The AUW Library has access to a number of online databases. Most resources are IP authenticated, meaning that you must access them while connected to the internet through the AUW network.
American Astronomical Society |
Description: The American Astronomical Society (AAS, sometimes spoken as "double-A-S") is an American society of professional astronomers and other interested individuals, headquartered in Washington, DC. The primary objective of the AAS is to promote the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of science, while the secondary purpose includes enhancing astronomy education and providing a political voice for its members through lobbying and grassroots activities. Subjects: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics. Content: The Society publishes three scholarly journals and for the dissemination of research results in the field of astronomy. These scholarly journals are published through the publishing arm of the Institute of Physics (IOP), IOP Publishing. The Society publishes one scholarly journal (AER) for the dissemination of research results in the field of astronomy education. AER is published through the American Institute of Physics. AER is open access. It has 113 journal titles, and 9 free titles. |
American Chemical Society |
Subjects: Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, and Biomedical Sciences, Chemistry, Macromolecular Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical, Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry Content: ACS Publications publishes more than 52 journals, Chemical & Engineering News, ACS Legacy Archives, and the ACS Symposium Series via its award-winning web-based platform. |
American Institute of Physics Journals |
Description: As a "society of societies," AIP supports ten Member Societies and provides a spectrum of services and programs devoted to advancing the science and profession of physics. A pioneer in digital publishing, AIP is also one of the world's largest publishers of physics journals and produces the publications of more than 25 scientific and engineering societies through its New York-based publishing division. Subjects: Physics Content: 12 journals, 3 magazines, a conference proceedings series, books included Landing your first job: a guide for physics students, statistical reports, current research from over 50 journals including Science and Nature. AIP's Scitation platform hosts over 2 million articles from more than 200 scholarly publications for 28 earned society publishers |
American Physical Society |
Subjects: Physics; Atomic, molecular and optical physics; Condensed matter and materials physics; Nuclear physics; Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology; Statistical, non-linear, and soft matter physics; Accelerators and beams; Physics education research Content: Access to the Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) and journals produced by the American Physical Society. |
Annual Reviews |
Description: Annual Reviews provides the AUW community with a definitive academic resource in 37 disciplines in the sciences and social sciences. The articles in Annual Reviews summarize primary research literature and identify the principal contributions in each field. Editorial committees comprised of accomplished scholars in each discipline select topics for review. Articles are written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Subjects: Earth, life, and social sciences. Content: Full text - 37 journals published by Annual Reviews. |
Beech Tree Publishing |
Description: Beech Tree makes accessible to PERI two of its international, peer-reviewed academic journals. They have readers in over 80 countries, mainly in universities and government. They are on public policy for science, technology and innovation and on the evaluation of research Subjects: Public policy for science and technology, Research |
Cambridge Journals Online |
Description: CJO provides the full texts of 230 scholarly journals in a wide range of disciplines. A number of the journals focus on Asian history, culture, and public affairs. Abstracting and indexing (but not full text) are provided for approximately 100 additional journals. Subjects: Multidisciplinary Content: Full text - 230 journals published by Cambridge University Press. Abstracting and indexing - approximately 100 additional journals. |
Canadian Science Publishing (NRC Research Press) |
Description: NRC Research Press is the foremost scientific publisher in Canada and one of the most advanced electronic publishing services in the world. It publishes journals and manuscripts each year, in a broad range of scientific and technical disciplines. All journals are available online full-text in both pdf and HTML format and are accessible before print publication. Subjects: Botany, Cell biology, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Earth Science, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Forestry, Microbiology, Physics, Sport Science, Zoology. Content: Full text of 16 online journals with back files dating back to 2001 in most cases. |
Chicago Journals |
Description: Chicago Journals makes available the full texts of nearly 50 journals and hardcover serials, presenting original research from international scholars in the social sciences, humanities, education, biological and medical sciences, and physical sciences. Subjects: Multidisciplinary. Content: Full text - 50 scholarly journals. |
Chronicle of Higher Education |
Description: The Chronicle of higher education is a Washington, D.C. based publication dedicated to news, information and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. The web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; an archive of previously published content; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more Content: All published every weekday content. It requires a username and password. Students and employees of AUW can obtain these from Library and Information Services |
Chronicle of Philanthropy |
Description: The Chronicle provides news and information for executives of tax-exempt organizations in health, education, religion, the arts, social services, and other fields, as well as fund raisers, professional employees of foundations, institutional investors, corporate grant makers, and charity donors. Along with news, it offers such service features as lists of grants, fundraising ideas and techniques, statistics, reports on tax and court rulings, summaries of books, and a calendar of events. Subjects: Philanthropic resources. Content: Online archival issues from November 2007 up to current issue. Access to the biweekly, Chronicle of Philanthrophy requires a username and password. Students and employees of AUW can obtain these from Library and Information Services. |
