SUNY Potsdam. The College Libraries: Databases

Library Databases

Abstracts in Anthropology	Archaeology, Physical Anthropology, Linguistics, and Cultural Anthropology. Also in paper in Crumb at Ref GN1.A15. Coverage is 2001-date. There is no linking to full-text.
Academic Search Premier	An academic multi-disciplinary database with full text for nearly 4,650 periodicals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.
ACS Journal Search	Search American Chemical Society journals. Full-text access to all "Legacy Archive" content, and to current online content of 8 ACS journals.
AgeLine	Abstracts of the literature on aging from psychology, sociology, social work, economics, public policy and health sciences. Mainly covers 1978 - date. No links to full-text.
AGRICOLA	Agriculture and allied disciplines. Books, audiovisual materials, journal articles, book chapters, reports and other sources.
Alexander Street Press: "The Street"	Collections of primary sources in history, literature, drama, film, and women's studies.
Alternative Press Index	Indexes some 300 alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines - U.S. and international, for the period 1991 - date. No full-text online.
Alternative Press Index Archive	Indexes some 700 alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines - U.S. and international; for the period 1969 to 1990 only.
American Civil War: Letters and Diaries	Contains approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs.
American Film Scripts Online	Contains 776 scripts by 856 writers together with information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.
Amer. Medical Assoc. Publications	Journals of the AMA. Select this file on ProQuest to limit your search to AMA publications.
Art Index	Art and related topics. From periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Includes both Art Index (1985-date) and Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984).

ARTStor	"Curated collections of art images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use."
Arts & Humanities Search	1,150 arts and humanities journals and relevant items from over 7,000 other journals. Cited reference searching as well as subject keyword.
Asian American Drama	Plays by 42 playwrights, together with information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
BioMed Central	Search over 185 open-access bio-medical journals.
BioOne	Life sciences articles, most of which are in full-text online.
Black Drama	Contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
Black Thought and Culture	Contains 989 sources with 947 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans.
Books 24x7	A collection of technical books - for computing, databases, graphic design, multimedia, networks, programming, security, telecommunications, web development, etc.
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries	The experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters.
Business & Company Resource Center	Covers 2,385 periodical titles, 1,617 in full text; 500,000 company profiles, Investext reports, and Thomson financial Securities Data.
Business Source Premier	Full text for over 8,800 business serials
CancerLit	1.5+ million citations and abstracts from some 4,000 sources, including proceedings, books, reports, and theses.
The Charleston Advisor	Reviews of online products for information professionals. 1999-date.
Chemical Abstracts	All chemistry topics. Includes abstracts, and records of chemical substances. Online access is available by appointment with a librarian. Ask at the Information Desk in Crumb (x2485). See also STN-Easy, below.
Child Abuse, Child Welfare, and Adoption	Citations and abstracts to books, journal articles, reports from federally-funded grants, conference papers, unpublished papers, reports on completed or continuing research.
CHOICE Reviews Online	Book reviews from the magazine.
The Chronicle of Higher Education	Access to every news article and essay since 1989, and every daily web-only news story since May 1998; and more
CINAHL Plus with Full Text	Indexing for 3,123 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with coverage dating as far back as 1937.
Clase and Periodica	Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Produced by Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. 1975 - date.
Classical Music Library	Streaming audio web site of classical music
ComAbstracts Search	"Abstracts of articles and books published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field..."
Combined Health Information Database	A group of databases from the National Institutes of Health - including AIDS education, Alzheimer's Disease, Deafness & Communication Disorders, Maternal & Child Health and others.
Communication & Mass Media Complete	Indexing and abstracts of over 600 journals, and full text for more than 240 journals.
CQ Electronic Library	Reporting and analysis from Congressional Quarterly on issues in the news. CQ Researcher, 1991-date. CQ Weekly, 1983-date.
Custom Newspapers	Search a collection of 150 newspapers, both national and international. Click "Browse Publication Title" link to see a complete list of the newspapers included.
Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI)	Women's issues in such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education, business administration and political science.
Dissertation Abstracts Online	All subject areas. The abstracts of doctoral dissertations and master's theses from universities around the world. Other thesis sources.
DRAM	Audio recordings, liner notes, and essays from labels such as New World, Composers Recordings, and others.
DSpace at SUNY Potsdam	The SUNY Potsdam Institutional Repository: "to provide a secure and searchable digital archive to showcase and preserve the intellectual accomplishments of our campus."
Early Encounters in North America	Contains over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters.
EconLit	Articles from 600 economics journals, books, edited works, dissertations, and book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature.
Education Research Complete (Ebsco)	An index to education journals, many of which are in full-text. 1,500 titles.
Elsevier Science Direct	Online access to many of the journals published by Elsevier science publishing. Subject coverage includes the natural and social sciences.
English Short-Title Catalogue	A list of all known items, mainly in English, published between 1473 and 1800. Crumb Library has reel 1-1805 of the "STC on UMI microfilm set 'Early English books, 1475-1640'" in the microfilm area.
