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Subject list of LMU's subscriptions to research databases, with access to articles, data, images and more. Please see our online tutorials if you need help using these databases.
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GENERAL SUBJECTS
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Recommended starting points for research:
Academic Search Complete (in EBSCOhost)
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Credo Reference
A multidisciplinary collection of hundreds of reference titles, including subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, illustrated guides and biographies. Content is searchable by keyword or topic, and includes hyperlinked cross-references to related articles from other titles in the collection.
ProQuest Research Library
Index to over 2000 scholarly and popular periodicals in all subjects; includes over 1000 periodicals full text. Coverage varies by title, but some have full text as far back as the late 1980s. | |
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Academic Search Complete (in EBSCOhost)A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
American National BiographyAuthoritative signed biographical articles on deceased figures of significance in shaping the nation.
American State Papers, 1789-1838United States government legislative and executive documents, many originating from the important period between 1789 and the beginning of the
U.S. Congressional Serial Set in 1817.
America's Historical NewspapersCover-to-cover full text and page images of scores of newspapers from all 50 states, covering 1690-1876. Includes: Early American Newspapers, Series I (1690 - 1876), Early American Newspapers, Series II (1758 - 1900) and Early American Newspapers, Series III (1829 - 1922).
ArchiveGridArchiveGrid is a searchable index of historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in thousands of libraries, museums and archives around the world. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.
Biography and Genealogy Master IndexSearching Biography and Genealogy Master Index will enable you to quickly determine which publication to consult for biographical information. Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world. Sources indexed include biographical dictionaries, who's who directories, subject encyclopedias, indexes and literary criticism volumes.
Biography Resource CenterBiographical information on more than 335,000 people from throughout history and around the world. Combines more than 427,000 full-text biographies from respected sources with full-text articles from nearly 300 periodicals.
Britannica OnlineWeb version of Encyclopedia Britannica with full text of articles and links to relevant sites.
California Political AlmanacIn depth profiles of California's legislators (Senate and Assembly), constitutional officers, state Supreme Court and appellate court justices, and representatives to the U.S. Congress. Also includes overviews and essays on all the major players and events influencing California's branches of government, including political profiles of all 58 counties.
Center for Research Libraries (CRL)Consortium of North American research libraries, of which LMU is a member. Membership allows LMU patrons access to any item in CRL's vast holdings within a few days. Request items through LMU's
Document Delivery Office, (310) 338-7683.
Chicano DatabaseIndex to material on Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos, with coverage back to 1967. Records added since 1992 have expanded its scope to include the broader Latino experience.
CollegeSourceOver 9,000 College catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools. Requires the Adobe
Acrobat reader.
Contemporary Women's IssuesCoverage of global women's issues from full text journals and newsletters; especially strong coverage of research reports from non-profit groups and government and international agencies.
CountryWatchGeopolitical information on the countries of the world.
CQ Global ResearcherMonthly publication with in-depth coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints. Each issue is a single-themed, 12,000-word report, researched and written by a journalist with experience observing the given issue. Articles contain an introductory overview; background and assessment of the current situation; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; chronology on the topic, followed by short features for extensive context; a sampling of related international perspectives; maps and graphs; bibliographies of key sources; next steps for additional reading; and author profiles.
CQ Press Political Reference SuiteIncludes several of CQ Press's reference titles on government and politics. The suite can be searched as a whole, or the titles can be accessed individually. Included titles: California Political Almanac, Congress and the Nation, Historic Documents Series, Political Handbook of the World, Politics in America, Supreme Court Yearbook, Vital Statistics on American Politics, and Washington Information Directory.
CQ Researcher Plus ArchivesWeekly publication covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more. Excellent place to begin research on a topical issue. Contains full text of CQ Researcher from 1991 to present, and its predecessor, Editorial Research Reports, from 1923 to 1990..
Credo ReferenceA multidisciplinary collection of hundreds of reference titles, including subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, illustrated guides and biographies. Content is searchable by keyword or topic, and includes hyperlinked cross-references to related articles from other titles in the collection.
Dissertation AbstractsIndex to dissertations at accredited U.S. institutions from 1861 to present; selectively covers theses and Canadian and European dissertations. This database provides access to abstracts only; for full-text dissertations in the humanities and social sciences, please use
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
ebraryFull text to over 30,000 books in many disciplines from leading academic and professional publishers. Most titles are from the past five years.
Several options are available to view books under My Settings. View a
Quick Guide for step-by-step instructions on getting started in ebrary.
(Note: ebrary performs system maintenance on the first Tuesday of each month from 8:00 - 10:00 pm, pacific time. The service may be unavailable during those time periods.)The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003Complete, searchable database of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2003. Includes full-color images, multiple search indexes, exportable financial tables and a gallery of front covers highlighting a key topic of each week. Also includes the Supplements, Special Reports and Surveys which appear regularly in The Economist.
Ethnic NewsWatchFull text articles from 290+ newspapers, magazines, and journals representing the ethnic, minority, and native press in America from 1990 to the present. For older articles, see
Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, below.
Ethnic NewsWatch: A HistoryThe backfile of
Ethnic NewsWatch (see above), with full text articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals representing the ethnic, minority, and native press in America from 1959 to 1989.
Facts on File World News DigestNews summaries, obituaries, editorials, and historic documents from international current events covering 1940-present. Searchable on a specific date or by date range, as well as by keyword.
FirstSearch DatabasesCollection of over 60 indexes in all subject areas, some with full text articles. Many, but not all, of the individual databases are listed by subject on this page and are also on the
alphabetical list of LMU's subscriptions.
GenderWatchFull text database of over 140 periodicals that focus on women and women's issues, including academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, booklets, and reports. Some archival material as far back as 1974.
Global Books In Print In-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books from publishers in the U.S., U.K, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand; many of the records include reviews.
