Research Databases

Note: Links to the online research databases below will only work when accessed from on campus. Contact the librarian to obtain a username and password to access these databases from off-campus.

Academic OneFile

Many articles in the Vermont Online Library collection now offer free audio as both an immediate screen read and a downloadable MP3 file.  These options appear in a small box on the right side of the article.
Academic OneFile, part of the Vermont Online Library, 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, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With over 8,000 journals, the majority in full-text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily. Need help? Try the Introduction to Vermont Online Library.

AGRICOLA: National Agricultural Library

Provides the most comprehensive database of bibliographic information available in agricultural research from 1979 to the present. AGRICOLA indexes over 1,400 international journals, as well as books, theses, patents, translations, computer software, audio-visual materials, and technical reports related to all aspects of agriculture.

ASTIS: Arctic Science and Technology Information System

The ASTIS database contains 66,000 records describing publications and research projects about northern Canada. ASTIS, a project of the Arctic Institute of North America at the University of Calgary, also maintains subset databases about specific regions, subjects and projects.

Birds of North America

** New database trial through January 31, 2010 **

BNA Online provides comprehensive life histories for each of the 716+ species of birds breeding in the USA (including Hawaii) and Canada. Read more about BNA's beginnings and where we are headed in this note from our Editor, Alan Poole.

Britannica Online

Includes an integrated search that pulls results from articles within the Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia, as well as the Internet Guide, 150 full-text periodicals, and a daily news archive offering current events coverage; as well as many other features.

ERIC: Educational Resources Information Center

The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information, with more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.

Google Scholar

Search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

JSTOR

*Arts & Sciences I Collection includes the complete back runs of 119 scholarly journals in fifteen disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
*Biological Sciences Collection will include over 130 scholarly journals when completed. This collection brings together the twenty-nine journals available in the Ecology & Botany Collection with more than 100 titles new to JSTOR. Coverage in this collection offers greater depth in fields such as biodiversity, conservation, paleontology, plant science, cell biology and zoology.
Need help? Try the JSTOR Tutorials.

ProQuest

This ProQuest database package includes National Newspapers, Biology Journals, Computing, Education Journals, Health Management, Nursing & Allied Health Source, Psychology Journals, Science Journals, and Social Science Journals. Search multiple databases or select each database individually. Need help? Try the ProQuest Training Tutorials.

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. Click on one of the PLoS journals in the column on the right to search for articles.

ScienceDirect

*Health & Life Sciences Journals Collection
Contains over 950 full-text peer reviewed journals. Covers titles in the Health and Life Sciences, including Medicine, Pharmacology, Environmental and Biological Sciences. Need help? Try the ScienceDirect Interactive Tutorials.

SPIN

SPIN is a funding opportunities database designed to provide up-to-date information on current national and international government and private funding sources.  All of the data in SPIN is obtained directly from the sponsoring agencies to ensure the integrity of the information.

Vermont Online Library

Use PowerSearch to search across all of the Gale databases, including Academic OneFile, Custom Newspapers, Professional Collection, Opposing Viewpoints, Educator's Reference Complete, Reference Center Gold, Virtual Reference Library, and more. Need help? Try the Introduction to Vermont Online Library.