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List of Databases A to Z - TEXT ONLY EDITION      

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
This version of the databases is intended for use with dial-up internet access or use with adaptive software programs. Note not all databases are available in this version.  It includes off-campus access routing.
Off campus access information                                                     
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ABI/INFORM

Dates Covered: 1971 - present
Description: Indexes and abstracts US and international trade magazines, academic and professional journals; with some full text.
Restrictions: One user limit; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Journal abstracts

Academic Search Premier

Dates Covered: 1970 - present
Description: Indexes journals in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies and education.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles and abstracts

African American Biographical Database

Dates Covered: 1800s - 1998
Description: Includes reference materials and journal articles with biographical information.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles and reference materials.

AGRICOLA

Dates Covered: 1983 - present
Description: Indexes journals in agriculture and ecology.
Restrictions: One user limit; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Journal abstracts

Alternative Press Index

Dates Covered: 1975 - present
Description: Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political, and social change.
Restrictions: One user limit; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Journal abstracts

Art Museum Image Gallery

Description: Art images from major U.S. and World Museums.  Includes thumbnail, medium and large density photographs.  Note: while these images maybe downloaded they are only for "educational use only."  If you have questions contact a librarian.
Restrictions: Carroll users only and for "educational use only."
Resource Type: Images

ATLA Religion Index

Dates Covered: 1949 - present
Description: Indexes journals, books, book reviews and essay collections in religion and theology; with abstracts.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Book reviews and journal articles

Badger Cat

Description: Unlimited searching for the OCLC World Cat database which includes library records from all over the United States and some international holdings. 
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Online catalog

Basic BIOSIS

Dates Covered: Current year and most recent four update years
Description: Basic information about biology and other life sciences.
Restrictions: One user limit; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Journal abstracts

Bio Digest


Dates Covered: 1989 – present
Description: Life science information written in a non-technical style.
Restrictions: One user limit; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Journal abstracts

Bio One

Dates Covered: 1989 – present
Description: Indexes peer-reviewed bio-science journals and bulletins published by AIBS member societies.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles

Books in Print

Description: Catalog of books currently published in the US.
Restrictions: One user limit; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Publishing information.

Business Dateline

Dates Covered: 1994 - present
Description: Indexes US and international trade magazines
Restrictions: One user limit; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Journal abstracts.

Business Management

Dates Covered: 1994 - present
Description: Indexes US and international trade magazines
Restrictions: One user limit; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Journal abstracts

Business Organizations

Dates Covered: 1994 - present
Description: Indexes US and international trade magazines
Restrictions: One user limit; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Organizational information

Business Source Elite

Dates Covered: 1984 - present
Description: Indexes journals in business, management, economics, finance and accounting; with full text.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

Choice Reviews

Dates Covered: 1988 - present
Description: Book and electronic resources reviews by subject specialists.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text book reviews.

  CINAHL Plus Full-Text

Dates Covered: 1937 - present
Description: Indexes over 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, back to 1937. Many items are full text PDF's. 
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

College Source

Dates Covered: 1992 - present
Description: A virtual library of 27,417 college catalogs in full cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools.
Restrictions: Carroll users only; On-campus access only
Resource Type: Full-text college catalogs.

Com Abstracts

Dates Covered: 1989 - present
Description: Indexes 48 journals in communication; with abstracts.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Journal abstracts.

Communications & Mass Media

Dates Covered: 1915 - present
Description: Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

Corporate Resource Net

Dates Covered: 1985 - present
Description: A collection of trade and some scholarly business journal and magazines.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals

Dates Covered: 1990 - present
Description: Provides links to journals in History, Religion, Philosophy and the Sciences.  All journals are open access journals meaning their research articles are available for free; however, they are still under copyright by the author and journal publisher.
Restrictions: None; open access journals.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

Ebrary Computer Science

Dates Covered: 2000 - present
Description: A full-text ebook database with over 2,500 computer science books.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text ebooks .

Ebsco Text Only Edition

Dates Covered: 1937 - present
Description: A text only interface for those who use adaptive reading software.  Provides access to all Ebsco databases except Scientific American.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type:Full-text journal articles, book reviews, etc.

ECO Index




Dates Covered: 1969 - present
Description: OCLC's Electronic Collections Online indexes journals, books, book reviews and dissertations in a wide variety of areas including politics, criminal justice, history, english, business, and science.
Restrictions: One user limit; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Journal abstracts.

