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Online Databases: Subject Listing

Databases grouped by broad subject to assist in focusing an information search. Do not limit yourself to a specific category, however. Consult "General or Multidisciplinary" databases, or browse all databases alphabetically using the A-Z Listing

If you are an off-campus user you will be prompted to login using Name and Barcode Number from your Milligan College ID card the first time you select a database from the list.

General or Multidisciplinary
Arts & Theatre
Business & Economics
Communications, Journalism & Information Science
Education
English, Literature & Language Arts
History
Music
Nursing, Medicine & Occupational Therapy
Political Science, Government & Law
Psychology, Anthropology & Sociology
Religion & Philosophy
Science, Mathematics & Technology
Sports & Sports Science

General or Multidisciplinary  
Academic OneFile Extensive bibliographic and full text coverage from professional and peer-reviewed journals, news sources and reference works. Subjects include the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, etc.
Biography Resource Center Biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
General OneFile Multidisciplinary periodical and news information with extensive full text coverage.
General Reference Center Gold Integrated set of full text general interest sources, including magazines, newspaper articles, business and industry journals, children's magazines, almanacs, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and reference books.
JSTOR Digital archive of core scholarly journals covering numerous disciplines, starting with the very first issues and continuing to a date of between 3 and 5 years prior to the most current published issue.    
Points of View Reference Center Full text essay database of current issue topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), and counterpoint (opposing argument). Essays are supplemented with journal and newspaper articles, primary source documents, and images. Off-campus access requires separate login: username: elvis / password elvis.
Southern Life Journal articles relating to Southern life, culture, personalities and history culled from Gale's Academic OneFile and General OneFile.

Arts & Theatre

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ARTstor An image archive documenting artistic traditions across many times and cultures, embracing architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. You will need to disable your browser's pop-up blocker to launch the online image viewer.
Humanities International Complete Includes all data from Humanities International Index plus full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. All aspects of the humanities are covered, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
JSTOR Digital archive of core scholarly journals covering numerous disciplines, starting with the very first issues and continuing to a date of between 3 and 5 years prior to the most current published issue.
Business & Economics

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Business Source Elite Indexes bibliographic and full text journal literature covering business, management, economics, banking, finance, and accounting.
General Business File ASAP Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.
Hoover's Online Up-to-date business information on more than 12 million U.S. and non-U.S. companies, industries, and the people who run them.
JSTOR Digital archive of core scholarly journals covering numerous disciplines, starting with the very first issues and continuing to a date of between 3 and 5 years prior to the most current published issue.
LexisNexis Academic Largely full text database compiled specifically for the news, business and legal research needs of academic institutions. The legal component is comprehensive and current, consisting of federal and state case law, statues, secondary sources such as law reviews, and state legal materials.
Regional Business News Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage A comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering online access to popular Standard & Poor's research products such as Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, The Outlook, Mutual Fund Reports among others.
Communications, Journalism & Information Science

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Custom Newspapers Selected article and cover-to-cover full text to over 140 U.S. and international source newspapers.
LexisNexis Academic Largely full text database compiled specifically for the news, business and legal research needs of academic institutions. The legal component is comprehensive and current, consisting of federal and state case law, statues, secondary sources such as law reviews, and state legal materials.
LISTA Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) is a bibliographic database providing coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management.
National Newspaper Index Offers indexing and abstracts for five major national newspapers: The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. The New York Times Book Review and The New York Times Magazine.
Tennessee Newspapers Collection Full text coverage to current and archival issues of four major Tennessee newspapers: Chattanooga Times-Free Press, The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal, Knoxville News Sentinel, and The (Nashville) Tennessean.
Education

