The most frequently-used databases
Business Source Premier is an essential article database for business research providing the full text for thousands of scholarly and professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines - including Harvard Business Review. Covers virtually all disciplines in business and economics, including: accounting, banking, economics, econometrics, finance, international trade, marketing, management, MIS, POM, QMM and supply chain management. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles of the world's 10,000 largest companies. and SWOT analyses. Business Source Premier allows searching by fields relevant to the study of business, including company name, ticker symbol, product name, geographic location, and NAICS industry code.
Electronic version of Engineering Index, covering literature in various engineering disciplines. Comprising journals, conference proceedings, dissertations, standards, books, and recently preprints, Compendex content is sourced from thousands of publishers from around the world, including major engineering societies such as IEEE, ASME, SAE and ACM.
Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities.
The IEEE Xplore digital library is a resource for discovery of scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners. It contains the.full text of all IEEE and IEE journal articles, conference papers, and standards. Tutorials are available at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplorehelp/ieee-xplore-training/video-tutorials
Online archive of eBooks and complete backruns of scholarly journals in a variety of academic fields.
With ProQuest One Academic, four core multi-disciplinary products – ProQuest Central, Academic Complete, Academic Video Online and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global– are available and cross-searchable.
Full text access to more than 2000 Elsevier science, social science, engineering and management scholarly journals.
Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus delivers the most comprehensive overview of the world’s research output in the fields of Science, Technology, Medicine, Social Sciences, and Arts & Humanities. As research becomes increasingly global, interdisciplinary and collaborative, Scopus helps ensure that crucial research from around the world is not missed.
Catalog of books (and other materials) in libraries worldwide.
The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
The Access World News Research Collection is now available through December 12, 2025.
The Collection provides full-text information and perspectives from thousands of U.S. and international news sources, each with its own distinctive focus, offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional, and global issues. Date coverage varies with individual newspaper. Content includes the Worcester Telegram & Gazette Collection (back to 1989) and other Massachusetts Newspapers.
ACM e-Books are a series of scholarly research monographs and graduate-level texts, authored by computer scientists and practitioners at the forefront of computing technology and includes books across the entire spectrum of computer science, geared to researchers, educators, practitioners and students.The series focuses on four kinds of books: graduate-level textbooks, research monographs, practitioner-level professional books, and books devoted to the history and social impact of computing. ACM Books Collections I, II, and III each consists of 25 e-books published across a wide range of topics in computer science.
These primers help graduate students and scientists quickly grasp new topics in four to six hours - providing a bridge between undergraduate depth and scholarly articles. Accessible online or offline, they offer features such as a pop-up glossary, expert video interviews, and links to related content.
Explore Artstor’s collections of high-quality images, curated from leading museums and archives around the world. Artstor’s diverse collections are rights-cleared for education and research, and include Open Access content as well as rare materials not available elsewhere. Currently there are over 851,000 images in over 300 collections. Artstor supports and enriches study across disciplines, including world events from Magnum Photos, anthropology from Harvard’s Peabody Museum, and archaeology from Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Art Archives. The images in Artstor are curated from reliable sources and have been rights-cleared for use in education and research — you are free to use them in classroom instruction and handouts, presentations, student assignments, and other noncommercial educational and scholarly activities. [Artstor is provided by the generous support of the Olive Higgins Prouty Fund, a library endowment dedicated to the humanities.]
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is published by the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University. It offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration. It contains over seven hundred American and international journals including not only scholarly and popular periodical literature, but also publications of professional associations, American state and regional periodicals, and the major serials on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Articles are included from key publications such as American Architect, Domus, Dwell, and El Croquis, as well as architectural articles from art and planning journals such as Burlington Magazine, Journal of Green Building, Metropolitan Museum Journal, and Urban Land. [Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is provided by the generous support of the Olive Higgins Prouty Fund, a library endowment dedicated to the humanities.]
Business Source Premier is an essential article database for business research providing the full text for thousands of scholarly and professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines - including Harvard Business Review. Covers virtually all disciplines in business and economics, including: accounting, banking, economics, econometrics, finance, international trade, marketing, management, MIS, POM, QMM and supply chain management. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles of the world's 10,000 largest companies. and SWOT analyses. Business Source Premier allows searching by fields relevant to the study of business, including company name, ticker symbol, product name, geographic location, and NAICS industry code.
e-books on various topics in Architecture & Design, including architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture, and design, from De Gruyter Brill. Subscription coverage is the 2024 and 2025 frontfile and the 2014-2000 backfile, plus approximately 200 open access titles.
Consisting of e-book titles ranging from the 2005-2024 copyright years that contain exceptional research by premier editors and authors who are actively working to address the vital need for sustainable practices across industries, the titles within this collection deal with topics that include clean technologies, global business, policy and reform, natural resource management, and more.
Routledge’s Built Environment Handbooks offer an expansive look at planning and its related areas of urban design, transportation, policy and more. With an international focus, the titles provide authoritative and comprehensive contributions from leading practitioners, researchers and scholars from around the world. From urbanization to landscape to well-being, these innovative titles are truly invaluable resources to all those in the planning field and its related subject areas. (collection years 2015 – 2024)
SpringerProtocols is the world's largest collection of biomedical and life sciences protocols with over 65,000 articles. Based on tried and tested resources including Methods in Molecular Biology, SpringerProtocols includes provides current and alternative versions of protocols important for use in labs that don’t have the latest equipment. SpringerProtocols offers step-by-step laboratory instructions, lists of the necessary equipment and ingredients, and notes on troubleshooting and safety precautions. SpringerProtocols cover numerous subject areas including: • Biochemistry • Bioinformatics • Biotechnology • Cancer Research • Cell Biology • Genetics /Genomics • Imaging / Radiology • Immunology • Infectious Diseases • Microbiology • Molecular Biology • Neuroscience • Pharmacology / Toxicology • Plant Sciences • Protein Science (Coverage 1980 - 2024)
This expert collection brings together a selection of Routledge’s recent key titles in Sustainable Building Design, covering interdisciplinary scholarship exploring the theory, principles and practice of climatically responsive and responsible construction and design. Spanning a range of disciplines across engineering, the humanities, education, social and behavioural sciences, the collection covers Natural Infrastructure; Collective Energy; Geo- and Bio-materials; Uban Design and Ecology; ReFuturing; Material Efficiency; Community Engagement; Biomimicry; Remediating Materials; Methods of Disassembly; and Adaptive Reuse, among many others. Including cutting-edge research volumes, student textbooks, definitive handbooks, and practical guides for professionals, this collection is an essential resource for architects, engineers, consultants, developers, students, and researchers with an interest in this critical topic.