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Subscription Databases Subject Listing
Database Descriptions & Links
General Databases
NEW!
Academic
Search™ Premier 
Academic Search Premier contains indexing for over 8,200 publications,
with full text for nearly 4,700, some back to 1975. Full text
coverage includes biology, chemistry, engineering, physics,
psychology, religion & theology, etc.
Catalist, SUNY Ulster's Online Catalog
Country
Watch
CountryWatch provides up-to-date information and news on 191
countries including political, economic, and business information,
daily news and data.
Ebsco's
MasterFILE Select
Provides full text for over 760 periodicals covering nearly
all subjects including general reference, business, health,
and much more.
Gale
Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias,
almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary
research.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe
Academic Universe provides access to a wide range of news,
business, legal, and reference information; including many
international publications, transcripts of television and
radio news broadcasts and a high percentage of full-text resources.
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MasterFILE™
Premier
MasterFILE Premier contains full text for more than 1,950
periodicals covering general reference, business, health,
education, general science, multicultural issues, full text
for nearly 500 reference books, 84,011 biographies, 83,472
primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999
photos, maps & flags.
netLibrary
Over 800 eBooks you can read and search on your own computer.
Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center
Use this database to access viewpoint articles, topic overviews,
statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text
magazine and newspaper articles.
WilsonSelect
Plus
Use WilsonSelectPlus to access fulltext articles in the areas
of science, business, education and the humanities.
WorldCat
Use this database from OCLC to find books and other materials
in libraries around the world published from 1000 BC to the
present.
Business
Business
& Company Resource Center
Business and Company Resource Center includes company profiles,
brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories,
chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find
detailed company and industry news and information.
NEW!
Business
Source® Premier
Business Source Premier provides the full text for more than
9,200 serials, back to 1965. Additional full text content
includes market research reports, industry reports, country
reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe
Academic Universe provides access to a wide range of news,
business, legal, and reference information; including many
international publications, transcripts of television and
radio news broadcasts and a high percentage of full-text resources.
NEW!
Regional
Business News™
With daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive
full text for more than 50 regional business publications.
Criminal Justice
Criminal
Justice Periodical Index (CJPI)
CJPI can provide information on criminal justice topics, including
corrections administration, law enforcement, social work,
industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and
family law. The database offers full text coverage for about
50 titles and also includes complete indexing and abstracts
for another 140 relevant U.S. and international journals.
Education
Education Resource Complete
Education Research Complete is an online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals, and includes full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.
ERIC
- Educational Resources
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, 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.
Professional
Development Collection™
Professional Development Collection provides full text for
more than 500 high quality education journals and more than
200 educational reports for professional educators, professional
librarians and education researchers.
History
America:
History and Life
This database provides abstracts of scholarly literature on
the history and culture of the United States and Canada from
prehistoric times to the present.
HarpWeek
HarpWeek is the full-text, full-image electronic version of
Harpers Weekly. Ulster's access covers the Civil War segment
including the years 1857-1865.
Historical Abstracts
This database provides English-language abstracts of scholarly
literature on the history of the world from 1450 to the present
(excluding North America)
The Historical New York Times – This database includes The New York Times from 1851-2004. The newspaper is reproduced, cover-to-cover, in full-page digital images—from news stories and editorials to graphics and advertisements.
History E-Book Project
The History E-Book Project is an online, fully searchable
collection of books in history, recommended and reviewed by
historians. The Project is available 24/7 on- and off-campus
through standard web browsers. The ACLS History E-Book Project
was initially funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe
Academic Universe provides access to a wide range of news,
business, legal, and reference information; including many
international publications, transcripts of television and
radio news broadcasts and a high percentage of full-text resources.
Literature
Literature
Resource Center (LRC)
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical
analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.The
Literature Resource Center covers more than 90,000 novelists,
poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth
coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors.
Twayne
Authors Series
Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full
text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books
on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of
600 individual full-text titles.
Newspapers
Custom
Newspapers
InfoTrac Custom Newspapers - offers over 150
full-text newspapers, which include 7 New York State newspapers
and the New York Times, which is indexed in full text for
the full current year.
