Selected
Research Databases: A – Z
The
Kresge Memorial Library provides campus-wide subscription access to more than
160 electronic databases in support of the academic program at
This
list does not include resources provided by GALILEO that pertain to the history
and government of
Descriptions
for these resources are those provided by GALILEO or individual vendors.
Provider: ProQuest/GALILEO
Description: Provides full-text for over 1,461
Coverage: Indexing 1971-; full-text for some titles
1991-
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Provider: EBSCO/GALILEO
Description: A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary
full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400
peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full-text, this database offers indexing
and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications
including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Coverage: Dates vary; some begin as early as 1865
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Provider: Association for Computing Machinery
Description: Contains almost all ACM publications,
providing bibliographical information, abstracts, reviews and full-text for ACM
journals, magazines, and proceedings.
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Provider: EBSCO/GALILEO
Description: Focuses on multiple perspectives of
complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
Full-text content comes from more than 160 international peer-reviewed and
professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, and association and
consumer newsletters, plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports,
original research, and book excerpts.
Coverage: 1990-
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Provider: EBSCO
Description: Covers 2,000 English language
historical journals related to the history of the
Coverage: 1964-
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
American
Broadsides & Ephemera
Provider: Readex
Description: Full color digital reproductions of 15,000
broadsides printed between 1820 and 1880 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed
between 1760 and 1880.
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Provider: Encyclopedia Britannica/GALILEO
Description: Includes the full-text of over 2000
primary documents in American history, including historical accounts, speeches,
memoirs, poems, editorials, landmark court decisions, and cultural
criticism. It also contains multimedia
files, including more than 500 pictures and hundreds of video and audio clips
of famous speeches. This chronicle may
be explored year by year using a timeline, browsed by author or topic, or
searched by keyword.
Coverage: 1493-2003
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Provider: Chadwyck-Healey/GALILEO
Description:
Provides location
information for primary source materials.
It integrates three major information resources: 1) a newly compiled
directory of manuscript repositories, giving full addresses, including e-mail
and URLs, opening hours, and details of holdings and areas of special interest;
2) Collection records from the National
Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC); 3) Names and
detailed subject indexing of over 44,000 collections whose finding aids have
been published separately in the major microfiche series, National Inventory of Documentary Sources in
the United States (NIDS).
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Provider:
Description: Indexes almost 600 periodicals, yearbooks, and
museum bulletins related to art over a 55 year period. It covers periodicals in English, French,
Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch.
Coverage: 1929-1984
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Provider: OCLC/GALILEO
Description: Contains bibliographic
citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of journals
in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and
popular culture. Each record describes one article, news story, letter, or
other item.
Coverage: 1988-
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Provider: GALILEO
Description: A joint project between
the
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Provider: Mellon Foundation
Description: A developing digital library that will offer
coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the
software tools to enable active use of the collections. Its initial content includes approximately
500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
ATLA
Religion Database with ATLASerials
Provider: American Theological Library
Association/EBSCO
Description: Includes access to more than 488,000 article
citations from more than 1,500 journals, more than 215,000 essay citations, and
more than 446,000 book review citations.
Also contains the full-text to more than 40 journals.
Coverage: 1949-
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Provider: EBSCO/GALILEO
Description: Provides information on
over 3.8 million book titles in a wide range of formats, including large print
and books on tape. Fiction and
non-fiction titles are included in the database, in all genres. It contains over 800,000 full-text searchable
reviews, including reviews from Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers
Weekly, CHOICE, and others.
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Book Review Digest
Retrospective
Provider:
Description: Provides excerpts from and citations to 1.5
million reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. It covers 300,000 books from nearly eight
decades.
Coverage: 1905-1982
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Provider: EBSCO/GALILEO
Description: A scholarly business
database that provides full-text access to many peer-reviewed business related
journals, including disciplines such as marketing, management, MIS, POM,
accounting, finance and economics.
Indexing and abstracts for the many important scholarly business
journals as far back as 1886 are included.
In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than
1,200 journals, it contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited
authors in the database. Additional
full-text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs,
major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment
research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports,
company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
Coverage: Dates vary; some begin as early as 1886
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Provider:
Description: Offers the most
comprehensive demographic data for the
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Child
Development & Adolescent Studies
Provider: EBSCO
Description: Primary source for references to the current
and historical literature related to growth and development of children through
the age of 21. It includes abstracts, book
reviews, and bibliographies totaling more than 120,000 records.
Coverage: 1927-
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Provider: Association of College & Research
Libraries/American Library Association
Description: Electronic version of Choice, the premier reviewing source for academic print and
electronic resources.
