Most of the databases listed below are subscription services available to members of the Berea College community providing one or more of the following:

1. indexing to general and/or scholarly journals,
2. access to full text of periodicals,
3. directory information,
4. overviews of particular topics.

Sources are arranged alphabetically. Separate web pages list the Electronic Resources by discipline:

• General - Biography, Career, Multidiscipline
• Arts & Humanities - Art, Communication, History, Languages, Literature,  Music, Philosophy, Religion
• Sciences - Agriculture, Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Nursing, Physics
• Social Sciences - Business, Family Studies, Economics, Education, Gender Studies,
  Physical Education, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Technology
  

For information about off-campus access to these databases, please see the Remote Access page.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO Host)
Provides full text for over 3,200 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more.

ACLS History E-book Project
”The ACLS History E-Book (HEB) Project is an online collection of over 1000 books of high quality in the field of history. These are works of major importance to historical studies—books that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature. The History E-Book Project adds approximately 250 books annually to the collection as well as carefully selected new XML titles that have the potential to use web-based technologies to communicate the results of scholarship in new ways.” (Publisher’s website)

AGRICOLA (EBSCO Host)
AGRICULTUREdatabase compiled by the National Agricultural Library of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 1972 to the present.

Alt Press Watch (SoftLine)
Alt-Press Watch is a full text database containing magazines and newspapers of the alternative and independent press. They provide broad range coverage of critical issues such as politics, government, education, labor and the arts, and complement the main stream media by providing an alternative perspective. Coverage varies by title, from the last eight years to the last year or two.

Alternative Press Index (FirstSearch)
This source "[indexes] over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines." Subjects covered include: Anarchism, Democracy, Ecology, Feminism, Gay and Lesbian Issues, Indigenous Peoples, Labor, National Liberation and Socialism - theory and practice. Abstracts are included for articles appearing in research journals. 1991 to the present.

America: History and Life (EBSCO Host)
This database covers periodical literature and some books dealing with U.S. and Canadian history since 1450.

American Chemical Society Journals On-line
Full-text access to twenty-two ACS publications.

American Civil War Letters and Diaries
This 100,000-page collection contains detailed, firsthand descriptions of historical characters and events, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events and personages, accounts of sufferings at home, a rich battles database, and others. (from Alexander Street Press website)

Applied Science and Technology (H.W. Wilson)
Provides information on management, careers and employment, and financial trends in the SCIENTIFIC and TECHNOLOGICAL fields. Includes interviews, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, discussions, corrections, continued articles, new product reviews, new product announcements, technically valuable editorials and letters, tables, charts, diagrams, buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings. Cites book reviews. 1983 to present.

Art Index (H.W. Wilson)
Indexes more than 300 ARTS publications. 1984 to the present.

Article First (FirstSearch)
Includes items listed on the table of contents pages of journals. Describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal in each record. Provides a list of libraries that have the journal title for most items.

ARTstor
The ARTstor Library's initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's initial software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline. This community resource will be made available solely for educational and scholarly uses that noncommercial in nature. (Publisher's website)

ATLA Religion Database (EBSCO Host)
Compiled by the American Theological Library Association, this database covers Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. With coverage dating as far back as 1949, ATLA contains over one million bibliographic records from journals, essays, book reviews and more. This database is an essential resource for theology students and researchers seeking information pertaining to social sciences, history and humanities.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Gale Group)
This is THE place to begin research for information about people. Long a standard print reference source (R 920.073 B6152) in four sets, this invaluable work is now accessible via the web! While it does not provide the full-text information, it currently indexes more than 13.3 million biographical sketches. BGMI indexes only reference works containing multiple biographies; it does not index periodical articles or books of biography about a single individual. Online help and a further description for the database can be found by clicking on the button labeled about located on BGMI's home page.

Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson)
Contains biographical information on a large number of individuals from antiquity to the present, representing all fields and nationalities.

