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A-Z Database list

  • Academic Search (EBSCO)
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
    Core Resource

    Provides full-text coverage of magazine, newspaper, and scholarly journal articles for most academic disciplines.

  • CQ Researcher
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
    Core Resource

    Full text discussions of current, controversial public policy issues in a variety of areas.

  • Foundation Directory Online
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
    Core Resource

    Under the auspices of Candid, this resource provides comprehensive information on grantmakers and their funding activities.

  • GuideStar Pro
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
    Core Resource

    Under the auspices of Candid, this resource provides information and data on nonprofit organizations.

  • PAIS Index
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
    Core Resource

    PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) indexes articles, books, studies, selected official documents and other resources on public policy issues, public administration, law, politics and government.

  • voxgov
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
    Core Resource

    Provides access to unedited media, news and information from all official government sources, as well as comprehensive access to government communications.

  • ABI/INFORM Collection
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Access to thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals, country-and industry-focused reports, and major news sources. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.

  • Access World News
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Includes electronic editions of hundreds of large and small U.S. newspapers and titles worldwide.

  • Agricola
    • Resource available without restriction

    AGRICOLA is a database produced by the National Agricultural Library (NAL). It contains over 6 million records encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied discipline.

  • Agricultural and Environmental Science Database
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Collection of resources related to environmental science, engineering, biotechnology, bacteriology, atmospheric science, ecology, and biology.

  • Alt HealthWatch
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Covers complementary, holistic, integrative, and alternative approaches to health care and wellness, from nearly 190 international journals.

  • Alternative Press Index
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from international alternative, radical, and leftist periodicals.

  • APA PsycArticles
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Online database containing more than 27,500 searchable full-text articles from journals published by APA and allied organizations from 1988+.

  • APA PsycINFO
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Indexes journal articles, books, dissertations and technical reports from the world literature on psychology and related fields.

  • Art History Research net
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Art History Research net (formerly Arts: Search) is a resource focused on the study of the history of 19th and 20th century art and design.

  • Art Index Retrospective
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Citations and abstracts for articles on all aspects of art and architecture published in over 420 international periodicals between 1929 and August 1984.

  • ARTbibliographies Modern
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Specialist bibliography of modern and contemporary art from 1974 to the present.

  • BCC Research
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Access to market research reports that cover life sciences, sensors, materials, environment and sustainability, commerce, and publishers. Provides the latest trends, opportunities, challenges, and innovations emerging within these landscapes.

  • BEP Collections
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Business Expert Press (BEP) publishes eBooks for faculty and business students to conduct classroom learning and research.

  • BHA and RILA
    • Resource available without restriction

    BHA and RILA cover European and American visual arts material including articles from over 1,200 journals. These citation databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007.

  • BioOne Complete
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    A collection of full-text journals, mostly from small societies and non-commercial publishers, focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

  • Business Source Complete
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Regional, national and international business, financial, banking and industry publications.

  • Columbia Gazetteer of the World
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    A dictionary of countries, states, cities, and regions, including rivers, mountains and other geographical features.

  • Columbia International Affairs Online
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs, offering fulltext of working papers from research organizations, abstracts of foreign policy journal articles, etc.

  • Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text contains nearly 500,000 records selected from important sources within the discipline. This resource includes full text for over 315 magazines and journals.

  • Criminal Justice Database
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. Includes U.S. and international scholarly journals, and correctional and law enforcement trade publications, dissertations, crime reports, crime blogs and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement and related fields.

  • Cross-National Time Series Data Archive
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    CNTS provides ranges of annual data from 1815 to the present for all countries for many variables of use to the social scientist researcher

  • De Gruyter
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Access to e-books and e-journal articles in the humanities, sciences, technology, medicine and social sciences. To view content accessible to IUB users, select "licensed content" when searching.

  • Digital Library of the Commons
    • Resource available without restriction

    A gateway to the international literature on the commons, common-pool resources and common property.

  • Digital National Security Archive
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    The Digital National Security Archives contains over 110,000 declassified documents, an archival record of reports, memoranda, correspondence and papers concerning important public policy decisions in the area of foreign affairs and national security.

