LibGuides: Databases A to Z: Title and Subject Lists: Not in OneSearch

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This page contains a list of databases, classified by broad subject categories, that are not included in the discovery search (OneSearch) found on the Hofstra Library home page @ http://www.hofstra.edu/library.

What is OneSearch?
A library discovery tool that enables you to search and find materials in the library catalog and many of the library's databases at the same time. OneSearch is powered by EBSCO Discovery Service.

Arts & Humanities

ARTFL This link opens in a new window North America's largest collection of digitized French resources, including classic works of French literature.
Dictionary of Literary Biography This link opens in a new window Comprehensive literary biographies of more than 143,000 past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights. The biographies discuss the lives and careers of the literary figures profiled, along with the critical response to their works. Additionally, you can search for essays on publishing houses and literary topics.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window Contains more than 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement.
Literature Criticism This link opens in a new window Includes 10 Gale literature series, which in all comprise tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays. Contemporary Literary Criticism profiles influential writers via excerpted passages from selected criticism. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism presents the major literary figures and nonfiction writers of 1900 to 1999. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism presents overviews of four to eight authors of 1800 through 1899. Shakespeare Criticism includes general and specific critical interpretations from the 17th century to the present. Literature Criticism 1400-1800 includes resource on the greatest writers of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Restoration eras. Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism provides critical opinion on early literature, Poetry Criticism is a collection of biographical sketches, author portraits, primary bibliographies and much more. Short Story Criticism profiles short story writers of yesterday and today. Drama Criticism features critical opinions, biographical sketches and chronological lists of plays and playwrights. Children’s Literature Review provides critical reviews of the works of the most popular and influential authors of the genre.
Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window English dictionary includes present-day meanings as well as the history of individual words and of the language, traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to films scripts and cookery books.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online This link opens in a new window Consists of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1960 and 2012. Contains over 130,300 annotated entries.

Books/Periodicals

Dissertations & Theses A&I This link opens in a new window Dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day.
Factiva This link opens in a new window General news and business articles including the full-text of the Wall Street Journal, company profiles, economic reports, and exchange rates.
Ulrich`s This link opens in a new window Provides detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals (also called serials) of all types and subject areas. Ulrich's records provide data points such as ISSN, publisher, language, subject, abstracting & indexing coverage, full-text database coverage, tables of contents, and reviews written by librarians.

Business/Statistics

Winmo (formerly Advertising Red Books) This link opens in a new window Provides relevant content on companies and the advertising agencies that work with them. Winmo can be used to identify agency clients, locate critical information about them, reveal the right contacts at those clients for prospecting, find a company by searching by the brand it owns, check out the competition, and more.
Cabells Directories This link opens in a new window Assists authors in publishing journal articles. The index in each Directory helps match the characteristics of a manuscript to journals' topic areas and lists acceptance rates. Also includes information on the style and format of most journals to further assist in organizing and preparing manuscripts.
CCH AnswerConnect This link opens in a new window
AnswerConnect (formerly IntelliConnect) is a tool for researching CCH content. CCH products track, report, explain and analyze tax and related law in over approximately 700 publications in print and electronic form for tax, accounting, legal, human resources, banking, securities, insurance, government and health care professionals.
Factiva This link opens in a new window General news and business articles including the full-text of the Wall Street Journal, company profiles, economic reports, and exchange rates.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Provides access to full-text news, business and legal publications.
Mergent Bond Viewer This link opens in a new window US taxable and municipal fixed income and evaluation data. Includes a wide-range of bond data including both issuer and bond level terms and condition data, US taxable bonds, municipal bonds and retail notes.
Mergent First Research This link opens in a new window Industry research database.
Mergent Key Business Ratios (Archives) This link opens in a new window Includes over one million financial statements of U.S. corporations, partnerships and proprietorships both public and privately owned, in all size ranges, and includes over 800 different lines of business as defined by the U.S. Standard industrial Classification (SIC) code numbers.
Mergent Key Business Ratios (Current) This link opens in a new window Searches industry benchmarks compiled from D&B’s database of public and private companies, featuring 14 key business ratios for public and private companies in 800 lines of business.
Plunkett Research This link opens in a new window Industry data. Includes industry analysis, market research, company profiles, industry statistics, industry contacts, industry glossaries. Also offers the full-text of Plunkett's industry almanacs.
Statistical Insight This link opens in a new window Tables selected from hundreds of US government and business reports, from 1999 to the present.
Thomson Reuters Checkpoint Edge This link opens in a new window A research service that integrates accounting & auditing, tax, and other content. Areas covered include federal tax, state & local tax, international tax, accounting, auditing and corporate finance, estate planning, payroll, pension & benefits.
Simmons Insights This link opens in a new window MRI-Simmons Insights examines the demographics, attitudes, media habits of adult US consumers and their impact on product purchases. *Note: This database has a 10 simultaneous user limit.
SRDS (Standard Rate and Data Service) This link opens in a new window Database of media rates and information. Cataloging more than 100,000 U.S. and international media properties. Includes detailed ad rates, dates and contact data, and direct links to media kits and audit statements.
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage This link opens in a new window Industry and company analysis including S&P Industry Surveys, Stock Reports (S&P Equity Research) with drill-downs for key ratios, benchmarks and analysis down to sub-industry levels, plus auditability to click-through for the sources behind company financial items.