Harper's Weekly 1857-1912Harper's Weekly was a major, influential American newspaper in the latter part of the 19th century and the early 20th century. Its content included news, cultural reviews, commentary, illustrations, cartoons, fiction, and poetry. In this database, issues from 1857-1912 are available as searchable text, accompanied by scanned page images. Keyword and subject searching is available, as well as browsing issues by date. Advertisements that appeared in the newspaper are also indexed by subject.
Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)Links and citations to journal articles about Hispanics/Latinos in the United States, as well as about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico and Brazil. HAPI contains over 265,000 article citations, as well as the full text of over 34,000 articles, drawn from over 500 social science and humanities journals.
Historical Statistics of the United StatesDownloadable statistics on a wide variety of topics in American history, including slavery, American Indians, and poverty. Data categories include: Population, Work and Welfare, Economic Structure and Performance, Economic Sectors, and Governance and International Relations.
Journal Citation ReportsJCR presents quantifiable statistical data that provide a systematic, objective way to evaluate the world's leading journals and their impact and influence in the global research community. Related Journals enable users to see which journals share citations, and are therefore related. Select from science and social sciences editions of JCR, each with coverage from 1997 onward.
LexisNexis AcademicSource of over 5900 newspapers, magazines, and other titles in news, business, accounting, medicine, government, and law; mostly full text.
LexisNexis StatisticalAccess to statistical information compiled by federal and state governmental agencies, business and trade groups, independent research organizations, and universities.
Los Angeles Sentinel 1934-2005Searchable full text of the oldest and largest black newspaper in the western United States and the largest African-American owned newspaper in the U.S.
Los Angeles Times HistoricalArchive of the
Los Angeles Times from 1881-1985. Contains page and article images of every page from every issue. For articles from 1986-present, please use
ProQuest.
New York Times HistoricalArchive of the
New York Times from 1851-2002. Contains page and article images of every page from every issue. For more recent articles from the
New York Times and other newspapers, please use
Lexis-Nexis or
ProQuest.
NewsBank Special ReportsNewsBank's Special Reports focus on topics of current interest. They include content from sources throughout the world to provide a global perspective, current and background information, statistics, maps, images, websites, and suggested search terms. New information is added daily to featured and current reports.
OAIsterSearchable index of academically oriented resources that are available from the open archives of organizations around the world; OAIster contains descriptions of and links to text, audio, video, images, and data that are online but that may not turn up using a standard Internet search engine.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource CenterInformation about controversial social issues, including full text articles from magazines, newspapers, and selected books, pro and con opinion pieces, statistics, primary source documents, and links to web sites.
Oxford African American Studies CenterDigital collection of Oxford University Press titles on the African American experience across disciplines.
Oxford English DictionaryThe authoritative dictionary of the English language. Essential for its etymologies of words with quotations of the earliest known use of the word.
Oxford Language Dictionaries OnlineSearchable bilingual dictionaries. Translate words to and from English and French, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese and Russian. Also includes audio pronunciation of headwords in each language, calendars of festivals and holidays, useful phrases and links to websites with additional language information.
Oxford Reference OnlineContains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including entries from their
Oxford Companions Series.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (Humanities and Social Sciences)
Contains over 90% of North American doctoral dissertations and a smaller percentage of theses in the humanities and social sciences. Includes full text of dissertations and theses published 1997-present, and abstracts for earlier years.
ProQuest Research LibraryIndex to over 2000 scholarly and popular periodicals in all subjects; includes over 1000 periodicals full text. Coverage varies by title, but some have full text as far back as the late 1980s.
RAND CaliforniaStatistics and reports from RAND, one of the nation's premier think tanks. Focus is on California and U.S. public policy issues, with data and research addressing economics, demographics, health care, government, and more.
RCLweb - Resources for College LibrariesRCLweb is a searchable list of recommended titles, selected by subject specialists and bibliographers. It can be used to aid both student research and curriculum development. The core list features 65,000 titles in 58 curriculum-specific subjects, and can be searched by criteria such as keyword, subject, author, and awards received.
Readers' Guide Full TextGeneral topic database with searchable full text of articles from some 215 journals as far back as 1994. Indexing and abstracts of over 400 periodicals as far back as 1983. Includes peer-reviewed academic journals as well as popular magazines.
San Francisco Chronicle HistoricalArchive of the
San Francisco Chronicle from 1865-1922. Contains page and article images of every page from every issue.
Note: if you encounter a scanned article that is not legible, please contact a librarian for assistance.The Serials Directory (EBSCOhost)Bibliographic information on nearly 212,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; data from nearly 108,235 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses; and Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications for every entry.
Statistical Universe
See
LexisNexis Statistical.
The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985Every page as published from 200 years of The Times (London). The Times is the "world's newspaper of record" and covers all major international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War. Users are able to search the full-text of the entire newspaper, including articles, editorials and advertising.
Ulrich's Periodical DirectoryBibliographic database providing detailed information on periodicals worldwide.
Web of ScienceCurrent and retrospective index of approximately 8,700 research journals. Web of Science is a citation index. Cited reference searching allows you to navigate forward and backward through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans for relevant information. Includes links to the full text of articles owned by the Library. Web of Science includes
Social Sciences Citation Index,
Science Citation Index Expanded, and
Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Wilson OmniFileIndex to over 3000 periodicals, with full text for more than 1600 periodicals in many subject areas. Coverage back as far as 1982.
WorldAlmanacFacts and statistics from the current year of the World Almanac and Book of Facts and other World Almanac publications.
WorldCatRecords of any material (books, manuscripts, videotapes, musical scores, etc.) cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Contains over 50,000,000 records from libraries worldwide.
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ARTS & HUMANITIES
African American Music Reference
Coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. Search across this and other music databases through Music Online. Note: this database is temporarily unavailable from off-campus. The problem is being investigated, and this message will be removed when the problem is resolved. (2/25/2009)
America: History and Life
Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, with citations and links to book and media reviews. For history outside the United States and Canada, see Historical Abstracts.
