Alphabetical List of Databases:
The library provides access to databases to only Rockhurst University current faculty, students and staff. Due to licensing agreements visitors do not have access to all subscription library databases.
Click Subject List of Databases to view databases narrowed to a specific subject discipline.
All databases are accessible from the library and most are also accessible from offices and dorms. Instructions for off campus access can be found on the Off Campus Database Access page.
Click on a letter below to find a database whose name starts with that letter.
A B C D E F G H J L M N P R S W
This is a good starting place for finding articles on almost any topic. Scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with full-text periodicals, including peer-reviewed journals.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
This is an archive of full-text American periodicals and primary documents of the 18th and 19th centuries of particular interest to researchers in American history
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection
ACLS Humanities E-Book is an online collection of over 3,300 full-text digitized books of high quality in the humanities, searchable by keyword.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
American Chemical Society Journals
This is a collection of current and archived web editions of selected publications from the American Chemical Society.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Applied Science & Technology Full-Text
International and English-language periodicals, covering industries, computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, technology and much more.
Coverage: Indexing from 1983 - present; full text articles 1997-present Paid for by Greenlease Library
ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials
Index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. Full-text available on some articles.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
This database offers the full-text of dramatic plays from the mid-1800s by authors from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean and African countries. Also included are playbills, images and other ephemera related to the productions.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Book Collection: Nonfiction-Elementary
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Book Collection: Nonfiction- High School
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Book Collection: Nonfiction- Middle School
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Research and compare companies and industries using industry rankings, company profiles, market share data, investment reports, charts, graphs, and more.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
Indexing of periodicals, essay collections, church documents, papal documents and electronic resources expressly addressing the practice and intellectual tradition of Roman Catholicism.
Coverage: 1981 to present Paid for by Greenlease Library
Caribbean Search is a multidisciplinary database that provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles pertinent to the countries and people of the Caribbean region. The collection contains Caribbean focused scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, reports and reference books.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Child Development & Adolescent Studies
Source for references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. Book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations covering biomedical and social sciences worldwide are indexed.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
News, information, and job source for college and university faculty members, administrators, and students.
Search for news on nonprofit organizations, reports, annuaul surveys on giving, executive ocmpensation, endowments and charity rankings, and the Chronicle's Guide to Grants.
Coverage: 1997- present Paid for by Greenlease Library
Nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Includes evidence-based care information.
Coverage:1981 to present Paid for by Greenlease Library
A compilation of six databases, of importance to the practice of evidence-based medicine. Designed to provide evidence to help inform health care providers decide on the best treatment for a condition or disease by identifying all controlled trials of interventions for a particular condition and reviewing the results to see which work best.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Quality research in areas related to communication and mass media.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. In addition, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Published by Congressional Quarterly, Inc, this resource covers United States government, politics and commerce. Archive content includes articles, vote charts, legislation and congressional calendars.
Coverage: 1983-2009 Paid for by Greenlease Library
This full-text document and image database covers public affairs and public policy, social work, government, political science, journalism, education,and communications. Chronologies, case studies,bibliographies, links to websites legislative analysis, primary documents, maps, voting records are just some of the items types available.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Full-text online reference. Contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Contains overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, timelines and multimedia elements in five core subject areas: history, literature, biography, science and social studies.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Content includes in-depth coverage of special education and more than 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests. Subject coverage includes adult education, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods and much more.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Financial filings for all companies registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Coverage: 1994- present Freely available resource
Encyclopedia of Human Relationships
Encyclopedia on relationship science.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Via Ebsco; produced by the Educational Resource Information Center, ERIC provides indexing and abstracting for journal and report literature in education and related disciplines. Literature indexed and abstracted also includes curricular materials such as courses of study, books, conference papers, and theses.
Coverage: 1966 - present Paid for by Greenlease Library
Entrepreneurial Studies Source
Magazines, academic journals and books on entrepreneurial topics, Datamonitor case studies, and videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Seminar Series and Vator.TV. Covers: Business Planning, Communications, Innovations, Risk Taking, Raising Capita,l Marketing, Product Development, Management, and Organizational behavior.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a collection of reference books and encyclopedias in electronic format. Titles cover a wide range of subjects, from the arts to medicine, and from multicultural studies, religion, philosophy, and theology to social science.
