Biographical Information (US)

• Biography in Context (Gale): reference information covering historical figures and “present-day newsmakers”; provides access to magazine and journal articles, videos, primary sources, and audio and image files
• Grove Music: a good music reference source with biographies and subject articles
• Literature Resource Center (Gale): full-text scholarly journals and magazines, critical essays, full-text works, biographies, and topic overviews focusing on authors and literary works and movements
• LitFinder: repository of literary works, includes poems, short stories and novels, essays, speeches, plays, biographies, and photographs

Book Reviews

• JSTOR: multidisciplinary database with scholarly journals, ebooks, reviews, and pamphlets
• Research Library (ProQuest): multidisciplinary reference database, includes scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications

Country Information

• World Factbook: country information, includes maps and flags

Dictionaries

• Oxford English Dictionary: standard dictionary

Dissertations

• ABI/INFORM Complete (ProQuest): access to dissertations and full-text journals, including international business periodicals
• Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database (ProQuest): Canadian reference collection, includes access to scholarly journals, books, dissertations, newspapers, and magazines
• CINAHL (EBSCO): nursing and health literature, including scholarly journals, books, dissertations, and conference proceedings
• Nursing & Allied Health Source (ProQuest): nursing and allied health journals, videos, dissertations and more
• Open Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest): access to full-text, open access dissertations and theses
• PsycInfo (EBSCO): American Psychological Association resource for citations and abstracts of psychology scholarly journal articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations
• Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN): theological theses and dissertation titles; ask a librarian for the password to access content
• WorldCat (OCLC): search other library collections

ebooks

• Ebook Central: access to over 100,000 ebooks covering a wide range of academic disciplines
• EBSCO ebooks: assortment of fiction and non-fiction books

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopaedia Judaica (Gale): information on the state of Israel and the Jewish faith and people
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO): encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas

Image Databases

• O Cope Budge Library Digital Collections: historical Vanguard University of Southern California photos
• Artstor : image database

Magazines

• EBSCO: many EBSCO databases, like Academic Search Ultimate, provide access to full-text magazine articles - just look for "(EBSCO)" next to the database name
• JSTOR: multidisciplinary database with scholarly journals, ebooks, reviews, and pamphlets
• Project MUSE: humanities database with full-text versions of scholarly journals
• ProQuest Central: multidisciplinary, aggregated database; search multiple ProQuest databases simultaneously for ebooks and scholarly articles

Newspapers

• Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO): access to full-text newspaper articles; in refine results, select newspapers
• Google Newspaper Archives: access to hundreds of digitized, historical newspapers
• Newspaper Source (EBSCO): full text access to more than 40 national and international newspapers
• ProQuest Central: multidisciplinary, aggregated database; search multiple ProQuest databases simultaneously for ebooks and scholarly articles
• US Newsstream (ProQuest): search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring top newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format
• Vanguard University of Southern California Newspapers: digitized VUSC newspapers starting from 1948

Primary Sources

• Artemis Literary Sources (Gale): access to literary analysis, biographies, primary sources, and critiques
• Biography in Context (Gale): reference information covering historical figures and “present-day newsmakers”; provides access to magazine and journal articles, videos, primary sources, and audio and image files
• Opposing Viewpoints (Gale): information on hot topics and issues; access to pro/con essays, primary resources, video and image files, websites, academic journals, and more
• Women and Social Movements (ASP): database focusing on women’s activism in the U.S. between 1600-2000; includes full-text documents (many written by primary authors) and website, book, and film reviews

** More information on primary sources can be found in the primary sources research guide.

Scholarly Journals

Scholarly journals are available through many databases. Select peer reviewed or scholarly when searching for articles. The following multidisciplinary databases are a good starting point for scholarly research:

• Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO): comprehensive, multidisciplinary database providing access to scholarly, full-text journals, magazines, newspapers, book reviews, and more
• JSTOR: multidisciplinary database with scholarly journals, ebooks, reviews, and pamphlets
• ProQuest Central: multidisciplinary, aggregated database; search multiple ProQuest databases simultaneously for ebooks and scholarly articles

Statistics

• Historical Statistics of the US: quantitative historical facts
• Opposing Viewpoints (Gale): information on hot topics and issues; access to pro/con essays, primary resources, video and image files, websites, academic journals, and more
• Statista: statistics portal providing information on a wide array of subjects
• Statistical Abstracts of the United States: statistics covering economic, social, and political conditions in the U.S.

Streaming Videos

• Academic Video Online: Premium (ASP): comprehensive video subscription delivering titles spanning a wide range of subject areas - good resource for documentaries
• Kanopy Streaming: stream documentaries, independent films and more

Trials

• No database trials at this time.