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Find a JournalUse this quick link to find a particular journal in the ProQuest databases (ABI/INFORM, Academic Research Library, and ProQuest Medical Database.) At the Publications box, type in the journal name to find out whether the journal is available and dates of coverage. Click here to view a short video [3:07] with search tips! Also, you can easily change to a keyword search across all the ProQuest databases by clicking the Basic or Advanced Search buttons. [Please note, this will not find journals in the Project Muse, Mergent or Sage databases; to do that go directly to those databases]
This is the most comprehensive business database available today, and comprises three separate databases: ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Global and ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry. The combined package includes over 7,800 full-text publications, and can be searched all at once. Subjects covered include business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques and competitive and product information, both nationally and internationally. Browse a list of titles available in ABI/INFORM Complete. (Please note: due to publisher restrictions, some journals are not available to alumni.) Click here to view a short video [2:13] with search tips!
ProQuest's Alumni Research Library contains over 5,300 full-text publications across all subject disciplines, including arts, business, education, humanities, literature, political science and psychology. For many of these journals, citations and abstracts are available from 1971 to the present. Full text coverage varies by journal, but typically begins with the mid-1990s. Browse a list of titles included in Academic Research Library. (Please note: due to publisher restrictions, some journals are not available to alumni.) Click here to view a short video [2:13] with search tips!
From Adam Matthew, publisher. Primary resources generally from the National Archives, UK. Subjects span African, Asian, European and Latin American studies, French, German, Italian and Spanish language and literature, history, humanities, Jewish studies, Middle East studies, Political Science.
Founded in 1932, Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scholarly professionals with a definitive academic resource in 45 disciplines in the life sciences, physical sciences and social sciences. Annual Reviews saves you time by synthesizing the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field. Editorial committees comprised of the most distinguished scholars in the discipline select all topics for review, and the articles are written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Annual Reviews publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).
Comprising more than 3,600 French language texts spanning from the 12th through the 20th centuries, 215 million words and 675,000 unique word forms.
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers
From the website: Features thousands of critical biographical entries on individuals who have contributed to the history of thought and philosophy. A global history that covers a broad range of traditions, subjects, schools of thought, and regions.
Presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials. From Gale Cengage Learning.
BOA provides researchers in the humanities and social sciences with access to unique collections of primary source documents. The JHU subscription includes: Antigua, slavery and emancipation in the records of a sugar plantation,1689-1907; Colonial Africa in official statistics,1821-1953; Slavery in Jamaica, records from a family of slave owners,1686-1860; South Africa in records from colonial missionaries,1819-1900; and The West Indies: slavery, plantations and trade,1759-1832.
Founded in 2005 by four Belgian and French academic publishers, Cairn.info offers the most comprehensive online collection of francophone publications in social sciences and humanities.
This is a health and medical database from ProQuest for openly available content related to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Reference Solutions compiles publicly available information about U. S. and Canadian businesses, consumers, historical businesses, U.S. jobs and internships and U.S. physicians and dentists into one searchable database. Records include 81 million U.S. businesses and 272 million consumers. Businesses include private, public, and non-profit organizations, regardless of employee size or sales. Uses include: searching for particular individuals or organizations (or type of organization) within a certain location or industry; identifying business opportunities and suppliers; targeting a market; making credit decisions; preparing for job interviews or researching career opportunities; obtaining business counts for planning purposes; conducting research and surveys.
“Provides contextual information on the world’s most influential people. Over 600,000 biographical entries cover a range of historically significant figures and present-day newsmakers.” (from website)
Gale Literature Resource Center
Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references over 165,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 215,000 titles into one source (from website)
Primary sources from over 48 databases covering everything from literature to historic newspapers to public health archives to Indigenous Peoples of North America and more. Searchable separately or all at once.
Oxford Music Online is the gateway offering users the ability to search multiple music reference resources in one location. With Grove Music Online as its cornerstone, Oxford Music Online also contains The Oxford Companion to Music (revised 2011). Together, they offer more than 52,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works; and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition, which supplements Grove's more-extensive articles with content geared toward undergraduates and general users [from Oxford Music Online About webpage].
Henry Stewart Talks—Business & Management Collection
Offers case studies and video lectures from world-renown experts
Mergent Archives is an online database providing you with access to a vast, indexed collection of corporate and industry related documents. Containing more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries, Mergent Archives uses a reliable and easy to navigate system designed to meet your historical research needs. [From Mergent website]
Mergent's BondViewer is the financial industry's latest solution for US taxable and municipal fixed income data. From pre-sale through defeasance, count on Mergent to provide you on-demand access to a wide-range of bond data including both issuer and bond level terms and condition data, US taxable bonds, municipal bonds and retail notes. [From Mergent website]
Searchable information about jobs, residential & business directories, industry reports; ratios, demographics.
