Databases by Subject Categories
To find articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers and reference
sources, choose a category below to browse a list of databases
by subject.
Business & Commerce | Computers & Information Technology | Education
|
Health Sciences & Nursing
| Humanities & Literature
| Interdisciplinary | Law
| News & Current Events
| Psychology | Reference | Science
& Technology | Social Sciences
Databases marked '*' are
available only from computers located at the Largo Campus, Andrews
Air Force Base, University Town Center, and Laurel College Center.
Business & Commerce
- ABI/INFORM Global (Unlimited Users)
ABI/INFORM Global™ is the most comprehensive business database on the market today. A diverse combination of products forms a business database package that offers more than 2,965 full-text titles covering business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
To learn search tips and get
more information about this database, click on database guide.
- Academic OneFile (Unlimited Users)
Academic OneFile provides coverage to a large collection of peer reviewed journals with selective full text. This database contains content to banking, finance, accounting industries, business, international business, and economics. Users can access information on related topics from academic journals, magazines, and newspapers such as the Financial Times. To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- Business
and Company Resource Center ( Unlimited
Users)
Business and Company Resource Center is a database that provides
company profiles, products and brands, rankings, investment
reports, stock prices, company histories, chronologies, and
industry statistics. Search this database to find full text
articles from magazines, newspapers, references books, and authoritative
Web links. To learn search tips and get more information about
this database, click on database guide.
- Career and Technical Education (ProQuest) (Unlimited Users)
ProQuest® Career and Technical Education is the definitive source for vocational information. The database includes over 545 titles, with more than 460 available in full text. Both students and instructors can access the database to research virtually any technical or career topic including building and construction, sales and advertising, computer science, accounting, graphic design and much more.
To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- Culinary Arts Collection (Unlimited Users)
Culinary Arts Collection provides 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines from 1980 to present. This database includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.
- Morningstar.com
Library Edition (10 Simultaneous Users)
Use Morningstar.com as a library reference tool to find
and learn about stocks, mutual funds, stock prices, fund portfolios,
and the stock exchanges. This database provides company profiles
and a comparison of the industry peers.
- ProQuest Central (Unlimited Users)
ProQuest Central provides the most in-depth business coverage of any database. It includes the leading journals and periodicals, company profiles, industry statistics and summaries, The Wall Street Journal, international business reports, news wires and much more.
To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
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Computers & Information Technology
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Academic OneFile (Unlimited Users)
Academic OneFile provides coverage to a large collection of peer reviewed journals with selective full text. This database contains content to sources on computer-related products, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. To learn
search tips and get more information about this database, click
on database guide.
- Computer Database (Unlimited Users)
Use this database to search for sources on computer-related products, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. To learn
search tips and get more information about this database, click
on database guide.
- Computing (ProQuest) (Unlimited Users)
ProQuest Computing delivers vital information from scholarly journals and trade publications as well as consumer titles. The database includes product reviews, database design and management, software, hardware, e-commerce, Web site development, intranets and extranets, and technology management.
To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- ProQuest Central (Unlimited Users)
ProQuest Central contains over 11,000 titles and covers 160 academic disciplines including computer science, programming, software, technology, electronics, engineering and much more.
From scholarly journals to current industry news, ProQuest Central is the largest database of its kind. To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- Science Resource Center (Unlimited Users)
Use Science Resource Center to search for subjects in computer science, computer technology, and related computer topics. This database provides topic overviews, experiments, biographies, and latest developments in articles from magazines, academic journals, newspapers, reference sources as well as multimedia and links to quality Web sites. To learn
search tips and get more information about this database, click
on database guide.
Education
- Academic OneFile (Unlimited Users)
Academic OneFile provides full text articles and abstracts from journals and magazines for subjects in adult education, bilingual education, business education, distance education, early childhood education, elementary education, higher education, and related education subjects. This research database covers other academic journals, magazines, and news wires To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- CollegeSource
Online*
Use this database to find college catalogs in the original format
for two year, four year, graduate, professional, and international
schools. Links are provided to academic institutions' Web sites.
