The University of West Alabama

Julia S. Tutwiler Library

Databases by Subject

These are suggested databases for your subject.  Please be sure look at other databases as well.  Almost all databases will have some information on your subject.

Note: Please refer to the Databases by Title page for full descriptions of each database.

Arts, Literature & Humanities

Book Reviews

Business

Education

Foreign Language

General Interest

Government & Law

Health & Medicine

History

Jobs & Careers

K-12  Resources

Library Media

Newspapers

Reference

Science and Math

Social Sciences (Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Psychology, and Sociology )

Arts, Literature & Humanities

Contemporary Authors (Gale Group)
Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select (Gale Group)
Dictionary of Literary Biography (Gale Group)
English Studies
 
(Taylor & Francis)
Humanities International Complete
(EBSCO)
JSTOR Arts & Sciences III Collection
LION (Literature Online) (Chadwyck-Healy)
Literary Reference Center (EBSCO)
Literature Resource Center (Gale Group)
LitFinder (Gale Group)
MLA Directory of Periodicals (EBSCO)
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
Patrologia Latina (Chadwyck-Healy)
ProQuest Religion

Scribner Writers Series (Gale Group)
Twayne's Authors Series (Gale Group)

Book Review

Children's Catalog and Children's Catalog Archive (H.W. Wilson)
Literary Reference Center (EBSCO)

Literature Resource Center (Gale Group)
Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog and MJHSLC Archive (H.W.Wilson)

Senior High School Library Catalog and SHSLC Archive (H.W.Wilson)

Business

ABI 
Business and Company Resource Center (Gale Group)
Business Database (ReferenceUSA)
Business Index ASAP (Gale Group)
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete (ProQuest)
Hoover's Company Records (ProQuest)
Omnitax Internet School Library  (CCH Group)
Patents Database 
ProQuest Accounting & Tax
ProQuest Asian Business and Reference
ProQuest Banking Information Source
ProQuest Career and Technical Education
ProQuest Computing
ProQuest Telecommunications
ReferenceUSA (Business Database)
Regional Business News (EBSCO)
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest)
Wall Street Journal - Historical (ProQuest)

Education
Children's Catalog and Children's Catalog Archive (H.W. Wilson)
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
Education Journals (ProQuest)
Educator's Reference Desk
ERIC (ProQuest)  
 ERIC (EBSCO)
ERIC (U.S. Dept. of Education)
Gateway to 21st Century Skills
Mental Measurements Yearbook (Ovid)
Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog and MJHSLC Archive (H.W.Wilson)
Professional Collection (Gale Group)
Professional Development Collection  (EBSCO)
ProQuest Education Journals

ProQuest Psychology Journals
PsycINFO (EBSCO)
Senior High School Library Catalog and SHSLC Archive (H.W.Wilson)
Wiley Interscience (Wiley)

Foreign Language

Clase & Periodica  (First Search/OCLC via AVL)
”Informe! (Revistas en Espańol) (Gale Group)

General Interest

Academic OneFile (Gale Group)
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) 
Alabama Virtual Library (AVL)
Article First (FirstSearch/OCLC via AVL)
Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson)
Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete (ProQuest)
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
EBSCO

ECO Electronic Collections Online (First Search/OCLC via AVL)
Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Group)
 FirstSearch (via AVL)  
FirstSearch (First Search/OCLC via password)
Gale Power Search
(Gale Group)
General Reference Center Gold (Gale Group)
GreenFILE (EBSCO)
Highwire Press (Stanford University)
InfoTrac (Gale Group)
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Gale Group)
Oxford University Press (OUP)
PapersFirst (FirstSearch/OCLC)
ProceedingsFirst (FirstSearch)
ProQuest
ProQuest Research Library (ProQuest)
SIRS Knowledge Source (ProQuest)
Wiley Interscience (Wiley)
WorldCat  (FirstSearch/OCLC via AVL)
WorldCat Dissertations (FirstSearch/OCLC via AVL)

Government & Law

GPO Access
GPO Monthly Catalog (
FirstSearch/OCLC via AVL)
Footnote.com
LegalTrac (Gale Group)
Military & Government Collection (EBSCO)
Patents Database 
ProQuest Military Collection
Statistical Abstract of the United States