Biography Resource Center
This database contains nearly 414,000 biographies on more than 320,000 people as well as full-text articles from more than 265 magazines specifically chosen for their renowned biographical content in a broad range of subject areas. Biography Resource Center covers a multitude of subject areas such as, but not limited to, science, multicultural studies, business, politics, government, history, entertainment, sports, the arts, and literature. (from Alexander Street Press website)

BioOne
This database focuses on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. "BioOne includes a broad selection of the full-texts, peer-reviewed journals and bulletins published by AIBS (American Institues of Biological Sciences) member societies and other closely related organizations. Articles are available in both HTML and PDF formats." (BioOne FAQ page)

Books in Print with Reviews (First Search)
Index for currently published books.

Business Source Premier (EBSCO Host)
Provides full text for nearly 1,300 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.

CIAO Columbia International Affairs Online
"Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.

CIAO is also widely-recognized source for teaching materials including original case studies written by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political science classes, and special features like the analysis of a bin Laden recruitment tape with video. " -- from CIAO website

CINAHL (EBSCO Host)
Indexes and abstracts journals in the fields of NURSING and ALLIED HEALTH. 1982 to the present (abstracts since 1986).

Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO Host)
"...provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields." -- from EBSCO website

Contemporary Women's Issues (FirstSearch)
Focusing on WOMEN'S ISSUES in the areas of HEALTH and HUMAN RIGHTS, this source provides full-text access to global information on women in over 160 countries. Over 1,500 sources are covered, with over 35,000 records currently in the database. Sources indexed include journals, books, newsletters, research reports, and fact sheets. Links to full-text articles are included for some articles. 1992 to the present.

Country Watch
CountryWatch.com is an information provider for schools, universities, libraries and individuals who need up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world and for the public and private sector organizations with global operations and interests. The management of CountryWatch.com has extensive international business and academic experience and, using this experience, has created, in a concise and useful form, a key set of political, economic, and business information for its clients in the form of Country Reviews© and the Country Wire©.

CQ Electronic Library
Congressional Quarterly is known for their objective and unbiased publications. The Electronic Library “is the definitive reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs.” This database contains CQ’s flagship publication CQ Researcher and four additional collections: Public Affairs, Encyclopedia of American Government, Supreme Court Collection, and Washington Information Directory. When researching current, social and political topics, CQ Researcher is the place to start.

CREDOreference - Title List is also available
CREDOreference enables users to find authoritative answers fast. It features content from hundreds of reference books in a broad range of subjects." (from the publisher's website)

Dissertation Abstracts Online (FirstSearch)
Includes dissertations from 1861 to the present. Abstracts for doctoral dissertations (from July 1980) and masters theses (Spring 1988) are included for more recent titles.

Early Encounters in North America
This collection documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850 focusing on personal accounts, and provides unique perspectives from traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. It also includes nearly 1,000 prints, drawings, paintings, maps, bibliographies, letters, photographs, and original facsimile pages. (from Alexander Street Press website)

EBSCO Host (EBSCO Host) - cross search several EBSCO databases at once using this link.

EconLit (FirstSearch)
Covering the area of ECONOMICS, this database contains over 440,000 records from over 620 sources and is updated monthly. 1969 to present.

Education Abstracts (EBSCO Host)
Education Abstracts, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, indexes and abstracts articles from more than 680 periodicals and yearbooks, with indexing back to 1983 and abstracts back to 1994. Books on education published after 1995 are also indexed. (Publisher's website)

Encyclopedia Americana (Grolier)
”Encyclopedia Americana provides online access to this popular resource from Grolier, a standard in school, public, and academic libraries. Includes 150,000 article to article links, 155,000 links to Internet resources, over 1,000 tables, 984 maps, and 270 flags. Contains over 3,000 color photographs and images and black-and-white line drawings. Includes the Americana Journal, a searchable database of current events compiled by Encyclopedia Americana staff and illustrated with photographs from the Associated Press, and The Wall Street Journal Almanac, which includes articles, tables, and graphs organized thematically for easy browsing and searching.” (KYVL website)