- Education
Full Text (Unlimited Users)
Search Education Full Text to find scholarly full text articles
and abstracts from more than 700 journals, yearbooks, and monographs covering
a broad range of subjects. Authoritative Web sites are cited
and link from articles to help users find related information.
To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- Education Journals (ProQuest) (Unlimited Users)
ProQuest® Education Journals gives users access to over 760 top educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text. ProQuest Education Journals covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics. To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- Educator's Reference Complete (Unlimited Users)
This database contains content from more than 1,300 periodicals and reports for educators ranging from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. Content included in the database is almost entirely full-text, with the majority of the titles also covered in the ERIC database. The database covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college and educational specialty such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- ProQuest Central (Unlimited Users)
ProQuest Central offers over 8,500 full text titles covering every key education subject from childhood education through higher education and much more. This interdisciplinary database will help you discover critical content not available from other sources. To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- Testing & Education Reference Center (Unlimited Users)
This database includes information on undergraduate and graduate programs and executive education programs that are searchable by location, major, tuition, sports, and more. The database allows a user to create a username and password to take interactive online practice tests for preparatory examinations such as entrance exams, certification and licensing tests (CLEP, GED, GRE, NCLEX-PN, TOEFL), and more.
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Health Sciences & Nursing
- Academic OneFile (Unlimited
Users)
Academic OneFile provides access to many of major medical journals. Full audio versions of the major journals are included. In addition, links to hundreds of live surgeries are available. To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- Health and Medical Complete (ProQuest) (Unlimited Users)
ProQuest Health and Medical Complete™ combines the clinical research titles available in ProQuest Medical Library™ with hundreds of additional consumer and health administration titles. This database provides in-depth coverage from over 1,440 publications with nearly 1,200 available in full text and of these, over 970 include MEDLINE® indexing.
To learn search tips and get more information about
this database, click on database
guide.
- Nursing & Allied Health Source (Unlimited Users)
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source™ provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This versatile database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides abstracting and indexing for more than 780 titles, with over 650 titles in full-text, plus more than 11,000 full text dissertations representing the most rigorous scholarship in nursing and related fields as well as evidence based nursing content and study paths. To learn search tips and get more information
about this database, click on database
guide.
- Nursing Resource Center (Unlimited
Users)
Nursing Resource Center provides a wide array of content useful for research papers and basic nursing theory. This database coverage includes access to diseases and conditions, assessments, care plans, diagnostics, drugs, interventions, multimedia content, full text reference books, citations to journals and more. Users can search content from textbook publications in the field as well as animated depictions of human anatomy To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
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Humanities & Literature
(Art, Communications, Dance, Music, Philosophy,
Theater, etc.)
- Academic OneFile (Unlimited Users)
Academic OneFile provides coverage to selective full text journal and magazine articles for the arts, language, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, and related subjects. Users can access information on related topics from academic journals and magazines. To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- Discovering
Collection (4 Simultaneous Users)
Discovering Collection is an integrated database that provides
coverage to literature and other subjects. Search the database
to find biographies, articles and overviews, criticism, primary
source documents, and multimedia (images, audio and video clips)
about significant ideas, events, and people. To learn search
tips and get more information about this database, click on
database guide.
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Literature Criticism Online (Unlimited Users)
Literature Criticism Online is a database of scholarly and popular criticisms from encyclopedias, books, periodicals, and other works. This databases brings together criticisms from Children's Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- Literature
Online (25 Simultaneous Users)
Search Literature Online to find works of English and American
poetry, drama, and prose. Use this database to search authors,
texts of works, criticism, reference works, complete contents
of authors' selective works, individual collections, full text
scholarly journals, and clips of selective poets reading their
own poetry and the works of other poets. To learn search tips
and get more information about this database, click on database
guide.
- Literature
Resource Center (Unlimited Users)
Use Literature Resource Center to access biographies, bibliographical,
and critical analysis of authors from all ages and literary
disciplines. This database provides literary information of
novelists, poets, essayists, dramatists, journalists, and other
writers from a core of literary reference works. Information
in the database is from full text literary journals, literary
encyclopedias, literary works, and encyclopedias. To learn search
tips and get more information about this database, click on
database guide.
