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Biology

  • Academic Search Complete
    A comprehensive, scholarly, multidisciplinary database with thousands of full-text journals. Recommended for research in all disciplines.
  • Alt Health Watch
    Focuses on holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals, reports, pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Indexing and abstracts from 1984, and full text from 1990 forward. Recommended for Biology and Medical research.
  • American Society for Microbiology Journals
    Eleven full-text microbiology journals published by the ASM. All current and back issues available online. Recommended for Biology and Medical research.
  • BioOne
    Over 150 full-text, peer-reviewed biological, ecological, and environmental science research journals. Coverage is from 1998 forward and issues will be posted online before they appear in print. Recommended for Biology research.
  • Environment Complete
    Offers coverage in 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. Recommended for Environmental Science research.
  • GreenFile
    GreenFILE is an index of publications on the environmental impact of human activity. Subjects covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, recycling, renewable energy, and sustainable agriculture. Content includes over 15000 open access records.
  • JSTOR Featured

    The complete backfile of a core of scholarly journals that have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. Bortz Library subscribes to the following JSTOR packages: Arts and Sciences I - XV; Business IV; Global Plants; Hebrew Journals; Ireland Collection; Life Sciences; Lives of Literature; Public Health; Security Studies; Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa; Sustainability Collection; World Heritage Sites: Africa; Mathematics and Statistics; and 19th Century British Pamphlets.

  • Nature - Springer Nature Complete Journals
    Access to Nature through Springer Nature Complete Journals. Coverage 1993 - present (with a 2 year embargo).
  • PubMed
    PubMed comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Recommended for Biology and Medical research.
  • Scientific American Site License

    Site license access to Scientific American Nature.com includes current access plus 4 years of archive access. Recommended for Biology and Psychology research.

Chemistry

  • American Chemical Society Journals Best Bet
    Access to the full text of all journals published by the American Chemical Society. Recommended for Chemisty research.
  • Academic Search Complete
    A comprehensive, scholarly, multidisciplinary database with thousands of full-text journals. Recommended for research in all disciplines.
  • Nature - Springer Nature Complete Journals
    Access to Nature through Springer Nature Complete Journals. Coverage 1993 - present (with a 2 year embargo).
  • Scientific American Site License

    Site license access to Scientific American Nature.com includes current access plus 4 years of archive access. Recommended for Biology and Psychology research.

  • SciFinder Scholar
    Access to SciFinder is now available online. The web version requires that each user register for a personal account. Recommended for Chemisty research. Requires registration.

Classics

  • Academic Search Complete
    A comprehensive, scholarly, multidisciplinary database with thousands of full-text journals. Recommended for research in all disciplines.
  • Humanities International Complete
    Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,300 journals) plus content not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 1200 journals.
  • JSTOR Featured

    The complete backfile of a core of scholarly journals that have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. Bortz Library subscribes to the following JSTOR packages: Arts and Sciences I - XV; Business IV; Global Plants; Hebrew Journals; Ireland Collection; Life Sciences; Lives of Literature; Public Health; Security Studies; Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa; Sustainability Collection; World Heritage Sites: Africa; Mathematics and Statistics; and 19th Century British Pamphlets.

Economics & Business

  • ABI/INFORM Complete Best Bet

    Content from thousands of journals that help researchers track business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, and industry-specific topics worldwide. Coverage from 1923 - present. Recommended for Economics and Business research.

  • Academic Search Complete
    A comprehensive, scholarly, multidisciplinary database with thousands of full-text journals. Recommended for research in all disciplines.
  • Business Source Complete Best Bet
    A scholarly business database, providing bibliographic and full text content. Indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals, dating back as far as 1886. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals. Recommended for Economics and Business research.
  • CountryWatch
    Provides critical country-specific intelligence and data including maps, demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental subject matter. Recommended for Government and Foreign Affairs research.
  • CountryWatch Country Profile Video Series
    Country profile documentary videos review the geography, history, politics and economics of each featured country.
  • EconLit with Full-Text Best Bet
    Full text for over 600 journals, including the American Economic Association journals with no embargo (American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives).
  • Factiva Featured

    14,000 authoritative sources including the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, and D&B company profiles. Recommended for finding news, and Economics and Business research.

