African American Experience (African-American origins to the present; all full-text) is a cross-searchable collection of African-American history and culture. It covers the arts, biography, business, civil rights, education, folklore, history, literature, music, politics, pop culture, science, slavery, sports, and technology. This collection includes the African-American Greenwood encyclopedias, other references books, and 67 Negro University Press texts from the late 1700s to the early 1970s. Primary sources include 4,000 interviews wtih former slaves (the WPA slave narratives), as well as manuscripts, speeches, court cases, quotations, advertisements, and statistics. Special features include a timeline dating from the 1400s to the present, In their Own Voices audio clips of slave interviews and music, lesson plans, and hundreds of photographs, maps and images. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Greenwood Publishing Group.
African American
Poetry Collection (1760-1900; all full-text; XLinks; title list) contains almost 3,000 poems
written by African-American poets. The poetry explores topics such as abolition,
children, civil rights, dreams, education, fugitive slave law, Indian raids, liberty,
political issues, prejudice and slavery. It includes allegories, broadsides, children's
poems, elegiac poems, epics, hymns, odes, patriotic poems and sonnets. The poets
are among those included in the William French et al. bibliography, Afro-American
Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975. It is produced by Chadwyck-Healey and the user
interface is provided by OhioLINK. See also 20th
Century African American Poetry (1900-2000), or search all six databases in the Poetry Group.
African American Song (first half of
20th Century; XLinks; artist list) documents the history of African-American music in an online music listening service.
The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs,
and narratives among others. This release features 12,000 tracks of great historical
recordings featuring iconic artists such as the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Memphis Minnie, Blind Willie
McTell and Huddie Ledbetter. Users must register to create a playlist. Faculty can create class folders. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Alexander Street
Press in collaboration with the University of Chicago. This subscription is limited to 3 simultaneous users.
Alternative
Press Index (1991-present; updated quarterly;
some full-text; RefWorks help; title list) indexes nearly 300 alternative,
radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, racial, economic,
political & social change. It includes topics such as anarchism, indigenous
peoples, African Americans, democracy, labor, ecology, national liberation, feminism, socialism,
gays and lesbians. It is produced by Alternative Press Center and the user interface
is provided by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center).
Alternative
Press Index Archive (1969-1990; updated
quarterly; some full-text; RefWorks help) indexes nearly
300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines covering
cultural, racial, economic, political & social change. It includes topics such as
anarchism, indigenous peoples, African-Americans, democracy, labor, ecology, national liberation,
feminism, socialism, gays and lesbians. It is produced by Alternative Press Center
and the user interface is provided by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center).
America: History and Life(new user interface; 1964-present; updated quarterly; some full-text; video tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks; title list) indexes and abstracts about 2,000 periodicals
published worldwide in history, related humanities and the social sciences. It covers the history and
culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. It includes citations to journal
articles, book reviews and relevant dissertations. Users can search cited references and browse Clio Notes, chronologies and brief summaries of significant events and themes in American history. It is produced by ABC-CLIO and the user interface is
provided by EBSCO Publishing.
American
Civil War: Letters & Diaries (1861-1865; all full-text; XLinks) contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs. It includes biographies, bibliography of sources and The Civil War Day-by-Day by E.B. Long. Users can search by author, months, battles, sources, places, personal events and day-by-day. A complete citation is provided for the source of each diary, letter or memoir. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Alexander Street Press in collaboration with the University of Chicago.
American National Biography (updated quarterly; all full-text; XLinks) is the online version of
American National Biography published in 1999 in 24 volumes. It offers portraits of more than
17,400 men and women, from all eras and walks of life, whose lives have shaped American history. It contains
thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and Oxford Companion to United States History. Special features include biography of the day, a
teacher's guide, 12 jumpstart your research topics, and special collections (Black History, Women's History, Asian Pacific American Heritage, Hispanic Heritage, and American Indian Heritage). It is published by and
the user interface is provided by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of
Learned Societies.
