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19th Century Masterfile
19th Century Masterfile is divided into 5 series. Each series includes different indices to pre-1920 literature.
Academic Search Premier
Full text, multi-disciplinary database containing scholarly, peer-reviewed publications. Also contains indexing and abstracting for all journals in the collection.
ACM Digital Library
Electronic version of a wide range of ACM publications.
ACS Web Editions
Full text of 34 journals published by the American Chemical Society.
Alternative Press Index
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.
America: History and Life
America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries.
Annual Reviews
Annual Reviews publishes 29 series covering biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences as well as a number of special publications and Web based projects every year. Annual reviews are syntheses of the most important work done in these fields. Hofstra subscribes to 24 annual reviews. Electronic full-text coverage begins in 1996 or 1997 depending on the review. Earlier volumes can be found in the stacks. Search Lexicat for call number.
Anthropological Index Online
The Anthropological Index Online is the anthropological index to current periodicals in the Museum of Mankind Library (incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute library).
AnthroSource
Full text of journals published by the American Anthropological Association.
AP Images
Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
ASSIA provided indexing and abstracting of journal literature in the fields of health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.
Art Index
Bibliographic database that indexes articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, this database indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
ARTFL
Nearly 2000 French texts from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries ranging from classic works of French literature to non-fiction, prose, and technical writing.
ARTstor
The Charter Collection of approximately 300,000 images documents traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. Set monitor resolution to 1024 x 768 for best site navigation.
ATLA Religion Database
ATLA Religion Database provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. The database contains more than 1.3 million bibliographic records covering the research literature of religion in over 60 languages. It includes more than 460,000 article citations from more than 1,500 journals (651 currently indexed), more than 260,000 essay citations from over 15,400 multi-author works, more than 423,000 book review citations. Coverage spans from 1949 to the present. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.
Bibliography of Asian Studies
The Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)contains more than 519,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
Biography Reference Bank
Biography Reference Bank combines the complete content of Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated with the complete and enhanced content of Biography Index Plus. Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated contains more than 95,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 26,000 photographs of the subjects. Many of the biographies are enhanced with full text, abstracts, and citations from H. W. Wilson databases. Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated contains the full text of the articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books published by H. W. Wilson, including all the articles from all volumes of Current Biography, the World Author Series, Nobel Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, American Reformers, and numerous biographical books on musicians and composers from throughout history. Biography Index Plus is a bibliographic database that cites biographical material appearing in periodicals indexed in other Wilson Company databases and additional selected periodicals, current books of in individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Periodicals indexed are selected from all subject areas represented by other Wilson Company databases. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities. In Biography Reference Bank Biography Index Plus is Biography Index enhanced with abstracts and the full text of articles where available. The biographies are searchable by name, profession,title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images.
Book Review Index
A comprehensive online guide to book reviews with over five million review citations from thousands of publications. 1965 - present.
Books in Print
Books in Print includes 3 million records that describe in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books from North American publishers and U.S. distributors and wholesalers. There are a limited number of licenses for this database. Please try again later if you are unable to access it.
Business and Company Resource Center
Full text database providing U.S. and international company information. Includes corporate hierarchies, investment reports, current events and history, and industry rankings.
Business Source Premier
Full text of business publications.
Cabells Directories
CCH IntelliConnect
Access to the full content of the following CCH Tax Libraries: Federal; State; Financial & Estate Tax & Planning; Business Entities; Exempt Organizations; International Tax, and; Transfer Pricing. Access Capital Changes Reporter through Capital Changes tab. Click Enter in upper left part of screen to start.
Cell
Provides electronic access to these Cell journals: Cell, Current Biology, Molecular Cell, Developmental Cell, and Cancer Cell. Coverage varies by journal.
Choices 3: See Simmons Market Research
In Library Use Only. Access through desktop folder. Survey of 20,000 U.S. households buying habits and preferences, demographics, and media usage.
CIOS
Cochrane Library
COLI/Cost of Living Index (On-Campus Use Only)
In-Library Use Only. Access through desktop folder. COLI/Cost of Living Index is the official source of US cost of living data. Data is compiled on a quarterly basis and is presented in Excel format.
