LibGuides: Databases A to Z: Title and Subject Lists: Full Title List

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Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources covering the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.
Accessible Archives This link opens in a new window Diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views across American history and culture. These collections are encyclopedic in scope.
ACLS Humanities E-Book This link opens in a new window Access to 4,300 cross-searchable, full-text titles across the humanities and related social sciences. Titles have been selected and peer reviewed by ACLS constituent learned societies. The collection includes both in- and out-of-print titles ranging from the 1880s through the present.
ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window A comprehensive collection of full-text articles from over 50 Association for Computing Machinery publications dating back to the 1950s. The ACM Guide also provides access to more than 1.8 million bibliographic sources and citations from computing books, journals, proceedings and theses beyond ACM's proprietary literature.
ACS Publications This link opens in a new window the American Chemical Society publishes more than 40 journals, Chemical & Engineering News, ACS Legacy Archives, and the ACS Symposium Series.
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.
African Journals Online This link opens in a new window Provides full text articles from peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals.
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.
Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window Academic Video Online delivers video titles spanning a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Curated for the educational experience, the massive depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc.) makes this database a useful resource for faculty and students alike.
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from as far back as 1910.
OpenDissertations This link opens in a new window Open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses.
American Periodicals This link opens in a new window Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the 20th century. Consists of works published between 1740 and 1900. Includes journals, general interest magazines, children's publications, civil war periodicals and early professional journals.
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window Comprehensive collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 40 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences, including Economics.
Anthropological Index This link opens in a new window Index to current periodicals held in the Anthropology Library at the Centre for Anthropology, The British Museum.
AnthroSource This link opens in a new window Offers access to more than a century of full-text anthropological knowledge, across the breadth and depth of the discipline.
Associated Press Images Collection This link opens in a new window contains over 4.6 million photographs dating back to 1826, tens of thousands of graphics, more than 4,500 hours of audio files dating from the 1920’s, and news stories and headlines dating from 1997. The content is primary source and is provided by The Associated Press.
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.
Literature This link opens in a new window This interface allows researchers to search across 3 Gale databases at one time: Gale Virtual Reference Library, Literature Resource Center, Literature Criticism Online.
ARTFL This link opens in a new window North America's largest collection of digitized French resources, including classic works of French literature.
Art Full Text This link opens in a new window Includes full-text, indexes and abstracts from hundreds of art periodicals and peer reviewed journals and thousands of art dissertations. Indexing of almost 200,000 art reproductions provides examples of styles and art movements, including works by emerging artists. The database covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus.
ARTstor This link opens in a new window A digital image database with more than one million images. Interdisciplinary collections in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. As a member of the Hofstra community, you can find and view images through the Libary's subscription without creating a personal account, but users who register for a free personal account can also save, organize and share images using Groups, download individual images or export entire Groups through the download to zip file or PowerPoint feature, and add your own content to a Personal Collection. Before you use ARTstor from home, please make sure to turn off any pop-up blockers and enable cookies on your computer.
As a member of the Hofstra community, you can find and view images through the Libary's subscription without creating a personal account, but users who register for a free personal account can also save, organize and share images using Groups, download individual images or export entire Groups through the download to zip file or PowerPoint feature, and add your own content to a Personal Collection. **Before you use ARTstor from home, please make sure to turn off any pop-up blockers and enable cookies in your browser.
ATLA Religion Database This link opens in a new window produced by the American Theological Library Association, ATLA contains more than 1.7 million bibliographic records of research literature on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. Coverage spans from 1949 to the present.

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Biography Reference Bank
This database is no longer available. We suggest using Credo Reference instead.
Brooklyn Eagle This link opens in a new window Digitized version of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, which was originally published from 1841 to 1955, then revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963.
Business: Insights This link opens in a new window Includes business, company, and industry periodical articles, news articles, and press releases. Provides detailed information for domestic and international companies and associations, including information on corporate hierarchical structures, company financials and earning estimates, investment reports, corporate chronologies and company histories, brands and product information, industry and company rankings, market share data, industry overviews, HR Law Case Digests, and PDF reports on the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) for select companies.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window Provides full text, going as far back as 1886, for over two thousand journals, including more than one thousand peer-reviewed titles, in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.

