ABI Inform Complete

This database is made up of 3 unique products:

• ABI Inform Dateline: Over 140 local, city, state, and regional business publications as well as business-oriented newswire services are available full text.
  
  
• ABI Inform Global: Indexes over 1,600 business and management publications and covers over 60,000 companies. More than 700 publications are available in full text.
  
  
• ABI Inform Trade and Industry: Provides full text to over 700 publications designed to help researchers study and compare specific trades and industries.

Date Coverage: 1971 to current

Academic Search Elite

Use this multi-disciplinary database to locate full text articles appearing in over 1,850 scholarly journals, including more than 1,250 peer-reviewed titles.

Date Coverage: Varies, some titles from 1985-

Academic Search Premier

Use this multi-disciplinary database to locate full text for nearly 4,600 publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.

Date Coverage: Varies, some titles from 1975-

AGRICOLA

Use this database to locate information relating to all aspects of agriculture, forestry, and animal science. Includes records of books, serials, audiovisual and other materials acquired by the National Agriculture Library and cooperating institutions.

Date Coverage: 1970-

Alternative Press Index   Alternative Press Index Archive

Use this database to locate alternative sources of information. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary. The database provides in-depth coverage in the humanities and social sciences indexing nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. Also included are selected abstracts from research journals.

Date Coverage: Alternative Press Index: 1991 -
Date Coverage: Alternative Press Index Archive: 1969 - 1990

America: History & Life

Use this database to locate journal articles and parts of books dealing with U.S. and Canadian history, area studies and current affairs literature. Subject coverage includes history, interdisciplinary studies of historical interest, and history-related topics in the social sciences and humanities.

Date Coverage: 1964-

American Chemical Society Journals

Use this database to locate full text from a collection of journals published by the American Chemical Society. Coverage includes an archive dating from 1879 to current. Note: Our license agreement with the publisher does not provide access to publications introduced after 1999.

Date Coverage: 1879-

Annals of American History

Annals of American History portrays U.S. history from 1493 to modern times in over 2,000 primary documents, including historical accounts, speeches, memoirs, poems, editorials, and cultural criticism. The database provides pictures, video clips, and audio files.

Date Coverage: 1493-

APA [American Psychological Association]

See PsycARTICLES & PsycINFO

Arkansas Historical Quarterly Cumulative Index 1942-2000

Use this subject index to locate articles published in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly from 1942-2000. The Arkansas Historical Quarterly is available in paper format on the 2nd floor of the library in the Periodicals Collection.

Date Coverage: 1942 - 2000

ArticleFirst

Use this database to locate articles from over 13,000 general interest periodicals and scholarly journals. Subject coverage includes business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social sciences, and technology.

Date Coverage: 1990-

Arts & Humanities Search

Use this database to locate articles from over 1,120 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Subject coverage includes: archaeology, architecture, arts, classics, dance, film, history, humanities, literature, music, philosophy, religion, and theater.

Date Coverage: 1980-

BasicBIOSIS

Use this database to locate articles appearing in 350 core life science journals. Subject coverage includes agriculture, biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, botany, ecology, environment, genetics, medicine, microbiology, neuroscience, nutrition, physiology and public health.

Date Coverage: Most current three years

BioOne [Full Text]

Use this database to locate the full text of bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne's titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers and focus on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

Date Coverage: Varies by title but mostly 2000-

Books In Print

Use this database to locate in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios, and videos from North American publishers and U.S. distributors and wholesalers. Includes thousands of full-text book reviews from sources including Choice, Kirkus, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal.

Date Coverage: 1979 to current

Boreham Library Online Catalog

Use this database to find books and audiovisual programs available in this library.

Britannica Online [Full-Text]

Use this database for fast, easy access to text and illustrations from the Encyclopaedia Britannica as well as to over 33,000 other information sources on the Internet. Includes access to 75,000 articles, 12,000 images, Britannica Books of the Year since 1994, Merriam-Webster's dictionary, Nations of the World, and Britannica Classics.

