This subject listing will guide you to indexes useful for finding journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. Some of these databases provide the full text of articles, others only a citation, so you can locate an article in the library or request it through interlibrary loan services.

General/Multidisciplinary     [All Subject Areas]	Business/Careers
Education	Health/Medical/Psychology
Humanities/History/Government/Culture	Literary/Literature
Newspapers	Reference
Science/Technology	Social Issues/Sociology/Relgion/Philosophy
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DATABASE INFO:

• Academic Search Premier [EBSCOhost]: Provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,100 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. Daily updates.
• CQ Researcher [CQ Press]: Brief reports on current "hot" topics in the news written by experienced journalists.  Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports.  Each report includes a pro-con feature, a chronology, and lengthy bibliographies.  Reports extend back to 1991.
• How to Cite
• Expanded Academic ASAP [InfoTrac: Gale Group]: An index with abstracts to over 2,300 scholarly journals and some popular magazines in all subject areas. Over 1,300 full-text titles.  Coverage 1980-present.
• How to Cite
• Title List
• Look Smart's FindArticles[Free web access]  An archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to1998 from more than 700 magazines and journals.  Sponsored by The Gale Group and LookSmart.
• MasterFILE Premier [EBSCOhost]: MasterFILE contains indexing to over 2,650 periodicals in a wide range of subjects. Over 2,000 of the titles have the full-text online.  Full-text coverage back to 1975.  Also includes 316 full text reference books, 88,000 biographies, 83,500 primary source documents, and an image collection of 107,000 photos, maps and flags.Subjects covered include general reference, business, education, general science, health, multi-cultural and more.  Daily updates.
• Help Sheet [PDF]
• Training Guide
• Title List
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center [Gale Group]: The acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources provides a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles
• SIRS Knowledge Source [ProQuest]: Search across all 3 databases at the same time or individually to locate pertinent full-text articles and graphics.  Covers current social and political issues, perspectives on the arts & humanities, and valuable current and historical government documents.
• Online Tutorial
• Research Strategies Worksheet
• SIRS Government Reporter:  This database delivers thousands of full-text documents and graphics concerning a wide variety of topics: health, science, economics, environment, politics, foreign affairs, workplace issues, business and industry issued by the federal government. The almanac databases are valuable tools for researching current and historic government documents; landmark and recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions; information about federal departments, agencies, elected leaders and more.
• SIRS Renaissance:  Current perspectives on the arts & humanitites.  Provides current, dynamic information on music, literature, film, performing arts, culture, architecture, philosophy, religion and visual arts. Many articles are accompanied by full-color graphics — including art reproductions, photographs and illustrations.
• SIRS Researcher:  A general reference database that contains thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political and global issues.  Articles are selected from more than 1,500 domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals and U.S. government publications and may be accessed instantaneously. Articles are archived from 1989 to the present. Many articles are accompanied by graphics, including charts, maps, diagrams and illustrations.
•  Wilson Select Full Text Plus [OCLC, FirstSearch]: Full-text of articles from over 1,652 periodicals covering a wide variety of subjects (1994-). It is comprised of selective records from the following H.W. Wilson databases: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. Weekly updates.
•  FirstSearch Guided Tour
•  Title List

DATABASE INFO:

• Business Source Premier [EBSCOhost]: Provides full text for nearly 3,600 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 1,050 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Updated daily.
• Help Sheet  [PDF]
• Occupational Outlook Handbook [U.S. Dept. Of Labor]: The Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.
• Regional Business News [EBSCOhost] Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications.  Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Updated daily.
• Vocational and Career Collection [EBSCOhost] Provides full text coverage for 400 trade and industry-related periodicals.