de Gruyter Electronic Journals |
Description: 101 academic and professional journals, ranging from Advances in Calculus of Variations, right through Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, all the way to Zeitschrift für Unternehmens und Gesellschaftsrecht. It covers a wide range of disciplines for such a compact collection, and a number of them allow you to catch up on your German! Subjects: Humanities, medicine, science, law. Content: Full text - 101 journals published by Walter de Gruyter. |
EBSCOhost Research Databases |
Description: EBSCOhost is offering a collection of online databases of journals accessible via the web. EBSCOhost PERI Project Package has access to 8 major databases: Academic Search Premier; Business Source Premier; ERIC; Masterfile Premier; Newspaper Source; Health Source : Nursing & Academic; Health Source : Consumer Edition; Medline. Subjects: Social sciences and humanities, business, nursing, medicine and allied health, news Content: Over 11,000 full text, peer-reviewed journals and over 15,000 abstracted and indexed titles. |
Encyclopedia of Earth |
Description: The Encyclopedia of Earth, an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of content contributed by scholars, professionals, educators, practitioners and other experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The content is presented in a style intended to be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public. Subjects: Biodiversity, Biology and Ecology, Climate change, Earth and Environmental Science, Energy, Environmental law and policy, Environmental education, Environmental humanities, Food, Geography, Health, Population, Water..and more. Content: Article, Definitions, Speeches, Reports, Ebooks, Images, Videos and Sound files |
Financial Times |
Description: The Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news organizations, is recognized internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. Providing extensive news, comment and analysis, the newspaper is printed at 23 print sites across the globe, has a daily circulation of 390,203 (ABC figures February 2010) and a readership of 1.3 million people worldwide. FT.com is the definitive home for business intelligence on the web, providing an essential source of news, comment, data and analysis for the global business community. FT.com has over 2 million registered users and 126,281 digital subscribers. Subjects: Business News. Content: The daily Financial times requires a username and password. Students and employees of AUW can obtain these from Library and Information Services. |
Foundation Center |
Description: The Foundation Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grant makers and their grants; issues a wide variety of print, electronic, and online information resources; conducts and publishes research on trends in foundation growth, giving, and practice; and offers an array of free and affordable educational programs. Every day thousands of people gain access to valuable resources through the Center’s web site and in its five regional library/learning centers and national network of more than 425 Cooperating Collections at libraries, nonprofit resource centers, and organizations in every U.S. state and Puerto Rico and in Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, South Korea, and Thailand. It requires a username and password to access this source. Students and employees of AUW can obtain these from Library and Information Services. Subjects: Philanthropic resources. Content: Unique databases of information on the more than 98,000 foundations, corporate donors, and grant making public charities in the U.S. and 1.7 million of their recent grants. |
Global Development Finance |
Description: Global Development Finance provides access to more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for the 129 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. Subjects: Development. International finance. Content: Statistics - debt and financial flow indicators for 129 countries. |
GreenFILE |
Description: GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Subjects: Environment; Multidisciplinary by nature Content: and abstracts - more than 538,000 records, Open Access full text - more than 5,800 records |
HINARI |
Description: HINARI is not IP authenticated. It requires a username and password. Students and employees of AUW can obtain these from the Chief Information Officer or the Deputy Director of Library and Information Services. HINARI is a database holding over 6000 academic journals. It is also a portal to a galaxy of other databases, including those of Elsevier (ScienceDirect), Wiley, Springer, and other publishers. Altogether, HINARI makes many thousands of journals available to AUW students and faculty. It also provides the ability to create an account with EndNotesWeb, a tool that makes bibliographies a cinch. As if that weren't enough, HINARI offers the full texts of many reference works. Take the time to explore HINARI and become familiar with its wealth of information. Subjects: Particularly strong in the health, life, and agricultural sciences, but covers the social sciences as well. Content: Full text - thousands of journals and many reference works. Other tools for research and bibliography. |
IEEE Xplore Digital Library |
Description: IEEE is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE publishes the leading journals, transactions, letters, magazines, cutting edge conference papers, technology standards. Subjects: Electrical engineering, computing, biotechnology, telecommunications, power and energy, and dozens of other technologies. Content: Over two million IEEE documents including research articles, standards, transactions and conference publications are available through IEEE Xplore Digital Library. |
IOP Publishing |
