Database Descriptions (in alphabetical order)

Academic Onefile
Academic OneFile is a source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Literature indexed includes general interest magazines, refereed academic journals, business publications, social science, scientific and technology periodicals, law journals, healthcare periodicals, newspapers and newswire services. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. It includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database that indexes articles from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers. This database covers a wide range of topics in current events, history, medicine, arts and humanities, the sciences and more. Currently, Academic Search Premier indexes more than 8,000 titles and provides some full text for more than 4,500 titles. Coverage for most titles begins in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The earliest available date in Academic Search Premier is 1975. Coverage varies by title. Content is updated daily.

America’s Newspapers: NC
America's Newspapers from NewsBank provides full-text articles from electronic newspaper editions for over 600 U.S. newspapers. The NC section includes the following newspapers: Asheville-Citizen Times, Charlotte Observer, Cleveland Post, Cleveland Post, Daily Advance, Daily Reflector, Fayetteville Observer, Greensboro News & Record, Durham Herald Sun, Laurinburg Exchange, Mount Airy News, Raleigh News and Observer (including The Chapel Hill News), The Robesonian, Rocky Mount Telegram, Sampson Independent, Wilmington Star-News, and Winston-Salem Journal.

CAMIO—Catalog of Art Museum Images Online
OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online — is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms.

CINAHL with Full Text
CINAHL with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 520 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1982, CINAHL with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.

CQ Researcher
This database explores a single "hot" issue in the news each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education, and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports.

eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
The eHRAF Collection of Ethnography is a unique cross-cultural database with full-text ethnographies that are subject-indexed at the paragraph-level for precise retrieval of information on all aspects of cultural and social life. These materials are relevant to the various social science disciplines as well as the humanities and health sciences.

eHRAF instructions
eHRAF's subject retrieval system allows for "conceptual" rather than "keyword" searches as the full-text is indexed with 3-digit subject codes. For example, you can search the concept "mythology" more effectively by using the subject code "773" rather than words. To find the subject codes, log on to the ethnographic database and click on the blue "browse" tab, then "browse subjects" (left-hand margin), and then on "browse subject categories" (left-hand margin). Select a subject code from over 700 diverse topics and read its description. You may also print the list of subject codes. To search for ethnographic information on a particular subject code, click on the blue "search" tab, type in the 3-digit number in the "OCM Subject Codes" box and click on "Search." The database will then search all the indexed ethnographic documents and cultures for the topic that you have selected. For more information on how to search this database, please view the "eHRAF Tutorial" or the "Search Methods, Tips, and Examples" section at www.yale.edu/hraf/userguides.html.

INFOTRAC Health Reference Center
Health related articles, magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information. Note: Other Infotrac databases can now be found in the NCLIVE database (listed above).

Journal of Black Psychology
The Journal of Black Psychology has been the leading forum on the psychological study of Black populations for over two decades. Founded and sponsored by the Association of Black Psychologists, The Journal of Black Psychology presents the most innovative scholarly research and theory on the behavior of Black and other populations from Black or Afrocentric perspectives.

JSTOR Language and Literature
The 58 journal titles in the Language & Literature Collection span the literary cultures of many different countries, and contain articles in several languages, including Arabic, Italian, and German. Developed with the help of the Modern Language Association, this collection includes PMLA (the association’s journal) and a range of core literary criticism journals.

JSTOR Social Science (Arts and Sciences II Collection)
The Arts & Sciences II Collection is home to 125 titles. This collection adds depth to many disciplines introduced in Arts & Sciences I, such as economics, history, and Asian studies. Arts & Sciences II also offers core journals in several new disciplines, such as archaeology, classics, and African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic studies.

Lexis-Nexis
Restricted to use by paralegal students. Online database for legal research and news, with full- text data retrieval, including cases, statutes, codes, regulations, rules, and legal texts.

Literature Resource Center
The Literature Resource Center on GaleNet is a complete literature reference database designed for both the undergraduate and graduate student as well as the sophisticated casual user. It is built on various Gale author and literary criticism series, including Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary, Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Drama for Students, Literature from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature of Developing Nations for Students, Literature and Its Times, Novels for Students, Poetry Criticism, Poetry for Students, Shakespearean Criticism, Shakespeare for Students, Short Story Criticism, Short Stories for Students, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. In addition, users can access current, full-text critical essays on major authors via the Literature Resource Center's link to more than 260 prominent literary journals.

Mary Ann Liebert Journals
This group of peer-reviewed medical and health-related journals from Liebert Online delivers electronic access to peer-reviewed journals published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Content exceeds 30,000 papers from over 60 journals, all full-text searchable and linked to external bibliographic databases. Articles can be accessed via the "for printing" link listed below the title of the article.

NCLIVE home page
This extensive database contains searchable collections of magazine, newspaper, and journal articles as well as encyclopedias, company profiles, business journals for many industries, health information, books in print, electronic books, poetry, resources for children, historical materials, maps, and North Carolina information resources. Information may be browsed by subject or information type. A full listing of NCLIVE databases can be obtained at the Library circulation desk.

OVID (Subscription expiring October 31, 2007—will no longer be available after this time)
This searchable database offers 27 fulltext nursing and health journals. Note: after October 31 if you are no longer able to find these journal titles offered by OVID, please ask for help at the reference desk.

ProQuest Science Journals
With coverage dating back to 1986, ProQuest Science Journals features over 490 titles--with more than 380 available in full text. These journals cover hundreds of topics relating to all major fields of study, including: physics, engineering, astronomy, biology, earth sciences and chemistry. Articles are available in full text and/or text + graphics and/or PDF formats.

PsycARTICLES
Full text articles from nearly 50 top psychology journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe and Huber.

Science Direct (NEW!)
Science Direct offers access to the Elsevier Science journal collection along with journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers. This database encompasses a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, containing the full text of more than 1,000 Elsevier Science journals. Subject coverage includes the life, medical, technical, social and physical sciences.

Westlaw Primary
Available to all Durham Tech users on campus, Westlaw Campus offers access to the following materials: cases and statutes from state and federal courts, federal regulations, and annotations from American Law Reports, articles from law encyclopedias, law reviews, and law journals.