Database Descriptions
Access
World News
Full-Text. Find current and archived news articles from nearly
2,000 newspapers and other news sources from all over the world.
A New Nation Votes – American Election Returns 1787-1825
Full-Text. A searchable collection of election returns from the
earliest years of American democracy.
Biography Reference Bank
Full-Text. Provides biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images. Includes interviews, essays, book and performance reviews, speeches, and obituaries. Search by name or browse by ethnicity, gender, place of origin, profession, or subject.
Business
and Company Resource Center
Full-Text. Assembles detailed company and industry news and
information. Features company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment
reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
CIAO
(Columbia International Affairs Online)
Full-Text. A comprehensive source for theory and research in
international affairs. Publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward
that includes working papers from university research institutes, foundation-funded
research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy
briefs. CIAO is also widely-recognized source for teaching materials including
original case studies written by leading international affairs experts, course
packs of background readings for history and political science classes, and
special features. Updated monthly.
Catholic
Periodical and Literature Index
Full-Text. Includes indexed citations to articles published
in Roman Catholic periodicals, papal documents, church promulgations and books
about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic
publishers. Produced by American Theological Library Association and the Catholic
Library Association.
Computer
Source
Full-Text. Provides the latest information and current trends
in high technology, covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial
intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.
Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select
Full-Text. An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary
authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of
principal works and sources for further study.
Criminal
Justice Abstracts
Abstracts. Criminal Justice Abstracts provides comprehensive
coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, extensive
coverage of books, and unparalleled access to reports from government and nongovernmental
agencies. For each document, an informative summary of the findings, methodology,
and conclusions is provided.
Directory
of Open Access Journals
Full-Text. Provides free online access to over 700 quality
controlled scientific and scholarly journals representing all subjects
and languages.
ECONLIT
Full-Text. ECONLIT, the American Economic Association's
electronic database, is a source of references to economic literature.
It provides comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets,
econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics,
monetary theory, urban economics and much more. Records include abstracts
of books, journal articles, and working papers published by the Cambridge
University Press.
Ethnic
NewsWatch
Full-Text. Provides articles from newspapers, magazines
& periodicals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America and
from international publications.
Directory
of Open Access Journals
Full-Text. Provides free online access to over 700 quality
controlled scientific and scholarly journals representing all subjects
and languages.
GroveArt
Full-Text. Compiles reference resources for all aspects
of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. Updated
quarterly.
Hoover's
Online
Full-Text. Amasses company, industry, and market intelligence
information on public and private companies worldwide. Updated continuously.
Index
Theologicus
Citations only. Contains more than 163,000 bibliographical
references from articles in more than 600 international theological journals,
as well as Festschriften and conference publications.
Issues
& Controversies
Full-Text. A comprehensive online source of up-to-date, in-depth
and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of
the day.
Literary Index
Citations only. Find entries on authors and literary works in
reference works published by Gale. Search by title of literary work, author name,
nationality, birth date, or death date. Works currently in the ODU Library reference
collection that are indexed in this database include the following: African
Writers, American Writers, British Writers, Children’s
Literature Review, Contemporary American Dramatists, Contemporary
Women Poets, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Drama Criticism,
Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Gay & Lesbian
Literature, Harlem Renaissance, Latin American Writers,
Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, Short Story Criticism,
Something About the Author, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism,
and World Poets.
Masterplots Complete 2000
Full-Text. ; when prompted, click Open to access the file.
Coverage includes over 13,000 critical essays on published works. Provides
synopses of plays, character profiles, and brief author biographies including
lists of major works.
MedlinePlus
Full-Text. This database is a wealth of good health information
from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine.
Both health professionals and consumers can access it for information
that is authoritative and up-to-date. MedlinePlus has extensive information
from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over
650 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians,
a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in
Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs,
health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical
trials. MedlinePlus is updated daily.
Mental
Measurements Yearbook
Full-Text. Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series. First published by Oscar K. Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable judgments and informed selection decisions about the increasingly complex world of testing. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present.
