The following is a list of online databases available in the Frederick Douglass Library to assist you with Multidisciplinary research.

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

African American Studies Center NEW
The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 8,000 full-text articles focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. It includes over 1,300 images, primary sources with specially written commentaries, and maps. Charts and tables offer information on everything from demographics to government and politics to business and labor to education and the arts.

ArticleFirst
OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of over 12,000 journals.

EJS E-journals
E-Journals allows search and retrieval of citations, abstracts and full text. Users have access to titles from publishers who have given EBSCO permission to re-use Table of Contents and abstract information in an aggregated database. Please note that this does not represent all of the titles available in EJS. Limiters can be utilized to further narrow search results. Most of these titles are scientific, technological or medical in nature.

JSTOR   
JSTOR contains full-text journals in arts and humanities.

Lexis Nexis Academic
Full-text database that offers a wide range of news, political, legal, business, and reference information in full-text format. Primary source of newspaper articles, including those from the Washington Post and the New York Times. Federal code, regulations, and case law, plus state codes and case law are also included.

MasterFILE Premier
Provides abstracts and indexing for 2,650 general periodicals. Full text of articles for nearly 2,000 periodicals, and 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews.

netLibrary  
This database contains a collection of electronic books covering a wide variety of subjects.

ProceedingsFirst   
ProceedingsFirst is an index of worldwide conference proceedings with over 74,000 records from 1993 to the present.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 
This database is the definitive guide to more than 1.6 million doctoral dissertations and master’s theses.

WorldCat   
WorldCat is a catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.

For assistance with these database, please consult a Reference Librarian.

(07/09/2008)