Databases: Database Descriptions

Covers a broad array of subjects including biology, chemistry, physics, education, health, psychology, religion & theology, and social work.

Academic Search ™ Premier contains indexing for 8,200 publications, with full text for more than 4,650 of those titles. Over 6,800 peer-reviewed journals are indexed, with full text for 3,600 titles.

Searches scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

JSTOR, (short for Journal Storage) covers journals in business, economics, education, history, political science, literature, sociology, ecology, mathematics, and statistics.

Information on current social issues: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, and links to selected web sites.

A database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages.

Produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world. Use the edition drop down to select news from selected countries.

Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for for nearly 100 regional U.S. and Canadian business publications.

Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
Accessing Nexis Uni requires an account. You can create an account while on the campus network. Please contact a librarian for help creating an account from off-campus.

Searches Philosopher's Index, the multidisciplinary Academic Search Premier and EBSCOhost eBooks. Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy dating from1940 - present, and is updated quarterly.

Searches ATLA Religion Database, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search Premier. ATLA Religion Database covers topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues.

Includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

Searches the following databases: CINAHL with Full Text, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, AHFS Consumer Medication Information, SPORTDiscus, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search Premier.

Searches the JBI Library of Systematic Reviews, a fully refereed library that publishes systematic reviews of literature following the JBI methodology.

Information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues for patients and their families in language you can understand. MedLinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families.

An evidence-based natural medicines resource designed for healthcare professionals.

The Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database is recognized as the scientific gold standard for evidence-based information on natural medicines. Leaders in conventional medicine as well as complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine recognize the Database as the go-to resource for the most complete and practical information.

PubMed comprises over 22 million citations in the fields of life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering.

PubMed is produced by the National Library of Medicine.

Covers sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law & legislation, college & university sport, disabled persons, facility design & management, intramural & school sport, doping, health, health education, biomechanics, movement science, injury prevention rehabilitation, physical therapy, nutrition, exercise physiology, sport & exercise psychology, recreation, leisure studies, tourism, allied health, occupational health & therapy, public health and more.

Includes doctoral dissertations and master's theses from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities in North America and from around the globe.

A comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.

Searches the following databases: Business Source Premier, Regional Business News, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search Premier.

Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
Accessing Nexis Uni requires an account. You can create an account while on the campus network. Please contact a librarian for help creating an account from off-campus.

Providing the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for more than 650 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 850 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for over 500 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable cited references from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915). CMMC contains a sophisticated Communication Thesaurus and comprehensive reference browsing (i.e., searchable cited references for peer-reviewed journals covered as "core").

Searches the following databases: Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, SocINDEX with Full Text, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search Premier.

Searches the following databases: Education Research Complete, ERIC, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search Premier.

To access this database off-campus, you may need to click on the Open Athens tile and search Alvernia by name. Then sign in.

Searches the following databases: PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search Premier.

Searches SocINDEX, the multidisciplinary Academic Search Premier and EBSCOhost eBooks. SocINDEX offers coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.

SocINDEX also features over 10,000 Author Profiles covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database. Coverage dates as far back as 1895. Includes journals books/monographs, conference papers, and other non-periodical content sources.