About the Periodical Databases

ABI / Inform provides an index to business and investment news, including a high percentage of full text citations. "1000 premier worldwide business periodicals" including "information on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Also, information on 60,000+ companies." ABI/I contains three subsets of material (organized by date): pre-1986, 1986-1998, and 1999 to the present. Allows filtering for peer-reviewed and/or full-text materials.

ABI / Inform Dateline searches hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources. Contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications. 1985 to present.

ABI / Inform Global provides a most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. Search nearly 1800 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. Now includes The Wall Street Journal. 1971 to present.

ABI / Inform Trade & Industry searches over 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more. 1971 to present.

Academic Search Premier is a general interest database, covering a wide range of academic fields. ASP is especially helpful when the user is seeking general background information or needs a quick source of full-text articles but doesn't necessarily need a very complete survey of all material available on a topic. ASP offers "full text for more than 3,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 2,700 peer-reviewed journals." The time depth is about twenty-five years.

America - History & Life "is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from
prehistory to the present." The database indexes over 2000 journals, concentrating on English language writings but also surveying major foreign language journals as well as state and local history journals. Abstracts but no full text provided.

Art Abstracts surveys articles by experts in all fields of art. Includes English language journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletinsas well as selected European periodicals in several additional languages. "Provides access to a wide range of bibliographies, notices of competitions and awards, reports of conferences, exhibition listings, review articles, interviews, and film reviews." "Serves as a comprehensive record of reproductions of works of art that appear anywhere in any of the indexed publications."

Banking Information Source searches essential banking industry publications providing information about the financial services industry, banking, and industry trends. Coverage: 1971 - current.

Biography Reference Bank draws from every article about any individual on any of the WilsonWeb databases-biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, or obituaries. Covers 500,000 people. In addition to the narrative profiles, there are links to 380,000+ related full text articles. Features book review excerpts from Wilson’s Book Review Digest Plus.

Black Thought And Culture "[when complete] ... will provide approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art. ... Black Thought and Culture is intended to present a wide range of previously inaccessible material, including letters by athletes such as Jackie Robinson, correspondence by Ida B. Wells, prefatory essays by Amiri Baraka, political leaflets by Huey Newton, and interviews with Paul Robeson. Much of the material is fugitive, and almost twenty percent of the collection has not been published previously."

Books In Print is a database listing books (as well as audios and videos) in print, out of print, and forthcoming. When searching, the user can selecting any combination of those three categories to determine whether a particular is currently available, has ceased to be available or is about to be issued. Searching can be done by author, title, ISBN (book identification number), subject, publisher, key word, or subject. Limits can be placed by date, price range, type of binding, vender, reviewing source, target audience, and various other features. There are also several categories that allow browsing among lists (such as various book award lists), a "Children's Room," and a "Fiction Room." For some searchs, an online seller such as Amazon may be faster, but BIP is the authority, the comprehensive listing.

Cambridge Journals Online offers "full text for over one hundred journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities." There is indexing of additional journals with the articles available for order. The resource includes various additional tools and services such as storing searches and creating an automatic email notification of new titles matching pre-arranged searches; however, to fully exploit the wider range of utilities, the user needs to register, creating a (free) user profile.

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts indexes material contained in the bibliographic databases AGRICOLA, AIDS and Cancer Research Abstracts, Aluminium Industry Abstracts, Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries, Biological Sciences, Biology Digest, Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts, Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts, Computer and Information Systems Abstracts, Conference Papers Index, Copper Data Center Database, Corrosion Abstracts, Electronics and Communications Abstracts, Engineered Materials Abstracts, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Mgmt, FINDEX [The Worldwide Directory of Market Research Reports, Studies and Surveys], Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, Materials Business File, Mechanical Engineering Abstracts, MEDLINE, METADEX [metals and alloys], Oceanic Abstracts, Plant Science, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts, TOXLINE, Water Resources Abstracts, WELDASEARCH [welding and related processes]. Several of these, especially in the biological sciences include numerous sub-databases in such topics as Algology Mycology, Chemoreception, Entomology, Genetics, Virology, and more.