ComIndex (On-Campus Use Only)
ComIndex indexes journals in communication studies, rhetoric, journalism, mass communications, and speech. ON-CAMPUS USE ONLY. ASK AT REFERENCE DESK.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Database of journal articles in communication and mass media. Includes full text.
Congressional Indexes, 1789-1969
Subject, title, committee, witness indexes to Congressional proceedings from the first through the 90th Congress. The CIS index picks up from this point to the present. Choose Congressional Universe link on main page to access this resource.
Congressional Universe
Bills, testimony, and hearings of the United States Congress.
Congressional Universe: Congressional Hearings Digital Collection
Congressional Universe: U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection
CountryWatch
Current news and political, economic, cultural, and business information for 192 countries.
CQ Almanac
CQ Congress and the Nation
CQ Electronic Library
Includes CQ Weekly, CQ Researcher and CQ Historic Documents. All three can be searched simultaneously.
CQ Historical Documents
CQ Political Handbook of the World
CQ Politics in America
CQ Researcher
In depth exploration of a single "hot" policy issue. Prepared by congressional analysts.
CQ Supreme Court Yearbook
CQ Vital Statistics on American Politics
CQ Voting and Electioins
CQ Washington Information Directory
CQ Weekly
In depth reports on issues looming on the congressional horizon. Includes bill status, committee and floor activity, debates and all roll-call votes.
Cross-Cultural Database (On-Campus Use Only)
Contains vivid full-text original writings extracted from the Human Relations Area Files describing the cultures of sixty societies in the 19th and 20th centuries. The database provides valuable information from the perspectives of anthropology and the social sciences, behavioral sciences, and humanities. This five-volume series, available individually or as a set, consists of two topical databases per volume: Volume 1, Human Sexuality and Marriage; Volume 2, Family and Crime and Social Problems; Volume 3, Old Age and Death and Dying; Volume 4, Childhood and Adolescence and Socialization and Education; Volume 5, Religious Beliefs and Religious Practices.
Current Research @ Hofstra University
Full text of Hofstra University doctoral dissertations from 1991 to present.
Custom Newspapers
Full text of over 100 national and international newspapers.
Datastream (On-Campus Use Only)
In-Library Use Only. Access through Excel plug-in. Global financial data focusing on: Equities, Equities Indices, Constituent lists, Units trusts, Investment trusts, Bonds & Convertibles, Bond indices & CDs, Warrants, Economics, Exchange rates, Futures, Options and Commodities. THERE ARE A LIMITED NUMBER OF LICENSES FOR THIS DATABASE.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. It aims to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 1845 journals in the directory. Currently 456 journals are searchable at article level. More than 79,582 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
Dissertation Abstracts
Dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
ebrary
Collection of over 23,000 electronic books in all disciplines from top publishers. Includes sophisticated customization tools such as highlighting, electronic notes, and book marking. ATTENTION USERS. If outside Axinn Library Computer Lab please make sure you have ebrary reader installed on your computer. If you do not have ebrary reader installed please click on ebrary link and follow instructions under "1.Get Ebrary Reader" section.
EconLit
Index to international economic literature including books, papers, dissertations and articles.
Education Full Text
Indexes 563 journals in the field of education with coverage starting as early as 1983. Full text for 271 of these journals with coverage starting as early as1996.
Electronic Journal Service
Index to thousands of journals on a wide variety of subjects with tables of contents. Includes full text articles for over 500 Hofstra journal subscriptions.
ERIC
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. Established in 1966, the database consists of two files: Resources in Education (RIE) file of document citations and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) file of journal article citations from hundreds of professional journals. In recent years, ERIC has undergone considerable change. The operation of the database has become more streamlined and far more articles as well as recent ERIC documents are available full text.
Euromonitor Passport
Factiva
Full text of newspapers, newswires, and journal articles as well as corporate profiles. International in coverage. There are a limited number of licenses for this database. Please try again later if you are unable to access it.
Film Literature Index
This index is no longer actively published. This link will lead you to the Index for 1976-2001. It is occasionally unavailable for maintenance.
Films on Demand
Financial Accounting Research System (Via RIA Checkpoint)
Access via RIA Checkpoint. Change Practice Area to Accounting, Audit & Corporate Finance. Select FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board)
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Contains over 25,000 articles with cross-references that are live links.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Full text of 21 reference sources in a wide variety of disciplines from the publisher Gale.
