A-Z Databases

Alt-PressWatch provides full-text access to more than 200 newspapers, magazines, and journals published by alternative and independent American presses, from 1970 to present. This database covers a broad range of critical issues confronting contemporary society, including ecology and the environment, education, grassroots organizing, indigenous peoples, labor, public policy, religion, and much more. Updated monthly.

Associations Unlimited contains information for approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit organizations in all fields. It is composed of data from the entire Encyclopedia of Associations series as well as data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. Additionally, the database contains association materials for some 2,600 major U.S. national associations, including brochures, pamphlets, logos, and membership applications. This database is useful for: locating national, international, and local associations; monitoring association trends; identifying related associations; networking and making professional contacts; and marketing to associations, their members, and markets.

CQ Almanac provides authoritative coverage of the people, elections, legislation, and controversies in the U.S. Congress from 1945. The Almanac offers original narrative accounts of every major piece of legislation that lawmakers considered during a congressional session.

It is a full text general reference database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Search interfaces are in both English and Spanish. Information is available in the areas of politics, education, sociology, Spanish language, journalism, the arts, the environment, and ethnic studies. Groups included are African American, Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian American, European, Hispanic, Jewish, Native Peoples.

Instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference resources such as Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence, and PDR Family Guide to Health and Nutrition. Key health web sites are also listed, as well as 2,200 general interest health publications, and over 400 health and medical journals. Search under latest news or by subject or key words.

Pop Culture Universe: Icons Idols Ideas (Academic) indexes over 3000 entries on American and world popular culture that support history, literature, and other social studies and humanities research and teaching. In additions to full-text articles, there are images and some videos. The database is continually expanded with revisions to existing entries and the addition of new content. The Ideas Exchange sections provide students with examples of research papers.

ProQuest Statistical Insight contains information from associations, commercial publishers, federal and state agencies, international intergovernmental organizations and research organizations. Included in Insight are the American Statistics Index, Statistical Reference Index and the Index to International Statistics.

Zoological Record Plus, produced by BIOSIS, is the most comprehensive database for access to published research on the entire animal kingdom. It includes references and abstracts from over 6500 international journals, review annuals, monographs, meeting proceedings, books, and reports. All major areas of zoology are represented, including: behavior, ecology, evolution, habitat, nutrition, parasitology, reproduction, taxonomy, and zoogeography.