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Multidisciplinary Databases             Print Page
  
 

How these databases are different than subject databases

General databases cover a wide variety of topics, while subject databases usually focus on one particular discipline or subject area.

Use general databases when you don't need a lot of indepth, scholarly information and/or to supplement the information you find in our subject specific databases.

 
 

General databases

This list is a combination of general periodical indexes, reference sources, periodical indexes, and other resources such as e-books and test preparation guides.

  • Academic OneFile  
      
    Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles covering a wide variety of topics from the world's leading journals and reference sources.
  • America's News Magazines  
    Full text articles of 29 popular magazines, including Entertainment Weekly, Essence, Fortune, In Style, Newsweek, Real Simple, and Time.
  • Article First  
      
    Index of articles from the contents pages of journals; covers periodicals in business, science, humanities, social sciences, medicine, technology, and popular culture.
  • Britannica Online  
      
    Online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica
  • CQ Researcher  
      
    Coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Full text reports.
  • Custom Newspapers  
      
    Full text newspapers from around the Country and the World.
  • ECO (Electronic Collections Online)  
      
    Index to a collection of scholarly journals covering a variety of subjects.
  • Expanded Academic ASAP  
      
    Access scholarly journals from arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, many with full text and images.
  • General OneFile  
      
    News and periodical articles on a wide range of topics; some full text.
  • General Reference Center Gold  
      
    A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications.
  • Global Issues in Context  
      
    Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events.
  • Historical New York Times  
      
    Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue of the NYT.
  • JSTOR  
      
    Complete full text archives of over 850 core scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences and social sciences.
  • Lexis/Nexis Academic  
      
    Extensive collection of online newspapers, magazines, legal and other types of resources; full text
  • Learning Express Library  
      
    Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams based on official tests,exercises, and skill-building courses.
  • National Newspaper Abstracts (ProQuest)  
      
    Abstracts and indexing for New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal.
  • NetLibrary  
      
    Over 14,000 full text online books covering a wide variety of topics.
  • Omnifile Full Text Mega (Wilson)  
      
    Full text of articles from over 1,750 publications and article abstracts and indexing from over 3,500 publications. Coverage back as early as 1982.
  • ProQuest Central  
      
    Covers of a broad range of subject areas. Contains some full text.
  • World Almanac  
      
    Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs. Includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, and statistics.
  • World Book Online  
      
    Full text version of the World Book Encyclopedia.
  • WorldCat  
      
    Catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.
 
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