GeoRef
GeoRef provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. It includes abstracts of journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses in such fields as geology, geophyiscs, hydrology, etc. Now includes full text for selected journals.
Government Accounting Research System (Via RIA Checkpoint)
Access through RIA Checkpoint. Change Practice Area to Accounting, Audit & Corporate Finance. Check GASB (Government Accounting Standards Board)
Government Documents Catalog
Index of official federal government publications from 1976 to the present.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched 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 provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
Grove Music Online
Grove Music Online comprises the full text of The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
HAPI (Hispanic American Periodical Index)
Offers in-depth coverage of Latin America and related issues with coverage spanning more than twenty-five years, from 1970 to the present. Now containing more than 210,000 citations.
Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
Use this Resource Center to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, Herbal remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases.
Health Source - Consumer Edition
Provides access to nearly 300 full text, consumer health periodicals, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, Women's Health Weekly, and many others. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 300 periodicals. Also included in this database is searchable full text for nearly 1,100 health-related pamphlets; 147 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society; 7,000 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); and Stedman's Medical Dictionary, which provides users with access to terminology of genetics, oncology, pediatrics, pulmonology, emergency medicine, bacteriology, and laboratory medicine.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Editions
Provides 600 scholarly full text journals, including more than 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for more than 850 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong.
Historic Documents Series (CQ Press)
Primary source material including presidential speeches, international agreements, Supreme Court decisions, scientific findings, cultural discussions, and U.S. Government reports. The series begins in 1972.
Historical Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts journals in the field of history from 1450 to the present. Excludes American and Canadian history which are covered in America: History and Life.
IEEE Digital Library
Provides online access to 22 society magazines and transactions and over 1,200 selected conference proceedings.
Index of Articles on Jewish Studies (RAMBI)
A freely available selective index of scholarly material in Jewish Studies compiled from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem. It indexes thousands of journal articles, articles in collections, and chapters in books from primary and secondary sources in Hebrew as well as in Yiddish, English, and other European languages. Limited full-text availability also provided.
Infoshare
Population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local economic data drawn from U.S. Census and available for searching and output using simple but powerful software.
InfoTrac Custom Newspapers
ingenta
Searchable database of over 29,000 journals and over 19 million articles. Full text not licensed by Hofstra University. Available for fee.
Iter
Iter's bibliography includes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).
JAMA and Archives
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Journalism & Mass Communications Abstracts
Open access to abstracts of doctoral dissertations and master theses accepted for completion of graduate programs in journalism and mass communication at institutions in the U.S. from 1996 to the present. Abstracts written by student authors. Content represents submissions to Journalism & Mass Communication Abstracts. Additional citations to doctoral dissertations and master theses in these fields can be obtained by searching the Dissertation Abstracts database listed above.
JSTOR
Full text collection of scholarly journals. Hofstra licenses include: Arts & Sciences I, II, and III, IV, and Complement; Business II; Ecology & Botany; Health and General Sciences collections.
Knovel K-Essentials Library
Interactive Engineering and Science Reference Tools including: International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology ( 7 vols.); Knovel Critical Tables; Essential Practices for Managing; Chemical Reactivity Hazards; Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables; Smithsonian Physical Tables (9th Revised Edition); Metallic Materials Properties Development and Standardization (MMPDS); Military Handbook - MIL-HDBK-5H: Metallic Materials and Elements for Aerospace Vehicle Structures; Engineering Problem Solving - A Classical Perspective; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences; Large-Scale Adsorption and Chromatography, Volumes 1-2; Teaching Engineering; Knovel Unit Converter; Knovel Periodic Table of the Elements
Kraus Curriculum Development Library
LexisNexis Academic
Full text interdisciplinary database with international coverage.
LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index
Index to periodicals published by government agencies.
LexisNexis Statistical
Extracts statistical data from U.S. government sources and international agencies.
Library Catalog
Internet access to Hofstra's University Libraries' catalog.
Library Literature & Information Science
Bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed.
LILcat
Formerly known as the Long Island Union List of Serials, LILcat contains information about the periodicals holdings of all libraries that are part of the Long Island Libraries Resources Council, the local RRR group.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts provides non-evaluative abstracts of articles from approximately 2,000 serials published worldwide, coverage of recent books, enhanced dissertation listings from Dissertation Abstracts International, and bibliographic citations for book reviews that appear in journals abstracted for Sociological Abstracts
LISTA
LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Literature Criticism Online
Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.
