All databases

Off-campus access to the databases listed below requires a valid Saint Martin's University network/email account: New account information.  If your password has expired or you have forgotten it, see Password issues.

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ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry (ProQuest) *
Full-text from more than 700 publications with trade and industry information. This database contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and more.
Coverage: 1971 to present

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
Provides abstracts and indexing for over 8,000 scholarly journals and popular magazines covering all academic subjects. The full-text is available for about 4,700 periodicals (3,600 peer-reviewed).
Coverage: varies; some full-text back to 1965; some current issues embargoed for several months.

AccessScience (McGraw-Hill)
AccessScience includes the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and its annual yearbooks, the Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, over 2,000 biographies, news stories from Science News, an image gallery, and selected Web sites.

ACLS Humanities E-Books (ACLS)
A digital collection of over 1,700 fully-searchable high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars.
Coverage: varies

AGRICOLA (EBSCOhost)
The National Agricultural Libary's index of journals (over 850 titles), technical reports, books, audio-visual materials and other resources dealing with agriculture and a number of related disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
Coverage:  1970 to present

Alt HealthWatch (EBSCOhost)
Full-text and indexing for more than 140 journals, proceedings, and newsletters concerned with complementary and alternative medicine. Also includes hundreds of full-text pamphlets and book excerpts.

American National Biography (Oxford University Press)
Biographies of over 18,000 Americans. Includes illustrations.

ArticleFirst (OCLC FirstSearch)
Indexes articles from journals in a wide range of academic disciplines, including the sciences, social sciences, business, and humanities.
Coverage:  1990 to present

ATLA Religion (EBSCOhost)
American Theological Library Association's index for religious and theological literature. Full-text articles available from over 50 journals.
Coverage:  1949 to present

Biography Resource Center (Gale Group)
Biographical database with full-text articles from over 280 periodicals and 120 reference sources, such as the Dictionary of American Biography, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Contemporary Musicians, and Notable Scientists.

Books 24x7 ITPro (Books24x7)
Over 3,000 electronic books on programming, software engineering, networking, security, operating systems, hardware, office applications, multimedia applications, operating systems, and more.

Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost)
Provides abstracts and indexing for business-related periodicals covering management, marketing, economics, accounting, international business, and more. Full-text is available for about 1,100 peer-reviewed journals and 1,250 trade journals or business magazines. Also includes the full-text of country economic reports, company profiles, and industry reports.
Coverage:  varies; some full-text back to 1922; some current issues embargoed for several months

Catholic Periodical and Literature Index (EBSCOhost)
Online version of the index produced by the American Theological Library Association and Catholic Library Association. Over 300,000 citations from Catholic books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and papal documents.
Coverage:  1981 to present

Choice Reviews Online (American Library Association)
Concise eviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education.
Coverage:  1987 to present

Classical Music Library (Alexander Street Press)
A searchable database of classical music recordings from forty labels, including EMI, Sanctuary Classics, Hyperion, and the CBC. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to over the web. Limited to three (3) simultaneous users.
Coverage: medieval to contemporary

Computer Source (EBSCOhost)
Indexes nearly 450 academic journals, trade publications, and consumer magazines covering computer-related topics: computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. Full-text available for over 300 titles.
Coverage:  varies; some full-text back to 1985

CQ Researcher (CQ Press)
Full-text reports and analysis of current events, with topics such as health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published 44 times a year. Limited to five (5) simultaneous users.
Coverage: 1991 to date

Criminal Justice Periodicals Index (ProQuest)
Indexing and abstracts for 190 journals related to criminal justice. Includes full-text of articles from almost 50 titles.
Coverage:  varies; some full-text from 1988 to present; indexing from 1981 to present

DIPPR Project 801 (BYU DIPPR)
The Design Institute for Physical Properties (DIPPR®) Project No. 801 (Evaluated Process Design Data) contains data on physical, thermodynamic, and transport properties for over 1600 pure chemicals important in chemical processes and equipment design. Tables include 29 recommended property constants, 15 temperature-dependent properties, quality estimates, and references.
Coverage:  2003 Release

EBSCOhost
Link to full menu of all EBSCOhost databases licensed by Saint Martin's.

