| ABI/Inform | Index to 1000 business & management periodicals; full text for over 600 sources. |
| Academic Search Premier in EBSCOhost | Academic Search Premier is a largely full text database of more than 4000 scholarly journals. Other EBSCOhost databases include MasterFile Premier (more than 1900 general interest magazines), and Business Source Premier (over 2800 business publications). Coverage is generally back to the early 1990s, with older coverage for selected periodicals. |
| 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. |
AdFolio
(LMU community only. Inquire at Reference Desk for password.) | 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. |
| AGRICOLA | Index to over 3 million citations for books, articles, and other materials in the National Agricultural Library. |
| America: History and Life | Index to articles from over 2000 periodicals published worldwide about the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. 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 National Biography | Authoritative signed biographical articles on deceased figures of significance in shaping the nation. |
| American State Papers, 1789-1838 | United 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 Newspapers | Cover-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). |
| L'Annee Philologique | Comprehensive scholarly index to articles, books, and conferences in Classics, covering 1959-present. Index only, no full text. |
| Applied Sci. & Tech. Abs. | Index to over 350 periodicals in chemistry, physics, mathematics, and engineering. Part of the Wilson Omnifile database. |
| Art Full Text | Index to over 300 international arts periodicals, with full text in over 100. Part of the Wilson Omnifile database. Includes Art Index Retrospective, with indexing back to 1929. |
| 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. |
| Arts & Humanities Search | Citation index to over 1300 periodicals focusing on the arts and humanities. |
| 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. |
| Basic BIOSIS | Index to 350 core life sciences journals. Subset of Biological Abstracts. |
| Bibloi (formerly known as Bible Windows) CD-ROM | 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.) |
| 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). |
| Biography Resource Center | Biographical 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. |
Biological Abstracts
| Index to over 5000 international journals in the life sciences, covering from 1969-present. The database BasicBIOSIS is a subset of Biological Abstracts. |
BioOne journals
BioOne Abstracts and Indexes 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. |
| 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. |
| Britannica Online | Web version of Encyclopedia Britannica with full text of articles and links to relevant sites. |
| Business & Industry | Company, industry, product, and market information and statistics from trade magazines and newsletters; mostly full text. |
Business Insights
(Formerly Reuters Business Insight) | Market research reports in the areas of consumer goods, energy, finance, health care, and technology. Emphasis on European markets. |
| Business Source Premier | Full text database of over 7500 business periodicals, including over 1100 peer-reviewed scholarly sources. |
| 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. |
| The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics | Full text of over 1400 essays on major authors, periods and genres. Includes The Companions to Classical Civilisation, which examine the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Reference material includes chronologies and reading lists. |
| 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 Literature Index | Index to nearly 150 Catholic periodicals from 1981 to the present. |
| CCH Tax Research Network | News, legislation, and regulations concerning federal and state tax issues. |
| 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. Search the CRL catalog or learn more about CRL's collections. Request items through LMU's Document Delivery office or call them at (310)338-7683. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| CollegeSource | Over 9,000 College catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools. |
| 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 non-profit groups and government and international agencies. |
| CoreReference | Data and tools for analyzing publicly-traded companies using financial, pricing, valuation, executive name, and compensation criteria. |
| CountryWatch | Geopolitical information on the countries of the world. |
| 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 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 | 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. Archive of past articles. Excellent place to begin research on a topical issue. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Dissertation Abstracts | Index to dissertations at accredited U.S. institutions from 1861 to present; selectively covers theses and Canadian and European dissertations. |
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. |
| ebrary | Full text to over 30,000 books in many disciplines from leading academic and professional publishers. Most titles are from the past five years. Requires the free ebrary Reader to view books. |
| EBSCOhost | Collection of databases, including Academic Search Premier (more than 3000 scholarly journals), MasterFile Premier (more than 1900 general interest magazines), and Business Source Premier (over 2800 business publications). Coverage is generally back to the early 1990s. |
| EconLit | Index to over 600 journals in economics; also indexes books, dissertations, and papers. |
Education Full Text
| Index to over 400 periodicals in the field of education, with full text in over 200. Part of the Wilson Omnifile database. |
| Educational Research Abstracts | Comprehensive index with abstracts covering current international research in education. Indexes over 500 journals, with coverage from 1995 onwards. |
| 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. |
| Emerald Fulltext | Access to the over 100 publications from the publisher Emerald. Full text back to 1994. Many subject areas including management, marketing, human resources, and economics. |
| Encyclopedia of Life Sciences | Comprehensive encyclopedia of the biological sciences. Regularly updated. |
Engineering Village 2
| Contains Compendex, the premier source of indexing and abstracting for engineering literature, including articles, papers, reports, and books, with coverage back to 1969. |
| ERIC | Comprehensive index to education periodicals, books, reports, and other materials. |
| Ethnic NewsWatch | Full text articles from 240+ newspapers, magazines, and journals representing the ethnic, minority, and native press in America from 1960 to the present. |
| 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. |
| Facts on File World News Digest | News 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 Databases | Collection of over 60 indexes in all subject areas, some with full text articles. All of the individual databases listed here are also arranged by subject. |
| 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. |
General Science Full Text
| Index to 150 widely held journals in all branches of the sciences. Part of the Wilson Omnifile database. |
| GEOBASE | Index to over 2000 journals in geography, geology, and ecology. |
| Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics | Comprehensive guide to the use of pharmaceuticals for treatment and healing. Includes ongoing updates. |
| Grove 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. Online version of the Dictionary of Art. |
| Grove Music Online | Comprehensive reference work on musical styles, instruments, and performers. |
