Articles & Databases

Description: An integrated network of electronic scientific and technical information created by scientists and research engineers intended for use by other scientists, engineers, and students.
 

Description: Online access to over 25,000 books
 

Description: Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
 

Description: TRIAL of Ebsco's federated search product.
 

Description: Index to the economic literature. (1969-present)
 

Description: Indexing coverage from hundreds of education journals including about 79 journals not covered by ERIC’s CIJE.
 

Description: "Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War."
 

Description: In-depth and current coverage of 195 countries for doing business in world markets.
 

Description: "Updated edition of this lauded work on Judaism features more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists."
 

Description: Encyclopedia Britannica on-line. Includes inks to additional print and web resources.
 

Description: Covers the topics, concepts, and ideas which motivated and shaped the fields of activism, civil engagement, and social justice.
 

Description: Surveys the breadth of critical thought on art, culture, and society – from classical philosophy to contemporary critical theory.
 

Description: An up-to-date encyclopedia on the history, people, politics, and cultures of Africa. Includes entries on individual countries and social issues such as the AIDS crisis.
 

Description: Documents the African American experience "from the arrival of the first slave ship to the death of Frederick Douglass - and shows how all aspects of American culture, history, and national identity have been profoundly influenced by the experience of African Americans."
 

Description: "...traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African Americans on the American cultural landscape."
 

Description: Information on the people, places, and events of the African Diaspora, spanning five continents and five centuries.
 

Description: Covers the rise of urban America in the 20th century. Interdisciplinary approach covering topics from economics, geography, anthropology, politics, and sociology.
 

Description: Covers anthropological terms, history and concepts, and topics in other fields (for example, biology, psychology, and linguistics) related to anthropology.
 

Description: "Key insights into the military, political, social, cultural, and religious origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict."
 

Description: Information on nonprofit membership organizations worldwide. It provides addresses and descriptions of professional societies, trade associations, labor unions, cultural and religious organizations, fan clubs, and other groups of all types.
 

Description: Deals with a large range topics in bioethics including the health professions and the environment.
 

Description: Covers topics of ethics in the business world.
 

Description: Entries describe the relationships between mass media and children's development. Includes issues involving technology, business, and video games.
 

Description: From the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union, The Encyclopedia of the Cold War provides authoritative information on all military conflicts, battlefield and surveillance technologies, diplomatic initiatives, important individuals and organizations, national histories, economic developments, societal and cultural events, and more.
 

Description: Covers a wide variety of topics within the fields of criminal justice, sociology, and law.
 

Description: Volumes 1 - 4 cover disability A to Z, including a Reader's Guide, comprehensive bibliography, and index. Volume 5 contains a wealth of primary source documents in the field of disability.
 

Description: Covers the social, medical and political issues related to drugs and alcohol, as well as types of addiction.
 

Description: "Covers a number of essential topics, including: key cases in education law; constitutional issues; key concepts, theories, and legal principles; key statutes; treaties; curricular issues; educational equity; governance; rights of students and teachers; technology; biographies; and organizations."
 

Description: Presents the most recent theories, research, terms, concepts, ideas, and histories on educational leadership and school administration as it is taught in preparation programs and practiced in schools and colleges today.
 

Description: Covers the psychology of learning and teaching and includes topics on measurement and statistics, curriculum and development.
 

Description: Covers topics about the relationship between the environment and society. Includes policies and theories.
 

Description: Examines the philosophical and ethical issues underlying contemporary and historical environmental issues, policies, and debates. Covers concepts, institutions, topics, events and people, including global warming, animal rights, environmental movements, alternative energy, green chemistry, industrial ecology, and eco-sabotage.
 

Description: Provides definitions and essays on financial terms, topics and formulas.
 

Description: Covers the major theories, research, people, and issues in contemporary gender studies. Offers a cross-national/cross-cultural perspective that provides comparative analyses of the life experiences of men and women around the world.
 

Description: Covers the science and history of climate change, the controversies over climate-change theories, the role of societies, the industrial and economic factors, and the sociological aspects of climate change.
 

Description: Three volumes on human development and psychology.
 

Description: This multidisciplinary volume provides cross-cultural coverage of human geography as it is understood in the contemporary world and takes into account the enormous conceptual changes that have evolved since the 1970s.
 

Description: "Offers an interdisciplinary view of all types of human associations. Provides a state-of-the-art review of the extensive theories, concepts, and empirical findings about human relationships."
 

Description: "This encyclopedia offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history."
 

Description: A searchable encyclopedia covering many aspects of the history of migration and immigration to the American West.
 

Description: A comprehensive encyclopedia on India. Includes history, geography, and culture.
 

Description: Focuses on the study of the behavior of people in the workplace.
 

Description: "This encyclopedia looks at Islam's role in the modern world, doing so in context of the religion's history and development over the last 13 centuries. Contains thematic articles, biographies of key figures, definitions, illustrations, maps and more."
 

