Databases and E-Resources at the Library of Congress

General Databases (Multidisciplinary)


Academic Search Premier Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides full text for more than 3,600 scholarly publications, as well as indexing and abstracts for all 4,500 journals in the database.

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ArticleFirst Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Citations and abstracts of articles from over 16,000 journals in business, science, humanities, social science, medicine, technology, and popular culture.

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Bibliographic Index Plus Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Cumulative bibliography for information in all areas of the humanities and social sciences as well as science and technology.

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BiblioLine Databases Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Cross-Search Library of Congress National Information Services Corporation (NISC) Databases.

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British Library Direct
Contains roughly 9 million records from the 20,000 most popular journal titles collected by the British Library.

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Canada Depository Service Program ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The online DSP provides full text access to Canadian federal government publications.

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Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
The Catalog of United States Government Publications maintained by the GPO provides an index to print and electronic publications created by Federal agencies.

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CPI.Q Canadian Periodicals Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains citations from over 415 Canadian and international multidisciplinary journals and magazines, 165 of which are in full text, including the Economist (US Edition, 1988-) and Globe & Mail (1997-).

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Credo Reference Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Includes the full text of over 300 reference sources from over 50 publishers, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations.

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CSA Databases Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Cross-Search Library of Congress Cambridge Scientific Databases.

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CSA Technology Research Database Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A comprehensive indexing and abstracting database covering all fields of engineering and technology.

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Digital Dissertations ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Index of doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with coverage from 1861 to the present.

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EBSCO Research Databases Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A multi-disciplinary full text resource that covers the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, military and defense issues, and religion.

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ECO: Electronic Collections Online Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Indexing and abstracts for articles from over 5,400 scholarly journals covering agriculture, library science, anthropology, business, economics, education, fine arts, geography, history, language, law, literature, medicine, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, science, social sciences, and technology.

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Editoria Italiana Online (Click on "Access for Institutions") ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Electronic editions of more than 500 books and 100 journals, in a wide range of disciplines, produced by some of Italy’s most important publishers.

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Factiva ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Factiva is a vast full text archive of publications and up-to-the-minute reports and news focusing on global developments and business.

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FindArticles
LookSmart's FindArticles allows users to search and read over 2 million articles from over 500 publications.

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FirstSearch Databases Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
FirstSearch is a collection of electronic databases and indexes from OCLC which can be used to locate books, periodical and newspaper articles, theses, films, computer software, recordings, and other types of material on a wide variety of topics.

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Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information
GODORT is a directory of subject links to commonly requested websites such as census data, elections, science & technology, and terrorism issues.

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Gale Cengage Databases Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Search across General OneFile, CPIQ (Canadian Periodicals), and LegalTrac.

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General OneFile Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Infotrac provides access to articles and news information from more than 11,000 scholarly, trade, and general-interest periodicals, including 6,300 full-text titles.

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getCITED
Contains citations from journal articles, individual chapters in edited volumes, papers from conferences and in proceedings, working papers and reports, and conference presentations.

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Google Book Search
View the entirety of public domain books or, for books under copyright, just a few pages or in some cases, only the title’s bibliographic data and brief snippets.

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Google Scholar
Enables users to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.

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GPO Monthly Catalog Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers all types of US government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.

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Guide for Finding Citations To Periodical Articles
Guide to subject lists of print abstracts, indexes, and bibliographies available at the Library of Congress.

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Guide to Library of Congress Microform Collections in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division
Browsable guide to over 7 million pieces in the Library's vast and various microform collections, representing global information ranging from human prehistory to unidentified flying objects.

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Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Indexes all aspects of the humanities and social sciences from over 1,200 North American and European periodicals.

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Informaworld ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Multidisciplinary database hosting journals, eBooks, abstract databases and reference works published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.

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Ingenta ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides citations, brief abstracts, tables of contents, and some full text to articles in over 28,000 publications.

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International Bibliography of Periodical Literature Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
IBZ contains over 2 million journal articles from 11,000 journals covering all subject areas from around the world in German, French and English.

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JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II III, IV, Life Sciences, Biological Sciences, Complement and Health & General Science Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
JSTOR is a collection of full-text, keyword-searchable academic journals dating back to the late 17th century.

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MetaPress Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
MetaPress provides citations from hundreds of journals, newsletters and other professional and academic publications in all subject areas.

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NewspaperDirect PressDisplay ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Library PressDisplay provides online access to today's newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format.

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NRC-CISTI's Articles Database
Contains millions of peer-reviewed scientific, technical and medical (STM) journal articles, mostly published after 1993.

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Oral History Online ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Oral History Online provides indexing to almost 2,000 collections of Oral History in English from around the world.

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Oxford Reference Online : Humanities & Social Sciences Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of over 150 books in general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional subjects published by Oxford University Press.

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Oxford Scholarship Online Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of over 1,100 Oxford University Press books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.

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Periodicals Index Online Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
PIO (formerly Periodicals Contents Index ) indexes millions of articles published in 4,698 periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences, some as far back as 1770.

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Polling the Nations ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Compilation of the full-text of the questions and responses from over 12,000 national, state, and local surveys conducted by 700 polling organizations in the United State and more than 70 other countries.

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ProceedingsFirst Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Worldwide coverage of congresses, symposiums, conferences, expositions, workshops and meetings received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

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ProQuest Databases Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A multidisciplinary resource including ProQuest Research Library with citations and abstracts for over 2,500 journals, magazines, and newspapers, many dating back to 1986 or earlier and covering all subject areas.

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Public Documents Masterfile ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Public Documents Masterfile is a comprehensive index of federal, state, local, and some international public documents, spanning over 200 years of publication.

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Readers' Guide Full Text Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Wilson Readers' Guide Abstracts contains bibliographic citations to over 300 popular journal titles in the fields of business, fashion, consumer affairs, fine arts, current events, health and nutrition, education, and sports.

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Readers' Guide Retrospective Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides access to nearly 100 years of citations from more than 500 leading popular periodicals and magazines.

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Reference Universe ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Database of back-of-the-book indexes and article titles to more than 10,000 subject encyclopedias and reference works.

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Registry of Open Access Repositories
ROAR allows users to search or browse more than 1,000 OAI-compliant open-access eprint archives.

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Retrospective Indexes from Wilson Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Search the Wilson Applied Science & Business, Art, Humanities, Legal, Readers' Guide, and Social Sciences Retrospective Indexes (1890 - 1982), as well as Bibliographic Index Plus, simultaneously.

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SwetsWise Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides full text access to a selected list of ejournals provided by a few commercial publishers.

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ticTOCs - Journal Tables of Contents Service
Provides access to the most recent tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers.

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Vanderbilt Television News Archive ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Holds individual network evening news broadcasts from the major American national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN.

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Web of Science Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the sciences, arts and humanities, and the social sciences.

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Wilson Databases Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Search over 15 databases to locate books, periodical and newspaper articles, theses, films, recordings, and other types of material on a wide variety of topics.

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Wilson OmniFile Full Text Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of articles from over 1,750 publications and article abstracts and indexing from over 3,500 publications covering virtually any subject.

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