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Oxford African American Studies Center »

The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 7,500 articles by top scholars in the field. The core content includes the highly acclaimed Africana, which presents a powerful account of the African and African American experience in five volumes.

Contents: full text
Dates of Coverage: current
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Oxford Art Online (includes Grove) »

Oxford Art Online (includes Grove) comprises the full text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art (2001).

Contents: full text
Dates of Coverage: current edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Oxford English Dictionary »

This online version of the Oxford English Dictionary contains two separate texts, the complete Second Edition and the New Edition in progress. The site enables full-text searching of all OED’s definitions, etymologies, and quotations.

Contents: full text
Dates of Coverage: second edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Oxford Journals Online »

More than 150 scholarly journals from the Oxford University Press, many with full text back to 1998. Disciplines include Humanities; Social Sciences; Law; Economics, Business, and Finance; Biological Sciences; Medicine; Public Health and Epidemiology; and Mathematics, Statistics, Computing, and Physics.

Contents: full text; many titles from 1998
Dates of Coverage: 1998 -
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Oxford Reference Online Premium »

The Oxford Reference Premium Online collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving users access to a comprehensive information resource.

Contents: full text
Dates of Coverage: current
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Philosopher’s Index »

Philosopher’s Index, produced by the Philosopher’s Information Center, is a current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. The Philosopher’s Index, considered the most thorough index of journal literature on the subject, features author-written abstracts covering scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews. The Philosopher’s Index contains research published since 1940 including nearly 570 journals from 43 countries with content representing a variety of languages.

Contents: links to some full text
Dates of Coverage: 1940 - present
Publisher: Philosopher’s Information Center

Polling the Nations »

The library has one license for simultaneous use.

Polling the Nations is a compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries from 1986 to the present. Each of the nearly 350,000 records reports a question asked and the responses given. Also included in each record is the polling organization responsible for the work, the date the information was released, the sample size, and universe, i.e., the groups or areas included in the interview, such as parents with children in public schools, Great Britain, the United States, or California. All the surveys reported were conducted using scientifically selected random samples.

Contents: full text
Dates of Coverage: 1986 - current
Publisher: American Political Opinion Index

Predicasts PROMT »

Funding provided through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the six Massachusetts Regional Library Systems.

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PROMT - Predicasts Overview of Markets and Technology. Research companies, the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in which they compete. Includes summaries and full text from nearly 1,000 business and trade journals, industry newsletters, newspapers, market research studies, news releases, and investment and brokerage firm reports.

Contents: includes full text; 1996 - current
Dates of Coverage: 1996 - current
Publisher: InfoTrac

Primary Sources in U.S. History »

Primary Sources includes two files: African American Studies and Women’s Studies. This database is full text, including autobiographies and contemporary accounts, case law, government documents, manuscripts, photographs, reference and scholarly articles, speeches, and statutes. Users can search by subjects, keywords or browse the collections.

Contents: full text; 19th century - current
Dates of Coverage: current
Publisher: Lexis-Nexis

Professional Development Collection »

Funding provided through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the six Massachusetts Regional Library Systems.

Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.

Contents: includes full text
Dates of Coverage: current
Publisher: EBSCOhost

Project Muse »

The full text of over 100 scholarly journals. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

Contents: full text
Dates of Coverage: 1996 - current
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

PsycArticles »

PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 35,000 searchable full text articles from 41 journals published by the APA and eight journals from allied organizations.

Contents: full text
Dates of Coverage: 1987-Current
Publisher: American Psychology Association

PsycBOOKS »

PsycBOOKS, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a database of more than 13,000 chapters in PDF from over 700 books published by APA and other publishers. The database includes most scholarly titles published by APA from copyright years 1953 - current. It also includes 100 out-of-print books and an additional 70+ classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology.

Contents: full text
Dates of Coverage: 1953-Current
Publisher: EBSCOhost

PsychiatryOnline »

PsychiatryOnline is a powerful web-based portal that features DSM-IV-TR — the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world — and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of a collection of psychiatric references from American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. It provides access to classic resources such as DSM Library titles including DSM-IV-TR, DSM-IV-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, and DSM-IV-TR Casebook and its Treatment Companion. The database also includes fulltext of several journals, including the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences as well as textbooks including The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry, and Gabbard’s Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders.

