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Online Databases by Title

Academics : Rickman Library : Online Databases by Title

 



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Academic Search Alumni Edition 

Academic Search Alumni Edition is designed for the research needs of the post-college professional. It includes valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources.

Academic Search Complete 

Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database.

Academic Search Premier

Academic Search Premier is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database.

AGRICOLA 

AGRICOLA contains information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Disciplines covered include food & human nutrition, agricultural engineering & technology, earth & environmental sciences and many more.

AHFS Consumer Medication Information
AHFS Consumer Medication Information
is a trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish.

Alt HealthWatch

Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine.

American Association of Family Physicians (AAFP) Conditions A-Z

AAFP Conditions A to Z is a handy patient-information tool written and reviewed by physicians and patient education professionals.

Applied Science & Technology Full Text

Applied Science & Technology Full Text™ includes coverage of a wide variety of applied science specialties—acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear and civil engineering, computers and informatics and much more. 

Associates Programs Source

Associates Programs Source is designed specifically for the research needs of two-year colleges, and provides comprehensive coverage of the most relevant associates program level content.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
ATLA Religion Database® (ATLA RDB®) with ATLASerials® (ATLAS®) combines the index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals.

Audiobook Collection
This collection of audiobooks offers a comprehensive and powerful search experience.

Auto Repair Reference Center

Auto Repair Reference Center is a do-it-yourself resource for repairing and maintaining domestic and imported vehicles.

Biography in Context

Biography in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. 

Bloom's Literature

Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature. Literature resources and criticism selected by Harold Bloom.

BrainPOP Jr.

Designed for children in kindergarten through third grade, this database includes videos, audio prompts and learning activities with an easy to use graphical interface that allows children to learn independently. 

Britannica Country Comparisons

Britannica Country Comparisons compare maps, flags, statistics, events and multimedia about any two countries in the world.

Britannica Animal Kingdom

Britannica Animal Kingdom provides access to encyclopedia articles, images, and videos on topics related to animals and habitats. This resource is designed especially for intermediate readers at the elementary and early middle school levels. 

Britannica Escolar

Britannica Escolar is part of Spanish Reference Center from Encyclopedia Britannica and is an online learning platform in Spanish for ages 6-12. 

Britannica Learning Zone

Britannica Learning Zone is a classroom-tested, interactive learning environment that gives early learners enjoyable, engaging, and developmentally appropriate activities to help grow their minds, their spirits, and their intellectual horizons.

Britannica World Data Analyst

This rich trove of current and historical statistics on the countries of the world makes historical and cross-national comparisons easy. 

Business Search Interface
Business Search Interface provides business researchers with the highly refined tools they need, in order to conduct sophisticated searches for the business content that they require. Use this search interface to search all business databases in one search.

Business Source Alumni Edition
Business Source Alumni Edition is designed for the research needs of the post-college professional, providing more than 1,450 full-text business magazines and journals, of which over 700 are peer-reviewed.

Business Source Complete

Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content.

Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier provides full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.

Christian Periodical Index

Christian Periodical Index® provides indexing and full text articles from evangelical Christian journals and magazines.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text

CINAHL Plus® with Full Text is a collection of full text nursing & allied health journals, containing full text for many of the most-used journals in the CINAHL index. 

Classical Music Library

Listen to online streaming of more than 55,000 tracks of classical music by all major composers.

Communication Institute for Online Scholarship

Access abstracts in scholarly communication journals.

Computer Source

Computer Source provides computer science researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology.

Consumer Health Complete

Consumer Health Complete provides information directed towards the needs of the patients, and to help the understanding of health-related topics. 

Credo Reference
Credo Reference is a collection of over 700 reference books, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks. 

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text™ contains more than 400,000 records selected from the most important sources in criminal justice.

Criminal Justice Search Interface

Use this special search interface to search Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text™, International Security & Counterterrorism Reference Center, Military and Government Collection, and Political Science Complete all at once.

CultureGrams

Reference information about the cultures and countries of the world. 

EBL eBook Library

This collection provides access to e-books from 26 university press publishers with copyright dates from 2012 forward.  This initial set consists of 5,226 ebooks. 

Ebrary

Ebrary provides access to over 100,000 e-books in the Academic Complete, College Complete and Public Library Complete collections. 

Ebsco eBook Collection

This collection contains over 146,000 multidisciplinary e-book titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter.

Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson)

Education Full Text™ provides full text of articles in adult education, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods and much more. 