DATABASE INFO:

• Educator's Reference Desk: An extensive education site with resources including Question Archive, a large virtual Library (with lesson plans and Infoguides), and ERIC Database Searching (1966-Jan. 2004) 
  
• ERIC [EBSCOhost]: ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals. Links out to full text in other EBSCO databases when available.
• ERIC[OCLC, FirstSearch]: Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) indexes and abstracts thousands of research and technical reports in the Resources In Education Index (RIE) and more than 750 education and education-related journals in the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE).
• Title List
• FirstSearch Guided Tour
• Ericae.net: A list of known, publicly-available web, gopher, telnet, and TN3270 sites for searching ERIC databases.  Try the ERIC Wizard.
• Professional Development Collection [EBSCOhost]: Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles.
• UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations:  Freely access the most current two years of citations and abstracts in the Dissertation Abstracts database.  Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available.

Database Info

• Alt-HealthWatch [EbscoHost]: Full-text database of about 169 international periodicals, peer-reviewed journals, academic and professional publications, magazines, consumer newsletters and newspapers, research reports, and association newsletters focused on complementary, holistic, alternative and integrated approaches to health care and wellness (1978- ).
• Help Sheet  [PDF]
• Title List
• CINAHL Database with Full Text [ProQuest]: The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature includes indexing from 1982 to the present as well as nursing dissertations, educational software, audiovisuals, abstracts from 1,200 journals in nursing, biomedical, consumer health and the literature of 17 allied health disciplines, the full-text from over 280 titles, accreditation documents, clinical innovations, critical paths, practice acts, systematic reviews, legal cases, drug records, journal descriptions, master's theses, classification terms and website records.  All computers in the library are setup for direct access. All others on campus and for remote access must enter a username and password which may be requested via the GateWay Library for our registered users.
• Title Lists
• Clinical Pharmacology [EbscoHost]:  Access 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.
• EBSCOhost Tutorial
• Help Sheet  [PDF]
• HealthSource: Consumer Edition [EbscoHost]: Find answers to many health related questions within this database. It offers coverage of general health and nutrition magazines. Over 297 of the 314 titles indexed provide the full-text.  Indexing begins in 1984, with full-text coverage beginning in 1990.  Also includes Stedman's Dictionary, Clinical Reference Systems consumer health reports, the full-text for over 1,200 health related pamphlets and 23 books.  Daily updates.
• EBSCOhost Tutorial
• Help Sheet  [PDF]
• Title List
• HealthSource: Nusing/Academic Edition [EbscoHost]: Find answers to many health related questions within this database. It offers coverage of professional health care journals. Nearly 600 of the 650 titles indexed provide the full-text.  Indexing begins in 1984, with full-text coverage beginning in 1990.  Also includes Clinical Pharmacology and Stedman's Dictionary. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong.  Daily updates.
• EBSCOhost Tutorial
• Help Sheet  [PDF]
• Training Guide
• Title List
• MEDLINE [EBSCOhost]: MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.  Links out to full text in other Ebsco products.
• MEDLINE [Entrez-PubMed]: The National Library of Medicine's search service to access the 12 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases.  PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
• MeSH Browser
• Journals Database
• PubMed Tutorial
• MEDLINE [OCLC, FirstSearch]: National Library of Medicine's biomedical index (1965-)
• FirstSearch Guided Tour
• MEDLINEplus: Health Information from the National Library of Medicine
• NLM Gateway Search: The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus,AIDS Meetings, HSR Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE.
• Nursing Journals Full Text [ProQuest]: More than 250 leading full-text journals in nursing and allied health. Coverage started: 1992 (Varies by title).
• Psychology & Behavioral Health Collection [EbscoHost]: Provides coverage of more than 500 full text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. Updated daily.
• RSNA Index to Imaging Literature (1997-current)  Citation references for 40 radiology journals, including the RSNA journals.  It is maintained by the Radiological Society of North America for the benefit of radiologists world-wide and is updated quarterly.

