Whittemore Library: Online Databases for Off-Campus Users

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Chicago Manual of Style	The CMOS online is a searchable resource based on the Chicago Manual of Style 15^th edition for citing sources and writing styles. It also contains tools, i.e, sample forms, letters and style sheets.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD)	An acquisition, research, and reference service that offers more than 1,000,000 MARC records and more than 240,000 reviews of children's books--all full text searchable from 35 review sources.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCOhost)	Provides indexing for 3,001 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937.
Clase and Periodica (FirstSearch)	Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.
Clinical Pharmacology (EBSCOhost)	Access to up-to-date, concise and relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, as well as over-the-counter, new and investigational drugs.
Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC)	CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline.
Consumer Index (FirstSearch)	Access to information about evaluations, tests, alerts, warnings, and recalls of specific products, services, and facilities. Abstracts articles on all aspects of consumerism and consumer protection. Links to the best Internet resources and print publications for consumers.
Contemporary Literary Criticism (InfoTrac)	An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works, and sources for further study.
(CWI) Contemporary Women's Issues (FirstSearch)	Full-text access to global information on women in over 150 countries.
CQ Researcher	Offers comprehensive reporting and analysis and in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
CQ Weekly	Reports on the world's most powerful legislative body completely and accurately every week. Gives a complete wrap-up of the previous week's news, including the status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, and debates.
Creedo Reference	A database that features online content from a hundred reference books in a broad range of subjects.
Disclosure (FirstSearch)	Directory information on companies publicly traded on U.S. exchanges.
Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch)	Dissertations and theses from institutions in the North America and Europe.
EBSCOhost	Many different subject databases are listed including PsycINFO, Medline, MLA, CINAHL, and Academic Search Premier.
EconLit (FirstSearch)	Journals, books, and working papers on economics.
Educator's Reference Complete	Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database.
ERIC (EBSCOhost)	Provides citation and abstract information from over 1,000 educational journals and related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center and educational symposium report literature dating back to 1967.
Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac)	Access a wide variety of sources from every academic concentration. Use this database to research topics in Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and the General Sciences.

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FactSearch (FirstSearch)	Facts and statistics on topics of current interest.
Foundation Directory Online	The Foundation Directory Online is web-based grantseeking database, developed by the Foundation Center. It offers the most comprehensive, in-depth information available on U.S. grantmakers and their grants, drawn from reliable sources, including IRS 990s, grantmaker web sites and annual reports, plus data provided directly by grantmakers.
Funding Opportunities	COS Funding Opportunities is a compiled database of available opportunities for grants, fellowships, prizes and other type of funding. It is an extensive database with opportunities for recipients anywhere in the world, working in any discipline. Opportunity sponsors come from the public and private sector, including local, state and national governments, foundations and societies, and corporations.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCOhost)	For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records in full-text articles, covering an array of topics. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas.
Gale Virtual Reference Library	A mix of more than 20 full-text reference books covering the arts, biography, business, the environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, geography, and science.
General Business File ASAP (InfoTrac)	Perform in-depth research on company performance and activity, industry events and trends, as well as the latest in management, economics and politics.
General Reference Center Gold (InfoTrac)	A general interest database for searching magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc.
GEOBASE (FirstSearch)	Worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology.
Google Scholar	Search for scholarly journal articles within this search engine. Go to "Scholar Preferences" and enter Framingham State College as your prefered library in the "library links" section. You will see a result for Framingham State College. Select "Find it @Framingham State". Once you do this, you will be able to search and find full-text articles from our library.
GPO (FirstSearch)	U.S. government publications.
Health Reference Center-Academic (InfoTrac)	Find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc.
Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCOhost)	Provides full text for nearly 300 health periodicals, over 1,000 health pamphlets, and 23 health reference books.
Health Source: Nursing/ Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)	Provides indexing for more than 550 scholarly full text journals from many medical disciplines, as well as over 850 general medical journals.
Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost)	Historical Abstracts is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more - essential for libraries supporting upper-division and graduate research. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. History and social science researchers have used Historical Abstracts to discover significant and groundbreaking work for more than 50 years.
Historical New York Times	Complete page images of The New York Times from 2003 dating back to the first issue in 1851.
InfoTrac	Provides a variety of different subject databases providing access to scholarly journals, popular magazines, and newspapers. Databases include the Expanded Academic ASAP.
InfoTrac Onefile	Provides a variety of different subject databases providing access to scholarly journals, popular magazines, and newspapers. Databases include the Expanded Academic ASAP.
Junior Edition K-12	This periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
JSTOR	Search back issues of core journals (117 titles) in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.