American Periodicals Series (APS) (1740-1900; updated quarterly; all full-text;
RefWorks help; XLinks; title list) covers the development of American culture,
politics and society across 150 years. It is arranged in three series: 1740 to 1800, the period of
transition from British colony to emerging nation; 1800 to 1850, pre-Civil War and the era of debate over
slavery; and 1850 to 1900, Civil War and Reconstruction. It covers 1,100 historic American journals
including Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, Independent Reflector, Medical Repository, Liberator,
North American Review, Harper's Bazar, Vanity Fair, and Ladies Home Journal. Magazines of
these periods cover the literature, science, religion, arts, and history of the time. It is produced by
and the user interface is provided by ProQuest.
Annals
of American History (all full-text; XLinks) is an encyclopedia that covers the
arts, business, democracy, discrimination, diversity, education, expansion, family,
government, imperialism, labor, law, leisure, peace, religion,and war. It provides
2,000 primary documents in American history, including speeches, historical accounts,
memoirs, editorials and cultural criticism. Multimedia files include over 500
pictures, hundreds of video clips, and audio files of famous speeches. It is produced
by and the user interface is provided by Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Biography
Reference Bank (all full-text; XLinks) combines Wilson's Biographies Plus Illustrated and Biography Index. It includes biographical profiles, recent and feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews and criticisms, speeches, and obituaries. It covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images. Entries include a list of books by and about the individual. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by H. W. Wilson.
Biography
Resource Center (all full-text; XLinks) contains over 330,000 biographies on nearly
220,000 people from nearly 80 sources, such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia
of World Biography, Contemporary Black Biography and Religious Leaders
of America. It provides quick reference information on 900,00 people in the
Complete Marquis Who's Who®. It covers people throughout
history, around the world and across all disciplines and subject areas. It includes
full-text articles from more than 250 magazines and 20,000 images. Search for
people by birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.
It is produced by and the user interface is provided by the Gale Group. This subscription is limited to 2 simultaneous users.
Black Drama (1850-present; all full-text; XLinks) contains approximately 1200 plays by 201
playwrights, together with detailed information on related productions, theaters,
production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production
photographs, author biographies and other ephemera related to the plays. Some 440 of the plays
are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors. Users can search by
author, characters, productions, companies, years, plays, theaters, and scenes. The plays have
been selected using leading bibliographies and with the editorial advice of James V. Hatch,
co-author with Errol G. Hill of A History of African American Theatre and a leading
expert in this area. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Alexander Street
Press in collaboration with the University of Chicago.
Black Thought & Culture (1700-present; all full-text; XLinks) contains 795 sources with 434
authors which includes the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans. Where possible
the complete published non-fiction works are included, as well as interviews, journal articles,
letters and other fugitive material. Users can search by author, sources, years, historical events,
personal events, questions (interviews), and subject. The showcase features full-page images of the
Black Panther Party Newspaper from 1968 to 1980. It is produced by and the user interface is
provided by Alexander Street Press in collaboration with the University of Chicago.
Contemporary
Women's Issues (1992-July 2006; much full-text; RefWorks help) covers critical
issues and events that influence women's lives. It indexes journals, newsletters,
and research reports. It includes English language publications from over 190
countries, as well as ephemeral literature from alternative presses and grass
roots organizations. It is produced by the Gale Group and the user interface by
OhioLINK. See Women's Studies International or Gender Studies Database for more up-to-date information.
Ethnic NewsWatch (1990-present; updated monthly; all full-text;
RefWorks help; XLinks; title list) indexes newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. It includes more
than 600,000 English and Spanish articles from 200 publications, providing a broad diversity of
perspectives and viewpoints. The user interface is provided by ProQuest.
Gender
Studies Database(1972-present; much full-text; video tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks) combines Women’s Studies International and Men’s Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. It covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. It provides thousands of links to freely available full-text articles and documents on the Web and hundreds of links to important websites. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, and theses & dissertations. It is produced by NISC and the user interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.
HarpWeek
(1857-1871; all full-text) contains the complete content of Harper's Weekly
from its beginning. It covers the American Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction.
History Resource Center (much full-text; podcasts; XLinks) provides integrated access to over 1,000
historical (primary) documents, more than 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text
journals covering themes, events, individuals, and periods in U.S. history from pre-colonial
times to the present. It includes access to citations for over 180 additional history journals.
This database includes podcasts (audio files). To listen follow the on-screen insrtructions.
