Research Databases A-Z
Resources with Full-Text
Resources with Digital Media
Academic Search Complete by EBSCOhost
A large, multi-disciplinary database with citations, abstracts and many full-text
articles.
Type: Full-text
Academic Universe by Lexis-Nexis
Provides full-text articles and press releases from leading newspapers and news wires.
Type: Full-text
AgeLine
Covers social gerontology and aging studies with an emphasis on psychology, social
work and public policy.
Type: Index with Abstracts
Agricola
Contains bibliographic records back to 1970 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's
National Agricultural Library.
Type: Index with Citations
Alt Health Watch
Provides full-text back to 1990 for more than 140 alternative health publications.
Type: Index with some Full-text
Art Full Text
Provides comprehensive indexing for more than 500 international art publications including
periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. The database also includes the full-text
of 200 journals with coverage beginning in 1997.
Type: Full-text
Article First
A large, multi-disciplinary index covering over 15,000 scholarly and popular journals.
Type: Index with Citations
ATLA Religion
Provides full-text for over 50 religious journals maintained by the American Theological
Library Association.
Type: Index with some Full-text
AtoZ the World: Culture, Customs, Maps, Religion
Provides country overviews for international business travelers. Content includes
business culture, customs, demographics, and travel warnings for the world's countries.
Type: Full-text
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
The index covers architectural and design publications with an American focus. Avery
also includes the publications of professional associations, U.S. state and regional
periodicals, and major serial publications in the architecture and design of Europe,
Asia, Latin America, and Australia.
Type: Index with Citations
Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive
Provides access to the Biblical Archaeology Review and additional research materials from the BAS.
Type: Full-text
Britannica Academic Edition
Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year.
Type: Full-text
Business Source Complete by EBSCOhost
The world's largest business database with citations, abstracts and many full-text
articles on business, communications, human resources and management.
Type: Index with some Full-text
Catalog of Art Museum Images Online (CAMIO)
The growing collection contains images of paintings, photographs, sculpture and other
media from participating museums and institutions.
Type: Digital Media
Child Development and Adolescent Studies
The index provides abstracts and coverage of sources related to the growth and development
of children through the age of 21.
Type: Index with Abstracts
Choice Reviews Online
Provides concise reviews of academic books, media and web resources with monthly updates.
Type: Full-text
Chronicle of Higher Education Online
Provides access to the online edition of the Chronicle.
Type: Full-text
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
Includes country data, case studies, policy briefs and journal articles related to
international relations.
Type: Full-text
CINAHL
The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature provides indexing for
over 2,737 journals in nursing, health disciplines, biomedicine and many other areas.
Type: Index with Citations
Classical Music Library
The streaming audio collection offers over 200,000 recorded classical works from major
labels. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music to chamber, orchestral, solo
instrumental and opera.
Type: Digital Media
Classical Music Reference Library
Provides informative essays from Baker's reference works on Western classical music.
Type: Full-text
Classical Scores Library
Includes over 14,000 music scores for research and study. Does not provide performance
rights.
Type: Full-text
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Provides full-text from over 200 journals in the fields of communication and mass
media. Coverage extends to speaking, writing and public relations.
Type: Index with some Full-text
Computer Source
Provides researchers with the latest information from more than 300 publications in
high technology.
Type: Index with some Full-text
Counseling and Therapy in Video
The online resource provides actual therapy sessions, re-enacted therapy sessions
and scripted scenes to illustrate techniques. The resource also contains additional
content from professional therapists including interviews and presentations.
Type: Digital Media
CQ Researcher
Provides full-text, in-depth coverage of current political and social issues.
Type: Full-text
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Provides access to selected journals covering a broad range of disciplines including
humanities and sciences.
TYPE: Full-text
EBSCOhost Databases
Provides access to over 30 databases. Popular choices are the Academic Search Complete
and the Business Source Complete databases.
Type: Index with some Full-text
EBSCOhost eBooks
Provides access to thousands of eBooks on the EBSCOhost platform.
Type: Full-text
Education Full-text
Offers articles from 350 major academic journals in the diverse field of education
including primary, secondary and higher education.
Type: Full-text
Environment Complete
Provides full-text coverage in a variety of fields including ecosystem management,
environmental policy, natural resources, and renewable energy.
Type: Index with some Full-text
ERIC: Educational Resource Information Center
Provides bibliographic access to a wealth of information on a variety of educational
subjects.
Type: Index with Citations
Films for Business and Economics
Delivers streaming videos on topics ranging from leadership and management to economics
and finance.
Type: Digital Media
Gale Business Insights
Provides industry overviews, company profiles and some investment reports.
Type: Full-text
Gale Power Search
Provides a large collection of current periodical literature including newspapers,
magazines and some academic journals.
Type: Full-text
Gale Small Business Resource Center
Provides sample business plans, reference guides, journal articles and additional
content.
Type: Index with some Full-text
Gale Student Resources in Context
Offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards.
Covers all core curriculum areas including history, literature, science, social studies,
and more.
Type: Full-text
Google Scholar @ Marylhurst
The Google Scholar search is configured to connect to Shoen Library's resources improving
the availability of some content.
Type: Web Page
Government Printing Office: FDsys
Provides information about print and electronic publications created by Federal agencies.