American Humanities Index [EBSCOhost; Click here for Off-Campus access, ID number; Select American Humanities Index  from the menu screen]	Communication & Mass Media Complete [EBSCOhost; Click here for Off-Campus access, ID number; Select American Humanities Index  from the menu screen]
Ethnic NewsWatch  [ProQuest: Off-campus: ID number]	Landmark Documents in American History [In-Library Use Only; Use shortcut from desktop for access]
Military and Government Collection [EBSCOhost; Click here for Off-Campus access, ID number; Select Military and Government Collection from the menu screen]	SIRS Knowledge Source [ProQuest; Off-campus: username/password]
Wilson Biographies [Off-campus: username/password]	Also Search: General / Multidiscipinary Study Links: History Study Links: Humanities Study Links: Political Science

Database Info:

• Ethnic NewsWatch [ProQuest]: The full text of over 200 titles of the ethnic, minority and native press, searchable in both English and Spanish, with coverage back to 1990.  Presents an alternative to the mainstream press, the other sides of the stories.
• Landmark Documents in American History, version 2.0 : Contains more than 1,200 key primary source documents, with introductory essays, placing each in its historical context. Includes speeches, legislation, supreme court cases, letters, video clips and more.  Available only on computers in the Library from desktop shortcut.
• Military and Government Collection [EBSCOhost]: Provides current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.
• Help Sheet  [PDF]
• SIRS Knowledge Source [ProQuest]:  Search across all 3 databases at the same time or individually to locate pertinent fulltext articles and graphics.  Covers current social and political issues, perspectives on the arts & humanities, and valuable current and historical government documents.
• Online Tutorial
• Research Strategies Worksheet
• SIRS Government Reporter:  The main database delivers thousands of full-text documents and graphics concerning a wide variety of topics: health, science, economics, environment, politics, foreign affairs, workplace issues, business and industry. The almanac databases are valuable tools for researching current and historic government documents; landmark and recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions; information about federal departments, agencies, elected leaders and more.
• SIRS Renaissance:  Current Perspectives on the Arts & Humanitites.  Provides current, dynamic information on music, literature, film, performing arts, culture, architecture, philosophy, religiona and visual arts. Many articles are accompanied by full-color graphics — including art reproductions, photographs and illustrations.
• SIRS Researcher:  A general reference database that contains thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political and global issues.  Articles are selected from more than 1,500 domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals and U.S. government publications and may be accessed instantaneously. Articles are archived from 1989 to the present. Many articles are accompanied by graphics, including charts, maps, diagrams and illustrations.
• Wilson Biographies : A biography database with more than 72,000 profiles from antiquity through today.  Every profile provides complete information on the subject's life, career, or historical significance.  Artists, authors, scientists, journalists, business people, actors, sports figures, politicians and many others are covered.  Includes the lauded Current Biography profiles with exclusive autobiographical statements.

• Gale's Literary Index [Gale Group: free web access]: A master index to the major literature series published by Gale Group, containing complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings.  Series held by GateWay are Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
• MaGill On Literature [EbscoHost, Salem Press] : A source for editorially reviewed critical analyses.  Includes brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature, including the 33 volumnes of Masterplots, 66 volumnes of Masterplots II, Cyclopedia of World Authors, Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, and Magill's Literary Annual.
• Help Sheet  [PDF]
• Wilson Biographies : A biography database with more than 72,000 profiles from antiquity through today.  Every profile provides complete information on the subject's life, career, or historical significance.  Artists, authors, scientists, journalists, business people, actors, sports figures, politicians and many others are covered.  Includes the lauded Current Biography profiles with exclusive autobiographical statements.