Search global and U.S. company profiles, financials, annual reports
For nearly 30 years, Project MUSE has been the trusted and reliable source for access to essential humanities and social science research, as an integral part of the scholarly communications ecosystem and platform of choice for respected not-for-profit publishers. Currently, Project MUSE hosts more than 800 journals and more than 90,000 books from nearly 400 leading university presses, scholarly societies, and related publishers [from website]
Provides full text and full image articles for nearly 2,000 key biomedical journals. It has a powerful search interface with 17 searchable fields, and it uses the MeSH subject thesaurus. Full text/full image coverage dates from 1992. Browse a list of titles included in Proquest Medical Database. (Please note: due to publisher restrictions, some journals are not available to alumni.) Click here to view a short video [2:13] with search tips!
Rav-Milim: the Ultimate Hebrew Dictionary
Rav-Milim's Hebrew dictionary, the printed version of which was published in Hebrew. It combines an innovative approach in lexicography, advanced knowledge in linguistics and up-to-date computer technology.
Recent Researches in Music Online
Recent Researches in Music Online is a subscription service for libraries, providing online access to the complete content of the seven Recent Researches in Music series.
A complement to Risk magazine, this a unique resource dedicated to anyone who needs to manage risk. Risk.net now allows members to access the full content from Risk magazine, including all special reports and topical supplements, as well as a searchable archive of past issues of Risk." Also includes access to the following journals: Risk, Operational Risk & Regulation, Structured Products, Custody Risk, Energy Risk, Insurance Risk, Asia Risk, Hedge Funds Review, Journal of Computational Finance, Journal of Credit Risk, Journal of Energy Markets, Journal of Financial Market Infrastructure, Journal of Investment Strategies, Journal of Operational Risk, Journal of Risk, Journal of Risk Model Validation.
Description from website: "These cases bring business to life – inspiring researchers to develop their own best practices and prepare for professional success." A growing collection of business cases, in over 15 topic areas of business and management.
SAGE Data, formerly Data Planet, is a collection of billions of multidisciplinary, global statistics for research and instruction. It is a data aggregation tool that allows you to create custom tables and charts.
Provides full-text access to over 1,000 scholarly and professional journals spanning a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine.
Sage's social science ebook platform, where you will find a range of SAGE eBook and eReference content. Also contains CQ Press ebooks, including Historic Documents of 2020, The CQ Press Guide to Radical Politics in the Unites States, Guide to U.S. Elections, 7th ed., Washington Information Directroy 2022-2023, Congress A to Z, Vital Statistics on American Politics 2017-2020, State Rankings 2017: A Statistical View of America, State Rankings 2018: A Statistical View of America
Description from website: “SAGE Research Methods is the ultimate methods library with more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher. The site is designed to guide users to the content they need to learn a little or a lot about their method. The Methods Map can help those less familiar with research methods to find the best technique to use in their research. Built upon SAGE’s legacy of methods publishing, SAGE Research Methods is the essential online tool for researchers.”
Description from website: “SAGE Research Methods Cases are stories of how real research projects were conducted. The collection provides more than 1100 case studies, showing the challenges and successes of doing research, written by the researchers themselves. They explain why the researchers chose the methods they did, how they overcame problems in their research and what they might have done differently with hindsight: the realities of research that are missing from journal articles and textbooks. Cases are peer-reviewed and come with pedagogical tools including learning objectives and discussions questions. They can be used as a teaching tool to demonstrate a particular method and how it is applied in real research, or as inspiration to students who are preparing for their own research project.”
U. S. Declassified Documents Online (Gale)
U. S. Declassified Documents Online provides online access to nearly 700,000 previously classified government documents. Covering major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond, this single source enables users to locate key information underpinning studies in international relations, American studies, United States foreign and domestic policy studies, journalism and more.
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Hopkins KnowledgeNET Databases
Hopkins KnowledgeNET™ (HKNET) is a collection of journal article databases and reference databases, as well as free websites, both research-oriented and those of more general interest. Access from the HKNET homepage by clicking on the Licensed Databases.
The databases currently available in Hopkins KnowledgeNET are:
Core Licensed Databases:
Alumni ABI/INFORM Collection (business/mgmt/finance/human resources/IT journals)
Alumni Research Library (social sciences/sciences/arts/humanities journals)
Alumni ProQuest Medical Database (biomedical journals)
Grove Music Online (part of Oxford Music Online)
Additional Databases Provided (as availability permits):
AM Explorer (primary sources)
Annual Reviews (sciences and social sciences)
ARTFL (French texts)
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers
British Literary Manuscripts
British Online Archives
CAIRN: Bouquet General
Data Axle Reference Solutions (company, residential and physician and dentist information; formerly called ReferenceUSA)
Gale in Context: Biography
Gale Literature Resource Center
Gale Primary Sources
Henry Stewart Talks: Business & Management Collection
Mergent Archives
Mergent BondViewer
Mergent Intellect
Mergent Online
Project Muse (JHU and other university press journals)
Recent Researches in Music Online (RRIMO)
Risk.Net
Sage Business Cases
Sage Data
Sage Journals Online (business/humanities/sciences/social sciences/medicine journals)
Sage Knowledge (ebooks)
Sage Research Methods
Sage Research Methods Cases
U. S. Declassified Documents Online (Gale)
JPASS, a program from JSTOR, offers access to much of the JSTOR collection of scholarly archival journals for an annual fee. Click here for more information.