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Core databases
Databases by subject | Resources by subject
Albertsons Library provides access to a growing collection of over 230+ research databases, indexes, and topic-specific online resources. Within some of these larger database providers there are several hundred journal, magazine, and newspaper titles. To make sense of the enormous amount of research and data available to you and your students we have compiled a list of "core" online resources that bring together scholarly pursuit and academic rigor.
The following databases are available via the Articles, Databases link on the library's homepage:
CORE FACULTY/RESEARCH DATABASES: each of these covers exclusively research publications.
Web of Science / Web of Knowledge - The classic citation database covers approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world, in all disciplines. Includes ability to do cited reference searching, to find publications based on what they cite, allowing users to navigate forward and backward through the literature. While Web of Science may not find every item that a premier, discipline-specific database finds, its effort to cover nearly all items cited means its coverage is extremely broad for nearly every discipline. Click HERE to access.
JSTOR
A multidisciplinary database that covers all manner of academic subjects. Date ranges from material available from 1800 to the present.. JSTOR delivers full-text content via PDF with "high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. JSTOR's coverage of most of the key journals in every discipline, and their complete backfiles, gives it a stunning and unique breadth. Note also that because it does not include the recent issues (its "moving walls" usually omit the most recent three to five years), and because it does not include comprehensive coverage in any field, focusing on the most important journals, it cannot be considered quite comprehensive. " Article citation is done via Google Scholar. Click HERE to access.
CORE DATABASES, ALL USERS: each of these has extremely broad coverage of both research materials and popular materials.
Academic Search Premier - Part of the EBSCOHost family of databases, Academic Search Premier is similar in scope to Academic OneFile, offers full-text access to over 4500 journals and indexing to over 8200+ journal and magazine titles. Updated daily. Coverage from 1975 to current. Once in Academic Search Premier access to several dozen subject-specific databases is available. Click HERE to access.
Academic OneFile - Part of the Gale Group family of databases, Academic OneFile is a multidisciplinary database of academic and popular periodical titles. Search selection includes scholarly and peer-reviewed publications. Updated daily, this database currently indexes over 24 million documents with a mixture of full-text and citation formats. Coverage begins 1980 to current. Academic OneFile also offers access to several dozen subject-specific databases. Click HERE to access.
CORE DATABASES, UNDERGRADUATE USERS:
CQResearcher - Provides access to "original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy." Coverage begins 1991 to present. Click HERE to access.
These are but a few of the many scholarly databases available. However, given the breadth of scholarship available--and not just with online resources--we would be happy to provide you and your students with in-depth instructions on how to exploit these resources. Please give us a call at 426-3301 or ask one of your Library liaisons for assistance.