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Kids Infobits (InfoTrac)	A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles. Updated daily.
Kraus Curriculum Development Library	A searchable database of curricula that brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in Pre-K-12 and Adult Basic Education.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe	Provides full text access to news, business and legal information.
Lexis-Nexis Statistical Datasets	Lexis-Nexis Statistical Datasets is a Web-based research solutions tool that provides fast and easy access to more than 750 million data points on 650 subjects from licensed and public domain datasets. The average time series of the datasets is 34 years.
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) (EBSCOhost)	Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Literary Reference Center	Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works.
Massachusetts History Online	Use this collection for full-text articles from 50 magazines and local newspapers for coverage of Massachusetts people, places and historical events.
MasterFile Premier (EBSCOhost)	Provides full text for 2,000 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more. Some titles indexed back to 1975.
MathSciNet (American Mathematical Society)	A comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940, providing Web access to the bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical research literature contained in the Mathematical Reviews Database. Partial full-text.
Media Review Digest (First Search)	Reviews of educational media and entertainment resources.
Medline (EBSCOhost)	Provides access to medical information from 1966 to present. This database also includes full text for nearly 80 biomedical journals dating as far back as 1990.
Mergent Online	Contains company data for U.S. and international companies as well as annual reports. Search by company name, ticker symbol, or country.
Military & Government Collection (EBSCOhost)	Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.
MLA Directory of Periodicals (EBSCOhost)	Offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, 4,400 of which are currently indexed in the MLA Bibliography. Gives editorial contact information as well as submission guidelines.
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost)	Online version of the MLA Bibliography. Contains citations from over 4,400 journals and book series. Search 1963 to the present.
The New York Times	Comprehensive digital coverage back to 1995.
NewsAbs (FirstSearch)	Significant items from over 50 U.S. national and regional newspapers.
Newspaper Source (EBSCOhost)	Provides selected full text articles from 30 U.S. and international newspapers. Also includes full text television and radio news transcripts as well as selected full text for more than 200 regional U.S. newspapers.
Novelist	NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.
Ovid: Framingham State College Nursing Journal Collection	26 nursing journals ranging in coverage from 1996 to the present.
Oxford English Dictionary	The OED is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.
PapersFirst (FirstSearch)	Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
Papers Invited	The database consists of detailed information and deadlines about calls for papers for forthcoming conferences and special issues of scholarly journals. These calls for papers are issued by professional bodies, journal editors and other conference organizers in all disciplines and from all over the world.
Periodical Abstracts (FirstSearch)	Periodical abstracts, information on a wide range of subjects including: business, current affairs, economics, literature, psychology, religion, and women's studies from general and academic journals. General topics and radio/TV transcripts.
Proceedings First (FirstSearch)	Index of worldwide conference proceedings.
Professional Development Collection (EBSCOhost)	Provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles, designed for professional educators.
Project Muse	Full text access to over 300 high quality journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences from 60 scholarly publishers.
Proquest Newspapers (Massachusetts Newsstand)	Full-text articles from the electronic editions of the Boston Globe (1980-present), Boston Herald (1991-present), Worcester Telegram & Gazette (1989-present), Berkshire Eagle (2005 - present), Business West (1992 - present), North Adams Transcript (2005 - present), Patriot Ledge (1991 - present), Plymouth County Business Review (1991 - present), Sentinel & Enterprise (2005 - present), The Sun (2004 - present), Gazette (12/31/1992 - 8/9/2007), Standard Times (1/4/1992 - 8/19/1997).
PsycArticles (EBSCOhost)	Contains general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research from 1985 to present. Has more than 40,00 articles from 56 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations.
PsycCritiques (EBSCOhost)	Contains American Psychological Association Reviews of current books and films. Also contains a ten-year searchable backfile.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCOhost)	Includes coverage of over 575 full text journals, as well as more than 550 peer-reviewed titles.
PsycINFO (EBSCOhost)	Search over 9,900 sources (including more than 2,000 periodicals) to locate information on psychology and related fields from 1840 to the present.

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Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)	Provides comprehensive full-text coverage for regional business publications. Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all major metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Updated on a daily basis.
Religion and Philosophy Collection (EBSCOhost)	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. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles.
Science Direct	Science Direct offers more than a quarter of the world's scientific, medical and technical information online. Science Direct has over 950 scholarly, scientific journals available.
Scirus	Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Scirus searches over 450 million science-specific Web pages. You can limit your search to journal articles. Go to "Search Preferences" and select Framingham State College in the drop down menu in the "library partner links" section. Once you do this, you will be able to search and find full-text articles from our library.
SIRS Researcher (FirstSearch)	Social, scientific, economic, and political issues worldwide.
SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCOhost)	Comprehensive and high-quality sociology research database. Contains full text for 242 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895.
Student Edition	This periodical database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Teaching Books	TeachingBooks.net provides original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators and a wealth of multimedia resources on K-12 books that generate enthusiasm for books and reading.
Ulrich's Periodical Directory	Ulrich�s Periodicals Directory� is a bibliographic database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world.
Wilson Select Plus (FirstSearch)	Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business.
World Almanacs (FirstSearch)	Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia and four almanacs - fundamental reference resources.
World Book Online	World Book Online is based on the World Book Encyclopedia, developed by World Book Publishing, Inc. It includes access to over 31,000 encyclopedia articles; 6,000 Web links; 25,000 periodical articles; 800 videos, animations, and sounds; 400 interactive maps; and 3-D bubble views.
WorldCat (FirstSearch)	Catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Includes millions of bibliographic records with records representing 400 languages.
WorldScope (FirstSearch)	Basic financial information on public companies worldwide.