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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.
Cambridge Journals Online This link opens in a new window Over 300 peer-reviewed academic journals for the global market, containing the latest research from a broad sweep of subject areas.
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.
Census.gov This link opens in a new window Statistical information from US census data.
CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window provides full text for more than 1,300 journals in nursing & allied health, including many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo.
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.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window A collection of six databases that contain different types of independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Includes: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Methodology Register, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Health Technology Assessment Database, NHS Economic Evaluation Database. Also includes a seventh database that provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration.
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window Incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study. Includes indexes, abstracts and full text.
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.
Counseling and Therapy in Video This link opens in a new window An online collection of videos for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.
CountryWatch This link opens in a new window Provides information on each of the recognized countries of the world. Includes demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information, as well as daily news coverage.
CQ Almanac This link opens in a new window Building on the reporting and analysis done throughout the year by CQ's news staff, the Almanac offers original narrative accounts of every major piece of legislation that lawmakers considered during a congressional session since 1946, with new content published every 2 years (per congressional session).
CQ Congress and the Nation This link opens in a new window Comprehensive coverage of Congressional action starting from 1945 and updated with new content every 4 years (each presidential election year).
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.
CQ Encyclopedia of Political Science This link opens in a new window Explores the central ideas, ideologies, and frameworks underlying the study of politics, and highlights the intersections of politics with philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, religion, psychology, history, and economics.
CQ Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History This link opens in a new window Explores the events, policies, people, ideas, institutions, groups, and movements that have created and shaped political life in the United States from the colonial period to the present day.
CQ Encyclopedia of U.S.-Latin American Relations This link opens in a new window Highlights the political relationships between the U.S. and Latin America, since the year 1800.
CQ Exit Polls: Surveying the American Electorate This link opens in a new window This reference work explores the trends in longitudinal variables asked in the national Election Day exit polls from their beginning in 1972 to the present.
CQ Guide to Congress This link opens in a new window The institutional history of Congress along with analysis on the 2008 and 2010 shifts in power of the U.S. Senate and House of Represenatives.
CQ Guide to the Presidency and the Executive Branch This link opens in a new window Offers facts and analytical chapters that explain the structure, powers, and operations of the office and the president’s relationship with Congress and the Supreme Court.
CQ Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court This link opens in a new window Includes detailed information about the Supreme Court, from its origins and how it functions, to the people who have shaped it and the impact of its decisions on American life.
CQ Guide to U.S. Elections This link opens in a new window Includes coverage of every major aspect of federal and gubernatorial elections throughout U.S. history.
CQ Historic Documents This link opens in a new window Published annually since 1972, the Historic Documents Series primary source documents ranging from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.
CQ Political Handbook of the World This link opens in a new window Provides information on the major aspects of each country's government and political party system, including key facts, government and political history, current issues, political parties and organizations, legislatures and cabinets, and communications information. Also profiles more than 38 non-UN intergovernmental organizations, such as OPEC, NATO, the WTO, regional banks, and the agencies and specialized bodies of the United Nations.
CQ Politics in America This link opens in a new window Provides information on members of the U.S. Congress and their districts. Nonpartisan profiles of every member provide candid analysis of personalities, political styles, legislative agendas, political ambitions, and reputations at home and on the Hill. as well as data on their constituencies, apportionment, and redistricting.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window Research reports covering the areas of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published online 44 times a year by CQ Press.
CQ Supreme Court Yearbook This link opens in a new window Coverage and analysis of every decision from the Supreme Court from 1989 to 2010. Includes year-end overviews, case summaries, essays on the most significant cases from each year and the trends in each term, tables and figures on voting patterns and trends in constitutional law, biographies of justices, and reference documents for understanding how the Supreme Court works.
CQ The African American Electorate: A Statistical History This link opens in a new window Traces the history of the laws dealing with enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of African Americans and provides the election return data for African-American candidates in national and sub-national elections.
CQ Vital Statistics on American Politics This link opens in a new window Offers more than 230 tables and charts covering the full spectrum of American politics dating back to 1788.
CQ Vital Statistics on the Presidency This link opens in a new window Statistical coverage of public approval of the president, elections, vetoes, executive orders, foreign affairs, the executive branch, congressional and judicial relations, public appearances, and much more
CQ Voting and Elections Collection This link opens in a new window A research and reference tool providing data on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships.
CQ Washington Information Directory This link opens in a new window Provides contact and descriptive information on more than 10,000 federal government offices, regulatory agencies, congressional committees, judicial offices, public interest groups, nongovernmental organizations, and international organizations.
CQ Magazine (Formerly CQ Weekly) This link opens in a new window Provides reports on issues looming on the congressional horizon, plus a complete wrap-up the previous week's news, including the status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates and all roll-call votes.
Dissertations & Theses @ Hofstra University This link opens in a new window Full text of dissertations and theses produced by Hofstra students.

