This is your launch point to find articles you can cite for your research papers. Start by choosing a database related to your general topic. Then run a search within that database, using filters to narrow down the results to what’s relevant for you.
World Bank Databases The World Bank is providing open source access to many of its major previously subscription-based databases such as World Development Indicators and Global Development Finance. A list of available databases, with descriptions, can be found at the Data Catalog (http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog).
World Shakespeare Bibliography Annotated bibliography of books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1963 and the present.
Patrologia Latina An electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne’s Patrologia Latina, containing the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.
The Perseus Digital Library Collection of electronic classics, history, and literature materials.
Philosopher’s Index A bibliographical database produced by the Philosopher’s Information Center. Contains author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the field of philosophy, published in books and journals since 1940.
Philosophy Documentation Center Collection The PDC Collection is an online full-text collection of more than 40 philosophy journals, including American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Augustinian Studies and the Review of Metaphysics.
Points of View Reference Center Containing resources that present multiple sides of an issue, this database provides the basis from which students can realize and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.
Project Gutenberg The original online collection of free e-books.
Project MUSE Full-text access to over 300 high quality journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.
Proquest Contains 12 databases including scholarly journals, books, videos & audio, dissertations & theses, newspapers and more.
Psychology Database Covers a wide range of topics from leading psychology and psychometric journals. It also provides coverage of related disciplines including: psychology of business and economics, communication, education, and more.
PsycINFO Abstracting and indexing database with more than 3 million records devoted to peer-reviewed literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health.
PubMed More than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
Research Library Multidisciplinary resource covering more than 150 subject areas.
Research Library: Business Covers publications on the latest business and and financial information.
Research Library: Health & Medicine Covers publications on the latest medical information
Research Library: History Covers publications on history.
Research Library: Literature & Language Covers publications on literature and language.
Research Library: Science & Technology Covers publications on the latest science and technology information.
Research Library: Social Sciences Covers publications on social sciences including psychology, communications, political science, linguistics, and education.
Research Library: The Arts Covers publications on the arts.
Science Direct Access citations of peer-reviewed Elsevier journals in engineering, life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.
SciFinder provides access to the world’s most comprehensive and reliable collection of scientific research information. Self registration for access through Ave Maria University
Shakespeare Survey Online Makes all issues of the Shakespeare Survey available online; each volume is devoted to a theme, play, or group of plays.
Swank Digital Campus Stream feature films
Teacher Reference Center Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Contains most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Please note: Each user must create an account to gain access.
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Library of Latin Texts Contains a wide range of classical, patristic, and medieval Latin texts, along with selected modern texts.
Loeb Classical Library Access to important Greek and Latin literature in the original language and accurate English translations.
Mango Languages Language learning resource that offers over 70 language courses.
MasterFILE Premier Multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
MathSciNet Searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. MathSciNet contains over two million items and includes data from digitized articles dating back to the 1800s.
MLA International Bibliography Covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, and dramatic arts.
National Bureau of Economics Research Working Papers The National Bureau of Economic Research is the nation’s leading nonprofit economics research organization. The Working Papers make results of NBER research available to other economists in preliminary form before final publication.
Naxos Music Library Extensive collection of streaming classical music
New York Times Online access to the New York Times when you create your free account.
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
Nexis Uni (Formerly LexisNexis Academic) Full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications.
Occupational Outlook Handbook Want to know what the future of your chosen career looks like?
The Online Books Page Contains over 25,000 e-books in English.
Oxford English Dictionary The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
Oxford Journals Online Over 300 prestigious, highly cited, and authoritative journals covering a wide range of disciplines.
Oxford Music Online Includes access to Grove Music Online, Oxford Dictionary of Music, and Oxford Companion to Music (art/music).
FirstSearch Database Provides access to a wide variety of resources in a number of databases as well as a union catalog of books all over the world.
Feminism in Cuba: Nineteenth through Twentieth Century Archival Documents This collection comprises, in its entirety, the Scholarly Resources microfilm collection entitled The Women’s Movement in Cuba, 1898-1958: The Stoner Collection on Cuban Feminism.
Glossarium Mediae et Infimae Latinitatis is a free website maintained by the Sorbonne that presents a searchable online edition of Charles Du Cange’s glossary of the texts of Medieval authors. It is mostly Latin, but also includes words in European vernaculars (including Old French.) It is not a dictionary, but a guide to difficult and unfamiliar words.
