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HNRS 1500: Online Databases
General Databases:
EbscoHOST's Academic Search Complete indexes over 8000 journals, and includes full text for over 4600, including 3500 scholarly journals in full text. It is a good general database that covers nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, etc. Because of the extensive full text available in this database, it is useful to all disciplines.
Proquest's Research Library is another good general database with extensive full text articles available, as well as numerous newspapers.
Subject-Specific Online Databases *
For Humanities:
Humanities Abstracts *cites articles from more then 350 English-language periodicals in the field of archaeology and classical studies, art and photography, folklore, general scholarship, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion and theology. Coverage is February 1984 to current. Uses same interface as Academic Search Complete.
MLA International Bibliography *contains bibliographic records pertaining to British and American literature, the English language, linguistics, and folklore. Indexes scholarly research to all literature written in English in over 3,000 journals and series. Uses the same interface as Academic Search Complete.
Historical Abstracts *provides searchable access to abstracts of journal articles and citations to book titles and dissertations gleaned from over 1700 journal titles dealing with the history of the world (excluding North America) from 1450 to the present.
America: History and Life * provides searchable access to abstracts of journal articles and citations to book/media reviews and dissertations gleaned from over 1700 journal titles dealing with the history of the United States and Canada.For the Sciences:
ScienceDirect *provides full text access to over 1800 journals from Elsevier and Academic Press, representing all areas of science, medicine, and technology, as well as inter-disciplinary titles. Coverage is from 1995 to current, but some titles in physics, chemistry, and mathematics begin with volume 1, regardless of the year.
PsycINFO * The content of this database is produced by the American Psychological Association. It provides abstracts for journal articles, books, chapters of books, technical reports, and dissertations representing the international field of psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, linguistics, pharmacology, law, behavior analysis, and social work. Coverage is 1872 to current with regular updates and covers over 1300 journals, representing over 25 languages. Uses same interface as Academic Search Complete.
Other more specific databases may be found by browsing by subject on the Electronic Resources Page, http://irservices.library.unt.edu/ or by checking the Subject Guides, http://www.library.unt.edu/research-tools/subject-guides.
* If the links to the databases above do not work, please return to the Libraries' Home Page (http://www.library.unt.edu), and choose the link to Electronic Resources from the menu on the left. On that page, using the upper alphabetical listing, choose the first letter of the database's name, click on that link, and scroll down until you find the appropriate link.