Reference Sources & Databases by Subject

Database Changes: Starting July 1 we will be replacing many of our databases, including InfoTrac Academic OneFile, with similar databases from a different vendor.

This is a list of all available databases that contain specialized reference information. You can also see a list of these databases A-Z by title .

HINT: If you are looking for articles from journals, magazines or newspapers, use the alphabetical list of article databases by title or article databases listed by subject.

General
Art
Biology
Business
Chemistry / Physics
Criminal Justice
Education
Engineering
English (Literature)
Geography / Geology

History
Information Technology
Law / Paralegal
Mathematics / Physics
Nursing / Health
Physical Education
Philosophy / Religion
Political Science / Sociology
Psychology

General
Associations Unlimited (InfoTrac) Contains more than 152,000 detailed listings for organizations all over the world, with a scope that covers everything from a local Chamber of Commerce to the American Medical Association.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index It indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.
Books in Print Large database of information about books currently available in print.
Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch) Index to dissertations and theses in all subject areas.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online access to the full-text of The Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Facts-On-File Database of world news coverage dating from 1940. Also includes World Almanac, a science database, and a database that focuses on current issuses and controversies.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (InfoTrac) eBook collection that includes multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources. Subjects covered include Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, and Social Science.
GPO Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch) Index to U.S. government publications.
Issues and Controversies (Facts on File) Full-text reports on current issues and controversies.
LearningExpress Advantage Online practice tests and tutorials for math, reading, writing, nursing, and careers. You can create an account and save your tests and results. Requires a school account code that you must request from the library.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online access to the most comprehensive English-language dictionary.
Oxford Reference Online Full-text access to hundreds of Oxford reference books in all subject areas.
Statistical Universe (Lexis Nexis) Database of over 30,000 statistical tables.
Ulrich's Periodical Directory Database of publishing information on journals, magazines, and other periodicals.
World Almanac Encyclopedia (Facts on File) Full-text of the World Almanac Encyclopedia
Vault Online Career Library Database of career information, including full-text career occupational guides, 3000+ company profiles, and 1,100+ career advice articles.
WorldCat (FirstSearch) Large database of books and other materials held in thousands of libraries.
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Art
ARTstor Database of very high quality art images covering the history of art.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online access to the full-text of The Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Oxford Reference Online Full-text access to hundreds of Oxford reference books in all subject areas.
WorldCat (FirstSearch) Large database of books and other materials held in thousands of libraries.
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Biology
Access-Science Contains all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News^® headlines, biographies, and more.
Birds of America Detailed information about 716 species of birds in North America, including audio and video clips.
Oxford Reference Online Full-text access to hundreds of Oxford reference books in all subject areas.
Today's Science (Facts on File) Database of science news and information written specifically for students.
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Business
Gale Virtual Reference Library (InfoTrac) eBook collection that includes multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources. Subjects covered include Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, and Social Science.
GPO Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch) Index to U.S. government publications.
Oxford Reference Online Full-text access to hundreds of Oxford reference books in all subject areas.
STAT-USA A single point of access to authoritative business, trade, and economic information from across the Federal Government.
WorldCat (FirstSearch) Large database of books and other materials held in thousands of libraries.
Worldscope GLOBAL (FirstSearch) Profiles and financial information about companies.
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Chemistry and Physics
Access-Science Contains all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News^® headlines, biographies, and more.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Full-text of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, filled with tables and data.
ENGnetBASE (Engineering Electronic Library) Full-text of over 400 engineering books.
Oxford Reference Online Full-text access to hundreds of Oxford reference books in all subject areas.
Today's Science (Facts on File) Database of science news and information written specifically for students.
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Criminal Justice
Congressional Universe (Lexis Nexis) Includes abstracts and indexing for congressional publications, legislative histories, member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, and financial data; and the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources.
Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch) Index to dissertations and theses in all subject areas.
GPO Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch) Index to U.S. government publications.
Issues and Controversies (Facts on File) Full-text reports on current issues and controversies.
Statistical Universe (Lexis Nexis) Database of over 30,000 statistical tables.
