List of Periodical Database Indexes - A to Z

Search databases individually using the A-Z List of Single Databases list below. Our two main database providers are Thomson Gale (Infotrac) and EBSCOHost. Both of these list numerous database indexes, many of them providing full-text.

In addition, you can now search many of our databases using one simple interface by going to our new OneSearch page. Just click on the OneSearch link. You can also easily find which publications we subscribe to across all of our full-text databases by clicking the Browse our E-Journals by Title link below.

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A - Z List Of All Databases

Academic Search Premiere EBSCOHost
Indexing for over 4,500 scholarly publications covering social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

Academic OneFile - Thomson Gale
Academic Onefile contains 8,000 academic journals, the majority in full-text, available in HTML and PDF formats. In addition it contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content to 1995.

African-American History Online Facts On File
Provides expansive and in-depth information on the people, events, and topics important to the study of African-American history. This site includes biographical information, primary sources, maps and timelines,a spotlight providing an in-depth look at a topic such as the Harlem Renaissance and The Exhibit of American Negroes, Paris 1900: a reconstruction of highlights from an exhibit at the 1900 World's Fair.

American History Online Facts On File
Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience. This site features biographies, events and topics, primary sources, maps, timelines and unique "learning centers" to help researchers searching for initial results.

American Women's History Online Facts On File
Covers the important people, events, legislation, and issues relevant to the study of women's history in the United States. Users can search for entries by keyword or phrase. They can browse by topic and by time period—from nine historical periods relevant specifically to women's history. In addition, Biographies can be browsed by occupation, and Primary Sources by type.

Americas Magazines (Formerly Newsbank) Newsbank
Coverage of U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and science and technology from familiar magazines. Included here are such popular titles as Sports Illustrated, Forbes, People and Family Life. Also included here is a link to the Springfield Republican through Newsbank. This database is brought to you by the Springfield Libraries. NOTE: For access to the Berkshire Eagle, Boston Globe and other Massachusetts newspapers, please go to our new Massachusetts Newstand. (Listed also below)


Biography Resource Center + The Complete Maquis Who's Who Infotrac Thomson Gale
This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Over 422,000 full-text biographies are included in this database.

The Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic EBSCOHost
Access to 100 full text journals covering clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the pre-clinical sciences. Full text journals are also indexed in MEDLINE.

Book Index With Reviews EBSCOHost
Book Index with Reviews is a comprehensive database that provides information on over 3.8 million book titles in a wide range of formats, including large print, books on tape, etc. Fiction and non-fiction titles are included in the database, in all genres.

Britannica Online
The only information resource to combine the depth and breadth of Encyclopaedia Britannica with the power and immediacy of the Internet, Britannica Online includes access to thousands of frequently updated comprehensive entries, many written by Nobel Prize winners and other leading authorities. Plus, it's loaded with multimedia, maps, and more!

Business Index ASAP Thomson Gale
Perform in-depth research on management issues, economic indicators and business theories and practices, as well as on the activities of companies and industries worldwide. Instant access to academic and business journals with full text and images.

Business Source Premiere EBSCOHost
Our most extensive Business Database, it indexes over 3000 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. Many articles are in full-text.

CINAHL EBSCOHost
CINAHL, the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, is the authorative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing and abstracting for over 1600 nursing, allied health and health sciences journals; over 350 journals are full text.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Thomson Gale
Full text collection of critical essays on contemporary authors.

Credo Reference Credo/XREFER
The world's largest online reference service featuring over 250 full-text reference titles covering all subject areas with over 3 million entries from 57 highly-respected publishers all integrated in a robust search engine. Use this database to find reference material including world, state, and county statistics, interactive world atlas, flash animations, videos, poetry/literature readings, o over 200,000 audio pronunciations, and a citation formatter in APA, MLA, and Chicago formats.

EBSCOhost Deutsch EBSCOHost
German language version of all the EBSCOhost databases.

EBSCOhost Español EBSCOHost
Spanish language version of all the EBSCOhost databases.

EBSCOhost Francais EBSCOHost
French language version of all the EBSCOhost databases.

Educators Reference Complete Thomson Gale
Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database.

ERIC EBSCOHost
ERIC®, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. This database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.

Expanded Academic ASAP Thomson Gale
Indexing for journals, magazines and newspapers covering arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology; some articles are full text and include images.

Film Literature Index Online
University Of Indiana
Indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001.

FindLaw Web site -
FindLaw is the highest-trafficked legal Web site, providing the most comprehensive set of legal resources on the Internet for legal professionals, corporate counsel, law students, businesses, and consumers.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia EBSCOHost
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry. Meets the research needs of elementary, middle, and high school students.

Gale Virtual Reference Library Thomson Gale
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.

General Business File ASAP Thomson Gale
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics.

General Reference Center Gold Thomson Gale
Use this general interest database to search magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, and more.

GeoScience World - abstracts
GeoScience World (GSW) provides access to scientifically peer-reviewed articles from high impact geoscience publications. Search the database and view the titles and abstracts of articles. The full text articles are available only to subscribers, but you can order them through interlibrary loan by bringing the citation to the circulation desk of the Jonathan Edwards Library.

GreenFiles EBSCOHost
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records

GroveArt
Grove Art Online contains the full-text of The Dictionary of Art — the landmark encyclopedia of world art. Grove Art Online also includes all 2,800 articles from The Oxford Companion to Western Art [OCWA] and continues to offer new content . Grove Art Online offers over 1500 colour images and line drawings; links to the Art Resource searchable image database; and links to over 40,000 images on museum and gallery websites.