Coverage: 1988-
Access: 3 simultaneous users; available off-campus
with Covenant email account authentication
Provider: Association of Christian Librarians/EBSCO
Description: Indexes more than 130 English language
evangelical Christian periodicals. The
electronic version is updated four times annually.
Coverage: 1976-
Access: 8 simultaneous users; available off-campus with
Covenant email account authentication
Provider: Chronicle of Higher Education
Description: Offers unlimited access to the daily updates,
and the latest issue of The Chronicle of
Higher Education including The
Almanac of Higher Education (1995-). Every news article and essay since 1989 and
every daily news story since 1998 is available.
Coverage: 1989-
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Provider: GALILEO
Description: Features over 20,000
college catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format representing
2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools along with institutional
profiles for all accredited colleges in the
Coverage: Most recent version
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Provider: EBSCO/GALILEO
Description: Offers abstracting and indexing
of academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources at
scholarly and technical levels of computer science. It covers more than 670 periodicals and
books and focuses on subjects such as artificial intelligence, expert systems,
system design, data structures, computer theory, computer systems and
architecture, software engineering, human-computer interaction, new
technologies, social and professional context, and much more.
Coverage: 1960s-
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO
password
Provider: EBSCO/GALILEO
Description: Provides the latest
information and current trends in high technology. It features over 120 full-text periodicals
covering market information in computers, telecommunications, electronics, and
the Internet.
Coverage: 1984- ;
dates vary
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO
password
Provider: EBSCO/GALILEO
Description: A comprehensive resource
for consumer-oriented health content, including full text from many health
reference books and encyclopedias and thousands of health reports as well as
physician-generated videos and hundreds of medical images and diagrams. It provides content covering all areas of
health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of
complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. This full-text database covers topics such as
aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, fitness, nutrition and dietetics,
children's health, men and women's health, and more.
Coverage: Dates vary
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO
password
Provider: Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
Description: Offers in-depth, single-topic coverage of
newsworthy global affairs from a multitude of international viewpoints.
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Provider: Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
Description: Provides original, comprehensive reporting
and analysis on contemporary political and social issues with pro/con
statements and bibliographies of key sources.
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Provider: Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
Description: Provides additional historical research
components to its companion, CQ
Researcher.
Coverage: 1923-
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Digital Library of Classic
Protestant Texts
Provider:
Description: Provides fully-searchable digital versions of
more than 1,200 Christian texts from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Provider: GALILEO
Description: A gateway to Georgia's history
and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government
documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources.
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO
password
Digital Library of the Catholic
Reformation
Provider:
Description: Offers hundreds of full-text titles written
by Catholic theologians during the 16th and 17th
centuries in a fully-searchable digital version.
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Provider: ProQuest/GALILEO
Description: Covers dissertations
accepted at accredited
Coverage: 1861- ; abstracts 1980-
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Early
American Imprints, Series I
Provider: Readex
Description: A full image, word-searchable collection
based on the bibliography of Charles Evans, this database contains virtually
every book, pamphlet, and broadside published in
Coverage: 1639-1800
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Early
American Imprints, Series II
Provider: Readex
Description: Similar to the Evans Collection, this
database includes digital versions of nearly all American books, pamphlets and
broadsides published from 1801-1819.
Coverage: 1801-1819
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Early
American Newspapers, Series I
Provider: Readex
Description: Contains fully searchable, cover-to-cover
reproductions of nearly two million pages from more than 700 historical
American newspapers, focusing on 18th century titles.
Coverage: 1690-1876
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Provider: ProQuest
Description: Provides digital facsimile, searchable access
to more than 100,000 literary and historical classics printed in
Coverage: 1475-1700
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Provider: EBSCO/GALILEO
Description: Consists of over 100,000
images, mostly photos and maps from a variety of EBSCO databases.
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Provider: EBSCO/GALILEO
Description: Contains the indexing and full-text for more than
400 journals in all fields of economics.
Coverage: 1969-
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Provider:
Description: Provides indexing of over 800 English
language periodicals from the discipline of education, citing some 850,000
articles including book reviews.
Coverage: 1929-1983
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Encyclopedia
Britannica Online
Provider: Encyclopedia Britannica/GALILEO
Description: Includes more than 73,000
articles from the printed Encyclopædia
Britannica, including more than 8,000 articles that are not found in the
print set. It also includes
year-in-review articles from recent yearbooks, The Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Encyclopedia
of Statistical Sciences
Provider: Wiley InterScience
Description: Includes the full-text of the 2nd
print edition, the entire original edition, plus supplements.
