A-Z List of Electronic Resources
Unless otherwise indicated, this is a list of subscription-based electronic resources available to Truman students, faculty and staff. It includes periodical indexes and abstracts, selected electronic journal collections, encyclopedias, library catalogs, and other kinds of databases. For individual electronic journal titles, please do title searches on Truman's library catalog.
Academic. Also
called
LexisNexis Academic.
Provides a wide range of full-text news, business, legal, and reference
information.
Academic Search Elite (EBSCO). 1985+. A
multi-disciplinary database offering full text for over 1800 journals in all
areas of academic study.
ACM Digital Library.
All journals, transactions, conference proceedings, magazines, and newsletters
published by the ACM and affiliated organizations. Also includes the Guide to
Computing Literature, a bibliographic database that covers publications of the
ACM and of other publishers.
AGRICOLA.
1970+. Also free to the public at
National Agricultural Library's Gateway to AGRICOLA. Materials
relating to all aspects of agriculture.
AgeLine. Free database for information on social gerontology as well as aging-related research from psychology, sociology, social work, economics, public policy, and the health sciences.
Alt Healthwatch. 1990+. Alternative health database with full text coverage for more than 140 publications.
America: History and Life. Indexes history journals and some other publications covering the US and Canada.
American Chemical Society Legacy Archives. Searches full text of all ACS journals from 1879 on.
America's Historical Newspapers. Full-text collection of over 1000 U.S. historical newspapers. Divided into three collections: Series I (1690-1876), Series II (1758-1900), Series III (1829-1922). Part of the Readex Archive of Americana database.
L'Année
Philologique Online. Database published by the Société Internationale de
Bibliographie Classique covering volumes 30 to 73 with more than
480,000 bibliographic records.
Anthropological Index Online. Free database.
AnthroSource. From the American Anthropological Association, full text coverage of 32 journals covering various areas in anthropology
Art Full Text. 1984+. Indexes more than 400 key international arts periodicals and some other arts publications. Full text from 1997 onward is available for select publications.
Art Index Retrospective. 1929-1984. Coverage of older articles in international periodicals and journals in the arts.
ARTFL Project (Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)
ArticleFirst. 1990+. Indexes articles from nearly 12,000 journals of all disciplines.
Arts & Humanities Search (Arts & Humanities Citation Index)
ATLA Religion Database. 1949+.
Bioethics Literature Database
Free database. BELIT provides access
to about 320.000 records from the integrated German, American and French
databases. It is an extensive bibliographic directory of literature in the
area of bioethics unique world wide, containing references to monographs,
grey literature, legal documents, journal articles, newspaper articles and
book contributions.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index. (1 simultaneous user).
Biological Abstracts 1969+. (10 simultaneous users).
BioMed Central
(FULL TEXT)
Free database. Provides access to over 100 free peer-reviewed
journals in all areas of biology and medicine.
British Library Direct.
Search 20,000 journals for free. You can pay for individual articles, or
order them through your interlibrary loan service.
Business Source Premier(EBSCO). Full text coverage of over 8,000 business publications, dating as far back as 1922.
CCH Internet Tax Research Network (CCH Omnitax Library). Up to 35 simultaneous users.
Center for Research Libraries Catalog. A free site.
China Data Online.
1949+
Historical statistics as well as monthly and yearly macro-economic
data from the China Data Center. Password needed. Inquire at
the Reference Desk.
ChoiceReviewsOnline. Includes access to entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988, updated monthly. Reviews significant books and resources of interest to those in higher education.
CINAHL (EBSCO). Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health. Contains indexing and abstracts for over over 1700 current nursing and health journals. Also provides access to Pre-CINAHL, a companion database featuring rotating bibliographic information about new journal articles as they are being assigned indexed.
CIS Congressional Masterfile 1789-1982. On CD-ROM workstation in the PML Reference Department.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO). Full text articles from over 200 journals covering all areas of communication and media and indexing and abstracting for many more.