American Film Scripts Online
Full text of prominent American film scripts from the silent era to the present, from Casablanca to Requiem for a Dream. Texts are the authorized versions, licensed from the rights holders. Currently contains over 250 scripts, with an eventual total of 1000.
American History in Video
Includes commercial and government newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. Over 1400 titles. Note: this database is temporarily unavailable from off-campus. The problem is being investigated, and this message will be removed when the problem is resolved. (2/25/2009)
American National Biography
Authoritative signed biographical articles on deceased figures of significance in shaping the nation.
The American West
A wide range of material, including manuscripts, rare books, pamphlets, periodicals, broadsides, ephemera, maps and illustrations, related to the history of the American West. Geographic coverage ranges from Mexico, Texas and Southern California north through the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada. Contains both primary source and contemporary material.
L'Annee Philologique
Comprehensive scholarly index to articles, books, and conferences in Classics, covering 1959-present. Index only, no full text.
Art Full Text
Index to over 300 international arts periodicals, with full text in over 100. Includes Art Index Retrospective, with indexing back to 1929.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Citation index providing access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in nearly 1,130 arts & humanities journals. Also covers individually selected, relevant items from approximately 7,000 science and social sciences journals. Coverage from 1975 – present.
Arts & Humanities Search
See Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
ARTstor
Searchable database of more than 500,000 digital images of art throughout history and across cultures. Includes the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design.
BBC Shakespeare Series
The complete works of Shakespeare as produced by the BBC. Note: this database is temporarily unavailable from off-campus. The problem is being investigated, and this message will be removed when the problem is resolved. (2/25/2009)
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Bibliography of western-language monographs, articles, and book chapters on all parts of Asia. Covers 1971 to present.
Bibliography of the History of Art
Art history index with comprehensive coverage of European and post-Columbian American art. Indexes over 4000 periodicals, as well as books and catalogues, with coverage back to 1973. Covers the fine arts and decorative & applied arts. BHA continues and extends Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie (1973-1989) and International Repertory of the Literature of Art (1975-1989).
The Cambridge Companions Complete Collection
Consolidated search of The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics, and The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture. Full text of over 2300 essays on classical authors, periods and genres, as well as important topics and figures in philosophy and religion. Reference material includes chronologies and reading lists.
Cambridge Histories Online
An historical reference compendium, featuring the texts of the Cambridge Histories series. Coverage includes a variety of regions and academic subjects.
CAMIO
CAMIO is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms. CAMIO's library of images includes representations of photographs, prints, sculpture, paintings, decorative arts and utilitarian objects.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
Information about children's and young adult's books, video and audio recordings, film strips, and other children-focused media. Contains critical reviews of thousands of books, as well as information about awards, honors, and prizes. Also includes reading measurement information, best book lists and state reading lists. The CLCD also contains more than 1,200,000 catalog records in MARC format that have children's headings assigned. These records come with all of the official cataloging data, subject terms, and annotations.
Classical Music Library
Classical music listening service of over 35,000 streaming-audio tracks. From more than 30 major labels, such as EMI, BMG Classics, RCA Red Seal, and many more. Note: this database is temporarily unavailable from off-campus. The problem is being investigated, and this message will be removed when the problem is resolved. (2/25/2009)
Classical Music Reference Library
More than 30,000 pages of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music. Includes Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music. Search across this and other music databases through Music Online. Note: this database is temporarily unavailable from off-campus. The problem is being investigated, and this message will be removed when the problem is resolved. (2/25/2009)
Classical Scores Library
Scores spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Includes full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions. Includes works by major composers as well as by many lesser known composers. Note: this database is temporarily unavailable from off-campus. The problem is being investigated, and this message will be removed when the problem is resolved. (2/25/2009)
CLCLT
See Library of Latin Texts Online.
ComAbstracts
Index with abstracts to more than 50 core journals in communications. Dates of coverage vary, but generally from the late-1980s to the present.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
EBSCOhost database that indexes over 400 periodicals in communication and mass media, with full text for nearly 200 of them.
Dance in Video
150 videos of dance productions and documentaries. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Search across this and other music databases through Music Online. Note: this database is temporarily unavailable from off-campus. The problem is being investigated, and this message will be removed when the problem is resolved. (2/25/2009)
Early American Imprints - Series I: Evans
Full text collection of Early American (1639-1800) books, pamphlets, and other texts in history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more. The collection encompasses more than 37,000 full text works.
Early American Imprints - Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker
Full text collection of Early American (1801-1819) books, pamphlets, and other texts in history, literature, philosophy, religion, government materials, and more. Upon completion it will encompass more than 36,000 full text works.
Early English Books Online
Searchable full text of about 100,000 books, periodicals and pamphlets. Coverage ranges from the first book published in English through the English Civil War, the Interregnum and the Restoration. Includes the work of such authors as Spenser, Bacon, More, Erasmus, and Shakespeare. Contains nearly all of the titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue and its revised edition, Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, and the Thomason Tracts.
Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO)
Monumental collection of virtually every significant English or foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom from 1701-1800, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. Over 150,000 titles across disciplines.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
Comprehensive bibliographic and full text database for film and television research, covering film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 270 publications (and selected coverage of more than 300), as well as full text for more than 70 journals and nearly 50 books.
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
Comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. Includes 1208 essays and images from 10 sources. Search across this and other music databases through Music Online. Note: this database is temporarily unavailable from off-campus. The problem is being investigated, and this message will be removed when the problem is resolved. (2/25/2009)
Grove Art Online
See Oxford Art Online.
Grove Music Online
See Oxford Music Online.
Historical Abstracts
Index of more than 1,700 academic historical journals, some back to 1955. Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. For history of the United States and Canada, see America: History and Life.
Humanities Full Text
Index to approximately 600 humanities periodicals. Part of the Wilson Omnifile database.
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance With Full Text
For the study of theatre and the performing arts, the IBTD comprises a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries.
International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
Index to over 375 popular and scholarly music periodicals from over 20 countries. Carries full text for a small but growing number of periodicals.
International Index to the Performing Arts
Index to over 130 performing arts periodicals from 9 countries.
