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Access to most of these databases is limited to members of the Carthage community.  Please call the Hedberg Library Information desk at 262.551.5950 or email at helpdesk@carthage.edu for help accessing these resources.  To access these databases from off-campus, please use the off-campus access link to the right of the title.  Those databases that can be only accessed from on-campus have a CC
after the title.

Academic OneFile
Contains peer-reviewed, full text articles from more than 8400 academic journals and reference sources, as well as full text New York Times content back to 1995. It offers extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and more.

 

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary database containing 8,144 journals. Nearly 4,500 titles are full text, more than 3,600 are peer-reviewed, and indexing and abstracts are included for all. (Courtesy of BadgerLink.)

 
AGRICOLA (Agricultural OnLine Access)
A database created by the National Agricultural Library.
 
 

Alt HealthWatch
This database focuses on articles from the perspectives of alternative, holistic, complementary and integrated approaches to medical treatment and general health. (Courtesy of BadgerLink.)

 
American Chemical Society Publications
Provides access to 34 full text chemistry journals.  From the ACS Publication page, click on "Select a Title" under Journals and Magazines.  Then click on any of the listed titles to enter that journal's web site.
 
ARTFL Project
The database consists of some 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing primarily from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
 
ARTstor
A digital library of approximately 750,000 images in the fields of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.
 
arXiv.org
A highly-automated electronic archive and distribution server for research articles, arXiv provides open access to over 490,000 e-prints in Physics, Math, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics.
 
ATLA Religion Database (American Theological Library Association)
ATLA covers Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues from 1949 to present.
 

Auto Repair Reference Center
Contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with step-by-step repair procedures for vintage makes starting as far back as 1954. (Courtesy of BadgerLink.)

 
BadgerCat (FirstSearch)
A catalog that includes the holdings of all academic, public and special libraries in Wisconsin.
 
BadgerLink
BadgerLink is a program supported and funded through the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction - Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning.  Its goal is to provide increased access to information for Wisconsin residents in cooperation with the state's library community. Off-campus access may require Wisconsin library card.
 
Biology Digest (FirstSearch) CC
Indexes life science information from over 300 sources from 1989 to present.
 
Book Collection Nonfiction: Elementary School Edition
Book Collection Nonfiction: Middle School Edition
Book Collection Nonfiction: High School Edition
A trio of cross-curricular, age-specific research databases enabling school libraries to cater to user needs. A wide spectrum of non-fiction full-text content is provided. (Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
Books in Print
Books in Print provides current information for over 5 million book, audio book, and video titles.
 
Britannica Online
Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, and Britannica Book of the Year.
 
Business and Company Resource Center
Contains company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
 
Business and Industry (FirstSearch) CC
Contains important facts, figures and key events for international companies, industries, products, and markets for manufacturing and service industries.
 
Business & Management Practices CC
Contains articles on the practical aspects of business management
 
Business Dateline CC
Includes information that describe regional business activities and trends and major stories on local firms, their products, and executives.
 
Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost)
Indexes and abstracts over 10,000 business and business related titles, and provides peer-reviewed full text for over 2300 titles.
Business Searching Interface provides users with an alternative searching and browsing interface to the traditional EBSCOhost version of Business Source Premier.
(Courtesy of BadgerLink.)


off-campus access

 
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The leading news and job-information source for college and university faculty members, administrators, and students. Members of the Carthage community can access Chronicle services, including a fully searchable archive since 1989, browseable past issues since 1995, advanced search facilities, and Colloquy, an open forum on educational issues
 
Clase/Periódica  CC
CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American and Caribbean social science and humanities journals, while PERIÓDICA covers science and technology journals. They offer access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations (no abstracts) from over 2,600 scholarly journals.
 
Citation Guides and Styles
Link to various online style manuals including the MLA and APA styles
.
College Source Online
Includes the complete college catalogs for over 42,000 colleges and universities in the United States.
 
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Publishes theory and research in international affairs from 1991 onward, including working papers, policy briefs, case studies, books, and journals, with some full text.
 
