Databases 101: Basic and Advanced Searching Guide: Database Tutorials

ABI/INFORM contains a broad array of business information, from scholarly journals and dissertations, to company, industry and market focused trade news.

A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images.

About Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier (ASP) is designed specifically for academic institutions, is the largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,900 peer-reviewed publications.

Access World News is a comprehensive news collection ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the world's largest scientific computing society and publishes a large volume of research in the field.

The Business Market Research Collection allows you to conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from these sources: Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch, US and Worldwide Industry & Market Reports from Barnes Reports, and Snapshots.

Choice Reviews Online is the online version of the print magazine Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, which serves as the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education.

The Cochrane Library consists of a collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Each volume profiles approximately four to eight novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, philosophers or other creative and nonfiction writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism reproduced from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.

CountryWatch is an information provider for corporations, government agencies, universities, schools, libraries and individuals needing up-to-date news and information on each of the recognized countries of the world. CountryWatch provides critical country-specific intelligence and data to a global audience including public and private sector organizations with overseas operations and global interests.

Credo Reference is an online reference library providing access to over 615 reference books. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, in addition to a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.

Discovery Catalog is the main search on the FDU Library home page.

Ebook Central is your resource for ebooks providing breadth and depth of authoritative content, courtesy of your library.

The Films on Demand Master Academic Collection and Archival Films & Newsreel Collection provides unlimited access to over 40,000 educational films, documentaries, and news clips.

Google Scholar is a search engine that provides links to articles from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and scholarly articles posted on the web.

The JSTOR journal archives provide full-text collections of core scholarly journals.

Mintel is a consumer research database. In over 600 market research reports, it provides data for entrepreneurial studies, sales marketing, and target markets, as well as key current statistical information.

EBSCO allows you to search one or more of their databases in one search, allowing you to pick and choose which database to search.

Students and staff now have full complimentary access to NYTimes.com and NYTimes mobile apps, thanks to our university-wide subscription. NYTimes.com covers a variety of topics with unsurpassed quality and depth through breaking news articles, blogs, videos and interactive features. In addition, you will be able to share content on social networks, save articles of interest, subscribe to email newsletters and set up personalized alerts. Your access to NYTimes.com is available from any location, on or off campus.

A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images.

PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains more than 153,000 articles from over 100 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA). The PsycINFO, database provides abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, and is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.

The SAGE Premier collection consists of over 640 peer-reviewed journals from SAGE Publications in the fields of business, the humanities, the social sciences, science, technology, and medicine. Articles from January 1999 to the present are available in full text.

Science Direct College Edition provides access to scholarly journals across a wide spectrum of subject areas including the physical sciences, engineering, life and health sciences, social sciences and the humanities. It is a great resource for both multi-disciplinary and subject specific searching.

Simmons Insights provides access to consumer data including demographics, product usage, lifestyle characteristics, brand preferences, and media habits.

This is a guide to the video and streaming video collections available to the FDU community.