Databases Containing Full-Text Articles

NOTE: Most of these databases do not contain the full-text of every article in every journal they index, so you may still have to retrieve the articles you want from a paper source.

Full-Text Databases by Title : A-K | L-Z

Connect to LegalTrac on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Indexes 800+ law reviews, law journals and legal newspapers. Includes selective full-text for 100+ titles. 1980-present.
Connect to LexisNexis Academic on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases. A mini-guide on searching LexisNexis Academic is available
Formerly Academic Universe / Lexis-Nexis
Fulltext database of thousands of magazine and newspaper articles, news wires, legal and government sources. Dates of coverage and updates vary from title to title.
Connect to LexisNexis Congressional on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Congressional Publications; bills, laws and regulations; locate information about current members of congress and congressional committees.
Connect to LexisNexis Statistical on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Index to statistics published by all the major agencies of the U.S. government from 1973-present, the computer equivalent of the American Statistics Index. Where available, hotlinks to the full text of these documents is included. In addition, from 1999-present, 25,000 full text tables from these same sources as well as from various state, non-governmental and international intergovernmental agencies are being added as a separate searchable subfile.
Connect to LGBT Life with Full Text on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Provides access to the worldís literature regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues. This database contains indexing and abstracts for more than 80 LGBT-specific core periodicals as well as hundreds of other select titles in various disciplines. Also includes the full text of 50 of the most significant LGBT journals and magazines.
Connect to Literature Criticism Online on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
The full text of over 220,000 essays providing criticism of literature from around the world, in all genres, and from all time periods from antiquity to contemporary emerging authors. The essays discuss individual authors and their works, literary movements and topics, and the social, political, and historical background that provides contextual perspective for the study of literature. Updated continually.
Connect to Literature Resources from Gale on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Literary criticism and reviews, biographies, and links to multimedia productions and selected web resources on authors and their works. Covers authors from all times and places. Updated continually.
Connect to Making of America on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. It includes approximately 16,000 books and 50,000 journal articles published in the 19th century, searchable by subject.
Connect to MAS Ultra - School edition on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for over 500 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. Includes nearly 550 full text pamphlets, 150 full text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily.
Connect to Mathematics and Statistics Online Archive on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Provides full-text access to 29 Taylor & Francis journals including algebra, analysis, applied mathematics, computer mathematics, dynamics, history of mathematics, mathematics education, optimization, probability, and statistics. Coverage for each title: Volume 1, Issue 1, up to 1996.
Connect to Military and Government Collection on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 periodicals and 245 pamphlets, and offers indexing and abstracts for over 400 periodical titles.
Connect to Mintel Market Research Reports on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Contains research reports covering U.S. and International marketplaces. Each market research report combines data and analysis of the competitive landscape, market-share analysis and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market.
Important: When logging on to the Mintel Market Research Reports database for the first time, please read the "Conditions of Use - Academic" and, if you agree to these conditions, click the "I Agree" button at the bottom of the screen. The first time you log on to Mintel Reports, you must create a 'personal profile' using an email address and a password of your own choosing. For all subsequent logins you need only sign in by entering this same email address and password.
Connect to MSDS on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Sigma-Aldrich-Flukamat Material Safety Data Sheets. Searchable database of approximately 325,000 MSDS files.
Connect to National Bureau Of Economic Research on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
NBER Researchers report their findings on a variety of economic subjects.The Working Papers are indexed back to 1992, and full text from 1994.
Connect to New York Times Archives on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases. A mini-guide on searching New York Times Archives is available
Full text of The New York Times newspaper from 1851-2003. The full-text of more current articles is available via LexisNexis Academic.
Connect to Newspaper Source on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Provides selected full text coverage for more than 240 newspapers and other sources. This collection includes cover-to-cover full text for USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor and The Times (London) and full text transcripts from Face the Nation, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, 60 Minutes, O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, National Public Radio, etc. Dates of coverage vary.
Connect to 19th Century U.S. Newspapers on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.
Connect to North American Theatre Online on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Provides detailed reference information on over 10,000 dramatists, plays, theatres, productions, and production companies in the U.S. and Canada from the 1600s to the present, and links to carefully selected, high-quality theatrical sites on the Web. Updated continually.
