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Database Descriptions & Links
General Databases
NEW! Academic Search Complete 
Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 10,100 journals and a total of more than 10,600 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 PDF format.
NEW! Canadian Reference Centre
Canadian Reference Centre combines Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books. This database includes leading Canadian periodicals and international (U.S. and U.K) periodicals in full text; full text reference books; 84,774 full text biographies and an image collection of 440,207 photos, maps, and flags.
Catalist, SUNY Ulster's Online Catalog
Country
Watch
CountryWatch provides up-to-date information and news on 191
countries including political, economic, and business information,
daily news and data.
Credo Reference
Credo Reference is database including the full-text of 100 digitized reference books. The collection includes entries from hundreds of well-regarded titles from some of world's the best reference publishers. Credo's collection integrates millions of cross-references and contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature.
Gale
Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias,
almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary
research.
NEW! Grolier Online
Grolier Online includes access to the Encyclopedia Americana , New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia as well as Roget's II: The New Thesaurus and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
NEW! Humanities International Complete
Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. This database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 890 journals.
NEW! JSTOR
JSTOR is an interdisciplinary archive of scholarly journals in both digital and print formats, generally from the first volume through issues published prior to the most recent three to five years.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe
Academic Universe provides access to a wide range of news,
business, legal, and reference information; including many
international publications, transcripts of television and
radio news broadcasts and a high percentage of full-text resources.
MasterFILE™ Premier
This multidisciplinary database,designed for public libraries, provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications 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 164,424 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of 440,207 photos, maps & flags.
netLibrary
Over 800 eBooks you can read and search on your own computer.
Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center
Use this database to access viewpoint articles, topic overviews,
statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text
magazine and newspaper articles.
NEW! Points of View Reference Center
This full-text database provides a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database contains 255 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument) and Critical Thinking Guide . Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including 1,143 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books.
Proquest Platinum
Proquest Platinum has 2,000 + magazine and journal titles covering a broad range of material: business, education, general reference, health, language arts, sciences, social sciences, and many other curriculum-specific subject areas.
WilsonSelect
Plus
Use WilsonSelectPlus to access fulltext articles in the areas
of science, business, education and the humanities.
WorldCat
Use this database from OCLC to find books and other materials
in libraries around the world published from 1000 BC to the
present.
Specialized Databases
AccessScience
AccessScience provides science reference materials—online and fully searchable. The database offers access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more. This online encyclopedia is tailored to researchers and students looking for relevant, readable, and trusted sources of information.
ArtStor
Search the ArtStor database to locate art images. The ARTstor Library's include approximately 1,000,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.
NEW! Computer Source
Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.
NEW! Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. CASC provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also available for more than 730 periodicals.
NEW! Environment Complete
Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,957,000 records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,125 active core titles). The database also contains full text for more than 680 journals and 120 monographs.
FirstSearch Base Package
The FirstSearch Basic Package offers approximately 12 databases including WorldCat, ERIC, Medline, NetFirst and more.
GeoRef
This database, from the American Geological Institute, includes over 2.2 million references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey, geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from U.S. and Canadian universities. The GeoRef database covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present.
GPO - Government Printing Office
Use this database from the US Government Printing Office to find citations for US government documents from 1976 to the present.
GreenFILE includes 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 contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.
HarpWeek
HarpWeek is the full-text, full-image electronic version of Harpers Weekly. Ulster's access covers the Civil War segment including the years 1857-1865.
HighWire Library of the Sciences and Medicine
Free, full-text of over 600,000 articles from important, peer-reviewed journals in the biological sciences, medical sciences, physical and social sciences produced by HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries.
NEW! Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. This database also contains full text for more than 240 journals. 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.
Military & Government Collection™
The Military & Government Collection provides full text for nearly 400 publications pertaining to all branches of the military and government.. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for 500 titles.
PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a database of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect provides unlimited access to over 700 full-text Elsevier Science journals at SUNY campuses. Topics covered include; science, technology and medicine. The "Search" button is located at the top of the ScienceDirect homepage.
NEW! Theatre in Video
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. This release contains 279 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.
Business
Business
& Company Resource Center
Business and Company Resource Center includes company profiles,
brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories,
chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find
detailed company and industry news and information.
NEW! Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete is a scholarly business database, providing a collection of bibliographic and full text content. This database includes indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals back as far as 1886.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe
Academic Universe provides access to a wide range of news,
business, legal, and reference information; including many
international publications, transcripts of television and
radio news broadcasts and a high percentage of full-text resources.
Regional
Business News™
With daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive
full text for more than 50 regional business publications.
Career Resources
Vault Online Career Library 
Vault is the world's leading source of career information. It will make your efforts at researching employers, industries, and career subjects infinitely easier and more efficient. This new online resource contains:
- Vault Guides
- Company Profiles
- Vault Career Advice Articles
- Industry and Occupational Profiles
- & more!
Criminal Justice
Criminal
Justice Periodical Index (CJPI)
CJPI can provide information on criminal justice topics, including
corrections administration, law enforcement, social work,
industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and
family law. The database offers full text coverage for about
50 titles and also includes complete indexing and abstracts
for another 140 relevant U.S. and international journals.
Education
Education Resource Complete
Education Research Complete is an online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals, and includes full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.
ERIC
- Educational Resources
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides
full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references
for additional information and citations and abstracts from
over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
Professional
Development Collection™
Professional Development Collection provides full text for
more than 500 high quality education journals and more than
200 educational reports for professional educators, professional
librarians and education researchers.
History
HarpWeek
HarpWeek is the full-text, full-image electronic version of
Harpers Weekly. Ulster's access covers the Civil War segment
including the years 1857-1865.
