EBSCOhost
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The EBSCO online service, providing access to a spectrum of resources encompassing licensed bibliographic and proprietary full text databases. Databases available via EBSCOhost include Academic Search Premier, Business Search Premier, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Regional Business News, EconLit, ERIC, Medline, PsycINFO, Global Health, CAB Abstracts, American Humanities Index, RILM (Abstracts of Music Literature).
Academic Search Premier (ASP)
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The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. Contains full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,176 journals in the collection. This database provides unique coverage for nearly all academic areas of study, including social sciences, humanities, religion & theology, education, psychology, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC)
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Business Source Premier (BSP)
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As the world's largest full text business database, Business Source Premier contains more than 3300 full text scholarly journals and business periodicals covering virtually all subject areas related to business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics and economics, etc. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. It also includes country economic reports from the EIU, plus 5,000 substantial company profiles and about 4,000 industry reports from Datamonitor. Searched individually, this database provides access to its proprietary index. Bibliotheca Alexandrina's users have also access to Regional Business News with comprehensive full text for more than 65 regional business publications in USA.
EconLit
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EconLit, the American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature. EconLit adheres to the high quality standards long recognized by subscribers to the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) and is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. It provides links to full text articles in all fields of economics, including, capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.
ERIC
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ERIC®, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education, which covers the document literature, consisting of research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books; and Current Index to Journals in Education, which covers published journal literature from over 775 periodicals. The database provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
PsycINFO
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The American Psychological Association's PsycINFO® database is the comprehensive international bibliographic database of psychology. The database contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in the field of psychology, dating as far back as 1840. It also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to the present, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 24 languages.
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA)
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Produced by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, this database includes information from over 750 pharmaceutical, medical, and health-related journals published worldwide since 1970. The database covers the entire spectrum of drug therapy and pharmaceutical information so researchers such as toxicologists, those in cosmetic companies, medical librarians and health practitioners can easily locate the answers to any drug-related problems that they encounter. Topics covered include information on biopharmaceutics & pharmacokinetics, new drug delivery systems, pharmacist liability, legal, political & ethical issues, and many others. A unique feature of abstracts reporting clinical studies is the inclusion of the study design, number of patients, dosage, dosage forms, and dosage schedule.
Medline
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Produced by the National Library of Medicine, USA, this essential database provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. MEDLINE® uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE®, AIDSLINE®, BIOETHICSLINE®, and HealthSTAR®.
Global Health
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Produced by CABI Publishing, Global Health is a public health database with more than 900,000 records of which 40% are unique and 95% contain informative abstracts. The database contains information from over 3,500 serials and a variety of publications from more than 125 countries. Subject coverage includes international health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable diseases, public health nutrition, food safety and hygiene, occupational health, toxicology, health services, and maternal/child health. Featuring material from Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases, Review of Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Tropical Diseases Bulletin, and Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews, this database offers global coverage of both the developing and developed world with over 50 languages translated into English.
CAB Abstracts
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Is a subset of the CAB Abstracts® (1973 to present), produced by CABI Publishing. Covers the significant research and development literature in the applied life sciences, including agriculture, forestry, human nutrition, veterinary medicine and the environment. Additionally, CAB Abstracts includes molecular biology, genetics, biotechnology, breeding, taxonomy, physiology and other aspects of pure science relating to organisms of agricultural, veterinary or environmental importance. This database now contains over 4.3 million records, dating back to 1973, 95% of which have informative abstracts.
American Humanities Index (AHI)
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The American Humanities Index is a collection of bibliographic references to literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database covers more than 1,000 journals published from 1975 to the present, including many smaller journals and publications unavailable in other reference sources. American Humanities Index provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting of on-going journal content, including coverage of all original creative works, such as poetry and fiction.
RILM (Abstracts of Music Literature)
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RILM is an international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and music-related disciplines. Offers indexing of sources published in over 140 languages. It is classified by topic and includes original-language titles, title translations in English, and full bibliographic information. Also included are abstracts in English; author, subject, and periodical indexes; and a detailed thesaurus. Subject coverage includes: historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, librarianship, performance practice and notation, theory and analysis, pedagogy, liturgy, dance, criticism and music therapy. Interdisciplinary studies on music and other related fields covered in RILM include literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, acoustics, aesthetics, anthropology, sociology, linguistics and semiotics, mathematics, philosophy, physiology, psychology, and physics.
ScienceDirect
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ScienceDirect is the world's largest electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. High quality content representing a comprehensive and peer-reviewed titles and from over 1,800 journals from Elsevier including top titles such as The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron, and Over 6 million articles and over 0 million abstracts from all fields of science. Subject coverage includes almost every field of science and technology. ScienceDirect is the premier source to keep abreast of ongoing advancements in Science, Medicine & Technology.
GlobalBooksInPrint.com
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Featuring over 9 million English and Spanish-language titles from the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, GlobalBooksInPrint.com is the ultimate title resource. With the ability to search by market, review source, vendor, price range and more, GlobalBooksInPrint.com offers price comparisons and availability information from international vendors. The database also contains valuable added content such as professional reviews, tables of contents, and previews of full-text.
Urlichweb.com
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Contains detailed bibliographic information on over 250,000 publications from more than 130,000 publishers in 200 countries. It is indispensable to librarians and patrons who need detailed serials information. Content includes comprehensive data for consumer and trade magazines, academic and scholarly journals, peer-reviewed titles, monographic series, newspapers and newsletters, electronic publications, Zines and many other types of serials publications, including irregularly published titles. Ulrichsweb.com provides article-level information and full-text linking to more than 32,000 electronic resources, including Open Access Journals and titles in database collections. Users can easily access online availability details, A&I coverage, tables of contents, and document delivery options for all types of publications.
InfoTrac OneFile
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This is a one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Includes more than 30 million records, and over 8,500 titles of which more than 4,900 are full text with graphic contents.
Student Resource Center (Gold)
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A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. Includes Student Resource Center-Health Module.
Kids InfoBits
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Kids InfoBits contains full-text proprietary reference content from Blackbirch Press®.Also included are more than 100 full-text, age-appropriate magazines, more than 2,500 searchable, indexed images, Merriam-Webster's® Elementary Dictionary and a five-year backfile that offers relevant and manageable results lists. It features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface. Broad subject categories include animals, arts & entertainment, geography, health, history & social studies, inventions & technology, plants, people, science & math, sports, stories & literature and transportation. Users may explore these categories, working their way down to more specific subcategories, or they may perform subject or advanced searches.