General Information
To access the electronic databases you can click on the hypertext link, or from the library homepage select Articles | Research Guides. The hypertext link provided will take you to the A-Z List and you will have to select your database from there.
Journal List A-Z list of the library's periodical collection. Holding information for almost 16,000 full text periodical titles.
For review sources please see GSLIS
Review Sources. For a subject
guide devoted to GSLIS
click here. For additional help in selecting or using these resources please
ask a reference librarian.
Databases: The following list of databases represents only
some of the resources available in a discipline. The are sources for journal
and newspaper articles. Click here for a more complete
listing.
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Full text, indexes and abstracts are provided for
8,035 journals in the collection. This database offers information in
nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities,
education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language
and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies
and more.
Biography Reference Bank
Contains biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images. It contains the full text of the articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books published by H. W. Wilson, including all the articles from all volumes of Current Biography, the World Author Series, Nobel Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, American Reformers, and numerous biographical books on musicians and composers throughout history. Also included are thousands of biographies from other respected publishers, including Macmillan UK, Greenwood, Houghton Mifflin, Oxford University Press and Harvard University Press. More than 5,000 new biographies from American National Biography licensed from Oxford University Press have just been added. In addition to the full text biographies, Biography Reference Bank contains millions of magazine citations (many of which contain full-text) from all of the Wilson Indexing Databases, including all citations from Biography Index Database after 1984, as well as thousands of links to book review citations, including review excerpts and full text reviews from Book Review Digest Plus.
Encyclopaedia Britannica / Britannica Online
Complete text from printed version & links to web sites
First Monday
First Monday is a peer-reviewed journal on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. Since its start in May 1996, First Monday has published 499 papers in 92 issues; these papers were written by 605 different authors. 1996- present.
FirstSearch
A wide variety of databases indexing and providing full text on a number of subjects and disciplines.
Humanities Full Text
The database indexes, abstracts and delivers the full text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more. 1995-present
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Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe
News, business, medical and legal information, with full text and abstracts. Includes foreign news sources, national and regional newspapers, (not the Chicago Tribune) regional U.S. news services, radio and television transcripts, federal and state case law, medical, legislative and industry news, annual reports from SEC and many other sources. Newspapers are updated several times daily, and wire services hourly. Coverage dates vary.
Also see Reference:
o Biographical Information - Politicians, business executives, and more
o Country Profiles - concise facts and statistics about countries
o Polls & Surveys - from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
o Quotations - over 10,000 quotes from the famous and not-so-famous
o State Profiles - concise facts and statistics about each state
Library and Information Science Journals from Emerald Publishing
Provides full text articles and search interfaces to the journals from Emerald Publishing inlcuding: Collection Building, Electronic Resources Review, and Online Information Review. Coverage dates vary.
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text
Indexes articles and book reviews in more than 234 key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed. Full-text coverage begins in 1994.
Literature Resource Center
Full text information about authors and literature. Includes Contemporary Literary Criticism, Contemporary Authors, and Dictionary of Literary Biography. Dates Vary.
OmniFile Full Text Mega - Wilson
Contains all of the indexing, abstracting, and full text of these six Wilson databases:
Education Full Text
General Science Full Text
Humanities Full Text
Readers’ Guide Full Text
Social Sciences Full Text
Wilson Business Full Text
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
An illustrated collection of 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond. The biographies—of artists, scientists, writers, industrialists, performers, explorers, criminals, and eccentrics as well as politicians, church leaders, and soldiers, mariners, doctors, and lawyers—are written by experts and provide up-to-date scholarship but are also concise and readable. There are over 50,000 biographical articles in the Oxford DNB, and 9,294 cross-reference entries. There are no entries for living persons. 4 century BCE – present
Oxford English Dictionary
A historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. Dates Vary.
Periodical Abstracts
Multidisciplinary subject areas and topics. 1987-present.
Readers' Guide Full Text
A database containing comprehensive indexing and abstracting of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of selected periodicals. 1994-present.
Ulrichsweb
Web version of of Ulrich's Periodical Directory. This bibliographic database provides detailed information on serials published throughout the world.
Union List of Periodicals
Provides access to a compilation of the union lists provided by OCLC member libraries. These lists help you determine which libraries hold specific journal issues and other items. Available information includes: lists of titles, locations of libraries holding those titles, and specific information on coverage by each library. Coverage dates vary.
WilsonSelectPlus
WilsonSelectPlus is a collection of over 750,000 full-text articles drawn from over 1,600 magazines and journals. 1994 to the present.
World Almanac
Reference sources includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, statistics.
Catalog Instructions
If you have any trouble accessing any of the resources mentioned on this site, please ask for help at the Reference or Circulation Desks.
Dominican Library Online CatalogThe online catalog allows you to find books, cd-roms, magazines/journals, maps, music recordings, scores, and videos held by the Rebecca Crown Library
I-Share
You can search the holdings of all 65 ILCSO Libraries (including Dominican)
at one time by using this link
Remember: you can request available
items from the 65 ILSCO libraries. Reference books, videos and
reserve items may not be requested.
Internet Sites
American
Library Association
Association of College
& Research Libraries
Internet Library for Librarians
Librarians' Index to the Internet
Reference Reviews (Gale Group)