FULL-TEXT THROUGH LANGSDALE LIBRARY
Remember, there is no universal database offering full text on every subject. The amount of full text available to you is dependent upon the nature of your research.
In general, there is more full text available for research in business, law, computers and on current events. Coverage for the social sciences, especially psychology and criminal justice, varies. As a result, fewer full-text articles are available due to date restrictions. If you are not satisfied with your search results, contact a Reference Librarian on the second floor of Langsdale Library or call 410-837-4274, e-mail the reference staff at langref@ubalt.edu or chat with us at http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/info_services/contact.htm
100% full text resources:
AccessScience
[on-campus]
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Coverage: 8th edition plus. Search
7,000 articles, 115,000 definitions, and biographies of more than 1,200 key
scientists in the online version the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science &
Technology.
Baltimore
Sun [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Sept 16, 1990 - present. Full text of Baltimore Sun.
Coverage: various dates. Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Communication & Mass Media Complete provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media. offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources. In total, several hundred valuable sources are covered.
CQ
Researcher [on-campus]
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Coverage: 1991 - present. Provides
full text essays on social and political topics, including chronologies, overviews
of issues, opposing viewpoints and bibliographies.
Credo Reference
[on
campus]
Content available throughCredo Reference includes a wide range of general reference
titles together with a large collection of subject-specific books spanning 20
topics, covering everything from the arts to astronomy, law to literature and
science to Shakespeare.
Criminal
Justice Periodicals[on
campus]
1981 to the present: Full-text coverage for 45 of the titles most frequently accessed
by criminal justice researchers, and complete indexing and abstracts for another
140 relevant U.S. and international journals.
HEIN
ONLINE: [On-campus]
Coverage: varies. A retrospective collection of over 90 law reviews, with over
200,000 articles. Full-text is available, in graphical image format.
Hoover's
Company Records[on-campus]
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Coverage: 2002-current. Find in-depth company information on over 5,000 companies
with Hoover's Company Records. Each profile provides an overview and history,
as well as as information on key people, products, subsidiaries and competitors.
Literature
Resource Center [on-campus]
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Coverage: varies. Includes the series Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary
Criticism (CLC), and Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) and full-text
articles from 34 literary journals.
Mergent
Online [on-campus]
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Coverage: Current. Mergent Online contains the electronic versions of the Mergent
(formerly Moody's) Manuals (Industrial, OTC, Banking and Finance, and International),
covering over 10,000 U.S. companies and thousands for foreign companies. The financial
data for most companies covers 15 years. Industry reports are included.
National
Newspapers (NA5) with Washington Post [[on-campus]]
Coverage: Varies with each title back to 1984.
Full text of 5 newspapers:
Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, New Yirk Times Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition
and the Washington Post.
NetLibrary
[on-campus]
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Coverage: Varies. A collection of E-texts covering specifically chosen by Maryland
Academic Libraries. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).
PsycARTICLES
[on
campus]
This database provides full
text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning
from 1987 to the present. PsycARTICLES includes more than 35,000 full-text articles
from 49 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied
organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.
Wall
Street Journal [on-campus]
Coverage: 1984 - present. Includes full text of Eastern edition of Wall Street
Journal newspaper.
Mostly full text:
Biography
Resource Center [on-campus] [help]
The Biography Resource Center (BioRC) is a comprehensive database of biographical
information on over 320,000 people from throughout history, around the world,
and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 400,000
biographies from over 800 volumes.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic [on-campus]
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Coverage: 1970 - present. Features full text of many newspapers and periodicals.
Also offers business news, legal materials such as federal & state codes,
case law and legal journals.
More than
50% full text after 1990:
Academic
Search Premier [on-campus]
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Coverage: 1990 - present.
Provides full-text for over 3,400 scholarly journals covering the social sciences,
humanities, education, sciences, and more. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library
(MDL).
Coverage: 1970 - present. Indexes more than 1,300 journals on business, management, with 75% full-text.
