Databases by Subject
Troubleshooting Guide for database access
Allied Health and Human Services
ERIC - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full text documents (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).
Health Source: Consumer Edition - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Focusing on medical disciplines with emphasis on journal coverage of nursing and allied health issues. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)
LexisNexis Academic - Medical news, articles from medical and health journals and Medline® abstracts.
Art, Music, and Film
ARTstor - A digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences including a set of tools to view, present, and manage images.
Business
Business Source Elite - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Business journals in marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics, economics, and international business. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)
LexisNexis Academic - National and international newspapers, including the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Regional Business News - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the U.S. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)
World Data Analyst Online - (Encyclopedia Britannica) Current and historical statistics on countries of the world. Analyst features allow the creation of tables and charts which can be exported into spreadsheet software. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).
Education
Chronicle Campuswide - The online version of the weekly Chronicle of Higher Education.
Education Research Complete - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. The world’s largest and most complete collection of full text education journals. Includes indexing and abstracts for 1,700 journals, 830 full text journals, full text for 67 books, and numerous conference papers covering all levels of education from early childhood through higher education, all educational specialties, administration, policy, curriculum, and funding issues.
ERIC - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full text documents (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).
Professional Development Collection - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full-text journals for professional educators. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)
Teacher Reference Center - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. TRC indexes (no full text) over 260 journal titles with articles on K-12 education topics such as assessment, continuing education, current pedagogical research, curriculum development, instructional media, language arts, literacy standards, science and mathematics and more.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Encyclopedia Britannica Online Academic Edition - Updated for 2006, with new content specifically designed to meet the needs of college students. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)
Oxford English Dictionary - (Oxford University Press) The source for the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. Traces word usage through quotations, classic literature, specialist periodicals, film scripts and cook books.
General and Multidisciplinary
Associates Programs Source - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Full-text journals and books specifically for the research needs of two-year college students. Covering computer & data processing, CAD, cosmetology, paralegal studies, travel & tourism, and many other fields.
Credo Reference - A general reference collection with over 490 titles, covering every major subject
General OneFile - (Gale) Over 7,000 full-text titles from a variety of sources. OneFile covers diverse topics including the humanities, education, business, science, current events, art, politics, economics, social science, law, health care, computers, technology, environmental issues, and general interest topics. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)
MasterFILE Premier - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Multi-disciplinary, general interest periodicals including full-text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and photos, maps and flags. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).
NetLibrary - Provides online access to full-text books covering a wide range of subjects.
ProQuest - Contains over 2,500 magazines and scholarly journals on a wide range of subjects.
Student Resource Center - (Gale) Reference, magazines and journals, primary documents, and multimedia resources. Literary criticism, history, essays, critical analysis, biographies, timelines and science.
Newspapers
LexisNexis Academic - National and international newspapers, including the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Legal and medical research and reference (country and state profiles, polls and surveys, biography, and quotations).
Newspaper Source - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Full text national and international, full text television and news transcripts, and more than 200 regional newspapers. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)
Scholarly
Academic OneFile - (Gale) Peer-reviewed articles offering over 5,400 full-text journal titles, extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and more.
Academic Search Elite - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Multi-disciplinary database offering full text for nearly 1,850 scholarly journals. Covering social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)
ACLS E-Books - The American Council of Learned Societies' Humanities E-Book Collection has over 1,550 fully searchable books on subjects across the humanities.
First Search - Abstracts and Indexes only. Contact Library for full text availability. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)
JSTOR - An archival database of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The collection includes Arts and Sciences I-IV. Journal issues are not current; most titles are available after a 5-year delay.
Professional Development Collection - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full-text journals for professional educators. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)
History
ACLS E-Books - The American Council of Learned Societies' Humanities E-Book Collection has over 1,550 fully searchable books on subjects across the humanities.
Annals of American History Online - (Encyclopedia Britannica) Primary sources from authors who made and analyzed American history through speeches, writings, memoirs, poems, and interviews (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).
Historic Documents Online - (CQ Press) Searchable e-books of primary source documents including presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.
JSTOR - An archival database of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The collection includes Arts and Sciences I-IV. Journal issues are not current; most titles are available after a 5-year delay.
Information Technology
Business Source Elite - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Provides full text for nearly 1,100 business publications, including full text for nearly 500 peer-reviewed business publications.
Computer Database - (Gale) Computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.