International Medieval Bibliography
A comprehensive, current bibliography of over 330,000 journal articles, conference proceedings and essay collections worldwide. Relevant disciplines include Classics, English Language and Literature, History and Archeology, Theology and Philosophy, Medieval European Languages and Literatures, Arabic and Islamic Studies, History of Education, Art History, Music, Theatre and Performance Arts, Rhetoric and Communications Studies.
Library of Latin Texts Online (CLCLT)
The world's leading database for Latin texts. Series A contains over 60 million Latin words, drawn from more than 3100 works that are attributed to approximately 950 authors, from antiquity through Neo-Latin literature as recent as 1962. Series B includes almost 7 million additional words, with a projected growth of 4-5 million words annually.
Literature Criticism Online
Scholarly and popular commentary from books, journals, magazines, broadsheets, pamphlets, diaries, and newspapers. Comprised of content from the individual Gale titles Contemporary Literary Criticism; Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism; Shakespeare Criticism; Literature Criticism 1400-1800; Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism; Poetry Criticism; Short Story Criticism; Drama Criticism; and Children's Literature Review.
Literature Online
Texts of over 300,000 English and American poems, plays, and works of fiction; literary encyclopedias, bibliographies and other reference works; full-text of over 200 scholarly journals; and, links to over 2500 literary web sites.
Literature Resources From Gale
(formerly Literature Resource Center)
Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors.
LitFinder
More than 135,000 full-text poems, stories, plays and more. Content includes complete works and excerpts, and additional information such as biographies, essays and explanations.
MLA International Bibliography
Index to over 4000 journals and series published worldwide on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore.
Music & Performing Arts Online
The Music & Performing Arts Online portal brings the International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) and the International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) together in one site, enabling users to search both resources simultaneously. Together, these core resources offer comprehensive coverage to support the study of music, theatre, dance, television, film, and other performing arts.
Music Index
Index to over 690 international music periodicals covering all areas of classical and popular music. Coverage is from 1979-present.
Music Online
A cross-searchable platform for accessing the following music resources: African American Music Reference, Classical Music Library, Classical Music Reference Library, Classical Scores Library, Dance in Video, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online, and Opera in Video. Note: this database is temporarily unavailable from off-campus. The problem is being investigated, and this message will be removed when the problem is resolved. (2/25/2009)
Naxos Music Library
Music listening service with a collection of over 253,000 tracks, including a comprehensive collection of Classical music, as well as Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Features simple and advanced searching, common (non-proprietary) software requirements, and extensive background information such as complete liner notes and biographical information on artists and composers.
Opera in Video
63 videos of opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Search across this and other music databases through Music Online. Note: this database is temporarily unavailable from off-campus. The problem is being investigated, and this message will be removed when the problem is resolved. (2/25/2009)
Oxford Art Online
Comprehensive art encyclopedia covering art from around the world from prehistoric times through the present. Contains links to images of over 45,000 works. Oxford Art Online also includes the full content of Grove Art Online, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms and the Oxford Companion to Western Art.
Oxford Music Online
Comprehensive reference work on musical styles, instruments, and performers. Oxford Music Online also includes the full content of Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Past Masters
Full text humanities database of the works of major philosophers, including Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, and Kierkegaard, using widely respected editions and translations.
Periodicals Archive Online (formerly PCI Full Text)
Electronic periodical archive of over 250 prominent journals in the humanities and social sciences, including international and multi-language coverage. Most titles begin at volume 1 number 1 and go to 1995, with many titles back to the 19th century.
Philosopher's Index
Indexing and abstracts from over 300 journals of philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields; also indexes philosophy books and contributions to anthologies.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Comprehensive international index to music periodicals, books, and other documents.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Contains the full text of the print version of this widely respected work, with updated and additional content.
SAGE Full-Text Communications Collection
The full text of sixteen SAGE journals in communications, with coverage back to 1982.
The Shakespeare Collection (Featuring the Arden Shakespeare Complete Works)
An extensive collection of authoritative materials, including literary, textual, historical, and performance studies. Includes Arden Shakespeare editions of the complete works, as well as editions and adaptations of Shakespeare's works, other works published during Shakespeare's time, prompt books, the Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diaries, criticism, reviews, images, and other reference material.
Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online
More than 650,000 pages of letters, diaries, autobiographies, oral histories, and other personal narratives dating from 1675 to the present, from more than 8,000 individual writers. Includes the following collections: North American Women's Letters and Diaries; British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries; Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories; The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries; Black Thought and Culture; Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society. Also includes an in-depth index to nearly 4,000 collections of letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies available on the web in English from around the world.
Theatre in Video
279 titles, representing leading playwrights, actors and directors. With this resource you can bookmark specific scenes, monologues and staging. Note: this database is temporarily unavailable from off-campus. The problem is being investigated, and this message will be removed when the problem is resolved. (2/25/2009)
Twentieth Century North American Drama
Contains over 1,100 plays by 170 playwrights, together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
Victorian Database
Index to articles, books, and dissertations published from 1970 to the present on every field of nineteenth-century British studies.
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BUSINESS
ABI/Inform
Search nearly 3,000 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles.
AdForum (Username: lmustudents; Password: lmustudents)
Online library of multimedia advertising content. Contains over 50,000 advertisements from over 90 countries. Coverage includes television, print, interactive, radio, cinema and outdoor campaigns. Recommended browsers: Safari in Mac OS X; Internet Explorer in Windows. On some computer configurations, there may be a delay before video playback begins.
Business & Industry
Company, industry, product, and market information and statistics from trade magazines and newsletters; mostly full text.
Business Full Text
Full text from nearly 500 business journals, magazines, and scholarly journals as far back as 1995. Abstracting and indexing of more than 870 publications as far back as 1982. Provides 185,000 subject terms with SIC and NAICS codes for names of corporations, products, and industries. Indexes over 750,000 corporate and personal names with cross-references to specific industries and countries.
