Research Databases & Print Indexes

              Arranged by Subject, Type of Source, or Audience

Select a subject, type of resource, or special audience to learn what indexes are available for use by Dakota State University students and staff.  Or go to the ALPHABETIC LIST OF ALL DATABASES.
 

NOTE:

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• Many additional databases are searchable by librarians, so ask a librarian if you do not find exactly what you want here.  
• If the full-text of an article is not in the database you searched, it may be in print in the library or in another database. Use the Journal Finder to find out if the journal is available at the Library.  If not, request a copy through Interlibrary Loan.  Distance students may request any item which is not full-text online.
• The checkmark symbol indicates a best resource in the category.

General (all subjects)  
databases in this section cover a broad range of subjects in a single index. 
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Academic Search Premier  (1965 - present)
Location : Link to EBSCOhost to select this database. 
Description: Indexes and abstracts journal articles on a broad range of topics and provides the complete text (text and graphics) of many of the articles it indexes. Aimed at undergraduates, it provides scholarly journal articles along with articles from popular, technical/trade, and substantial news sources

Alternative Press Index (1991 - present)
Location : Link to OCLC Firstsearch and select AltPressIndex
Description: Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.

Alternative Press Index Archive (1969-1990)
Location : Link to OCLC Firstsearch and select AltPressIndexArchive
Description: Indexes alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
Location: Link to DOAJ
Description: Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals -- over 3000 journals. Use the "Find Journals" search to search for journals by journal title. Use the "Find articles" search for articles within the DOAJ journals. [3-28-2008]

Infotrieve Article Finder
Location: Link to Article Finder
Description: Mundt Library does not subscribe, but you have free access to citations for scientific, technical, medical and other scholarly articles in thousands of journals. Although Infotrieve sells the full articles, you can get them for free from the Mundt Library--look for article's journal in Mundt Library's Journal Finder or request the article through Interlibrary Loan. In Article Finder, find citations to articles on a specific topic.

Ingenta (1988 - present) - Includes UnCover Plus
Location: Link to Ingenta
Description: Mundt Library does not subscribe, but you have free access to citations to over 12 million articles which have appeared since Fall 1988 in over 26,000 multidisciplinary journals. Although Ingenta sells the full articles, you can get free full-text from the Mundt Library--look for article's journal in Mundt Library's Journal Finder or request the article through Interlibrary Loan.  In Ingenta, view tables of contents of specific journal issues or find citations to articles on a specific topic. 

Library Catalog of the Mundt Library
Location: Link to Library Catalog or to South Dakota Library Network
Description: This is the Mundt Library "card catalog," an index to all items that the Mundt Library owns or to which the Mundt Library subscribes (including online resources). The entire SD Library Network or other individual libraries in the Network may also be selected for search. Use this database to find books, videos, cds, magazines, journals, newspapers, online resources, etc.

MasterFILE Premier (1975 - present)
Location : Link to EBSCOhost to select this database. 
Description: Indexes and abstracts articles for a general audience on a broad range of subjects and provides the complete (text and graphics) of many of the articles it indexes.  Aimed at a public library audience, it provides fewer scholarly articles than the Academic Search Premier database.

National Newspapers Abstracts
Location : Link to Proquest and select this database.
Description: Citations and brief abstracts for articles in the New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal, and Barron's plus full-text of articles in Barron's. Use the "Journal Finder" to find out where the full-text of these articles are available (some are in print in the library, some are in the database LexisNexis Academic, etc.)

netLibrary
Location : netLibrary 
Publisher: netLibrary.com
Description: Provides a collection of electronic books on a wide range of topics.  The ebooks in this collection may also be found by searching the Library Catalog of the Mundt Library and linking directly from the Catalog to the ebooks themselves. Off-campus access with your regular library ID and password can be problematic; the most reliable method to ensure access from off-campus is to create a personal NetLibrary account when on-campus. Use the "create an account" link at the very top of the screen.  Distance students who are unable to login into NetLibrary can ask the Mundt Library staff to create an account for them.
View Database Demo: NetLibrary

New York Times Index (1851-1932, 1962, 1964, 1967-1993)
Location: in print in Mundt Library; call number is INDEXES AI21 .N452
Description: Indexes articles in the New York Times newspaper. Library has New York Times articles on microfilm 1857-1899 & 1967-present.  
[Note: Issues of the New York Times newspaper from 1980 to the present are indexed and available full-text in LexisNexis Academic]

Newsbank
Location : Newsbank
Description: Provides full text access to two South Dakota newspapers -- Aberdeen American News and the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader -- and to several popular magazines such as Fortune, Real Simple, Sports Illustrated, etc.  Click on  "America's Newspapers" to search the newspapers or on "America's news magazines" to search the magazines.