CINAHL "the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, provides indexing and abstracting for over 1,600 current nursing and allied health journals and other publications dating back to 1982 and contains over 700,000 records. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, this database covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Examples of titles offered in CINAHL include: [...] Gastroenterology Nursing, Maternal and Child Health Journal, [...]" Especially useful in searching CINAHL is the "CINAHL Headings" tab, which allows the user to search the controlled vocabulary used to organize the database entries and to view definitions and cross-references to insure that search terms used by the researcher match the subject terms used by CINAHL.

ComAbstracts provides indexing and the abstracts of articles appearing in approximately sixty professional journals in the field of communications.

Communication & Mass Media Complete blends two previously existing databases CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index. Unlike ComAbstracts, CMMC includes significant amounts of full text material. Users should be aware that CMMC includes a lot of news and other non peer-reviewed material along side the articles from professional journals. Users should therefore use the limiting options as necessary to focus searches on material appropriate to their specific research needs.

CQ Researcher issues a research report every week examining a topic of national interest. The subjects cover a wide spectrum of issues: government, science, health, international affairs, society, religious trends, politics: some recent issues have included "Medicaid Reform," "Privatizing the Military," "Nanotechnology." Our full text access spans from Oct 25, 1991 to the present. The contents are easily searchable by date, topic, keywords and other entry points. Since each report includes an overview, a detailed discussion, numerous graphs, tables and other statistics, an extensive bibliography, and a section entitled "Next Step" for additional reading, the reports provide an excellent starting point for exploring a topic, especially for a person new to the subject matter. It is possible to construct a user profile in order to store previous searches and other personalized work.

Criminal Justice Abstracts "provides comprehensive coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, extensive coverage of books, and unparalleled access toreports from government and nongovernmental agencies. For each document, an informative summary of the findings, methodology, and conclusions is provided."

EBSCO Online is a "gateway to thousands of e-journals containing millions of articles from hundreds of different publishers, all at one web site." The search engine indexes electronic publications from all academic fields.

ERIC "the Educational Resource Information Center, is a national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. It provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals.

Health Source Nursing Edition provides indexing and full text access (in various formats) to approximately 600 professional journals in nursing and related fields of medicine, the majority of them peer-reviewed publications. An additional 650 journals are indexed, generally with abstracts included. Further, the database includes Clinical Pharmacology "which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs."

Highwire Press indexes articles in a large group of "hosted" journals plus the contents of the National Institutes of Health's PubMed. Fields include natural sciences, medicine, and some offerings in the social sciences. Most of the hosted journals are available as PDF full text; however, the PubMed entries are "as is" (typically, just the citation and abstract). For hosted journals, a link to the publication's home page on the internet is also supplied.

Historical Abstracts offers abstracts and indexing to major historical journals of the world covering the period from 1450 to the present. It excludes coverage of the history of the United States and Canada; however, those countries are covered in the companion database America - History & Life .

Hoover's Company Capsules & Profiles helps user find brief information on 15,000 companies covered by Hoover's. Company Capsules and Profiles deliver information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more. Use the title or company field to search company names.

Ingenta Select provides online full text access to a group of journals in the fields of aeronautics, agriculture, anthropology, architecture, several geographic "area studies," and the arts. The available varies by title, but the earliest reach back to the mid 1990s and most are available for the issues from about 1999 or 2000 onward.

JSTOR is an enormous database of fulltext articles available online. There are several versions of JSTOR — the Richard Stockton College Library subscribes at present to the portion focusing on the arts and humanities. JSTOR does not include current articles. Rather, it uses a "rolling wall" of blocked articles 3 to 5 years back, beyond which fulltext material is not yet available. Thus, it is an excellent online source of older scholarly literature in the arts and humanities, but for recent items the user will need to find an alternate source.

Lexis-Nexis Academic offers indexing (including ample full text) in several discrete fields as well as access to full text news arranged in several subgroups (world, national, daily, non-English language , news wires, news transcripts, etc.). The additional fields include legal news and research, business, medicine, and general reference.

