Popular Databases

  • Credo Reference – access to encyclopedias, handbooks, guides, and readers covering many subject areas. With visual aids, photographs, and maps, students and faculty can find content that can be incorporated into class projects and activities.
  • Britannica Academic – a comprehensive reference resource for college-level learners, researchers, and faculty. Discover encyclopedia articles, full-text journal and magazine articles, primary sources, multimedia, and other unique resources and tools.
  • Oxford English Dictionary (OED) – gives definitions, etymological analysis, and quotations to demonstrate the use of words in the English language over time.
  • EBooks on EBSCO comprised of the following eBook collections: NetLibrary Shared Collection; eBook Academic Collection; Community College Collection; High School Collection; K-8 Collection; and Public Library Collection.
  • Ebook Central (Proquest) – access thousands of eBooks in all disciplines.
  • Academic Search Complete – is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database with over 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and more than 13,200 publications, including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
  • Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials– index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA’s full-text collection of 390+ major religion and theology journals. ATLA, a membership association of collectors and connectors in religion and theology, produces this database.
  • Christian Periodical Index – provides indexing for evangelical Christian journals providing articles and review indexing. Current indexing includes over 140 titles back to 1976.
  • Religion and Philosophy Collection – extensive coverage of world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy, and philosophy from over 300 full-text journals.
  • Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) – theological thesis/dissertation titles representing research from many institutions.
  • BAS Library; Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive– contains over 40 years of Biblical Archaeology Review (1975 to present), 20 years of Bible Review (1985 to 2005 complete), and 8 years of Archaeology Odyssey (1998 to 2006 complete). It also includes The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land and other resources.
  • Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection – covering information concerning emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world’s largest full-text psychology database offering full-text coverage for hundreds of journals.
  • Proquest – access to several databases, including ProQuest One Literature‎, ProQuest Central, and Literature Online.
  • Films on Demand– a digital video streaming service with access to educational videos from a variety of producers bringing together thousands of videos from many areas of study, including health and medicine; humanities and social sciences; science and mathematics; business and economics, as well as archival films and newsreels.
  • BIOSIS – Web of Science – an index to life sciences and biomedical research from journals, meetings, books, and patents. The database covers pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more. Includes BIOSIS indexing and enhanced MeSH disease terms.
  • CINAHL Plus with Full Text – a collection of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 770 journals indexed in CINAHL®. Full text coverage dates from 1937.
  • WestLaw – a legal research database that provides an array of interconnected primary and analytical law content.
  • OmniFile Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson) – a full text-only database that contains material for learning and research across disciplines. Full-text articles are available from approximately 2,700 publications, many of which are peer-reviewed.
  • ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) – provides educational literature and research access.  Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.