Ethnic Studies

Leiden University Repository: African Studies Centre This link opens in a new window Contains books, theses, reports.
Contains link to Connecting-Africa which provides access to over 35,000 documents.
HAPI (Hispanic American Periodical Index) This link opens in a new window Contains over 275,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.
Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature This link opens in a new window Index of over 700 selected periodicals (mostly scholarly) acquired from 29 African countries. Date range is from 1991-2011. The QIAPL indexing project closed as of 2012.

Multidisciplinary

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Provides access to full-text news, business and legal publications.

Science/Math

Physical Review Online Archive This link opens in a new window The American Physical Society's online archive for Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Physical Review A–E. It contains all APS journal articles published from 1893–2008. Each January, another year is added to the archive.

Social Sciences

Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts This link opens in a new window Indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.
CIOS This link opens in a new window The CIOS is a not-for-profit academic organization whose goal is to support research and education in communications-related disciplines (human communication studies, speech communication, rhetoric, journalism, mass communication, etc.) and to provide support for research and development of new relevant technologies. CIOS is the publisher of the peer-reviewed scholarly journal, "The Electronic Journal of Communication" and creator of ComIndex, the Visual Communication Concept Explorer, ComVista, ComAbstracts, ComAnalytics, ComContents, and ComUpdate.
Congressional Publications This link opens in a new window Database of congressional publications and legislative histories. Also includes member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, and financial data; and the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources.
CQ Press Library This link opens in a new window Reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. Includes all of the individual CQ databases, listed separately.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences This link opens in a new window Includes over two million bibliographic references to international materials dating back to 1951. Incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are included each year.
Iter Bibliography (Middle Ages and Renaissance) This link opens in a new window Includes secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).
PAIS Index This link opens in a new window Includes PAIS International & PAIS Archive. PAIS International includes journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more from over 120 countries throughout the world. In English and other languages. PAIS Archive includes monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, and analytics. Content relates to public and social policies, such as Prohibition, suffrage, pacifism, civil rights, McCarthyism, Vietnam War, and Watergate.
PILOTS This link opens in a new window Bibliographic database covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress. Incluldes citations to literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.
Polling the Nations This link opens in a new window Database of public opinion polls containing the full text of 600,000+ questions and responses, from 18,000+ surveys and 1,700+ polling organizations, conducted from 1986 through the present in the United States and more than 100 other countries around the world.
Political Science Database This link opens in a new window Includes over 140 leading political science and international relations journals.
Sociology Database This link opens in a new window International literature in sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window Provides abstracts and indexes of international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Includes journal articles, citations to book reviews, abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration & policy.