Guides for Searching Databases
How to Find an Article and other materials in databases
General & Interdisciplinary | Business | Education & Behavioral Science
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GENERAL and INTERDISCIPLINARY Databases
- ProQuest [ PDF ] [ MS Word ]
- LexisNexis Academic [ Web ]
- Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) Databases : Includes: Aerospace & High Technology Database, ARTbibliographies Modern, Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts, BioOne Abstracts & Indexes, Communication Abstracts, Conference Papers Index, Criminal Justice Abstracts, CSA Materials Research Database, EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements, Environmental Sciences & Pollution Mgmt, ERIC, GeoRef, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts , Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts, MicroPatent Materials Patents, NTIS, Oceanic Abstracts, PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, Sage Full-Text Journal Collections (includes Communication Studies, Criminology, Political Science, and Sociology), Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, TOXLINE, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
- ERLWebspirs Databases : Includes: Art Abstracts, Art Index Retrospective, Biological Abstracts, EconLit, Education Full Text, Health & Psychosocial Instruments, Index to Film Periodicals, Index to TV Periodicals, Mental Measurements Yearbook (current edition), The Philosopher's Index.
BUSINESS Databases
- LexisNexis Academic
- Company searching:
- to find information on a company's performance [Flash movie]
- to find recently published articles about a company [Flash movie]
- Industry searching [Flash Movie]
- Hoovers Online Company searching
- PC Quote Company searching [Flash Movie]
- ProQuest
- Reuters Research On-Demand
- Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
- TableBase
- ValueLine
- Yahoo! Finance Company searching [Flash Movie]
- Mergent Online Company searching [Flash Movie]
[ PDF ] [ MS Word ]
EDUCATION and BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE Databases
- Education Resources Online [ PDF ] [ MS Word ]
- CSA Basic [ PDF ] [ MS Word ] Includes: ERIC , PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, Communication Abstracts, Sage Communication Studies, Social Services Abstracts.
- ERLWebspirs Databases [ PDF ] [ MS Word ] Includes: Education Full Text, Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI), Mental Measurements Yearbook
SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY Databases
- Web of Science [ HTML tutorial ]
- PubMed [ Flash movie ] [ PDF ] [ MS Word ]
- CSA Basic [ PDF ] [ MS Word ] Includes: Aerospace & High Technology Database, Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts, BioOne Abstracts & Indexes, Conference Papers Index, CSA Materials Research Database, EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements, Environmental Sciences & Pollution Mgmt , GeoRef, Materials Science, Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts, MicroPatent Materials Patents, NTIS, Oceanic Abstracts, TOXLINE.
- ERLWebspirs Databases [ PDF ] [ MS Word ] Includes: Biological Abstracts
SOCIAL SCIENCES and HUMANITIES Databases
- CSA Basic [ PDF ] [ MS Word ] Includes: ARTbibliographies Modern, Criminal Justice Abstracts, LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, Sage Criminology, Sage Political Science, Sage Sociology, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
- ERLWebspirs Databases [ PDF ] [ MS Word ] Includes: Art Abstracts, Art Index Retrospective, EconLit, International Index to Film Periodicals, International Index to Television Periodicals, The Philosopher's Index.
How to Get the Full Text
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