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Arts and Humanities

America History and Life - Major index for the study of history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.

Archive Grid - Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index, (1975-present)-See Web of Knowledge

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and Répertoire de la literature de l'art (RILA) - A comprehensive bibliographical database of scholarly writing about the history of western art.  This database includes the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) (1990-2007) and Répertoire de la literature de l'art (RILA), 1975-1989.

Camio - OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online - Includes digital reproductions of art works (painting, sculpture, photography, etc.) from 24 prominent museums in the U.S.

Communication & Mass Media Complete - Indexes publications covering all aspects of communication, mass media, journalism, rhetoric, and speech communication.

Historical Abstracts - Index of scholarly publications covering world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.

Gale Literary Databases -Includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography.

Gale Literature Criticism Online - Includes Gale's poetry Criticism and Shakespearean Criticism

MLA - The Modern Language Association's index to literature, languages, linguistics and folklore publications.

Music Online - Standard music reference sources as well as sound and videos covering classical, world music and jazz.  Also opera and dance videos.  Reference components include:

• American Song - An online music database that provides access to the music from America's past.
• Classical Music Library
• Classical Music Reference Library - Included titles: Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music.
• Classical Scores Library
• Contemporary World Music
• Dance in Video - Provides online videos of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century.
• Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
• Jazz Music Library - A comprehensive collection of jazz online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.
• Opera in Video - Provides online videos of 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video as well as interviews, and documentaries
• Smithsonian Global Sound - a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.

Naxos Music Library - The world´s largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 52,677 CDs with more than 756,740 tracks, standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Critical Thinking) - Provides full-text resources on popular topics from abortion to women’s rights, highlighting opposite viewpoints and pro/con perspectives on each topic.  Includes access to the Opposing Viewpoints series of books published by Greenhaven Press. Also includes articles from magazines, newspapers and journals, as well as statistics, multimedia, reference sources and websites relevant to topics.  

Opposing Viewpoint in Context - Highlights contemporary issues from 9/11 to illegal immigrants and obesity and zero tolerance policies using easy to navigate resources that include featured viewpoints, articles from the news, journals and magazines, as well as audio and video clips.  Includes relevant statistics, reference materials and websites. 

Oxford Art Online - Includes Grove Art Online and contains articles on all aspects of the visual arts, including biographies of important artists as well as a comprehensive art image collection. More information

Philosopher's Index - Indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields, from 1940 to the present.

Religion and Philosophy Collection - Indexes world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. (This database is a subset of Academic Search Premier.)

World History Abstracts including U.S. and Canada - Combined index including Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life.

Business and Law

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry - Indexes publications on every major industry including finance, insurance, transportation, construction and many others. More information

Business Source Complete - Indexes 3,800 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. More information

Conference Board Research Online - Includes research reports on key business topics, national compensation surveys, the  periodical Across the Board and analysis of current economic topics, forecasts and presentations of research report findings.

EDGAR - Database of filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Find Law - A searchable directory of Internet legal resources

HeinOnline - Comprehensive fulltext collection of law revision and legal research material.

LexisNexis - Full-text database that covers a wide variety of subjects including law, government, international affairs, politics, current events, business and medicine.

LexisNexis Statistical DataSets-Provides statistical data from licensed and public domain datasets, including national and international data for agriculture, education, criminal justice, energy, natural resources, labor, economic indicators, transportation,  vital statistics, etc.

Regional Business News - Full-text coverage for regional U.S. business publications.

RIA Checkpoint - Provides access to a wide array of primary and secondary source materials for accounting and tax law.

Washington State Legislation and Laws - The Revised Code of Washington (RCW), the Washington Administrative Code (WAC), as well as the state legislation session laws (1997-present) and the Washington State Register (1998-present).

Education

eLibrary Elementary - Geared to the K-6 audience with over 100 full text sources.

ERIC -Citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals. More information

K-12 - Simultaneous searching of EBSCO Animals, MAS Ultra. Middle Search Plus and Primary search. All targeted to the K-12 audience.

Mas Ultra - Designed for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 550 popular general interest and current events publications as well as images and reference tools.

Middle Search Plus - Provides full-text for more than 150 popular, magazines for middle and jr. high school research and includes primary source documents and biographies. Also provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals.

Primary Search - Provides full-text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. Also provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals.

Professional Development - Indexes core journals needed by professional educators.