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Academic OneFile Extensive bibliographic and full-text coverage from professional and peer-reviewed journals, news sources and reference works. Subjects include the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, etc.
Education Research Complete The definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
ERIC Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC is the world's largest source of education information, containing abstracts of documents and journal articles, including an increasing number of full text documents on education research and practice going back to 1966.
JSTOR Digital archive of core scholarly journals covering numerous disciplines, starting with the very first issues and continuing to a date of between 3 and 5 years prior to the most current published issue.
Professional Collection Professional-oriented full text articles covering a variety of topics for teachers and educators, including health and fitness, school law, drug and alcohol abuse, learning disabilities, sports, arts and humanities, social sciences, and psychology.
English, Literature & Language Arts

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Humanities International Complete Includes all data from Humanities International Index plus full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. All aspects of the humanities are covered, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
Informe Spanish language database providing abstracts and full text articles from a full array of the Spanish language journals and newspapers.
JSTOR Digital archive of core scholarly journals covering numerous disciplines, starting with the very first issues and continuing to a date of between 3 and 5 years prior to the most current published issue.
Literature Resource Center Includes criticism, biographies, bibliographies, work overviews and explications, web sites, periodical articles, compare and contrast pages, full text author's works, and reading lists.
MLA International Bibliography Produced by the Modern Language Association. Bibliographic coverage in literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.
What Do I Read Next? A listing of recommended titles, plot summaries, and awards information to help users uncover new reading adventures, find long-remembered favorites, and discover award-winning titles.
History

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American Civil War: Letters and Diaries

A primary source archive of letters and diaries from the American Civil War period, including broad perspectives from the North, South and foreign observers.

Early American Imprints (1639-1800) The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America. Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans.
Early Encounters in North America Letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters of people, cultures and environments in North America spanning the period 1601 to present.
Humanities International Complete Includes all data from Humanities International Index plus full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. All aspects of the humanities are covered, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
International Medieval Bibliography The world's leading interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500. All articles are classified with full bibliographical details and subject classifications and indexing familiar to medievalists.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance Citations of books, essays and journal material, continuously updated, for the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Included is the International Directory of Scholars (IDS), and Iter Italicum (1995), an online version of Paul Oskar Kristeller's finding list of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts.
JSTOR Digital archive of core scholarly journals covering numerous disciplines, starting with the very first issues and continuing to a date of between 3 and 5 years prior to the most current published issue.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries Includes the immediate experiences of women as recorded in diaries and letters dated from Colonial times to the present. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, and many geographical regions.
Music

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JSTOR Digital archive of core scholarly journals covering numerous disciplines, starting with the very first issues and continuing to a date of between 3 and 5 years prior to the most current published issue.
NAXOS Music Library Searchable full-content streaming audio music database. Users can also browse by musical genre, category, and educational content. Limited to five (5) simultaneous users. For Milligan College music education, please do not use for casual listening.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature International Repertory of Music Literature (RILM) is a comprehensive, ongoing guide to publications on music from all over the world.
Nursing, Medicine & Occupational Therapy

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Anatomy TV A dynamic human anatomy resource providing 3D visuals, animations and concise text for use in health care education. Limited to 15 simultaneous users. Please try again later if you are denied access.
CINAHL Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) provides authoritative bibliographic (and significant full text) coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health, including occupational therapy.
The Cochrane Library A collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Full database searching is enabled in this free version. However, access is limited to citations and abstracts.
Health and Wellness Resource Center Up-to-date reference material as well as full text periodicals and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources.
Health Reference Center Academic Indexes journals containing consumer health information, many in full text. Also includes other health resources such as pamphlets, entries from medical reference works, and topical overviews of various health related subjects.
Health Source: Consumer Edition Full text access to consumer health periodicals, pamphlets and reference books. Includes books published by the People's Medical Society, Clinical Reference Systems reports, Stedman's Medical Dictionary, and the Clinical Pharmacology database.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Indexed and full text scholarly and peer-reviewed journal coverage on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health.
Micromedex Healthcare Series Offered as a complimentary service by Thomson Micromedex to students and faculty in academic institutions with medical, nursing and pharmacy programs. Provides quick and reliable clinically-based information on drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, patient education, and alternative medicine. Also includes mobileMICROMEDEX, which enables users to download information onto a Palm or PocketPC handheld device.
OT Search Bibliographic database from the American Occupational Therapy Association, indexing items covering a wide array of information related to occupational therapy as well as allied health, biomedical and psychosocial literature.
PubMed Central U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Political Science, Government & Law

