Online Databases
BVU provides access to over 60 extensive databases, conveniently
arranged by academic area.
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Social Science, Philosophy & Religion
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America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises over 450,000 bibliographic entries for journal articles, books, and reviews providing an incomparable research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history. This extensive database indexes over 1,700 journals published worldwide.
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ATLA Religion Database (American Theological Library Association) provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. ATLA contains more than one million bibliographic records covering the research literature of religion in 35 languages. It includes more than 537,000 article citations from 1,600 journals, more than 225,000 essay citations from 18,700 multi-author works, and over 494,000 book review citations. Coverage ranges from 1949 to the present.
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CQ Press Congress Collection is a dynamic research and reference tool allowing historical analysis of members of Congress, their legislative voting behavior, interest groups, and their interactions in crafting public policy. The Collection's database integrates encyclopedic entries, legislative policy histories, chronologies, statistics, biographies, maps, demographic and electoral data, and roll call votes.
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CQ Press Supreme Court Collection offers a unique contextual framework and analysis of the Supreme Court and its decisions. CQ Press Supreme Court Collection blends historical perspective with timely updates and expert commentary, providing patrons with bold scope and depth of content and supports courses in political science, American history, and law. • CQPSCC also offers an analysis of thousands of Supreme Court decisions. Case summaries include related links to direct additional research about specific constitutional or public policy topics. More than 300 of the most significant cases in Supreme Court history have been designated as "CQ Key Cases." • "Case Boxscores" include date of decision, votes, opinion authors, and justice alignments and a link to the full-text of the case. • Biographies of every justice include a detailed analysis of their judicial philosophies and "case participation boxscores" with links to their opinions. • Commentary and analysis of the political and institutional history of the Supreme Court as a co-equal branch of government.
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Criminology includes the full-text of 24 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. Some journals go back more than 80 years. The database includes over 20,400 articles and covers such subjects as criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, corrections, penology, policing, forensic psychology, and family and domestic violence. Every bibliographic record in the database links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.
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Films On Demand delivers web-based, educational video content from a variety of producers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Cambridge Educational, BBC, and many more. BVU's subscription includes over 6,000 titles in the Master Academic Collection, which spans all academic disciplines and subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to search and organize 60,000+ segments, share playlists, personalize folders and post to a course management system. Titles are continuously added to this collection.
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Historical Abstracts is your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences II Collection covers 124 history, economics and political science journals with special emphasis on publications with an Asian, African, Latin American, Middle Eastern and Slavic studies focus.
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Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with informative author-written abstracts for journal articles, books, contributions to anthologies, and book reviews, published from 1940 to the present. Over 6200 journals from more than 40 countries are covered. The database contains over 400,000 records and is updated quarterly.
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Project Muse is an online collection of over 300 journal titles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. MUSE journals cover many disciplines including literature, history, politics, economics, education, film, religion, and women's studies.
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The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research. The database contains more than 137,000 articles from 66 journals - 45 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.
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Psychology includes the full text of 34 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. Some journals go back more than 60 years. The database encompasses over 44,400 articles in such areas as applied psychology, child development, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, counseling psychology, cross-cultural psychology, cultural psychology, developmental psychology, educational psychology, family studies, industrial/organizational psychology, learning disabilities, personality, school psychology, and social psychology. Every bibliographic record in the database links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.
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PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,000 periodicals in more than 25 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year. PsycINFO also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, physiology, pharmacology, sociology, education, nursing, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.
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The Social Work Abstracts database, produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., contains coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Researchers seeking scholarly and professional perspectives on subjects such as therapy, education, human services, addictions, child and family welfare, mental health, civil and legal rights, and more will find Social Work Abstracts to be an indispensable resource.
**Social Work Abstracts allows up to four simultaneous users.**
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