EconLit  (OCLC FirstSearch)
The American Economic Association’s electronic bibliography, EconLit, indexes more than thirty years of economics-related journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers and dissertations.
Coverage:  more than 30 years

eLibrary (ProQuest) *
Designed for the secondary school library, eLibrary includes full-text from newspapers, magazines, and books, as well as maps, other graphics, sound recordings, videos, and radio and television transcripts.

Encyclopaedia Britannica (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
Full-text of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Britannica Book of the Year, Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, and Britannica Student Encyclopedia.

ERIC (EBSCOhost)
Indexes journal articles, books, theses, conference proceedings, and unpublished reports in education. Citations have direct links to the full-text of ERIC documents in the public ERIC Database and, when available, to the full-text of journal articles in Academic Search Premier.
Coverage:  1966 to present

ERIC (OCLC FirstSearch)
Indexes journal articles, books, theses, conference proceedings, and unpublished reports in education. Citations have direct links to full-text of ERIC documents in the public ERIC Database.
Coverage:  1966 to present

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
Public access to the Department of Education sponsored ERIC database, including the full-text of non-journal ERIC documents from 1993 to date.
Coverage:  1966 to present

FMG On Demand (Films Media Group) on campus or off campus
Online access to seven videos from Films for the Humanities:  A Common Heritage, Dante's Inferno, The End of Days, Integrating ESL Students into the Classroom, Kenneth Branagh's Twelfth Night, Managing the Difficult Group, and W. Edward Deming: Prophet Unheard. This is pilot project for O'Grady Library.  Requires high-speed Internet access (cable or DSL when off campus).  Check your configuration.

Fuente Academica (EBSCOhost)
Full-text in Spanish of over 200 scholarly journals from Latin American and Spanish publishers.

Gale
Link to a menu of all Gale Group databases licensed by Saint Martin's.

GPO Monthly Catalog (OCLC FirstSearch)
Indexes United States government publications, including the following: Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (e.g., Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President).
Coverage:  1976 to present

Health Reference Center Academic (Gale Group)
Indexes academic journals and consumer magazines in medicine, health, nursing, allied health, fitness, nutrition, and more. Full-text for many of these periodicals and for selected pamphlets and reference books.
Coverage:  1980-present

Health Source -- Consumer Edition (EBSCOhost)
Provides full-text for nearly 300 consumer health periodicals, 1,100 pamphlets, 135 health reference boooks, 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports, and Clinical Pharmacology with descriptions of prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, and over-the-counter products.
Coverage:  varies; some full-text back to 1985

Historical Newspapers in Washington (Washington State Library)
Full-text of the Washington Territory's first newspaper, The Columbian, is now available from the Office of the Secretary of State and the Washington State Library. Requires DjVu Browser Plug-in.
Coverage:  9/11/1852 to 11/26/1853

History Resource Center -- Modern World (Gale Group)
Full-text resources in modern world history (1900--present): over 1300 primary source documents, 1400 maps and images, full-text of articles from about 110 journals and 30 reference works from Gale, Macmillan, and Scribner's.

History Resource Center -- US (Gale Group)
Full-text resources in US history (pre-colonial period--present): over 1000 primary source documents, 2000 maps and images, full-text of articles from about 100 journals and 30 reference works from Gale, Macmillan, and Scribner's.

JSTOR (JSTOR)
Full-text archive of the back issues of over 600 core scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences, business, and social sciences. See JSTOR is here to learn more about this database and how to use it.
Coverage:  varies; 2-5 year embargo on current issues

Legal Collection (EBSCOhost)
Subset of scholarly legal journals in Academic Search Premier with full-text for over 250 titles.
Coverage:  varies; some full-text back to 1965

LexisNexis Academic (Lexis-Nexis)
Provides full-text access to general news, current events and business news, as well as company profiles, financial, legal, medical and reference information. Sources include national and international newspapers, journals, wire services, radio and television broadcast transcripts, SEC filings, case law, statutes, patents, and more.
Coverage:  varies

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCOhost)
LISTA 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. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Literature Resource Center (Gale Group)
Online access to the literary biographies and critical essays in Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, the Dictionary of Literary Biography, and over 250 journals.
Coverage:  varies

Los Angeles Times (ProQuest) *
Full-text coverage of the Los Angeles Times.
Coverage:  1996 to present

