PennWest University Libraries: Databases by Subject: General Interdisciplinary Databases

Introduction

Interdisciplinary databases enable you to begin your research by exploring a topic to find journal articles, streaming video, statistics, e-books, primary source material, and more.

OneSearch, Academic Search Ultimate, and Google Scholar provide access to a broad array of topics and enable you to retrieve authoritative sources of information. They are good places to start your research.

Interdisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Ultimate Start your search here. This database offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes.
Gale in Context: Biography Search for biographies of world's most influential people. Includes narrative biographies, news magazines, and multimedia.
Google Scholar Start your search here to link to find full text in Google Scholar.
Humanities Source Humanities Source is ideal for students, researchers and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities. This includes studies in art, history, communications, culture, literature and philosophy. The database features articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays and more.
JSTOR Collections A full text archive of more than 1,700 of the best scholarly journals in social sciences, humanities, and life sciences disciplines. Includes access to ARTStor.
Life Magazine Archive Cover to cover full-text access dating back to the first issue in 1936 of the American variety magazine published by Time, Inc.
OneSearch Start your search here. This database combines most of the library's resources in a single database. Allows you to do one search for journal articles, e-books, and more.
Project MUSE Provides access to subscribed and Open Access journals and monographs.
Sage Journals Full text access to more than 1,000 journal titles with additional access to decades of journal backfiles. Also includes Open Access content.
Sage Knowledge Start your search here to browse research monographs in the Sage Books Collection, Social and Behavioral Sciences reference texts in the Sage Reference Collection; and explore CQ Navigator, an essential social sciences literature research tool. Additional content from CQ Press is also available.
Sage Reference Authoritative encyclopedias and handbooks in the social and behavioral sciences. Subject areas included: Counseling & Psychotherapy, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Psychology, Sociology, Politics & International Relations.
Time Magazine Archive Cover to cover access for this popular American magazine beginning with the first issue in 1923.
U.S. Major Dailies Full text of the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles from the mid-1980s to today. (ProQuest)
WorldCat Enables you to search libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. Search for popular books, music CDs, video, digital content, article citations with links to full text, documents, photographs, and more. Links to library Web sites. Connects you to the collections of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide and the more than 2 billion items available in them.

Streaming Video Resources

Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window The database includes scholarly video material of virtually every video type: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, demonstrations, original and raw footage including tens of thousands of exclusive tiles. There are thousands of award-winning films, along with the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Access streaming videos in the humanities, sciences, medicine, business, social sciences, and more.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window Access selected streaming video titles. limited to owned content
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window Access selected streaming video titles. limited to owned content

Interdisciplinary Reference Works (Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.)

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia This database provides more than 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Oxford English Dictionary The definitive source for understanding the history and meaning of English words. In addition to definitions and etymologies, you will find a wealth of historic examples of how words have been used.

Collections of Primary Sources for Humanities, Social Sciences Research

Adam Matthew Digital Collection Explorer A massive database of millions of primary sources covering content from the 15th to the 21st centuries in the social sciences and humanities. Letters, diaries, journals, photographs, posters, videos, t.v. programs, and much more are drawn from library and archival collections from all over the world.

Dissertations & Theses

OpenDissertations Provides open access to help researchers locate historic and contemporary dissertations & theses. Updated regularly, provides researchers citations to graduate research from early 20th century to the present. Only the theses/dissertations of participating institutions are accessible.

Statistics

Statista Help Frequently asked questions and tips and tricks for using Statista to its full potential.
Statista Consolidates statistical data on more than 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources & presents it in infographics, industry reports, and in-depth data analysis.

Tests

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print A comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. Includes price, publishers, in-print status and tests that fail to meet review criteria. Also guides readers to test reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook series.