Open J-Gate
Location: http://www.openj-gate.com/index.asp
Publisher: Informatics (India) Ltd
Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in the open access (free) domain. [It supports the Open Access Initiative (OAI), a new paradigm in scholarly publishing that aims to promote models that ensure free and unrestricted access to scholarly & research journals.] Open J-Gate indexes articles from 3000+ academic, research and industry journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites. More than 1500 of them are peer-reviewed scholarly journals.

Opposing Viewpoints
Location: Opposing Viewpoints  
Description: one-stop source for full-text information on current, controversial issues. Includes book chapters, magazine & journal articles, statistics, images, and more.

Poole's Index (1802 - 1905)
Location: in print in Reference Collection in library - REFERENCE AI3 .P7 1963
Description: Indexes magazines and journals on a broad range of topics.

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature (1919 - 1999)
Location: in print in Reference Collection in library  -- REFERENCE AI3 .R4
Description: Indexes popular magazines -- the magazines most often found at newstands -- written for the non-specialist. Covers a broad range of subjects.  

Research Library  (1986 - present)
Location : Link to Proquest and select this database.
Description: Indexes and abstracts articles in magazines, journals & newspapers on a broad range of subjects and provides the complete (text and graphics) of many of the articles.  Aimed at undergraduates, it provides scholarly journal articles along with articles from popular, technical/trade, and substantial news sources.   

Sioux Falls Argus-Leader Index  
Location 1: South Dakota Library Network (SDLN)  (1982 - present)
Location 2: in print in Reference Collection in library (1979 - 1994) -- REFERENCE AI21 .S56
Description: Indexes Sioux Falls Argus-leader, the newspaper of South Dakota's largest city. Provides citations to articles of local, state or regional interest.

Wilson Select Plus (1994 - present)
Location : Link to OCLC Firstsearch  and select "WilsonSelectPlus"
Publisher: H.W. Wilson Co.
Description: Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business. Provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full text in periodicals from General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Readers' Guide Abstracts, Wilson Business Abstracts and many other databases produced by H.W. Wilson.

WorldCat
Location 1 : Link to Worldcat
Location 2 : Go to Firstsearch, click on "Search OCLC FirstSearch," and then select database "WorldCat"
Description: A worldwide library catalog, this database describes over 41 million books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

Arts & Humanities
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1980 - present)
Location : Link to FirstSearch and select database "AHSearch"
Publisher: ISI-Thomson Scientific
Description: Indexes arts and humanities journals (and related social science and science information).  Can search for cited authors and cited references.

Clase and Periodica
Location : Link to FirstSearch and select database "ClasePeriodica"
Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
Description: Provides bibliographic citations for documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology.

Essay and General Literature Index
Location 1: in Reference Collection in library (1900 - 1995) - REFERENCE Z1035 .E78
Publisher: H. W. Wilson Co.
Description: Indexes and provides citations of essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada.

Humanities Index  
Location 1: in Reference Collection in library (1974 - 1994) -- REFERENCE AI3 .R492
Description: Indexes and provides citations for articles in the fields of archaeology and classical studies, area studies, art, film, folklore, history, journalism, language and literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology, and related subjects. 

International Index to Periodicals (1907 - 1965)
Location: in print in Reference Collection in library 
Description: Early title of Social Sciences and Humanities Index.

LitFinder
Location: LitFinder 
Publisher: Gale Cengage
Description: Database provides information about literary works and authors, and it provides access to short works, essays, stories, and poems (with full-text for literary works published before 1923; or citation to location of the literary work if published after 1923 and still protected by copyright)

Social Sciences and Humanities Index (1965 - 1974)
Location: in print in Reference Collection in library -- REFERENCE AI3 .R49
Description: This title split to become Social Sciences Index and Humanities Index.

Business
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ABI/INFORM COMPLETE (includes ABI/INFORM Global, Dateline, and Trade & Industry)
Location : Link to Proquest and select this database.
Description: Provides scholarly and technical/trade articles in all functional areas of business and management (including accounting & auditing, economics, computer systems and information science, engineering management, finance and financial management, health care, law and taxation, management science, marketing advertising and sales management, personnel, banking, etc.) 

Business Source Premier
Location : Link to EBSCOhost to select this database.
Description: Provides full text for more than 8,500 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.
View Database Demo: Finding COMPANY & INDUSTRY information

Consumer Index (1986 - present) Database will be discontinued 30 June 2007.
Location : Link to FirstSearch and select database "ConsumerIndex"
Publisher: Pierian Press
Description: Provides access to information about evaluations, tests, alerts, warnings, and recalls of specific products, services, and facilities. 

