Electronic Databases


Academic Search Premier (trial)

This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.


Academic OneFile

Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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Books and Authors

Combines over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorite lists. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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Business and Company Resource Center

Brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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CINAHL Plus with Full Text

This database contains only nursing journals. Provides full-text for more than 760 journals indexed in CINAHL. Major research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature. The database also provides full text for more than 220 books/monographs and contains author affiliations, searchable cited references, research instruments, and evidence-based care sheets.

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Communication and Mass Media Complete

This database incorporates the content of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth. CMMC offers indexing and abstracts for more than 440 journals and includes full text for 326 journals.

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Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select

This database is an extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC-Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study. Updated monthly, it allows users to search by author name, title of work, nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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Credo Reference

Credo Reference is a leading provider of reference services for libraries. It enables users to find authoritative answers fast. It features content from hundreds of reference books in a broad range of subjects.

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Educator's Reference Complete

This database is a selection of more than 450 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. Updated daily. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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ERIC [free website]

(1966-present) Indexes journals, curriculum guides, research reports, conference proceedings, bibliographies, and more.

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Expanded Academic Index ASAP

From arts and humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers--many with full-text and images. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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Gale Biography In Context

This database merges Gale's authoritative reference content with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience. Users can search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context

This database has contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. It features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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Gale Science In Context

This database has information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. Merges reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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Gale Student Resources In Context

This database has information on a broad range of topics, people, places, and events. It merges reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience combined with new features such as a "Search Assist" and quick fact boxes. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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General Business File ASAP

This database analyzes company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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General OneFile

This database has 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 science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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General Reference Center Gold

A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources--newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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Global Issues In Context

This database offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issues and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural status. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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Health and Wellness Resource Center

This database provides instant access to medical reference materials including nearly 400 health/medical journals, numerous reference volumes, over 700 health videos from partner Healthology, Inc., hundreds of pamphlets and health-related articles from 2,200 general interest publications. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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Health Reference Center Academic

This database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources found in Gale's Health Reference Center. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

This database provides nearly 550 scholarly Full Text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient educational sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

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Joanna Briggs Institute

The Joanna Briggs Institute was established in recognition of a need for evaluation of evidence derived from a diverse range of sources, including experience, experrtise and all forms of rigorous research and the translation, transfer and utilisation of the "best available evidence" into health care practice. The website provides access to best practice information sheets, systematic reviews, evaluation cycle reports, online practice manuals, CIS database and interventions. Please contact the Reference Desk for the username and password.

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Jstor

Jstor is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Jstor does have some current issues of a few selected journals. Otherwise, because it’s main mission is archival in nature, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in Jstor (called the “moving wall”).

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JONA - The Journal of Nursing Administration

Search for full-text articles from 1996 - present. Please note that only one user can be logged into this journal at a time. Please contact the Reference Desk for the username and password.

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LexisNexis Academic Universe

This database gives access to over 10,000 news, business, and legal sources. The coverage includes deep back files and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. It also has detailed company information and financial performance measures and also allows one to identify and compare companies matching specific criteria. Has access to primary source material such as case law, statutes and regulations as well as secondary source materials such as legal news or law reviews.

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Literature Resource Center -- LRC

Has up to date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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Literature Resources from Gale

Research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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LitFinder

Covering world literature and authors throughout history, LitFinder contains literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. It also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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Massachusetts History Online

Contains full-text articles gathered from almost 50 sources that directly relate to Massachusetts history. NOTE: If you use this link when you are out of state, the page will prompt you for your Regis College library account number.

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Massachusetts Newsstand

Contains the following newspapers:
   Boston Globe (1980-);
   Boston Herald (1991-);
   Berkshire Eagle (2005-);
   Business West (1992-);
   North Adams Transcript (2005-);
   Patriot Ledger (1991-);
   Plymouth County Business Review (1991-);
   Sentinel & Enterprise (2005-);
   The Sun (Lowell) (2004-);
   Telegram & Gazette (Worcester)(1989-);
   Gazette (Haverhill) (12/31/92 to 8/9/07);
   Standard Times (New Bedford) (1/4/92 to 8/19/97)

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Medline Full Text

This database provides full text for more than 1,450 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than 1,430 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE, and of those 553 are not found with full-text in other databases.

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MLA International Bibliography/Directory of Periodicals

MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journals articles, books and dissertations. It dates back to the 1920's and contains over 2.2 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 5,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world. As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from those of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. You'll still find these in the OED, but you'll also find the history of individual words, and of the language—traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to films scripts and cookery books.

For immediate access please contact the Reference Desk for the username and password.

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PsycArticles

This database, from the APA, is a source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains approximately 150,000 articles from over 70 journals published by the APA, and its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation, and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychology Association and Hogrefe Publishing Group.

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PsycInfo

This database contains abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations. It contains approximately 3 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with DOIs for over 1.4 million records. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to present, includes international material selected from around 2,400 periodicals in dozens of languages.

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PubMed/Medline (free government website)

PubMed comprises more than 20 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.

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Social Sciences Full Text

This database indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the U.S. and elsewhere plus the full-text of selected periodicals. Subjects covered include addiction studies, community health and medical care, corrections, criminal justice, economics, environmental studies, and urban studies.

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Social Work Abstracts Plus

This database offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Produced by the NASW, it provides citations and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.

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WorldCat (free website)

This database is a global network of library-management and user-facing services built upon cooperatively maintained databases of bibliographic and institutional metadata.

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Regis College Library: Electronic Databases
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Electronic databases available through the Regis College Library.