  • E&E News
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Includes daily news updates on a variety of environmental and energy policy topics as well as links to online publications from E&E Publishing. Also includes video clips and compiled reports on specific subjects.

  • EBSCO eBook Collection
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    A collection of over 6,000 full text books in a variety of subject areas, fully searchable by author, title, and keyword.

  • EconLit
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature.

  • Emerald eJournal Premier Collection
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Electronic access to ejournals covering the fields of business, management, economics, engineering, computing, technology and social sciences.

  • Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, E-Government and Mobile Commerce
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Provides a basic overview of important aspects of electronic and mobile commerce, and use of the Internet in Public Administration.

  • ERIC (EBSCO)
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Covers over 1085 periodicals and nearly a half a million documents. Fulltext documents since 1993.

  • Ethnic NewsWatch
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press in America; full text and searchable in English and Spanish

  • Factiva
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Provides full-text access to national and international newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich websites, investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, and historical market data.

  • Gallup Analytics
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Gallup data from countries that are home to more than 98% of the world's population through a web-based portal.

  • Geographic Names Server (GNS)
    • Resource available without restriction

    A database of of foreign geographic feature names approved by the U.S. Board of Geographic Names. Please note: resource works best with Chrome and Edge browsers.

  • Geological Society of America Special Papers
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Special papers from the Geological Society of America. GSA currently publishes between 15 and 18 Special Papers a year.

  • Global Commodities, Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. Includes visual, manuscript and printed materials sourced from over twenty key libraries and more than a dozen companies and trade organizations around the world.

  • Global Health
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Global Health is a bibliographic, abstracting and indexing database dedicated to public health research and practice. The resource covers literature on developing countries, sociological aspects, and a wide range of biomedical topics, with an international reach.

  • Global Health Archive
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    A fully searchable modern database of research dating from 1910 to 1972, containing 800,000 records derived from six printed abstract journals.

  • Google Scholar
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Special version of Google's index to scholarly content on the web. Connects to full-text resources available to IU users.

  • Government Finance Statistics Manuals and Guides
    • Resource available without restriction

    Statistical data on government financial operations for 145 IMF member countries.

  • GreenFILE
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Research database covering all aspects of human impact on 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. 

  • Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile)
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Index to health topics in medical journals, consumer health magazines and general interest periodicals, with full text from many titles.

  • Health and Society in Video
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    200 hours of videos on today's latest medical progress in health and wellness issues and their impact on society.

  • Health Business FullTEXT
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Provides full-text coverage of well-known administrative journals. Includes topics such as staffing, health care regulation, health care facilities management, marketing, finance and more.

  • Health Source: Consumer Edition
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Information on health-related issues including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Access to scholarly full text journals covering nursing and allied health topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more.

  • HeinOnline
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Access provided by the Jerome Hall Law Library. Provides full-text of historial treaties, regulations, and presidential documents. Also includes numerous law resources.

  • Human Resource Management Online
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Includes textbooks, book chapters, cases from well-known case providers, corporate training video, sample business documents and executive-oriented research reports.

  • Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson)
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Bibliographic database providing access to scholarly journals in a broad array of the humanities and social sciences.

  • Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Access provided by the Jerome Hall Law Library. A multilingual index to articles and book reviews that appear in legal journals published worldwide. Excludes the U.S., the UK, Canada, and Australia.

  • IndianaMap
    • Resource available without restriction

    This interactive digital atlas can be used to create custom maps about Indiana, including mineral resources, the environment, geology, biology, hydrology, transportation, demographics and population.

  • International Bibliography of Art (IBA)
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Scholarly literature for European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945.

  • International Political Science Abstracts
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Indexes the world's leading journals in political science; includes nearly 900 journals.

  • JSTOR
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Provides searchable full-text of historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business. 

  • LandScan Global (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
    • Resource available without restriction

    Global population database that shows geographical distribution of population at one-kilometer resolution over an average 24 hour period

  • MRI-Simmons Insights
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Data on U.S. consumer demographics, attitudes and behaviors, media use, and buying habits.