Be patient while the podcast downloads.
It is produced by Thomson-Gale and the user interface is provided by InfoTrac.
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Digital Images (XLinks) is a part of OhioLINK's Digital Media Center
and contains digital documents related to slavery, abolition, and emancipation. The
collection includes abolitionist broadsheets, photographs by Matthew Brady,
letters and speeches of President Lincoln and other presidents, and other
historic letters, documents, and pictures. The original documents are found in the Gilder Lehrman Collection of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The digital images were made available through the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. The user
interface is provided by OhioLINK.
New
York Times Historical Database (1851-within four years of the present;
all full-text; updated annually; RefWorks
help; XLinks) contains full-page and article images of every page of every issue,
cover to cover, in downloadable PDF. It includes ads, comics, cartoons, photos,
maps and other graphics. It is produced by the New York Times and the user interface
is provided by ProQuest.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries & Oral Histories (1800-1950; all full-text; XLinks)
contains 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information providing a unique and personal
view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of
contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, the
series provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. The collection is
particularly useful to researchers, because much of the original material is difficult to find,
poorly indexed, and unpublished; most bibliographies of the immigrant focus on secondary research;
and few oral histories have been published. In selected cases, users will be able to hear the actual
audio voices of the immigrants. The showcase provides a selection of cartoons from Puck Magazine and the images of a diary by Rose Qwong. Users can search by author, source, year, place, nationality & heritage, personal event, resource and subject. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Alexander
Street Press in collaboration with the University of Chicago.
North American Women's Letters & Diaries (Colonial -1950; all full-text; XLinks) includes the immediate experiences of 1,325
women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. Materials have been carefully chosen using
leading bibliographies, supplemented by more than 7,000 pages of previously unpublished material. The
collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the
database. Users can search by authors, source, year, place, historical event and personal event.
The showcase provides page images of selected diaries and letters. It is produced by and the user
interface is provided by Alexander Street Press in collaboration with the University of Chicago.
Twentieth Century African American Poetry (1900-2000; all full-text; XLinks)
contains 12,000 poems with biographical profiles of more than 100 African-American
poets, including Audre Lorde, Langston Hughes, and Rita Dove, as well as emerging
poets. It is produced by ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey and the user interface is provided
by OhioLINK. See also African American Poetry
Collection 1760-1900, or search all six databases in the Poetry Group.
Women and Social Movements (1600-2000; all full-text; XLinks) contains 79 document projects consisting of 2,400 documents from 1,700 primary authors. It includes local, state, and federal Commissions on the Status of Women from 1963 to the
present. Publications include reports, pamphlets, posters, reviews, teaching tools and ephemeral materials. Users can browse by sources, authors, documents, images, document projects, teaching tools, social movements, subjects and bibliography. This database will eventually include the complete 5 volumes of Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Alexander Street Press in collaboration with the University of Chicago.
Women's
Studies International (1972 and earlier-present; much full-text; video tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks) covers the core disciplines in women’s studies and scholarship
in feminist research, including curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science, economy,
public policy, international relations, the arts, humanities, business and education. It indexes over 2,000 journals as well
as newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, Web
sites & Web documents, and grey literature. It incorporates the following databases: Women Studies Abstracts,
Women’s Studies Bibliography Database, Women’s Studies Database, Women Studies Librarian, Women of Color and
Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research, and Women’s Health and Development: An Annotated
Bibliography. It is produced by NISC and the user interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.
Recommended
Academic OneFile (updated daily; much full-text; RefWorks help; XLinks; title list) indexes and abstracts more than 10,000 journals in which there is considerably more peer reviewed content (8,000 titles) than in InfoTrac OneFile (3,000 titles). It covers a wide range
of academic disciplines: physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN and the CBC as well as the full-text of the New York Times back to 1995. It is produced by Thomson-Gale and the user interface is provided by InfoTrac.
Academic
Search Complete (1985-present; updated daily; more full-text; video tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks) is a multidisciplinary database that covers nearly all academic areas of study, including social sciences, humanities,
education, computer sciences, engineering, language, linguistics, the arts, literature, medical sciences and ethnic studies. It indexes and abstracts over 9,300 journals, many of them peer-reviewed (4,400), and provides full-text for over 5,300 journals. It also includes indexing and abstracts for books, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals. It is produced by and the user
interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.
