General & reference databases
Databanks (Collections of databases) |
Databanks (Collections of Databases)
- EBSCO Databases
- Several scholarly and general index databases, some with full text
- InfoTrac databases
- A collection of academic and general interest databases
- New PowerSearch interface
- Original InfoTrac interface
- LexisNexis Academic
- Provides the full text of many news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, including national and regional newspapers, wire services, and broadcast transcripts [More info]
- FirstSearch databases
- A small collection of journal indexes
General interest and reference databases
- Academic Search Premier
- An all-purpose academic database covering many disciplines [More info]
- Alternative Press Index [password required]
- Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change [More info]
- ArchiveGrid
- Search detailed descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives worldwide [More info]
- ArticleFirst
- Multidisciplinary index of articles from the contents pages of more than 16,000 journals [More info]
- Books in Print [password required]
- In-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios and videos [More info]
- Britannica Online
- Browse or search more than 100,000 articles from Encyclopædia Britannica. Includes photographs, illustrations, sound files, and video clips; a dictionary and thesaurus; and statistical data for the countries of the world. [More info]
- Credo Reference
- A digital reference library of dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, books of quotations, and subject-specific titles, covering many subjects, all from leading publishers. [More info]
- EBSCO MegaFILE
- A "catchall" conglomeration of other four other EBSCO databases [More info]
- Expanded Academic ASAP
- A multidisciplinary database; a good starting point for many academic research topics [More info]
- General OneFile (formerly InfoTrac OneFile)
- An all-purpose database covering a wide range of subjects, providing access to more than 5,500 scholarly and popular full-text journals [More info]
- General Reference Center Gold
- A multidisciplinary database indexing mostly popular or general interest magazines such as you would find in a public library [More info]
- Google Scholar
- An Internet search engine for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports [More info]
- InfoTrac K-12 databases
- A variety of databases for kindergarten through high school [More info]
- MasterFILE Premier
- A multidisciplinary database designed specifically for public libraries [More info]
- OAIster
- Catalog of digital resources from open archive collections [More info]
- OCLC databases
- See ArchiveGrid, ArticleFirst, OCLC Electronic Books, OAIster, WorldCat
- OCLC Electronic Books
- Catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide [More info]
- OED Online
- Online version of The Oxford English Dictionary, the authoritative guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past, from across the English-speaking world [More info]
- Oxford Reference Online
- Full-text dictionaries and other reference books in many subject areas from Oxford University Press [More info]
- World Almanacs
- A collection of reference works including The World Almanac and Book of Facts [More info]
- WorldCat
- The world's most comprehensive bibliography of books and other materials from libraries around the world [More info]