Date Coverage: Current edition

Business Source Elite [Full-Text]

Use this database to access full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business journals, including 450 peer-reviewed business publications.

Date Coverage: Varies, some from 1985-

Cabell's Directories [Full-Text]

• The Cabell's Business Directories are provided courtesy of the U A Fort Smith College of Business.
  

The directories provide professors, graduate students, and researchers with the information needed to publish manuscripts. Directories are available for accounting, economics and finance, management, and marketing. Each directory provides the addresses, phone, fax, email, and websites for the journals covered. Information is also provided on publication guidelines, review information, and circulation data.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)

Use this database to locate journal articles and books on all aspects of nursing and allied health. Although the emphasis is on nursing, 35% of the references relate to allied health disciplines such as cardiopulmonary technology, health education, medical, and laboratory technology, occupational therapy, emergency service, and social services in health care. More than 600 journals are indexed as well as pamphlets from the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing.

Date Coverage: 1982-

Cochrane Library [Full-Text]

Use this collection of databases to locate evidence-based research on the effectiveness of healthcare treatments and interventions. The databases cover clinical trials, methods reviews, methods studies, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and other reviews.

Date Coverage: Varies

College Catalog) Source Online [Full-Text]

Use this database to find over 6,000 college catalogs representing 2-year and 4-year, graduate, and professional schools in complete cover-to- cover, original page format.

Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection [Full Text]

This database includes the full-text of 23 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 5,500 articles. It covers such subjects as criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, corrections, penology, policing, forensic psychology, and family and domestic violence.

Date Coverage: 1984-

Directory of Open Access Journals : DOAJ [Full-Text]

Use this database to locate free, full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and languages. There are now 1150 journals in the directory; 316 journals are searchable on article level. The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.

Date Coverage: Varies

Disclosure via Lexis-Nexis[Full-Text]

Use this database to locate business and financial information extracted from reports public companies file with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission. The scope of facts, figures, and financials provides users with detailed profiles of more than 12,000 companies whose securities are traded on the New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and Over-the-Counter.

Date Coverage : Current year. Number of archival years varies with company.

EbscoHost: Select Multiple Databases to Search (ASL) [Full-Text]

Search across several EbscoHost databases simultaneously by checking the box to the left of the database name. Note: Searching across more than one database will reduce the number of search fields available considerably. Only fields that are common to all selected databases will display. Searching as keyword in the "Default Fields" is recommended.

Date Coverage: Varies

EconLit [Full-Text]

Use this database to locate citations for journals, books, working papers, and dissertations in more than 620 collective volumes per year in economics.

Date Coverage: 1969-

Education Research Complete

Use this database to locate education-related information published in English-language periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Over 1,500 publications are indexed; 750 are available in full text. To locate additional journal publications and all non-journal documents, search the ERIC database.

Date Coverage: Varies

ERIC via Ebsco

Use this database to locate both published and unpublished sources of information on all aspects of education. Abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals are provided. This database links to full text available within other Ebsco products, such as Professional Development Collection and Academic Search Elite.

Date Coverage: 1966-

ERIC via First Search

Use this database to locate both published and unpublished sources of information on all aspects of education. ERIC contains more than 850,000 annotated references to non-journal material issued monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education (CJIE).

Date Coverage: 1966-

First Search for Faculty/Staff only

End User Searches: Faculty and staff have access to an additional group of over 40 subject specific databases from their office desktops through the First Search service. Faculty may access the authorization number and password from the "View Your Patron Record" option in the Boreham Library Online Catalog. Click on the Special Instructions link. You may also contact a reference librarian to request the logon information.