Contents: full text
Dates of Coverage: current
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.

PsycINFO »

More than one million references to psychological literature ranging in date from 1887 to the present. It provides access to a collection of electronically stored bibliographic references--most with abstracts or content summaries.

Contents: no full text in index; some links to full text in PsycArticles and other EBSCO databases
Dates of Coverage: 1887-Current
Publisher: EBSCOhost

Reference USA »

Market research and planning information on ten million U.S. companies. Search by SIC, Yellow Page headings, campany name, employee size and sales volume. Information includes business address, identifies key executive, and provides a credit rating.

Contents: full text
Dates of Coverage: current edition
Publisher: infoUSA

Sage eReference »

Forty-six reference encyclopedia and handbook titles covering a variety of subjects.

Contents: full text
Dates of Coverage: current
Publisher: Sage Publications

Sage Journals Online »

SAGE Publications publishes over 450 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. The "Sage Premier" package that Sawyer Library subscribes to includes fulltext to all Sage journals back to 1999. Our subject "Sage Collections" sometimes go back even farther.

Contents: full text
Dates of Coverage: varies by journal
Publisher: Sage Publications

Sawyer Library Full Text Journals List »

Search by Journal Title to see if the Sawyer Library has access to full text. A user may also browse by a list of e-journal subjects. If the full text of the journal is available via the Sawyer Library, the dates of the availability of the full text is indicated, and a link to the database with the full text is provided.

Contents: index
Dates of Coverage: current
Publisher: Serial Solutions

Science (AAAS) Magazine 1997- »

The full text of Science issues since January 1997, one of the world’s leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary. The most current issue of Science is also included. Full text for issues prior to January 1997 are available through the JSTOR database.

Contents: full text
Dates of Coverage: January 1997 - current issue
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Science Reference Center »

Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth and space science, environmental science, health and medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science and society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

Contents: full text
Dates of Coverage: mostly 2000 - present
Publisher: EBSCO

Small Business Resource Center »

Small Business Resource Center database covers all major areas of starting, operating and maintaining a business from financing, management, marketing, accounting, taxes and more. Small Business Resource Center features a wealth of resources, including the entire Business Plans Handbook Series, which contains hundreds of sample business plans created by real-life entrepreneurs, as well as Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources, Encyclopedia of Management and Small Business Management – A Framework for Success.

Contents: full text
Dates of Coverage: 1990 - present
Publisher: Thomson Gale

Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) »

The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It contains the references cited by the authors of the articles. You can use these references to do cited reference searching. A cited reference search enables you to find articles that cite a previously published work.

Contents: cited reference; some full text
Dates of Coverage: 1998 - present
Publisher: Thomson Scientific

SocINDEX with Full Text »

SocINDEX with Full Text contains informative abstracts for more than 620 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895. It also contains full text for 242 "core" coverage journals, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 500 books and monographs, and full text for more than 6,000 conference papers. Searchable cited references are also provided.

Contents: some full text
Dates of Coverage: Current
Publisher: EBSCO

Sociological Abstracts »

The database includes abstracts of articles selected from over 2500 journals. Topics: anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology.

Contents: no full text in index; some full text linked
Dates of Coverage: 1963 - current
Publisher: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

SourceOECD »

SourceOECD is the online library of The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Everything published by the OECD (books, journals, series, working papers, databases) is available online via SourceOECD.

Contents: full text
Dates of Coverage: current
Publisher: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

SpringerLink »

SpringerLink is a collection of more than 1,000 high-quality, peer-reviewed journals covering scientific, technical and medical journal literature. Effective January 2005, all journals formerly hosted by Kluwer Online are available through SpringerLink.

Contents: full text
Dates of Coverage: 1995 - present
Publisher: Springer

Standard and Poor’s NetAdvantage »

Standard and Poor’s Market Investment News including industry surveys, investment reviews, and stock reports.