America's
Newspapers (updated daily; all full-text), formerly NewsBank Newspapers,
contains 17 Ohio newspapers and major newspapers from other states. It includes
local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government
policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in
the community. Users can access and play news videos. A free Flash plug-in is required to play the videos. Also, a short advertisement appears prior to each video that can be immediately closed. Paid advertisements are excluded. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by NewsBank, Inc.
American
Film Scripts (1903-present; all full-text; XLinks) contains 497 scripts by 605 writers together with detailed,
fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. When complete, the
collection will include more than 1,000 scripts and over 100,000 scenes of life as portrayed in the
movies. Users can search by writers, scripts, years, characters, people, and subjects. The showcase
provides sample page images from selected scripts. It is produced by and the user interface is
provided by Alexander Street Press in collaboration with the University of Chicago.
CQ Researcher (1991-present; all full-text; RefWorks help; XLinks) is the online version of the CQ Researcher print publication. It provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Each issue discussed includes an abstract, overview, background, current situation, outlook, special focus, chronology, pro/con, bibliography, next step, contacts, and footnotes. Controversial topics are addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner. It is published by and the user interface is provided by CQ Press, a Division of Congressional Quarterly, Inc. This subscription is limited to 5 simultaneous users.
CultureGrams
(all full-text; XLinks) includes a world, children and states editions. It contains a photo gallery, recipe
collection, famous people, data tables and definitions. Select from an A-Z list
of countries/regions/states or select an area on a map. Each country includes
a detailed map, flag, national anthem, current time, currency converter, recipe
collection, facts and statistics as well as sections on history, climate, the
people, customs, courtesies, lifestyle and society. It is produced by and the
user interface is provided by Brigham Young University.
Education
Abstracts (1983-present; RefWorks help; video tutorial; XLinks; saving searches) indexes core international periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks in education.
Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues, including
government funding, instructional media, multicultural education, religious
education, student counseling, competency-based, and information technology. It is produced by H.W. Wilson and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK.
Education Research Complete (much full-text; video tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks) offers
the largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals. It covers areas of curriculum instruction
as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. It includes the database, Professional
Development Collection. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.
Electronic
Journal Center (about 1995-present; updates dependent upon publisher;
all full-text; RefWorks help; XLinks; saving searches) is a multidisciplinary
collection of about 5,000 journals published by Academic Press, American Chemical
Society, American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, American Psychological
Association (PsycARTICLES), Association of Computing Machinery, Berkeley Electronic
Press, BioOne, Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Emerald (MCB University
Press), Ingenta, Institute of Physics, Kluwer, Lawrence Erlbaum, Optical Society
of America, Oxford University Press, Project MUSE, Royal Society of Chemistry,
Springer-Verlag, Thieme and Wiley. Scholars can be notified
by email about new relevant articles according to subject, author or journal
title. It is compiled by and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK.
ERIC, EBSCO user interface (1966-present; updated monthly; some full-text; video tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks)
contains abstracts and indexing for books (1993-present), ERIC documents and journal articles in education research and practice. It includes descriptions and evaluations of programs, research reports and surveys, curriculum and teaching guides, instructional materials, position papers, and resource materials. It also provides links to the full-text of most ERIC documents from 1993-present. It is produced by the Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC) and the user interface is provided by EBSCO. Evidence-Based Practice Tip: To limit search results to articles with some level of evidence: Type your search strategy in the textboxes provided. At your search results, click Search Options (in right menu). The Search Options window will open and in the Publication Type selectbox hold down the CTRL key and click Dissertations/Theses (All) and Reports - Research. Then click the Search button at top or bottom of the Search Options window. Click the Search button.If you cannot connect using the above link, try the ERIC, OhioLINK user interface (RefWorks help; video tutorial; saving searches).
NOTICE: The ERIC Program is converting nearly 340,000 documents produced in microfiche from 1966-1992, and seeks copyright-holder permission to provide full-text access online. To learn more about this initiative, or to contact ERIC about granting a release for your ERIC contributions, click this link: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ericdigitization.
