Databases and Online Resources

Below is a list of all subscribed databases and other online resources available to the Arcadia community. Access is available worldwide through the links below with your MyArcadia login credentials. You don’t need to log in at the resource. For best results, use Chrome or Firefox. 

Please contact helpdesk@arcadia.edu or reference@arcadia.edu with any problems.

Academic Search Ultimate  Robust bibliographic database with over 10,000 active full-text journals and magazines, over 9,000 active full-text peer-reviewed journals, and over 6,500 active full-text peer-reviewed journals with no embargo, in subjects including Anthropology, Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Physics, Psychology, Religion, Philosophy, Science, and Technology.

AccessMedicine  Medical textbooks, including Harrison’s Online, Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, and Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine. Also includes patient education handouts.

ACM Digital Library  Full text of all publications of the Association for Computing Machinery.

American Chemical Society Journals  The American Chemical Society is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences, serving scientific communities worldwide through an unparalleled commitment to quality, reliability, and innovation.

AMA Manual of Style  A must-have guide for anyone involved in medical and scientific publishing.

Anatomy.TV  Anatomy.TV by Primal Pictures covers a full range of interactive and accurate 3D models of human anatomy online, with specialized resources on various clinical areas and body systems. 

AnthroSource  Journals published by the American Anthropological Association.

Art Index  Citations and abstracts for 680 art journals, more than 14,000 art dissertations, and more than 215,000 art reproductions.

Art Index Retrospective  Citation index of historical literature on a variety of art topics from the years 1929 to 1984, chronicling over half a century of art literature, it covers fine, decorative, and commercial art.

ARTstor  More than 2 million high-quality images for education and research from a wide variety of contributors around the world.

Biomedical Reference Collection  Contains over 4,000 full-text journals covering a variety of disciplines ranging from biomedicine and health sciences to the health care system and pre-clinical sciences.

Books@Ovid  More than 200 premium books published by LWW in medicine, nursing, and health sciences that have been designated as Doody’s Core Titles™ by healthcare professionals and medical librarians.

Business Source Complete  More than 2,250 active full-text journals and magazines, more than 1,330 active full-text peer-reviewed journals, and nearly 800 active full-text peer-reviewed journals with no embargo.

Chicago Manual of Style  Find it. Write it. Cite it. The Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format.

The Chronicle of Higher Education  The nation’s largest newsroom dedicated to covering colleges and universities.

ClinicalKey  This resource for healthcare professionals has over 650 journals and over 1,100 medical reference books. Also includes instructional videos, practice guidelines, medical images, and abstracts from the MEDLINE database.

Criminal Justice Abstracts  More than 320 full-text magazines and journals and coverage of 600 journals from around the world.

De Gruyter (trial through December 31, 2022) A wide variety of ebooks and online journals ranging “from archaeology to zoology”

DOAJ  The Directory of Open Access Journals consists of more than 9,000 freely available, scholarly journals in all subjects.

EBSCO  EBSCO is a vendor that provides many of the databases used at Landman Library. Using this link will search across all our resources with EBSCO, including:

EBSCO EBooks  Search across thousands of our subscribed EBSCO eBooks covering a wide variety of subjects.

E-Journals  Searches across over 100 individual journal titles subscribed through EBSCO but made available at the publisher’s site.

EBook Central  Browse and access thousands of ebook titles.

ERIC  Authoritative database of indexed and full-text educational literature and resources.

Grove Art Online (Oxford Art Online)  Foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, covering both Western and non-Western art. It contains over 45,000 articles visual arts, over 21,000 bibliographies, and thousands of images.

Health Business Elite  This database provides comprehensive journal content detailing all aspects of healthcare administration and other non-clinical aspects of healthcare institution management.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition  Over 350 journals on nursing and allied health literature.

Journals@Ovid  Scholarly articles from scientific, technical, and medical journals.

JSTOR  Articles from a range of subject areas, including language and literature, philosophy, African American studies, and classical studies.

JoVE  Advancing research and science education by making and publishing videos of scientific experiments from the top laboratories around the globe. 

LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts)  Citation-only database of literature related to library and information science.

LWW Health Libraries for Medical Science/Physician Assistant programs:

Marketline  Find profiles of companies, industries, and countries. SWOT analysis for the top 1000 companies. Industry profiles include five forces analysis.

MathSciNet  Scholarly articles on mathematics and mathematical research from the American Mathematical Society.

MLA International Bibliography with Full Text  The primary database for literature, from the Modern Language Association.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service  Articles and reports on law enforcement and criminal justice from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service.

New Play Exchange  The world’s largest digital library of scripts by living writers!

Newspaper Source Plus  Full text for more than 1,200 newspapers, more than 40 news magazines, news from more than 130 newswires, more than 74 million full-text articles, and more than 1.7 million television and radio news transcripts.

The New York Times The library has a subscription to The New York Times website. Follow these steps to create an account and access content:

     If you have any difficulty creating an account or accessing content on The New York Times website, please contact reference@arcadia.edu so we can help troubleshoot issues and get you connected to the news articles you want to see. (Clearing your browser’s cache and browsing history for the last 24 hours often solves login/access problems).

OmniFile Full-Text Mega  Covers several core subjects, featuring full-text articles from more than 3,000 publications, many of which are peer-reviewed. Additional coverage includes graphical content, podcasts, foreign language article translations, and downloadable mp3 and article read alouds.

Ovid  The primary platform for searching numerous health science databases, including the following (See elsewhere on this page for details of each.):

Oxford English Dictionary  Widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

Philosopher’s Index with Full Text  The leading full-text database covering all major fields of philosophy and related disciplines, more than 260 full-text journals.

Points of View Reference Center  Contains 400 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).

PsycARTICLES  Over 100 full-text journals from APA.

PsycBOOKS  Over 60,000 book chapters and over 4,000 peer-reviewed books from the APA, and 1,500 authored entries from the Encyclopedia of Psychology.

PsycINFO  World’s largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health, produced by the American Psychological Association.

PubMed  A service of the National Library of Medicine includes more than 14 million citations for biomedical articles dating back to the 1950s. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals, including links to many sites providing full-text articles and other related resources.

Sage Knowledge  Ebooks, reference sources, business case studies, and videos covering social and behavioral sciences, education, business, and more, plus the CQ Press library covering US government, politics, and current affairs.

Sage Premier  Over 800 journals published by Sage., including journals in international relations, education, sociology, business, and more.

ScienceDirect  Scholarly articles from over 8,000 scientific, technical, and medical journals.

SciFinder  The premier source for Chemistry – search journal articles from Chemical Abstracts, the CAS Registry of chemical substances, patents, and chemical reactions.

Social Justice Suite from HeinOnline – Includes three topical collections: Civil Rights and Social Justice; Gun Regulation and Legislation in America, and Slavery in America and the World.

Sociology Source Ultimate  Features more than 1,000 active full-text journals and magazines and more than 1,000 active full-text peer-reviewed journals, covering Deviant behavior, Discrimination, Economic development, Family relationships, Gender identity, Migration, Population growth, poverty and wealth, Religious faith, and Social Movements.

Sociological Abstracts  Citation database of international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral fields. Includes citations to articles from 1,800 journal, as well as dissertations, conference papers, and book chapters.

Taylor and Francis Politics, International Relations, and Security Collections  Previously called Informaworld, this database contains articles from over 200 journal in the area of politics and international relations.

Westlaw Campus Research  Comprehensive database of resources for researching U.S. Law. Includes primary sources including case law, statutes, and regulations at the federal and state levels as well as secondary sources e.g., American Law Reports, American Jurisprudence, and over 800 law reviews.

Wiley Online Library  Wiley offers an exceptional portfolio of over 1,600 journals covering the full spectrum of life, health and physical sciences, social science and the humanities, and include many titles ranked at the forefront of their field.

WorldCat.org Connecting thousands of libraries’ collections in one place, WorldCat.org makes it easy for you to browse the world’s libraries from one easy search box