- ProQuest Central (Unlimited Users)
ProQuest Central covers over 160 academic disciplines offering over 8500 full text journals and periodicals. For up-to-the-minute coverage of the arts, religion, communications, literature, philosophy, dance, theatre and hundreds of related topics, start your search with ProQuest Central.
To learn search tips and get more information
about this database, click on database
guide.
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Interdisciplinary
- Academic OneFile (Unlimited
Users)
Academic OneFile provides full text articles and abstracts for subjects
in humanities, business, computers, education, medicine, law, social sciences, sciences, and technology. This research database covers a wide range of academic disciplines
from more than 12,000 journals, magazines, and some news wires. Other features include audio and transcripts from National Public Radio broadcasts, podcasts and transcripts from major news sources as well as RSS feeds. To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- Ethnic
NewsWatch (ProQuest) (Unlimited Users)
Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary and bilingual (English
and Spanish) full text database. It contains articles and abstracts
from newspapers, magazines, and journals published by the ethnic,
minority, and native press. This database is designed to provide
the "other side of the story," and viewpoints other
than those that are offered by the mainstream press. To learn
search tips and get more information about this database, click
on database guide.
- ProQuest Central (Unlimited Users)
ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated full-text database in the market today totaling more than 11,250 titles—with over 8,500 titles in full text, and millions of articles. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets. While ProQuest Central is designed to be the single-most used database in the library and beyond, it boasts coverage of over 160 academic disciplines.
To learn search tips and get
more information about this database, click on database
guide.
Law
- Academic OneFile (Unlimited
Users)
Academic OneFile covers a wide range of academic disciplines. This database contains a legal module with coverage of numerous legal issues. To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- LegalTrac (Unlimited Users)
LegalTrac is a database that provides a wide variety of highly regarded publications with selective full text articles from major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and international legal journals. This database also contains law-related articles from business and general interest titles. To learn
search tips and get more information about this database, click
on database guide.
- ProQuest Central (Unlimited Users)
ProQuest Central contains several key databases offering up-to-the-minute legal coverage. It features a comprehensive law module, and also ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals in full text.
To learn search tips and get
more information about this database, click on database guide.
Westlaw
Paralegal*
Westlaw Parlegal is designed for the paralegal student. Search this database to find complete
laws and statutes of the federal government and all 50 states,
federal regulations, and court decisions of the federal and
state courts. In addition, this legal research tool that can be used to
law related issues.
News & Current Events
- CQ
Researcher (Unlimited Users)
Search CQ Researcher to find analysis on issues in the news
each week. This database provides coverage of political and
social issues as well as topics on health, international affairs,
education, the environment, technology, and the United States
economy. Each report can be read in its entirety or by section
such as an assessment of the current situation or pro/con
statements. To learn search tips and get more information about
this database, click on database
guide.
- Ethnic
NewsWatch (ProQuest) (Unlimited Users)
Find interdisciplinary bilingual (English and Spanish) full
text articles and abstracts in newspapers, magazines, and journals
from the ethnic, minority, and native press. This database is
designed to provide the "other side of the story,"
and viewpoints other than those that are offered by the mainstream
press. To learn search tips and get more information about this
database, click on database
guide.
- National Newspapers (ProQuest) (Unlimited Users)
This database provides coverage to four major newspapers. Full
text articles and abstracts can be accessed from the New York
Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and the Christian
Science Monitor. To learn search tips and get more information
about this database, click on database
guide.
- Newspapers (ProQuest) (Unlimited
Users)
ProQuest is the leading provider of full text national newspaper content. This database contains nearly 600 national papers, the majority in full text. ProQuest Newsstand is the definitive source for local, regional, national and international perspectives. ProQuest has the exclusive full text content for the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and many other leading papers.
To learn search tips and
get more information about this database, click on database
guide.
- The
Sun, Baltimore (Special) (Unlimited
Users)
The Sun provides daily coverage of the news and backfiles.
Full text articles and abstracts can be accessed from this database.
This database is a component of the ProQuest databases. To learn
search tips and get more information about this database, click
on database guide.