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 global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
HeinOnline Collection of legal resources including over 40 million pages in PDF format. Titles include the Law Journal Library, English Reports, American Law Institute Library, and many others.
Intelex Past Masters Contains collections of the works of Augustine, Anselm, and Aquinas in Latin and English.
International Financial Statistics International Monetary Fund database containing statistics from more than 200 countries and areas from 1948 to the present.
IPA Source Largest collection of literal translations and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions on the web. The goal of IPA Source is to promote the comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts in art song and opera in order that the singer may imbue each syllable with the appropriate emotional content. Currently only available on-campus
Iter Bibliography Contains citations for books, articles, reviews, bibliographies, catalogs, abstracts, discographies, dissertations, and essays pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
JSTOR full text back issues of over 800 important journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. In addition to General Arts & Sciences collections, the Library subscribes to the specialized Ecology & Botany, Health & General Sciences, and 19th Century British Pamphlets.
ABI/Inform Collection Features full-text journals, dissertations, key business and economics periodicals, country and industry reports, and major news sources to provide international coverage of companies and business trends around the world.
ABI/Inform Dateline Includes local and regional publications with news about local companies, analysis, information on local markets, and more. Users can also research employment opportunities, compile data on benefits and compensation, learn about corporate strategies and other topics from a local and regional perspective.
ABI/Inform Global Full-text access to thousands of business and financial publications.
ABI/Inform Trade and Industry Provides major trade and industry news. This database includes in depth coverage of companies, products, executives, and trends. Users can study and compare a variety of specific trades and industries.
Academic Search Complete The world’s most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
ACLS Humanities E-Book Project Ever-growing collection of over 2000 scholarly e-books in the field of humanities. Books can also be accessed directly from the Library catalog.
Acta Sanctorum Database A collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organized according to each saint’s feast day.
American Chemical Society Journals Access the full-text journals of the American Chemical Society.
American Economic Association Journals Access the full-text journals of the American Economic Association.
Archival Films & Newsreels Collection
ARTSTOR Repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data covering artwork from every period in history.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials Combines the ATLA Religion Database with ATLA’s online collection of religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database is an index to over 1.7 million bibliographical records in the fields of religion and theology, including citations of journal articles, book reviews and essays. Full text is provided for more than 290,000 electronic articles and book reviews.
Business Source Complete The world’s definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.
Catholic Newspapers Online Access to historical Catholic newspapers.
Chicago Manual of Style Online Fully searchable 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style.
CINAHL with Full Text Full text for over 550 of nursing and allied health journals indexed in the CINAHL database, many of which contain no embargo. Nurses, allied health professionals, researchers, nurse educators and students consider this database an essential research tool providing full-text coverage dating back to 1981.
Credo Reference Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos.
Drama Online This digital library has been created to help fill the need for a high-quality online research tool for drama and literature. Our holdings include Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen (2008-2015) and (2016-2018), Shakespeare in the Present, Royal Shakespeare Company Live Collection, Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains, and Critical Studies and Performance Practice.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 – from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. Currently only available on-campus
EBSCO eBook Academic Collection Access over 160,000 eBooks covering a wide variety of academic disciplines.
Education Collection Offers index and full-text databases covering all education subject areas.
Education Database Includes over 1,000 full-text journals and 18,000 dissertations, supporting research on the theory and practice of education.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online is a vast eighteenth-century library at your desktop—a fully text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800. It currently contains over 180,000 titles.
ERIC World’s most widely used index to education-related literature.
Acta Sanctorum Database A collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organized according to each saint’s feast day.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials Combines the ATLA Religion Database with ATLA’s online collection of religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database is an index to over 1.7 million bibliographical records in the fields of religion and theology, including citations of journal articles, book reviews and essays. Full text is provided for more than 290,000 electronic articles and book reviews.
Intelex Past Masters Contains collections of the works of Augustine, Anselm, and Aquinas in Latin and English.
Library of Latin Texts Contains a wide range of classical, patristic, and medieval Latin texts, along with selected modern texts.
Patrologia Latina An electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne’s Patrologia Latina, containing the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.