MarciveDOC permits the user to search for federal government documents issued by the Government Printing Offrice between July of 1976 and the present. (The database is updated very frequently.) Several types of searches are possible: by author, by title, by subject and by document identifying number among other methods. Once a prospective source document is identified, the database can check to see whether the Stockton government documents collection has a copy and — if not — which other regional government documents collections possess the material. In instances where the federal government has made the document available over the Internet, the URL (web address) is often given in the entry so that the user can easily link directly to the document from the same computer terminal.

MathSciNet provides full text access to the nine journals published by the American Mathematical Society. The user may use simple or advanced searching, selecting which journals to include through check boxes, or may elect to browse a specific title issue by issue. (Choose "Journals Site Map"; click on the desired title; and select "All issues" to obtain a list of browsible issues of the publication.) Time depth extends back to the mid 1990s.

MedLine (Ovid MedLine) "contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,600 biomedical journals published in the United States and in 70 other countries. The database contains well over 13 million citations dating back to the mid-1960's, including more than 130,000 population-related journal citations (unique to the former POPLINE® database) that were added to MEDLINE in October of 2002. Although coverage is worldwide, most records are derived from English-language sources or have English abstracts. Abstracts are included for more than 75% of the records."

Mergent Online provides financial and informational data (such as corporate history, company officers and contact information) for a wide range of public owned (and some privately owned) companies - both US-based and international. It is possible to search by individual company or stock exchange symbol as well as to search by industry or region. The user may select the desired types of data to gather into a report concerning a specific company. It is also possible to select companies within an industry in order to gather an industry comparison or profile.

MLA Bibliography includes citations to journal articles and series in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.

Morningstar "Morningstar's data reports cover more than 20,000 securities."

Net Library offers the fulltext of books and some smaller documents (for example, the Declaration of Independence) online. There are (currently) over a thousand licensed titles and over three thousand public domain titles available through Net Library. Given the nature of public domain materials, most of the texts available are older titles such as novels by Jack London, Mark Twain, L. Frank Baum (the Oz novels, for example). The list of public domain titles by no means exhausts what is available online (check Project Gutenberg, Projekt Gutenberg-DE (German), and similar sites for further offerings.) However, for the numerous titles available through Net Library, the resource provides not only an easy-to-use interface for the actual reading but an attached dictionary (for quick consultation) and other handy features.

New York Times (Proquest) provides full text access to this major American daily (Late Edition - East Coast)
for the period from Jan 1, 1995 to the present. May be browsed by issue or searched by author, title, date, subject, etc.

North American Immigrant Letters & Diaries "provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. [ and will ] include more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories.... Much of the material is previously unpublished. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, indexed and searchable ... are included. ... The materials begin around 1840 and extend to the present, focusing heavily on the period from 1920 to 1980."

North American Women's Letters & Diaries "... includes some 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950, including more than 6,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. Drawn from more than 600 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, much of the material is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous. It includes some 300 biographies to enhance the use of the database."

Omnifile Full Text Mega offers full text of articles from over 1,750 publications. Article abstracts and indexing from over 3,500 publications. Links to websites cited by articles help users broaden their research. Retrospective coverage as far back as 1982.

Oral History Online "contains at present more than 30,000 pages of full-text content that is available nowhere else in electronic format—much of which is available nowhere else in any format. This full-text material includes Ellis Island oral history narratives, exclusive Black Panther Party interviews, and other oral histories."

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) offers online access to the contents of the current (second) edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and its supplements in a form laid out to exploit the advantages of internet-based delivery. Upon entry to the site, a user can simply enter the word needed in the "Find Word" window and immediately obtain a list of possible matches to further examine. Alternatively, the user may use a wide range of search tools allowing Boolean searching and various limits (such as by part of speech; e.g., search only verbs). Once an entry is located, a broad list of information is available: not only definition but origins of the word, examples of the earliest recorded use of the word, contrasted meanings and their contexts, pronunciation, and a timeline of occurance ("Date Chart")

One warning: the OED may more information and more effort than the casual user requires. If the user simply wants to know quickly what an English word means and/or how to pronounce it, a better tool may be a modern online dictionary (or its print equivalent) such as the American Heritage Dictioinary.