Coverage: 1999 - Paid for by Greenlease Library
Information covering all aspects of human impact to 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.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
JSTOR provides an archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences. A moving end-date wall excludes the most recent 2-5 years of currently available journals.
Coverage: Varies. End-date wall excludes most recent 2-5 years of titles Paid for by Greenlease Library
Online skill-building interactive courses in math, reading, and writing, as well as online interactive practice tests for several types of exams including grade school achievement tests, the SAT, GED, U.S. Citizenship, and civil service positions. Popular software tutorials included. Note: To take a test, a user first sets up an individual account.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Full-text access to general, regional and international news, company news and financial information, legal information, and other topics such as biographical information.
Coverage: Varies. Some files back to 1970s Paid for by Greenlease Library
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Coverage: 1960 to present Paid for by Greenlease Library
Literary criticism and information on authors, works and literary movements. Some full-text of short works and interviews.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text of popular magazines. Also has full-text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an Image Collection of photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Designed specifically for public libraries, this general interest multidisciplinary database provides coverage of periodicals, reference books, primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of photos, maps & flags.
Coverage: 1975 to present Paid for by Greenlease Library
Authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from current biomedical journals.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies
Systematic and non-evaluative bibliographic index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa .
Coverage: 1900 to present Paid for by Greenlease Library
Middle Search Plus provides full-text for popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
MLA International Bibliography
Detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
An on-line library of more than 75,000 tracks of music from the catalog of Naxos, a leading classical music label, and selected additional labels. Limited to 5 concurrent users.
Coverage: varies Paid for by Greenlease Library
A streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries. Limited to 5 concurrent users.
Coverage: varies Paid for by Greenlease Library
Full-text of articles from the Kansas City Star (1991-present) and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1988-present), as well as additional domestic newspapers in the United States and newspapers from around the world
Coverage: varies by title Paid for by Greenlease Library
U.S. and international newspapers, television, and radio news transcripts.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
19th Century British Library Newspapers
A collection of national and regional newspapers of Victorian Britain. This full-text, fully searchable digital archive currently includes papers originating in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
Coverage: 1800-1900 Paid for by Greenlease Library
A collection of British periodicals covering nineteenth-century literature and culture, empire, feminism, the history of the book, the creative and performing arts, sport and leisure, science and medicine, the professions, in short, of all aspects of nineteenth-century life that the press encompassed.
Coverage:1800-1900 Paid for by Greenlease Library
Indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
Coverage: 1940 to present Paid for by Greenlease Library
Magazines for elementary school research. All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
Coverage: 1990 to present Paid for by Greenlease Library
Professional Development Collection
Collection of full-text education journals & educational reports.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Digitized versions of two business periodicals, Barron's Weekly and the Wall Street Journal.
Coverage: 2008- present Paid for by Greenlease Library
Source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Index covering all aspects of global contemporary public policy issues ranging from public health, the environment, housing, human and civil rights, to international conflict and natural disasters. It draws on a diverse array of scholarly publications, conference papers, government documents and current reference works.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
This free medical index is produced by the National Library of Medicine and covers journals in all areas of medicine.
Freely available resource
A bibliography management program that allows Rockhurst University faculty, students and staff to set up their own online account to manage electronic citations imported from databases subscribed to by the Greenlease Library as well as input citation information from print sources. A bibliography can be produced in Microsoft Word.
Paid for by Greenleease Library
Regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
Access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. The service allows users to search summaries of statistical publications, then link to the full-text of selected publications or government Web sites.
Coverage: Varies. Paid for by Greenlease Library
WorldCat is a database that allows researchers to search the combined catalogs of hundreds of libraries around the world. This source can help researchers find items, verify citations, and see which libraries own the given item.
Coverage: Paid for by Greenlease Library
See a Subject List of Databases
For information about additional electronic resources contact the Head of Public Services, Danielle Theiss at Danielle.Theiss@rockhurst.edu.