SPORTDiscus with full-text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports & sports medicine literature and includes full text coverage of more than 350 journals.

Engineering and Applied Sciences

ACM Digital Library - Association of Computing Machinery full-text online database. More information

Agricola - Indexes journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. More information

Computer Source - Full-text access to journals in computer science and technology.

Ei Engineering Village includes Compendex Engineering Index - Indexes over 5,000 engineering periodicals, conference proceedings and related materials.

IEEE - Full-text of IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines published since 1998.

General

Academic Search Complete - Academic multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications. More information

Audiobook Collection - (formerly known as NetLibrary)

C-SPAN Archives - Includes digital archives of all congressional sessions and committee hearings available free online since 1987 with linked full-text from the Congressional Record.   Programs are searchable by subject, speakers, committees, etc. 

Catalog of U.S.Government Publications(CGP) - Index to print and electronic publications created by agencies of the U.S. Government. More information

Choice Reviews Online - Reviews of academic books in all fields of higher education.

Dissertations and Theses: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection (1637-present) - This database includes more than 1 million theses and dissertations with abstracts, 24-page previews, and full-text, if available, for dissertations from other universities.

eBook Collection - (formerly known as NetLibrary)

Fuente Academica - Full-text Spanish language academic journals from renowned Latin American, South American and Spanish publishers.

Gale Directory Library - Access to directories published by Gale, including Encyclopedia of Associations, Brands and their Companies and Market Share Reporter, as well as the Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media.

Gale Virtual Reference Library -Includes reference sources from selected dictionaries, directories, and encyclopedias.

GPO Government Publication Index (First Search)

Ingenta - Tables of contents for over 25,000 journalsand document delivery of full-text.

JSTOR - Full-text core scholarly journals beginning with v. 1 of each title. More information

LexisNexis - Full-text database that covers a wide variety of subjects including law, government, international affairs, politics, current events, business and medicine.

MasterFILE Premier - Multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975.

Military & Government Collection - Full-text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles pertaining to all branches fo the military and government.

National Newspapers - Full-text of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times from ProQuest, Christian Science Monitor and regional newspapers.

NetLibrary E-Books - Electronic book collection of over 3,000 eBook titles and over 2,000 Audiobooks, as well as over 3,400 publicly-accessible eBooks.

Newspaper Source - Selected full-text for 25 national and international newspapers, television and radio transcripts and 200 regional newspapers.

NoveList - Online readers' advisory for adult fiction titles.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Critical Thinking) - Provides full-text resources on popular topics from abortion to women’s rights, highlighting opposite viewpoints and pro/con perspectives on each topic. Includes access to the Opposing Viewpoints series of books published by Greenhaven Press. Also includes articles from magazines, newspapers and journals, as well as statistics, multimedia, reference sources and websites relevant to topics.  

Opposing Viewpoint in Context - Highlights contemporary issues from 9/11 to illegal immigrants and obesity and zero tolerance policies using easy to navigate resources that include featured viewpoints, articles from the news, journals and magazines, as well as audio and video clips.  Includes relevant statistics, reference materials and websites. 

Project Muse - Provides access to 400 journals from university presses and scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literature, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and others. 

ProQuest's Digital Microfilm - Provides a digital copy of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, microfilm versions.

ProQuest Direct - An interdisciplinary index of magazines, newspapers and scholarly journals.

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature Retrospective(Wilson) - Indexing from 1890-1982 of over 300 popular magazines.

STAT-USA/Internet - provides business, trade and economic information and the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB).

Topic Search - Current events database of topics discussed in today's classrooms.

Washington State Newsstand - Full-text coverage of Washington newspapers including the daily newspapers from Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane and Vancouver.

World Cat - OCLC's comprehensive catalog of books and resources owned by libraries around the world.

Nursing/Medicine

Alt HealthWatch - Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990. More information

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) - Indexes current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1937. More information

Clinical Pharmacology - This database is no longer available. The information from this databases is now available through these other databases: Health Source: Consumer Edition, and Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Cochrane Library - A collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Cochrane reviews excel in providing information on evidence-based health care.

Ebsco Health Journals - Searches: Alt Healthwatch, Clinical Pharmacology, Health Source – Consumer Edition and Health Source – Nursing/Academic Edition.

Health Source-Consumer Edition - Consumer oriented health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - Scholarly full text journals focusing on academic journals for nursing and medicine.

