Databases
Access to databases is provided to St. Mary's Seminary & University students with a current Knott Library card. If you are off-campus, see "Accessing Databases from Off-Campus" for more information.
If you are on campus, you do not have to log into them.
- Academic Search Premier
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. 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. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCO host.
- Art Abstracts
Art Abstracts , produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for more than 450 international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Indexing spans from 1984 to the present.
- ATLA Religion Full Text
ATLA Religion Database provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. ATLA Religion Database contains more than 1.3 million bibliographic records covering the research literature of religion in over 60 languages. It includes more than 460,000 article citations from more than 1,500 journals (651 currently indexed), more than 260,000 essay citations from over 15,400 multi-author works, more than 423,000 book review citations. Coverage spans from 1949 to the present. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.
- ATLA Religion Index
ATLA Religion Database provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. This database is the definitive index for religious and theological literature. ATLA Religion Database contains more than 1.3 million bibliographic records covering the research literature of religion in over 60 languages. It includes more than 460,000 article citations from more than 1,500 journals (651 currently indexed), more than 260,000 essay citations from over 15,400 multi-author works, more than 423,000 book review citations, and a growing number of multimedia citations. Most coverage spans from 1949 to the present, while an ambitious retrospective indexing project provides citations of select titles back to their original publication date. This database is an essential resource for researchers and students in theology as well as in social sciences, history, and humanities. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.
- Books in Print with Reviews
Books In Print® with Book Reviews provides easy access to crucial information on the U.S. book publishing industry with more than 500,000 full-text reviews from more than a dozen of the most respected sources, including Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus, CHOICE, Reference and Research Book News, Sci-Tech Book News, University Press Book News, The Horn Book, The Boston Book Review, and Quill & Quire. Plus, there's a notation if a title has been reviewed in key publications such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and 8 others. Updated monthly.
- Business Source Premier
This is the industry's most used business research database, providing the full text for nearly 8,200 serials. Business Source Premier provides full text back to 1965 and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCO host.
- Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
Catholic Periodical and Literature Index on CD-ROM is the product of a partnership between the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) and the Catholic Library Association (CLA). The database includes index citations to articles published in Roman Catholic periodicals, as well as to papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith, authored by Catholics, or produced by Catholic publishers. Coverage begins in 1981 and continues to the present.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. A subscription to The Chronicle includes access to all of this Web site and to Academe Today, the daily e-mail newsletter.
- Church Documents [on CD-ROM; Library use only]
Over 100 documents from Vatican II, Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul II, and other Post-Conciliar documents from 1959-1994.
- Digital Dissertations A & I
The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. We add some 60,000 new dissertations and 12,000 new theses to the database each year.
- Education Abstracts
Education Abstracts, (H.W. Wilson) produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, indexes and abstracts articles from more than 680 periodicals and yearbooks, with indexing back to 1983 and abstracts back to 1994.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopædia Britannica is the world's most comprehensive reference product, a distinction it has held since its first publication in 1768. Encyclopædia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus , Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year . You can also use Encyclopædia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. Through this service, you can find more than 118,000 articles, updated and revised by Encyclopædia Britannica editors and contributors; over 14,000 illustrations, including photographs, drawings, maps, and flags; and more than 215,000 entries--including definitions, pronunciation guides, and word histories--from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.
- ERIC
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
- Health Source: Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
- Health Source: Nursing
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
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Humanities International Full Text
Humanities Full Text cites articles from over 570 periodicals, including scholarly journals, in the diverse subject area of the humanities.
- Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Iter is pleased to present an online bibliography of more than 737,000 records for articles, essays, books and reviews. Updated daily and with thousands of new records added annually, this powerful research tool will be of great use to scholars interested in the Middle Ages and / or Renaissance (400-1700).
- MLA International Bibliography
MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.
- New Testament Abstracts
NTA Online is produced by ATLA in partnership with the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. Abstracts are in English. NTA offers more than 38,000 articles and more than 13,500 book summaries.
- Old Testament Abstracts
Old Testament Abstracts is a comprehensive reference tool designed to support Old Testament Studies scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. Old Testament Abstracts on CD-ROM contains more than 35,000 abstracts of journal articles, books, essays and software.
- Oxford English Dictionary
A dictionary which traces the development of English from approximately 1150 AD up to the present day. (courtesy MD Digital Library)
- Philosopher's Index
The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language. 1940-
- ProQuest Newspapers
The ProQuest® online information service provides access to thousands of current periodicals and newspapers, many updated daily and containing full-text articles from 1986.
- PsycINFO
PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains more than 2 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in more than 25 languages.
- Religious and Theological Abstracts
Religious and Theological Abstracts provides objective summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology. They list a wide variety of periodical literature, including Christian, Jewish, and other world religions, and provide English language abstracts of articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages.
- WorldCat First Search
WorldCat is the world's largest bibliographic database, the merged catalogs of thousands of OCLC member libraries. Built and maintained collectively by librarians, WorldCat itself is not an OCLC service that is purchased, but rather provides the foundation for many OCLC services and the benefits they provide.
- Libronix Original Languages Library [on PAC3 in Library]
The Original Languages Library is an expansive library utilizing Biblical Greek, Ancient Hebrew, and English resources for meaningful Bible study. It provides instant access to essential reference titles and language tools for serious, in-depth study. The Original Languages Library brings together today's foremost sources in original biblical languages and puts them in one thorough and easy to use tool. The Original Languages Library allows you to examine graphical charts that provide an easy-to-grasp view of search results, morphological features, and translation differences. Study the underlying Greek or Hebrew words in one customizable report. The Exegetical Guide performs the time consuming work of looking up every Greek or Hebrew lemma, displaying its morphology and opening lexicons and word studies. You may search the entire library for every mention of your passage at one time.