First Search Service

Provides access to many general interest and subject specific databases such as:

• ArticleFirst- Indexes 12,500 journals from 1990-.
• BasicBIOSIS- Provides articles that appear in 350 core life science journals.
• ContentsFirst- Provides the table of contents for 12,500 journals from 1990-.
• ERIC- Indexes sources of educational information from 1966-.
• GPO- Publications produced by the Government Printing Office.
• Medline- Medical literature from 1985-.
• PapersFirst- Provides citations to papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congress, and symposia.
• Proceedings- Provides citations to papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congress, and symposia.
• World Catalog- Identifies over 38 million books and other items owned by libraries worldwide.
• World Almanacs- Use this database to locate facts and statistics from several almanacs.
  
  

Fort Smith Regional Index

Use this database to locate information on Fort Smith, Sebastian County, and the immediate region. Local publications such as the Southwest Times Record, Fort Smith Historical Society Journal, Ozark Historical Review, Fort Smith Etc. and many more are indexed by subject, title, author, and keyword. Selective images will be added in the future. This database is being created by library staff as time permits and will continue to grow.

Date Coverage: Varies

Foundation Directory Online Platinum

This database is available on computers within the Boreham Library building only.

The Foundation Directory Online Platinum is the Foundation Center's most comprehensive online service, comprising two searchable databases. The foundation database houses a collection of data on over 76,000 foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities. The grants database is a collection of more than 350,000 grants awarded by foundations in the United States. Both databases are searchable and are designed to give researchers access to information on each foundation's funding interests and giving history.

Date Coverage: Varies

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online

This database contains a listing of more than 6,100 foundations that give grants to individuals. Grants include scholarships, student loans, fellowships, program development, internships, professorships, arts and cultural projects, research, awards/grants by nomination only and general welfare.

Date Coverage: Varies

GEOBASE

Use this database to locate literature on geography, geology, and ecology. This international database covers journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports. Subjects covered include cartography, climatology, energy, environment, geochemistry, geomorphology, geophysics, hydrology, meteorology, paleontology, petrology, photogrammetry, sedimentology, and volcanology.

Date Coverage: 1980-

GPO Government Printing Office

Use this database to locate all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.) Each record contains a bibliographic citation.

Date Coverage: July 1976-

Health Source: Consumer Edition

Use this database to search for information on health topics, including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. Over 190 full-text journals are available as well as abstracts and indexing for over 205 general health publications.

Date Coverage: Varies

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Use this database to access 600 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also included are abstracts and indexing for more than 850 journals.

Date Coverage: Varies

Historical Abstracts [Full-Text]

Use this database to locate journal articles and parts of books dealing with the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding North America-see America: History & Life). Subject coverage includes interdisciplinary studies, sociology, psychology, women's studies/gender studies, religion, anthropology, political science, history of scientific, economic, business, education, music, art, and law disciplines.

Date Coverage: 1955-

Index Arkansas

Library faculty and staff from the UA Fayetteville, Mullins Libraries' Reference and Special Collections departments created the Index Arkansas database. Currently, the database has more than 40,000 entries, covering the 1880s to the present. Index Arkansas indexes articles and other information published in: county history journals, selected statewide magazines, and selected book titles.

Date Coverage: 1880's -

Ingenta [Full-Text]

Use this database to locate citations to journal articles that appear in over 20,000 multidisciplinary publications.

Date Coverage: 1988-

IPA Source - Transcriptions and Literal Translations of Songs and Arias [Full-Text]

The goal of IPA Source (per the IPA site) is to promote the comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts in art song and opera in order that the singer may imbue each syllable with the appropriate emotional content.

Date Coverage: Varies

JAKE

Use this resource to find which research databases provide full text to an individual journal title and the dates of coverage.

JSTOR [Full-Text]

Use this database to locate full-text articles from over 600 scholarly journals. Important: JSTOR is an initiative to store the full-text of important journals in a secure environment. Issues for the current 3-5 years are not available. Subjects cover all aspects of the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Date Coverage: Varies

Legal Collection

Use this database to access full-text for more than 250 of the world's most respected scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts, and trends of the legal world.

Date Coverage: Varies

Lexis-Nexis [Full-Text]

Use this database to locate the full-text of current and back issues of major newspapers, journals, newsletters, trade journals and news sources from around the world and the full-text of legal materials such as court cases, legislation, statutes, regulations, law reviews, and more.