Description: : IOPscience embraces innovative technologies to make it easier for researchers to access scientific, technical and medical content. IOPscience allows you to find relevant content quickly with enhanced search filtering, receive RSS feeds and email alerts when new content is published, view articles plus preprints and news, explore relevant articles based on subject classification codes. Subjects: Applied physics ,Computer science, Condensed matter and materials science ,High energy and nuclear physics, Mathematics, applied mathematics and mathematical physics, Measurement science and sensors, Medical and biological sciences, Optical, atomic and molecular physics, Physics education ,Plasma physics. Content: IOP publishes over 60 of the world's most prestigious journals in physics and related sciences, all available online through IOPscience. |
Journals of the British Psychological Society |
Description: 11 international peer-reviewed journals offer the latest original research to psychology academics and professionals worldwide, and help to advance and disseminate psychological knowledge in line with the Society's primary objectives Subjects: Psychology Content: 11 Journals entitled British Journal of Developmental Psychology, British Journal of Educational Psychology, British Journal of Health Psychology, British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, British Journal of Medical Psychology, British Journal of Psychology, British Journal of Social Psychology, Journal of Neuropsychology, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Legal and Criminological Psychology, Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice |
JSTOR |
Description: JSTOR is an archive of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. It also includes select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. Subjects: Sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Content: Full text - 1000+ scholarly journals, from the date they began publishing to a moving point 3 to 7 years ago. |
Lexis Nexis |
Description: AUW subscribes Development Pro from different product of LexisNexis. LexisNexis® is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets. It provides Billions of searchable documents and records from more than 45,000 legal, news and business sources including law directories, magazines and journals, news transcripts, newspapers, country and region reports, dictionaries, professional and educational materials, directories, scientific materials and many more. Subjects: News and Business, Industry, Legal Content: 45,000 sources. It requires a username and password. Students and employees of AUW can obtain these from Library and Information Services. |
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. |
Description: Founded in 1980, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. is universally acknowledged for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in the most promising areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, and law. Liebert Online delivers electronic access to peer-reviewed journals published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Liebert Online delivers electronic access to peer-reviewed journals published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Our critical mass of content exceeds 80,000 articles from more than 60 authoritative journals, all full-text searchable and linked to external bibliographic databases. Subjects: Biotechnology, Biomedical research/life sciences, Clinical medicine and surgery, Law. Content: Content exceeds 41,000 papers from more than sixty authoritative journals, all full-text searchable and linked to external bibliographic databases. The company publishes peer-reviewed academic journals, books, and trade magazines in the areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine, alternative/integrative medicine, surgery, and law. Its headquarters are in New Rochelle, New York, United States. |
OSA - Optical Society of America |
Description: OSA's Optics InfoBase is a cutting-edge repository that contains OSA Publishing's content, including 15 flagships, partnered and co-published peer-reviewed journals. With more than 200,000 articles including papers from over 360 conferences, Optics InfoBase is the largest peer-reviewed collection of optics and photonics. Subjects: The Optical Society of America brings together optics and photonics scientists, engineers, educators, technicians and business leaders. Content: 15 Optics and photonics journals published by OSA, conference papers, and selected OSA meeting content, including Advances in Optics and Photonics (AOP), new in 2009. |
Oxford Scholarship Online |
Description: This database consists of thousands of academic books published by Oxford University Press. Most were published within the last decade. Subjects: Multidisciplinary Content: Full text — over 3700 books |
Policy Press Journals |
Description: The Policy Press is a leading international publisher of high quality books and journals across a wide range of social science subjects. Based at the University of Bristol, our publications provide the latest policy research in accessible formats, reaching those who formulate or implement policy at executive and grass-roots levels - as well as academics and students. Subjects: Social policy, Social welfare, Family policy, Social work, Public policy, Criminal justice,Housing,Urban policy. Content: The Policy Press publishes 4 highly prestigious journals in the fields of public and social policy. Policy Press is a leading specialist social science publisher committed to journals that will have an impact on research, learning, policy and practice at an international level. |
Project MUSE |
Description: Project MUSE provides full-text access to a comprehensive selection of humanities and social sciences journals. More than 450 titles published by many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies are included. Subjects: Humanities and social sciences. Content: Full text - 450 journals. |
Royal College of Physicians |
Description: The journal is read by physicians both established and in training in hospitals across the world. It features a wide range of articles including original papers, professional issues, clinical guidance, medical humanities, ethics and clinical governance. The journal publishes the key features from the College lectures and conferences. Each issue has a CME section which reviews the latest advances in a chosen specialty. Subjects: Clinical medicine, Public Health. Content: Clinical Medicine journal is read by leading physicians in hospitals across the world. It features articles covering original research, current issues, ethics, law, clinical governance and audit, and also reports on prestigious College lectures and conferences. |
SPIE Digital Library |