Company Dossier (Business section of LexisNexis Academic) includes:
- Business & Industry news
- Company Profiles
- Company Financial Information (Includes some Ratio Analysis)
- SEC Filings
- Accounting Literature
Congressional. Also called LexisNexis Congressional.
Credo Reference. Over 360 online reference titles in all subject areas. Allows cross-referencing between titles and expanding searches into the Truman catalog and other library resources.
Criminal Justice Periodical Index.
Dissertations & Theses. Obtain the full text of theses written at Truman State University, 1997+.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819. Full-text access to a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets, and broadsides from the early 1800s, based on Ralph R. Shaw's and Richard H. Shoemaker's "American Bibliography, 1801-1819. Part of the Readex Archive of Americana database.
EBSCOHost. Includes MasterFILE Premier (over 2,100 full text periodicals), Academic Search Elite (over 1,500 full text journals), Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (over 500 full text journals), and many others.
EconLit. Index of economic literature.
eHRAF World Cultures --Produced by Human Relations Area File, Yale University, this is a unique cross-cultural database currently covering 137 cultures; useful for many academic disciplines in the social sciences, humanities and medicine and any area concerned with cultural diversity. User guides can be accessed at www.yale.edu/hraf/userguides.html.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Energy Citations Database. 1948 +. Free database developed by the U.S. Department of Energy. This database contains bibliographic citations for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information. Disciplines of interest are: chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. It includes citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations and patents.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), 1966+
On the Web through
FirstSearch.
On the Web through the official
ERIC site, free to the public.
ERIC is a comprehensive database containing abstracts of journal
articles, reports, curriculum guides, conference proceedings, etc. It covers all
areas of education at all age and grade levels. ERIC Documents 1993+
are now freely available online. Documents before 1993 are in the library
on microfiche. The library's microfiche subscription ended with ED455358.
The ERIC database, as well as lesson plans, web sites and other
useful information, is available on the Web through
the Educator's Reference Desk, also free to the public. (ERIC
documents are not available at this site.
Europa World--Online version of the Europa World Year Book. Contains political and economic information on over 250 countries and territories and profiles of over 1650 international organizations.
FARS--Financial Accounting Research System. Available in most computer labs on campus.
FindArticles
(FULL TEXT)
Free database from LookSmart. Search and read 5.5 million
articles from over 900 publications in a variety of subject areas, from
American Demographics to Wrestling Digest.
FISonline--Formerly called Moody's Financial Information Service. Truman can access its weekly News Reports for Mergent Manuals.
General Science Abstracts. 1984+. Contains citations from more than 160 leading journals in science.
GEOBASE. Worldwide literature on geography and geology.
Google Scholar. Free database
GPO Catalog of Government Publications.
1975+
On the Web through
GPO Access,
1974+ Free to the public.
In print, 1895-1976 Reference Z 1223
A18 (under title
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications)
An index to publications of federal government agencies and departments,
compiled by the Government Printing Office.
Le Grand Robert: Dictionnaire Alphabetique et Analogique de la Langue Francaise. CD-ROM workstation.
Grove Music Online--Online version of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the definitive reference source for music
Health Source Consumer (EBSCO). Full text for over 190 journals in the health sciences and indexing and abstracting for more than 200 general health, nutrition, and health care magazines.
Health Source Nursing (EBSCO). Contains almost 600 full text scholarly journals in a variety of medical disciplines, and indexing and abstracting for over 800.
HighWire Press (FULL TEXT)
Largest archive of free full-text science journal articles.
Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
Historical Abstracts. Indexes world history journals and some other publications.
Homeland Security Digital Database. Collection of homeland security policy, strategy and organizational documents.
Human Relations Area Files (HRAF )
Microfiche Cabinet 59, Drawers 8-10
A microfiche collection of mostly primary source materials on cultures or
societies representing all major areas of the world; useful for cultural
comparisons or for studying all aspects of a particular culture. Portions
of this database, the
eHRAF Collection of Ethnography,
are available online.
