University of the Ozarks: Robson Library

Research Tools

Databases

Note: Access to these databases is only available to individuals with a valid Ozarks network logon.

EBSCOhost (http://search.ebscohost.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/)

Gateway to a collection of citations and full-text articles in these databases:

Academic Search Complete -- Provides full text for over 5,300 periodicals (4,400 peer-reviewed) and indexing for over 9,300 titles.
Business Source Complete -- Provides full text journals in business, marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics, and full text, non-journal content including financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
Regional Business News -- 75 journals, newspapers, and newswires from metropolitan and rural areas in the U.S.
Education Research Complete -- Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, and full text for more than 750 journals, more than 100 books and monographs, and numerous education-related conference papers.
Professional Development Collection -- Over 500 full text journals for professional educators, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles.
ERIC -- The Educational Resource Information Center contains citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals.
Mental Measurements Yearbook -- Online guide to over 2,000 testing instruments (1985 to the present).
Tests in Print -- Online guide to commercially available tests currently in print.
SocINDEX with Full Text -- Abstracts and some full text for publications covering all subdisciplines of sociology, including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others.
PsycINFO -- Contains more than 2,000,000 citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports in psychology from 1887 to the present.
PsycARTICLES -- Over 100,000 articles from 59 scholarly journals in psychology.
PsycBOOKS -- Over 16,000 chapters from over 1,000 scholarly books in psychology.
Literary Reference Center -- Provides a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day, including full-text from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, and hundreds of literary journals.
MLA International Bibliography -- The Modern Language Association bibliography of more than 1,800,000 of citations to books, dissertations, and articles on language and literature dating back to 1926.
MLA Directory of Periodicals -- Detailed entries (including editorial contact information, frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines) on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text -- Indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications (as well as full text for more than 90 journals) on film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
America: History & Life -- An index of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada (from prehistory to the present) from 1,700 journals from 1964 to present.
Historical Abstracts -- An index of publications on world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, covering more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
ATLA Religion Databases -- A collection of major religion and theology journals.
Philosopher’s Index -- Provides indexing and abstracts for books and over 500 periodicals in the fields of philosophy: aesthetics, axiology, philosophy of education, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, metaphilosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of science, social philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.
Legal Collection -- Full text for more than 250 scholarly law journals, with information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition -- Provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
Health Source: Consumer Edition -- Searchable full text for over 100 journals that provide information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Newspaper Source -- Selected full text for over 200 regional U.S. newspapers and nearly 30 international newspapers.
Master File Premier -- Full text for more than 1,700 general reference publications dating as far back as 1975, including nearly 500 full text reference books.
MAS Ultra - School Edition -- Provides full text for nearly 500 general interest and current events publications.
TOPICsearch -- Full text for over 139,000 articles from more than 4,800 diverse sources (including more than 1,550 periodicals) on social, political, and economic issues, scientific discoveries, and other popular topics for classroom discussion.
Middle Search Plus -- Full text articles from 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research as far as back as 1990, with assigned reading level indicator (Lexiles). Also contains 84,000 biographies, over 100,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 200,000 photos, maps and flags.
Primary Search -- Provides full text for more than 60 magazines designed for the elementary school student.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia -- Over 25,000 entries.
EBSCO Animals -- Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

Lexis-Nexis (http://www.lexisnexis.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/us/lnacademic)

Collection of full-text articles and documents from over 6,000 news, business, legal, medical, and reference sources.

ProQuest (http://www.umi.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/pqdauto/)

A collection of databases providing citations and full-text articles, including Research Library (business, education, literature, political science, psychology, etc.); ABI/INFORM Complete (business and finance); National Newspaper Abstracts; Alternative Press Watch (newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press); and Ethnic News Watch (news, culture and history from 200+ publications of ethnic, minority and native press -- English and Spanish).

Wilson OmniFile and Readers' Guide Retrospective 1963-1982 (http://hwwilsonweb.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/)

Indexing, abstracting, and full text from eleven Wilson databases (Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers' Guide, Social Science, Business, Applied Science & Technology, Art, Biological & Agricultural Index, Legal, Library & Information Science) and comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 through 1982.

Gale Infotrac Databases (http://infotrac.galegroup.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/itweb/uotozarks)

Academic OneFile (over 30,000,000 articles); Gale Research Library (a full-text collection of multi-volume reference works in philosophy, religion, education, social science, history, world cultures, bioethics, cinema, and the American Constitution); and many subject-specific collections (in business, science, history, religion, etc.).