  • JSTOR Featured

    The complete backfile of a core of scholarly journals that have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. Bortz Library subscribes to the following JSTOR packages: Arts and Sciences I - XV; Business IV; Global Plants; Hebrew Journals; Ireland Collection; Life Sciences; Lives of Literature; Public Health; Security Studies; Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa; Sustainability Collection; World Heritage Sites: Africa; Mathematics and Statistics; and 19th Century British Pamphlets.

  • Mergent Horizon
    Easy-to-search source for finding, filtering and organizing information about companies and industries. Recommended for Economics and Business research.
  • Mergent Online
    Information on over 35,000 publicly traded companies -- approximately 12,000 domestic public companies, 24,000 international public companies, and 10,000 extinct (due to merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, etc) global public companies. Company histories and over 200,000 annual reports in pdf, 30 years of stock prices, and more. Recommended for Economics and Business research.
  • Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic)
    Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Recommended for finding news, Legal, Economics and Business research.
  • Regional Business News
    Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Incorporates coverage of over 100 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Updated on a daily basis. Recommended for Economics and Business research.
  • Social Explorer
    Use Social Explorer to visualize and interact with data, create maps, charts, reports and downloads that help you reach your goals. Explore hundreds of thousands of built-in data indicators related to demography, economy, health, politics, environment, crime and more. Easily add your own data for further impact.
  • Statista Featured

    Statista is an online statistics portal. It provides statistical data from thousands of institutions and sources, and provides access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organizations and government agencies.

English

  • Academic Search Complete
    A comprehensive, scholarly, multidisciplinary database with thousands of full-text journals. Recommended for research in all disciplines.
  • ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB)
    ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is a digital collection of over 5,400 seminal books in the humanities and related social sciences. Fields currently covered include the following: World and U.S. History, Biblical Studies, Bibliographic Studies, Comparative/World, Economic History, Environmental Studies, Film and Media Studies, Folklore, Hip Hop Studies, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Law, LGBT/Queer Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Literary Criticism, Medicine, Methods/Theory, Musicology, Native Peoples of the Americas, Performance Studies (theater, music, dance), Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Science/Technology, Sociology and Women’s Studies.
  • EEBO Early English Books Online
    Digital images of every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
  • JSTOR Featured

    The complete backfile of a core of scholarly journals that have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. Bortz Library subscribes to the following JSTOR packages: Arts and Sciences I - XV; Business IV; Global Plants; Hebrew Journals; Ireland Collection; Life Sciences; Lives of Literature; Public Health; Security Studies; Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa; Sustainability Collection; World Heritage Sites: Africa; Mathematics and Statistics; and 19th Century British Pamphlets.

  • MLA International Bibliography
    Provides access to millions of bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations from 1926 to the present in academic disciplines such as: language, literature, linguistics, literary criticism, and the dramatic arts. Incorporates the MLA thesaurus as well as the MLA's Directory of Periodicals. Recommended for English research.
  • Oxford English Dictionary
    Online version of the most comprehensive dictionary of the English language. The OED traces the development of English from approximately 1150 AD up to the present day.
  • Radical Scatters: Emily Dickinson's Late Fragments and Related Texts, 1870-1886
    "The core of Radical Scatters consists of eighty-two documents carrying over one hundred fragmentary texts composed by Dickinson in the final decades of her life."

Fine Arts

  • Academic Search Complete
    A comprehensive, scholarly, multidisciplinary database with thousands of full-text journals. Recommended for research in all disciplines.
  • ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB)
    ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is a digital collection of over 5,400 seminal books in the humanities and related social sciences. Fields currently covered include the following: World and U.S. History, Biblical Studies, Bibliographic Studies, Comparative/World, Economic History, Environmental Studies, Film and Media Studies, Folklore, Hip Hop Studies, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Law, LGBT/Queer Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Literary Criticism, Medicine, Methods/Theory, Musicology, Native Peoples of the Americas, Performance Studies (theater, music, dance), Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Science/Technology, Sociology and Women’s Studies.
  • ARTstor Best Bet

    ARTstor is now a part of the JSTOR collection, and the ARTstor website will be retired on August 1, 2024. ARTstor is digital library of millions of images and media in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching. Recommended for Fine Arts, Western Culture, and Classics research.

  • Bibliography of the History of Art
    The world's most comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of western art. Recommended for Fine Arts research. To view materials available online select "Digital Collections" from the drop down search menu.
  • Digital Theater+
    Digital Theatre+ includes over 600 productions, from musicals to literary classics and in a range of formats including captured theatre, films, TV adaptations, audio theatre and poetry recitals; more than 800 video resources such as interactive workshops, dynamic e-learning videos, and exclusive interviews, lectures and documentaries; and over 21,000 pages of written resources, from accessible guides to essays to ready-made teaching resources, written by educators for educators.

