Electronic Resources Gateway

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1985-

Description: Multi-disciplinary database providing full text for 1,800+ publications (including nearly 1,300 peer-reviewed journals). Indexing and abstracts provided for all 3,200+ journals in the collection. Full text information dating as far back as 1985.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1954-

Description: Provides abstracts of scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present and citations to book reviews, media reviews and dissertations.

Users: Licensed for 6 simultaneous users.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1949-

Description: Comprehensive online database supporting religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. Compilation of three print indexes: Religion Index One: Periodicals (RIO), Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBBR). Provides citations on such topics as Biblical studies, world religions, Church history and religious perspectives on social issues. Includes links to 50+ online full-text scholarly religion periodicals in the ATLAS (American Theological Library Association Serials) project.

Users: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.

* Database coverage list for ATLA Religion Database
* List of journals available in full text via ATLAS (American Theological Library Association Serials) project
* Search tips for ATLA Religion Database
* Use "ATLA Religion Database on CD-ROM" to search Methodist Reviews Index 1818-1985 (not available in online web version of ATLA Religion Database)

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: Methodist reviews index 1818-1985

Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download

Description: The CD-ROM version of ATLA religion database includes indexing and citations from Methodist reviews index 1818-1985.

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Coverage: Website as view on July 7, 2004

Description: Chicago Fact Finder is a searchable database containing Census information for Chicago, Cook County, and the six-county metropolitan area. A unique additional feature is that it also provides detailed information about the people who live in each of Chicago's 77 community areas and in 59 towns and villages of suburban Cook County.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1960s-

Description: Comprehensive bibliographic index of information about Mexican-American topics (coverage from the 1960s to the present and selective coverage dating back to the early 1900s). Records added since 1992 include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. Contains the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database, covering psychological, sociological, and educational literature.

Users: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.

* Database coverage list for Chicano Database

Type: Indexes & Articles

Description: A database of publisher-provided citations and table of contents information. Provides access to electronic journals and full text of articles for those journals managed through EBSCO Online.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1970-

Description: Provides citations to articles, book reviews, and documents on Hispanic American topics in over 400 social science and humanities journals.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1963-

Description: Provides indexing to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore in nearly 2,000 journals and series as well as covering relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, etc.

Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.

* MLA Directory of Periodicals a guide to journals and series in languages and literatures.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Description: Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, reports and studies on topics of public concern in state, national and international affairs, public policy, and social policy.

Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1872-

Description: Provides citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.

* Database coverage list for PsycINFO
* Guide to searching PsycINFO
* Online tutorial for searching

Type: Indexes & Articles

Coverage: 1963-

Description: Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides citations from 1963 to the present to journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records for journal articles added after 1974 contain in-depth abstracts. Major areas of coverage include culture and social structure; demography and human biology; economic development; environmental interactions; evaluation research; family and social welfare; health and medicine and law; history and theory of sociology; management and complex organizations; mass phenomena and political interactions; methodology and research technology; policy, planning, forecast and speculation; radical sociology; religion and science; rural and urban sociology; social development; social differentiation; social psychology and group interaction; sociology of the arts, business, education; studies in violence and power; substance abuse and addiction; welfare services; women's studies.

Type: Data/Statistics/GIS

Coverage: 1960- (where data are available)

Description: The World Bank's comprehensive database on development data (social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators) including more than 500 indicators, more than 200 countries, and 18 regional and income groups; with coverage from 1960 onward, where data are available.