WorldCat (FirstSearch) Large database of books and other materials held in thousands of libraries.
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Education
Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch) Index to dissertations and theses in all subject areas.
ERIC (EbscoHost) Provides citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals and full text of more than 2,200 ERIC documents along with references for additional information.
GPO Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch) Index to U.S. government publications.
Statistical Universe (Lexis Nexis) Database of over 30,000 statistical tables.
WorldCat (FirstSearch) Large database of books and other materials held in thousands of libraries.
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Engineering
ENGnetBASE (Engineering Electronic Library) Full-text of over 400 engineering books.
Access-Science Contains all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News^® headlines, biographies, and more.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Full-text of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, filled with tables and data.
GPO Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch) Index to U.S. government publications.
Today's Science (Facts on File) Database of science news and information written specifically for students.
WorldCat (FirstSearch) Large database of books and other materials held in thousands of libraries.
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English (Literature)
Literature Resource Center (InfoTrac) Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors. Includes full-text excerpts from books, as well as from magazines, journals,and newspapers.
African-American poetry, 1760-1900 Full-text of over 2,500 poems, based on William French's bibliography, Afro-American Poetry and Drama 1760-1975.
American poetry database Includes 40,356 full-text poems from 1,288 works by 209 poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry. The database gathers the works of the most influential American poets, from the Colonial period to the early twentieth century.
Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch) Index to dissertations and theses in all subject areas.
English Poetry English Poetry contains poems in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the end of the nineteenth century by writers from the British Isles. Overall the database contains over 165,000 poems which have been drawn from about 4,500 separate printed sources.
English Verse Drama Contains more than 2,200 works by around 500 named and over 300 anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late thirteenth century through the unparalleled output of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period to the end of the nineteenth century.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (InfoTrac) eBook collection that includes multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources. Subjects covered include Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, and Social Science.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online access to the most comprehensive English-language dictionary.
Oxford Reference Online Full-text access to hundreds of Oxford reference books in all subject areas.
WorldCat (FirstSearch) Large database of books and other materials held in thousands of libraries.
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Geography / Geology
Access-Science Contains all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News^® headlines, biographies, and more.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Full-text of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, filled with tables and data.
Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch) Index to dissertations and theses in all subject areas.
GPO Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch) Index to U.S. government publications.
Oxford Reference Online Full-text access to hundreds of Oxford reference books in all subject areas.
Today's Science (Facts on File) Database of science news and information written specifically for students.
WorldCat (FirstSearch) Large database of books and other materials held in thousands of libraries.
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History
Facts-On-File Database of world news coverage dating from 1940. Also includes World Almanac, a science database, and a database that focuses on current issuses and controversies.
Books in Print Large database of information about books currently available in print.
CIAO Columbia International Affairs Online International affairs collection that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGO's, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
Congressional Universe (Lexis Nexis) Includes abstracts and indexing for congressional publications, legislative histories, member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, and financial data; and the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources.
Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch) Index to dissertations and theses in all subject areas.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online access to the full-text of The Encyclopaedia Britannica.
GPO Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch) Index to U.S. government publications.
HarpWeek Full-text facsimiles of Harpers Weekly Magazine covering the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1857-1877.
Oxford Reference Online Full-text access to hundreds of Oxford reference books in all subject areas.
Statistical Universe (Lexis Nexis) Database of over 30,000 statistical tables.
World Almanac Encyclopedia (Facts on File) Full-text of the World Almanac Encyclopedia
WorldCat (FirstSearch) Large database of books and other materials held in thousands of libraries.
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Information Technology
Access-Science Contains all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News^® headlines, biographies, and more.
Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch) Index to dissertations and theses in all subject areas.
ENGnetBASE (Engineering Electronic Library) Full-text of over 400 engineering books.
Oxford Reference Online Full-text access to hundreds of Oxford reference books in all subject areas.