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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.
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window Freely available full text of scientific and scholarly 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.
Docuseek2 This link opens in a new window A multidisciplinary streaming video database, offering documentary films for higher education.

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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.
Ebscohost eBook Collection This link opens in a new window Collection of academic ebooks; includes online reader utility.
EconLit This link opens in a new window Contains more than 1.1 million records from 1886-present, covering virtually every area related to economics.
Education Full Text This link opens in a new window Provides full text of articles from as far back as 1996, in addition to indexing of periodicals dating back to 1983. Subject coverage includes adult education, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods and much more.
ERIC This link opens in a new window The Education Resource Information Center contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.
European Views of the Americas, 1493-1750 This link opens in a new window Indexes printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.

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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.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Streaming video database, providing multidisciplinary educational programs from Films Media Group.

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Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window Reference eBooks on wide array of subjects.
General OneFile This link opens in a new window General interest resource of over 13,000 periodical and news titles.
GeoRef This link opens in a new window Geosciences index database containing records for journals, books, maps, government reports, conference papers, and theses and dissertations.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Links to full text provided by Hofstra will appear to those who have been authenticated through the Library's website.
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GovInfo This link opens in a new window Provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window Environmental database collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

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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.
Health and Medicine This link opens in a new window Articles from a wide range of full-text nursing and allied health journals, magazines, newsletters and select consumer health information sources with full-text reference works and hundreds of health-related videos and multimedia.
Health Source Consumer This link opens in a new window Provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Offers access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic This link opens in a new window Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names. Includes AHFS Consumer Medication Information
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window Includes more than 100 million pages of legal history available in an online, fully-searchable, image-based format. Provides comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 1,800 law and law-related periodicals. Contains the Congressional Record Bound volumes in entirety, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, famous world trials dating back to the early 1700′s, legal classics from the 16th to the 20th centuries, the United Nations and League of Nations Treaty Series, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register from inception in 1936, the CFR from inception in 1938, and much more.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, indexing more than 2,300 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.

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IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window A resource for discovery of scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners, including full-text documents from some of the world's most highly-cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.
Infoshare This link opens in a new window Database of community and regional data, including population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local trade data, and more.
News (Gale) This link opens in a new window A full-text newspaper resource providing access to more than 1,100 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
Ingenta This link opens in a new window Indexes approximately 4.5 million articles from 13,500 publications. Some full text available.
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).

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JAMA Network This link opens in a new window Includes the full text of Journal of the American Medical Association and other JAMA publications, as well as the specialty Archives Journals. All the journals publish Online First content.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Jstor is a digital archive of over one thousand five hundred academic journals and other scholarly content. Hofstra subscribes to several JSTOR collections and single titles.
Hofstra subscribes to JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collections I through VII, as well as the Life Sciences Collection and JSTOR 19th Century British Pamphlets
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism This link opens in a new window Compiled by 275 specialists from around the world, the Guide includes almost 300 alphabetically arranged entries and subentries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.

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Kanopy This link opens in a new window A multidisciplinary streaming video database, offering films from the Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation, and many more.

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WMS Discovery This link opens in a new window online catalog of Hofstra library holdings.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Provides access to full-text news, business and legal publications.
Library Literature & Information Science Index This link opens in a new window Provides indexing of over 400 journals, including key library and information science periodicals. Subjects include automation, cataloging, censorship, circulation procedures, classification, copyright legislation, government aid, library associations and conferences, library equipment and supplies, personnel administration, preservation of materials, and more. Coverage reaches as far back as 1980.
Library & Information Science Collection This link opens in a new window Includes the following two databases (direct links and descriptions under "see note" below): Library and Information Science Abstracts Library Science Database
Links for individual databases included in this collection:
- Library and Information Science Abstracts‎ (1969 - current): Library science, information theory, online retrieval, etc. - journal articles
- Library Science Database‎ (1970 - current): Library science, online retrieval, archives, information technology - journal article
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts This link opens in a new window Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
Linguistics Collection This link opens in a new window Includes the following two databases (direct links and descriptions under "see note" below): Linguistics Database Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Links for individual databases included in this collection:
- Linguistics Database‎: full-text journals and other sources in linguistics, including many titles indexed in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA).Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
- and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)‎ (1973 - current): Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
LISTA This link opens in a new window Indexes journals, books, research reports and proceedings in the areas of librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage extends back to the mid-1960s.
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.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide information on authors, their works, and literary movements.

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Magill on Literature Plus This link opens in a new window Includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors.
Math SciNet This link opens in a new window Database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Bibliographic data from retrodigitized articles dates back to the early 1800s.
Medline This link opens in a new window Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new window Provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Mental Measurements Yearbook contains information for a complete evaluation of test products within such areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language.
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.
Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new window Offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database. Includes periodicals, academic journals, and other content.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window Offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations dating back to the 1920's and containing over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers.
Music Index Online This link opens in a new window Indexes and abstracts of articles about music, musicians, and the music industry for more than 475 periodicals, as well as book reviews, obituaries, news, and selective coverage for more than 230 periodicals. Digitized content from 1970 to present.

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Nature This link opens in a new window Provides access to Nature Publishing Group's publications, Nature research journals and Nature Reviews journals, plus a range of academic journals including society-owned publications. Includes news and comment from Nature, NatureJobs plus access to Nature Network and Nature Education's Scitable.com.
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window Offers streaming access to more than 65,000 CDs of standard and rare repertoire. Includes the complete catalogues or selected titles from over 350 classical, jazz and world music labels. The library is constantly growing. Classic pop and rock music as well as Chinese orchestral music are also represented.
In order to access Naxos off-campus via the mobile app, Hofstra users need an activation code. The code is: Hofstra14KYV. This code is required after users are prompted to log-in with their Hofstra credentials.
New York Review of Books This link opens in a new window Essays and reviews of books and the arts, including music, theater, dance, and film.
New York Times (Gale) This link opens in a new window Full text of The New York Times (starting in 1985)
New York Times current This link opens in a new window Provided by LexisNexis, full text coverage is from June 01, 1980 through current. (Abstracts from January 1, 1969 - May 31, 1980.) Also includes The New York Times on the Web online articles.
New York Times Historical This link opens in a new window Coverage of the New York Times from 1851 through 4 years prior to the current year.
Newsday Historical This link opens in a new window Coverage from 1940 to 1994.
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window Full text for more than 40 (U.S.) & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.

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Discovery This link opens in a new window Searches many of HUL's print and online resources (books, ebooks, journal articles, etc.) using Discovery.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations This link opens in a new window This is a centralized search engine for the growing number of institutional repositories of open-access theses and dissertations. It is international in scope.
Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window Contains a range of perspectives on many important issues, with over 13,000 pro/con viewpoints. Includes a variety of resource types: reference, news, primary sources, multimedia and more.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window Offers access and simultaneous cross-searching to an expanding range of Oxford’s acclaimed art reference works: Grove® Art Online, the Benezit® Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, as well as many specially commissioned articles and bibliographies available exclusively online.
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.
Oxford Academic Journals This link opens in a new window Includes over 230 academic and research journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations. From the Oxford University Press.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window Access to multiple music reference resources. Offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works.