Education Search Interface

Use this special search interface to search Education with Full-Text, ERIC, Professional Development Collection, PsycARTICLES, and Teacher Reference Center all at once.

Enciclopedia Moderna

Enciclopedia Moderna covers all fields of knowledge, including arts, geography, philosophy, science, sports, and much more. The simple A-Z organization and clear descriptions will appeal to both Spanish speakers and students of Spanish. 

Encyclopedia Britannica - Academic Edition

Explore the updated online encyclopedia from Encyclopedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and web sites. 

Encyclopedia Britannica - School Edition

Explore the updated online encyclopedia from Encyclopedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and web sites. 

Entrepreneurial Studies Source

Entrepreneurial Studies Source provides the latest insight into topics relevant to entrepreneurship and small business.

ERIC

ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources.

European Views of the Americas, 1493 to 1750

This database is an index for libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas.

Explora Educator's Edition

Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with reliable content and easy-to-use functionality. This educators’ edition helps teachers easily find relevant support materials, and an English Curriculum Standards Module helps educators correlate content quickly and easily to Common Core and state curriculum standards.

Explora Middle School

Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.

Explora Primary

Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.

Explora Secondary

Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center

Provides profiles of nearly 3,400 jobs and 94 industries, invaluable advice on career skills, and thousands of resource entries. 

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text

Film & Television Literature Index™ with Full Text is an online tool for film and television research.

Fuente Académica

Fuente Académica offers more than 450 scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Gale PowerSearch 

With Gale PowerSearch, users can instantly access periodical and reference content in multiple Gale resources from a single starting point while also cross-searching eBooks in the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Google Scholar with SWU Full Text

Google Scholar provides library links down to the article-level to subscription full text. Use this special link to access full text resources available through Southern Wesleyan University.

GreenFILE

GreenFILE offers 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.

Health Source - Consumer Edition

Health Source - Consumer Edition provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

Health Source - Nursing / Academic Edition

This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.

History Reference Center

History Reference Center offers full text history periodicals and much more.

History Search Interface

Use this special search interface to search European Views of the Americas, 1493-1750, History Reference Center, Military and Government Collection, Jewish Studies Source, Political Science Complete, and Religion and Philosophy Collection all at once.

Homeland Security Digital Library

The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation's premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. Southern Wesleyan University is authorized to search the full collection. Individual login may be necessary to access additional services. Currently available on-campus only.

Hospitality & Tourism Complete

Hospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism.

Institute of Physics Archives

Journal archives of the Institute of Physics with many current, full-text journals included. 

International Bibliography of Theater & Dance with Full Text

International Bibliography of Theater & Dance with Full Text is a research tool for the study of theatre and the performing arts.

International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center

This database offers information on virtually every dimension of security & counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process, as well as enhance the general understanding of security and terrorism-related issues.

Jewish Studies Source

Jewish Studies Source includes full-text academic journals within Judaism. 

Kids InfoBits

Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. 

LearningExpress Library

Whatever your goal, LearningExpress Library's resources will help you succeed. It offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work, or in life. 

Library Literature & Information Science Index (H.W. Wilson)

Created by librarians for librarians, Library Literature & Information Science Index provides cover-to-cover indexing of nearly 400 journals, including key library and information science periodicals.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full-Text

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings.

Liebert Online

Liebert Online provides full-text journals in the Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STEM) knowledge and information industry, including international publications in cutting-edge basic and translational biomedical research, with expanding scope in engineering, business, environment, and legal publications.

Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center™ is a full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content. 

Literature Resource Center

Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world, in Literature Resource Center.

MarketLine Company Profiles

Up-to-date and accurate, MarketLine Company Profiles contains the latest financial data for public companies. It also includes merger and acquisition activity, lists of products and services, and key competitor information for all profiled companies. 

MAS Ultra School Edition

Designed specifically for high school libraries, MAS Ultra – School Edition contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines.

MasterFILE Premier

Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE Premier provides full text for magazines, reference books, and primary source documents. It is a multidisciplinary database, covering virtually every subject area of general interest. 

MedCalc 3000

MedCalc 3000 is a collection of over 520 calculators, clinical criteria sets and decision trees that are indispensable to anyone practicing, teaching or studying evidence-based medicine.

Medical Search Interface

Use this search interface to search both CINAHL Plus with Full Text and MEDLINE with Full Text both at once.

MEDLINE with Full-text

MEDLINE with Full Text provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences.

Middle Search Plus

Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular middle school magazines.