EconLit (1969 - present)
Location : Link to FirstSearch and select database "EconLit"
Description: Provides citations for dissertations and articles -- in journals, books, and working papers on economics.

F & S Index United States (1989 - present) 
Location: print index tables in library -- INDEXES HG4961 .F812
Description: Indexes articles in numerous business and specialized trade journals about companies and products.

LexisNexis - Business 
Location : Lexis Nexis Academic   
Description: Link to "Business" category for articles from regional and national business publications, reports, etc.  Then select  "Company News," "Company Financial Information,"  " Industry & Market News,"  or "Accounting, Auditing, & Tax."

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)  
Location 1: in print in Reference Collection in library (1969 - 1993)
Location 2 : Link to FirstSearch and select database "PAIS" (1972 - present)
Description: Indexes articles about public policy (law, legislation, etc.) on a wide range of issues, including business issues. In FirstSearch, this index is called PAIS International.

Regional Business News  
Location : Link to EBSCOhost to select this database.
Description: Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Children and Young Adults (databases for use by K-12 students)
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NOTE: A children's interface for the Library Catalog is available. On the Library Catalog basic search screen, use the tab at the top labeled "Kid's Search" to get to it.

Kid's InfoBits (grades K-5)
Location : Kid's InfoBits
Publisher: Gale Group (Infotrac)
Description: features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Kid's Edition (grades K-6)
Location : Kid's Edition (alternate link: alternate Kid's Edition access)
Publisher: Gale Group (Infotrac)
Description: 40 full text magazines plus newspaper articles, maps, and reference books for these grades. Includes these titles: pdf text  

Junior Edition  (middle/junior high  schools)
Location : Junior Edition (alternate link: alternate Junior Edition access)
Publisher: Gale Group (Infotrac)
Description: 60 full text magazines plus newspaper articles, maps, and reference books for middle/junior high schools. Includes these titles: pdf text  

Junior Reference Collection
Location : Junior Reference Collection 
Publisher: Gale Group (Infotrac)
Description: collection of encyclopedic reference sources covering science, biographies, authors, multicultural topics, and people and places.

SIRS Discoverer (grades K-6)
Location : SIRS Discoverer   (alternate link: alternate access to SIRS D) 
Publisher: Proquest
Description: has articles and graphics from more than 1,600 U.S. and international magazines, newspapers and U.S. government documents, which were carefully selected for their educational content, interest and level of readability for middle and elementary curriculum topics. It includes activities, biographies, country facts, careers, fiction, holidays, photo essays, pictures, and maps of the world.

SIRS Researcher (grades 6-12)
Location : SIRS Researcher  (alternate link: alternate access to SIRS R)
Publisher: Proquest
Description: is a general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. Articles and graphics are selected from 1,500 domestic and international publications.

Student Edition (high schools)
Location : Student Edition 
Publisher: Gale Group (Infotrac)
Description:185 full text magazines plus newspaper articles, maps, and reference books  for these grades. alternate Student Edition access. Includes these titles: pdf text

Citation Indexes
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1980 - present)
Location : Link to FirstSearch and select database "AHSearch"
Publisher: ISI-Thomson Scientific
Description: Indexes arts and humanities journals (and related social science and science information).  Can search for cited authors and cited references.

CiteSeer : Scientific Literature Digital Library
Location 1: CiteSeer
Publisher: NEC Research Institute, NEC Inc. & Penn State School of Information Sciences & Technology
Description:  Free, full-text index of scientific literature (being Beta tested). In addition to citation for each article, provides "context" -- a sentence from the article in which the words occur. This database allows you to search both citations (i.e. is a citation index) and documents. 

Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) (1992-present)
Location : Web of Science
Publisher: Thomson
Description:  Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It fully indexes 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines.

Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)  (1992 - present)
Location :  Web of Science
Description: This is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences and is a citation index (which allows searching for what articles have cited a particular author or article). It fully indexes more than 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines.

Computer and Information Science
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ABI/INFORM Complete
Location : Link to Proquest and select this database.
Description: Provides scholarly and technical/trade articles in all functional areas of business and management including computer systems and information science. 

ACM Digital Library
Location : ACM Digital Library
Description: The ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) provides this source of bibliographic information, citations, and full-text articles about computing. It includes: ACM journals and magazines, ACM proceedings by subject, ACM proceedings by sponsor, ACM proceedings by series, journals and magazines by affiliated publishers, and resources from affiliated organizations.

