Best Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowMulti-disciplinary full-text database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Indexes and abstracts more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
- Dissertations and Theses Global (ProQuest)As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content.
- MasterFILE PremierSearchable access to ful-text for nearly 1,700 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, and multi-cultural issues. Indexes many popular magazines.
- NoveListFiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, and annotations for over 125,000 fiction titles. Also includes Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. Coverage includes picture books, children's "chapter" books, young adult titles and books for adult readers. Title records include full-text reviews from several journals, including Booklist, School Library Journal, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly.
- St. James Encyclopedia of Popular CultureIncludes more than 2,700 signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and, where appropriate, photographs and textual cross-references to related essays.
Newspapers
Newspapers are a good source to find articles and reviews on films, popular reads, sports, fads, and trends.
- Access World NewsFull-text of over 600 U.S. newspapers, including the Lexington Herald-Leader (1983 - present) and other Kentucky newspapers. Access World News also covers over 1,300 foreign English-language news resources and Spanish-language papers from around the world.
- Nexis UniIncludes access to over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications (most full-text, the rest abstracted), primarily newspapers, magazines and journals. Covers local, regional and international newspapers (in English and non-English languages).
- ProQuest News and Newspapers Combined SearchCombined search of the following ProQuest databases:
Alt-Press Watch
Courier-Journal (Louisville)
Ethnic NewsWatch
GenderWatch
New York Times Historical Edition
Wall Street Journal (various editions)