Date Coverage: Varies

Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts

This database indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Date Coverage: Mid-1960s

Literary Index

Use this database to locate information on 137,000 author names, and more than 173,000 title of literary works. The index identifies information in 109 print literature series published by Gale Group as well as Charles Scribner's Sons, St. James Press, and Twayne Publishers. Note: Not all indexed series are available in this library.

Date Coverage: Varies

Literature Resource Center [Full-Text]

Use this database to locate biographical and bibliographic information for more than 120,000 authors from reference series published by Thomson Gale. Locate full-text articles from more than 130 literary journals, entries from the Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, more than 5,000 relevant web sites, and much more.

Date Coverage: Varies

Lois Law

This database is a legal research service and is available only to UA Fort Smith Paralegal Program students, faculty, and staff. A password is required.

Date Coverage: Varies

MasterFILE Premier

Use this database to locate full text for 1,950 general reference publications in all subject areas of general interest. Also included are 315 reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags.

Date Coverage: 1975-

MathSciNet

Use this database to locate comprehensive coverage of the world's mathematical literature since 1940. MathSciNet provides access to the bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical research literature contained in the Mathematical Reviews Database.

Date Coverage: 1940-

Medline

Use this database to locate journal articles covering all areas of medicine. It corresponds to the print indexes Dental Literature and International Nursing Index. It indexes 3,500+ journals published internationally. Subject coverage includes clinical medicine, dentistry, education, experimental medicine, health services administration, nursing, nutrition, pathology, psychiatry, toxicology, and veterinary medicine.

Date Coverage: 1965-

Mental Measurements Yearbook

This database, produced by the Buros Institute, contains descriptive information and critical reviews of more than 2,000 commercially-available standardized English-language educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence tests. The database is updated every 6 months.

Date Coverage: 10th Edition-

Mergent Online

Use this database to access key financial and descriptive data on more than 15,000 U.S. public companies on the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq exchanges, including SEC filings and annual reports. The Boreham Library has access to the following modules: U.S. Company Data, U.S. Company Archives, U.S. Annual Reports, Factsheets Plus, Institutional Holdings, Insider Trades, Industry Reports (North America).

Date Coverage: 1993-

MLA Bibliography

Use this database to locate citations for items from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide. It indexes books, essay collections, working papers, proceeding, dissertations, and bibliographies. It is produced by the Modern Language Association of America. Subject coverage includes folklore, languages, linguistics, and literature.

Date Coverage: 1963-

Music Index

Use this database to locate information on all styles and genres of music as well as information about musicians and the music industry. Over 775 international music periodicals from over 40 countries are indexed. The Music Index also cites book reviews, obituaries.

Date Coverage: 1976-

Musopen - Copyright Free Sheet Music

Use this database to locate copyright free sheet music available in the public domain.

Date Coverage: Varies

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database

The NCJRS Abstracts Database contains summaries of the more than 185,000 criminal justice publications housed in the NCJRS Library collection.

Note: This database will not connect to the JOURNAL LOCATOR to identify full text availability. Open the JOURNAL LOCATOR in a second browser to easily search journal titles from citations.

Date Coverage: Varies

Naxos Music Library

This database offers the complete catalogue of Naxos recordings, including the Naxos, Marco Polo, and Dacapo catalogues, including classical, jazz, world/folk, new age, Chinese music, and educational products. The equivalent to more than 4400 CDs of music is available in high quality 128K, 64K, or 20K streaming sound, on-demand, with accompanying background and composer notes written by experts in the field.

Naxos Music Library Sheet Music

This database provides access to over 45,000 sheet music titles from the FreeHandMusic.com sheet music store. Coverage spans from Medieval to the 21st century. You will need to download the Solero viewer to print sheet music.

NetLibrary E-Books

Use this database to connect to a collection of over 6,000 copyrighted books covering most subject areas. Also included are over 3,500 books in the public domain. You may also access individual titles through the Boreham Library online catalog.