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Psychology
- Academic OneFile (Unlimited
Users)
Academic OneFile includes access to a database of psychology journals. This research database provides access to selective scholarly
psychology journal articles as well as a wide range of other
academic disciplines from journals, magazines, and some news wires. To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- ProQuest Central (Unlimited Users)
ProQuest Central is a key source of psychology journals and other important full text periodicals from several related databases. This is the largest aggregated content source of its kind. To learn search tips and get more information
about this database, click on database
guide.
- PsycARTICLES
(CSA Illumina Platform) (Unlimited Users)
Search the American Psychological Association premier
database to find abstracts and scholarly journal articles. Use PsycARTICLES
to access full text articles from 50 psychology publications that cover all disciplines
of psychology that are published by the American Psychological Association, Educational Publishing Foundation, Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- Psychology Journals (ProQuest) (Unlimited Users)
ProQuest Psychology Journals encompasses a wide range of topics from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications. In addition to clinical and social psychology, it also provides coverage of related disciplines including genetics, psychology of business and economics, communication, criminology, addiction, neurology, social welfare, and more. To learn search tips and get more information
about this database, click on database
guide.
Reference
- Biography
Resource Center (
Simultaneous Users)
This database provides in-depth and up-to-date biographical
information on past and present individuals from various eras,
professions, and nationalities. Biography Resource Center
contains information from reference books, full text articles
from periodicals, and authoritative links to Web sites. To learn
search tips and get more information about this database, click
on database
guide.
- Booksinprint.com
with Book Reviews (Unlimited Users)
This bibliographic database contains
titles to books in print, forthcoming books, audio books, and
video titles. Users can read the first chapters of selective
titles, access publishers homepages, best sellers, review sources,
and author biographies.
- ChoiceReviews.online
* (Restricted
by password to faculty. Contact Reference Desk)
This database provides Internet coverage for the print
magazine Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.
ChoiceReviews.online reviews significant current books and electronic
resources of interest to those in higher education.
- Discovering
Collection (4 Simultaneous Users)
The Discovering Collection provides information from the areas
of literature, history, biography, science, and the social sciences
primarily from electronic reference sources. Search Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster's Biographical
Dictionary, Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary,
encyclopedias, and other sources to find biographies, articles
and overviews, criticism, primary source documents, significant
ideas, events, and people. To learn search tips and get more
information about this database, click on database
guide.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (Unlimited Users)
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of electronic reference books (e-books) and specialized encyclopedias that can be crossed searched. The collection is a selective list of sources covering art, business, history, law, medicine, multiculturalism, and social sciences.
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Literature Criticism Online (Unlimited Users)
Literature Criticism Online is a database of scholarly and popular criticisms from encyclopedias, books, periodicals, and other works. This databases brings together criticisms from Children's Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Access to these sources is unlimited and is available remotely to students, faculty, and staff at Prince George's Community College.
To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- Literature
Online (25 Simultaneous Users)
Use Literature Online to search the Concise Oxford Dictionary,
Webster's Dictionary, Shakespeare Glossary, and
the King James Bible. Search each tool separately or
combine dictionaries and Shakespeare Glossary search.
This database can also be used to find works of English and
American poetry, drama, and prose. To learn search tips and
get more information about this database, click on database
guide.
- PatronBooksinprint.com (Unlimited Users)
This database is a component of Booksinprint.com. PatronBooksinprint.com is designed specifically for users to have ease navigating to find books, audiocassettes, videos,
publishers, forthcoming books, authors, titles and more.
- Westlaw
Paralegal*
Westlaw Paralegal is a legal research tool that can be used to
research law related issues. Search the United States Code
Annotated to find laws and statues, the Code of Federal
Regulations for federal regulations, and the American
Jurisprudence for state and federal laws.
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Science & Technology
- Academic OneFile (Unlimited Users)
Academic OneFile provides coverage to a large collection of peer reviewed journals with selective full text. This database contains content on computer-related products, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- Computer Database (Unlimited Users)
Use this database to search for sources on computer-related products, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. To learn
search tips and get more information about this database, click
on database guide.