Connect to OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases. A mini-guide on searching OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is available
Also known as Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition
This multi-disciplinary database provides the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Business Full Text. Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Updated daily.
Connect to Oxford African American Studies Center on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Provides access to more than 7,500 articles focusing on African American history and culture. The articles come from major reference sources and are written by leading scholars in the field. Also includes primary sources, images, and maps.
Connect to Oxford Art Online on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Formerly Grove Art Online
A scholarly encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art. It includes the full text of Grove's Dictionary of Art (1996), as well as other art reference works from Oxford University Press. Updated regularly.
Connect to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Also known as Dictionary of National Biography
Number of simultaneous users limited, please logoff when finished.
A collection of biographies of over 55,000 noteworthy people in British history. The biographies, covering people from all walks of life who died through the end of 2001, provide up-to-date scholarship and are written by worldwide experts.
Connect to Oxford Islamic Studies Online on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
This resource brings together several encyclopedias, dictionaries, concordances and other reference sources along with over 3,000 scholarly articles and book chapters, hundreds of source documents and maps and links to other authoritative Web sites to provide thorough coverage of current and historical Islam.
Connect to Oxford Music Online on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Formerly Grove Music Online
An online encyclopedia of music, containing the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.), as well as other Grove Dictionaries of Music and music reference works from Oxford University Press. Updated continuously.
Connect to Oxford Reference Online on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
A collection containing over 120 dictionaries and reference titles covering a broad spectrum of subjects from general reference and language to science and medicine, and from humanities and social sciences to business and professional.
Connect to Past Masters on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Searches the full text of electronic editions of the works of major philosophers.
Connect to Philosophy Online on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Formerly Poiesis
On-campus access only.
Searches the content of over 80 scholarly journals in the field of philosophy, with online access to the full text of many of them. Years of coverage vary by title.
Connect to PolicyFile on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Indexes public policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Provides links to fulltext where available.
Connect to Political Reference Suite on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Provides access to many political science resources such as the CQ Almanac, California Political Almanac, the Contemporary Middle East, Politics in America, Supreme Court Compendium, etc. You can search all the sources at once or search them individually.
Connect to Primary Search on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Provides full text for more that 50 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Updated daily.
Connect to Project Muse on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Searchable database that provides access to the full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title.
Connect to PsycArticles on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Number of simultaneous users limited, please logoff when finished.
Database of full-text articles from the journals published by the American Psychological Association as well as some others from the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber. The list of journals covered is expanding as are the dates of coverage. In 2002 some went back to 1988. In 2003 back issues from 1985-1987 will be added. The database is updated daily. There are links to articles in this database from the PsycINFO database.
Connect to RAND California Online Library on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Keyword access to abstracts of RAND publications as well as full-text access to selected publications.
Connect to Readers' Guide Full Text on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
This database provides indexing and abstracting of over 300 popular magazines from 1983 to date, with full text from over 150 publications back to 1994. Updated daily.
Connect to Regional Business News on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Provides comprehensive full-text for over 50 regional business publications, including titles from Crain Communications. Dates of coverage for some publications go back to 1990 and content is updated daily.
Connect to Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
A major English-language encyclopedia devoted to the field of philosophy. Updated quarterly.
Connect to San Francisco Chronicle on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
The web version of the Chronicle provides the full text of the current issue, as well as archives going back to 1995. The archives are limited to staff written material.
Connect to San Jose Mercury News on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Number of simultaneous users limited, please logoff when finished.
Web version provides full-text from 1985-present.
Connect to ScienceDirect on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
SCU receives 400+ ScienceDirect online journals from the publisher Elsevier. SCU's ScienceDirect journals are marked by green icons. Most are full-text. Dates covered: 1995-present. Elsevier journals focus on science, technology, medicine, and business, and include high impact-factor journals such as the Trends and Current Opinion series.
Connect to SciFinder Scholar Web Version on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Number of simultaneous users limited, please logoff when finished.