MAS Ultra -- School Edition (EBSCOhost)
Designed for secondary school libraries, this database provides the full-text of articles from over 550 general interest and current events magazines, as well as biographies, primary source documents, pamphlets, and reference books. There is also an image collection of over 100,000 photos, maps, and flags.
Coverage:  varies; some full-text back to 1985

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost)
Indexing and abstracts for over 2,700 general-interest periodicals covering a wide range of topics, with full-text for over 2000 titles. Also includes full-text for over 350 reference and travel books, including World Almanac and Book of Facts and American Heritage Dictionary.
Coverage:  varies; some full-text back to 1965

Medline (EBSCOhost)
The National Library of Medicine's index of materials covering all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. When available, citations have direct links to full-text in Academic Search Premier.
Coverage:  1965 to present

Medline (OCLC FirstSearch)
The National Library of Medicine's index of materials covering all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing.
Coverage:  1965 to present

Medline (National Library of Medicine)
Public access to Medline via PubMed.
Coverage:  1965 to present

Middle Search Plus (EBSCOhost)
Designed for middle school libraries, this database provides the full-text of articles from over 150 magazines, as well as over 80,000 biographies, over 90,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of over 100,000 photos, maps, and flags.
Coverage:  varies; some full-text back to 1984

Military & Government Collection (EBSCOhost)
Designed to bring current news to all branches of the military, this database provides the full-text of articles from over 350 periodicals, country reports, and military pamphlets.
Coverage:  varies

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost)
Modern Language Association's index to journals and books covering literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore.
Coverage:  1963 to present

New Testament Abstracts (EBSCOhost)
This database is product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. The database is an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. The database contains more than 33,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 12,600 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts. Each year an additional 2,100 articles from more than 500 periodicals in numerous languages are selected for inclusion. In addition, approximately 800 current books are also summarized annually.
Coverage: 1985 to present

netLibrary (netLibrary)
2,968 electronic books purchased by the O'Grady Library, emphasizing computer science, reference, Northwest-related topics, and Choice Outstanding Academic Titles in a variety of disciplines. All titles are included in the O'Grady Library catalog.
Coverage:  1957 to 2002

New York Times (ProQuest) *
Provides the full-text of the The New York Times.
Coverage:  1999 to present

Newspaper Source (EBSCOhost)
Selected full-text for over 25 national and international newspapers, as well as over 200 regional (US) papers. Also includes TV and radio news transcripts.
Coverage:  varies

Old Testament Abstracts (EBSCOhost)
This database is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association. The database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Content from over 450 journals is covered. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more.
Coverage: 1978 to present

Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press)
Searchable online version of the 20 volume, second edition, Oxford English Dictionary.
Coverage:  1989 to present

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection (Oxford University Press)
Over 100 full-text dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference titles covering the humanities, business, sciences, and social sciences.

PapersFirst (OCLC FirstSearch)
Indexes all documents added to the British Library Document Supply Centre's proceedings collection since 1993, covering papers presented at conferences worldwide.
Coverage:  1993 to present

Primary Search (EBSCOhost)
Designed for elementary school libraries, this database provides the full-text of articles from over 60 children's magazines as well as the full-text of the Encyclopedia of Animals, Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, and American Heritage Children's Dictionary.
Coverage:  varies; some full-text 1989 to present; some abstracting and indexing 1984 to present

ProceedingsFirst (OCLC FirstSearch)
Indexes proceedings from worldwide conferences, providing tables of contents of papers presented. Like PapersFirst, indexes the British Library Document Supply Centre's collection.
Coverage:  1993 to present

Professional Development Collection (EBSCOhost)
Subset of education journals in Academic Search Premier. Includes indexing and abstracts for over 900 periodicals, full-text for over 550 titles (350 peer-reviewed), and full-text of over 200 educational reports.
Coverage:  varies; some full-text back to 1965

ProQuest Reference (ProQuest) *
Search multiple ProQuest products simultaneously, including Research Library, Newsstand, and more.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCOhost)
Subset of psychology and behavioral sciences journals in Academic Search Premier. Includes full-text for over 550 periodicals (500 peer-reviewed).
Coverage:  varies; some full-text back to 1965

PsycARTICLES (EBSCOhost)
American Psychological Association's full-text database of peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles in psychology, covering general psychology as well as specialized, applied, clinical and theoretical research. There are more than 100,000 articles from fifty-nine journals, forty-eight of which are published by the APA.
Coverage:  1894 to date; most APA journals from v. 1