Government & Foreign Affairs

  • ABI/INFORM Complete Best Bet

    Content from thousands of journals that help researchers track business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, and industry-specific topics worldwide. Coverage from 1923 - present. Recommended for Economics and Business research.

  • Academic Search Complete
    A comprehensive, scholarly, multidisciplinary database with thousands of full-text journals. Recommended for research in all disciplines.
  • CountryWatch Best Bet
    Provides critical country-specific intelligence and data including maps, demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental subject matter. Recommended for Government and Foreign Affairs research.
  • CountryWatch Country Profile Video Series
    Country profile documentary videos review the geography, history, politics and economics of each featured country.
  • Disability in the Modern World
    Disability in the Modern World is a landmark online collection that fills the gap in academic literature about the community and contributions of people who experience disability, with a comprehensive and international set of resources to enrich study in a wide range of disciplines from media studies to philosophy. Disability in the Modern World will include 150,000 pages of primary sources, supporting materials, and archives, along with 125 hours of video, and it was a 2020 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice.
  • Exploring Race in Society
    Exploring Race in Society contains scholarly journals and proprietary essays that provide researchers with a deeper understanding of how current issues stem from actions and policies of the past. Each proprietary topic includes an overview article and three essays suggesting potential solutions. Solutions essays are written by a diverse group of writers representing the fields of academia, journalism, medicine and other disciplines working to address issues related to race.
  • HeinOnline
    HeinOnline contains more than 130 million pages of legal history available in an online, fully-searchable, image-based format. It bridges the gap in legal history by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 2,300 law and law-related periodicals. Includes classic legal treatises, The Congressional Record Bound, famous world trials dating back to the early 1700s, U.S. Code, Federal Registers, and other statutory documents.
  • JSTOR Featured

    The complete backfile of a core of scholarly journals that have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. Bortz Library subscribes to the following JSTOR packages: Arts and Sciences I - XV; Business IV; Global Plants; Hebrew Journals; Ireland Collection; Life Sciences; Lives of Literature; Public Health; Security Studies; Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa; Sustainability Collection; World Heritage Sites: Africa; Mathematics and Statistics; and 19th Century British Pamphlets.

  • Latin American News Digest
    Latin American News Digest follows more than one hundred newspapers and magazines, and brings together news in one installment every two weeks.
  • Legal Collection
    Contains full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. An authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
  • Military and Government Collection
    Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content. Provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles. Recommended for Government and Foreign Affairs research.
  • Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic)
    Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Recommended for finding news, Legal, Economics and Business research.
  • Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
    This collection brings together all essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.
  • Social Explorer Best Bet
    Use Social Explorer to visualize and interact with data, create maps, charts, reports and downloads that help you reach your goals. Explore hundreds of thousands of built-in data indicators related to demography, economy, health, politics, environment, crime and more. Easily add your own data for further impact.
  • Statista Featured

    Statista is an online statistics portal. It provides statistical data from thousands of institutions and sources, and provides access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organizations and government agencies.

History

  • Academic Search Complete
    A comprehensive, scholarly, multidisciplinary database with thousands of full-text journals. Recommended for research in all disciplines.
  • ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB)
    ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is a digital collection of over 5,400 seminal books in the humanities and related social sciences. Fields currently covered include the following: World and U.S. History, Biblical Studies, Bibliographic Studies, Comparative/World, Economic History, Environmental Studies, Film and Media Studies, Folklore, Hip Hop Studies, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Law, LGBT/Queer Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Literary Criticism, Medicine, Methods/Theory, Musicology, Native Peoples of the Americas, Performance Studies (theater, music, dance), Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Science/Technology, Sociology and Women’s Studies.
  • America History & Life Best Bet
    The definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from as far back as 1910. Recommended for History research.
  • American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020 (Open Access)
    American Prison Newspapers brings together hundreds of newspapers published within prisons by incarcerated people over the past 200 years. When complete, the collection will contain newspapers from prisons in every state, representing penal institutions of all kinds, including women-only institutions.
  • ArchiveGrid
    Search through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world. Learn about items in archival collections and contact archives to arrange visits to examine materials. Recommended for History research.
  • British History Online

    British History Online is a not-for-profit digital library based at the Institute of Historical Research. It brings together material for British history from the collections of libraries, archives, museums and academics. These primary and secondary sources, which range from medieval to twentieth century, are easily searchable and browsable online.