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JSTOR Digital archive of core scholarly journals covering numerous disciplines, starting with the very first issues and continuing to a date of between 3 and 5 years prior to the most current published issue.
LexisNexis Academic Largely full text database compiled specifically for the news, business and legal research needs of academic institutions. The legal component is comprehensive and current, consisting of federal and state case law, statues, secondary sources such as law reviews, and state legal materials.
Military & Intelligence Database The content in this database is part of General OneFile. This link provides an initial layer to narrow your search.
Polling the Nations A compilation of more than 14,000 surveys covering a broad range of issues, conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries from 1986 to the present.
SYBWorld Up-to-date, authoritative, and reliable information on global affairs, with comprehensive coverage of government and politics, geography, history, economics, social policy and culture for all 192 countries.
Psychology, Anthropology & Sociology

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JSTOR Digital archive of core scholarly journals covering numerous disciplines, starting with the very first issues and continuing to a date of between 3 and 5 years prior to the most current published issue.
Polling the Nations A compilation of more than 14,000 surveys covering a broad range of issues, conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries from 1986 to the present.
PsycARTICLES Full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific journals in psychology from the American Psychological Association (APA) and allied organizations.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection Full text and bibliographic coverage on topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
PsycINFO Bibliographic database from the American Psychological Association, contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations relating to psychology and related disciplines.
SocINDEX with Full Text NEW! Comprehensive bibliographic and full text sociology research database, including journal articles, monographs, and conference papers.
Religion & Philosophy

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ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials Produced by the American Theological Library Association (ATLA), indexing leading journals, many full text, in the various fields and disciplines of Religion.
Christian Periodical Index Indexes selected publications from the broad spectrum of knowledge. Coverage is representative of the major doctrinal positions within evangelical Christianity.
Humanities International Complete Includes all data from Humanities International Index plus full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. All aspects of the humanities are covered, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
JSTOR Digital archive of core scholarly journals covering numerous disciplines, starting with the very first issues and continuing to a date of between 3 and 5 years prior to the most current published issue.
Religion & Philosophy Database Includes articles from magazines and journals on religion, philosophy, archaeology, and anthropology, and covers the impact of religion on culture. Many articles are full text.
Science, Mathematics & Technology

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American Chemical Society Journals Browse or search contents pages and abstracts to all issues of 39 journals published by the American Chemical Society. Access full text articles from 1996 to present in a majority of these titles.
Anatomy TV A dynamic human anatomy resource providing 3D visuals, animations and concise text for use in health care education. Limited to 15 simultaneous users. Please try again later if you are denied access.
Computer Database Computer-related product introductions, news and reviews of hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.
InfoTrac Science Indexed and full text science journal articles culled from Gale's Academic OneFile and General OneFile.
JSTOR Digital archive of core scholarly journals covering numerous disciplines, starting with the very first issues and continuing to a date of between 3 and 5 years prior to the most current published issue.
MathSciNet Published by the American Mathematical Society. A carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts, bibliographic information, and full text articles for much of the mathematical sciences literature.
Sports & Sports Science

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Academic OneFile Extensive bibliographic and full text coverage from professional and peer-reviewed journals, news sources and reference works. Subjects include the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, etc.
Anatomy TV A dynamic human anatomy resource providing 3D visuals, animations and concise text for use in health care education. Limited to 15 simultaneous users. Please try again later if you are denied access.

Updated July 24, 2008. Send comments or problems to gfdaught @ milligan.edu.

 

 

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