  • National Academies Press
    • Resource available without restriction

    E-books in a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, including authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy.

  • Nexis Uni
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Includes articles from local, regional, national and international newspapers, magazines, online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs, transcripts, and legal research, as well as federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790.  Also includes access to Nexis Dossier. 

  • OECD
    • Resource available without restriction

    Online portal for Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) publications and statistics. Source for internationally comparable statistical, environmental and socio-economic reports and data. OECD works with policy makers, governments and citizens to inform public decision-making.

  • Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context)
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Social issues series for coverage of current events topics. Includes viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, and primary documents.

  • Oxford Art Online
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Encyclopedia articles about artists, architects, and artistic movements & periods, as well as bibliographies for further research. Also includes thousands of searchable images.

  • Performing Arts Periodicals Database
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Covers the arts and entertainment industry, including dance, film, television, drama, theatre, stagecraft, musical theatre, broadcast, circus, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and more.

  • PIVOT
    • Resource available to users on IU Bloomington Campus only

    The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the IUPUI Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research jointly funds Indiana University's subscription to Pivot for all IU campuses. Pivot is a database of funding opportunities for research.

  • Political Science Database
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Access to political science, public policy, and international relations journals. Also includes thousands of recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country reports, policy papers and other sources.

  • ProQuest Congressional
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Provides easy access to congressional publications since 1789 and some full-text of reports, bills, resolutions, and laws to the present.

  • ProQuest Social Sciences
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Allows users to simultaneously search a collection of ProQuest Social Science databases.

  • ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Online tables and charts of basic statistics about the social, political and economic conditions of the United States.

  • ProQuest Statistical Abstracts of the World
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    ProQuest Statistical Abstracts of the World aggregates the statistical abstracts of approximately 70 countries and makes the content available through a single-search interface.

  • ProQuest Statistical Insight
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Access to statistical content information produced by U.S. federal agencies, states, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. Includes tables, statistical reports, publication abstracts, and datasets. Results are ranked by relevance. Faceted search results can then be filtered by document type, source, date published, geographic area, and more.

  • ProQuest the Arts
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Allows users to search across ProQuest databases with an emphasis on the arts.

  • Regional Business News
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Provides comprehensive full text coverage of 75 regional business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

  • Scopus
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.

  • SimplyAnalytics
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Web-based mapping application that lets users create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data. PLEASE NOTE: Users may "sign in as guest," or register for an individual account if they would like to save their work.

  • Social Sciences Citation Index
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Publication and citation data from over 3,500 journals across social sciences disciplines, as well as selected items from the world’s leading scientific and technical journals. Includes cited references that date back from 1900 to present.

  • Social Services Abstracts
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development. Abstracts and indexes serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations and citations to book reviews.

  • Sociological Abstracts
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Abstracts to journal articles and citations to book reviews in the international literature of sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Includes abstracting and indexing of articles and book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications, plus books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers.

  • UNdata
    • Resource available without restriction

    Database covering selected data series from 20 specialized international data sources for all available countries and areas.

  • Urban Studies Abstracts
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Bibliographic records covering essential areas related to urban studies.

  • VADS: Visual Arts Data Service
    • Resource available without restriction

    An online collection of more than 140,000 images of rare and unique library, museum, and archives collections across the United Kingdom.

  • Web of Science
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Citation database covering scholarly journal literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Search interface allows cross-searching of BIOSIS Previews, Medline, Zoological Record, Web of Science Core Collection, and others.

  • Wiley Online Library
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Provides access to journal articles, online books, and major reference works, in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences. 

  • World Bank Open Data
    • Resource available without restriction

    World Bank publication that tracks the annual movement of international capital flows to developing countries.

  • World Politics Review
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    A daily online resource for international politics and foreign affairs written by more than 400 contributors from around the world.

  • WorldCat
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Thousands of libraries may be searched from this one catalog; Interlibrary Loan requests can also be made.

  • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
    • Resource available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)

    Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.