Humanities Abstracts. 1984+. Contains citations from more than 465
periodicals in humanities.
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective. Indexing
of over 1200 periodicals, some going back as far as 1907. Also
has coverage of many important scientific journals up to the 1950s.
Ingenta. An online
articles delivery service, a table of contents database, and a keyword entry
index to nearly 20,000 periodicals. Free to the public to search.
Information Bridge.
Free database. Provides open source access to full-text and bibliographic
records of
Department of Energy
Research and development reports in phusics, chemistry, materials, biology,
environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and
information science, renewable energy, and other topics.
ITER: Gateway to the Renaissance
JSTOR. Archive of scholarly
journals. Truman campus has access to the Arts & Sciences I and II
collections, Ecology & Botany collection, and General Science collection.
Kansas City Star. Through
NewsBank (1991+).
LANCE Library Catalog.
Union catalog of libraries of 6 NE Missouri colleges including
Truman State University. Free to the public to search.
LexisNexis Academic.
Provides a wide range of full-text news, business, legal, and reference
information.
Library, Information Science & Technology (LISTA) (EBSCO). 1965+.
Indexing and abstracting for more than 600 periodicals as well as books,
research reports, and conference proceedings in the field of library science and
information technology.
Literature Resource Center (LRC) Up-to-date biographical information,
overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers
from around the world in all disciplines and time periods.
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO). 1984+. Full text coverage of
more than 2100 general reference publications in all subject areas, with full
text holdings dating back as far as 1975. Also includes full text
reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection
of photographs, maps, and flags.
Masters Theses at Truman State University
MathSciNet
(Mathematical Reviews)
MEDLINE.
1965+. Also free to the public from the National Library of
Medicine's PubMed. Abstracted
articles from 3,500 medical journals.
MEDLINEplus Health Information.
Free site from the National Library of Medicine for finding authoritative
consumer health information including searches of MEDLINE, ClincicalTrials.gov,
and NIH research studies. Includes full-text drug information, a medical
encyclopedia, and the latest health news.
Mergent Online
(Also called FISOnline). Formerly called Moody's Financial
Information Service. Truman can access its weekly News
Reports for
Mergent Manuals.
Military and Government Collection (EBSCO). Current
news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Provides
full text for more than 300 journals and indexing and abstracting for more than
400
MLA Bibliography. 1926+. A bibliography of scholarship in literature,
language, linguistics, and folklore. Contains over 1.8 million citations from
more than 4400 journals and series and 1000 book publishers. About 75% are
language and literature journal articles.
MLA Directory of Periodicals. Detailed descriptions of over 7100
journals, including information on editorial contacts, publication frequency,
circulation, subscription prices, and submission guidelines.
MOBIUS.
Combined catalog of Missouri academic libraries. Free to the public to
search.
Monthly Bulletin of Statistics---Economic
and social statistics of the countries in the world, collected by the United
Nations.
MUSE, also
called Project MUSE.
(Note: Truman campus only has access to journals from Johns Hopkins U Press.)
NASA
Astrophysics Data System - Free database. Collection of
indexes including
Astronomy and
Astrophysics (1,115,175 records), including 106,464 abstracts from
Planetary Sciences and Solar Physics journals;
Instrumentation (777,377 records), including 212,772 abstracts from
SPIE conference proceedings;
Physics and
Geophysics (2,035,073 records), including 380,005 abstracts from
APS
journals;
ArXiv Preprints
(332,683 records), consisting of all the papers published in the
ArXiv e-print archive
National Criminal Justice
Reference Service Abstracts
National Science Digital Library
(FULL TEXT)
New York Times
Article Archives 1851-the present. Indexes over 15
million articles published in the
New York Times from September 1851 to the present. Users can
search for specific articles by keyword or phrase, author, headline, date, or
date range. Searches may be limited to articles only or broadened to
include advertisements and other listings. Searching is free and
the full-text is available for purchase through this web site or you can use the
citation information to locate the articles on microfilm in Truman's library
collection. NewsBank. Full text
articles from the St Louis Post-Dispatch, the Kansas City Star and the
Springfield News-Leader as well as several national papers such as USA Today,
the Chicago Tribune, and the Christian Science Monitor. Also provides full
text from several popular magazines such as Entertainment Weekly, People, Sports
Illustrated, and Fortune.