Health Reference Center-Academic Thomson Gale
Indexing for journals and magazines containing articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health & safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, and more; some articles are full text.

Health Source: Consumer Edition EBSCOHost
Indexing of health periodicals covering topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition EBSCOHost
This database provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features abstracts and indexing for 850 journals.

InfotracOne File - Thomson Gale
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, and technology. Millions of full-text articles. Updated daily

Junior Edition - K12 Thomson Gale
Designed for students in junior high and middle school, with indexed and full text magazines, newspapers and reference books

Lexis-Nexis - Academic
LexisNexis® provides authoritative legal, news, public records and business information; including tax and regulatory publications in online formats. It delivers access to more than 350 international newspapers, including the New York Times dating back to 1980. It offers access to hard-to-find broadcast transcripts from television and radio networks including PBS. It provides company and financial infromation, SEC filings and reports, and a range of accounting materials. It also provides Shepard's citations, law review articles and news, U.S. Supreme Court, Curcuit and District Court decisions and all federal regulations. Lastly it offers medical information and reference tools, such as an online World Almanac, and opinion polls from the Roper Center.
Guides for using Lexis-Nexis: Getting Started ; LexisNexis Academic Features

Literary Reference Center
LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works and is an essential resource for public, academic and high school libraries.

MasterFile Premiere EBSCOHost
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides fulltext of general reference publications.

Massachusetts Newstand ProQuest NEW!
Now you can search more Massachusetts newspapers in one database! This new database features access to the Berkshire Eagle, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Business West, North Adams Transcript, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, the Lowell Sun and more. Basic, Advanced and Topic Searching are featured. This database is brought to by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. NOTE: For the Springfield Republican, use the Newsbank database.

MAS Ultra: School Edition EBSCOHost
This database is designed specifically for high school libraries and contains full text for popular, high school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).

MEDLINE EBSCOHost
Authoritative medical information from such fields as medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinicial sciences. This vast medical database contains abstracts from over 4,000 current biomedical journals. Some full-text is also available. Created by the National Library of Medicine.

MICROMEDEX Thompson
Now available to students at BCC, this database package provides a wealth of practical medical information. To gain access type in your user name and library card barcode. When page loads, scroll down to MICROMEDEX and follow instructions.

Included in this package are: MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series: - A wide range of clinical databases, including unbiased, referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine. CareNotes™ System: - CareNotes™ provides your patients with complete, easy-to-understand information about all aspects of their care. Formulary Advisor™ is an easy-to-use online formulary management tool . PDR® Electronic Library: - provides instant access to FDA approved drug information.

Military & Government Collection EBSCOHost
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of military titles, trade publications and newsweeklies.

NCJRS Abstracts Database
The NCJRS Abstracts Database contains summaries of the more than 185,000 criminal justice publications housed in the National Criminal Justice Reference Service Library collection.

Newsbank Comprehensive Newspapers:
Newsbank provides access to full-text staff-written news features, special interest stories, editorials, daily columns, letters to the editor, sports reports and much more in the Springfield Republican and the Springfield Union-News. This database is brought to you by the Springfield Libraries. NOTE: For access to the Berkshire Eagle, Boston Globe and other Massachusetts newspapers, please go to our new Massachusetts Newstand database above.

Newspaper Source EBSCOHost
Newspaper Source provides selected full text for regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for newspapers.

NetLibrary
NetLibrary is an electronic books program that allows you to search, browse, and "check out" online versions of over 6,000 books. First time users should create a free user account.

Novelist
NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 125,000 fiction titles. Click the icon for Novelist once you get to the EbscoHost page.

Pre-Cinahl EBSCOHost
This database is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to researchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.

Primary Search EBSCOHost
This database provides full text for more than 60 popular magazines and is designed specifically for elementary school libraries and for students in early childhood education.

Professional Development Collection EBSCOHost
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, including more than 300 peer reviewed titles.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection EBSCOHost
This database provides coverage of nearly 500 full text journals. This database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

PsychINFO EBSCOHost
PsychINFO contains more than 1.8 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800's, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 30 languages.

Regional Business News EBSCOHost
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications.

Religion & Philosophy Collection EBSCOHost
This database provides extensive coverage, including full-text, of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical biblical studies, religious history, political philosophy, philosophy of language, and the history of philosophy.

Science Online Facts-on-File
This full-text database offers a comprehensive general science resource by providing diagrams, definitions, biographies of key scientists, and a fully hyperlinked timeline. Also includes a database of science experiments submitted by teachers nationwide.

The Serials Directory EBSCOHost
Up-to-date bibliographic information and pricing for over 178,500 U.S. and international periodicals.

Student Edition Thomson Gale
Designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books.

Access to Electronic Databases through the Boston Public Library
For a limited time, Massachusetts State Residents can sign up for a temporary Boston Public Library eCard via the web!

BPL eCard is a virtual library card that allow users immediate access to many of the Boston Public Library's electronic databases.

Databases that are available include, America: History & Life, Art Full Text, Dictionary of Literary Biography, HeritageQuest Online, Historical Abstracts, JSTOR, New York Times (1851-2002), PAIS International, Play and Poem Finder and Sociological Abstracts.

Note: This system is a project of the Boston Public Library. Connectivity issues, if there are any, are not under the control of BCC.

updated 2/29/08