PsycBooks (EBSCOhost)
American Psychological Association's full-text database of 1,377 scholarly books, including 691 books published by APA and 686 classic resources in psychology from other publishers. Also includes the online version of the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology
Coverage:  1950 to date, but with 18 month embargo on new APA titles

PsycINFO (EBSCOhost)
American Psychological Association's index to journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and reports on psychology and related fields. When available, citations have direct links to full-text in Academic Search Premier.
Coverage:  1887 to present

Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)
Provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 regional business journals, newspapers and newswires from the major metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Full-text is available for about 50 regional journals and 30 newspapers and newswire services.
Coverage:  varies; some full-text back to 1990; most newspapers and newswires last 30 days only

Religion and Philosophy Collection (EBSCOhost)
Subset of religion and philosophy journals in Academic Search Premier. Includes full-text for over 300 periodicals (250 peer-reviewed).
Coverage:  varies; some full-text back to 1975

Research Library (ProQuest) *
Provides abstracts and indexing for over 2600 journals, magazines, and newspapers covering all academic subjects. Full-text for over 1,700 journals is available.
Coverage:  varies with journal; full-text 1986 to present; indexing 1971 to present

Resources for College Libraries (Bowker)
The online edition of the 2006 Resources for College Libraries (ACRL's Choice and Bowker) is the successor to Books for College Libraries (BCL3). The core list features 65,000 titles in 58 curriculum-specific subjects. Titles have been selected for your academic library by more than 300 subject specialists and bibliographers.

Routledge Religion Resource (Routledge)
Includes full-text from approximately 30 reference works related to religion, including The Encyclopedia of Monasticism, The Papacy: An Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, and the Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom.

Scopus (Elsevier)
A multidisciplinary science database providing abstracts and indexing for over 14,000 journals covering the sciences, engineering, medicine, and the social sciences.

Seattle Times (Lexis-Nexis)
Provides selected full-text of The Seattle Times.
Coverage:  1997 to present

STNEasy (Chemical Abstract Services)
Online access to Chemical Abstracts (CA), an index covering international journals, patents, technical reports, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations in all areas of chemistry. Also includes the CAS Registry, a chemical structure and dictionary databases, and the index Chemical Industry Notes (CIN).
Available Mon - Thurs 5pm - 5am, Fri 5pm - 7pm Sat, and 10pm Sat - 5am. Contact the library Reference desk to arrange training and a password.
Coverage:  1907 to present

Testing and Education Reference Center (Gale Group)
Online version of Peterson's guides with information on colleges, graduate schools, private secondary schools, and other educational programs. Full-text access to test preparation books on the GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT, and other exams, plus limited access to interactive practice tests.

Ulrichsweb.com (RR Bowker)
Web version of Ulrich's Periodicals Directory offers detailed information on academic journals, popular magazines, trade publications, newsletters, and zines. Find a publication's subscription price, its current publication status, where it is indexed, and whether it is peer-reviewed. Many entries include reviews from Library Journal or Magazines for Libraries.

Vocational and Career Collection (EBSCOhost)
Vocational and Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full-text coverage for 400 trade and industry-related periodicals.
Coverage:  varies

Wall Street Journal (ProQuest) *
The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news.
Coverage: 1982-current

Washington State Library Regional News Index (Washington State Library)
Selectively indexes articles with a Pacific Northwest, Washington state, or local focus from Columbia Magazine, Eastside Week, Olympian, Seattle Magazine, Seattle Weekly, Washington CEO, Washington Magazine, and, occasionally, other regional publications.

Washington State Newsstand (ProQuest) *
Provides the full-text of newspapers from Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, and Vancouver, plus selected coverage of other regional sources.
Coverage:  1986 to present

World Almanacs (OCLC FirstSearch)
Includes full-text of The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the USA, , The World Almanac for Kids, and Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia.
Coverage:  1984 to present

WorldCat -- the OCLC Online Union Catalog (OCLC FirstSearch)
Online catalog of books, web sites, video recordings, sound recordings, and other materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries worldwide.
Coverage:  1000 BCE to present

* Databases marked with an asterisk are provided jointly by O'Grady Library and the Washington State Library, funded in part with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds.