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Electronic
Resources : Databases
by Subject
Lewis Library provides access for ACP students, faculty and staff to the following full text databases, abstracting services, bibliographies and reference works based on campus IP address.
For remote user access please see off campus access info. Please report any access problems.
Resources with an asterisk (*) are available freely from any location.
Business & Economics
| Title | Description | Help |
| ABI/Inform | Search nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals for coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. | Help Page |
| Business & Company Resource Center | Company profiles, rankings, investment reports, histories, and chronologies, as well as full text and bibliographic records of journal articles relating to business from 1980 to the present. | Help Page |
| Business Source Elite | Full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 450 peer-reviewed business publications. | Tutorial |
| Regional Business News | Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. | Turorial |
General-Interdisciplinary
| Title | Description | Help |
| Academic Search Elite | Full text of nearly 1,850 scholarly journals in a wide variety of academic subject areas. | Tutorial |
| Custom Newspapers | Search a collection of 150 newspapers, both national and international. | Help Page |
| EBSCOHost | Bibliographic and full text citations covering a wide range of subjects including: business, social sciences, humanities, science, and general medicine. | Tutorial |
| Encyclopedia Britannica Online | Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. | Help Page |
| GreenFILE | Covers 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. | |
| MasterFILE Select | Multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 750 general reference publications with coverage dating as far back as 1984. Also includes 37 full text reference books and an Image Collection of 107,000 photos, maps and flags. | Tutorial |
| netLibrary | A collection of over 500 electronic books and resources. Online books may be downloaded, searched, electronically highlighted, and annotated. | Help Page |
| New York State Newspapers | Ten major newspapers of New York are in this database, including the New York Times and the New York Post. | Help Page |
| Newspaper Source | Provides selected full text for over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers. | Tutorial |
| Proquest Newspapers | Includes coverage of 27 newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, plus other important U.S., international and minority interest papers. | Help Page |
| Proquest Research Library | Covers of a broad range of subjects including arts, business, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. | Help Page |
| Science Reference Center | Full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, and scientists. | Tutorial |
| The Serials Directory | Contains information on nearly 184,000 U.S. and international journal titles, including whether or not a journal is peer-reviewed. | |
| WorldCat* | A constantly updated database of resources held in libraries around the world. | Help Page |
Health & Medicine
| Title | Description | Help |
| Cochrane Library | Cochrane reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. The Cochrane Library provides other systematic reviews, abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and individual clinical trials. | Tutorial |
| Health Reference Center Academic | Bibliographic and full text citations covering consumer health information going back 5 years. | Help Page |
| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition | Bibliographic and full text scholarly journals focusing on medical disciplines. | |
| Iowa Drug Information Service (IDIS) | Select bibliographic and full text citations from over 180 medical and pharmaceutical journals on drug therapy. To use on campus click on the Login button. | Tutorial |
| Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database | Full text herbal/natural drug information resource. To use enter your User ID. If you don't yet have a User ID, click on I need a User ID#. For 3rd-6th year students and faculty only. | |
| Natural Standard | Full text herbal/natural drug information resource, including complementary and alternative therapies. | |
| NLM Gateway* | Searches a wide variety of databases available from the National Library of Medicine including: MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM), and Hazardous Substances Data Bank. | Help Page |
| ProQuest Health Management | Covers all aspects of health administration, including public health and safety, hospitals, finance, personnel management, insurance, population studies, labor relations and law. | Help Page |
| ProQuest Medical Library | Bibliographic and full text citations to articles in scholarly medical journals. | Help Page |
| ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source | Covers nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine. | Help Page |
| PubMed (MEDLINE)* | Bibliographic and full text citations to biomedical literature from 1966 to the present. | Tutorial |
| STAT!Ref | Full text medical and drug information textbooks. | Help Page |
Humanities & Social Sciences
| Title | Description | Help |
| Academic Search Elite | Full text of nearly 1,850 scholarly journals in a wide variety of academic subject areas. | Tutorial |
| American Civil War: Letters and Diaries | This database includes over 100,000 pages of published memoirs, letters, and diaries and previously unpublished materials, documenting all aspects of the American Civil War. | Help Page |
| Black Thought and Culture | This database includes full text monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by historically important African-American leaders who have dealt substantially with issues of race in America from the earliest times to 1975. | Help Page |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | Encyclopedias and specialized reference sources in history and fine arts, including the full text of the multi-volume, New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Arts and Humanities through the Eras, and the American Civil War Reference Library. | Help Page |
| Literary Reference Center | Comprehensive full-text database that provides information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. LRC combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals and more. | Help Page |
| MasterFILE Select | Multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 750 general reference publications with coverage dating as far back as 1984. Also includes 37 full text reference books and an Image Collection of 107,000 photos, maps and flags. | Tutorial |
| Naxos Music Library | A Comprehensive collection of classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music available online. | Help Page |
| Oxford Art Online | Includes over 45,000 articles on art, architecture, photography, and sculpture as well as links to over 40,000 images from museum and gallery websites all over the world. | Help Page |
| Proquest Education Journals | Covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics. | Help Page |
| Proquest Psychology Journals | Covers from top psychology and related publications. | Help Page |
| Proquest Research Library | Covers of a broad range of subjects including arts, business, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. | Help Page |
| Proquest Social Science Journals | Disciplines covered include: Anthropology, Community health and medical care, Criminology, Economics, Family studies, Gender studies, International relations, Law, Minority studies, Political science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Social work, and more. | Help Page |
| Twayne Authors Series | Full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, U.S., or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles. | Help Page |
Pharmacy/Pharmacology
| Title | Description | Help |
| Clinical Pharmacology | Full text information on drugs available in the United States, herbal supplements, nutritional products, and new and investigational drugs. | Tutorial |
| International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA) | Bibliographic and full text for pharmacoeconomics, pharmacy management/ administration/ practice, pharmacy law, and pharmacy education from 1966 to the present. | Tutorial |
| Iowa Drug Information Service (IDIS) | Select bibliographic and full text citations from over 180 medical and pharmaceutical journals on drug therapy. To use on campus click on the Login button. | Tutorial |
| Lexi-Comp Online | Up-to-date clinical information including, drug information and interactions, laboratory and diagnostic tests, natural products and poisoning and toxicology. | Tutorial |
| Micromedex Healthcare Series | Full text medical and drug information databases. DRUGDEX® System, POISINDEX® System, DISEASEDEX™, AltMedDex® System, USP DI®, MARTINDALE: The Complete Drug Reference, PDR®, Herbal Medicines, REPRORISK® System, Index Nominum. | | |