General OneFile (1980-present; much full-text; RefWorks help; XLinks), formerly InfoTrac OneFile, indexes and abstracts more than 10,000 titles covering general interest topics, business, law, health care. It includes more than 6,000 full-text titles and 3,000 refereed journals, 5 newspaper indexes and 121 newswire services. It covers topics such as the arts, business and industry, education, general interest, health, law, literature, news and commentary, science, social sciences and technology. It is produced by Thomson-Gale and the user interface is provided by InfoTrac.
Historical Statistics of the United States (most from 1800s-1990s; full-text essays & introductions; downloadable data)
provides quantitative data on population, work & welfare, economic structure & performance, economic sectors, and governance & international relations. It covers social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences including history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade. It permits users to search and download data as well as create customized tables, spreadsheets and graphs. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Cambridge University Press.
In the First Person (1550-present; all full-text; XLinks) is an in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world.
Users can keyword search more than 650,000 pages of full-text by more than 15,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 3,500 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records.
The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entires. It is produced by and the user interface is
provided by Alexander Street Press in collaboration with the University of Chicago. Although this database is free, it links to other subscription-only Alexander Street databases, many of which have been purchased by Xavier's library.
JSTOR
(1st issue of 1st volume to 3 years from present; all full-text;
RefWorks help; XLinks; title list) provides online
access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in a variety of academic
disciplines including the arts, business, demographic studies, humanities, social sciences,
and science.
LexisNexis
Academic (all full-text; RefWorks help) covers a wide variety of subjects including law, government, international affairs, politics, current events,
business and medicine. Legal research provides federal and state cases, Shepard's citations, federal and state codes, tax law, Canadian court cases and legislation, law reviews, and patents. Business research allows users to create company profiles, lists, and comparisons, as well as SEC filings, account and country profiles. Company reports can be created and data can be downloaded into spreadsheets. The People tab allows users to find obituaries, elected officials, and industry contacts. It is compiled by and the user interface is provided by
LexisNexis. (Interfaces: News; Power Search; Easy Search)
LexisNexis Congressional (selected publications 1970-present; updates vary from daily
to annually; all full-text) contains comprehensive coverage of U.S. Congress and
covers CIS Index, congressional publications, testimony, bills, laws, regulations,
members, committees, an insider's perspective, hot topics, and Internet links.
It includes the Federal Register, CIS Legislative Histories, the
Congressional Record, and U.S. Code of Federal Regulations. Some
information is produced by the Congressional Information Service and the user
interface is provided by LexisNexis.
LexisNexis
Statistical Publications & DataSets (exportable data; users guide) includes datasets from many sources, including the US government, international organizations, and the private sector. It covers all subject areas, including banking and finance, criminal justice and law, education, energy resources and demand, food and agriculture, government and politics, health and vital statistics, housing and construction, industry and commerce, international; labor and employment, natural resources and environment, population and income, prices and cost of living, stocks and commodities, and transportation and travel. Users can search datasets by keyword; browse datasets by subject or source; display datasets by trend, map or ranking; and output datasets in print, PDF, delimited, Excel or SAS formats. Datasets can be limited by date and geographic area (country, state, county). Years available varies by dataset; for example, births 1999-present and breast cancer 1973-present. It also features datasets currently in the news, such as crude oil price, 30-year fixed mortgage rate, airline on-time arrival rate, campaign contributions for both Obama and McCain, gasoline prices, the prime rate and the unemployment rate. It is compiled by and the user interface is provided by
LexisNexis. Click Customize Data to access the datasets. Users will need to run the Java installation.
Newspaper Source (1984-present; updated daily; some full-text; video tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks) provides indexing and abstracts for 4
national newspapers; selected full-text for 245 regional U.S. newspapers, 18 international
newspapers, 6 newswires, 9 newspaper columns; and cover-to-cover full text for Christian
Science Monitor and Los Angeles Times. It is produced by and the user interface
is provided by EBSCO Publishing.
Oxford
Reference Online, Politics and Social Sciences (all full-text; XLinks) is a cross-searchable
database of 10 encyclopedias, dictionaries and reference works covering contemporary
world history, countries of the world, geography, political biography, politics,
politics of the world, psychology, social sciences, sociology and US government.
