English Indexes & Databases

Indexes and Databases for English

Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost) [Off-campus Access] A multi-disciplinary database that offers full text for more than 1,850 scholarly journals including 1,300 peer-reviewed titles. It offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
ARTStor [Off-campus Access] A digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching.
Biography Resource Center (InfoTrac)[Off-campus Access] Includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.
Book Collection: Nonfiction(EBSCOhost) [Off-campus Access] A rich research database for school and public libraries. It contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 3,500 popular nonfiction books. It includes full text entries on core subject areas, as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills and more.
Booklist Online [Off-campus Access] Published by the American Library Association, Booklist online offers a selection of reviews for children and young adults, bibliographies (including editors' annual choices), interviews with authors, and more. Full indexes of book reviews are also available for each volume.
CQ Global Researcher [Off-campus Access] Provides monthly reports on major issues in global affairs from a number of international viewpoints, including an introductory overview; background and assessment of the current situation; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; chronology, and more.
Current Research@Marywood University [Off-campus Access] Gateway to Marywood's graduate research in the form of published dissertations and theses. You can search citations and abstracts, view 24 page previews, and download the full text of dissertations and theses.
Directory of Open Access Journals A free Web service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. You can browse journal titles by subject; browse article titles and select the full text articles to read. Use the search field to search journals included in DOAJ. At the moment you can not search for articles, just for information about journals.
EBSCOhost Research Databases [Off-campus Access] Provides access to various databases, including Academic Search Elite , Business Source Plus, ERIC, MLA International Bibliography, CINAHL, Health Source: Nursing/ Academic Edition, and Clinical Pharmacology. These databases can be searched individually or simultaneously. Select EBSCOhost Web to access various databases.
Expanded Academic ASAP(InfoTrac) [Off-campus Access] From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images!
Google Scholar Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles. From off-campus sites, go to Google Scholar Preference page, and search for Marywood University. Then check the Marywood University box. You will be asked for your Marywood email login to get access to articles that are part of Marywood's collection.
HighWire Press Free Internet Database. Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press offers full-text access to nearly 300 highly cited journals, plus simultaneous, searchable access to all of MEDLINE. HighWire Press is the world's largest archive of free, peer-reviewed, full-text life sciences research with over 380,000 free full-text articles. The journals HighWire supports focus on science, technology, and medicine.
In the First Person Free Internet Database. An index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories.
InfoTrac (Gale)Databases[Off-campus Access] 1997-May 2000 with access to backfile (1980-1996). Comprehensive information on: Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and the General Sciences. Includes Literature Resource Center and Biography Resource Center.
ISI Web of Knowledge [Off-campus Access] New 13,000 journals,23 million patents, 192,000 conference proceedings, 9,100 Web sites, 5,000 books, 2 million chemical structures, Over 100 years of backfiles, 40 million cited references added annually, 256 subject categoriesin Science, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities.
JSTOR Scholarly Archive [Off-campus Access] Full-text scholarly articles and images from more than 120 scholarly journals. Subjects Covered: African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, Statistics, General Science Collection. Note that current issues (from the past 2-5 years) are not included.
Lexis-Nexis [Off Campus Access ] A huge amount of information available on Lexis-Nexis inludes full-text newspaper and magazine articles, business and company information, legal research, medical news and journal articles, general reference, congressional reports and publications, and a lot more.
Literature Resource Center (InfoTrac) [Off-campus Access] Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost)[Off-campus Access] Provides records related to literature, languages, linguistics and folklore. Includes citations for journals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies dating back to 1963. Most commonly used for finding essays of criticism on literary works.
Netlibrary [Off-campus Access] A digital collection of 13,826 eBooks, eAudiobooks, and more.
Newspaper Source (EBSCOhost) [Off-campus Access] Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
Novelist [Off-campus Access] A fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers.
Novelist K-8[Off-campus Access] Allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in the classroom.
Wilson Web [Off-campus Access] 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, Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text coverage begins in 1994.