexisNexis. The American Statistics Index, Statistical Reference Index, Index to International Statistics.
 
The NGS Publications Index includes broad subject indexing to magazines, books, films and videos, educational products, map products, interactive features, and newsletters produced by the Society.
 
NetLibrary
Dates vary

1 concurrent user maximum
Online books from across disciplines.
 
NetLibrary's Reference Center eBook Search limits your search to only titles in the Reference Center collection to which Drexel subscribes (about 100 titles).
 
Contains information on how to set up Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD) Programs, how to create and locate ETDs, and current research in digital libraries related to ETDs.
 
Full text of the New York Times from 1980 to present (no images). Full text of New York Times Magazine and New York Time Book Review from 1997 to present.
 
Full Text coverage of the New York Times from 1851 - 2003, including original images.
 
The OpenDOAR service provides a quality-assured listing of open access repositories around the world. OpenDOAR staff harvest and assign metadata to allow categorisation and analysis to assist the wider use and exploitation of repositories. Each of the repositories has been visited by OpenDOAR staff to ensure a high degree of quality and consistency in the information provided. OpenDOAR FAQ
 
Original Sources
Prehistory-current
Searchable full-text of Primary works by the most important figures in all aspects of World History.
 
Online version of the classic extensive dictionary which includes word origins. Fully searchable.
 
Full-text multidisciplinary journal collection.
 
Approximately 100 dictionaries, language reference works, and subject reference works.
 
PapersFirst
1993-current
PapersFirst is a world-wide multidisciplinary index to papers of congresses, conferences, expositions, workshops, symposia, and meetings received at the British Library. A companion database to ProceedingsFirst.
 
Population Index
1986-2000

Open Access
Population Index is the primary reference tool to access the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.
 
ProceedingsFirst
1993-current
ProceedingsFirst is a multidisciplinary index of published meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses and symposia worldwide. Individual papers are indexed in the companion database, PapersFirst.
 
ProQuest
Dates vary
Provides searching platform for a number of periodical databases covering Business, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences. Delivers more than 4,000 full-text publications from over 3,000 publishing partners.
 
Readers Guide Full Text : Wilson Omnifile
1982-current

Choose Readers Guide subject area
Online version of The Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, featuring full-text of the indexed articles after 1994.
 
Readers' Guide Retrospective
1890 - 1982

1 user maximum
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature provides thorough indexing and accurate bibliographic data for 272 popular magazines central to any school, college, or public library collection. Presenting the richest account of U.S. cultural history youll find in any single source, Readers Guide Retrospective is the online equivalent of 44 Readers Guide annuals.
 
Reference Universe
1985 - Current
A database of Reference works held by Drexel University Libraries. Contains a cumulative index with over 15 million citations to over 10,000 specialized encyclopedias, compendia and handbooks. By searching this database, you will be able to find the best electronic or print resources to help you begin your research with truly authoritative articles. Reference Universe covers all disciplines, and includes works from 1985 to present.
 
ScienceDirect
1995-current
ScienceDirect is a search platform which provides access to more than 1000 full-text journals in a wide range of subject areas.
 
SimplyMap

5 concurrent users maximum. Free personal registration is required for access.
a web-based mapping application that lets users create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using United States demographic, business, and marketing data. Data sources include the U.S. Census and Census projections.
 
Provides information about pricing, subscription, key publisher, editor and advertising contact of over 240,000 serial titles.
 
Provides access to full text of all United Nations resolutions from 1946 to present, and full text of most other UN official documents from 1993 to present.
 
University of California Press eScholarship Editions
1985-current

Access limited to E-Books marked PUBLIC.;Open Access
Collection includes over 400 books from academic presses on a range of topics.
 
ISI Web of Knowledge is a Web portal the ISI Citation databases through Web of Science: Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index, as well as Current Contents and Journal Citation Reports.
 
Who's Who
1985-current

1 concurrent user maximum
A searchable online database featuring comprehensive profiles on over 1.2 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science & technology, the arts, entertainment and sports.
 
World Almanac
1998-current
Includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, and statistics (from The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, The World Almanac Knowledge Source.)

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