NewspaperARCHIVE.com (FULL TEXT)
Newspaper Source (EBSCO). Selected full text for nearly 30 U.S.
and international newspapers as well as full text of television and radio news
transcripts and selected full text for over 200 regional U.S. newspapers. NTIS/DARTS: National
Technical Information System/Depository Access to Reports, Technical &
Scientific. Project to provide more than 240,000 technical and scientific
reports (published between 1964 and 2000) to selected depository libraries.
Truman is part of the pilot project. Access only in the library.
Inquire at the Reference Desk for login.
Open Access Publications
(FULL TEXT)
Open Science
Directory - full text science periodical articles
for free.
Opposing Viewpoints
Resource Center. Information on current social issues, including
viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine and newspaper articles,
primary source documents, statistics, images, podcasts, and other website links.
2 Simultaneous Users.
PapersFirst.
Index of papers presented at conferences.
Philosopher's Index (EBSCO) 1940+. (1 simultaneous user)
Physical Review Online Archive-
1893 - to present. A full text archive of articles from Physical
Review A-E, Physical Review Letters and Reviews of Modern Physics. POPLINE.
Population information online: abstracts of the worldwide literature on
population, family planning, and related health issues. Free database.
Primary Search (EBSCO). 1990+. Full text for more than 60
popular magazines for elementary school research.
ProceedingsFirst.
Index of conference publications.
Project MUSE. Full-text
titles from over 100 scholarly journals in the Basic Undergraduate Collection.
ProQuest Includes Criminal Justice Periodical Index and Wall
Street Journal. To search a specific database, click on "Collections" and choose
a search mode from "Search Methods".
PsycARTICLES. Full text access to over 50 journals of the American
Psychological Association (APA).
PsycINFO.
1887+. Psychology abstracts.
PubMED PubMED Central
(FULL TEXT)
Reader's Guide Abstracts.
1983+. Abstracts of articles from popular magazines.
Reader's Guide Retrospective. 1890-1982. Index
to older magazine articles.
Regional Business News (EBSCO). Full text coverage for
75 regional business journals, newspapers, and newswires from all
metropolitan and rural areas in the United States.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature.
1969+
Rock's Back Pages.
Archive of reviews, interviews, and feature stories on current and past rock
musicians from major music publications.
SciFinder Scholar - Chemical Abstracts. 1907+. (2 simultaneous users)
SciFinder Scholar provides access to several Chemical Abstracts Service
databases, including Chemical Abstracts, Registry, CASREACT, CHEMLIST, and
CHEMCAT. Users may search more than 19 million citations to the chemistry
literature by topic, author, CAS Registry Numbers, patent number, and CAS
abstract number. More than 22 million chemical substances may be searched by
chemical name, chemical structure, CAS Registry Numbers, and formula. Users can
also do substructure searching. This database is available to the public
only on computers no. 31, 32, 33 in the Reference area of the library.
SciFinder Scholar is not to be used for commercial purposes.
Science.gov (FULL TEXT)
Scientific American. Historical issues from 1846 to 1869 available
from Cornell University. Issues from 1993 to present available from
EBSCO.
Smoking & Health
Resource Library. Free database. "Abstracts of articles from
medical and professional journals; books and book chapters; dissertations;
reports; conference proceedings and conference papers; government documents from
federal, state, local, and foreign entities; fact sheets and policy documents
from U.S. and international nonprofit organizations; and other documents.