  • Colonial State Papers
    Provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the 16th and 18th centuries.
    Also includes a digitised version of The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739
  • Disability in the Modern World
    Disability in the Modern World is a landmark online collection that fills the gap in academic literature about the community and contributions of people who experience disability, with a comprehensive and international set of resources to enrich study in a wide range of disciplines from media studies to philosophy. Disability in the Modern World will include 150,000 pages of primary sources, supporting materials, and archives, along with 125 hours of video, and it was a 2020 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice.
  • Early Encounters in North America
    Primary source material database with over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. Date coverage: 1524 - 1885.
  • EEBO Early English Books Online
    Digital images of every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
  • Exploring Race in Society
    Exploring Race in Society contains scholarly journals and proprietary essays that provide researchers with a deeper understanding of how current issues stem from actions and policies of the past. Each proprietary topic includes an overview article and three essays suggesting potential solutions. Solutions essays are written by a diverse group of writers representing the fields of academia, journalism, medicine and other disciplines working to address issues related to race.
  • HarpWeek: Reconstruction I (1866-1871)
    A complete index of Harper's Weekly from the Civil War era and the Reconstruction period. The text is presented as images of the journal's pages. Recommended for History research.
  • HarpWeek: The Civil War Era (1857-1865)
    A complete index of Harper's Weekly from the Civil War era and the Reconstruction period. The text is presented as images of the journal's pages. Recommended for History research.
  • Historical Abstracts Best Bet
    An index to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). Recommended for History research.
  • JSTOR Featured

    The complete backfile of a core of scholarly journals that have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. Bortz Library subscribes to the following JSTOR packages: Arts and Sciences I - XV; Business IV; Global Plants; Hebrew Journals; Ireland Collection; Life Sciences; Lives of Literature; Public Health; Security Studies; Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa; Sustainability Collection; World Heritage Sites: Africa; Mathematics and Statistics; and 19th Century British Pamphlets.

  • New York Times - TimesMachine Best Bet
    The complete archive of The New York Times with more than 13 million articles total. You must have a current New York Times Site Pass in order to access certain articles and date ranges. You can obtain a pass using the link for New York Times Site License, also found in the A-Z Databases list.
  • Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
    This collection brings together all essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.
  • Social Explorer
    Use Social Explorer to visualize and interact with data, create maps, charts, reports and downloads that help you reach your goals. Explore hundreds of thousands of built-in data indicators related to demography, economy, health, politics, environment, crime and more. Easily add your own data for further impact.
  • State Papers Online, Part III: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I – Anne I, 1603-1714
    Organized in four parts, each cross-searchable and available separately, this online archive of original manuscript documents of British State Papers chronicles domestic and foreign history, from 1603-1714, the period of Henry VIII to Queen Anne.
  • Statista Featured

    Statista is an online statistics portal. It provides statistical data from thousands of institutions and sources, and provides access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organizations and government agencies.

  • Student Activism (Open Access)
    The Student Activism collection is intended to serve as a scholarly bridge from the extensive history of student protest in the United States to the study of today's vibrant, continually unfolding actions. The collection captures the voices of students across the great range of protest, political actions, and equal-rights advocacy from the 20th and early 21st century United States. The primary sources are broad-based across time, geography, and political viewpoint — from conservative to anarchist.
  • World War II, Occupation, and Civil War in Greece, 1940-1949 Archival Records
    85,000+ archival, primary source, images from the U.S. National Archives. Recommended for History research.

Math and Computer Science

  • Academic Search Complete
    A comprehensive, scholarly, multidisciplinary database with thousands of full-text journals. Recommended for research in all disciplines.
  • Computers & Applied Science Complete
    Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,200 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text available for more than 1000 periodicals. Recommended for Computer Science research.
  • JSTOR Featured

    The complete backfile of a core of scholarly journals that have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. Bortz Library subscribes to the following JSTOR packages: Arts and Sciences I - XV; Business IV; Global Plants; Hebrew Journals; Ireland Collection; Life Sciences; Lives of Literature; Public Health; Security Studies; Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa; Sustainability Collection; World Heritage Sites: Africa; Mathematics and Statistics; and 19th Century British Pamphlets.