Entrez	A search and retrieval system that integrates information from databases at NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) including PubMed.
Environment Index	Includes records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s. This is an index only, no full-text in this database; but it does link to full-text when it is available elsewhere.
ERIC via Ebsco	Educational Resources Information Center provides indexing and abstracts to education journals and to other education resources. It links to full-text documents in ERIC Full-Text. Warning - do not submit interlibrary loan requests for documents with accession numbers beginning "ED". Use SFX link to check for online full-text. Other versions of the ERIC database.
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia	Includes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. The database also contains various images and offers brief biographies. It is updated annually.
Gale Virtual Reference Library	A collection of encyclopedias and handbooks on many subjects. Searchable as a group or individually.
GenderWatch	A full text database of publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas; with archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases.
General Science Collection (EBSCO)	Full-text of articles from recent years of 60 general interest science journals. Index-only coverage of several more journals.
GeoBase	Earth sciences, ecology, geology, human geography, and oceanography. 3,000 journals other sources including books, proceedings, reports, maps and theses. Produced by Elsevier Science Publishing Company.
GeoRef - from the AGI	Provides access to the geoscience literature of the world, and is the most comprehensive AGI database in the geosciences. North America from 1785 - date, and the rest of the world from 1933 - date.
GeoScience World	An indexed collection of peer-reviewed geoscience journals. Use the GeoRef link above to search these and many other geology journals.
GPO Catalog	Index to U.S. government publications, with links to online documents; 1976 - date.
Green File	A collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more
Grove Music Online	Grove Music Online is now part of Oxford Music Online.
GSA Journal Search	Searches the publications of the Geological Society of America.
Handbook of Latin American Studies	Latin American issues in 1,500+ social sciences and humanities journals worldwide, as well as dissertations, conference proceedings, and monographs.
HarpWeek	Harper's Weekly, complete text for the years 1857-1865.
Health & Wellness Resource Center	Provides integrated access to medical, statistical, health, and wellness information - from articles, pamphlets, web sites, and reference books.
Health Reference Center: Academic	Full-text journal in health and related fields.
Highwire Press	A repository of high impact, peer-reviewed journals, with 1130 journals from over 140 scholarly publishers. Many of the articles are available free online. Content is mainly science, especially biology.
Homeland Security Digital Archive	From the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security: a "collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents."
IIMP: full-text	International Index to Music Periodicals. Indexes music periodicals from 1874 to the present, with full-text of some 120 titles. Also includes detailed abstracts. Links to full-text when available elsewhere via ArticleLinker.
IIPA	International Index to the Performing Arts. indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts from 1864 to the present on film, theatre and dance.
Informe! Revistas en Espanol	Una coleccion de revistas hispanicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnologia, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
InfoTrac Custom Newspapers	Search a collection of some 300 newspapers, both national and international. Includes 13 New York newspapers.
InfoTrac Junior Edition	Designed especially for junior high and middle schools. It features 147 full-text titles focused on the curriculum of those years.
IngentaConnect	All subject areas. Searches keywords in article titles from approximately 26,000 journals. No Full-text. - about Ingenta "Alerts"
JSTOR	JSTOR digitizes complete back runs of significant journals in many fields. Get better search results by checking the box(es) to limit your search to the appropriate discipline(s). Coverage note: Most titles are complete from start of publication, but recent years are NOT available in JSTOR. This "moving wall" of unavailability generally ranges from 3 and 5 years.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe	U.S. and world news. Business, legal, medical news. Foreign language news sources
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts	Indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings.
Literature Resource Center	Biography, bibliography, and synopses of criticism of authors and their works, in all fields. Includes references and links to the original sources.

MasterFile Premier	Designed for public libraries, this resource provides full text for nearly 1,950 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines.
MathSciNet	From the American Mathematical Society. Comprehansive indexing of mathematical journals. This is the online equivalent of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.
Medline (Ebsco interface)	Medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the health care system, Covers some 4,800 biomedical journals, worldwide.
Military and Government Collection	A collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the military and government. Full text for nearly 400 publications. and for 245 pamphlets. Indexing and abstracts for 500 titles.
MLA Bibliography	Modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference proceedings, and more: all languages and places of publications. Includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals.
Music and Performing Arts Online	Combined search of IIMP (International Index to Music Periodicals) and IIPA (International Index to the Performing Arts)
Music Index	Covers all aspects of music - from musicology to the business of music. Some 640 periodicals are indexed selectively. Links to full-text when available via ArticleLinker. Also available in Crane Music Library in paper form (1949-2001).
National Newspaper Index	Indexes 5 major U.S. newspapers, 1977-date. No Full-text.
Naxos Music Library	Streaming audio web site of classical music published by Naxos.
NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service)	Covers books, government reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. No links to full-text except government publications.
NetLibrary	A collection of electronic books for the SUNY community.
The New York Times	Search for articles in The New York Times (East Coast Ed.) Full-text of articles for 1980-date. Book Review and Magazine full-text 1997-date.