CiteSeer : Scientific Literature Digital Library
Location: CiteSeer
Publisher: NEC Research Institute, NEC Inc. & Penn State School of Information Sciences & Technology
Description:  Free, full-text index of scientific literature (being Beta tested). In addition to citation for each article, provides "context" -- a sentence from the article in which the words occur. This database allows you to search both citations (i.e. is a citation index) and documents. 

IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL)
Location: IEEE CSDL search  ;  IEEE CSDL browse
Publisher: IEEE
Description: The IEEE Computer Society Digital Library provides online access to 22 society magazines and transactions, and more than 1,700 selected conference proceedings.

IEEE XPlore
Location: IEEE XPlore
Publisher: IEEE
Description: Free search, browse, and abstracts of IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 plus select content back to 1950. Get the full-text items free from the Mundt Library collections or through the Library's Interlibrary Loan service.

InfoSECURITYnetBASE
Location: InfoSECURITYnetBASE
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Description: Provides full-text books online about information security. Browse or search.

Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) (1992-present)
Location : Web of Science
Publisher: Thomson
Description:  Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It fully indexes 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines.

Science Direct
Location : Science Direct
Publisher: Elsevier
Description: Indexes and abstracts the journal literature of science and technology. Also, it provides access to the full text of anye Elsevier journals to which the Mundt Library subscribes, including Decision Support Systems and Electronic Commerce, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Journal of Systems and Software, Computers and Security, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, and Journal of Biomedical Informatics.  

Conference Papers and Proceedings
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OCLC PapersFirst (1993 - present)
Location : Link to FirstSearch and select database "PapersFirst" 
Publisher: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Description: Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Covers published information received by The British Library Document Supply Center.

ProceedingsFirst (1993 - present)
Location : Link to FirstSearch and select database "PapersFirst" 
Publisher: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Description: Index of worldwide conference proceedings. Provides citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library Contains in each record a list of the papers presented at each conference.  

Dissertations
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Dissertations Abstracts (1861 - present; abstracts since 1980)
Location 1 : Link to Firstsearch to select database "Dissertations" for access to all years.
Location 2: Free access to citations and abstracts for the most recent two years is available in Proquest Digital Dissertations.
Publisher: Proquest Information and Learning, Inc.
Description: Indexes and abstracts dissertations from universities in North America and Europe.

Education
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Academic Search Premier  (1965 - present)
Location : Link to EBSCOhost to select this database. 
Description: Although it indexes and abstracts journal articles on a broad range of topics, not just education topics, we have found that this database includes some articles about education topics that are not found in Proquest Education Periodicals or in the ERIC Database. 

Education Index (published by H.W. Wilson) 
Location 1: in print in Reference Collection in library (1929 - 1999) -- REFERENCE Z5813 .E23
Location 2 :  included in Proquest Education Periodicals, a database in Proquest 
Description: Indexes education journals. An advantage of searching this database in Proquest is that Proquest Education Periodicals includes an abstract and the complete text (text and graphics) of many of the articles.

ERIC Database  (sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S.   Department of Education)
Location 1: US Dept of Education - ERIC Database (1966-present) 
Location 2: Educator's Desk Reference - ERIC Database (1966 - present)
Location 3: SearchERIC.org 
Location 4: South Dakota Library Network (SDLN) (1966 - present)
Description: Indexes journal articles and other documents in the field of education and is the premier database for education professionals. Journal articles are assigned identifier numbers that begin EJ, and documents are assigned identifiers that begin with ED.  Journal articles indexed in ERIC may be found in other full-text databases of the Mundt Library, in print at the library, or may be requested through Interlibrary Loan from the library. ERIC documents are available full-text through links directly from the ERIC Database.

Physical Education Index
Location 1: print index tables in library (1990-2003) -- REFERENCE GV201 .P534
Location 2 : online CSA Physical Education Index (1990 - present)
Description: Indexes articles on dance, health, physical therapy, recreation , sports, and sports medicine

Proquest Education Periodicals
Location : Link to Proquest and select this database
Description: Indexes magazine, journal and newspaper articles and includes the complete text (text and graphics) of many of the articles.  Covers popular and scholarly publications in the field of education, and includes H.W. Wilson's Company's Education Index.

PsychFirst (current year and most recent 3 update years)
Location : Link to Firstsearch to select database "PsychFirst"
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Description: Indexes and abstracts journal articles, chapters in books, and books about psychology and related fields.

Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)  (1992 - present)
Location :  Web of Science
Description: This is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences and is a citation index (which allows searching for what articles have cited a particular author or article). It fully indexes more than 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines.

Encylopedias
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 Gale Virtual Reference Library
Location : Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description: search many specialized encyclopedias at one time. Provides good overview and background information on topics in business, literature, and much more.