Social Science Abstracts. 1983+. Contains citations from more than 550
social science journals.
SocIndex with Full Text. A comprehensive sociology
research database with more than 1.9 million records and the full text for over
400 journals dating back to 1908. Also contains full text for more than
700 books and monographs and more than 6000 conference papers.
Sociological Abstracts. In print 1953-1963
SPIN/Scitation
1893+
Sport Discus (EBSCO). Comprehensive coverage of sport,
fitness and related disciplines provided by the Sport Information Resource
Center (SPIRS). Includes over 650,000 records of monographs and journal
articles going back as far as 1800.
Stat-USA.
Includes statistics from State of the Nation, GLOBUS and National Trade Data
Bank. 2 simultaneous users with password. Inquire at Reference Desk.
St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Through NewsBank (1989+).
Teacher Reference Center (TRC) TRUDEX. The Index to Truman State University
Publications. Free to the public to search.
Truman Library Catalog. Database
of holdings in Truman's Pickler Memorial Library. Free to the public.
Value Line Investment Survey.
Password needed. Inquire at Reference Desk.
Wall Street Journal.
Full text 1984+, abstract 1982+. To limit the search to a certain date, choose
"Guided Search".
Washington Post Articles Archive 1877 - the present -
Indexes articles published in the
Washington Post from 1877 to the
present. Users can search for specific articles by keyword or phrase,
author, headline, date, or date range. Searches may be limited to articles
only or broadened to include advertisements and other listings.
Searching is free
and the full-text is available for purchase through this web site or you can use
the citation information to locate the articles on microfilm in Truman's library
collection.
The World Almanac and Book of Facts
WorldCat.
Combined catalog of thousands of libraries.
WorldCat Dissertations. Catalog of theses and dissertations
contained in the WorldCat database. World
News Connection. 11/1994+. English translation of foreign news
broadcasting. Password needed. Inquire at Reference Desk.
LexisNexis Congressional.
Comprehensive US legislative information, including the full text of bills,
reports, testimony, public laws, the Congressional Record, and members biography
and voting records. Truman campus only has access to the base edition.
National Trade Data Bank (NTDB).
Included in Stat-USA. 2
simultaneous users with password. Inquire at Reference Desk.
On the Web. Free database.
Contains summaries of more than 160,000 publications on criminal justice,
including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports,
journal articles, and unpublished research. Subject areas include corrections,
courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics,
and victims of crime. Covers items published from early 1970's to the present.
Free database. A digital library of "exemplary resources
collections and services, organized in support of science education at all
levels." You may ask a science, math, or technology question through the
AskNSDL
question and answer service.
Naxos Music Library
An extensive collection of Classical, Jazz, World, Folk, and Chinese music
recordings. Users can also read notes about the music and biographical
information about the composers while listening to the recordings.
The link takes you to the free special collections portion of the archive.
Includes newspapers from the 18th century to the present. A membership fee
is required for searching the complete archive.
An open access publication is a publication that
provides immediately free online access to all users
worldwide.
Pro-and-Con.
Searchable database of the articles appearing in the Congressional Digest,
Supreme Court Debates, and International Debates.
Free site for searching MEDLINE through the National Library of
Medicine.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital
archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Free site which provides a gateway to information resources at
U.S. government science agencies. Includes selected web sites and databases of
technical reports, journal articles, conference proceedings, and other published
materials.
List
of Participating Agencies
General Collection (Non-Circulating) HM 1 S67
Covers more than 1,900 journals in sociology, social work, and other social
sciences.
One million documents from scholarly journals, magazines, conference
proceedings, and other special publications from prestigious scientific
societies and technical publishers.
A free EBSCO database,
indexing/abstracting database to approximately 280 popular periodicals and 1,300
book chapters related to K-12 education. Users may save, e-mail, or
download citations and abstracts. Some full-text articles will be
available because of our subscriptions to other EBSCO databases.