Arizona Republic [NewsBank; 1999-present; Off-campus: ID number;  Select Arizona Republic from the menu]  *7 day archive + other selective content available at Arizona Republic - Online Edition	Arizona Daily Star [NewsBank: 1991-current: Off-campus: ID number;  Select Arizona Daily Star from the menu]
	Ethnic NewsWatch [ProQuest/Softline: Off-campus: ID number]
National News 5 [Proquest: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post; Off-campus: ID number]	America's Newspapers  [NewsBank: Off-campus: ID number; Local, regional and national  news from over 200 papers]
New York Times BACKFILE [1995-1998: In Library Use Only from desktop shortcut. Use National News 5 for the current New York Times, 1999-present]	Also Search: General / Multidiscipinary News Sources

Database Info:

• Arizona Daily Star [NewsBank]: The full text of the Tucson's Arizona Daily Star (1991-current).
• Arizona Republic [NewsBank]:  The full text of the Arizona Republic online (1999-current ), including the Arizona Business Gazette.  Provides a local perspective on national and international news besides the local news in general. Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community.  Paid advertisements are excluded.  Free-lance articles were recently removed.
• Full-text backfiles (1994-1998) available on CD-ROM. Available only on computers in the Library from desktop shortcut.
  
• Getting Started Tutorial
• Ethnic NewsWatch : The full text of over 200 titles covering the news, culture and history of the ethnic, minority and native press, searchable in both English and Spanish, with coverage back to 1990.  Presents an alternative to the mainstream press, the other sides of the stories.
• National News 5 [Proquest]:Full-text coverage of 5 major newspapers, including The New York Times (1999- ), Wall Street Journal (1984- ), Washington Post (Dec. 1997-) , Los Angeles Times (1990- ) and the Christian Science Monitor (1990-).
• ProQuest Training Resource Center
• America's Newspapers : Provides full text from over 230 U.S. regional and national newspapers, including the Arizona Daily Star, The Arizona Republic and The New York Times.
• Getting Started Tutorial
• New York Times[ProQuest]: Full text backfiles of the Late City edition (East Coast) of the New York Times.
• Full-text backfiles  (1995-1998) available on CD-ROM: In-Library Use Only from desktop shortcut.
• For the current NYT use National News 5

Database Info:

• Encyclopeadia Britannica 
• Britannica Online: The up-to-date multimedia encyclopedia with many additional features, including maps, video clips, web links to related Internet sites and an online dictionary.  Also includes the Britannica Student Encyclopedia.
• Guided Tour
• GPO Monthly Catalog [OCLC, FirstSearch]: Indexes print and electronic U. S. Government information resources created and published by Federal agencies. Coverage 1976 to present.
• Books In Print[R.R. Bowker]: A comprehensive database of in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios and videos. Contains some reviews.
•  Virtual Tour
• FirstSearch[OCLC]: Try the new improved interface and searching capabilities to multiple databases.
• FirstSearch Guided Tour
• Using FirstSearch : Overview
• How to do a Search
• ArticleFirst: A citation index of articles from the contents pages of nearly 12,600 journals in all areas of study.  Coverage 1990-present.
• ECO: Electronic Collections Online is an index to the contents of over 2700 journals in a variety of subject areas.
• ERIC: Search the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database (1966- ) for educational topics.
• GPOMonthly Catalog: Indexes print and electronic U. S. Government information resources created and published by Federal agencies. Coverage 1976 to present.
• MEDLINE: National Library of Medicine's biomedical index (1965-)
• PapersFirst:  Includes journal articles dealing with scholarly and academic topics that have appeared in scholarly periodicals from 1770-1993.
• ProceedingsFirst: Over 19,000 citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library from October 1993 to the present.
• Union Lists: More than 7 million holdings for journals and other covered items among OCLC libraries. It can help you determine if a library holds a specific issue of a journal.
• Wilson Select Full Text Plus  : Full text of articles from over 1,352 periodicals covering a wide variety of subjects (1994-). It is comprised of selective records from the following H.W. Wilson databases: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts.  Weekly updates.
• World Almanacs : This database includes the 1998 World Almanac Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, World Almanac Knowledge Source and the World Almanac for Kids.
• WorldCat: An index to over 40 million titles cataloged by OCLC member libraries, including Internet sites.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library : Small specialized eBook collection of the following 10 reference titles. 
  Ancient Europe, 8000 B.C. to A.D. 1000: Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, 2v, 2004
  Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco: Learning About Addictive Behavior, 3v, 2003
  Encyclopedia of Aging, 4v, 2002
  Encyclopedia of American Religions, 7th ed., 2003
  Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed., 22v, 1998-2004
  Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law, 2v, 2003
  Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, 2nd ed., 3v, 2000
  Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History, 2v, 1999
  World Education Encyclopedia, 2nd ed., 3v, 2001
  Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, 11th ed., 6v, 2004
  
