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NEW Article & Other Databases for 2007-2008

  • The American Civil War Research Database is the definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. Originally created by Historical Data Systems, Inc., the database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs.

  • Biography Resource Bank contains some FULL TEXT as well as citations to yearly interviews, obituaries, and bibliographies from more than 3,000 periodicals and over 2000 current books; covered from 1984 to present.

  • Black Thought and Culture from Alexander Street Press, is a FULL TEXT database, and contains 1297 sources with 1100 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans.

  • CIAO = Columbia International Affairs Online - is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.

  • CINAHL PLUS with FT - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature: includes abstracts, references, and much full text. On campus links to other full text databases as well.

  • Cochrane Library for Healthcare - is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions; from other systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations and individual clinical trials.

  • Earthscape - An online resource on the global environment. Eathscape is a comprehensive aggregation of resources in the Earth and Environmental Sciences. This summer, Earthscape adds publications from the United Nations Environment Programme as well as various organizations addressing environmental issues across Asia.

  • Gale Virtual Reference - New Titles. Click their "show all" link or the "Title List" link for complete listings.

  • General Science Full Text has indexes and and now FULL TEXT to popular and some scholarly articles in magazines and journals on a range of science subjects; indexes from 1984, abstracts from 1993.

  • Humanities Full Text Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines and now FULL TEXT.

  • Oxford Reference Online - New Titles Reference works including dictionaries and encyclopedias, maps, who's who. Click here for the SUBJECT lists.

  • Project Muse Premium - New Titles in this package.

  • Readers Guide Full Text (1983 to present) Index and abstracts and now FULL TEXT to a range of popular magazine articles.

  • Social Explorer - Features thousands of interactive demographic maps and reports from 1940 to 2000, as well as a full-featured reporting engine that makes historical demographic research fast and easy.

  • Social Sciences Full Text Extensive index and and now FULL TEXT to scholarly articles in professional journals.

  • Women and Social Movements This Scholar's Edition will also include the full text of the complete five volumes of Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, available for the first time in electronic form.

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