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS)
”The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences is a unique and dynamic resource that covers the entire range of life sciences research. It highlights structures, processes, methods, systems and applications across the biological and biomedical sciences. With 6,000 color illustrations, 30,000 internal cross-references and 30,000 external bibliographic references for further reading ELS directs undergraduates, graduate students and researchers to the next level of research.” (Publisher’s website)

EndNote Web
EndNote Web is a Web-based service designed to help students and researchers through the process of writing a research paper. Some important features of EndNote Web include the ability to import and organize references from databases, use over 2,300 publishing styles to format in-text citations and bibliographies, and store up to 10,000 records per EndNote Web account. (EndNote website)

ERIC (EBSCO Host)
The most comprehensive indexing/abstracting tool for research in education. Full text of ERIC Digest documents 1981 to March 1999. Abstracts 1966 to the present. In addition, we also have access to this database through FirstSearch. It can also be searched using the Education Department's site.

Ethnic Newswatch (SoftLine)
Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) is a comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. The database has been continuously growing since 1991, with archival material back to 1985. Ethnic NewsWatch is now a collection of more than 470,000 full-text articles from over 200 publications. Searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages and more than 100,000 articles in Spanish, ENW's in-depth coverage of a wide range of current and topics is easily accessed using free text and fielded searching. An average of 7,500 new articles is added each month.

Evans Early American Imprints (1639-1800)
"Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography, the collection was first published by Readex in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society (AAS). For decades, the collection has served as a foundation set for research involving early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more. Series I. Evans is the definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images." (Publisher's website)

Family & Society Studies Worldwide
“Family & Society Studies Worldwide produced by NISC, is a core resource providing the most comprehensive coverage of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development, and Social Welfare. FSSW covers popular issues as well as meeting the requirements of professionals in all fields of social work, social science and family practice. Coverage spans from 1970 to the present indexing publications from a wide range of social science disciplines.” (Publisher's website)

Full Text Electronic Journal Holdings  
Provides alphabetical listing of on-line full-text journals available to Berea College community. NOTE: This listing DOES NOT include BioOne, American Chemical Society, JSTOR or Project Muse titles. Please check BANC for those titles.

Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
”The Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually.” (Publisher’s website)

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Currently comprised of 24 full-text reference titles:

American History Through Literature 1820-1870 , 3v, 2006
American History Through Literature 1870-1920 , 3v, 2006
Cities of the United States , 5th ed., 4v, 2006
Countries and Their Cultures , 4v, 2001
Dictionary of American History , 3rd ed., 10v, 2003
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History , 2nd ed., 6v, 2006
Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society , 3v, 2004
Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice , 2nd ed., 4v, 2002
Encyclopedia of Education , 2nd ed., 8v, 2003
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture , 3v, 2003
Encyclopedia of India , 4v, 2006
Encyclopedia of Philosophy , 2nd ed., 10v, 2006
Encyclopedia of Religion , 2nd ed., 15v, 2005
Encyclopedia of Russian History , 4v, 2004
Encyclopedia of Science and Religion , 2v, 2003
Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics , 4v, 2005
Encyclopedia of the New American Nation , 3v, 2006
History Behind the Headlines: The Origins of Conflicts Worldwide , 6v, 2003
History of World Trade Since 1450 , 2v, 2006
International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis , 3v, 2005
New Catholic Encyclopedia , 2nd ed., 15v, 2003
Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources , 2006
World of Forensic Science , 2v, 2005
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices , 3v, 2006

Gender Watch (SoftLine)
GenderWatch is a full text database designed to provide both general reference and authoritative research in a wide range of disciplines. The database encompasses the last 20 to 30 years, and provides in-depth coverage of the subjects that are uniquely central to women's lives, as well as providing gender perspective in more traditional subjects.

General Science Abstracts

GPO - U.S. Government Publications - Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch)
"Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.)."    This database includes only bibliographic citations, however online access links are included wherever possible. 1976 to the present.

GreenFile (EBSCO Host)
"GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well. " -publisher's website

Greenwood Press Collection
The Greenwood Digital Collection (selected Praeger, Greenwood Press, and Libraries Unlimited titles) is a sophisticated research platform comprised of reference, academic and general interest e-books all searchable by keyword, subject, author, title, or any Boolean search method. Titles included in this collection also are included in BANC.