Business
and Company Resource Center [on-campus]
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Coverage: 1979 - present. Profiles 400,000 companies. Provides company histories,
business articles, industry rankings and analyses for selected public companies.
Coverage: Varies– present. Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 8,350 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL). Includes company profiles, many of which contain SWOT analyses.
General
BusinessFile ASAP [on-campus]
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Coverage: 1979 - present. Indexes more than 2600 business and trade publications
with substantial full text. Includes SIC Descriptions with links to industry articles
and Investext with full-text investment reports.
Coverage: 1990 - present. Searchable full-text for nearly 190 journals and abstracts and indexing for over 200 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Now includes Clinical Reference Systems and Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL). Health Source Plus (nursing edition) [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1990 - present. Searchable full-text for nearly 580 journals and abstracts and indexing for over 615 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Now includes Clinical Reference Systems. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).
Military
& Government Collection [on-campus]
Coverage:
various dates. Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of
the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals,
academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those
sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full
text for nearly 350 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for
nearly 450 titles.
National
Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
Coverage: 1975 - present. NCJRS contains abstracts of 160,000 criminal
justice publications including journal articles; federal, state, and local
government reports; books; research reports; and unpublished research;
it also offers the full text of more than 1,500 publications at NCJRS
and the U. S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. (URL:
http://www.ncjrs.org)
Regional
Business News [on-campus]
Coverage: Varies. Regional
Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering
all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database
are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and
other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt
Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester
County Business Journal, etc.
Soc Index with full text (Ebsco)
This index features more than 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociology-specific thesaurus designed
by expert lexicographers. This product also contains informative abstracts for
more than 620 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from
from more than 500 "priority" coverage journals as well as over 1,390 "selective" coverage journals. Further, extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources is included.
Smartlinking (abstract resources that link to full text):
Coverage: 1990 – present. Indexes journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Citations only. No abstracts or full-text. Now includes ContentsFirst.
CINAHL
[on-campus]
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Coverage:
1982 – present.
Indexes/abstracts nursing and allied health literature.
Criminal
Justice Abstracts [on-campus]
Coverage:
1968 - present. Criminal
Justice Abstracts indexes the major journals, books and governmental reports
in the areas of criminology and related disciplines. Topics include crime trends,
corrections, police, offenders, juvenile delinquency, courts, victims, and sentencing.
Digital
Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts from Proquest) [on-campus]
Coverage 1861 – present. Indexes U.S., Canadian, British, and other European dissertations
and theses; dissertations abstracted since 1980, theses abstracted since 1988.
A 24 page preview of dissertations published since 1997 is available. The full
text of dissertations may be obtained by clicking the free download button.
EconLit
[on-campus]
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Coverage: 1969 - present. Subject indexing and abstracts of journals, books, collective
volumes, dissertations, and working papers in Economics.
ERIC
(EBSCO) [on-campus]
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Coverage: 1966 - present. Indexes Current Journals in Education (CIJE) and Resources
in Education (RIE). Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).
Historical
Abstracts
[on
campus]
1954 to the present: Information on articles, books, and dissertations about non-U.S.
and non-Canadian history from 1450 to the present. Covers more than 2000 journals
in 50 languages. Includes links to full text of selected journal articles.
Medline
[on-campus]
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Coverage: 1966 – present. Indexes/abstracts
more than 3,200 journals from the biomedical field.
PAIS
- Public Affairs Information Service [on-campus]
Coverage: 1972
– present. Indexes
3600 journals, books, and government documents in the fields of political science,
policy, public administration, society.
PsycINFO
[on-campus]
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Coverage: 1887 – present. Indexes 1,300 Psychology
journals from nearly 50 countries. Also includes abstracts for dissertations,
books and book chapters. Same coverage as PsycLit.
WorldCat [on-campus]
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Coverage: Varies. International database of collections (including books, journals
, dissertations, documents, and other materials) held by libraries worldwide.
Maryland libraries that own copies of the items display at the top of the list
of libraries so you can easily determine if local libraries own the material needed.
Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts
written as early as the 12th century.
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Access - ResearchPort
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