Date Coverage: Varies

New York Times Historical: 1851 up to but not including current 4 years

Use this database to locate full page and article images with searchable full text from the first issue of The New York Times.

Date Coverage: 1851- (Does not include the current 4 years)

Newspaper Source

Use this database to connect to selected full-text for over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers.

Date Coverage: Varies

Oxford English Dictionary Online

Use this database to locate the most authoritative source of information on word meanings in English. The OED displays in a historically ordered form the changes of the meanings of all the non-technical vocabulary from early Middle English to the present day.

PapersFirst

Use this database to locate citations to papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia on a wide variety of subjects. It covers information received by The British Library Document Supply Center.

Date Coverage: 1993-

Population Index

Use this database to locate references to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.

Date Coverage: 1986-2000

Proceedings

Use this database to locate an overview of the activities at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia. It covers published information received by The British Library Document Supply Center.

Date coverage: 1993-

Professional Development Collection

Use this database to locate information of interest to professional educators. It provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full-text journals, including more than 300 peer-reviewed titles. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full-text education journals in the world.

Date Coverage: Varies

Project Muse [Full-Text]

Use this database to locate the full-text of over 160 journals in the Standard Package of Project Muse. Subjects include humanities, arts, and social sciences.

Date Coverage: Varies

PsycARTICLES [Full-Text]

Contains the full text of articles from APA journals and selected EPF (Educational Publishing Foundation) journals, most from 1988 to the present.

Date Coverage: 1988-

PsycINFO

Use this database to locate journal articles, technical reports, monographic series, dissertations, and other materials in psychology and related behavioral and social sciences, including psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, education, pharmacology, and linguistics. The major emphasis of the database is on original research, while case studies, literature reviews, surveys, and discussions are also covered. Detailed abstracts are provided for all documents except dissertations. Indexed materials are selected from more than 1,300 journals published in 50 countries and 28 languages.

Date Coverage: 1887-

RefWorks

RefWorks is a citation management software program that collects, stores, and organizes citations from books, journal articles, web sites, and other sources. It automatically converts citations into properly formatted bibliographies using the style (MLA, APA, CBE, etc.) that you select. Citations can be imported directly from a research database or typed in manually.

Regional Business News [Full-Text]

Use this database to locate full text articles from 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Updated daily.

Date Coverage: Varies

ScienceDirect [Full-Text]

ScienceDirect provides the full text of approximately 600 journals subscribed to jointly by University of Arkansas System libraries at Fayetteville, Little Rock (UALR and UAMS), Monticello and Fort Smith. A complete list of the titles included is available here. The ScienceDirect site may be searched as any research database. Note: Reset the "Display" dropdown box from "Subscribed" to "Subscribed and Non-Subscribed" to search the entire collection. Full text will display for the 600 subscribed journals. Citations to articles in non-subscribed journals may be ordered using Interlibrary Loan.

Date Coverage: Varies

SocINDEX with Full Text

This database contains full text for 253 "core" journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. Also included is full text for 547 books and monographs, and 6,711 conference papers. Subject coverage includes abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.

Date Coverage: 1895-

Stat-USA

Use this database to locate economic, business, and international trade information produced by the U.S. Government. The U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics, and Statistics Administration is the agency that generates the database.

Date Coverage: Varies

Value Line [Full-Text]

Use this database to locate investment information on more than 1,700 stocks. For each stock, Value Line offers year-ahead and three- to five-year probable relative price performance, projections of key financial measures, and concise, objective commentary on current operations and future prospects.

Date Coverage: Current 26 weeks

World Almanacs [Full-Text]

Use this database to locate facts and statistics from the following sources: The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids.

Date Coverage: Current year

World Catalog

Use this database to identify 38 million records representing books, audiovisual programs, and other material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century. Books located through this database generally must be borrowed from another library. Interlibrary loans take approximately 7-10 days to process.

Date Coverage: Varies