Magazine Indexes
Academic OneFile (InfoTrac) -A good general source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Updated daily.
eLibrary (ProQuest/Bigchalk) -a comprehensive reference tool providing access to hundreds of popular magazines and scholarly journals. Other sources include newspapers, photographs, maps, TV and radio scripts, and general reference resources.
Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale/InfoTRAC) -This database provides citations and full-text access to journals in fields such as astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, literature, art, sociology, general science, and communications, as well as covering current events.
General Reference Center Gold (Gale/InfoTRAC) -This database provides citations and full-text access to magazines covering current events, popular culture, the arts, sciences, sports, and other general topics (includes full-text access to Consumer Reports).
Health Reference Center-Academic (Gale/InfoTRAC) -Provides searchable access to popular medical and consumer health information, much of it full-text, including a dictionary, a home medical guide, medical tests, drug information, directories, and pamphlets and articles on health subjects.
JSTOR -is a full-text online collection of core scholarly journals from their first issues (some date back to the 1800's) to between two and five years prior to the present. Subject coverage includes arts & sciences, education, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, anthropology, Asian studies, economics, population studies, sociology and botany and ecology. The journals can be browsed by journal issue or searched by keywords, topics, titles, authors and dates. The journals included in JSTOR are also listed in and linked from the Journals, Magazines & Newspapers in Our Library.
MEDLINEplus (National Library of Medicine) -Provided by the National Library of Medicine for the layperson who wants to research health questions. Includes information on specific health topics, full-text publications, dictionaries, newsletters, and directories.
NetLibrary (NetLibrary) - is a diverse collection of eBooks (electronic books) that may be "checked out" to read online. You may browse and preview all the eBooks, but to check out a book to read online, you will need to know your UMass Dartmouth Library barcode number. The barcode number is located on your Umass Pass if you've registered with the library.
Safari (ProQuest) -Full-text information technology books from Addison-Wesley, Cisco Press, New Riders, O'Reilly and Associates, Peachpit, Prentice Hall, Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, Que, and Sams. The library has subscribed to a small collection of Safari books (some books will show up as previews not full-text) as a pilot project to test out this product and to better understand your requirements and uses of electronic books. Please send your comments on this service to your library liaison or the collection development librarian, Bruce Barnes, Email Bruce Barnes.