Morningstar
Library Edition
Full-Text. This database offers three main services for
stocks and mutual funds: 1) Identify stocks or mutual funds that meet
your needs, 2) Delve into a stock or mutual fund you are interested in-
and find out what analysts have to say about that investment, or 3) input
two or more stocks and/or mutual funds to see how they work together as
a portfolio and print your results.
NewsBank
NewsFile Collection
Full-Text. The NewsBank NewsFile Collection contains research
information from a variety of news sources on important contemporary issues
and events related to Social Science, Science and Health, Arts, Literature,
People, and Sports dating back to 1992. Includes maps, illustrations, charts,
tables and more.
New
Testament Abstracts
Full-Text. New Testament Abstracts is a product of a partnership
between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. The database is an indispensable
research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students
of the New Testament and its historical milieu. The database contains more than
33,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 12,600 book abstracts, and
50 software abstracts. Each year an additional 2,150 articles from more than
500 periodicals in numerous languages are selected for inclusion. In addition,
nearly 850 current books are also summarized annually. Article coverage in the
database dates back to 1985.
NYPL
Digital Gallery
Images. New York Public Library Digital Gallery provides
access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed
rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including
illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints
and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
Old
Testament Abstracts
Full-Text. Old Testament Abstracts is a product of a partnership between ATLA and
the Catholic Biblical Association. The database features indexing and abstracts for journal
articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Content
from over 450 journals is covered. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the
original work. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and
much more. Coverage in the database dates back to 1978.
Philosopher's
Index
Abstracts. Provides indexing and abstracts from books
and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social
philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the
philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language. Coverage from 1940 to
present day.
Professional
Development Collection
Full-Text. Provides a highly specialized collection of electronic
information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and
education researchers. This collection offers information on everything from
children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice.
Includes full text for Chronicle of Higher Education, Educational
Leadership, Journal of Education, Journal of Higher Education,
Journal of Learning Disabilities, Theory Into Practice, and
nearly 520 high quality education journals. This database also contains more
than 200 educational reports.
Project Muse
Full-Text. Provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full text
of more than 200 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences,
and mathematics.
Proquest
Religion
Full-Text. Contains millions of articles originally published
in magazines, newspapers, and journals. To search the Religious Periodicals
collection follow these three steps, 1) select the 'Collections' icon,
2) check the box next to 'Religious Periodicals', and 3) click 'Continue.'
PsycCRITIQUES
Full-Text. Weekly reviews of books and films published by the American Psychological Association. In addition to the latest releases, this database contains a ten-year backfile of Contemporary Psychology book reviews, browsable by author/editor, book/film title, or publication year.
PubMed
Full-Text. PubMed is a health database service of the
National Library of Medicine that includes over 15 million citations for
biomedical articles back to the 1950s. These citations are from MEDLINE
and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites
providing full-text articles and other related resources.
Reference
Universe
Index & Citations. A database of article titles and
back-of-the-book indexes for subject encyclopedias and reference works.
Designed to help you find the most relevant, authoritative reference works
of interest to you.
SPORTDiscus
Full-Text. Provided by the Sport Information Resource
Centre, SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, coverage of sport, fitness and
related disciplines. This database contains over 650,000 records with
journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800. The content also consists
of multi-disciplinary, international references from journal and magazine
articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more.
Social
Work Abstracts
Abstracts. The Social Work Abstracts database, produced by
the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., contains more than 45,000
records, spanning 1977 to the present, from social work and other related journals
on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance
abuse, legislation, community organization, and more.
Standard
& Poor's Net Advantage
Full-Text. Gives quick location of investment
and market information by accessing the data contained in up to
thirteen influential Standard & Poor's publications. Updated
continuously.
Tests in Print
Index & Abstracts. A comprehensive bibliography to all
known commercially available tests currently in print in the English language.
Information includes test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test
acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication dates,
and test authors. Tests in Print also guides readers to critical, candid test
reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) series.
World
Shakespeare Bibliography Online
Index & Citations. The World Shakespeare
Bibliography Online consists of a comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related
scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide
between 1963 and 2006. Containing over 107,000 annotated entries,
this collected information is a helpful tool for anyone engaged
in research on Shakespeare or early modern England.