MDConsult - Provides resources that meet the clinical content needs of medical professionals.

MedicLatina - Full-text of more than 140 peer-reviewed Spanish language medical journals from Latin American and Spain.

Medline - Created by the National Library of Medicine, Medline provides abstracts of over 4,600 current medical and biomedical journals.

Mosby's Nursing Consult - Provides authoritative information for patient care, including the latest drug information, journal articles, reference sources, clinical practice, evidence-based content, and care planning tools.

PubMed - Access to Medline, and additional biomedical information resources.

PubMed Central - A full-text subset of the PubMed database, PubMed Central is free and unrestricted.

Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing - Registry of Nursing Research, an electronic research resource containing abstracts of over 16,000 studies.

SPORTDiscus - A definitive research tool for all areas of sports & sports medicine literature, which includes full text coverage of more than 350 journals.

UpToDate - An evidence based, peer reviewed information resource for medical professionals. Available only through Gonzaga’s NURSING DEPARTMENT. Graduate nursing students will be granted access to this resource when enrolled in the classes in which this information is needed. Contact, Diane Moore moored@gonzaga.edu

Religion

ATLA Religion Index - Indexes journals covering Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. More information

Catholic Periodicals and Literature Index - Indexes citations to articles published in Roman Catholic periodicals, papal documents, church promulgations, and selected books about the Catholic faith. More information

New Catholic Encyclopedia - Access to the 15th ed. via the Gale virtual Reference Library

New Testament Abstracts - Indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to NewTestament studies. More information

Old Testament Abstracts - Indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies.

Sciences

ACM Digital Library - Association of Computing Machinery full-text online database. Gonzaga is subscribed to the Digital Library Core Package which provides access to journals and magazines. Access is not available to conference proceedings and SIG publications. More information

ACS Publications - American Chemical Society full-text publications.

Agricola - Indexes journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. More information

Environment Complete - Environment Complete covers the fields of agriculture, ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, waste management, environmental law, public policy, urban planning and related fields with about 1,000 journals indexed and 600 full-text titles. More information

GreenFILE - A bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns.

Institute of Physics - Online access to Journal of Physics.

MathSciNet - MathSciNet provides access to  the mathematical sciences literature with a searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic citations for over 400 journals.

PROLA Physical Review Online Archive - Physical Review online.

SciFinder Scholar - Chemical Abstracts online. Logins and client software provided by the Chemistry Dept.

Science Citation Index, (1965-present) - use Web of Knowledge

SciFinder Scholar - Chemical Abstracts online. Logins and client software provided by the Chemistry Dept. More information

SPORTDiscus - A research tool for all areas of sports & sports medicine literature and includes full text coverage of more than 350 journals.

Sustainability Watch - Full-text database, which includes current information on topics related to energy and  fuels, regulatory issues, carbon emissions, economic stimulus, waste and recycling, water resources and other aspects of sustainability.

Web of Knowledge -   A multidisciplinary citation index to the journal literature of the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences, this database indexes over 6,650 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines and 1,950 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines. In addition, it includes all cited references captured from indexed articles.

Web of Science - Use Web of Knowledge

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) - Full-text database for research in international affairs.

Communication & Mass Media Complete - Indexes publications covering all aspects of communication, mass media, journalism, rhetoric, and speech.

LexisNexis - Full text database that covers a wide variety of subjects including law, government, international affairs, politics, current events, business and medicine.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts - Indexes criminal justice journal articles, as well as a broad range of other research materials.

Psyc Critiques - APA's online resource for book reviews, featuring  full-text reviews of current professional books in the field of psychology.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection - Indexes topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. (This database is a subset of the Academic Search Premier).

PsycINFO - Published by the APA, PsycINFO contains over two million citations and abstracts of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology, dating as far back as 1840. More information

Social ScienceCitation Index, (1965-present) - Use Web of Knowledge

SocINDEX with Full Text - Comprehensive index to sociology publications, including full-text access to many journals. More information

SPORTDiscus - A definitive research tool for all areas of sports and sports medicine literature with full-text coverage of more than 350 journals.

World Conflict Today - Provides in-depth profiles of ten important conflicts in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Basque Region, Columbia, Darfur, Iraq, Jammu and Kashmir, Korea, Northern Ireland and the Palestinian Territories.