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Databases not only index scholarly, professional, newspaper, and magazine articles, but they also cover reports, statistics, case studies, patents, standards and e-books. Purchased databases with the icon are accessible only to MU users. Many databases will give you the full text of an article.

DATABASES BY SUBJECT

Resources by Type: Directories

Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory
Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory provides detailed profiles of over a quarter of a million academic journals, consumer magazines, trade publications, newsletters, newspapers, electronic publications, and other serials. [more]

Abbreviationes
Abbreviationes is a searchable database of 50,000 medieval Latin paleographic abbreviations. CD-ROM only accessible within Ellis Library in the Reference area. [more]

Animal Health and Production Compendium
Animal Health and Production Compendium focuses on all aspects of animal health and production, including diseases, nutrition, husbandry and breeding. [more]

Biblioteca Virtual de Ciencias Sociales de América Latina y el Caribe
The Latin American and Caribbean social science virtual library provides access to over 7000 full text documents, a databases of publications and research projects, a directory of researchers, and a collection of multimedia resources–video, audio, and images. [more]

Business and Company Profiles ASAP
Business & Company ProFiles integrates information from Business Index ASAP and the full text of PR Newswire releases with over 200,000 combined directory listings including the Graham & Whiteside international company directories. Access provided by MOREnet. [more]

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Also Known as: Oxford Music Online
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the premier music encyclopedia. Includes the New Grove Dictionaries of Jazz and Opera and the Oxford Dictionary of Music. [more]

DATABASES BY TYPE

Resources grouped by type or format of information that they provide (e.g. primary sources, images)

TRY FIRST: RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH

General and Multidisciplinary Databases

The following databases are good places to start your research. They all search scholarly peer reviewed journals and provide access to the full-text of articles.

Academic Search Complete

• Search over 12,500 journals 1984 to date
• Can limit search results to scholarly (peer reviewed) journals

 

Scopus
 

• Search over 18,000 peer reviewed journals 1996 to date
• Find out who's citing particular articles

 

JSTOR

• Search full-text back files of over 300 scholarly journals
• Does not include the last five years of issues

 

Search & Find: Summon
 

• Search for articles in journals, magazines and newspapers
• Search for books, government documents, DVDs and more

 

 

• Search for scholarly articles, books and theses

 

Online Encyclopedias and Handbooks

Gale Virtual Reference Library

 

Oxford Reference Online
 

Current and Controversial Issues CQ Researcher   1991 to date Weekly reports on controversial topics Journalist's Resource: Policy Studies Research reports on environment, economics, society and government Public Agenda Research reports on people's views and values Pro/Con.org Pros and cons of controversial issues

 

News and Newspapers

Press Display

• 2200 newspapers from 97 countries
• original format and layout
• last 60 days only

Factiva

• Over 8000 full-text newspapers and trade journals
• Includes broadcast transcripts and wire services
• 1980's to date
• Company business and financial information

Proquest NewsStand

• Over 500 full-text newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Washington Post and Boston Globe.
• 1980's to date

LexisNexis Academic

• Full-text newspapers and trade journals
• Includes broadcast transcripts and wire services
• 1980's to date

Proquest Historical Newspapers

• Full-page images and article images from the New York Times (1851-2008) and the Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
• Can search and see images of advertisements in the New York Times

Creating Bibliographies/Citing Sources

• Create citations in APA and MLA format: Citation Builder
• Manage your references and automatically create bibliographies and in-text citations.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  • Endnote
  • Zotero
  • Mendeley

TRIAL DATABASES

The MU Libraries are participating in trials of these resources in order to evaluate for possible future subscription.

Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (RIPM) with Online Archive – Trial[please give feedback here]
Also Known as: RIPM
Indexes over 200 music periodicals, including articles, reviews, illustrations, music examples, advertisements, press releases and more. The Archive includes full-text for over 118 primary source journals indexed in RIPM. Trial ends June 30, 2015. [more]

Routledge Handbooks Online – Trial[please give feedback here]
Routledge Handbooks Online provide an overview of classic and current research and future trends in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Areas covered include: Archaeology & Classics, Asian Studies, Business & Economics, Communication, Journalism, Media & Culture, Criminal Justice & Criminology, Education, Environment & Sustainability, Health & Social Care, History, Law, Linguistics, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Security Studies, Sociology, Sports & Leisure and Tourism, Hospitality & Events Management. Trial ends March 12, 2015. [more]