Evangel University

Databases by subject


General
Database Description
ProQuest Begin: 1971- ; Features full-text scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers, covering academic subjects.
Gale / Cengage: Academic OneFile & General OneFile Begin: 1980- ; Contains full-text journals and reference sources. AOF includes the full-text New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
EBSCOhost A collection of subject specific databases.
CQ Researcher Research on social issues. A Pro/Con link is included.
Missouri Resources: History & Heritage It includes Finding Missouri: Our History and Heritage, and Missouri Digital Heritage Initiative.
World News Digest (Facts on File) Concise reports on news events worldwide.
GreenFILE Database focuses on the relationship between humans and the environment. Many journals available from volume 1 to the present.
Business
Database Description
Business and Company ASAP
Off campus access via Gale (manually select Business and Company ASAP)
Begin: 1980- ; Offers researchers information, both full text and in images, on companies, markets and industries, from market trends, mergers, management theory; includes company overviews and directories.
Business Economics and Theory Academic journals and magazines focusing on economics.
Business and Company Resource Center Company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, company and industry news and periodicals.
Small Business Resource Center Learn how to start, finance or manage a small business using sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.
Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection Has industry journals providing coverage of hospitality and tourism field, including cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism, and more.
Simmons Choices III (In library access only) Marketing statistics in a wide array of tables.
Communication
Database Description
Communications and Mass Media Collection All aspects of the communications field, including: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and more.
Popular Magazines Has the full text of the most frequently searched culturally representative magazines.
News Bank (KC Star & St. Louis Post-Dispatch) Text from two of Missouri’s major dailies.
ProQuest: National Newspaper Abstracts Abstracts of articles from NY Times, Wall Street Journal, & USA Today.
InfoTrac Newsstand With InfoTrac Newsstand, you can easily search a collection of more than 1,000 newspapers, translate articles into 11 different languages, create email alerts, and customize your search options and results format.
Criminal Justice
Database Description
ProQuest:Criminal Justice Periodicals Included in the ProQuest database. Select by using link at the top of the search page.
Criminal Justice Collection For users preparing to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or worker in Homeland Security.
NetSmartz Workshop An interactive, educational safety site from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® and Boys & Girls Clubs of America for children (ages 5-17), parents, guardians, educators and law enforcement using age-appropriate, 3-D activities to teach children how to stay safer on the Internet.
Education
Database Description
Education Index Indexes education publications, with 97% of the full text journals peer-reviewed.
Educator's Reference Complete Has academic journals, reports, and reference sources. Updated daily.
ERIC – Education Resource Information Center Indexes journal articles and education-related materials; available links to full text included. Updated twice weekly.
Teacher Reference Center Indexes teacher and administrator journals and magazines for professional educators.
Annenberg Media Professional development materials for educators. Free resources include video-on-demand, live streaming video, plus materials for purchase.
Discovering Collection Covers core curriculum areas. Provides reference and primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including video and audio clips. Also has content correlated to topic picklists and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search.
Student Edition: High School Content is cross searchable with E-Books. Access to indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books.
Junior Edition: Middle School Begin: 2006- ; Content cross searchable with E-Books. Has full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books.
Kids InfoBits: K-Grade 5 Curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content from elementary reference sources and magazines. Covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Fine Arts and Music
Database Description
Fine Arts and Music Collection Full-text magazines and journals cover areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
Naxos Music Library: Listening Library Naxos Music Library has classical music plus jazz, film music, nostalgia, classic and contemporary rock content. NML provides playing times of individual works or movements, music notes, and opera libretti, plus an interactive entry-level course on all aspects of classical music, Story of Classical Music.
Architecture & Practical Arts: Home Improvement Collection Home improvement focused titles. Coverage includes architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and more.
Law
Database Description
Westlaw (password protected for pre-law students) A major resource for all types of law and legal opinions.
Library
Database Description
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts Indexes journals, books, research reports and proceedings.
Literature
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Literature Online (LION) Has works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, full text literature journals and criticism and reference resources.
Literature Resource Center - LRC Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and worldwide.
MLA International Bibliography: Index to Literary and Critical Publications (Modern Language Association) Bibliography dates back to the 1920s and covers journal articles, books and dissertations.
MLA Directory of Periodicals Offers information on journals indexed in the International Bibliography (see above).
Psychology
Database Description
PsycARTICLES Source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology.
PsycINFO Peer-reviewed abstracts of scholarly journal articles in more than 27 languages, book chapters, books, and dissertations from 1887 to date.
Religion, Theology and Cross-Cultural Studies
Database Description
ATLA Serials Religion Database
(American Theological Association)
Database combines an index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in religion with ATLA's online religion and theology journals. Most full text titles are indexed volume 1 to the present.
Christian Periodical Index Access to articles and reviews written from an evangelical Christian perspective or of interest to the evangelical community. Coverage represents major doctrinal positions within evangelical Christianity.
Religious & Theological Abstracts Begin: 1958- . Provides summaries of articles in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology, including Christian, Jewish, and other World religions in many languages. Language used is given at the abstract’s end.
Guide to Social Science and Religion in Periodical Literature Begins: 1993- . Index of social science and religious publications. Includes official publications of major religious groups or denominations.
Science, Nursing and Health
Database Description
Health Reference Center Academic Begin: 1980- ; Provides access to full text nursing and allied health journals, plus personal health information sources.
Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module Includes health/medical journals, pamphlets, videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and general interest articles.
Culinary Arts Collection Includes nutrition & cooking magazines. Covers diet & nutrition information, recipes, and restaurant reviews.
Agriculture Collection plus Horticulture Current and authoritative plant science & agriculture content spanning the industry.
Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection Focused specifically on issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture.
National Library of Medicine Gateway Search Gateway to resources from the National Library of Medicine, a National Institutes of Health service.
PubMed Home Index to medical and related journals. Limit a search to free, full text articles by using the Limits tab.
Physics Today online Online version of the print copy, with access to prior years.
Social Work and Sociology
Database Description
SocINDEX with Full Text Full text for social work and sociology journals dating back to 1908. Database also includes full text for books, monographs, and conference papers.
Spanish
Database Description
Informe (Collection of full text Spanish language periodical articles.) Begin: 1994- ; Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
Tests
Database Description
Learning Express Library (Practice Tests) Online academic and licensing practice tests including SAT, ACT, GRE, LSAT, Advanced Placement, civil service, military, real estate, law enforcement, citizenship, TOEFL, ESL and basic skills for elementary, middle and high school skills improvement and more.