It is published by and the user interface is provided by Oxford University Press. This subscription is limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Periodicals Archive Online (most from first issue to 1995; RefWorks help; XLinks) provides the backfiles of periodicals in ancient civilizations, history, humanities, linguistics, literature, philosophy, and religion. Users can search for articles by keyword, author, article title, journal title, language, journal subject, and year. Users can browse journals by title or journal subject. It is produced by Chadwyck-Healey and the user interface is provided by ProQuest.
SocINDEX (core 1895-present; much full-text; video tutorials;
RefWorks help; XLinks) features more than 1,660,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus
designed by subject experts. It indexes over 750 core journals, 575 priority journals, 2,800 selective journals,
books, conference papers, and other non-periodical content sources. Searchable cited references are also provided. It
covers all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study, including abortion, criminology & criminal justice,
demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion,
rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural
anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions,
and violence. It features over 10,000 author profiles with biographical and bibliographic information. It contains
full-text for over 344 core journals, 129 priority journals, 700 books, and 6,800 conference papers. It includes the former EBSCO database, Sociological Collection. It is produced
by and the user interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) (1980-present; updated weekly; some full-text;
RefWorks Help; tutorial; citation alerts; saving searches & creating alerts; journal titles) provides bibliographic information and
cited references for over 1,700 social sciences journals. It covers anthropology, business,
communication, demography, economics, education, ethnic studies, family studies, health policy,
history, information & library science, international relations, law, management, nursing,
political science, psychology, public administration, rehabilitation, social work, sociology,
substance abuse, transportation, urban studies, women's studies. It is produced by and the user
interface is provided by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). Click Change Limits and Settings to search only this database. Click Register or Sign In to save searches and receive search history and citation alerts. Evidence-Based Practice Tip: To limit search results to articles with some level of evidence: Type your topic in the textboxes provided. Type your academic discipline (e.g., occupational therapy, social work, nursing) in the next available textbox. Type research in the next available textbox. Click the down arrow adjacent to the last two textboxes and select Topic. Having problems? Try accessing this database directly through OhioLINK.
Social Work Abstracts (new user interface; 1965-present; some full-text; video tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks) offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services
journals. It covers all
aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of
service, social issues and problems, therapy, education, human
services, addictions, child and family welfare, mental health, and civil and legal
rights. It is produced by the National
Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the user interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing. This subscription is limited to 8 simultaneous users. Evidence-Based Practice Tip:To limit search results to articles with some level of evidence: Type your search strategy in the textboxes provided. Type research in the next available textbox. Click the Search button.
Sociological Abstracts (1963-2005; no longer updated; some full-text;
RefWorks help) provides indexes and abstracts after
1974 to 1,700 serials publications in sociology and related disciplines in the social and
behavioral sciences. It includes journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters,
dissertations, and conference papers. It is produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts and the
user interface is provided by OhioLINK. See SocINDEX and Social Sciences Citation Index for more up-to-date information.
STAT-USA (all
full-text) provides business, economic and trade information from the Federal government. The
State of the Nation section provides current and historical economic and financial data. The
GLOBUS & NTDB section provides current and historical trade-related releases, international
market research, trade opportunities, country analysis, and the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB).
It is produced by and the user interface is provided by U.S. Department of Commerce.
Statistical Abstract of the United States (1878-present; updated annually; all
full-text) provides data tables for population; vital statistics; health and nutrition;
education; law enforcement, courts and prison; geography and environment; parks, recreation,
and travel; elections; state and local government; federal government finances and employment;
national defense and veteran affairs; social insurance and human services; labor force,
employment, and earnings; income, expenditure, and wealth; prices; banking, finance, and
insurance; business enterprise; communication and information technology; energy; science and
technology; land transportation; air and water transportation; agriculture; natural resources;
construction and housing; manufactures; domestic trade and services; foreign countries and aid;
outlying areas; comparative international statistics; 20th century statistics; and industrial
outlook. Tabular data is available in portable document format (PDF) and requires Adobe Acrobat
Reader for viewing and printing. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by the
U.S. Census Bureau.