LitFinder
LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.
MagillOnLiterature Plus
Combining MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors, this database provides access to information on fiction writers, poets, dramatists, philosophers, etc. It also includes critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature. The information in this database equals the complete contents of 31 sets of reference books, including Masterplots, Cyclopedia of World Authors, Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, and 10 years of Magills Literary Annuals.
Math SciNet
MathSciNet is a comprehensive database (1,799 journals indexed) covering the world's mathematical literature of the past 61 years. MathSciNet provides Web access to the signed reviews and bibliographic data from Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications, an early awareness journal.
Medline
Includes such topics as microbiology, delivery of health care, nutrition, pharmacology, and environmental health. The categories covered in the database include anatomy, organisms, diseases, chemicals and drugs, techniques and equipment, psychiatry and psychology, biological sciences, physical sciences, social sciences and education, technology, agriculture, food, industry, humanities, information science and communications, and health care.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains fulltext information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks (editions 9-16 only).
Mergent Online
Provides information for publicly traded companies around the world, selected industrial sector analysis, brief country profiles, access to selected EDGAR financial filings. Provides tools for company financial comparisons. Electronic equivalent of Moody's Manuals.
Mergent WebReports
(Moody's Manuals)

Mergent WebReports provide access to Moody's Manuals. From entry screen, click on the Corporate Manuals tab. ON-CAMPUS USE ONLY. ASK AT REFERENCE DESK.
Military & Government Collection
Indexes nearly 400 titles. Provides full text for nearly 300 titles. Includes full text for nearly 245 pamphlets.
MLA Bibliography
Available within Literature Resource Center, the MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association, consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore and includes coverage from 1963 to the present. The MLA International Bibliography provides access to scholarly research in nearly 4,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.
Music Index Online
National Newspapers
Index of current year plus 3 year back run of: Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. They can be searched simultaneously.
National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
National Technical Information Service (NTIS) library offers access to approximately 240,000 documents from 1964-present. Subjects covered include physics, environment, nuclear science and technology, medicine and biology, energy, chemistry, natural resources, computer science. For access to the database, please ask at the Axinn Library Reference Desk or in the John W. Wydler Depository Library (2nd floor Axinn).
Nature
Provides electronic access to these Nature journals: Nature, Nature Weekly, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Genetics, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, and Nature Reviews Cancer. Coverage varies by journal.
Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library (NML) is an online collection of recorded music in streaming audio - primarily classical music, with smaller collections of world music, jazz, educational products and a growing number of historical performances. NML is available on-demand, and contains over 80,000 tracks of music from over 5,500 CDs, with accompanying background and composer notes. Searchable by composer, work title, genre, performer, conductor, period, country, and instrument, Naxos Music Library offers the complete catalogue of Naxos recordings, including the Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues, and third-party labels licensed by Naxos, including Celestial Harmonies.
New York Review of Books
Book reviews.
New York State Newspapers
Full text of the following newspapers: Buffalo News, Herald American (Syracuse), New York Observer (NYC), New York Post (NYC), New York Times, New York Times Book Review, New York Times Magazine, and Post-Standard (Syracuse)
New York Times (current)
Full text of the New York Times through Lexis-Nexis from June 1, 1980 through current.
New York Times Historical
The New York Times (1851-2004) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 23 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selected full text from more than 180 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, The New York Daily News, The San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc.
Oxford Dictionaries Online
Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
Oxford Journals Online
Oxford Music Online
Grove Music Online comprises the full text of The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
PAIS
Index to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications on public policy and social issues. International in coverage. Coverage: 1972- to date. See PAIS Archive for earlier time period.
PAIS Archive
Index to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications on public policy and social issues for the period 1915-1976. International in coverage. See PAIS for 1976- to date.
Philosophers Index
The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
Physical Education Index
Records are indexed and classified from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications. Abstracts included beginning in 2001.
Physical Review Online Archive
Full text of various journals published by the American Physical Society from their inception to a rolling date 4 years prior to the current year.
