Research Databases

Research Databases available 24/7 from on and off campus.

Research Databases by Subject

Browse the databases listed below or go back to subjects.

Science/Technology/Math

  • Academic Search Premier — Periodical articles for research in all academic disciplines. For peer reviewed, select "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" on basic search screen.
  • arXiv.org (Cornell University) — Open access scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology and finance, statistics, electrical engineering, systems science, and economics.
  • BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) — Search engine for open access academic web resources, journal articles, digital collections, images/videos or research data.
  • Biology Database — Articles from leading biology journals. Options for limiting to peer reviewed and scholarly journals are on the basic search screen.
  • Biomed Central — Open access articles from peer-reviewed journals in scientific and clinical disciplines.
  • Career and Technical Education Database — Articles on vocational/technical topics, including technology, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, photography, nursing, and emergency medicine.
  • Computing Database — Articles from top computing journals. Options for limiting to peer reviewed and scholarly journals are on the basic search screen.
  • Credo Reference — Credo’s Academic Core Collection provides full-text background information covering over 80 major subject disciplines and more than 6 million research concepts from encyclopedias, handbooks, guides, companions, and readers. Credo also provides access to more than 1,000 videos and animations, as well as 500,000 contextual visual aids, images, photographs and maps.
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — Open access articles from peer-reviewed journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, and humanities.
  • Encyclopedia of Life — Open access books, journals, databases, and videos focusing on different life forms from across the globe.
  • Films on Demand — Streaming video collections offering curriculum-focused content in humanities & social sciences; business & economics; science & mathematics; health & medicine; technical education; family & consumer sciences; careers & job search; guidance & counseling. Thousands of full-length programs and video segments with new titles added monthly.
  • Gale Academic OneFile — Articles from periodicals and reference sources in all academic disciplines. For peer reviewed, select “to peer-reviewed publications.”
  • Gale in Context: Biography — Biographical information on noteworthy individuals from past and present across all disciplines and subject areas.
  • Gale in Context: Science — Reference, magazine, news, and journal articles, experiments, and multimedia for science related research.
  • Google Scholar — Open access scholarly literature, articles, journals and conference papers, theses and dissertations, academic books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports, court opinions and patents. All broad areas of research, from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, university repositories, and websites.
  • Health & Medical Collection — Journal articles on clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration, and more.
  • Heliyon — Open access online journal research articles in life, physical, social, and medical sciences.
  • LibriVox (Audio books) — Download open access audiobooks in a wide range of genres and subjects.
  • MDPI — Open access peer-reviewed journals in health, sciences, technology, math, engineering, arts, and business.
  • NASA Ebooks — Links to many open access NASA ebooks and publications.
  • OMICS Open Access Journals — Open access peer reviewed scientific journals - medical, clinical, pharmaceutical, engineering, technology and management including conferences, symposiums, and workshops.
  • PLOS (Public Library of Science) — Open access journal articles in science, technology, and medicine.
  • Project MUSE — Open access academic books and journals in health, history, art history, humanities, literature, culture and diversity, education, music, math, philosophy, sciences, and technology.
  • ProQuest Central — Periodical articles from 39 specialized databases in all major subject areas, including thousands of newspapers from around the world. Options for limiting to peer reviewed and scholarly journals are on the basic search screen.
  • PubMed Central — Open access biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
  • Research Library — Articles from periodicals in a wide range of academic subjects. Options for limiting to peer reviewed and scholarly journals are on the basic search screen.
  • Science Database — Journal articles covering both the applied and general sciences.
  • Zygote Body — Zygote Body allows you to see any combination of anatomical features in 3D through a limited open access link.
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