Business Insights (formerly Reuters Business Insight)
Market research reports in the areas of consumer goods, energy, finance, health care, and technology. Full-text access to some reports.
Business Source Complete
Indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals back as far as 1886. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database. Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
CCH Tax Research Network
News, legislation, and regulations concerning federal and state tax issues.
Compensation & Benefits Library
Information regarding compensation and benefits issues; topics include designing, administering, and communicating effective programs and complying with governmental laws and regulations. Includes guides on Total Rewards administration and on the development and administration of individual compensation and benefits plans, as well as extensive explanations of government compliance requirements, backed up by government source material.
The Conference Board: research Online Collection
Full-text research reports on current issues in business management and US and global economics. Research includes studies of Fortune 500 companies on business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, HR, productivity, CRM and more. Economics material includes US and global economic indicators and analysis and forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions.
CoreReference
Data and tools for analyzing publicly-traded companies using financial, pricing, valuation, executive name, and compensation criteria.
CRSP US Stock Database (available only in the library)
End-of-day and month-end prices on all listed NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ common stocks along with basic market indices. Query the data using CRSPSift, CRSP's Securities Information Filtering Tool.
EconLit
Citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969, with full text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and more.
EIU Economist Intelligence Unit
Country Report includes political and economic policy, sectoral trends, foreign trade and payments, two year forecasts, expected future developments, illustrations and key economics statistics on nearly 200 countries.
ViewsWire includes daily highlights of key economic, political and market developments around the world and analysis of their business implications. Note: if you encounter a security error or warning, click here for instructions on how to proceed!
Emerald
Full text access to over 100 journals from the publisher Emerald. Covers many subject areas, including management, marketing, human resources, and economics.
Euromonitor Global Market Information Database (GMID)
Integrated access to statistics, market reports, country and company profiles, and other information sources. Includes country reports for 205 countries, with extended coverage of 52; 4500 market research reports; and 3000 company profiles.
Hospitality & Tourism Index
Index to scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of the hospitality industry, tourism, and restaurant and food service management. Covers approximately 500 magazines, journals, and trade publications, from scholarly research to industry news, dating as far back as 1940 for some titles. Topics include demographics and statistics, development and investment, food and beverage management, hospitality law, hotel management and administration, leisure and business travel, market trends, technology and more.
Human Resources Library
Coverage of workplace issues of interest to HR professionals, consultants, and attorneys. Explains federal and state compliance requirements; summarizes key state laws and regulations; discusses compensation and benefits, EEO, employee relations, organizational development, safety and health, and staffing issues; and gives tips on writing and implementing work rules and policies.
LexisNexis Academic
Source of over 5900 titles in news, business, accounting, medicine, government, and law; mostly full text.
LexisNexis Company Dossier
Up-to-date information on 13 million U.S. and international companies, offering comprehensive company reports that provide a complete picture of a company’s structure, financial health, brands and competitors. Features include balance sheet, ratio and income comparisons of up to five companies, and downloadable financial statements, company news and PR releases.
Mergent Online
Full text company information, including downloadable financial information and annual reports, for publicly traded companies worldwide.
NBER Working Papers
Working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit economic research organization. The NBER concentrates on four types of empirical research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the effects of public policies on the U.S. economy, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals.
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
An economics reference resource with scholarly entries that cover the whole sphere of economic thought, drawing together eminent contributors from across the spectrum of methodological and ideological schools.
ProQuest Asian Business and Reference
Detailed information on companies, economies, markets, and overall business conditions throughout the Eastern Hemisphere.
Research Insight (available only in the library)
Standard & Poor's Compustat North America is a database of standardized financial, statistical and market information on active and inactive companies in the U.S. and Canada, covering over 90% of the U.S. total market cap. Research insight allows for data retrieval and reporting from the Compustat database, covering 20 years of annual and monthly, and 12 years of quarterly data from 10,000 active and 12,000 inactive North American companies.
SimplyMap
SimplyMap is a web-based mapping application that lets users quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data. SimplyMap requires you to create a personal workspace before proceeding; see the Getting Started guide. There is also a Quick Reference sheet available.
SourceOECD
An online library of statistical databases, books and periodicals published by OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development. The OECD is one of the world's largest and most reliable sources of comparable statistics, and economic and social data. As well as collecting data, the OECD monitors trends, analyses and forecasts economic developments and researches social changes or evolving patterns in trade, environment, agriculture, technology, taxation and more. Recommended browser: Internet Explorer for Windows. The SourceOECD website is incompatible with Firefox and Safari.
SRDS Media Solutions
Media rates and information for media types including print, broadcast, newspaper, direct marketing and online. Includes Business Publications Advertising Source, Consumer Magazine Advertising Source, Newspaper Advertising Source, Radio Advertising Source and TV and Cable Source.
STAT-USA
Compilation of U.S. government business information from many agencies. Emphasis on international trade, including country profiles and import & export information. Contains the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB).
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RELIGION
ATLA Religion + ATLA Serials
ATLA Religion is an index to over 1000 periodicals in religion; also includes multi-author books and book reviews. ATLA Serials (ATLAS) contains full text coverage from volume one, number one to present of over fifty significant scholarly religion periodicals. Published by the American Theological Library Association.
Bibloi (available only in the library)
Program for reading, studying, and searching the Bible. Includes several English versions, including the NRSV, as well as the Greek Old and New Testaments, Hebrew Old Testament, and Latin Vulgate. (Available only in the Library.)
The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture
Full text of over 900 essays covering important topics and figures in philosophy and religion. Reference material includes chronologies and reading lists.
Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
Index to nearly 150 periodicals from 1981 to the present.
The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts
Comprehensive collection of Protestant writings generally published between 1500-1700. Includes the principal works of the most eminent writers of the Reformation and post-Reformation eras, as well as those of lesser-known authors of the period. Content includes biblical commentaries, catechisms, treatises, pastoral writings, sermons, church histories, disputations, and personal letters by Protestant writers, representing diverse theological perspectives. In addition to fully-searchable text files, the Library also includes digital facsimiles of editions selected by the editors as historically important.
The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation
Transcriptions and facsimiles of documents, including papal and synodal decrees, catechisms and inquisitorial manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises and systems, liturgical writings, saints' lives, and devotional works by Catholic authors of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Index to Jewish Periodicals
Index on Jewish history, activity and thought, covering English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. Journal coverage dates back as far as 1988.
New Testament Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts over 500 journals on the New Testament and its historical milieu, with coverage back to 1985. Also provides more than 800 book summaries annually.
Old Testament Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts over 450 journals in the areas of antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology, and more, with coverage back to 1978. Journals covered are multilingual, but abstracts are in English.
Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Texts from selected Oxford Bibles can be viewed in side-by-side display with the user's choice of commentary and annotations from the Study Bibles, the stand-alone Oxford Bible Commentary, and A-Z concordances for the NRSV and NAB translations. The Bible content is supplemented by collections of major apocryphal Old and New Testament texts in translation.
Oxford Islamic Studies Online
Scholarly database containing reference content and commentary in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture. Contains over 3,000 A-Z reference entries, biographical entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines.
Patrologiæ Graecae
This collection over 160 volumes is comprised of the writings of the church leaders who wrote in Greek, including both the Eastern "Fathers" and those Western Christians who wrote before the Latin takeover of the West in the third century. This material is the most comprehensive record of Greek patristic material in existence, and is relevant to the study of the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439. The electronic form of Patrologiæ Græcæ offers new and comprehensive electronic tables of contents, as well as the ability to search for such items as patristic writers and the titles of works in Latin and English.
Patrologia Latina
Electronic version of the first edition of Migne's Patrologia Latina comprising the works of the Church Fathers from 200 to 1216 AD.
ProQuest Religion
Index to nearly 100 leading religious publications, including full text of most titles.
Religious and Theological AbstractsAbstracts of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology. Coverage includes a wide variety of periodical literature, including Christian, Jewish, and other World religions.
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SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
AccessScience
Enhanced version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. In addition to scholarly encyclopedia entries, it contains biographies of scientists and current science and technology research news.
AGRICOLA
Index to over 3 million citations for books, articles, and other materials in the National Agricultural Library.
Annual Reviews
Authoritative, analytic reviews of the research literature in 37 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences. Includes all Annual Reviews titles from 1932 to present.
Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
Index to over 350 periodicals in chemistry, physics, mathematics, and engineering.
Basic BIOSIS
See Biological Abstracts.
Biological Abstracts
Index to over 5000 international journals in the life sciences, covering from 1969-present. The database BasicBIOSIS is a now fully incorporated into Biological Abstracts.
BioOne Abstracts and Indexes Databases
BioOne is collection of over 80 journals published by scholarly societies and other not-for-profit publishers in the biological sciences, with coverage from 2000-present. This database allows you to search all the BioOne journals. You can also browse the BioOne journals.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Comprehensive encyclopedia of the biological sciences. Regularly updated.
Engineering Village
Includes Compendex and Inspec, premier sources of indexing and abstracting for engineering literature. Indexes articles, papers, reports, and books, with coverage back to 1969.
ENGnetBASE
Engineering handbooks and reference titles from CRC Press. Can be browsed by category or searched by keyword. Broad coverage of various engineering subfields. Includes CivilENGINEERINGnetBASE, ElectricalENGINEERINGnetBASE, MechanicalENGINEERINGnetBASE, and TELECOMMUNICATIONSnetBASE collections.
General Science Full Text
Index to nearly 300 widely held journals in all branches of the sciences, with full text from nearly 100. Part of the Wilson Omnifile database.
GEOBASE
Index to over 2000 journals in geography, geology, and ecology.
GreenFILE
Index of materials that draw on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Includes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. Contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles.
Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics
Comprehensive guide to the use of pharmaceuticals for treatment and healing. Includes ongoing updates.
Handbook of Chemistry & Physics
Ready reference guide that includes definitions, information and data relevant to chemistry, physics and engineering.
IEEE Xplore
Full text access to technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Includes access to IEEE and IET journals, transactions, conference proceedings and magazines from 1988 to the present, with select content dating back to 1950. Also includes current and archived IEEE standards. LMU's subscription does not include online access to the full text of IEEE books.
MATHnetBASE
Library of mathematics resources, including reference titles and textbooks, from CRC Press. Can be browsed by category or searched by keyword. Coverage includes both theory and applied mathematics.
MathSciNet
Index to over 1700 journals in mathematics, with coverage back to 1940.
MEDLINE
Index to over 9000 journals in all areas of medicine.
NUTRITIONnetBASE
Reference titles and texts from CRC Press on topics including nutrition science, sports nutrition, and nutrition in health and disease.
Pollution Abstracts
Comprehensive index to journals and conference proceedings covering pollution, the environment, and environmental engineering. Coverage is for current year plus a one-year backfile.
Science Citation Index Expanded
Citation index providing access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in approximately 5,900 scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 150 disciplines. Coverage from 1956 – present.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is a full text collection of over 2,100 scholarly journals published by Elsevier, a leading publisher in the fields of science, technology, and medicine (STM).
SciFinder Scholar
Index to chemistry literature with the ability to search by chemical structure. Log-in credentials are required for this resource. Please contact the reference librarians for instructions.
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Scriver's Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Diseases
Medical reference compiling current knowledge about and treatment of genetic disorders, including cancer. Includes ongoing supplements and revisions. Limited to one user at a time. If you receive a message that the maximum number of users has been reached, please wait several minutes and try again.
SPORTdiscus with Full Text
Comprehensive index covering sports, fitness, exercise, sports medicine, and related disciplines, with full text for many titles. Covers magazine and journal articles, as well as books and book chapters.
Wiley InterScience
Full text access to a collection of scholarly journals published by Wiley, a leading publisher in the fields of science, technology, and medicine (STM). LMU has online access to nearly 150 of the periodicals in Wiley InterScience, but not to the entire collection. Our coverage is for full text 1996 to the present. If the article you want is not available as full text, please check the Journal List to see if we have a print subscription; if not, contact Document Delivery.
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
Annual Reviews
Authoritative, analytic reviews of the research literature in 37 focused disciplines within the Social, Biomedical, Life, and Physical Sciences. Includes all Annual Reviews titles from 1932 to present.
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Bibliography of western-language monographs, articles, and book chapters on all parts of Asia. Covers 1971 to present.
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
Sociology reference includes entries ranging from short definitions of key terms to extended explorations of major topics. Coverage of current and historical sociological theory and research.
California Political Almanac
In depth profiles of California's legislators (Senate and Assembly), constitutional officers, state Supreme Court and appellate court justices, and representatives to the U.S. Congress. Also includes overviews and essays on all the major players and events influencing California's branches of government, including political profiles of all 58 counties.
Chicano Database
Index to material on Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos, with coverage back to 1967. Records added since 1992 have expanded its scope to include the broader Latino experience.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Full text international affairs collection, containing a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals, and policy briefs.
ComAbstracts
Index with abstracts to more than 50 core journals in communications. Dates of coverage vary, but generally from the late-1980s to the present.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
EBSCOhost database that indexes over 400 periodicals in communication and mass media, with full text for nearly 200 of them.
Contemporary Women's Issues
Coverage of global women's issues from full text journals and newsletters; especially strong coverage of research reports from nonprofit groups and government and international agencies.
Counseling and Therapy in Video
Online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Note: this database is temporarily unavailable from off-campus. The problem is being investigated, and this message will be removed when the problem is resolved. (2/25/2009)
CQ Congress Collection
Information and analysis on Congress and its members: public policy analysis and history; biographical, political, and electoral data about members of Congress; and, CQ Key Votes, an analysis tool for finding and analyzing voting records.
CQ Global Researcher
Monthly publication with in-depth coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints. Each issue is a single-themed, 12,000-word report, researched and written by a journalist with experience observing the given issue. Articles contain an introductory overview; background and assessment of the current situation; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; chronology on the topic, followed by short features for extensive context; a sampling of related international perspectives; maps and graphs; bibliographies of key sources; next steps for additional reading; and author profiles.
CQ Press Political Reference Suite
Includes several of CQ Press's reference titles on government and politics. The suite can be searched as a whole, or the titles can be accessed individually. Included titles: California Political Almanac, Congress and the Nation, Historic Documents Series, Political Handbook of the World, Politics in America, Supreme Court Yearbook, Vital Statistics on American Politics, and Washington Information Directory.
CQ Public Affairs Collection
One-stop information source on important public policy issues. Includes statistical information, analysis, legislative information, bibliographies and web links, and directory entries for relevant organizations.
CQ Researcher Plus Archives
Weekly publication covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more. Excellent place to begin research on a topical issue. Contains full text of CQ Researcher from 1991 to present, and its predecessor, Editorial Research Reports, from 1923 to 1990.
CQ Supreme Court Collection
Analysis and commentary on U.S. Supreme Court decisions, biographies of justices, and institutional history.
CQ Voting & Elections Collection
Data and analysis on voters, political parties, campaigns, and elections for Congress, the presidency, and governorships.
EconLit
Citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969, with full text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and more.
Education Full Text
Index to nearly 750 periodicals in the field of education, with full text in over 450. Part of the Wilson Omnifile database.
eHRAF Archaeology
Archaeological information on cultures worldwide. Contains the full text of books, journal articles, and dissertations describing all aspects of prehistoric traditions.
eHRAF World Cultures
(formerly eHRAF Collection of Ethnography)
Ethnographic information on cultures from all regions of the world. Full-text database is organized by culture and ethnic group. See also HRAF on microfiche for reports prior to 1991.
ERIC
via EBSCOhost
via FirstSearch
Comprehensive index to education periodicals, books, reports, and other materials. EBSCOhost and FirstSearch provide different search interfaces, but search the same ERIC index.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text articles from 290+ newspapers, magazines, and journals representing the ethnic, minority, and native press in America from 1990 to the present. For older articles, see Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, below.
Ethnic NewsWatch: A History
The backfile of Ethnic NewsWatch (see above), with full text articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals representing the ethnic, minority, and native press in America from 1959 to 1989.
GenderWatch
Full text database of over 140 periodicals that focus on women and women's issues, including academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, booklets, and reports. Some archival material as far back as 1974.
Human Relations Area Files -- Archaeology
See eHRAF Archaeology.
Human Relations Area Files -- Ethnography
See eHRAF World Cultures.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) (on-campus only)
Collection of raw data files throughout the social sciences, including voter opinion and behavior, census data, education statistics, public health datasets, and more. These are raw data files to download that can then be manipulated with statistical software, such as SPSS.
Left Index
A guide to the literature of the left with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Coverage includes over 239,000 citations and abstracts dating as far back as the 1600s, as well as some full text. Sources include scholarly journals, radical periodicals, books, book reviews, book chapters, theses and dissertations, bulletins, newsletters, internet documents and more.
LexisNexis Statistical
Access to statistical information compiled by federal and state governmental agencies, business and trade groups, independent research organizations, and universities.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Descriptions and reviews of more than 2,000 commercially-available educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement, and intelligence tests. Linked to Tests in Print, a bibliography of known in-print commercially available tests in the English language.
NBER Working Papers
Working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit economic research organization. The NBER concentrates on four types of empirical research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the effects of public policies on the U.S. economy, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals.
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
An economics reference resource with scholarly entries that cover the whole sphere of economic thought, drawing together eminent contributors from across the spectrum of methodological and ideological schools.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Information about controversial social issues, including full text articles from magazines, newspapers, and selected books, pro and con opinion pieces, statistics, primary source documents, and links to web sites.