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
"The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is derived from the Academic American Encyclopedia database, an 11-million-word repository of text and images maintained by the encyclopedia's editorial and technical staff. It supports Netscape Navigator 4.0 and above (excluding Navigator 6.0 but including other versions of 6) and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.5 and above." (Publisher's website)

Grove Art Online - NOW PART OF OXFORD ART ONLINE!!
Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001). We offer ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 1,500 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links, and sophisticated search and navigation tools. [It also includes] links to searchable image databases and editorially selected links to over 40,000 art images on museum and gallery web sites around the world. (Publisher’s website)

Grove Music Online - NOW PART OF OXFORD MUSIC ONLINE!!
Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (second edition; 29 volumes; London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (4 volumes; London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, edited by Barry Kernfeld (second edition; 3 volumes; London, 2002). Grove Music Online will be updated annually to ensure it remains the most up to date music reference work on the Internet. [Also included are] over 3000 links to related sites, including sound archives and illustrations (Publisher’s website)

Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCO Host)
Contains information on health topics such as: MEDICAL SCIENCES, FOOD SCIENCES AND NUTRITION, CHILDCARE, SPORTS MEDICINE and GENERAL HEALTH. Includes full text for approximately 165 journals, as well as abstracts and indexing for more than 180 other general health publications. Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO Host)
This database provides over 520 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 560 journals.

Historical Abstracts (EBSCO Host)
This database covers periodical literature and some books dealing with world history, excluding the U.S. and Canada, since 1450.

Humanities Abstracts

International Index to Music Periodicals - Full Text
"IIMP Full Text draws its content from more than 400 international music periodicals from over 20 countries with over 60 Full Text titles. IIMP Full Text also includes retrospective coverage dating back as far as 1874. Included in the current and retrospective content are complete-run titles, from inception to the present (or final) issue, and many partial run titles." - from publisher web site.

JSTOR
Full text of dozens of important scholarly journals. Coverage is retrospective--the most recent three years are not included-- but all earlier volumes are available.

Kentucky Encyclopedia
"The web edition of The Kentucky Encyclopedia contains all of the entries in the print and CD-ROM editions along with selected front and back matter. Entries have been enhanced with descriptive markup..., which allows for additional search and display capabilities in the web environment." (from the website)

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
NEWS: full text of today's news or search back more than 20 years
BUSINESS: full text company news and financial information
LEGAL RESEARCH: full text federal, state and international legal materials
MEDICAL: full text and abstracted medical and health information
REFERENCE: general reference sources

LISTA (EBSCO Host)
"Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s." (from EBSCO website)

Literary Reference Center (EBSCO Host)
"Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a comprehensive database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else." (from EBSCO website)

Literature Online (Chadwyck-Healey/ProQuest)
LION has a strong full text component that includes critical articles from over 160 journals. The database also provides 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose full text. Reference works are also included. Another key feature is the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature(ABELL) that includes over 860,000 records from 1920 to the present. Many people find LION more user friendly than MLA Bibliography. You can save searches and sign up for e-mail alerts for new material.

Literature Resource Center (Thompson-Gale)
This comprehensive literary collection provides students and other researchers with single-search access to an assortment of traditional literary reference works; critical information on authors and their works; current journal articles; and additional resources.

• More than 415,000 full-text journal articles from more than 250 literary journals
• Nearly 44,000 critical essays Nearly 5,000 work overviews, plot summaries and explications
• Nearly 6,000 links to authoritative related web sites
• More than 122,000 author biographies.” (from Thomson Gale website)

MAS (Magazine Article Summaries) FullTEXT Ultra (EBSCO Host)
This comprehensive, general periodical database covers a broad range of topics including general reference, business, consumer health, general science and multi-cultural titles. Titles covered include: USA Today, Essential Documents of American History (over 1,000 original historical documents), 5000 Magill Book Reviews and The Christian Science Monitor plus many more.

