Online Indexes & Databases

ABI/INFORM: A comprehensive business database available from ProQuest. Full-text materials are included.
Academic Search Complete: This EBSCO index provides full-text for serials in all disciplines.
AGRICOLA: Includes more than 3 million citations to material acquired by the National Agricultural Library and other cooperating institutions.
Applied Science and Technology Index: Citations and abstracts from a wide variety of peer-reviewed journals in engineering and technology fields.
Architectural Index: This is the online edition of the annual print index. Eighteen periodicals are indexed.
Associates Program Source: Containing nearly 1,000 full-text journals as well as 11 full-text books, this resource provides comprehensive coverage of the most-relevant associate program level content.
BasicBiosis : Provides information on recent developments in all life sciences disciplines.
Biology Digest: Covers all the life sciences, with access to new scientific developments.
Business & Company Resource Center : Provides information for the fields of finance, economics and marketing, including 500,000 company profiles.
Business and Management Practices : Contains full-text information on practical aspects and approaches to business management.
Business Source Complete: Provides full-text content for all disciplines of business including non-journal content, such as financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, case studies, industry & market research reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
Canadian Reference Centre: This database combines Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full-text content available on Canada.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text: World's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals.
Clase and Periodica: Indexes more than 2,600 Spanish, Portuguese, French and English language Latin American journals. Covers all fields.
Computer Source: Features nearly 300 full-text journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics and software.
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete: Covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines with full-text information on the business and social implications of new technology.
Consumers Index: Index to articles providing consumer information.
Contemporary Women's Issues : Indexes topics and meaningful issues for women, including health, human rights, the workplace, legal status, etc.
Custom Newspapers: A collection of 150 full-text newspapers, both international and national.
EconLit : Contains citations, with abstracts to literature in the field of economics, taken from more than 400 economic journals.
Education Research Complete: Full text journals in all fields of education.
Environment Complete: Covering full text for more than 680 journals, this resource includes information on agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning and more.
ERIC : Contains references to thousands of educational topics, journal articles, books, theses, curricula, conference papers, standards and guidelines.
FactSearch : This database includes information from over 300 publications. Each citation includes an abstract, as well as facts and statistics, with a reference to original source.
Gale Virtual Reference Library : A database of encyclopedias, almanacs and specialized reference sources. (full text)
General Science Collection: Provides information on all aspects of the scientific world. Full text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications.
GEOBASE : Citations with abstracts to worldwide literature of geography, geology, ecology, and international development.
GPO : Records of items printed by the federal government.
Global Road Warrior: Full text database with cross-cultural information on 175 countries. Includes maps, key facts, and information on life, culture, business, and technology in each country.
HarpWeek: A full text, full image version of Harper's Weekly covering the Civil War era (1857 to 1865).
Health & Wellness Reference Center (with Alternative Health Module): Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, pamphlets, health-related videos, and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles.
Health Reference Center Academic: A multi-source database dealing with health, wellness, nursing, allied health and medicine. Covers about 270 titles, many of which are full text.
Health Source--Consumer Edition: This comprehensive database provides access to nearly 80 full-text consumer health magazines and many other related resources.
Health Source--Nursing/Academic Edition: Provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, and offers access to 822 abstracted and indexed journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong.
Historical New York Times: Digital reproductions of the paper from 1851 to three years prior to the current year.
Humanities International Complete: Provides full text for more than 890 journals in the humanities
Informe : Provides coverage of Spanish language periodicals in many fields. (full text)
Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts: The largest online database of information about personal computers.
Issues and Controversies: Provides information on controversial topics covering more than 70 issues each year. Statistical information is also available. (full text)
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe: Consists of more than 40 separate databases; almost all are full text. Covers the following categories: News Sources, Business Sources, Legal Research, Medical Information, and Reference Sources.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts: (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Coverage extends back to the mid-1960s.
Literature Resource Center-LRC : Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors. (full text)
MasterFile Premier: Multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,700 general reference publications.
MasterFileSelect: Provides access to more than 770 full text periodicals in all fields plus abstracting and/or indexing for more than 2,600 more.
Media Review Digest: Reviews of educational media and entertainment resources.
MEDLINE with Full Text: This is the most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, with coverage going back to 1965. Also indexes veterinary journals.
Military & Government Collection: Full-text material from periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to all branches of the military and government.
National Newspaper Index: Provides indexing and abstracting of: New York Times (including the Book Review and Magazine sections), Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.
netLibrary: A collection of more than 4,500 books available online in electronic format. Books are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
New York State Newspapers: A database of newspapers published in NYS, including those from Binghamton, Buffalo, Elmira, Ithaca, NYC, Rochester, Syracuse and Westchester County. National newspapers are also included. (full text)
Newsbank : Full text to about 10 regional NYS newspapers, as well as six national ones.
Newspaper Source Plus: contains comprehensive full text for major national (U.S.) and international newspapers, and features more than 583,100 television and radio news transcripts, videos and podcasts.
Opposing Viewpoints: Includes viewpoint articles, overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites and periodical and newspaper articles on controversial topics. Most are full text.
PAIS International : Information on all aspects of public affairs.
PapersFirst : An index of papers included in every conference, exposition, workshop, symposium and meeting received at The British Library.
Proceedings: Provides citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition workshop and meeting received at The British Library.
Points of View Reference Center (from Ebsco): This full-text database is designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.
Professional Development Collection: Most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world. Includes nearly 550 education journals, including 350 peer-reviewed titles.
ProQuest Direct: Consists of several separate databases, some with sub-sets. Many of the articles are available full text:
- ABI/INFORM: A business and management database providing national and international coverage of all fields relating to business, including profiles of 60,000 companies. Many are full text.
- American Medical Association: Searches the publications of the American Medical Association.
- Research Library: Search for coverage of a broad range of subjects in thousands of periodicals. Many are full text.
- ProQuest Newspapers
- National Newspapers (27). Comprehensive coverage of major newspapers, including major U.S., international and minority interest newspapers. (full text)
- Barron's, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times or Wall Street Journal may be searched individually. (full text)
- Historical New York Times: New York Times from 1851 to present. Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
PsycFirst: Provides indexing to the most recent three years of psychology literature.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection: Contains 570 full-text journals and 48 books & monographs and includes full-text content from relevant magazines and health reports. Coverage is particularly strong in child & adolescent psychology and various areas of counseling
Regional Business News: Full text coverage for regional business publications. Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from metropolitan and rural areas within the U.S.
Religion and Philosophy Collection: this full-text database covers topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy
ScienceDirect: Provides access to over 700 Elsevier journals in the sciences, technology and medicine. Over one million articles are full text.
SIRS Researcher : Contains thousands of full text articles exploring social, scientific, historic, political and global issues selected from more than 1,200 sources.
TOPICsearch: Current events database explores social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics. Full text for over 139,000 articles from over 4,800 diverse sources.
Twayne's Author Series: Features the full-text content of almost 600 books on US Authors, English Authors and World Authors. Includes literary criticism and interpretation.
Vocational and Career Collection: Provides full-text coverage for nearly 350 trade and industry-related periodicals, covering topics such as computer & data processing, electrical technology, nursing, interior design, law enforcement & criminal justice, marketing & advertising, hospitality & tourism, construction and more.
WilsonSelectPlus : Indexes, abstracts and provides full-text for about 1,300 periodicals.
WorldCat: Contains more than 54 million records for all types of materials--manuscripts, books, machine readable files, audiovisual materials, musical scores, etc.

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