Consumer Health Complete
(Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
Contemporary Women's Issues (FirstSearch) CC
Provides access to full text information on women from over 150 countries from the disciplines of psychology, health, education, and human rights.
 
CQ Electronic Library
CQ Electronic Library provides access to CQ Researcher Online and CQ Weekly.  CQ Researcher provides in-depth coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, education, the environment, technology, the U.S. economy and international affairs.  CQ Weekly covers what is happening in the U.S. Congress, including the status of bills, votes, committee activity, backroom maneuvering , etc.
 

Credo Reference
Credo Reference, formerly Xrefer, is a "giant online reference library" that enables users to find
authoritative answers fast. It features content from 391 reference books, both generalized and specialized, on a broad range of subjects.

off-campus access

 
Criminal Justice Abstracts
Contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines, with coverage from 1968 to present.
 
Criminal Justice Periodicals
A collection of U.S. and international criminal justice journals including information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.
 
Dictionary of Wisconsin History
The dictionary provides brief biographical descriptions for over 2000 Wisconsinites, dozens of  historical events are summarized, historical jargon is explained, and more than 100 other broad topics are summarized.
 
Disclosure Corporate Snapshots (FirstSearch) CC
Contains information about all public company filings including annual reports, company summary information, and shareholder reports
 
Dissertation Abstracts Online CC
Covers dissertations completed in U.S. institutions from 1861 to present.
 
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages.
 
EBSCO Animals
Provides access to abstracts and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. (Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
EBSCOhost Databases
Menu of all databases accessible via EBSCOhost. If you experience difficulty in connecting use the EBSCOhost Text Only menu or the individual database links on this page. (Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
EconLit  CC
Indexes journal articles, books, and working papers dealing with economics.  Contains more than 700,000 records with coverage from 1969 to present.
 

EDGAR (US Securities and Exchange Filings and Forms)
The mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation.

 
Education Research Complete
Coverage ranges from early childhood to higher education, and such specialties as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Indexes and abstracts 1,820+ journals, as well as providing full text for numerous journals, books, and conference papers.
 
Educational Administration Abstracts
(Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
Electronic Reference Desk
A listing of useful web sites including newspapers, dictionaries, directories, government sites, statistics, weather, style and citation guides, etc.
 
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Covering popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music, the Encyclopedia also offers additional entries covering popular music genres, trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals.
 
Encyclopedia of Social Work
Co-published by the National Association of Social Workers and Oxford University Press, the 20th edition of the Encyclopedia of Social Work includes demographic changes from immigration, technology, the implications of managed care, faith-based assistance, evidence-based practice, gerontology, and trauma and disaster.
 
Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Studies of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of 800 manuscripts nearly one thousand years older than any other writings of the Hebrew Scriptures.
off-campus access
 
Entrez PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
An integrated, text-based search and retrieval system used at NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) for the major databases, including PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, and others.
 
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
Indexes and abstracts over 1000 educational journals and other education material from Educational Resources Information Center. (Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
Film Literature Index
Indexes 150 film and television periodicals for articles on film and television.
 
FirstSearch Databases CC
Provides access to eleven databases in the humanities and social sciences.
 
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. (Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 

Gale Virtual Reference Library
A searchable electronic reference collection including subject encyclopedias, handbooks and guides, and covering many subject disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.

 
General Business File ASAP (InfoTrac)
Indexes and abstracts over 900 business and trade journals, of which one-third are full text.
 
General OneFile (InfoTrac)
Indexes 8500 periodical and news information titles, with 4900 full text, from general interest, academic and law journals, business and technology publications, health care periodicals, newspapers and newswire services, from 1980 to present.
 
GEOBASE (FirstSearch) CC
Provides information on geography, geology and ecology from over 2000 sources from 1980 to present.
 
Google Scholar
Provides a simple way to search broadly for scholarly literature.
 
GPO Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch) CC
The GPO includes a variety of U.S. government documents, including congressional reports, hearings, and records, judiciary materials, and documents issued by executive departments. Coverage is from 1976 to present.
 