| 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 Abstracts | Index to articles from more than 2000 periodicals worldwide on history from 1450 to the present. For history of the United States and Canada, see America: History and Life. |
| Historical Statistics of the United States | Downloadable 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. |
| Human Relations Area Files -- Archaeology | Archaeological information on cultures worldwide. |
| Human Relations Area Files -- Ethnography | Ethnographic information on cultures worldwide. See also HRAF on microfiche for reports prior to 1991. |
Humanities Full Text
| Index to over 400 humanities periodicals. Part of the Wilson Omnifile database. |
| IEEE Xplore | Access to all IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines from 1998 to the present. LMU's subscription does not include online access to conference proceedings and standards. |
| INSPEC | Comprehensive index to articles in scientific and technical journals as well as conference proceedings in the fields of physics, electrical/electronic engineering, and computer science. Coverage from 1969 to the present. |
| 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. |
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. |
| 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 2-5 before present date, a "moving wall" system that protects publishers from lost revenue for recent articles. |
| Left Index | Index to the literature of the left from over 750 publications worldwide. Coverage is back to 1982, with selected titles covered even earlier. |
| LEXIS/NEXIS Academic Universe | Source of over 5600 titles in news, business, accounting, medicine, government, and law; mostly full text. |
| Literature Online | Texts of over 300,000 English and American poems, plays, and works of fiction; literary encyclopedias, bibliographies and other reference works; links to over 2500 literary web sites. |
| 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. |
| Los Angeles Times Historical | Archive of the Los Angeles Times from 1881-1986. Contains page and article images of every page from every issue. For articles from 1986-present, please use ProQuest. |
| MathSciNet | Index to over 1700 journals in mathematics, with coverage back to 1940. |
| MEDLINE | Index to over 9000 journals in all areas of medicine. |
| Mental Measurements Yearbook | Descriptions and reviews of more than 2,000 commercially-available educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement, and intelligence tests. |
| Mergent Online | Full text company information, including downloadable financial information and annual reports, for publicly traded companies worldwide. |
| MLA Bibliography | Index to over 4000 journals and series published worldwide on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. |
| Music Index | Index to over 690 international music periodicals covering all areas of classical and popular music. Coverage is from 1979-present. |
| 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. |
| New York Times Historical | Archive of the New York Times from 1851-1999. 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 Reports | NewsBank'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. |
| 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. |
| Opposing Viewpoints Research 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. |
| Oxford African American Studies Center | Digital collection of Oxford University Press titles on the African American experience across disciplines. |
| Oxford English Dictionary | The authoritative dictionary of the English language. Essential for its etymologies of words with quotations of the earliest known use of the word. |
| Oxford Reference Online | Contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including entries from their Oxford Companions Series. |
| 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. |
| Patrologia Latina Database | Electronic version of the first edition of Migne's Patrologia Latina comprising the works of the Church Fathers from 200 to 1216 AD. |
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. |
| Philosophers' Index | Indexing and abstracts from over 300 journals of philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields; also indexes philosophy books and contributions to anthologies. |
| 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. |
| Project Muse | Access to over 50 journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other academic publishers, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| ProQuest Religion | Index to nearly 100 leading religious publications, including full text to most titles. |
| Psychiatry Online | 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 | Reports and statistics from RAND, one of the country's premier think tanks, in the areas of education, economics, demographics, health care, government, and more. |
| 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 nineteen SAGE journals in communications, with coverage back to 1982. |
SAGE Journals Premier
| 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 collection of scholarly journals published by Elsevier, a leading publisher in the fields of science, technology, and medicine (STM). LMU's has online access to over 700 of the periodicals in ScienceDirect, but not to the entire collection. Our coverage is mostly full text 1995 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. |
| SciFinder Scholar (available in the Chemistry Department) | Index to chemistry literature, with the ability to search by chemical structure. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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. |
| Sociological Abstracts | Index to over 1700 journals in sociology and related fields. |
| Social Sciences Full Text | Index to over 350 international, English-language periodicals in all branches of the social sciences. Part of the Wilson Omnifile database. |
| Social Sciences Citation Index
(CD-ROM) | Citation index to over 1700 social sciences journals. (Available only in the Library.) |
| SPORTdiscus | Comprehensive index covering sport, fitness, exercise, and related disciplines. Covers magazine and journal articles, as well as books and book chapters. As a module in EBSCOhost, users have immediate access to full text for more than 250 of the periodicals indexed. |
| 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. |
| Statistical Universe | Access to statistical information compiled by federal and state governmental agencies, business and trade groups, independent research organizations, and universities. |
| 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). |
| Ulrich's Periodical Directory | Bibliographic database providing detailed information on periodicals worldwide. |
| 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 with projected completion in 2007. |
| Victorian Database | Index to articles, books, and dissertations published from 1970 to the present on every field of nineteenth-century British studies. |
| 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. |
| Wilson OmniFile | Index to over 3000 periodicals, with full text for more than 1600 periodicals in many subject areas. Coverage back as far as 1982. |
| World Almanac | Facts and statistics from the current year of the World Almanac and Book of Facts and other World Almanac publications. |
| WorldCat | Records of any material (books, manuscripts, videotapes, musical scores, etc.) cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Contains over 50,000,000 records from libraries worldwide. |
| Worldwide Political Science Abstracts | Index to over 1400 journals and magazines in political science and related fields, including international relations, law, and public administration & policy. Coverage 1975-present. |