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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.
PQDT Open This link opens in a new window Open access theses and dissertations
Philosopher`s Index This link opens in a new window Bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. Features author-written abstracts covering scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews.
PhilPapers This link opens in a new window
An index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by a community of philosophers. Indexes almost all philosophy journals and book publishers.
Use Instructions: create an account/profile and associate with Hofstra.
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.
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.
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.
Political Risk Yearbook This link opens in a new window Country Reports for 100 countries, which assess potential political, financial, and economic risks to business investments and trade. Provides risk forecasts and analysis based on the Coplin-O'Leary Rating System, the original political risk rating system, including alternative regime scenarios.
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.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window A collection of over 500 education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window Full-text of scholarly journals from over 120 university presses and scholarly societies in the humanities and social sciences.
Criminology Collection This link opens in a new window
Includes the following two databases (direct links and descriptions under "see note" below):
- Criminal Justice Database (1981 - current)
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database (1975 - current)
Links for individual databases included in this collection:
- Criminal Justice Database‎ (1981 - current): International and scholarly journals, correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other material supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database‎ (1975 - current): Journal articles, reports, books, audiovisual presentations and unpublished research in criminal and juvenile justice, law enforcement, etc.
Education Collection This link opens in a new window
Includes the following databases (direct links and descriptions under "see note" below):
- Education Database
- ERIC
Links for individual databases included in this collection:
- Education Database: Coverage spans the literature on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling and adult education.
- ERIC: Education and related topics - journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs
Political Science Database This link opens in a new window Includes over 140 leading political science and international relations journals.
Social Science Database This link opens in a new window Provides indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journalsacross a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.
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.
Statistical Insight This link opens in a new window Tables selected from hundreds of US government and business reports, from 1999 to the present.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window Contains full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology, from the American Psychological Association (APA). Includes journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in behavioral science and mental health. Journal coverage from the 1800s to the present.
Pubmed Central This link opens in a new window Full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine.
PubMed/Medline This link opens in a new window Citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

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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.

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RAMBI: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies This link opens in a new window A selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material listed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles - in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages- mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library, a world center for research on the Jewish people and Eretz Israel.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window Full text coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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.
RILM This link opens in a new window Guide to publications on music from all over the world; includes records for articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, electronic resources, reviews, and more.

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Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window Full text of journals spanning the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology, and Medicine.
Science.gov This link opens in a new window Includes over 50 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 12 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window Full-text scientific database. Includes journal articles and book chapters. Contains Philosophy of Science.
Serials Directory This link opens in a new window Provides bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials.
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.
Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Includes journal articles, dissertations, and citations to book reviews.
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.
SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window Bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. Contains records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800, as well as dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages.
Springer Journals This link opens in a new window Database of journals in the areas of behavioral science, biomedical & life sciences, business & economics, chemistry & materials science, computer sciences, earth & environmental science, engineering, humanities, social sciences, law, mathematics & statistics, clinical medicine, physics and astronomy. Includes full text.
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.

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Teacher Reference Center This link opens in a new window Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
Times (London) Digitial Archive This link opens in a new window Digital archive of the London Times, from 1785 to 1985.

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UNData This link opens in a new window Pools major UN databases and those of several international into one single internet environment. The databases, tables and glossaries cover a wide range of themes including Agriculture, Crime, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism, Trade, as well as the Millennium Development Goals indicators.
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.

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Women and Social Movements in the United States Scholar`s Edition This link opens in a new window Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection includes 105 document projects and archives and more than 53,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written altogether by about 2,200 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.
Women and Social Movements International This link opens in a new window A collection of primary sources that traces the global history of women’s international agendas and their influence on the course of events and shifts in attitudes that have come to define modern life.
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.
WorldCat This link opens in a new window Database of all material cataloged by OCLC member libraries including books, manuscripts, websites and internet resources, maps, computer programs, musical scores, films and slides, newspapers, journals and magazines, sound recordings, articles, chapters, and 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.
WRDS This link opens in a new window WRDS provides the user with one location to access data across multiple disciplines including Accounting, Banking, Economics, Finance, ESG, and Statistics. Specifically, WRDS provides access to S&P Capital IQ, CRSP, NYSE, Thomson Reuters, Bureau van Dijk, Global Insight, OptionMetrics and other important business research databases.
You must register for an account to use WRDS. If you haven't already, go to the registrations page, and complete the form, using your HOFSTRA email address.