Type: Index with Citations
GreenFILE
Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture,
renewable energy, recycling, and more. Provides indexing for articles from scholarly,
government and general-interest titles.
Type: Index with Citations
GREENR
Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources (GREENR) focuses
on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues. Resources include
academic journals, news sources, case studies, legislation, statistics, and multimedia.
Type: Full-text
Health Source
Provides articles from more than 550 journals with a focus on health, medicine, nursing,
pharmacology and prescription drugs.
Type: Index with some Full-text
IPA Source for Songs and Arias
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Source is the web's largest library of transcriptions
and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts with over 5598 texts.
Type: Full-text
JSTOR: Arts and Sciences Collection
Provides a retrospective, full-text collection that includes many of the core research
and society published journals in key fields in the humanities and social sciences.
Type: Full-text
Learning Express Library
The career and school preparation center provides practice aptitude tests including
the GRE and the LSAT. Computer software instruction is also available for Windows
or Mac operating systems and Microsoft office applications.
Type: Digital Media
Legal Collection
Provides full-text for more than 260 of the world's most respected, scholarly law
journals.
Type: Index with some Full-text
Legal Search by Lexis-Nexis
Provides content from legal journals, statutes and other sources.
Type: Full-text
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Provides indexing for over 600 titles in librarianship and information management.
Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Type: Index with Abstracts
Literature Online (LION)
A complete literature reference database which includes author biographies as well
as literary criticism.
Type: Full-text
Marylhurst Digital Thesis Collection
Theses from Marylhurst graduates are available online through this portal. Each thesis
has been added at the request of the author.
Type: Full-text
MasterFile Premier by EBSCOhost
Provides full-text for more than 2,050 general publications with full-text information
dating as far back as 1975.
Type: Index with some Full-text
Medline
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary
medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences and much more.
Type: Index with Citations
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests In Print
Provides reviews of testing instruments used in psychology, education, business and
other fields. The Tests In Print component provides information about the publisher
and availability of tests.
Type: Full-text
Mergent Online: Global Business and Financial Information
Provides a large database of domestic and international companies with access to financial
data, annual reports, industry snapshots, and country overviews.
Type: Full-text
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
Provides a direct search on the Britannica Online site. Includes the content of the
dictionary and offers access to Britannica Online.
Type: Full-text
Military and Government Collection
Provides full-text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals covering all branches of
the military and government.
Type: Index with some Full-text
MLA International Bibliography
The Modern Languages Association database provides indexing of journals in the fields
of literature, folklore, linguistics and modern languages.
Type: Index with Citations
Music Index
Cites articles and reviews about music and musicians from over 700 publications.
Type: Index with Citations
New York Times via Lexis-Nexis
Provides access to the full-text of the New York Times since June 1, 1980. Provides
indexing from January 1, 1969 to May 31, 1980.
Type: Full-text
Newspaper Source
Provides selected full-text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers.
Type: Index with some Full-text
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
The database provides viewpoint articles on controversial issues including capital
punishment, medical ethics, right to privacy and many more topics.
Type: Full-text
Oxford English Dictionary
Provides the pronunciation, meaning and history for over 500,000 words in the English
language.
Type: Full-text
Papers First
Provides indexing to conference papers since 1993.
Type: Index with Citations
Portland Business Journal
Provides the full-text of 40 metropolitan business newspapers including the Portland
Business Journal.
Type: Full-text
Proceedings First
Provides indexing to conference proceedings since 1993.
Type: Index with Citations
Professional Development Collection
Provides a highly specialized collection of more than 750 full-text education journals.
Type: Index with some Full-text
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Provides coverage of nearly 550 full-text journals in the social and human sciences
fields.
Type: Index with some Full-text
PsycINFO with PsycARTICLES
Provides extensive coverage in the field of psychology including the full-text of
over 50 journals published by the American Psychological Association.
Type: Index with some Full-text
Regional Business News
Provides comprehensive full-text coverage for 75 regional business publications.
Type: Index with some Full-text
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Provides extensive full-text coverage of more than 300 full-text journals related
to theology and philosophical studies.
Type: Index with some Full-text
Sage Journals Online
Provides full-text coverage of nearly 500 Sage journals covering many fields including
social sciences and management.
Type: Full-text
Social Gerontology Abstracts
The index covers topics related to social gerontology including the psychology of
aging, elder abuse, and the elderly in society.
Type: Index with Abstracts
Teacher Reference Center
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and
administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
Type: Index with Abstracts
U.S. History in Context
Includes authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals,
news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to
vetted websites.
Type: Full-text
Virtual Reference Library
Features subject specific encyclopedias in social sciences, health and religion.
Type: Full-text
Vocational and Career Collection
Provides full text coverage for 400 trade and industry-related periodicals.
Type: Index with some Full-text
Wall Street Journal
Provides full-text articles from the world's leading financial newspaper from 1984
to the present.
Type: Full-text
World Development Indicators
The World Bank provides statistical indicators in areas including education, energy,
environment, and health for most countries around the world.
Type: Full-text
WorldCat Classic
Provides access to the world's largest library catalog with access to interlibrary
loan via the FirstSearch system.
Type: Catalog
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