Military & Government Collection

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, Military & Government Collection offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content.

MLA Directory of Periodicals

MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 5,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the MLA International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.

MLA International Bibliography

MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. 

Music Index

Music Index is a comprehensive guide to music periodicals and literature featuring digitized content from 1970 to present.

Newspaper Source Plus

Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles, and more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts. 

Newswires

Newswires provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from trusted sources. 

NoveList K-8 Plus

NoveList K-8 Plus is a database for readers in primary and middle school. 

NoveList Plus

NoveList Plus is a database for readers of all ages. 

Nursing and Allied Health Collection

Nursing and Allied Health Collection covers all aspects of the nursing profession -- from direct patient care to health care administration.

Nursing Resource Center

Designed for nursing students, Nursing Resource Center provides disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts.

ONEsearch

ONEsearch brings together a comprehensive collection of content—including indexing from subject indexes, full text databases, and the entire library collection—all within a full-featured single search. Use ONEsearch to find books, ebooks, and journal articles with a single search.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Opposing Viewpoints in Context provides information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. It features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to trusted websites. 

OverDrive

Borrow eBooks, audiobooks, and streaming video from the library using OverDrive.

PBS Learning Media

PBS Learning Media provides access to thousands of innovative, standards-aligned digital resources, compelling student experiences, and professional development opportunities.

Points of View Reference Center

Providing a balance of materials from all viewpoints, Points of View Reference Center includes essays, leading political magazines from all sides of the political spectrum, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books. 

Political Science Complete

Political Science Complete provides full text articles in the area of political science.

Primary Search

Primary Search provides full text popular magazines for elementary school research.

Professional Development Collection

Designed for educators, Professional Development Collection provides a highly specialized collection of education journals.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses - Trial Database

ProQuest Dissertation & Theses simplifies searching for dissertations and theses via a single access point to explore an extensive, trusted collection of 3.8 million graduate works, with 1.7 million in full text.

PsycARTICLES

PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), provides full-text journal articles in psychology as well as behavioral science, education, nursing, business, neuroscience and more.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.

Psychology Ebooks from University Press Scholarship Online

This collection includes 335 e-books in the Oxford University Press’ University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO).

Psychology Search Interface

Use this special search interface to search Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection and PsycARTICLES both at once.

PubMed with SWU Full-Text

PubMed comprises more than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Use this special link to access full text resources available through Southern Wesleyan University.

Regional Business News

Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Religion & Philosophy Collection

Religion & Philosophy Collection™ provides coverage of world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.

Religion Search Interface

Use this special search interface to search ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, Christian Periodical Index, Jewish Studies Sources, and Religion and Philosophy Collection all at once.

RightNow Media

RightNow Media is like "Netflix for the church", with a huge collection of thousands of videos that people can access anytime, anywhere. Note: an account is required: click here for account information.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and RILM Music Encyclopedias - Trial

This comprehensive music source features citations, abstracts, and subject indexing for all types of music.

SCETV FastForward Videos

Adult education videos on-demand: GED and pre-GED, workplace essential skills, and videos for basic reading, writing, math and life skills.

Science Reference Center

Science Reference Center is a research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content, including biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. 

Small Business Reference Center

Small Business Reference Center is a resource for small business owners and those interested in starting a business, offering full-text periodicals and reports, sample business plans, U.S. tax forms, videos and reference books. 

SocINDEX with Full Text

SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for many sociology journals.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text

SPORTDiscus with Full Text covers sports and sports medicine journals and providing full text for hundreds of journals, covering exercise science, kinesiology, nutrition, physical fitness, physical therapy, sports and exercise.

STAT!Ref
STAT!Ref is a cross-searchable collection of electronic resources for healthcare professionals, including Anatomy & Physiology Online, AAFP Conditions A-Z, Stedman's Medical Dictionary, and MedCalc 3000.

STAT!Ref Anatomy & Physiology Online

This online resource covers all a student needs to know and learn for a 2 semester Anatomy & Physiology course.

StreamlineSC / Learn360

StreamlineSC includes over 1,500 educational programs created by the State Department of Education and ETV, and over 100,000 videos and clips from Learn360 streaming videos. Includes lesson plans geared to national standards.

Teacher Reference Center

Teacher Reference Center provides the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

TOPICsearch

TOPICsearch contains diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information. 

Vocational and Career Collection

Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public.

Women's Studies International

Women’s Studies International covers the core disciplines in women’s studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research.

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