Description: Provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of Latin American history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. Covers cultural issues and includes numerous biographical profiles of important figures in politics, letters and the arts.
 

Description: Law, sociology, criminology, anthropology, political science, and economics perspectives on law and society.
 

Description: A comprehensive electronic book with entries on the history and current topics of law enforcement.
 

Description: This encyclopedia provides an in-depth look at major marketing campaigns in the 20th and 21st centuries. Each marketing campaign is described in terms of overview,historical context, target market, competition, marketing strategy, and outcome.
 

Description: Covers over 300 topics in management theories and applications. Topics include: aggregate planning, benchmarking, logistics, diversification strategy, non-traditional work arrangements, performance measurement, productivity measures, supply chain management, and much more.
 

Description: A survey of European history since 1914. (1914-2007)
 

Description: Presents an overview of the psychology of racial, ethnic, and minority issues in the United States. It covers the breadth of psychology viewed through the lens of the racial and ethnic minority experience. Topics include academic achievement, acculturation, affirmative action, community interventions, education, health, immigrants, prejudice, racial identity development, social ecology, stereotyping, teaching multiculturalism, tokenism, values, violence, worldviews, and more.
 

Description: Theories behind political speeches, televised advertising, posters, debates ,websites and other means of political within the context current and past events.
 

Description: An encyclopedia on United States Politics that includes definitions, histories, ideological principles, etc. Organized by political "right" and "left".
 

Description: Explores the similar historical experiences of varied racial and ethnic groups and illustrates how race and ethnicity has mattered and continues to matter in the administration of American criminal justice.
 

Description: The economic, sociological, historical, anthropological and scientific aspects of race and racism.
 

Description: Examines the role race and ethnicity play in society. Covers intergroup relations in the United States and the comparative examination of race and ethnicity worldwide.
 

Description: A comprehensive work containg articles on rhetoric from an historical, philosphical and literary perspectives. Includes topics on public speaking and performance.
 

Description: Comprehensive guide to the field of school psychology featuring the latest research on school learning, motivation, and educational assessment. Entries on psychology, education and counseling, child development, and special education address student success, behavior disorders, intelligence testing, learning disabilities, strategies to improve academic skills, and more.
 

Description: Discusses the ethical issues involved in many issues in science and technology as well as different features and characteristics in ethics that have to do specifically with science and technology.
 

Description: Covers issues of sexuality, gender and sex from a sociological, psychological and philosophical perspective.
 

Description: Covers the ideas and concepts that make up the intellectual and scientific content in the area of social psychology
 

Description: Covers all aspects of social work from practice, including demographics, social environments, social conditions, challenges, and policy.
 

Description: Examines life stages from a sociological perspective, exploring how both enduring and transitional experiences such as education, stress, marriage, career, parenthood, disease and retirement influence an individual’s life course. The impact of social and government policies and racial, gender, and geographic patterns of many life course phenomena are also covered.
 

Description: Provides a description and scholarly analysis for all presidential elections, including state and general elections.
 

Description: Biographies and topical essays that describe the often-overlooked contributions of women to the science, politics, and culture of the Renaissance.
 

Description: "Covers a number of essential topics, including: key cases in education law; constitutional issues; key concepts, theories, and legal principles; key statutes; treaties; curricular issues; educational equity; governance; rights of students and teachers; technology; biographies; and organizations."
 

Description: Deals with design theory, web interface, methods, practices and other topics pertaining to the usability of technology.
 

Description: Databases include: ANTE (Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering), ASCE Civil Engineering Abstracts, Earthquake Engineering Abstracts, Environmental Engineering Abstracts, Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts. (1966-current)
 

Description: Covers the topics of air and water quality, environmental safety, energy production and more. (1990 - current.)
 

Description: This ebook provides overviews, excerpts, and some full text of first-hand historical documents related to environmental issues.
 

Description: Comprehensive database covering the environmental sciences -- Ecology, pollution, hazardous waste, energy resources, bacteriology, air quality and much more.
 

Description: The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world's premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. ERIC provides a public Web site for searching nearly 1.2 million citations going back to 1966 and, with contributor permission, accessing more than 110,000 full-text materials at no charge.
 

Description: Index and abstracts of educational journals and other materials a since 1966. Use this version of ERIC to link to RWU library journal subscriptions not available in the U.S. Department of Educations ERIC interface. (1966 - present)
 

Description: Index and abstracts of educational journals and other materials a since 1966. Use this version of ERIC to link to RWU library journal subscriptions not available in the U.S. Department of Educations ERIC interface.
 

Description: Standard reference source for country information. Offers current overview of political and economic situations in over 250 countries and comparative statistics.
 

Description: A survey of European history beginning with the French Revolution and ending with the onset of World War I. (1798-1914)
 

Description: A survey of European history since 1914. (1914-2007)
 

Description: This ebook contains entries on 150 active extremist groups from around the world. Each entry gives background information, information on major players, tactics and information about counter efforts.