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO Host)
Similar to MAS FullTEXT Ultra [see above], this comprehensive, general periodical is designed for use in public libraries. We have included it in our list for several reasons, including its coverage of The Wall Street Journal.

MEDLINE with MeSH (EBSCO Host)
Provides access to the entire Comprehensive MEDLINE file covering 1966 to present. This database also includes full text for nearly 80 biomedical journals dating as far back as 1990.

Mental Measurements Yearbook (EBSCO Host)
"Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present." (from EBSCO website)


Middle Search Plus Online (EBSCO Host)
This database is tailored to meet the needs of middle and junior high school researchers, especially in the area of current events. In addition to searchable full text for nearly 100 of the most popular K-12 magazines, this database also includes Fund & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals, Essential Documents of American History and many more sources.

Military & Government Collection (EBSCO Host)
"Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles." (from EBSCO website)

MLA Bibliography (Chadwyck Healey)
Comprehensive international index covering LITERATURE and LANGUAGES, from 1963 to the present. Also included is a link to the current MLA Directory of Periodicals.

Music Index
From the website: "Published since 1949, The Music Index: A Subject-Author Guide to Music Periodical Literature is compiled from over 655 international music periodicals offering the researcher access to a wealth of historiographic, ethnographic, and musicological data. A broad range of subjects is covered, including past and present personalities, the history of music, forms and types of music, musical instruments from the earliest times to modern electronic instruments, plus computer produced music. In addition, book reviews, reviews of music recordings, tapes, and performances are indexed. First performances and obituaries are noted."

Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, and Folk music. Whilst listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database. (Publisher's website) Because Berea has a license for only 4 simultaneous sessions, it is very important to LogOut of Naxos instead of just closing the browser window.

New York Times - Current (ProQuest)
This database offers full-text coverage of the New York Times, Late Edition (East Coast) from January 1, 1995 to the present.

New York Times - Historic (ProQuest)
“The New York Times (1851-2001) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.” (ProQuest web site)

Newsbank
Provides full text from nearly 800 U.S. and 1000 International newspapers. Direct links are available to search Kentucky Newspapers, access Newswires and Transcripts, the U.S. papers (any or all) or the entire set of papers. The Lexington Herald-Leader is also available in a full image version. (Most of the Archive of Americana section is available only for a short time as a trial database.)

Newspaper Source (EBSCO Host)
Provides cover-to-cover full text for over 28 U.S. and international newspapers, as well as selected full text for more than 260 U.S. newspapers. Updated daily.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Drawn from more than 1,000 sources, this collection of writings contains 1,500 American and Canadian women’s diaries and correspondence. Spanning more than 300 years , the 150,000 pages of materials provide a detailed record of what women wore, what they ate, what they read, the conditions under which they worked, and how they amused themselves. We can explore their relationships with lovers and with family and friends. The writings are extensively indexed and are an ongoing project of Alexander Street Press. (from Alexander Street Press website)

NoveList (EBSCO Host) [Berea College users may need to call the IS&S Help Desk at ext. 3343 the first time they select this database.]
NoveList is an electronic readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles.


Oxford English Dictionary
You can immediately begin to use the OED by using the Find Word option to quickly locate a headword entry (upper right) or using the search (bottom right) to search the full text or other indexes. The help file is quite detailed and has many helpful examples.

Physical Education Index
This online equivalent to the same print title (Physical Education Index) is updated monthly and contains more than 230,000 records.   Records are indexed and classified from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications. Beginning in January 2001, enhancements to the database include the addition of abstracts, e-mail addresses, expanded publisher and author information, and other data to facilitate access to the fulltext.... These abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered.... (Publisher's website)   1970 to the present.

Polling the Nations
Polling the Nations is a compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries from 1986 to the present. Each of the nearly 350,000 records reports a question asked and the responses given. Also included in each record is the polling organization responsible for the work, the date the information was released, the sample size, and universe, i.e., the groups or areas included in the interview, such as parents with children in public schools, Great Britain, the United States, or California. All the surveys reported here were conducted using scientifically selected random samples.