Econ Lit



Dates Covered: 1969 - present
Description: Indexes journals, books, book reviews and dissertations in economics; with abstracts.
Restrictions: One user limit; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Journal abstracts.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Description: Full-text online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Also includes an online version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text information, biographies, encyclopedias.

ERIC

Dates Covered: 1966 - present
Description: Indexes journals and documents in education; with abstracts, lesson plans and some full-text ERIC documents.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Conference & working papers, curriculum resources, journal articles, and primary sources

Ethnic News watch

Dates Covered: 1960 - present
Description: Indexes US ethnic and minority publications; with full text.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text book reviews and newspapers

GenderWatch

Dates Covered: 1970s - present
Description: Indexes unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles, books, newsletters, etc.

General Science Full-Text

Dates Covered: 1975 - present
Description: Indexes journals in the physical and life sciences; with abstracts.
Restrictions: Carroll users only; one user limit.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

GeoBase

Dates Covered: 1980 - present
Description: Indexes publications in geography, geology and environmental sciences; with abstracts.
Restrictions: One user limit; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Journal abstracts.

GPO Access - The Government  Printing Office

Dates Covered: 1990 - present
Description: The online listing of government databases, full-text access to current public papers of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the U.S. Government.
Restrictions: None
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Dates Covered: 1984 - present
Description: Indexes scholarly journals in many medical disciplines; with full text.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Journal articles

Humanities International Complete

 

Dates Covered: 1975 - present
Description: Provides indexing and abstracting for books, reference sources and over 1,700 journals in the humanities.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles, books and reference sources.

Ingenta

 

Description: Completely interdisciplinary indexing and abstract database of almost 30,000 publications. 
Restrictions: Free to search, no free full-text. Articles are available on a pay-per-use basis. 
Resource Type: Journal article abstracts, books and reference sources.

JSTOR

Dates Covered: 1900 to 2-5 yrs. ago
Description: The full text of more than 400 journals in business, social sciences, science, and the humanities; all searchable by author, title and date.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles

LexisNexis Academic


Description: Indexes newspaper articles, wire service reports and transcripts of TV and radio broadcasts; with full text in English and other languages.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Book reviews, broadcasts, and full-text newspapers.

LexisNexis Academic: Business

Description: Indexes journals and newspapers in business and accounting; with full text and company financial reports, SEC filings and reports.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles, SEC filings, etc.

LexisNexis Academic: Legal


Description: Indexes newspapers, law reviews, government documents and other sources; with full text.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Case law, book reviews, government documents, Journal Articles.

LexisNexis Academic: Reference

Description: Biographies, concise country statistics, US state profiles, Roper Public opinion poll and survey results and the World Almanac.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Background information, biographies, country guides, polls & surveys.

Lit Finder

Description: Lit Finder incorporates three resources: Poem Finder, Story Finder, and Essay/Speech/Play Finder.  Each resource provides a search interface to thousands of full-text documents, literary excerpts and citations.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles, citations.

Master File Premier

Dates Covered: 1975 - present
Description: Indexes general-interest and current-events magazines.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

Medical Reference Books (Gale)

Description: Contains four books in the Nursing and Medical fields; Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health, and Nutrition and Wellbeing A to Z.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Electronic reference books.

Medline | Pub Med

Dates Covered: 1966 - present
Description: Indexes biomedical and life science journals. To simultaneously search MEDLINE (1966-) and OLDMEDLINE (1958-1965), use Pub Med.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

Dates Covered: 1998 - present
Description: Indexes major publications reference and journal articles in the medical field; including trials and materials in evidence based medicine. Restrictions: Carroll Students Only
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles, and reference books.

Dates Covered: 1920s - present
Description: Index contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers.
Restrictions: Carroll Students Only
Resource Type: Journal abstracts, book reviews, and some full-text.

Dates Covered: 1920s - present
Description: Index contains information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the Modern Language Association's International Bibliography.
Restrictions: Carroll Students Only
Resource Type: Publisher and publishing information.

Net Library

Description: Business, nursing, computer science and psychology books, along with classic titles from literature.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Electronic books

Newspaper Archive

Dates Covered: 1795 - present
Description: Includes early excerpts of the New York Times, Washington Post, and other regional, national and international newspapers.  Note: it is not complete.
Restrictions: Available through Badgerlink's EBSCO host.
Resource Type: Full-text newspapers.