Westlaw Campus Research (http://www.westlaw.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/signon/default.wl?rs=IMP1.0&vr=2.0&sp=003251091%2D2000)

News and business information in full text from hundreds of sources (newspapers, magazines, newsletters, newswires, broadcast transcripts, trade journals, and international publications). Law-related information in over 800 law journals and reviews; the U.S.Code; Federal Register; Code of Federal Regulations; state and federal (including Supreme Court) cases; European Union laws and regulations; American Law Reports; and American Jurisprudence 2d.

Access World News (http://infoweb.newsbank.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/?db=AWNB)

Local, regional, and international news in full-text articles from over 600 U.S. and 700 international sources, including many business, military, and Spanish-language publications.

Periodicals Index Online (PIO) (http://pio.chadwyck.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/)

Indexing for millions of articles in over 5,000 periodical (going back to 1665) in 37 subject areas in the humanities and social sciences. Articles in many of these periodicals are accessible in full text by linking within PIO to PAO (Periodicals Archive Online), http://pao.chadwyck.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu.

FirstSearch (http://firstsearch.oclc.org.libproxy.ozarks.edu/fsip/)

Gateway to twelve databases provided by the Arkansas State Library.

ArticleFirst -- OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals
ClasePeriodica -- Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities
Ebooks -- A listing of electronic books cataloged in the Robson library catalog
ECO -- An OCLC collection of scholarly journals
ERIC -- Journal articles and reports on education topics
GPO -- U.S. government publications
MEDLINE -- All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing
PapersFirst* -- OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide
Proceedings* -- An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings
WorldAlmanac -- The World Almanac - fundamental reference resources
WorldCat -- OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide
WorldCatDissertations -- List of dissertations and theses in WorldCat

netLibrary (http://www.netlibrary.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/)

A collection of over 40,000 books in full text.

Credo Reference (http://www.credoreference.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/)

Credo is an encyclopedic, user-friendly tool for researching people, quotations, definitions, concepts, historical events, and more. Credo offers access to over 400 full-text reference resources, and is fully integrated with both the library catalog and other databases.

Oxford Reference Online (http://www.oxfordreference.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/)

A collection of over 200 reference works published by Oxford University Press.

Congressional Quarterly (http://library.cqpress.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/)

Online versions of Congressional Quarterly's CQ Weekly and CQ Researcher.

CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) (http://www.ciaonet.org.libproxy.ozarks.edu/)

Columbia University's online collection of teaching materials and background readings, updated monthly.

Mergent Online (http://www.mergentonline.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/)

Online business or financial information

MarketLine (http://library.marketlineinfo.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/library/Default.aspx)

Business profiles of thousands of companies, industries, and countries worldwide.

BioOne (http://www.bioone.org.libproxy.ozarks.edu/)

A collection of Bioscience research journals. As a bonus with our BioOne subscription, we also received access to BAID (BioOne Abstracts and Indexes Database) through CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts). With BAID, you can employ CSA's thesaurus searching with descriptors, identifiers and other controlled vocabulary qualifiers and filters.

ACLS Humanities E-Book (http://www.humanitiesebook.org.libproxy.ozarks.edu/)

A fully searchable collection of over 1700 high-quality books in the humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies.

LION (English and American Literature Online) (http://lion.chadwyck.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/)

A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources

Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry (http://www.columbiagrangers.org.libproxy.ozarks.edu/Home.html)

250,000 poems in full text and 450,000 poem citations, searchable by 6,000 subject headings and by era or school, nationality, language, cultural identity, gender, and form, with links to audio recordings, commentaries, biographies, glossary terms, history, and criticism.

Oxford Art Online (http://www.oxfordartonline.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/)

The online version of the 34-volume Grove Dictionary of Art, the 4-volume Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. This database includes links to thousands of images, including those in ARTstor.

ARTstor (http://www.artstor.org.libproxy.ozarks.edu/)

A collection of over 300,000 high-quality images especially relevant to the fields of art, architecture, archeology, design and history.

Oxford Music Online (http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/)

The full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz; The Oxford Companion to Music; and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. A link to Classical Music Library (an online database containing thousands of recordings) is available from the “Related Content” tab of every Grove article.

Music Online (http://music.alexanderstreet.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/)

Music files, images, and background material for American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, and Jazz Music Library.

Routledge Religion Online (http://www.reference.routledge.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/)

A collection of major reference works in religion.

Early American Imprints and Newspapers (http://infoweb.newsbank.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/?db=AOFA)

A collection of early American publications in facsimile (1639-1876).

Early English Books Online (http://wwwlib.umi.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/eebo/)

Collection of early English books on-line

Oxford English Dictionary (http://dictionary.oed.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/)

The Oxford English Dictionary online

Encyclopedia Britannica (http://search.eb.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/)

The online Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (http://www.childrenslit.com.libproxy.ozarks.edu/)

A database of literary works for children