Law
Arkansas Legal Index - An index of legal documents including the UALR Law Journal (PTC has 1984-2007), Arkansas Law Review (PTC has 1985-2007), and Arkansas Law Notes (PTC has 1985-2006). (Link provided with permission of the UALR – Pulaski County Law Library)
Legal Collection - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Legal topics, scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents and case studies. Current issues, studies, thoughts, and trends of the legal world. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)
LexisNexis Academic - Legal news, legal reviews, case law, codes and regulations and patent research.
VersusLaw - Appellate case law from all 50 states, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit Courts, Federal District Courts, state statutes and administrative codes.
JSTOR - An archival database of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The collection includes Arts and Sciences I-IV. Journal issues are not current; most titles are available after a 5-year delay.
Literary Reference Center - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. A full text database with literary criticism on authors and poets, author biographies, interviews and images of key literary figures from reference sources, books and literary journals.
Literature Resource Center - (Gale) Current and comprehensive literary criticism, biographies, and full-text articles and reference titles on authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes Twayne's Authors and Scribner's Writers Series which have in-depth articles on the lives and works of over 1,000 authors from around the world.
Student Resource Center - (Gale) Reference, magazines and journals, primary documents, and multimedia resources. Literary criticism, history, essays, critical analysis, biographies, timelines and science.
Political Science
ACLS E-Books - The American Council of Learned Societies' Humanities E-Book Collection has over 1,550 fully searchable books on subjects across the humanities.
Annals of American History Online - (Encyclopedia Britannica) Primary sources from authors who made and analyzed American history through speeches, writings, memoirs, poems, and interviews. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).
Historic Documents Online - (CQ Press) Searchable e-books of primary source documents including presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.
JSTOR - An archival database of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The collection includes Arts and Sciences I-IV. Journal issues are not current; most titles are available after a 5-year delay.
LexisNexis Academic - National and international newspapers, including the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Reference, country and state profiles, polls and surveys.
World Data Analyst Online - (Encyclopedia Britannica) Current and historical statistics on countries of the world. Analyst features allow the creation of tables and charts which can be exported into spreadsheet software. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).
Psychology
ERIC - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full text documents (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).
Health Source: Consumer Edition - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Focusing on medical disciplines with emphasis on journal coverage of nursing and allied health issues. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)
PsycARTICLES - (American Psychological Association) Peer-reviewed journals and chapters from selected American Psychological Association books and journals from 1988 to the present.
PsychiatryOnline - (American Psychiatry Publishing) Includes the DSM-IV-TR Library, full-text psychiatry journals, books and American Psychiatry Association guidelines.
Religion and Philosophy
ACLS E-Books - The American Council of Learned Societies' Humanities E-Book Collection has over 1,550 fully searchable books on subjects across the humanities.
JSTOR - An archival database of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The collection includes Arts and Sciences I-IV. Journal issues are not current; most titles are available after a 5-year delay.
Sciences and Mathematics
Greenfile - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, Greenfile offers over 600 titles with 295,000 records (full text for 4,600) from journals such as Bioscience and Conservation Biology.
Health Source: Consumer Edition - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Focusing on medical disciplines with emphasis on journal coverage of nursing and allied health issues. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)
JSTOR - An archival database of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The collection includes Arts and Sciences I-IV. Journal issues are not current; most titles are available after a 5-year delay.
Student Resource Center - (Gale) Reference, magazines and journals, primary documents, and multimedia resources. Literary criticism, history, essays, critical analysis, biographies, timelines and science.
World Data Analyst Online - (Encyclopedia Britannica) Current and historical statistics on countries of the world. Analyst features allow the creation of tables and charts which can be exported into spreadsheet software. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).
JSTOR - An archival database of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The collection includes Arts and Sciences I-IV. Journal issues are not current; most titles are available after a 5-year delay.
Spanish Language Resources
EBSCOhost Espanol - Spanish text version of the EBSCOhost databases. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)
Enciclopedia Juvenil - The Spanish language version of Britannica written for children. Includes a Spanish-English dictionary. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).
Planeta Saber - Encyclopedia Britannica in Spanish for the native Spanish speaker, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).
Speech Communication
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - (Gale) A social issues database providing viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
TOPICsearch - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Provides access to social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)
Technical and Industrial
ALLDATA Online - Automotive diagnostic, repair and estimating information. Available on campus only.
Business Source Elite - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Business publications. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)
LexisNexis Academic - Industry and market news.
Regional Business News - (EBSCOHost) Follow the link, then click on EBSCOHost Web to choose your database. Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the country-region place country-region (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)
Tractor-Trailer.net - (Works only with Internet Explorer 6 and above) Contains service and repair information for all Class 4 through 7 Tractors, Trailers, and Dry Vans from 1990 to current model year. (Only 30 users allowed at a time)