Databases

Database title	Off-Campus Access	Subjects	Description
ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER		MULTIDISCIPLINARY	A multi-disciplinary collection, containing more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals.
ACLS HUMANITIES E-BOOK		HUMANITIES	A collection of nearly 2,800 high quality full-text titles in the humanities.
ARTSTOR		VISUAL ARTS, ARCHAEOLOGY, PHOTOGRAPHY	A digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.
BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art).		ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY	The most comprehensive bibliography for Art History and Archaeology. Provides abstracts of journal articles and monographs from 1973 to 2009. The bibliography has been discontinued.
BUSINESS SOURCE PREMIER		BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS	More than 8,200 journals for business administration and economics
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs On-Line)		INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS	A wide range of scholarly material from 1991 onward, including working papers, research projects, confrence proceedings, books, journals and policy briefs.
COMMUNICATION AND MASS MEDIA COMPLETE		COMMUNICATIONS	A collection dedicated to communications and mass media studies, with more than 300 full-text journals and indexing and abstracts for more than 420 journals.
CREDO REFERENCE		REFERENCE	Credo Reference is a customizable general reference solution for learners and librarians. Offering more than 475 highly-regarded titles from over 70 publishers, Credo covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference.
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA		REFERENCE	A set of four encyclopedias. Entries include brief annotated bibliographies, further references to electronic journals, selected internet sites, a video and media collection. The Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus is also available.
EUROPA WORLD PLUS		REFERENCE	Europa World Plus, which contains both the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Regional Surveys of the World series, provides authoritative and current information on countries and regions of the world.
JSTOR		MULTIDISCIPLINARY	Born with the aim of long-term preservation of scholarly journals, JSTOR offers entire collections of back issues of authoritative periodicals. Journal coverage begins with the first published issue and ends with a variable date, three to five years from present.
LEXIS NEXIS		NEWS, BUSINESS, LAW	A comprehensive spectrum of over 11,000 full text sources, including: national and regional newspapers, international news, U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews and international legal information. In addition, it includes business news journals, company financial information, industry and market news.
THE LITERARY ENCYCLOPEDIA	All users with a @johncabot.edu mail account can set up a personal account to access the Literary Encyclopedia from off-campus	LITERATURE	The Literary Encyclopedia provides biographical information about major literary, cultural, philosophical and historical figures; descriptive profiles of major cultural works, introductory coverage of the relevant historical contexts and guidance to valuable secondary reading.
OXFORD ART ONLINE		ARTS AND ARCHAEOLOGY	On-line encyclopedia, with full text articles covering every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day. It also contains art images and links to museums and galleries, bibliographies, and biographies.
OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY		ENGLISH LANGUAGE	The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
OXFORD MUSIC ONLINE		MUSIC	A set of on-line encyclopedias, with a compendium of music scholarship articles, biographies and some sound and notated examples.
OXFORD REFERENCE ONLINE		REFERENCE	A wide spectrum of scholarly and quick reference sources, including maps, timelines and illustrations. Bilingual dictionaries are provided for French, German, Irish, Italian, Latin and Spanish languages.
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REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS		BUSINESS	A collection of 75 journals covering metropolitan and rural areas of the United States.