Newspapers(ProQuest)

Dates Covered: 1986 – present
Description: Includes national and leading regional papers such as The New York Times, USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlanta Journal / Constitution, Baron's, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, and The Washington Post.  Abstracting and indexing are available for more than 350 papers.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text newspapers.

Newspaper Source

Dates Covered: 1994 - present
Description: Indexes regional, national and international newspapers.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text newspapers

Nursing and Allied Health Collection

Dates Covered: 1985 - present
Description: A collection of an additional 100 full-text journals that are indexed in CINAHL.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

Oxford English Dictionary

Description: Detailed etymologies for nearly every word in the English language.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Dictionaries

Oxford Reference Collection

Description: Contains over 150 dictionaries and encyclopedias in business, health science, art, history, religion and more.
Restrictions: Carroll users only. There is a 5 user maximum.
Resource Type: Dictionaries and encyclopedias.

Professional Development Collection

Dates Covered: varies - present
Description: Provides indexing and abstracting for over 595 education journals. Full text is provided for more than 500 of these, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

PsycArticles

Dates Covered: 1988 - present
Description: Covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. Database contains more than 25,000 searchable full text articles from 47 journals.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Dissertations, and full-text journal articles.

PsycInfo

Dates Covered: 1887 - present
Description: Indexes journals, dissertations, books and book chapters in all areas of psychology; with abstracts. Now includes PsycArticles, full text articles from selected journals.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Dissertations, book reviews, journal articles.

PubChem

Description: Includes three linked databases; PubChem Compound, Substance, and BioAssay.  Allows users to check out unique structure illustrations as well as known Bio-activity known results.
Restrictions: None, available freely from the NIH.
Resource Type: Deposited research reference materials.

PubMed

Dates Covered: 1966 - present
Description: Indexes biomedical journals from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Also links to molecular biology databases of DNA/protein sequences and 3-D structure data.
Restrictions: None, available freely from the NIH.
Resource Type: Journal articles

PubMed Central

Dates Covered: 1966 - present
Description: The full-text depository for most open access journals in the medical field and bio-sciences
Restrictions: None, open access journal articles.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

Ref Works

Description: A personal citation database, that the user can sort, store, apply bibliographic styles, and create a bibliography. 
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Personal citation tool and storage database.
Off Campus Access: Call the Reference Desk for permission and the Group Code 650-4892.
More Tutorial Information: Library's
Ref Works Instructions.

Regional Business News

Dates Covered: 1993 - present
Description: A collection of news sources, with some full-text.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text journal and news articles.

Sage Journals Online

Dates Covered: 1999 - present
Description: Indexes and provides full-text journals in the fields of Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
Restrictions: Carroll Users only.
Resource Type: Journal articles

Science.gov

Dates Covered: 1998 - present
Description: Indexes publications and research articles published by the core science agencies of the U.S. Government.  Agencies include: Dept. of Defense, National Geological Survey, National Library of Medicine, National Science Foundation, NASA, and more.
Restrictions: None, available freely from the National Science Foundation.
Resource Type: Journal articles

Dates Covered: 2001 - present in full-text & indexes back to 1980s
Description: Indexes major publications in the life and health sciences.  Includes over 950 full-text journal titles and several reference titles.
Restrictions: Carroll Students Only
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles, and reference books.

Teaching Books.net

Description: Included are original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, thousands of book guides with activities for the library and classroom for grades PreK-12.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Electronic books.

Thomas

Dates Covered: 1989 - present
Description: A database of legislative information of the US Congress, provided by the Library of Congress. Includes; the Congressional Record, Committee Reports, bills and laws as well as other Congressional links.
Restrictions: None
Resource Type: Government legislative database.

Turn-it-in

Description: An online plagiarism and citation checking tool for students and faculty.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Online plagiarism and citation checking database.

Women and Social Movements


Description: An unique database that includes 26,000 pages of additional full-text documents, 1,900 primary source documents, and 1,520 primary authors. It also includes book, film and web site reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Primary sources and full-text articles.

World Cat

Description: Unlimited searching for the OCLC World Cat database which includes library records from all over the United States and some international holdings. 
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Online catalog

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