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The databases below provide full-text articles along with citations and abstracts (some also provide extensive company and financial profiles). If you find a citation or abstract but no full text for an article you want, search our online catalog to see if we own the journal title and issue/date. If not, request the article through Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan.

NOTE: Off campus users will need a username/password to access these resources. Registered day students, faculty or staff members can use their Nichols e-mail account username/password. If you do not know or remember your username or password, please contact the IT Dept.

Select Databases by Discipline

General/Multidisciplinary	Finance	Political Science
Accounting/Tax	Geography/Ecology	Psychology
Biography	Health	Reference
Business	History	Science
Criminal Justice	Legal	Social Science
Economics	Literature/Humanities	Sport Management
Education	News/Hot Topics

General/Multidisciplinary
Academic OneFile	Contains articles, most in full-text (html and PDF format), from 8,000 academic journals covering a wide variety of disciplines. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content from 1995 to the present.
CQ Researcher	Provides background information on current topics of widespread interest. Designed as a starting place for research,each issue contains analysis, charts, a chronology, statistics, pro-con discussions, and an annotated bibliography. (1991-Current) [5 simultaneous users allowed]
Expanded Academic ASAP	Database of full-text, citations, and abstracts of articles for 1800+ academic and general interest periodicals.
FindArticles	Free article website of with full-text articles from scholarly and trade publications in various disciplines, 1998 - present. Search by keyword or browse by category and/or publication titles. Can be good for finding articles in trade-based publications, especially business and education.
Issues & Controversies	Provides analysis for more than 250 controversial topics. Includes basic facts, historical and statistical information, pro/con discussions, selected historical source documents, maps and graphics, and sources for additional research. (1995-Current)
JSTOR Free Registration Required Made available by the Boston Public Library	Full-text access to nearly 600 core scholarly journals covering 44 specialized subject areas. Complete back runs of many titles Complete back runs for many titles but no current coverage for last 3-5 years.
LexisNexis	Full-text articles (and more) from a wide variety of sources -- newspaper and magazine articles, business data, medical and health information, legal materials, and reference sources.
ArticleFirst	Article citations from the contents pages of journals in various disciplines.

Accounting/Tax
Accounting Research Manager	FASB, AICPA, EITF, IASB standards plus proposal-stage literature as well as interpretations from financial reporting experts. Under Subscriber Login click on Accounting Research Manager link. Then click on Accounting Standards link. Up to 2 simultaneous users allowed.
LexisNexis	Under 'Business', see 'Accounting' link for Miller GAAP, GAAS, Not-for-Profit Guides, journal articles and more. Under 'Legal Research', see 'Tax Law' for federal and state tax cases, Internal Revenue Code and more.
RIA Checkpoint	Comprehensive coverage of U.S. tax matters. The database includes a section of primary material and sources, with the complete federal tax code (back to 1990), regulations, committee reports, rulings (1954-current), and federal tax case histories (1860-current). Also includes a Federal Tax Coordinator library arranged by topic, a U.S. Tax Reporter library arranged by code, a Federal Tax Handbook, and a news/current awareness section.

Biography
Biography Resource Center	Biographical information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Includes full-text brief biographies, articles, and website suggestions.
Business Leader Profiles for Students/ Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History (Gale Virtual Reference Library)	Published in 2002, Business Leader Profiles contains 350 profiles of prominent individuals who have made significant contributions to business and industry. Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History (2000) also contains articles on numerous individuals.

Business
Business Source Elite	Citation, abstract and full text coverage of scholarly business, management, marketing and economics journals. Also company profiles (including SWOT analysis). Note: To view company profiles you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, available for download here.
EconLit	citation index to journals, books, and working papers on Ceconomics.
General Business File	Articles (and more) from over 900 general business and finance magazines, trade, and local business journals (460 full-text). Includes Company Profiles, a directory of 180,000 public and private companies. Over 50,000 investment reports are also included.
LexisNexis	Full-text articles (and more) from a wide variety of sources -- newspaper and magazine articles, business data, medical and health information, legal materials, and reference sources.
Mergent Online Free Registration Required Made available by the Boston Public Library	Extensive information for over 11,000 U.S. companies as well as over 17,000 foreign companies. Especially useful for company financial information; profiles for each company include: business descriptions, EDGAR documents, fundamental data, key financial ratios, earnings estimates, stock information, company tear sheets and current headline news. Includes ability to download information into Excel. Worldwide industry reports as well as country information are also available.
S & P NetAdvantage	Company information, including financials, competitors, analysts' reports and industry information.
Tablebase Free Registration Required Made available by the Boston Public Library	Find market share, company and brand rankings, industry and product forecasts, production and consumption statistics, imports and exports, usage and capacity, number of users/outlets, trends and much more.
Wall Street Journal	Full-text coverage of business and financial news and analysis, company news, editorials, regular columns and special reports. Images and graphs not included. 1984-present.

Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice Periodicals Index	Full text coverage for 50 of the titles most frequently accessed by criminal justice researchers. CJPI also includes complete indexing and abstracts for another 140 relevant U.S. and international journals.
LexisNexis	Under 'Legal Research' find federal and state case law, law review articles, and legal news.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service	An internal clearinghouse for information on law enforcement and criminal justice. Includes publications, reports, articles, congressional hearings transcripts, statistics and more.
Protection of Assets Manual Username/Password required. Please contact one of the Reference Librarians	"Covers all aspects of security including access control, training, employee awareness, internal and external theft and fraud, security and civil law, investigations, ethics, alcohol and drug abuse, and more."
Security Management Practices	Overviews of security issues, recommendations, action plans, and links to resources. Among the subjects to be covered in the coming year are facility security, IT security, outsourcing security, employee screening, security laws and regulations, and security management training. Updated monthly.