- Discovering
Collection (4 Simultaneous Users)
Discovering Collection is an integrated database that provides
coverage to science, health, and other subjects. Search the
database to find biographies, articles and overviews, criticism,
primary source documents, and multimedia (images, audio and
video clips) about significant ideas, events, and people. To
learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database
guide.
- ProQuest Central (Unlimited Users)
ProQuest Central contains several important collections offering full text journals and periodicals in over 160 disciplines including computer science, electronics, engineering, biology, chemistry, environmental science, political science, social science and much more. To learn
search tips and get more information about this database, click
on database guide.
- Science Resource Center (Unlimited Users)
Science Resource Center provides topic overviews, experiments, biographies, latest scientific developments, and pictures and illustrations in articles from magazines, academic journals, newspapers, and links to quality Web sites. To learn
search tips and get more information about this database, click
on database guide.
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Social Sciences
(Anthropology, Criminology, Forensic Science,
Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, etc.)
- Academic OneFile (Unlimited Users)
Academic OneFile provides full text articles and abstracts from journal and magazines for subjects in anthropology, criminology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, and sociology. This research database covers other academic journals, magazines, and news wires. Users can access information on related topics from academic journals and magazines.
To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- American
History Online (Unlimited Users)
American History Online covers more than 500 years of political,
military, social, and cultural history of the United States.
This database contains biographies, subject entries, primary
sources, chronology, images, maps and charts with cross-referenced
entries and authoritative Web links. To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- CQ
Researcher (Unlimited Users)
Use CQ Researcher to find analysis on issues in the news each
week on political and social issues and other related topics.
Each report in the database can be read in its entirety or by
section such as an assessment of the current situation or pro/con statements. To learn search tips and get more information
about this database, click on database
guide.
- Criminal
Justice Periodicals (ProQuest) (Unlimited
Users)
Search Criminal Justice Periodicals to find full text articles
and abstracts from a collection of U. S. and international justice
magazines in the professions of law enforcement, corrections
administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law,
and industrial security. This database is part of the ProQuest
online system. To learn search tips and get more information
about this database, click on database
guide.
- Discovering
Collection (4 Simultaneous Users)
Discovering Collection is an integrated database that provides
coverage to geography, culture, history, and other subjects.
Search the database to find biographies, articles and overviews,
criticism, primary source documents, and multimedia (images,
audio and video clips) about significant ideas, events, and
people. To learn search tips and get more information about
this database, click on database
guide.
- Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center (Unlimited Users)
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center provides coverage on social
issues with content to pro and con viewpoint articles, topic overviews, primary source documents, and statistical data. This database contains full text articles from books,
encyclopedias, and selective major journals, magazines and newspapers as well as podcasts.
Authoritative Web sources are linked from many of the topics.
To learn search tips and get more information about this database,
click on database guide.
- ProQuest Central (Unlimited Users)
ProQuest Central contains over 11,000 titles covering social science, criminal justice, psychology, political science, government, culture, history, gender studies, diversity, law enforcement, anthropology and much more.
To learn search
tips and get more information about this database, click on
database guide.
- PsycARTICLES (CSA Illumina Platform) (Unlimited Users)
Search the American Psychological Association premier database to find abstracts and scholarly journal articles. Use PsycARTICLES to access full text articles from 50 psychology publications that cover all disciplines of psychology that are published by the American Psychological Association, Educational Publishing Foundation, Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. To learn search tips and get more information about this database, click on database guide.
- Psychology Journals (ProQuest) (Unlimited Users)
ProQuest Psychology Journals encompasses a wide range of topics from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications. In addition to clinical and social psychology, it also provides coverage of related disciplines including genetics, psychology of business and economics, communication, criminology, addiction, neurology, social welfare, and more. To learn search tips and get more information
about this database, click on database
guide.
- Social Sciences Journals (ProQuest) (Unlimited Users)
ProQuest Social Science Journals™ is a definitive resource for those who need access to a variety of scientific journals. The database includes over 535 titles, with more than 310 available in full text. ProQuest Social Science Journals provides information on hundreds of topics.
To learn search tips and get more information
about this database, click on database
guide.
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