GreenFILE
Bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns, such as global warming, energy conservation, natural resources, and pollution, going back more than 35 years. Some full text.
 

Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture
This encyclopedia traces the development of art forms and media in Classical civilizations.

off-campus access
 
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
Multi-volume encyclopedia of animal life, describing microscopic animals through primates. Contains color pictures and detailed descriptions.
 
Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS Online)
A bibliography on Latin America.  Each year over 5,000 works are selected for inclusion in the Handbook.  Disciplines covered are anthropology, art, economics, electronic resources, geography, government and politics, international relations, literature, music, philosophy, and sociology
 
HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Subject/author index to articles, bibliographies, documents, literary works, and reviews on U.S. Hispanics and on Latin America, 1970-. HAPI contains some full text links and can be limited by Spanish or English language.
 
Health Source - Consumer Edition
Contains information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.  Indexes over 205 publications and provides full text for over 190 journals. (Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition
Indexes and abstracts nearly 650 journals in many medical disciplines; nearly 600 titles are full text. (Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
History Reference Center
(Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
Humanities International Complete
(Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
IngentaConnect
Indexes over 27,000 periodicals in the physical and applied sciences, humanities, and social sciences.  There is no full text.
 
JSTOR
Provides access to over 200 full text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities, including mathematics, statistics, economics and finance, and ecology.  List of JSTOR journals.
 
Kelley Blue Book - New & Used Car Prices
The Blue Book is the most popular automotive book in the United States for determining used car values
 
Kids Search
Designed especially for youth in grades K-8. (Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
Lexi-PALS Drug Guide
This database of Patient Advisory Leaflets from Lexi-Comp provides vital education on medications for patients. (Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
LexisNexis Academic
Provides full text coverage of numerous publications in the areas of business, government, law, medicine, and U.S. and international news.  Also provides full text coverage of the New York Times from 1980 to present.
 
LexisNexis Statistical
LexisNexis Statistical enables access to statistics produced by federal agencies, states, and intergovernmental organizations, which can be searched by table titles and the words that appear in the tables, as well as subject descriptors and synonyms. LexisNexis Statistical offers 130,000 tables annually, from 1997 to present.
off-campus access
 
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
indexes more than 600 periodicals and other materials, back as far as the mid-1960s. Subjects include librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
 
Literary Reference Center
(Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
MAS Ultra - School Edition
Designed for high school libraries, this database provides full text for some 600 general interest and current events publications, including photos, maps and flags. (Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
MasterFile Premier (EBSCOhost)
Indexes and abstracts over 2600 periodicals and provides full text coverage for over 1900 periodicals covering general reference, health, science, and other areas. (Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
MEDLINE
World's largest biomedical database containing over 8 million references to journal articles in all areas of medicine and related disciplines from 1966 to present.  Search the database of MEDLINE journal title abbreviations and their corresponding full titles.
 
Middle Search Plus
Provides full text for over 150 magazines for middle school and junior high research.  Each article is assigned a reading level indicator. (Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
Military & Government Collection
Offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government; provides cover to cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals, and indexing and abstracting for more than 500 titles. (Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
MLA Directory of Periodicals
Contains detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography.
 
MLA International Bibliography
Contains bibliographic records relating to literature, language, linguistics, poetry and folklore from 1963 to present.
 

Music Index Online
The Music Index is a comprehensive guide to music periodical literature, including every aspect of the classical and popular world of music. Available in print since 1949; online, from 1976 to present.

 
NAICS (North American Industry Classification System)
NAICS is a unique system for classifying business establishments. It is the first economic classification system to be constructed based on a single economic concept. Economic units that use like processes to produce goods or services are grouped together.
 
Naxos Music Library
This sound library contains over 388,700 tracks, including classical music, jazz, world, folk and Chinese music, which users can access by composer, artist, period, year of composition, solo instrument or genre. The music is streamed in WMA 9.0 format, and either Windows Media Player 9/10 or NML's custom player, which uses Microsoft's Silverlight plugin, is recommended. Internet Explorer browser may function better off campus. Please logout of the service when you are finished.