Primary Search Online (EBSCO Host)
Designed for elementary schools and children's reading rooms. Berea College education majors will find this a helpful resource in planning lessons for the classroom.

Professional Development Collection (EBSCO Host)
This database is a collection of electronic information especially for professional educators. This collection offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice.

Project Muse
Full text of approximately 40 scholarly journals in the humanities, the social sciences, and mathematics published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Coverage for some titles extends back to 1993.

ProQuest Career and Technical Education
"Designed for both students and instructors, ProQuest Career and Technical Education is an excellent source of vocational information for ... technical courses." (from ProQuest website)

ProQuest Computing
"Top computing journals in full-text for research on subjects such as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, the Internet." (from ProQuest website)

PsycARTICLES (EBSCO Host)
Indexing and abstracting sponsored by the American Psychological Association. Includes 100,000 articles from 59 journals, 48 of which are published by the APA. 1894 to present.

PsycINFO 1887 -Current (EBSCO Host)
Indexing and abstracting service sponsored by THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. Covers approximately 1500 international journals, as well as dissertations, books and book chapters. 1887 to the present.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO Host)
Covers information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

Public Library of Science (PLoS)
"PLoS Biology is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a non-profit organization committed to making scientific and medical literature a public resource." (PLoS website)

Regional Business News (EBSCO Host)
[I]ncorporates business wires from all over the world. Included in this database are A & G Information, Africa News Service, Inter Press Service, Resource News International, South American Business, M2 Communications, PR Newswire, Business News Wire, Canadian Corporate News, News Bytes News Network, and Phillips Business Information Highlights.

Religion and Philosophy Collection (EBSCO Host)
Comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.

The Serials Directory (EBSCO Host)
Provides up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information and pricing for over 178,500 U.S. and international periodicals.

Social Sciences Abstracts (EBSCO Host)

Sociological Collection (EBSCO Host)
Provides information on all areas of sociology. Includes nearly 560 full text titles.

Statesman's Yearbook
This is the online version of a print work first published over 140 years ago. Arranged by nation, Statesman’s Yearbook offers access to auick facts and figures concerning politics, culture and economics. You can browse via region or nation. Other important features include a detailed international year in review and the ability to compare basic statistics from two nations side by side.

Tests in Print
"Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). A score index permits users to identify what is being measured by each test. Tests in Print also guides readers to critical, candid test reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) series. Tests in Print is an indispensable reference for professionals (including such areas as education, psychology, business) as well as anyone interested in the critical issues of tests and testing. " (from EBSCO web site)

University of Kentucky Electronic Theses & Dissertations
”UK-ETD provides worldwide access to electronic theses and dissertations prepared and submitted by University of Kentucky graduate and doctoral… from 2000 to the present. (*NOTE: Not all theses and dissertations published by University of Kentucky students are available through UK-ETD. The database contains only those theses and dissertations published as electronic documents.)” (KYVL website)

Wiley InterScience (Cookies MUST be enabled for this site.)
This resource provides access to three full-text reference works 34 other titles. On Wiley's general website, you will see many more titles, but we have full-text access only for these titles which are listed on our Wiley InterScience page.

World Almanacs - Fundamental Reference Resources (FirstSearch)
" Includes the full text of all of the Almanac titles: The World Almanac and Book of Facts, providing key facts on a wide variety of subjects internationally; The World Almanac of the U.S.A. with essential facts about the United States - current and historical; The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, a guidebook to federal, state, and local governments; The World Almanac for Kids, covering information and facts of interest to middle-school children and teachers; and theFunk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, a comprehensive general encyclopedia." (From the publisher) Over 6,000 entries.

World Cat - The OCLC Online Union Catalog (FirstSearch)
This database includes millions of bibliographic records for items cataloged by OCLC member libraries, representing material in over 400 languages. If you are trying to verify or gather complete information about an item, especially an item no longer in print, this is a good place search.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
This resource "provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy.... As of August 2005 approximately 1,510 titles are being monitored for coverage; of these, 67% are published outside the United States." (from the publisher's website)