Research

Arthur Library Catalog

Databases by Subject

General Interest

CQ Researcher
Full-text, in-depth coverage of current topics provides analysis, history, and links for further information.  Covers a new topic each week; archives to 1991. CQ Press in Content is a nonpartisan resource for information on pivotal events and issues shaping today’s world of government and politics.
EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite
Provides full-text coverage to over 2,050 journal titles and approximately 3,382 journal abstracts or citations, including 1,500 peer-reviewed journals.
Ebscohost A-Z Online Full-text Journals
A comprehensive listing of online full-text journal titles, accessible by title or subject area, linking to database for additional searching.
FirstSearch Basic
Access to seven databases; select MLA for literature, language, and folklore,  ECO for journal citations in variety of subjects as education, science, psychology, anthropology, business, political science, etc.
FirstSearch Plus
Access to twenty-two databases, with some providing full-text articles in education, the humanities, science, and business. 
LexisNexis
Primarily full-text articles of newspapers, magazines, journals, press releases, business data, and legal information.
Newspaper Databases
Full-text content of two Missouri newspapers: St. Louis Post-Dispatch,1988 to present, and Kansas City Star, 1991 to present.  Also includes newspapers from other cities in the United States.

Business and Communication

Business Search Premier
Full-text business database, providing access to nearly 8,350 scholarly business journals and other sources, including more than 1,100 scholarly business publications; PDF full-text for more than 350 scholarly journals dating back to 1922; updated daily via EBSCOhost.
EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite
Ebscohost A-Z Online Full-text Journals
FirstSearch Basic  Select ArticlesFirst or ECO.
FirstSearch Plus  Select Disclosure, EconLit, or Worldscope.
LexisNexis
Newslink
STAT-USA
Includes national and international newspapers as well as magazines, radio, and television news stations.
U.S. business news, economic statistics and analysis, and international trade data.

Humanities and Social Sciences
Art, English, education, law, sociology, anthropology, etc.

African American Studies
Primary documents, case law, scholarly articles, and more. AAS is part of Lexis-Nexis and can also be accessed by entering LexisNexis and clicking on "Primary Sources in U.S. History."
America:  History & Life / Historical Abstracts
Access to the citations in these two separate databases offer comprehensive coverage of North American and world history.
American National Biography
Biographies of more than 17,000 prominent Americans with numerous links to relevant web sites.
In the First Person
An English language index to the voices of more than 300,000 individuals, including personal narratives, letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. 
JSTOR
Full-text archive of important scholarly journal literature.
Oxford English Dictionary
Definitions, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, embellished with 2.5 million quotations. Click on "Enter OED Online."
CQ Researcher and CQ Press in Content
EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite
Ebscohost A-Z Online Full-text Journals
FirstSearch Basic  Select ArticlesFirst, MLA, PapersFirst, or WorldCat.
FirstSearch Plus  Select up to three (3) databases to search at once.
LexisNexis

Natural and Behavioral Sciences
Biology, environmental science, physical education, psychology, etc.

Access Science
Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology with full-text articles, biographies, study guides, bibliographies, etc. Click on "Subscriber Log-In."
American Chemical Society Publications
Full-text and images for approximately the last five years of more than 30 key ACS journals.
Chmoogle 
An open-access chemistry search engine that aims to provide all publicly available available chemical information for free.
PsychArticles
Full-text of more than 50 journals from the American Psychological Association and Educational Publishing Foundation.  Coverage begins in 1988 for most titles but start dates vary. Select "PsychArticles." 
PubChem  
PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It is a component of the National Institutes' of Health (NIH) Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative.
PubMed  
PubMed is a service of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full-text articles and other related resources.
EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite
Ebscohost A-Z Online Full-text Journals
FirstSearch Basic  Select ArticlesFirst, PapersFirst, Proceedings, or ECO.
FirstSearch Plus   Select AGRICOLA, BasicBIOSIS, BioDigest, and more.
LexisNexis