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Click on the links listed below to access databases and texts. Some databases listed below provide the full texts of cited articles. To find which databases contain the full texts of articles from particular journals (with inclusive dates), consult the Grasselli Library A-to-Z Electronic Journal List This is a link to another web site. For information about accessing Databases from Off Campus, click here.

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Articles

Academic Search Complete (1984 - Current)
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Annual Reviews
Authoritative, analytic reviews in 33 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature.

ArticleFirst (OCLC)
Tables of contents, citations and abstracts to journal articles on many subjects.

CQ Researcher
Full text of Congressional Quarterly's reports on current and controversial issues.

Factiva
Provides essential business news and information together with content delivery tools and services. Factiva's collection of more than 10,000 authoritative sources includes The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Financial Times, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, and D&B company profiles. Cookies must be enabled. Please logout when finished.

First Search Databases
Click to see list of available FirstSearch Databases.

Fuente Academica
A unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers, this database provides full text coverage (including PDF) for nearly 200 scholarly Spanish language journals. Content is provided in Spanish from respected publishers worldwide.

LexisNexis Academic
Full text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Includes Hoover's Company Data.

Topic Search
Allows searching in the Ebsco databases by social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms.

Web of Science (1980 - Current)
Indexes 1,700 journals over 50 disciplines and covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 60% of the articles in the database. Partial full text. Can limit by Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, or Science.

Books-Catalogs

Hand Press Book Database
Catalog of European printing of the hand press period.

RCL Web (Resources for College Libraries)
Successor to Books for College Libraries, this core library collection list features 65,000 titles in 58 curriculum-specific subjects.

SCIPIO
Art and rare books sales catalogs.

WorldCAT
Holdings of libraries worldwide.

Books - Electronic Collections

ACLS Humanities E-Book
Containing the full text of over 1500 titles, the History e-book project has expanded to include most humanities disciplines and area studies.

American & English Literature: Poetry, drama, and prose
Full text of books and other sources originally published in print. Also includes 21 historical editions of the Bible in English.
Bible Editions

Electronic Book Center (OhioLINK)
Contains thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering the humanities, sciences and social sciences.
* ABC-CLIO: educational reference books – encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical collections, guides – on many specialized topics, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.
* Gale: reference books published by Thomson Gale; also includes a few reference books from Macmillan, Saur, and Scribner.
* Oxford University Press: important scholarly books, both classic and newly-published works, in the humanities and social sciences. Oxford imprints include OUP Oxford, OUP USA, and Clarendon Press.
* Sage: encyclopedias and reference handbooks from the Sage eReference catalog, mainly in the social sciences.
* Springer: high-quality scientific, technological and medical books. Springer imprints also include Apress, Birkhäuser, Physica-Verlag, Steinkopff, and others.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
John Carroll's collection currently includes Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, 2004, Cities of the World, 6th ed., 4v, 2002; Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, 2nd ed., 3v, 2002; Encyclopedia of Small Business, 2nd ed., 2v, 2002

NetLibrary
NetLibrary is a library of over 20,000 electronic books (e-books) on many academic subjects. The collection includes thousands of titles purchased by OhioLINK, plus thousands of public-domain e-books. Users can preview an e-book online, peruse a page, read each page in depth, jump to specific chapters or pages, or use links in the Table of Content or Index to go directly to specific chapters of interest. Every word in every book is searchable. NetLibrary operates on the library check-out model, where readers check out e-books for a specified amount of time.

Oxford Digital Reference Shelf: title list & links
An e-book interface from Oxford in which each title can be accessed as a stand-alone resource with its own URL, and each site offers a range of search and browse options. All titles are also fully cross-searchable with titles in the Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection.

Oxford Reference Online Premium
A virtual reference room, Oxford Reference Online has more than 100 reference titles, including language, literature and subject dictionaries.

Oxford Scholarship Online
A cross-searchable library containing the full text of important scholarly books from Oxford University Press, which includes both classic and newly-published works in the humanities and social sciences. Subject collections are available in Economics & Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. New books are added regularly.

Safari Tech Books Online
Electronic books in computer science, information technology, and related fields.

Springer E-books
Electronic books in scientific, technology, medical and business disciplines published in 2005, 2006, and 2007 by Springer. This site links to over 1200 electronic books.

Conferences

PapersFirst
Index of papers presented at conferences.

ProceedingsFirst
Conference proceedings.

Dissertations

Dissertation Abstracts (ProQuest Dissertations)
Indexes more than one and a half million doctoral dissertations, primarily from the U.S.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
Online theses and dissertations from Ohio graduate students.

Government Documents

GPO Monthly Catalog
Catalog of U.S. government publications.

Journals - Directories

Cabell's Directories
Contains Cabell's business directories in Accounting, Economics & Finance, Management, and Marketing, and Cabell's education directories in Educational Curriculum and Methods, Educational Psychology and Administration, and Educational Technology & Library Science.

MLA Directory of Periodicals
List of periodicals in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Comprehensive information on currently published as well as discontinued periodicals. Includes magazines, journals, newsletter, newspapers, conference proceedings, and electronic publications.

Journals - Electronic Collections

ACM Digital Library
A half century of pioneering concepts and fundamental research have been digitized and indexed in this special collection of works published by ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) since its inception. The ACM Digital Library includes bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and full texts

ACS Journals
ACS Journals provides abstracts and full text for journals and magazines from the American Chemical Society. This site is the source for older ACS journals, known as the ACS Journal Archives. Current ACS journals are available both through this site and through the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center.

Annual Reviews
Authoritative, analytic reviews in 33 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature.

Electronic Journal Center (EJC) (OhioLINK)
Full text of 4300+ research journals.

JSTOR
JSTOR's collections provide electronic access to back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences with a moving wall of three to five years. Authorized John Carroll users have access to all JSTOR content.