Database Subscriptions/Purchases in Support of Online Education

PROQUEST DATABASES:

  1. ABI/INFORM Complete (full-text): Featuring over 5,745 journals, ABI/INFORM Complete is the most comprehensive business database on the market today. The combination of products forms a business database package that offers more than 3,840 full-text titles covering business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information.
  2. Literature On-line Reference Edition (full-text): A premier collection of literature resources that allows users access to a wealth of current scholarship, authoritative reference material, and bibliographic information. The database has 320+ Journals, 8 Complete Reference Books, 899 Poetry Video Clips, 38 Shakespeare Audio Plays, 230 Knowledge Notes Student Guides, 5,520 selected Web Sites.
  1. Computing (ProQuest) (full-text) : ProQuest Computing is the premium resource for those who need access to comprehensive coverage of computer topics. The database includes over 430 titles, with over 350 available in full text.
  1. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (partial-full text): A definitive subject, title, and author guide to virtually every American dissertation accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Selected Masters theses have been included since 1962.
  1. ProQuest Education Journals:ProQuest® Education Journals gives users access to over 900 top educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text.
  1. ProQuest Environmental Science Collection:The collection contains environmental science related full-text articles, granular access to figures and tables within articles, environmental impact statements, and the entire range of bibliographic records from Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (ESPM)
  1. ProQuest Military Collection covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. It includes over 545 titles, with more than 400 available in full text.
  1. ProQuest Newspapers (full-text):Provides full-text access to five major national newspapers: Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.
  1. ProQuest Psychology (full-text):This database provides abstracts and indexing for more than 640 journal titles, with over 540 titles available in full text. The database also includes over 4,000 recent (2000-2006) full-text doctoral dissertations on psychology
  1. ProQuest Religion (full-text): A resource for students researching religious issues and perspectives with more than 220 titles available in full text. The content is full-text, scholarly, and designed to meet the needs of both religious studies programs and general library collections.
  1. ProQuest Research Library (full-text): From business and political science to literature and psychology, ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 4,730 titles—over 3,315 in full text—from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers. This combination of general reference volume and scope makes it one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer.
  1. ProQuest Science Journals (General science, physics, etc.):This database features research journals in the applied and general sciences. Covers more than 1600 titles, with more than 1030 available in full text (including charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements)
  1. ProQuest Sociology (full-text): This database covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, religion, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction, and more. As well as 310 full text scholarly journals, the database also includes over 500 recent full-text doctoral dissertations on sociology.
  1. ProQuest ebrary Academic CompleteThis database offers more than 125,000 full-text scholarly eBooks covering all areas of academic study including religion and philosophy.

EBSCOHOST DATABASES:

  1. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials (full-text):ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database includes more than 570,000 article citations from more than 1,677 journals (540 currently indexed), more than 232,000 essay citations from over 16,700 multi-author works, and more than 525,000 book review citations. Full text is provided from 140 titles for more than 266,000 electronic articles and book reviews. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.
  1. Academic Search Complete: (full-text):Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,600 full-text periodicals, including nearly 7,500 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
  1. Business Source Complete (full-text): Full text content includes:

Nearly 1,000 books/monographs -- View Sample

More than 5,000 case studies

More than 17,000 company profiles

More than 1,500 country economic reports

More than 50 faculty seminar videos

Nearly 20,000 industry reports

More than 6,600 interviews (Executive & Analyst)

More than 2,200 market research reports

Nearly 2,000 peer-reviewed journals

More than 3,000 SWOT analyses

More than 1,700 trade Journals and general business magazines -- View Sample

Dozens of working papers collections.

  1. Book Index with Reviews: Book Index with Reviews™ (BIR) is a comprehensive database that provides information on over 5 million book titles, in a wide range of formats. BIR also contains almost 800,000 full-text searchable book reviews from the sources that you trust: Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist and others.
  1. Consumer Health Complete (full-text): This full-text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, fitness, nutrition and dietetics, children's health, men and women's health, and more.
  1. Computer Source:Provides the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database features over 120 full-text periodicals covering information in computers, telecommunications, electronics, and the Internet.
  1. eBooks on EbcoHost: (full-text electronic books): A shared collection of over 30,000 full-text electronic books (eBooks) on most topics including religion and theology.
  1. eBook Academic Collection (full-text electronic books): This database offers over 130,000 full-text scholarly eBooks from leading publishers in a wide range of subject areas including religion and philosophy with simultaneous multi-user access.
  1. eBook Religion Collection (full-text electronic books): This unique collection features more than 5,800 titles from over 150 trusted publishers covering a broad range of religious subjects including philosophy, ethics, history of religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and more.
  1. ERIC: Covers all aspects of education and educational research, includes both abstracts of published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics. ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,300,000 records and links to more than 317,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.
  1. Legal Collection: This database contains full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
  1. Literary Reference Center:Literary Reference Center is a full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, and literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Provides full text of over 430 literary journals.
  1. MasterFILE Elite: This multidisciplinary database provides full text for over 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Elite also contains full text for more than 50 reference books and 164,424 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost
  1. Professional Development Collection(full-text): Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
  1. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection(full-text): Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for over 400 journals.
  1. Religion and Philosophy Collection (full-text): Religion & Philosophy Collection provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers nearly 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.
  1. Science and Technology Collection (full-text): The Science & Technology Collection contains over 830 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,740 publications.
  1. Sociological Collection (full-text):This database provides coverage of more than 500 full text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. Sociological Collection offers information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
  1. World History Collection (full-text): World History Collection offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964.

OTHER DATABASES:

  1. Axis-360 (full-text) :this database offers 700 titles and the collection is growing with materials specific to the Luther Rice curriculum. These include course textbooks, Bible commentaries, Bible dictionaries, Bible handbooks, Bible encyclopedias, etc.
  2. Encyclopedia Britannica Online:

The database includes more than 73,000 articles from the printed Encyclopedia Britannica, including more than 8,000 articles that are not found in the print set. The resource also includes year-in-review articles from recent yearbooks.

  1. Discover Our World from Compton's by Britannica provides access to statistics and summary information for countries of the world.
  1. FirstSearch: FirstSearch is a group of databases provided by OCLC, the Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
  1. Global Reference Center: Global Reference Center is a collection of foreign language content from Encyclopædia Britannica, linking to encyclopedia and reference resources in Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and French. Content includes global coverage of art, geography, history, politics, science, sports, technology, and more.
  1. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides over 500 scholarly full-text journals focusing on nursing, allied health fields, and many medical disciplines.
  1. Oxford Art Online: Provides access to Grove Art Online, a collection of art encyclopedias and image collections. Users can also choose to view biographies, subject entries, or images when searching or browsing. Content includes more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images contained within Grove Art Online
  1. Theological Journal Library (full-text): The database includes the back files of32 of the best scholarly and evangelical journals from more than a dozen schools of theology journals. Coverage in some journals goes back to 1934.
  1. Theological Exchange Research Network (TREN) Database (full-text): TREN provides access to more than 10,000 MA, Th.M, and D. Min. dissertations/theses from over 100 seminaries covering a wide variety of subjects including philosophy, theology, psychology, ethics, history, world religions, cults, apologetics, evangelism, missions and ministry.Many evangelical seminaries in the country contribute to this collection, providing a virtual gold-mine of information. The collection is updated annually with the addition of approximately 500-700 new titles.
  1. WorldCat Dissertations and Theses: Catalog of dissertations and theses indexed within the WorldCat database.

A full listing of LRU electronic resources can be seen on the LRU web site at