Health & Medicine

Alt HeathWatch (EBSCO)
CINAHL Plus with Full Text  (EBSCO)
Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCO)
Health Source: Nursing Academic Edition  (EBSCO)
Mental Measurements Yearbook  (Ovid)
Pharmaceutical News Index (ProQuest)
ProQuest Psychology Journals
PsycINFO (EBSCO)
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
PubMed
Wiley Interscience (Wiley)

History

Accessible Archives
America:  History and Life (EBSCO)
Annals of American History (Encyclopędia Britannica)
Chronicling America
European History Quarterly
(Sage Publications)
Footnote.com
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
History Reference Center (EBSCO)
History Today

Jobs & Careers

ProQuest Career and Technical Education
Online Career Library  (Vault)
Vault Online Career Library

Vocational and Career Collection (EBSCO)

K-12 Resources

Book Collection: NonFiction (EBSCO)
Children's Catalog and Children's Catalog Archive (H.W. Wilson)
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database

EBSCO Animals
InfoTrac Junior Edition (Gale Group)
InfoTrac Kids Edition (Gale Group)
InfoTrac Student Edition (Gale Group)

Kid's InfoBits (Gale Group)
Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog and MJHSLC Archive (H.W.Wilson)
Middle Search Plus (EBSCO)
Primary Search (EBSCO)
Searchasaurus (EBSCO)
Senior High School Library Catalog and SHSLC Archive (H.W.Wilson)
SIRS Discoverer (ProQuest)
SIRS Knowledge Source (ProQuest)

Library Media

Children's Catalog and Children's Catalog Archive (H.W. Wilson)
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) (EBSCO)
LISTA with Full Text
LitFinder (Gale Group)
Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog and MJHSLC Archive (H.W.Wilson)
Professional Collection (Gale Group)
Professional Development Collection  (EBSCO)
ProQuest Education Journals

Senior High School Library Catalog and SHSLC Archive (H.W.Wilson)

Newspapers

Accessible Archives
Atlanta Journal & Constitution  (ProQuest)
Boston Globe (ProQuest)
Canadian Newsstand (ProQuest)
Chicago Tribune (ProQuest)
Christian Science Monitor (ProQuest)
Los Angeles Times
(ProQuest)
National Newspaper Abstracts (ProQuest)
New York Times - Historical (ProQuest)
ProQuest NewsStand
Research Library Newspapers (ProQuest)
USA TODAY (ProQuest)
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest)
Wall Street Journal - Historical (ProQuest)
Washington Post  (ProQuest)


Reference

Britannica Online
Encyclopedia Britannica
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Oxford English Dictionary (OUP)
World Almanac  (FirstSearch/OCLC)

Science and Math

Access Science (McGraw-Hill)
AGRICOLA

American Chemical Society Publications (ACS)
American Journal of Botany (Botanical Society of America)
BioOne
(BioOne)
BioOne Abstracts and Indexes
(BioOne)
Entrez, The Life Sciences Search Engine
GreenFILE (EBSCO)
JSTOR Biological Collection
MathSciNet
(American Mathematical Society)
Mental Measurements Yearbook (Ovid)
Pharmaceutical News Index (ProQuest)
ProQuest Biology Journals
ProQuest Computing
ProQuest Health and Medical Complete
ProQuest Psychology Journals
ProQuest Science Journals
ProQuest Telecommunications
PsycINFO (EBSCO)

Public Library of Science (PLoS)
ScienceDirect  
(Elsevier)
SciFinder Scholar (CAS), CAS requires individual users to register To use SciFinder.  You must register from a computer on the UWA network using a UWA email address. Users may complete registration by clicking the link and following instructions
Wiley Interscience
(Wiley)

Social Sciences (Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Psychology, Sociology)

Access Science (McGraw-Hill)
Anthropological Index Online

Criminal Justice Periodical Index (ProQuest)
eHRAF World Cultures
Mental Measurements Yearbook (Ovid)
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Gale Group)
ProQuest Psychology Journals
ProQuest Social Science Journals
PsycINFO (EBSCO)
SocINDEX Full Text (EBSCO)

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