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Databases By Subject: Multidisciplinary

Index of Curry Library Databases by Subject

Multidisciplinary Databases

  • Academic Search Ultimate Best Bet Featured

    Offers a large collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.

    Coverage: Paid for by Curry Library

  • Ethnic Diversity Source Best Bet
    This full-text database is a dedicated resource covering the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America. It provides full text from a growing list of sources including peer-reviewed journals, magazines, e-books, biographies and primary source documents.

    Note: This is a database trial. Please e-mail comments to Robert Powers at powersr@william.jewell.edu.
  • Gale In Context: College Best Bet
    Gale In Context: College offers interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Learners can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and more. Empower learning with hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast video, BBC News, New York Times video, and NPR.
  • JSTOR Best Bet Featured

    Provides access to archived backfiles of more than a thousand journals in Arts & Sciences, Business, Language & Literature, General Science, Ecology & Botany, and Music. Journals may be browsed or searched.

    Coverage: Paid for by Curry Library

  • ProQuest Central Best Bet Featured

    Includes over 40 smaller databases holding material from over 17,000 sources covering 160 subjects.

    Coverage: Paid for by Curry Library

  • Career & Technical Education Database (ProQuest)

    A definitive source for vocational information including careers and vocations, trade and industry information, technical resources, and a job search tool.

    Coverage: Paid for by Curry Library

  • Central and Eastern European Academic Source

    Contains more than 400 full-text publications covering many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history and sociology relating to this geographic region..

    Coverage: Paid for by Curry Library

  • Kanopy Featured
    Provides streaming access to thousands of films and videos, including award-winning popular films and documentaries.

    Coverage: Paid for by Curry Library
  • Latin America & Iberia Database (ProQuest)

    Provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.

    Coverage: Paid for by Curry Library

  • MasterFILE Premier

    Provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest containing 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.

    Coverage: Paid for by Curry Library

  • Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies

    A bibliographic index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and people of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. It contains hundreds of thousands of records and coverage spanning over a century.

    Coverage: Paid for by Curry Library

  • OpenDissertations

    Provides citations to graduate research across a span of time, from the early 20th century to the present.

    Coverage: Paid for by Curry Library

  • Publicly Available Content Database (ProQuest)

    Brings together or links to full text for publicly available scholarly content from a number of different sources from around the world. It includes content from major subject repositories such as arXiv as well as open access journals. Content includes journal articles, pre-prints, books, conference papers and reports.

    Coverage: Paid for by Curry Library