Library Research Databases

Databases by publisher

EBSCO An easy-to-use interface to EBSCOhost databases including PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES and more.  Advantages to this database include being able to create an account and save searches.  Can also limit to full text and/or peer-reviewed journal articles

ProQuest ProQuest Dissertations and Theses provides full text to almost all materials.  ABI-Inform is a great database for those in the Business/Industrial Organizational field.

OVID: We have access via OVID to three important full text journals: Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation

Web of Science: Hosts our subscription to the multidisciplinary database, Social Sciences Citation Index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. Most items covered by this publisher are not currently available in full text but may be requested through inter-library loan.

Lexis Nexis Database designed specifically for those in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets

Worldcat Check this database for books and other materials held in libraries throughout the world.

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Multi-discipline databases

Academic Search Complete: Covers a wide range of academic fields, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text of thousands of journal titles, this database provides access to other publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. (EBSCO)

ArticleFirst: Indexes articles from the table of contents of nearly 12,500 journals, along with a list of libraries holding the journal title. This database is not full-text. (OCLC)

Clase and Periodica: CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIÓDICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. This database is not full-text. (OCLC)

Electronic Collections Online: A collection of article abstracts from over 5000 scholarly journals across multiple disciplines. Coverage starts from 1995. This database is not full text. (OCLC)

OmniFile Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson): Articles are available from over 3000 publications across all disciplines in this full-text only database, many of which are peer-reviewed. (EBSCO)

PapersFirst: An index of over 580,000 papers covering multiple disciplines that have been presented at conferences worldwide. This database is not full text. (OCLC)

ProceedingsFirst: An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings. This database is not full text (OCLC)

Social Sciences Citation Index(Web of Science): A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. This database is not full text.

Worldcat: This database holds bibliographic records for millions of books and other materials held in libraries throughout the world. This database is not full-text. (OCLC)

Digital Commons Network: Provides full-text open access to 600,000+ peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work from hundreds of universities and colleges. This constantly growing body of publications is curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, and represents thousands of disciplines and subject areas.

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E-Book Collections

eBook Collection: Search and view the full text of eBooks. This database used to be called NetLibrary. (EBSCO)

PsycBOOKS: Includes over 38,000 chapters in PDF from over 2,500 books, published by APA and other publishers dating from the 1600s.  More than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology. (EBSCO)

Ebrary: Offers e-books from trusted publishers in all academic subject areas along with powerful research tools with Academic Complete™

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Business & Industry

ABI/INFORM Complete: Features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country-and industry-focused reports and data. Also includes full-text sources from ABI/INFORM Global, Dateline, and Trade & Industry (ProQuest)

Business Source Premier: Provides full text coverage of more than 2,300 journal titles in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. (EBSCO)

Regional Business News: Contains full text coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. (EBSCO)

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Dissertations and Theses

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: Offers doctoral dissertations and master’s theses published by students at the Chicago School and around the world. (ProQuest)

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Education

ERIC: The Education Resource Information Center provides full text access to education literature and resources. (EBSCO)

Professional Development Collection: Designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of full text education journals and reports. (EBSCO)

NEW: The Chronicle of Higher Education: An online source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.

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Health and Medicine

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: Contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare. (EBSCO)

Consumer Health Complete: Provides full text content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. (EBSCO)

Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE): Includes abstracts of published systematic reviews on the effects of health care from around the world.  This database is not full-text. (EBSCO)

Health Source: Consumer Edition: Features access to the full text of a collection of consumer health publications. (EBSCO)

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: Focuses on many medical disciplines. This database includes Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names. (EBSCO)

MEDLINE with Full Text: Provides comprehensive full text access to medical journals, providing authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. (EBSCO)

NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED): Provides access to information on the costs and effects of drugs, treatments and procedures. This database is not full text. (EBSCO)

AHFS Consumer Medication Information: Published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, AHFS includes more than a thousand drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers and has been a Top Ten Award Winner in the Department of Health and Human Services National Consumer Education Materials Contest.  (EBSCO)

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News

LexisNexis Academic: provides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications. News coverage includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources.

ABI/INFORM Complete : Features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country-and industry-focused reports and data. Also includes full-text sources from ABI/INFORM Global, Dateline, and Trade & Industry (ProQuest)

Military & Government Collection: Contains full text access to academic journals and current news pertaining to all branches of the military. (EBSCO)

Newspaper Source: Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 U.S. & international newspapers. (EBSCO)

Regional Business News: Incorporates more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. (EBSCO)

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Psychology

PEP ArchiveA source of peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles from the field of psychoanalysis. (EBSCO)

PsycARTICLES: Contains the full-text of peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology from 1894. (EBSCO)

PsycCRITIQUES: A database of full-text book reviews featuring current scholarly and professional books in psychology. (EBSCO)

PsycINFO: A resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. This database is not full text. (EBSCO)

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Tests, Trials, and Methodology

Cochrane Controlled Trials Register: A bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration. Included are reports published in conference proceedings and in many other sources not currently listed in MEDLINE or other bibliographic databases. This database provides links to full text in other databases. (EBSCO)

Cochrane Methodology Register: A bibliography of publications which report on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials. This database is not full text. (EBSCO)

Health Technology Assessments (HTA): This full text collection provides details of completed and ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions). Contains ongoing and completed research based on trials, questionnaires and economic evaluations. (EBSCO)

Mental Measurements Yearbook: provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Includes Tests in Print; a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. (EBSCO)

Grant and Funding Opportunities

Chicago School’s Office of Sponsored Programs Chicago School’s Office that specializes in funding opportunities.

COS Pivot Database of grant and funding opportunities, searchable by topic.  Also includes a database of current scholars and their research interests.

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