Access: 1 simultaneous user; available off-campus
with Covenant email account authentication
Provider: EBSCO/GALILEO
Description: Offers coverage in the areas
of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural
resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste
management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social
impacts, urban planning, and more. It
contains more than 1,590,000 records from more than 1,500 domestic and
international titles going back to the 1950s (including 959 active core titles)
as well as more than 100 monographs. The
database also contains full-text for more than 400 journals, including many of
the most used journals in the discipline.
It includes over 170 journal titles and almost 100 book titles that are
not included in other EBSCO databases.
Coverage: 1950s-
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Provider: EBSCO/GALILEO
Description: Covers all aspects of
education and educational research, includes both abstracts of published and
unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics. It corresponds to the printed indexes of RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in
Education). This database is
produced by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S.
Department of Education. The EBSCOhost version of the ERIC database includes
the searchable Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors.
Coverage: 1966-
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Provider:
Description: Provides online access to
the entire text of the 34-volume Dictionary of Art plus
newly-commissioned articles. The
database includes over 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts from
prehistory through the present. Through
an alliance with The Bridgeman Art Library, the database offers access to over
130,000 searchable images.
Coverage: Corresponds to the 1996 print edition
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provider: EBSCO/GALILEO
Description: Provides nearly 520
scholarly full-text journals focusing on nursing, allied health fields, and
many medical disciplines as well as abstracts and indexing for over 550
journals. Also included are the USP
Pharmacopoeia DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient and Stedman's
Medical Dictionary.
Coverage: 1990-
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Provider: EBSCO
Description: Covers the history of
the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the
Coverage: 1954-
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Provider: ProQuest
Description: Provides digital full-image, word-searchable
access to every issue of the NYT from
its inception.
Coverage: 1851-1999
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Provider: EBSCO/GALILEO
Description: A full-text history
reference database designed for undergraduate research. It features full-text for more than 2,000
reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, as well as full text for
more than 120 history periodicals.
Further, the database contains 59,640 historical documents; more than
50,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 110,200 historical photos
and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Hoover’s
Company Capsules & Profiles
Provider: ProQuest/GALILEO
Description: Includes brief
information on 15,000 companies, including an overview of company operations,
addresses, phone and fax numbers, names of key officers, a list of top
competitors, sales and employment figures, and stock symbols.
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Hospitality
& Tourism Index Complete
Provider: EBSCO/GALILEO
Description: Covers scholarly research
and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. It contains full text for more than 200
journals, including over fifty that are not included in Business Source Complete.
Coverage: 1965-
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Humanities &
Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Provider:
Description: Provides indexing of nearly 1,200 periodicals
in the humanities and social sciences, with citations to more than 1.3 million
articles including over 240,000 book reviews.
Coverage: 1907-1984
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Information
Science & Technology Abstracts
Provider: EBSCO/GALILEO
Description: Provides indexing and
abstract coverage of topics on technology including classification, cataloging,
bibliometrics, online information retrieval,
information management, Internet search engines, printed and electronic
information sources, the information industry, electronic publishing, and
more. It indexes journal articles from
more than 450 publications. Sources indexed include books, research reports,
conference proceedings, and patents.
Coverage: 1966-
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
International
Bibliography of Theater & Dance with Full Text
Provider: EBSCO/GALILEO
Description: Expands on the 16-year
coverage of its multi-volume print predecessor with an additional 100,000
articles, essays and book chapters mined from internationally selected
publications in drama, dance, media, mime, mixed entertainment, storytelling,
music-drama, and puppetry.
Coverage: 1984-
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Internet
& Personal Computing Abstracts
Provider: EBSCO/GALILEO
Description: Contains summaries to over
400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines,
and professional journals are covered, including those that focus on specific
topics such as Macintosh and Windows platforms, programming, web development
and more. Special emphasis is also given
to hardware and software reviews.
Coverage: 1980s-
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO password
Provider: GALILEO
Description: A searchable online
catalog of thousands of Internet resources evaluated and selected by
librarians.
Access: Available off-campus with GALILEO
password
Provider: JSTOR
Description: Provides access to the full-text of more than
200 core scholarly journals representing a variety of academic
disciplines. JSTOR is not a current issues database. There
is a gap (“moving wall”), typically from
Coverage: 1665- ; dates vary
Access: Available off-campus with Covenant email
account authentication
Provider: EBSCO/GALILEO
Description: An authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts, and trends of the legal world. It offers full-text for more than 250 law journals. This database provides information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics, such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, med