New York State Newspapers	A database of ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including The New York Times and the New York Post. Click "Browse Publication Title" link to see a complete list of the newspapers included.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories	Includes approximately 100,000 pages that provide personal views of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries	Includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters, colonial period to 1950.
Northern New York Historical Newspapers	Provided by the Northern New York Library Network. An online collection of 19th and 20th century newspapers. To search a particular newspaper, click on the title.
Northern New York Newspapers	Archives of recent Oswego, Plattsburgh, and Watertown newspapers. Provided by Northern New York Library Network (NNYLN). Access available on-campus only.
NTIS - DARTS	Password access to some technical government reports. Science, computing, mathematics especially featured. Come to the Reference Desk in Crumb to use this database. National Technical Information Service.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center	Covers current social issues. Includes viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
Oxford English Dictionary	(OED) - the most authoritative dictionary of the English language. A source for definitions, word history, and quotations.
Oxford Music Online	Includes Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music
Philosopher's Index	An index with author-written abstracts covering scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews, from all areas of philosophy. Contains research published since 1940 including nearly 570 journals from 43 countries with content representing a variety of languages.
Population Index	Covers all fields of interest to demographers, including fertility, mortality, population size and growth, migration, etc. Covers monographs, journal articles, and other publications. Also in paper in Crumb for 1937-1999 at Ref HB 848.A1 P83
Primary Search (Ebsco)	Searches in, and provides full text for over 50 children’s magazines and over 100 children’s pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.
PrimateLit	Bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.)
Professional Development Collection	Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals, including many in full-text.
Project MUSE	Full-text of recent years of 178 journals in many fields, but concentrated in the humanities.
ProQuest Education Journals	Searches ProQuest Education package of journals
ProQuest Journals	Searches all of the ProQuest journal packages: ProQuest Education Journals; and ProQuest Social Science Journals
ProQuest Newspapers	Searcher may search a group of 27 U.S. papers, or individual papers, including NY Times, Wall St. Journal, Barron's, Washington Post. Some sources back to 1986. Click the "Publications" tab to see a complete list of the newspapers included.
ProQuest Social Science Journals	Searches ProQuest Social Science package of journals
PsycINFO	Psychology and related disciplines. Journal articles, dissertations, reports, book chapters, books, and other scholarly documents. Also includes links to full-text articles in PsycArticles - the APA journal collection. PsychArticles collection.
PubMED	A service of the National Library of Medicine. Provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Includes links to some full-text of articles in PubMedCentral.
Regional Business News	Full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). This database has full text for more than 50 sources.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature	Music and related disciplines. Covers articles, books, bibliographies, catalogs, dissertations, conference proceedings, reviews, recording notes, etc. Links to full-text when available via ArticleLinker.
Science Direct (Elsevier)	Online access to many of the journals published by Elsevier science publishing. Subject coverage includes the natural and social sciences.
Scirus (web and articles)	Searches for scientific information on the web and in journals. Covers some 90 million Web pages, as well as 17 million records from sources such as ScienceDirect, IDEAL, MEDLINE, BioMedNet, Beilstein, ChemWeb, and others.
Scitation	Search documents from scholarly journals, magazines, and other scientific publications.
Scitopia	A federated search portal covering 15 leading science and technology societies. Engineering, geology, physics, and applied mathematics. Does not include links to full-text online.
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period	Contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry, extensive contemporary critical reviews, as well as material specially written for this database by leading scholars.
Sociological Abstracts	Research in sociology and related disciplines in over 1500 journals. Covers journals, serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations. Indexing: from 1963 - . Abstracting from 1974 - . Includes links to full-text.
Social Services Abstracts	Bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
STAT-USA	Password access to economic & business statistics from the US Gov.- a fee-based service. Free access to these resources is only available at the Crumb Library Reference Desk.
STN-Easy - Chemical Abstracts	A password is needed to access STN files: Chemical Abstracts and the Registry File (chemical substance information). Worldwide literature of chemistry. Contact librarians or SUNY Potsdam chemistry faculty for access. Available only after 5 p.m.
SUNY Union Catalog	Searches all SUNY libraries, or choose individual ones to search.
Twayne's Author Series	Monographs about selected American, British, and world authors. Also includes selected references, a list of the author's works, and a brief life chronology.
USA.gov	Search for and connect to online information sources from federal and state governments. It allows both searching for specific subjects and browsing under an array of subject categories.
Viva	A bibliography of women's history in historical and women's studies journals. 1975 - date
Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide	"The world's largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians." Includes links to full-text when available. Coverage: 1935 - date.Only one log-in at a time is allowed. Please "log-off" (don't just close the window) when you are done searching.
Wilson OmniFile Select	Full-text of nearly 1200 journals, with coverage as far back as Jan. 1994. Access is limited to a relatively small number of simultaneous users. All entries are in full-text.
World Almanac	A reference source the includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, statistics.
WorldCat	The collective catalog of thousands of libraries around the world. Also links to InterLibrary Loan.
Zentralblatt MATH	"The world's most complete and longest running abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics." Very limited results are viewable without a subscription.