  • MathSciNet
    A comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940. Bibliographic information and reviews are created and maintained by the American Mathematical Society. Journals, conference proceedings, and books of mathematics research are covered. Recommended for Mathematics research.
  • Nature - Springer Nature Complete Journals
    Access to Nature through Springer Nature Complete Journals. Coverage 1993 - present (with a 2 year embargo).
  • Wolfram Mathematica | Alpha Pro
    Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha Pro is installed on select computers in the Mathematics Lab in Bagby and the Technology Commons in Bortz Library. Visit the Library or Computing Center for information on site licenses and downloads.

Modern Languages

  • Academic Search Complete
    A comprehensive, scholarly, multidisciplinary database with thousands of full-text journals. Recommended for research in all disciplines.
  • CountryWatch
    Provides critical country-specific intelligence and data including maps, demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental subject matter. Recommended for Government and Foreign Affairs research.
  • CountryWatch Country Profile Video Series
    Country profile documentary videos review the geography, history, politics and economics of each featured country.
  • Fuente Academica Best Bet
    Full-text collection of scholarly Spanish language journals in many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology. Recommended for Modern Languages research.
  • MedicLatina
    A unique collection of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. Contains full text for nearly 130 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish. Recommended for Modern Languages and Medical research.
  • MLA International Bibliography
    Provides access to millions of bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations from 1926 to the present in academic disciplines such as: language, literature, linguistics, literary criticism, and the dramatic arts. Incorporates the MLA thesaurus as well as the MLA's Directory of Periodicals. Recommended for English research.
  • Newspaper Source Plus
    Provides access to 1000+ national & international newspapers. Also contains full-text television & radio news transcripts. Includes current access to the NY Times.
  • Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic)
    Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Recommended for finding news, Legal, Economics and Business research.
  • Vente et Gestion
    Full text coverage for French language business journals. This collection also includes publications covering topics such as accounting & tax, administration, industry & manufacturing, marketing, logistics, technology and others. Recommended for Modern Languages research.

News and Newspapers

  • American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020 (Open Access)
    American Prison Newspapers brings together hundreds of newspapers published within prisons by incarcerated people over the past 200 years. When complete, the collection will contain newspapers from prisons in every state, representing penal institutions of all kinds, including women-only institutions.
  • Factiva Featured

    14,000 authoritative sources including the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, and D&B company profiles. Recommended for finding news, and Economics and Business research.

  • Latin American News Digest
    Latin American News Digest follows more than one hundred newspapers and magazines, and brings together news in one installment every two weeks.
  • New York Times - TimesMachine Best Bet
    The complete archive of The New York Times with more than 13 million articles total. You must have a current New York Times Site Pass in order to access certain articles and date ranges. You can obtain a pass using the link for New York Times Site License, also found in the A-Z Databases list.
  • New York Times Site License - nytimes.com Featured

    To activate your account, click on the link above and either log-in to your existing NY Times account or set up a new account using your hsc.edu email. After that, you will be able to access nytimes.com from anywhere, including from the NYT app. Your account will need to be reactivated every year in this way to maintain access.

  • Newspaper Source Plus
    Provides access to 1000+ national & international newspapers. Also contains full-text television & radio news transcripts. Includes current access to the NY Times.
  • Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic)
    Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Recommended for finding news, Legal, Economics and Business research.
  • Regional Business News
    Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Incorporates coverage of over 100 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Updated on a daily basis. Recommended for Economics and Business research.
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education Featured

    Source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. From on campus there is no need to log-in. Off-campus users will need to create a free username and password using your Hampden-Sydney email address.

Philosophy

  • Academic Search Complete
    A comprehensive, scholarly, multidisciplinary database with thousands of full-text journals. Recommended for research in all disciplines.
  • ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB)
    ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is a digital collection of over 5,400 seminal books in the humanities and related social sciences. Fields currently covered include the following: World and U.S. History, Biblical Studies, Bibliographic Studies, Comparative/World, Economic History, Environmental Studies, Film and Media Studies, Folklore, Hip Hop Studies, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Law, LGBT/Queer Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Literary Criticism, Medicine, Methods/Theory, Musicology, Native Peoples of the Americas, Performance Studies (theater, music, dance), Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Science/Technology, Sociology and Women’s Studies.
  • ATLA Religion
    The American Theological Library Association's premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. Recommended for Religion research.
  • JSTOR Featured

    The complete backfile of a core of scholarly journals that have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. Bortz Library subscribes to the following JSTOR packages: Arts and Sciences I - XV; Business IV; Global Plants; Hebrew Journals; Ireland Collection; Life Sciences; Lives of Literature; Public Health; Security Studies; Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa; Sustainability Collection; World Heritage Sites: Africa; Mathematics and Statistics; and 19th Century British Pamphlets.

