Databases by Subject - General & Multidisciplinary

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Database Title	Description	Coverage	Some Full Text	Restricted to...^†
Academic OneFile	Search full-text articles on physical science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Full Text Titles Included	1980-	Y
ArticleFirst	Citations from 15,000+ journals on all topics. Titles Indexed \| Search Tips	1990-	N
Biography Resource Center	Biographical information on people from throughout history. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Current	Y
Blackwell Synergy	Search Blackwell Synergy for access to more than 770 full text journals on many topics areas: science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities. Titles Included \| Search Help	1879-	Y
Clase and Periodica	Index of scholarly Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities from documents published in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1975-	N
Dissertation Abstracts	Abstracts of doctoral dissertations completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions. Search Tips	1861-	N
ebrary	26,000+ full text books on many topics: Business & Economics, Computers, Technology & Engineering, Humanities, Life & Physical Sciences, Social & Behavioral Sciences, and Datamonitor Industry Reports.	Current	Y
EBSCOhost Business Source Premier	Includes full text for 2,300+ business journals, indexes 3,300+ titles, as well as industry reports and company profiles from Datamonitor. Journals Included \| Other Sources \| Tutorial	1922-	Y
EBSCOhost Electronic Journal Service	Access 680+ full text journals. Journals Included	Varies	Y
Engineering Village	Abstracts from Compendex and INSPEC databases, with links to full text articles, patents, standards and handbooks in scientific, applied science, technical and engineering disciplines.Search Tips	1969+	Y
FirstSearch Databases	Access more than 25 databases covering a wide range of topics and materials. Search Tips	Varies	N
Google Scholar	Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities.	Varies	Y	For best results, use Proxy
HighWire Press	From Stanford University, includes Web versions of 920+ journals in biological, physical, medical, and social sciences. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
IngentaConnect	Multidisciplinary database containing references to articles published in over 28,000 journals. Also serves as an alerting service. WPI has access to a few full text titles.	1988-	N
Issues & Controversies	Articles and information on prominent and hotly-debated issues.	1995-	Y
JSTOR	Online archive of complete backruns of scholarly journals in a variety of academic fields. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1800s-	Y
LEXIS ®-NEXIS® Academic	Full text news, legal, business, and biographical information. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
Library Catalog	Search for WPI library materials including print and electronic books, journals, and audio visual materials. Search Tips	Varies	Y
OCLC Electronic Collections Online	Multidisciplinary index of scholarly journals. Titles Indexed	1995-	N
Periodical Abstracts	Indexing and abstracts for over 2,000 popular and academic periodicals. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1987-	N
PubMed	From the National Library of Medicine, covers clinical medicine, dentistry, nursing and nutrition. Same as MEDLINE. Titles Included \| Search Tips \| Tutorial	1966-	N
Readers' Guide Retrospective	The Readers' Guide Index to Periodical Literature back to 1890. Titles Included	1890 - 1982	N
ScienceDirect	Full text access to Elsevier Science scholarly journals. Search Tips \| Tutorial	Varies	Y
Gale PowerSearch	Database of abstracts and full text articles in newspapers, magazines, and journals.	1980-	Y
WilsonSelectPlus	Multidiscplinary index of periodicals. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1994-	N
WorldCat	Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Search Tips	1200-	N

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