SciFinder Scholar Web Version requires users to complete a one-time registration, creating a username/password of their choosing. The email address entered at registration must have an @scu.edu extension. SciFinder Scholar is accessible only on-campus or via the SCU staff/faculty VPN.

SciFinder provides access to Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and MedLine databases including:

  • CAPlus: over 30 million documents dating back to 1907. Updated daily.
  • MedLine: over 17 million references. Updated 5 times per week.
  • Over 43 million organic and inorganic substances; over 60 million sequences. Updated daily.
  • Over 16 million single- and multi-step reactions.
  • Commercial availability, regulatory and patent information on chemicals.

View SciFinder tutorials. For more information or help, please contact Michal Strutin, science librarian.

Connect to Social Sciences Full Text on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases. A mini-guide on searching Social Sciences Full Text is available
Indexes and abstracts articles at least one column in length from over 544 different English language periodicals in the social sciences, which includes anthropology, psychology, sociology, ethnic studies, political science, economics, geography, urban studies, and more. Fulltext of articles are available from about 175 of these periodicals. Indexing goes back to 1983. Abstracts began with January 1994. Fulltext availability varies title to title, but may go back to 1995. Updated daily. For indexing of articles appearing prior to 1983, use Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective.
Connect to SPIN Web (Searchable Physics Information Notices) on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
The SPIN database contains the abstracts of over 80 scientific journals published by the American Institute of Physics and its Member Societies since 1975, as well as selected articles from other scientific journals. Can also browse tables of contents and abstracts, full text is available for subscribed journals.
Connect to StatUSA on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Access permitted only within the University Library
A service of the U.S, Department of Commerce, it features Daily Economic News, Frequently Requested Statistical Releases, Export and International Trade, Domestic Economic News and Statistical Series, Business Leads and Procurement Opportunities. Also includes the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB), the U.S. Government's most comprehensive source of international trade data and export promotion information.
Connect to Thesaurus Linguae Graecae on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
A fully searchable digital library of the texts of ancient Greek literature from Homer to A.D. 1453.
Connect to Value Line Investment Survey with Historical Reports, 1997-Current on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
One of the most widely used independent investment information services in the world. This database includes both the Standard Edition covering some 1,700 equity issues and the Small & Mid Cap Edition covering some 1,800 additional, mostly small-capitalization issues.
Connect to The Wall Street Transcript Online on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Features up to the minute news, analyst reports, as well as interviews with analysts, money managers, CEO's and other experts on various industries. Features include roundtables with leading experts and announcements of upcoming conferences on various topics such as managing healthcare costs, or investing in the water industry.
Connect to Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Collection of primary documents and secondary sources related to U.S. women's history. Includes 63 document projects that interpret and present documents, more than 22,000 pages of documents, a dictionary of social movements and organizations , a chronology of U.S. Women's History, and teaching tools and materials.
World Development Indicators - CD-ROM available at the Circulation Desk. Click to see a full list of CD-ROM databases. Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
World Development Indicators
Contains time series indicators for national accounts, balance of payments, trade, finance, social, government, and public sector finance. 1970-present. Updated annually.
Connect to World Legal Information Institute on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Free, independent, and non-profit access to worldwide law from over 120 countries.
Connect to World News Connection on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Number of simultaneous users limited, please logoff when finished.
This is the Web version of the U.S. government's Foreign Broadcast Information Service, consisting of transcripts and translations of foreign news media, print and broadcast. The full database, going back to 1996, is available in the library only, and a librarian at the Reference Desk must log you in.

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