Use the following links to connect to databases and indexes from off-campus. You will be asked to enter your name and Hillsdale College ID card barcode (a 14 digit number beginning with "25221") before being connected to the selected resource.
For on-campus access to databases and indexes, click here
In alphabetical order: A-B;C-F; G-L; M-R; S-W
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| 19th Century Masterfile | Index to books and articles from the 19th century |
| Academic OneFile | Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources covering the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature |
| AccessScience | Full-text collection of science reference materials, including McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technologyand Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms |
| AGRICOLA | Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture, forestry, and animal science |
| AHSearch | Arts and Humanities Citation Index covering 1994-present |
| Alternative Press Index | Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left journals, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political & social change. Coverage from 1990-present. |
| Alternative Press Index Archives | Same as above, with coverage from 1969-1990. |
| American Chemical Society Publications | Full text publications in chemistry |
| America: History & Life | Comprehensive index to books and articles in American history |
| American National Biography | Full text biographies of notable Americans |
| Annals of American History | Documents related to U.S. history |
| Annual Reviews | Provides searchable abstracts and full-text access to articles in the biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences. |
| AnthroSource | Current issues of American Anthropological Association's journals and bulletins as well as archived issues of all the AAA's journals, newsletters and bulletins. |
| ArtAbstracts | Leading publications in the world of the arts |
| ArticleFirst | OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals |
| Arts and Humanities Citation Index | Access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in scholarly arts and humanities journals with coverage from 1975-present. |
| ASTA | Applied Science and Technology Abstracts |
| ATLAReligion | Religious and theological literature for students and faculty |
| BAID | BioOne Abstracts and Indexes Database |
| BioAgIndex | Leading publications in agriculture, biology, forestry, and ecology |
| BioDigest | Life-science information written in a non-technical style |
| BioOne | A full-text aggregation of bioscience, environmental science and ecology research journals. |
| BioOne.2 | A full-text aggregation of bioscience, environmental science and ecology research journals. |
| Biography & Genealogy Master Index | Indexes current references sources as well as retrospective works to determine which publication to consult for biographical information. |
| BiographyInd | Index to a wide range of biographical material |
| Blackwell Journals | Over 700 journals covering a wide range of subject areas, including international peer-reviewed titles, many published on behalf of scholarly and professional societies. |
| BookReview Digest | Reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books |
| BookReview Digest Plus | Reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction books since 1983 |
| BookReview Digest Retrospective | Citations and review excerpts for over 350,000 books published from 1905-1982 |
| BooksInPrint | In-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books |
| Britannica Online | Scholarly encyclopedia online |
| BusDateline | Regional information vital to businesses |
| BusManagement | Covers
practical aspects and approaches to business management. |
| BusinessOrgs | Organizations that serve business and industry |
| Business and Company Resource Center | Brings together global business information, such as case studies, company profiles, competitive intelligence, and career and investment opportunities. |
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| Cambridge Collections Online | A full-text collection of over 250 titles covering literature, classics, philosophy, religion and cultural studies and includes Shakespeare Survey Online. |
| Cambridge Journals Online | Over 200 peer-reviewed titles in subject areas such as political science, law, economics, history, psychology, mathematics, language & linguistics, and humanities. |
| CAMIO | Brings together one-of-a-kind art collections from a variety of museums to create a virtual collection of art objects from antiquity to the present. |
| ChiltonLibrary | Provides quick online access to repair, maintenance and service information on the most popular cars, trucks, vans and SUVs on the road. |
| Choice | Scholarly reviews of academic books. |
| CINAHL Basic | Contains indexing for over 2,800 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health with records going back to 1982. |
| CQ Weekly | Update on current legislation in the U.S. Congress |
| Computer Database | Index of computer-related news and reviews. |
| Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works | Over 23,000 pages of transcripts of therapy, counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment. |
| Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus | Full-text articles from key publications on social, scientific, health, political, and global issues and organized by topic for easy access |
| CWI | Contemporary Women's Issues (health and human rights) |
| Dictionary of Old English A to G | Defines the vocabulary of the first centuries (600-1150 A.D.) of the English language. |
| Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus | At least one copy of each text surviving in Old English, fully searchable, and providing the basis for the production of the Dictionary of Old English. |
| Dissertations | Dissertations and theses from institutions in the North America and Europe |
| Duke Scholarly Collection | Online full-text access to 29 Duke humanities and social science journals (previously available in Project Muse). |
| ECO | An OCLC collection of scholarly journals |
| EconLit | Journals, books, and working papers on economics |
| EducationAbs | Leading publications in the field of education |
| Educator's Reference Complete | Covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college with full-text results from more than 1,100 peer-reviewed periodicals and reports. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | Comprehensive, scholarly encyclopedia |
| ERIC | Journal articles and reports on education topics |
| EssayGenLit | Find contents in collected works focusing on humanities and social sciences |
| Expanded Academic ASAP | Index of scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers |
| First Search | A collection of over 60 databases from OCLC |
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| General Business File ASAP | Access to broker reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals, and company directory listings |
| General OneFile | One-stop source for news and journal articles on a wide range of topics |
| General Ref Center Gold | General information for popular journals |
| GenSciAbs | General science literature from the U.S. and Europe |
| GEOBASE | Worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology |
| GoogleScholar | Allows a broad search for scholarly literature across many disciplines, and identifies resources available from Mossey Library. |
| GPO | U.S. government publications |