Today's Science (Facts on File) Database of science news and information written specifically for students.
WorldCat (FirstSearch) Large database of books and other materials held in thousands of libraries.
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Law and Legal Administration / Paralegal
WestLaw Campus Database federal and state codes, federal and state case law, and more. Also contains full-text articles from law journals and law reviews.
THOMAS Legislative information and histories from the Library of Congress.
Congressional Universe (Lexis Nexis) Includes abstracts and indexing for congressional publications, legislative histories, member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, and financial data; and the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources.
GPO Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch) Index to U.S. government publications.
Oxford Reference Online Full-text access to hundreds of Oxford reference books in all subject areas.
WorldCat (FirstSearch) Large database of books and other materials held in thousands of libraries.
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Mathematics / Physics
Access-Science Contains all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News^® headlines, biographies, and more.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Full-text of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, filled with tables and data.
ENGnetBASE (Engineering Electronic Library) Full-text of over 400 engineering books.
Oxford Reference Online Full-text access to hundreds of Oxford reference books in all subject areas.
Today's Science (Facts on File) Database of science news and information written specifically for students.
WorldCat (FirstSearch) Large database of books and other materials held in thousands of libraries.
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Nursing / Health
Access-Science Contains all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News^® headlines, biographies, and more.
Consumer Health Complete Covers consumer health information from encyclopedias, reference books, and multimedia sources..
Salud en Espanol Spanish-language source for consumer health information from a variety of sources.
Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch) Index to dissertations and theses in all subject areas.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (InfoTrac) eBook collection that includes multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources. Subjects covered include Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, and Social Science.
GPO Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch) Index to U.S. government publications.
Oxford Reference Online Full-text access to hundreds of Oxford reference books in all subject areas.
Statistical Universe (Lexis Nexis) Database of over 30,000 statistical tables.
WorldCat (FirstSearch) Large database of books and other materials held in thousands of libraries.
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Physical Education
ERIC (EbscoHost) Provides citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals and full text of more than 2,200 ERIC documents along with references for additional information.
Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch) Index to dissertations and theses in all subject areas.
WorldCat (FirstSearch) Large database of books and other materials held in thousands of libraries.
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Philosophy / Religion
Oxford Reference Online Full-text access to hundreds of Oxford reference books in all subject areas.
Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch) Index to dissertations and theses in all subject areas.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online access to the full-text of The Encyclopaedia Britannica.
WorldCat (FirstSearch) Large database of books and other materials held in thousands of libraries.
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Political Science / Sociology
Oxford Reference Online Full-text access to hundreds of Oxford reference books in all subject areas.
CIAO Columbia International Affairs Online International affairs collection that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGO's, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
Congressional Universe (Lexis Nexis) Includes abstracts and indexing for congressional publications, legislative histories, member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, and financial data; and the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources.
Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch) Index to dissertations and theses in all subject areas.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online access to the full-text of The Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Facts-On-File Database of world news coverage dating from 1940. Also includes World Almanac, a science database, and a database that focuses on current issuses and controversies.
Issues and Controversies (Facts on File) Full-text reports on current issues and controversies.
Statistical Universe (Lexis Nexis) Database of over 30,000 statistical tables.
World Almanac Encyclopedia (Facts on File) Full-text of the World Almanac Encyclopedia
WorldCat (FirstSearch) Large database of books and other materials held in thousands of libraries.
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Psychology
Access-Science Contains all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News^® headlines, biographies, and more.
Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch) Index to dissertations and theses in all subject areas.
ERIC (EbscoHost) Provides full text of more than 2,200 ERIC documents along with references for additional information, including journal articles.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (InfoTrac) eBook collection that includes multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources. Subjects covered include Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, and Social Science.
Oxford Reference Online Full-text access to hundreds of Oxford reference books in all subject areas.
WorldCat (FirstSearch) Large database of books and other materials held in thousands of libraries.
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