Economics
EconLit	An online citation index to journals, books, and working papers on economics.

Education
Educator's Reference Complete	Selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database.
ERIC	Compiled by the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC represents the most complete bibliography of educational material.
Teacher Reference Center	Covers assessment, best practices, continuing education, curriculum development, elementary and higher education, language arts, teacher education, and a great many more related subjects.

Geography/Ecology
GEOBASE	Database of worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology

Health
All Refer.com: Health	General health information, including medical conditions, treatments, and medical procedures.
Health Reference Center	A consumer health resource, this includes medical reference books, full-text for over 500 pamphlets and 165 medical magazines. Information can be found here on specific illnesses, medical terminology, drug information, medical tests, wellness, and health-related organizations.
Healthfinder	Health information from government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and universities.
LexisNexis	Full-text from a wide variety of sources -- newspaper and magazine articles, business data, medical and health information, legal materials, and reference sources.
PubMed	Free World Wide Web access point to MEDLINE, the citation database of the National Library of Medicine. Article citations date from the mid-1960's to the present. Links to many full text articles are provided.

History
America: History and Life Free Registration Required Made available by the Boston Public Library	Index to research on the history of the United States and Canada, from prehistoric times to the present. Includes references to journal articles, books and book reviews, dissertations, and collective works.
Biography Resource Center	Comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Includes full-text brief biographies, articles, and website suggestions.
Civil War Research Database Username/Password required. Please contact one of the Reference Librarians	Search through soldier's records, regimental rosters and chronicles, officer profiles, photographs, and battle synopsis.
Historical Abstracts Free Registration Required	Index to research on world history from 1450 to present (excluding North America).
History Cooperative	Browse through recent issues of a number of significant history journals and access full-text articles. Titles include American Historical Review, Common-place, Environmental History, The History Teacher, Indiana Magazine of History, Journal of American History, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Journal of World History, Labour History, Law and History Review, Massachusetts Historical Review, Oral History Review, Western Historical Quarterly, William and Mary Quarterly, World History Connected
Massachusetts History Online	Contains full-text articles gathered from almost 50 sources that directly relate to MA history.

Legal
LexisNexis	Full-text of a wide variety of sources -- newspaper and magazine articles, business data, medical and health information, legal materials, and reference sources.

Literature/Humanities
AHSearch	An arts and humanities citation index.
Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select	Essays on contemporary authors. Each includes a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.
Contemporary Novelists (Gale Virtual Reference Library)	Biographical and critical essays on the most important living novelists writing in English
Contemporary Poets (Gale Virtual Reference Library)	Biographical and bibliographical information on the world's most important living, English-language, poets.
JSTOR Free Registration Required Made available by the Boston Public Library	Full-text access to nearly 600 core scholarly journals covering 44 specialized subject areas. Complete back runs of many titles available, but no current coverage for last 3-5 years.
Literary Reference Center	Information on thousands of authors and their works, including: full-text plot summaries, essays on literary criticism, in-depth biographies, book reviews and much more. Also provides access to various literature-related encyclopedias.

News/'Hot' Topics
CQ Researcher	Provides background information on current topics of widespread interest. Designed as a starting place for research,each issue contains analysis, charts, a chronology, statistics, pro-con discussions, and an annotated bibliography. (1991-Current) [5 simultaneous users allowed]
Boston Globe	Complete electronic edition of record, including full-text content of local, regional, national and international developments. Find coverage of community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, people in the community, and much more. Paid advertisements are excluded. (1980-Current)
Boston Herald	Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded. (8/28/1995-Current, 2/14/96-4/6/96 unavailable)
Issues & Controversies	Provides analysis for more than 250 controversial topics. Includes basic facts, historical and statistical information, pro/con discussions, selected historical source documents, maps and graphics, and sources for additional research. (1995-Current)
LexisNexis	Full-text from a wide variety of sources -- newspaper and magazine articles, business data, medical and health information, legal materials, and reference sources. Includes New York Times full-text.
Massachusetts Newsstand	Full-text coverage of the 12 Massachusetts newspapers: Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Berkshire Eagle, Business West (Chicopee), North Adams Transcript, Plymouth County Business Review, Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg), The Sun (Lowell), Telegram & Gazette (Worcester), Gazette (Haverhill), and Standard Times (New Bedford).
New York Times	Full-text coverage of the New York Times from 1995-present (also included in Academic OneFile).
Wall Street Journal	Full-text from 1984-present. Full-text coverage of business and financial news and analysis, company news, editorials, regular columns and special reports. Images and graphs not included.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette	Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded. (1989-Current)

Political Science / Government / Public Affairs
GPO Access	The U.S. Government Printing Office's searchable website for the dissemination of official information from all three branches of the U.S. Federal Government.

Science
AccessScience Free Registration Required Made available by the Boston Public Library	Contains the combined content of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (9th ed.) and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms (6th ed.)
GEOBASE	Database of worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology.
Science Online	Biographies, essays, definitions, diagrams, experiments and timeline.

Social Sciences
PsycFirst	Database of psychology and related fields in the current and most recent three update years.

Sport Management
SportDiscus	Comprehensive database of references to sports and health related articles, book chapters, dissertations, and conference proceedings. Up to 4 simultaneous users allowed.
SBRnet Username/Password required for Off-Campus Users. Please contact one of the Reference Librarians	Online service providing full text articles and statistics covering the sporting goods and sports marketing industries.