HarpWeek
HarpWeek is the full-text, full-image electronic version of
Harpers Weekly. Ulster's access covers the Civil War segment
including the years 1857-1865.
The Historical New York Times – This database includes The New York Times from 1851-2004. The newspaper is reproduced, cover-to-cover, in full-page digital images—from news stories and editorials to graphics and advertisements.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe
Academic Universe provides access to a wide range of news,
business, legal, and reference information; including many
international publications, transcripts of television and
radio news broadcasts and a high percentage of full-text resources.
National
Newspaper Index
National Newspaper Index provides access to the indexing of:
The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian
Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
New
York State Newspapers
Search this database of ten major newspapers published in
the state of New York, including the New York Times and the
New York Post, with full-text.
Nursing/Health
NEW!
CINAHL® Plus with Full Text
CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides full text for 391 journals
from the fields of nursing and allied health, indexing for
3,123 with coverage dating as far back as 1937, plus legal
cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records,
research instruments and clinical trials.
Health
and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
This database includes information from magazines, journals,
newspapers and other sources on alternative and complementary
medicine and therapies, including topics such as nutrition,
diet, diseases, fitness, public health, occupational health,
alcohol and drug abuse, prescription drugs, and herbal remedies.
1980-current year
Health
Reference Center Academic
Use this database to find current health information. Includes
full-text information from medical pamphlets, reference books,
dictionaries and consumer health magazines from 1995 to the
present.
HighWire Library
of the Sciences and Medicine
Free, full-text of over 600,000 articles from important, peer-reviewed
journals in the biological sciences, medical sciences, physical
and social sciences produced by HighWire Press, a division
of the Stanford University Libraries.
Magill’s Medical Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.
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MEDLINE
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine,
nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system,
pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National
Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)
indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion
capabilities to search citations 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®.
PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a database of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect provides unlimited access to over 700 full-text
Elsevier Science journals at SUNY campuses. Topics covered
include; science, technology and medicine. The "Search"
button is located at the top of the ScienceDirect homepage.
Specialized Databases
AccessScience
AccessScience provides science reference materials—online
and fully searchable. The database offers access to all the
articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research
Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations,
and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and
more. This online encyclopedia is tailored to researchers
and students looking for relevant, readable, and trusted sources
of information.
America:
History and Life
This database provides abstracts of scholarly literature on
the history and culture of the United States and Canada from
prehistoric times to the present.
ArtStor
Search the ArtStor database to locate art images. The ARTstor
Library's initial content will include approximately 300,000
images covering art, architecture and archeology.
FirstSearch
Base Package
The FirstSearch Basic Package offers approximately 12 databases
including WorldCat, ERIC, Medline, NetFirst and more.
GeoRef
This database, from the American Geological Institute, includes
over 2.2 million references to all publications of the U.S.
Geological Survey, geoscience journal articles, books, maps,
conference papers, reports Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations
from U.S. and Canadian universities. The GeoRef database covers
the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and
the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present.
GPO
- Government Printing Office
Use this database from the US Government Printing Office to
find citations for US government documents from 1976 to the
present.
GreenFILE includes information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.
HarpWeek
HarpWeek is the full-text, full-image electronic version of
Harpers Weekly. Ulster's access covers the Civil War segment
including the years 1857-1865.
HighWire Library
of the Sciences and Medicine
Free, full-text of over 600,000 articles from important, peer-reviewed
journals in the biological sciences, medical sciences, physical
and social sciences produced by HighWire Press, a division
of the Stanford University Libraries.
Historical
Abstracts
This database provides English-language abstracts of scholarly
literature on the history of the world from 1450 to the present
(excluding North America)
Informe
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos.
Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad
y otras materias.
This database includes Full text of 50 Spanish-language and
bilingual periodicals.
Military
& Government Collection™
The Military & Government Collection provides full text
for nearly 400 publications pertaining to all branches of
the military and government.. The database also includes full
text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for
500 titles.
PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a database of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect provides unlimited access to over 700 full-text
Elsevier Science journals at SUNY campuses. Topics covered
include; science, technology and medicine. The "Search"
button is located at the top of the ScienceDirect homepage.