Philosopher’s Index A bibliographical database produced by the Philosopher’s Information Center. Contains author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the field of philosophy, published in books and journals since 1940.
Philosophy Documentation Center Collection The PDC Collection is an online full-text collection of more than 40 philosophy journals, including American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Augustinian Studies and the Review of Metaphysics.
American Chemical Society Journals Access the full-text journals of the American Chemical Society.
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 global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
Research Library: Science & Technology Covers publications on the latest science and technology information.
Science Direct Access citations of peer-reviewed Elsevier journals in engineering, life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.
Psychology Database Covers a wide range of topics from leading psychology and psychometric journals. It also provides coverage of related disciplines including: psychology of business and economics, communication, education, and more.
PsycINFO Abstracting and indexing database with more than 3 million records devoted to peer-reviewed literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health.
Research Library: Social Sciences Covers publications on social sciences including psychology, communications, political science, linguistics, and education.
Feminism in Cuba: Nineteenth through Twentieth Century Archival Documents This collection comprises, in its entirety, the Scholarly Resources microfilm collection entitled The Women’s Movement in Cuba, 1898-1958: The Stoner Collection on Cuban Feminism.
HeinOnline Collection of legal resources including over 40 million pages in PDF format. Titles include the Law Journal Library, English Reports, American Law Institute Library, and many others.
Nexis Uni (Formerly LexisNexis Academic) Full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications.
Research Library: Social Sciences Covers publications on social sciences including psychology, communications, political science, linguistics, and education.
Intelex Past Masters Contains collections of the works of Augustine, Anselm, and Aquinas in Latin and English.
Loeb Classical Library Access to important Greek and Latin literature in the original language and accurate English translations.
Philosopher’s Index A bibliographical database produced by the Philosopher’s Information Center. Contains author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the field of philosophy, published in books and journals since 1940.
Philosophy Documentation Center Collection The PDC Collection is an online full-text collection of more than 40 philosophy journals, including American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Augustinian Studies and the Review of Metaphysics.
IPA Source Largest collection of literal translations and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions on the web. The goal of IPA Source is to promote the comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts in art song and opera in order that the singer may imbue each syllable with the appropriate emotional content. Currently only available on-campus
Oxford Music Online Includes access to Grove Music Online, Oxford Dictionary of Music, and Oxford Companion to Music (art/music).
Research Library: The Arts Covers publications on the arts.
MathSciNet Searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. MathSciNet contains over two million items and includes data from digitized articles dating back to the 1800s.
Iter Bibliography Contains citations for books, articles, reviews, bibliographies, catalogs, abstracts, discographies, dissertations, and essays pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
Loeb Classical Library Access to important Greek and Latin literature in the original language and accurate English translations.
MLA International Bibliography Covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, and dramatic arts.
Research Library: Literature & Language Covers publications on literature and language.
Shakespeare Survey Online Makes all issues of the Shakespeare Survey available online; each volume is devoted to a theme, play, or group of plays.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Annotated bibliography of books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1963 and the present.
Understanding Shakespeare Find articles that cite specific lines in Shakespeare’s plays.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 – from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. Currently only available on-campus
Iter Bibliography Contains citations for books, articles, reviews, bibliographies, catalogs, abstracts, discographies, dissertations, and essays pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
Research Library: History Covers publications on history.
CINAHL with Full Text Full text for over 550 of nursing and allied health journals indexed in the CINAHL database, many of which contain no embargo. Nurses, allied health professionals, researchers, nurse educators and students consider this database an essential research tool providing full-text coverage dating back to 1981.
PubMed More than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
Research Library: Health & Medicine Covers publications on the latest medical information
Education Collection Offers index and full-text databases covering all education subject areas.
Education Database Includes over 1,000 full-text journals and 18,000 dissertations, supporting research on the theory and practice of education.
ERIC World’s most widely used index to education-related literature.
Psychology Database Covers a wide range of topics from leading psychology and psychometric journals. It also provides coverage of related disciplines including: psychology of business and economics, communication, education, and more.
PsycINFO Abstracting and indexing database with more than 3 million records devoted to peer-reviewed literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health.
Research Library: Social Sciences Covers publications on social sciences including psychology, communications, political science, linguistics, and education.
Teacher Reference Center Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
MLA International Bibliography Covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, and dramatic arts.