Periodicals Archive Online (formerly PCI Full Text)
Electronic periodical archive of over 250 prominent journals in the humanities and social sciences, including international and multi-language coverage. Most titles begin at volume 1 number 1 and go to 1995, with many titles back to the 19th century.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (Humanities and Social Sci.)
Contains over 90% of North American doctoral dissertations and a smaller percentage of theses in the humanities and social sciences. Includes Adobe Acrobat .pdf full text of dissertations and theses published 1997-present and abstracts for earlier years.
PsycBOOKS
Database, from the American Psychological Association (APA), of more than 21,000 chapters from over 1,400 books on psychology. It also includes 700 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from 1806, and more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.
PsycCRITIQUES
Full text reviews of current scholarly and professional books in psychology. Also includes reviews from a psychological perspective of popular films and trade books, and a searchable database of nearly 40,000 reviews dating back to 1956.
PsychiatryOnline
Publisher's site with access to DSM-IV-TR and other psychiatry reference sources, as well as psychiatry textbooks, assessment tools, and journals including The American Journal of Psychiatry.
PsycINFO
Comprehensive index to nearly 2000 journals in psychology; also indexes books, book chapters, dissertations, and reports. Coverage back to 1887. Our account includes PsycARTICLES, full text articles from 49 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations, spanning 1987 to the present.
RAND California
Statistics and reports from RAND, one of the nation's premier think tanks. Focus is on California and U.S. public policy issues, with data and research addressing economics, demographics, health care, government, and more.
SAGE eReference
Full text of subject encyclopedias published by SAGE, covering various areas of the social sciences. Encyclopedias are indexed and searchable, and include all tables, charts and images from the print editions.
SAGE Full-Text Communications Collection
The full text of sixteen SAGE journals in communications, with coverage back to 1982.
SimplyMap
SimplyMap is a web-based mapping application that lets users quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data. SimplyMap requires you to create a personal workspace before proceeding; see the Getting Started guide. There is also a Quick Reference sheet available.
Social Sciences Full Text
Index to over 625 international, English-language periodicals in all branches of the social sciences, nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed. Part of the Wilson Omnifile database.
Social Sciences Citation Index
Citation index to over 1,725 journals in the social sciences, plus selected items from over 3,300 additional scientific and technical journals. Coverage from 1956 to present.
Sociological Abstracts
CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
SourceOECD
An online library of statistical databases, books and periodicals published by OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development. The OECD is one of the world's largest and most reliable sources of comparable statistics, and economic and social data. As well as collecting data, the OECD monitors trends, analyses and forecasts economic developments and researches social changes or evolving patterns in trade, environment, agriculture, technology, taxation and more.
SPORTdiscus with Full Text
Comprehensive index covering sports, fitness, exercise, sports medicine, and related disciplines, with full text for many titles. Covers magazine and journal articles, as well as books and book chapters.
Statistical Universe
See LexisNexis Statistical.
Tests in Print
Comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. Information provided includes test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). A score index permits users to identify what is being measured by each test. Tests in Print is directly linked to the test reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) series.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980
Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes. This monumental collection of primary source material is being released in stages.
Women and Social Movements
Materials about the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. Includes primary source documents, document projects categorized by specific research questions, a dictionary of social movements and organizations, and a chronology of U.S. Women's History.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Access to statistical information compiled by federal and state governmental agencies, business and trade groups, independent research organizations, and universities.
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PUBLISHER'S JOURNAL COLLECTIONS
BioOne journals (browseable list)
BioOne Abstracts and Indexes Database (searchable database)
BioOne is a collection of over 80 journals published by scholarly societies and other not-for-profit publishers in the biological sciences, with coverage from 2000-present.
Blackwell Synergy
All Blackwell Synergy content has been merged into Wiley InterScience.
Cambridge Journals
Full text of over 250 journals published by Cambridge University Press, in a range of academic subjects including the sciences, religious studies, humanities, and social sciences. Content available for many journals back to 1996.
Emerald
Full text access to over 100 journals from the publisher Emerald. Covers many subject areas, including management, marketing, human resources, and economics.
IEEE Xplore
Full text access to technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Includes access to IEEE and IET journals, transactions, conference proceedings and magazines from 1988 to the present, with select content dating back to 1950. Also includes current and archived IEEE standards. LMU's subscription does not include online access to the full text of IEEE books.
JSTOR
Electronic archive of over 700 prominent journals in many subject areas. Articles date back to volume 1 number 1 for most titles, but coverage ends 3 -5 years before the present date, a "moving wall" system that protects publishers from lost revenue for recent articles.
Oxford Journals
Full text of over 225 journals published by Oxford University Press, in a range of academic subjects including the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Content available for many journals back to 1996.
Oxford Scholarship Online
Searchable full text of Oxford University Press books on the topics of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.
Periodicals Archive Online (formerly PCI Full Text)
Archive of over 250 prominent journals in the humanities and social sciences, including international and multi-language coverage. Most titles begin at volume 1 number 1 and go to 1995, with many titles back to the 19th century.
Project Muse
Full text access to over 300 journals published by more than 60 scholarly publishers, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.
SAGE Full-Text Communications Collection
The full text of nineteen SAGE journals in communications, with coverage back to 1982.
SAGE Journals Online
Full-text access to all SAGE journals; over 460 titles in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. Coverage dates vary; some titles are available in full-text for the full run of the journal.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is a full text collection of over 2,100 scholarly journals published by Elsevier, a leading publisher in the fields of science, technology, and medicine (STM).
SpringerLink
Full text access to more than 1,500 journals, as well as books and reference works published by Springer. Coverage includes many subject areas, but with particular strength in the sciences. LMU's subscription does not currently include journals published by Brill but hosted on the SpringerLink website.
Wiley InterScience
A collection of over 1,400 scholarly journals published by Wiley and Blackwell, leading publishers in the fields of science, technology, and medicine. Full text coverage is available for over 900 journal titles, generally from 1996/97 to present. If the article you want is not available as full text, please check the Journal List to see if we have a print subscription; if not, contact Document Delivery.
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