PILOTS (Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress)
Plunkett Research
Current and historic company and industry information and trends.
Political Risk Yearbook
Country analysis of political stability/instability and the associated political and economic implications.
Polling the Nation
Polling the Nations is a compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries from 1986 to the present. Each of the nearly 350,000 records reports a question asked and the responses given. Also included in each record is the polling organization responsible for the work, the date the information was released, the sample size, and universe, i.e., the groups or areas included in the interview, such as parents with children in public schools, Great Britain, the United States, or California.
Professional Development Collection
Indexes over 700 education titles. Provides full text for over 550 titles. A highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers. This collection includes full text for such journals as the Chronicle of Higher Education, Educational Leadership, Journal of Education, Journal of Higher Education, Journal of Learning Disabilities, and Theory Into Practice. Also contains more than 200 educational reports.
Project Muse
Project Muse contains the full text of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Hofstra University licenses the Basic Undergraduate Collection only.
Proquest Platinum Periodicals
PsycARTICLES
Full text of 53 journals published by the American Psychological Association.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO(R) contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Journal coverage, spanning 1887-present, includes international material selected from more than 1,300 periodicals written in over 25 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present. Over 55,000 references are added annually through regular updates.
PubMed
Access to the Medline database and other links from the National Library of Medicine.
PubMed Central (full text)
Regional Business News
Over 275 business journals, newspapers, newswires and blogs.
Research Insight/Compustat (On-Campus Use Only)
Sophisticated quantitative financial tool provides current and historic financial information for publicly traded companies around the world. Updated quarterly. ON-CAMPUS USE ONLY. AVAILABLE VIA NOVELL NETWORK IN BUSINESS, ECONOMICS & FINANCE FOLDER.
RIA Checkpoint
Access the content of the following RIA libraries: Federal, State & Local, Estate Planning, Pension & Benefits, International, Payroll, and Accounting & Corporate Finance.
RILM
Sage Journals Online
Full text of 461 journal published by Sage with coverage from 1999 to present.
SBRnet
ScienceDirect
Database of over 1,800 journals in many disciplines. Full text available for Hofstra University subscriptions.
Scirus
Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine that enables the user to quickly pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical data on the Internet. Developed by Elsevier, Scirus focuses on scientific content and searches journal databases, preprint servers, digital archives, repositories, and patent information including arXiv.org, e-Prints, CogPrints, MIT OpenCourseWare, NASA, ScienceDirect and many other digital repositories.
Serials Directory
The Serials Directory provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. It contains over 182,500 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; historical data for an additional 20,000 titles; data from over 85,000 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses; and Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications for every entry.
Simmons Market Research (Choices 3)
In-Library Use Only.
Social Services Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.
SPORTDiscus
SPORTDiscus is an international database provided by SIRC (Sport Information Resource Centre). The database contains information on the following: sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training techniques, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, active living, recreation, history, facilities and equipment.
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
Single point of access to S&P Company Reports - current profiles and brief analysis of US publicly traded stocks and S&P Industry Surveys - US focused Industry Surveys and Global Industry Surveys.
Tablebase
Statistical information in table and chart form extracted from journal articles. There are a limited number of licenses for this database. Please try again later if you are unable to access it.
Tests in Print
Times (London) Digital Archive
Twayne's Author Series
In-depth coverage of more than 600 world authors.
Typee: Fluid-text edition
Enhanced electronic version of Melville's Typee
Ulrichs
Comprehensive directory of information about periodicals. There are a limited number of licenses for this database. Please try again later if you are unable to access it.
UNData
Wide variety of statistics offered by the United Nations.
Who's Who
Features comprehensive biographical profiles on nearly 1.3 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment, and sports.
Women and Social Movements in the United States
Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1700 and 2000, the website seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1971 and early 2002. The scope is international, with coverage extending to more than 92 languages and representing every country in North America, South America, and Europe, and nearly every country in Asia, Africa, and Australasia. The more than 78,326 records in this version cite several hundred thousand additional reviews of books, productions, films, and audio recordings.
WorldCat
WorldCat is the largest catalog in the world with over 57,000,000 records for books, manuscripts, sound recordings, computer files, videotapes, etc. Includes a listing of the libraries that own the item.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. Of the 1,500+ titles being monitored, 67% are published outside the United States.