Psychology Database Covers a wide range of topics from leading psychology and psychometric journals. It also provides coverage of related disciplines including: psychology of business and economics, communication, education, and more.
PsycINFO Abstracting and indexing database with more than 3 million records devoted to peer-reviewed literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health.
Research Library: Social Sciences Covers publications on social sciences including psychology, communications, political science, linguistics, and education.
Research Library: The Arts Covers publications on the arts.
Swank Digital Campus Stream feature films
Glossarium Mediae et Infimae Latinitatis is a free website maintained by the Sorbonne that presents a searchable online edition of Charles Du Cange’s glossary of the texts of Medieval authors. It is mostly Latin, but also includes words in European vernaculars (including Old French.) It is not a dictionary, but a guide to difficult and unfamiliar words.
Library of Latin Texts Contains a wide range of classical, patristic, and medieval Latin texts, along with selected modern texts.
Loeb Classical Library Access to important Greek and Latin literature in the original language and accurate English translations.
Patrologia Latina An electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne’s Patrologia Latina, containing the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Contains most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Please note: Each user must create an account to gain access.
Occupational Outlook Handbook Want to know what the future of your chosen career looks like?
ABI/Inform Collection Features full-text journals, dissertations, key business and economics periodicals, country and industry reports, and major news sources to provide international coverage of companies and business trends around the world.
ABI/Inform Dateline Includes local and regional publications with news about local companies, analysis, information on local markets, and more. Users can also research employment opportunities, compile data on benefits and compensation, learn about corporate strategies and other topics from a local and regional perspective.
ABI/Inform Global Full-text access to thousands of business and financial publications.
ABI/Inform Trade and Industry Provides major trade and industry news. This database includes in depth coverage of companies, products, executives, and trends. Users can study and compare a variety of specific trades and industries.
American Economic Association Journals Access the full-text journals of the American Economic Association.
Business Source Complete The world’s definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.
International Financial Statistics International Monetary Fund database containing statistics from more than 200 countries and areas from 1948 to the present.
National Bureau of Economics Research Working Papers The National Bureau of Economic Research is the nation’s leading nonprofit economics research organization. The Working Papers make results of NBER research available to other economists in preliminary form before final publication.
Nexis Uni (Formerly LexisNexis Academic) Full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications.
Psychology Database Covers a wide range of topics from leading psychology and psychometric journals. It also provides coverage of related disciplines including: psychology of business and economics, communication, education, and more.
PsycINFO Abstracting and indexing database with more than 3 million records devoted to peer-reviewed literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health.
Research Library: Business Covers publications on the latest business and and financial information.
Research Library: Social Sciences Covers publications on social sciences including psychology, communications, political science, linguistics, and education.
World Bank Databases The World Bank is providing open source access to many of its major previously subscription-based databases such as World Development Indicators and Global Development Finance. A list of available databases, with descriptions, can be found at the Data Catalog (http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog).
ARTSTOR Repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data covering artwork from every period in history.
Research Library: The Arts Covers publications on the arts.
ACLS Humanities E-Book Project Ever-growing collection of over 2000 scholarly e-books in the field of humanities. Books can also be accessed directly from the Library catalog.
Chicago Manual of Style Online Fully searchable 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style.
Credo Reference Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos.
EBSCO eBook Academic Collection Access over 160,000 eBooks covering a wide variety of academic disciplines.
Occupational Outlook Handbook Want to know what the future of your chosen career looks like?
The Online Books Page Contains over 25,000 e-books in English.
The Perseus Digital Library Collection of electronic classics, history, and literature materials.
Project Gutenberg The original online collection of free e-books.
Academic Search Complete The world’s most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
JSTOR full text back issues of over 800 important journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. In addition to General Arts & Sciences collections, the Library subscribes to the specialized Ecology & Botany, Health & General Sciences, and 19th Century British Pamphlets.
Oxford Journals Online Over 300 prestigious, highly cited, and authoritative journals covering a wide range of disciplines.
Project MUSE Full-text access to over 300 high quality journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.
Research Library Multidisciplinary resource covering more than 150 subject areas.
Catholic Newspapers Online Access to historical Catholic newspapers.
MasterFILE Premier Multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
Nexis Uni (Formerly LexisNexis Academic) Full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications.
Mango Languages Language learning research that offers over 70 language courses.
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