| Grove Music Online | A dynamic resource including the full text of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed. |
| Hand Press Book | Records for European printing of the hand-press period (c.1455-1830) |
| Harper's Weekly | Electronic access to Harper's Weekly examining nineteenth century America from 1857-1889. |
| Health Ref Center Academic | Medicine, Health database |
| Health and Wellness Resource Center | General health topics from popular, consumer magazines |
| HeritageQuest Online | Combines digital, searchable images of U.S. Federal Census records with 22,000 titles from the Genealogy & Local History Collection. |
| Historical Abstracts | Comprehensive index of articles and books relating to world history from 1450 to the present. |
| History of Science, Technology and Medicine | An international bibliography of material selected from periodicals since 1973 as well as books, conference proceedings, dissertations and other resources. |
| HumanitiesAbs | Abstracts covering diverse subject areas of the humanities |
| Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective | Index of articles from journals covering the humanities & social sciences from 1907-1983. |
| InfoTrac Junior Edition | journal index designed for junior high and middle school students |
| InfoTrac Kid's Edition | Full text articles for elementary school students |
| InfoTrac Newspapers | Full text of 150 newspapers |
| InfoTrac Student Edition | journal index designed for high school students |
| Informe | A full-text reference tool to provide indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic magazines. |
| International Medieval Bibliography | Interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages |
| Issues and Controversies - Facts On File | Contains up-to-date, in-depth information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day since 1995. |
| JSTOR | Long runs of full text articles from major scholarly journals |
| Kids InfoBits | Meets the research needs of students in grades K-5 |
| Learning Express
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Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams including the GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT. You will be required to create a user name and password the first time you access this resource. |
| LegalPeriodical | International legal information covering all areas of jurisprudence |
| LegalTrac | Index to law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and legal newspapers |
| LexisNexis Academic | Current legal, political, economic and business articles, data and statistics |
| LexisNexis Congressional | Activities of the U.S. Congress, including the Congressional Record |
| LexisNexis Statistical | Comprehensive collection of statistical information |
| LibraryLit | Materials on libraries and information science |
| Literature Resource Center | An interdisciplinary approach to literature containing full-text articles from more than 170 literary journals, critical essays, overviews, plot summaries, and author biographies. |
| LitFinder | Thousands of full-text short stories, poems, essays, plays and speeches. |
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| Making of the Modern World: 1450-1850 | Digital images of 61,000 primary sources covering material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport |
| MathSciNet | A comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940 sponsored by the American Mathematical Society. |
| MEDLINE | All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing |
| Michigan Newspapers | Full text newspapers from Michigan |
| MLA | Literature, language, linguistics, folklore |
| NetLibrary | Thousands of full text books online |
| NewsAbs | Significant items from over 50 U.S. national and regional newspapers |
| New York Times | Full-page images and article images from 1851 to three years before the current date. To locate articles from the past three years, click here. |
| NoveList | Offers a wide range of resources that provide electronic readers' advisory service to fiction readers of all ages. |
| OCLC First Search | A collection of over 60 databases from OCLC |
| Oxford English Dictionary | Historical dictionary of the English language |
| Oxford Journals Online Collection | Full text of 170 journals across the disciplines of life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, humanities, social sciences and law. |
| Oxford Language Dictionaries Online | Unabridged bilingual dictionaries in French, German, Spanish and Italian. |
| Oxford Reference Online | Reference titles from Oxford University Press |
| PerAbs | journal abstracts from general and academic journals |
| Index to books and articles on the 19th century | |
| Project Muse | Full text of leading scholarly journals |
| PsycARTICLES | Full text articles from journals published by APA. Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology. |
| PsycINFO_1887 | Psychology and related fields since 1887 |
| ReadersGuideAbs | Abstracts of articles from popular magazines from 1983 to the present. |
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Indexing of articles from popular magazines from 1963-1982. |
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Covers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance and music therapy from 1969 to the present. |
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| Sage Periodicals Online | A collection of 400 full-text journals in business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine |
| Science Citation Index Expanded | Access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in approximately 5,900 leading scholarly science and technical journals from 1900-present. |
| Science.gov | Authoratative scientific information from 30 federal scientific databases and more than 1,800 science websites |
| SCIPIO | A joint project of 25 different fine arts organizations, combining their art catalog collections and covering sculpture, textiles and painting. |
| SIRS Renaissance | Contains more than 1,200 domestic and international publications providing information on architecture and design, culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion, and the visual arts. |
| SIRSResearcher | Social, scientific, economic, and political issues worldwide |
| Social Sciences Citation Index | Access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 leading scholarly social sciences journals from 1956-present. |
| Times of London | Full-text and full-image articles from the Times of London for the years 1785-1985. |
| Virtual Reference Library | Encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. |
| Washington Information Directory | Contact and descriptive information on more than 10,000 federal government offices, agencies, committees, etc. from CQ Press. |
| Web of Knowledge | A fully integrated database that allows citation tracking and indepth research. |
| Who's Who on the Web | Includes 1.3 million notable men and women from all fields of endeavor and from around the world. Also includes American History biographies. |
| WilsonBusiness Abstracts | Leading English-language business journals |
| WilsonSelectPlus | Full text articles in the sciences, humanities, education and business |
| WorldAlmanac | The World Almanacs - fundamental reference resources |
| WorldCat | OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide |
| Worldscope | Basic financial information on public companies worldwide |
| World Shakespeare Bibliography Online | Annotated entries for all important works related to Shakespeare published between 1964 and 2005. |