Philosopher's Index covers the field of philosophy, providing indexing and abstracts to both books and journal articles. Areas surveyed include "ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language."

Pre-CINAHL provides access to the latest biomedical literature in the journals indexed by CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature). For those familiar with the biomedical field, this database parallels the PubMed's "In Processing" category: articles still being indexed and integrated into the master database. Thus, Pre-CINAHL assists in maintaining current awareness of medical topics but lacks a subject searching mode because these materials are still being processed for the larger CINAHL database. As entries are assigned subject headings and complete their processing, they are transferred from Pre-CINAHL into the primary CINAHL database.

Project Muse is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Project MUSE is managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, in collaboration with the participating publishers and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at the Johns Hopkins University.

PsycINFO covers "more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology." Includes citations concerning the psychological aspects of related fields such as psychiatry, linguistics, law, anthropology, education, and business.

PubMed is the premier biomedical science database for the use of physicians and medical researchers. PubMed indexes nearly 4,000 biomedical journals, about 75% of the indexed articles are in English. Approximately half of the articles include a descriptive abstract. The database is prepared and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) which includes the U.S. Institutes of Health and tthe National Library of Medicine. In addition to the basic PubMed resource, the NCBI also links several additional databases to the PubMed homepage. These include materials on genetics, molecular biology, genome data, etc. For example, the Molecular Modeling Database contains images of molecular structures which may be examined using the free downloadable 3-D viewer software.

Science Direct provides full text access to over 1000 academic journals in the fields of social and natural sciences. There is optional searching of additional journals for which Stockton does not have full text access. Along with the Science Direct (Elsevier) titles, the user may elect to search additional databases. (However, MEDLINE is the only such database currently available to Stockton users.) Establishing a (free) user account allows numerous additional options such as saved searches, current awareness alerts via e-mail, and personalized lists of favorite journals for searching.

Scirus "the most comprehensive science-specific search engine available on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, it enables scientists, students and anyone searching for scientific information to chart and pinpoint data, locate university sites and find reports and articles quickly and easily." The searches include univerisity and individual author websites as well as journal indexes.

Social Work Abstracts was created by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and includes over 45,000 entries from journals in social work and related disciplines, covering the period from 1977 to the present. Topics include such areas as aging, AIDS, child and family welfare, community organization, homelessness, legislation, and substance abuse. The database also includes access to the NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers, 11th Edition. This lists "clinical social workers who have met national standards for education and experience established by the NASW Competence Certification Commission ..."

Stockton Electronic Journal List provides a comprehensive list of all full text publications that Stockton receives through its various databases, assembled in one place. The list is arranged alphabetically by journal title. There is also an index of the complete list of full text databases available through the Stockton library's website.. SEJL provides web hotlinks directly to the relevant database so that the user may view the full text article itself.      [ SEJL requires Internet Explorer or Netscape 5.0 or higher: older versions of Netscape will cause a "file not found" error ]

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory provides publication information of journals and newspapers from around the world including contact information, title changes, subscription rates, subject areas, status such as whether or not peer-reviewed, etc.

Wall Street Journal (Proquest) provides full text access to the "financial newspaper of record" for the period from 1982 to the present. May be browsed by issue or searched by author, title, date, subject, etc.

Westlaw offers the text of law reviews, legal statutes and regulations, and case law at various levels of jurisdiction including federal and all fifty states of the union. Some legal reference materials are also included.

Wilson Omnifile Full Text Mega offers full text of articles from over 1,750 publications. Article abstracts and indexing from over 3,500 publications. Links to websites cited by articles help users broaden their research. Retrospective coverage as far back as 1982.

WorldCat catalogs the book, periodical and web holdings of libraries worldwide. The database does many things, but perhaps its most common use is to verify the existence of a book, establish its publication details, and determine which libraries (regionally or worldwide) own the title. "Dates covered: Before 1000 BC to present."

[ All quoted passages are derived from the individual products' self descriptions ]

modified 03-Jul-2006