The Historical New York Times
This database includes The New York Times from 1851-2004. The newspaper is reproduced, cover-to-cover, in full-page digital images—from news stories and editorials to graphics and advertisements.
Humanities E-Book
Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of nearly 2,000 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars. HEB is available 24/7 on- and off-campus.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe
Academic Universe provides access to a wide range of news,
business, legal, and reference information; including many
international publications, transcripts of television and
radio news broadcasts and a high percentage of full-text resources.
Literature
Literature
Resource Center (LRC)
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical
analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.The
Literature Resource Center covers more than 90,000 novelists,
poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth
coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors.
Twayne
Authors Series
Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full
text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books
on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of
600 individual full-text titles.
Newspapers
Custom
Newspapers
InfoTrac Custom Newspapers - offers over 150
full-text newspapers, which include 7 New York State newspapers
and the New York Times, which is indexed in full text for
the full current year.
HarpWeek
HarpWeek is the full-text, full-image electronic version of
Harpers Weekly. Ulster's access covers the Civil War segment
including the years 1857-1865.
The Historical New York Times
This database includes The New York Times from 1851-2004. The newspaper is reproduced, cover-to-cover, in full-page digital images—from news stories and editorials to graphics and advertisements.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe
Academic Universe provides access to a wide range of news,
business, legal, and reference information; including many
international publications, transcripts of television and
radio news broadcasts and a high percentage of full-text resources.
National
Newspaper Index
National Newspaper Index provides access to the indexing of:
The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian
Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
New
York State Newspapers
Search this database of ten major newspapers published in
the state of New York, including the New York Times and the
New York Post, with full-text.
NEW! Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus includes 1,570 full-text newspapers, providing more than 27 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 583,100 television and radio news transcripts, videos & podcasts.
Nursing/Health
NEW! Alt Health Watch
This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990.
CINAHL® Plus with Full Text
CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides full text for 391 journals
from the fields of nursing and allied health, indexing for
3,123 with coverage dating as far back as 1937, plus legal
cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records,
research instruments and clinical trials.
(Click here for a short video showing how to use CINAHL.)
Health
and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
This database includes information from magazines, journals,
newspapers and other sources on alternative and complementary
medicine and therapies, including topics such as nutrition,
diet, diseases, fitness, public health, occupational health,
alcohol and drug abuse, prescription drugs, and herbal remedies.
1980-current year
NEW! Health Source – Consumer Edition
This database is a collection of consumer health information, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
HighWire Library
of the Sciences and Medicine
Free, full-text of over 600,000 articles from important, peer-reviewed
journals in the biological sciences, medical sciences, physical
and social sciences produced by HighWire Press, a division
of the Stanford University Libraries.
Magill’s Medical Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.
NEW! MEDLINE with Full Text
MEDLINE with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,470 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than 1,450 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE, and of those, 622 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search, Health Source or Biomedical Reference Collection.
NEW! Nursing Made Incredibly Easy
The Nursing Made Incredibly Easy eBook database is a collection of 53 titles which include books such as: Nursing Care Planning Made Incredibly Easy, Nutrition Made Incredibly Easy, Straight A's in Nursing Pharmacology, and Wound Care Made Incredibly Easy. (Note: You can also do a subject search of all the books in this eBook series by clicking here.)
PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a database of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect provides unlimited access to over 700 full-text
Elsevier Science journals at SUNY campuses. Topics covered
include; science, technology and medicine. The "Search"
button is located at the top of the ScienceDirect homepage.
Reference Collections & E-Books
AccessScience
AccessScience provides science reference materials—online
and fully searchable. The database offers access to all the
articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research
Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations,
and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and
more. This online encyclopedia is tailored to researchers
and students looking for relevant, readable, and trusted sources
of information.
Britannica - Online
Online version of comprehensive general encyclopedia with additional links to journal articles, web sites, and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.
Country Watch
CountryWatch provides up-to-date information and news on 191 countries including political, economic, and business information, daily news and data.
Credo Reference
Credo Reference is database including the full-text of 100 digitized reference books. The collection includes entries from hundreds of well-regarded titles from some of world's the best reference publishers. Credo's collection integrates millions of cross-references and contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature.
Encyclopedia Americana
Searches just Encyclopedia Americana. (Encyclopedia Americana is also part of Grolier Online.)
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Searches Just Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia . (The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is also part of Grolier Online.)
Grolier Online
Grolier Online includes access to the Encyclopedia Americana, New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia as well as Roget's II: The New Thesaurus and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
Humanities E-Book
Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of nearly 2,000 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars. HEB is available 24/7 on- and off-campus.
Magill's Medical Guide
Magill's Medical Guide database includes essays from Psychology and Mental Health. This includes the history of the field and core aspects of behaviorism, cognitive psychology, and psychoanalytic psychology but also diagnoses, disorders, treatments, tests, notable people, and issues, including many popular concepts. Articles from the Magill's Cancer series are also included.
New Book of Knowledge
Searches just the New Book of Knowledge. (The New Book of Knowledge is also part of Grolier Online.)
Nolo's Legal Encyclopedia
The online version of Nolo's Legal Encyclopedia contains free articles and information on many legal topics as well as a law dictionary that translates “legalese” into plain English.
NEW! Nursing Made Incredibly Easy
The Nursing Made Incredibly Easy eBook database is a collection of 53 titles which include books such as: Nursing Care Planning Made Incredibly Easy, Nutrition Made Incredibly Easy, Straight A's in Nursing Pharmacology, and Wound Care Made Incredibly Easy. (Note: You can also do a subject search of all the books in this eBook series by clicking here.)
Oxford Reference Online offers fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions series.
World Factbook
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