NetLibrary
A collection of more than 13419 eBooks that can be read online.
 
Newspapers
Various newspaper databases and links to individual national and international newspapers.
 
NoveList K-8
NoveList Plus
(Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
Oxford African American Studies Center (AASC)
Provides online access to reference resources in African American studies, including history, literature,
and women's studies. Other material and features include bibliographies, interactive timelines and maps, photo essays and image collections, key primary sources, and selected Internet links.
off-campus access
 
Oxford Art Online
Contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts — painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photographs — from prehistory to the present day.
 

Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Six essential OUP Bible texts, including the latest edition of the New Oxford Annotated Bible, as well as
deuterocanonical collections, concordances, and the Oxford Bible Commentary.

off-campus access
 
Oxford Classical Dictionary
This reference work includes the literature and art, philosophy and law, mythology and science, intimate details of daily life and broad cultural and historical trends of the Greco-Roman world.
off-campus access
 
Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Six thousand dictionary entries cover all aspects of Christianity, from theology, churches and denominations, and the bible, to popes, saints, and mystics.
off-campus access
 
Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt goes beyond the records of archaeology to the full social, political, religious, cultural and artistic legacy of this 5,000-year civilization.
off-campus access
 
Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures
This reference serves lay persons, students, teachers, and scholars in such fields as art, archaeology, religious studies, anthropology, Latin American culture, and the history of the region.
off-campus access
 
Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online comprises the full text of The Oxford Dictionary of Music; The Oxford Companion of Music; and Grove Music Online. Articles that have been updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen.
 

Oxford Reference Online
Provides coverage of the Oxford Companions, billingual dictionaries, English dictionaries, quotations, and proverbs.

 

Primary Search
Provides full text for some 60 popular magazines for elementary school research. (Courtesy of
BadgerLink.)

 
Professional Development Collection
This database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. (Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
Project MUSE
Provides access to over 220 full text humanities and social science journals published by Johns Hopkins University.  List of Project MUSE journals.
 
PsycARTICLES
Contains more than 40,000 articles from 53 journals from 1985 to present.
 
PsycINFO
Indexes over 4400 publications, including 1700 journals, books, and other publications in psychology and related fields, including information on the psychological and social aspects of human behavior, medicine, physical disorders, etc., from 1872 to present.
 
PubList
Contains over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, & other periodicals titles.
 
Regional Business News
Full text coverage for 75 regional business publications from all metropolitan and rural areas in the United States.
 
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Contains nearly 500,000 records in over 20 languages.  It indexes articles, books, bibliographies, conference proceedings, dissertations, Festschriften, videos, etc.
 
Sage Premier
Sage Publications publishes over 460 journals in business, humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine, generally available from 1999 to present. Most articles have full text. Use advanced search to combine more than one term from the article title, author, journal name, keywords, or date published.
 
Science Reference Center
(Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
Searchasaurus
Helps elementary age students learn about animals, history, science, etc. (Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
STN Easy (Scientific and Technical Information Network) CC
Provides access to various chemical databases. Available only to currently enrolled chemistry students, with password provided by their instructor.
 
Student Research Center
Provides access to information for students in grades 1-12. (Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
Teacher Reference Center
TRC indexes over 260 titles and provides coverage on key education topics such as assessment, continuing education, current pedagogical research, curriculum development, instructional media, language arts, literacy standards, science and mathematics, and more.
 
TeachingBooks.net
(Courtesy of BadgerLink.)
 
Thomas
Legislative Information on the Internet from the Library of Congress.
 
ThomasNet
ThomasNet is a comprehensive online resource for finding companies and products manufactured in North America.
 
Uniform Crime Reports
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is responsible for collecting and archiving various crime statistics; online statistics are available from the mid 1990s to present.
 
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Provides quality digital resources in the arts and sciences.
 
Wisconsin Blue Book
The Blue Book is an almanac containing information on the government, economics, demographics, geography and history of the state of Wisconsin.
 
WorldCat
This union catalog contains over 95 million records located in libraries through the world.
off-campus access

 

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