• MaGill On Literature [EbscoHost] : A source for editorially reviewed critical analyses.  Includes brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature, including the 33 volumnes of Masterplots, 66 volumnes of Masterplots II, Cyclopedia of World Authors, Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, and Magill's Literary Annual.
• Wilson Biographies : A biography database with more than 72,000 profiles from antiquity through today.  Every profile provides complete information on the subject's life, career, or historical significance.  Artists, authors, scientists, journalists, business people, actors, sports figures, politicians and many others are covered.  Includes the lauded Current Biography profiles with exclusive autobiographical statements.
• World Almanacs [OCLC, FirstSearch]: This database includes the 1998 World Almanac Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A.,  The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and the World Almanac for Kids.
• FirstSearch Guided Tour
• WorldCat[OCLC, FirstSearch]: An index to over 40 million titles cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century, books, media, and Internet sources.
• FirstSearch Guided Tour

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Database Info:

• AccessScience [McGraw-Hill]: Full search capabilities of the 8th edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology with new and revised content updated regularly.  Includes biographies of scientists, late-breaking science and technology news, new references, links to related web sites, learning resources and study guides, added illustrations and much more.  Off-campus access available by password. (Available from the library for our registered users.  Click on Subscriber Log-in to access the database.)
• AGRICOLA: AGRICultural OnLine Access.  A bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. Production of these records in electronic form began in 1970, but the database covers materials in all formats, including printed works from the 15th century. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
• Vocational and Career Collection [EBSCOhost]: Provides full text coverage for 400 trade and industry-related periodicals.

Database Info:

• CQ Researcher [CQ Press]: Brief reports on current "hot" topics in the news written by experienced journalists.  Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports.  Each report includes a pro-con feature, a chronology, and lengthy bibliographies.  Reports extend back to 1991.
• How to Cite
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center [Gale Group]: The acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources provides a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles
• Religion and Philosophy Collection [EBSCOhost]: Provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles. Useful tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. Updated daily.
• SIRS Knowledge Source [ProQuest]:  Search across all 3 databases at the same time or individually to locate pertinent full-text articles and graphics.  Covers current social and political issues, perspectives on the arts & humanities, and valuable current and historical government documents.
• Online Tutorial
• Research Strategies Worksheet
• SIRS Government Reporter:  This database delivers thousands of full-text documents and graphics concerning a wide variety of topics: health, science, economics, environment, politics, foreign affairs, workplace issues, business and industry issued by the federal government. The almanac databases are valuable tools for researching current and historic government documents; landmark and recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions; information about federal departments, agencies, elected leaders and more.
• SIRS Renaissance:  Current perspectives on the arts & humanitites.  Provides current, dynamic information on music, literature, film, performing arts, culture, architecture, philosophy, religion and visual arts. Many articles are accompanied by full-color graphics — including art reproductions, photographs and illustrations.
• SIRS Researcher:  A general reference database that contains thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political and global issues.  Articles are selected from more than 1,500 domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals and U.S. government publications and may be accessed instantaneously. Articles are archived from 1989 to the present. Many articles are accompanied by graphics, including charts, maps, diagrams and illustrations.
• Sociological Collection [EbscoHost: Off-campus: Username/password with remote URL]: A comprehensive database with nearly 613 full text titles. This database provides information on all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure.
• Help Sheet [PDF]
• Title List

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