  • Philosopher's Index
    Acurrent and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. The Philosopher’s Index contains research published since 1940 including over 680 journals from more than 50 countries with content representing a variety of languages.
  • Religion and Philosophy Collection
    Provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Offers nearly 300 full text journals, (250+ peer-reviewed). Recommended for Religion and Philosophy research.

Physics & Astronomy

Psychology

  • Academic Search Complete
    A comprehensive, scholarly, multidisciplinary database with thousands of full-text journals. Recommended for research in all disciplines.
  • APA PsycArticles Best Bet
    APA PsycArticles is a database of full-text, peer-reviewed articles published by APA and affiliated journals with current journal coverage and historical content dating back more than a century. This collection provides access to the full spectrum of research in the field and is a useful resource for psychology researchers and students.
  • APA PsycInfo Best Bet
    APA PsycInfo focuses on the interdisciplinary aspects of the worldwide behavioral and social science research and literature. It is a resource for locating scholarly research findings in psychology and related fields across a host of academic disciplines—from the historical to the cutting edge. PsycInfo includes journal articles and book chapters covering specific research methodologies, such as clinical case reports, empirical studies and literature reviews.
  • JoVE - Journal of Visualized Experiments Neuroscience
    JoVE Neuroscience is devoted to investigations of the structure, function, physiology, and pathophysiology of the brain and nervous system.
  • Nature - Springer Nature Complete Journals
    Access to Nature through Springer Nature Complete Journals. Coverage 1993 - present (with a 2 year embargo).
  • Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
    Provides over 400 full text publications. Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title is indexed in PsycINFO. Updated daily. Recommended for Psychology research.
  • Psychotherapy.net
    Psychotherapy.net allows for unlimited access to 338 videos designed to improve the clinical skills of mental health professionals. Psychotherapy.net videos feature Yalom, Linehan, Kernberg and other experts in session with real clients, and step-by-step explanations of their interventions. With the Psychotherapy.net video library students can see theory being put into action, bridging the gap between learning about therapy and actually providing therapy. Bortz Library's subscription gives users access to the Full Collection, as well as automatic addition of future content, added throughout the year.

Reference Resources

  • Britannica Online Best Bet
    Online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
  • Oxford English Dictionary
    Online version of the most comprehensive dictionary of the English language. The OED traces the development of English from approximately 1150 AD up to the present day.
  • Statista Featured

    Statista is an online statistics portal. It provides statistical data from thousands of institutions and sources, and provides access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organizations and government agencies.

Religion

  • Academic Search Complete
    A comprehensive, scholarly, multidisciplinary database with thousands of full-text journals. Recommended for research in all disciplines.
  • ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB)
    ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is a digital collection of over 5,400 seminal books in the humanities and related social sciences. Fields currently covered include the following: World and U.S. History, Biblical Studies, Bibliographic Studies, Comparative/World, Economic History, Environmental Studies, Film and Media Studies, Folklore, Hip Hop Studies, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Law, LGBT/Queer Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Literary Criticism, Medicine, Methods/Theory, Musicology, Native Peoples of the Americas, Performance Studies (theater, music, dance), Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Science/Technology, Sociology and Women’s Studies.
  • ATLA Religion Best Bet
    The American Theological Library Association's premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. Recommended for Religion research.
  • Humanities International Complete
    Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,300 journals) plus content not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 1200 journals.
  • JSTOR Featured

    The complete backfile of a core of scholarly journals that have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. Bortz Library subscribes to the following JSTOR packages: Arts and Sciences I - XV; Business IV; Global Plants; Hebrew Journals; Ireland Collection; Life Sciences; Lives of Literature; Public Health; Security Studies; Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa; Sustainability Collection; World Heritage Sites: Africa; Mathematics and Statistics; and 19th Century British Pamphlets.

  • Religion and Philosophy Collection
    Provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Offers nearly 300 full text journals, (250+ peer-reviewed). Recommended for Religion and Philosophy research.