Description: SPIE is a non-profit international society for the exchange, collection and program in beta on the SPIE Digital Library containing selected articles. Powerful search and browse tools, New content added daily, Rapid publication, utilizing e-First, E-mail Alerts for the latest published articles ,Reference and forward linking via CrossRef ,Citation meta data available for easy download ,Article collections for group collaboration. Subjects: Astronomy, Biomedical Optics & Medical Imaging, Communications & Networking, Defense & Security ,Electronic Imaging & Signal Processing ,Illumination & Displays ,Industrial Sensing & Measurement ,Lasers & Sources ,Micro/Nano Lithography & Fabrication ,Nanotechnology ,Optical Design & Engineering ,Remote Sensing ,Solar & Alternative Energy. Content: The SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 270,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new technical papers are added annually. |
Springer Journals |
Description: More than 1600 journals in the Springer enhanced package for developing nations are available here. AUW has full-text access to complete runs of journals with a solid green square by their titles, and partial runs of journals with semi-filled squares. Try your luck by searching "within all content". We may not have all the articles you retrieve, but chances are you'll find something useful. The database is particularly strong in the STM disciplines (science, technology, and math), but there are also entries in the humanities and social sciences. Subjects: Science, technology, math, and, to a lesser extent, social sciences and humanities (particularly as they relate to STM). Content: Full text - 1652 academic and professional journals. |
Symposium Journals |
Description: Journal articles published within the last two years are only available to those who have paid-up Library or Personal subscriptions; however, all articles become free-access two years after first publication. Subjects: Education, Learning. Content: Symposium Journals is a pioneer in the publication of online-only academic journals, i.e. journals that have no printed editions but otherwise have the same aims, traditions, standards, and presentation as conventional journals. New for 2009, Power and Education. |
University of Chicago Press |
Description: : Founded in 1891, the University of Chicago Press was conceived by President William Rainey Harper as an organic part of the University, extending the influence of Chicago scholars around the globe. Within ten years, the Press had introduced fourteen scholarly journals Today; the Journals Division of the Press distributes more than 50 journals and hardcover serials, presenting original research from international scholars in the social sciences, humanities, education, biological and medical sciences, and physical sciences. Subjects: Economics, Education, Humanities, Law, Life and Physical Sciences, Social Sciences. Content: The University of Chicago Press publishes nearly 50 scholarly journals, many on behalf of some of the world's most prestigious societies, and several that were the first scholarly publications in their respective fields. The journals present original research in the social sciences, humanities, education, and biological and physical sciences. |
Wall Street Journal |
Description: The Wall Street Journal is a leading American business newspaper. A daily Monday through Friday newspaper providing news and financial information for executives and managers on Wall Street, at corporations and businesses and for individual investors worldwide Published daily by Dow and Company with Asian and European editions. It has been printed continuously since its inception on July 8, 1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. The newspaper version has won the Pulitzer Prize thirty-three times. Subjects: Banking, Finance & Insurance; General Interest. Content: All of the content published daily in its print version. It requires a username and password. Students and employees of AUW can obtain these from Library and Information Services. |
Wiley Online Library (formerly InterScience) |
Description: Wiley Online Library (formerly InterScience) Features CrossRef, the innovative multi-publisher reference linking system enabling readers to move seamlessly from a reference in a journal article to the cited publication. Early View articles are complete, peer-reviewed, and citable. Subjects: Business, Chemistry & Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, Humanities & Social sciences, Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine & Nursing, Physics and Astronomy, Polymers and Materials Science. Content: Wiley InterScience® is a leading international resource for scientific, technical, medical and scholarly content providing access to millions of articles across a wide range of journals. Access to the full text of over 500 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals |
Wiley Online Library (formerly Synergy) |
Description: Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, almost 10,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases. Featuring a clean and simple interface, this online service delivers intuitive navigation, enhanced discoverability, expanded functionalities and a range of personalization and alerting options. Subjects: All life sciences, Medicine/health, Ecology, Veterinary science, Accountancy and economics, Cultural studies (especially Asian, African and Australian studies, and international studies), Development issues, social policy, Law, history, Management studies. Content: Access to over 840 leading learned journals in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences. |
World Bank E-Library |
Description: The World Bank e-library is a portal to over 5,000 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 2,000 World Bank books and other publications and over 3,200 Policy Research Working Papers. Subjects: Multidisciplinary, with strengths in economic development and international finance and commerce. Content: Full text - 5200+ books and working papers. |
World Development Indicators |
Description: World Development Indicators is the statistical benchmark that helps measure the progress of development. WDI provides a comprehensive overview of development drawing on data from the World Bank and more than 30 partners. The database provides statistics covering over 800 indicators for more than 150 countries. Subjects: Economic and social development. Content: Statistics - over 800 indicators of development for more than 150 countries. |
