Blount Library      344 West Main St., Danville, VA 24541   |   Phone: (434) 791-5692   |   1-800-543-9440        aclib@averett.edu


Future Students | Current Students | Working Professionals | Alumni | Parents | Community/Media | Faculty/Staff | Sports Fans
Library

Databases, A-Z

Your 9 digit Averett ID number is required for remote access to subscription resources. If this number is not printed on your Averett ID card, please call (800-543-9440; 791-5692) or send e-mail to aclib@averett.edu. ... more information       (see also Subject Research Guides)

ABI/Inform Global
full text of articles from nearly 1800 U.S. and international business journals

Academic OneFile (InfoTrac) Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
9,000 academic journals in all subject areas, 5,500 of them full text, and 2,300 of those refereed (more than twice the number in the Expanded Academic ASAP)

ACM Digital Library
citations with abstracts for 344 journals, magazines, transactions, proceedings, and newsletters of the Association for Computing Machinery and affiliated organizations (for full text, use Citation Linker or search in Google Scholar)

AGRICOLA
citations to resources on all aspects of agriculture, forestry, and animal science, including equestrian studies

AIDS and Cancer Research Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions. - indexes literature in virology, immunology, and oncology, covering the most recent six years

Alternative Press Index Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.

American Film Scripts Online
776 film scripts by 856 writers, plus detailed information on scenes and characters; will eventually include 1,000 scripts

American National Biography
full-text biographies of prominent Americans who are now deceased. Continues and updates the Dictionary of American Biography, 1928-1985. Reference Collection: E 176 .D56

Annual Reviews
citations and abstracts for review articles from 29 annual volumes in biomedical, physical, and social sciences (use interlibrary loan for full text)

ArticleFirst Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
index to articles from 12,000 sources; 1990 to present

Arts & Humanities Search Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
index to 1,300 arts and humanities journals, 1980-

ARTstor
550,000 images in the visual and performing arts, history, anthropology, archaeology, humanities, and social sciences; please create your personal ARTstor account for access to special features.

Asian American Drama
252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with information on productions, theaters, production companies

ATLA Religion Index
index to 1,400 international journals (600 current) and 15,500 multi-author works, 1949-  Note: This subscription permits only one connection at a time. Please try again if access is blocked.

Averett Library Catalog
lists books, electronic books, videos, DVD's and other media available from the library

Biography and Genealogy Master Index
comprehensive index to biographies in the best known print reference sources, including Who's Who and many December 11, 2007

BioOne  Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
full text research journals in biology, ecology, and environmental science

Black Drama, 1850 to Present
1200 plays by 201 playwrights, with information on productions, theaters, production companies; selected playbills and production photographs

Blackwell-Synergy Collection Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
over 750 full text scholarly and professional journals in science, technology, medicine; also includes humanities and social sciences journals

Britannica Online Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
full text of Britannica, plus Internet Guide and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

Business Source Premier   (alternate: "Business interface")
full text of 8,200 accounting, business, management, marketing and economics journals (1,100 peer reviewed), company and industry profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies, country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch, market research reports, and SWOT analyses; updated daily

The Chronicle of Higher Education
premier source for higher education news and commentary, book reviews, statistics, job listings, and research grants information

Clase / Periódica Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
Clase indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities; Periódica indexes science and technology journals; articles may be in Spanish,  Portuguese, French or English.

Classical Music Library
multi-label database of Classical music recordings and reference sources for music education; over 32 labels and 50,000 tracks

Columbia Earthscape
New Sources! - full text environmental science resources for teachers, students, scientists, and decision-makers

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
full text and abstracts of working papers, proceedings, articles, books, policy brief, economic indicators

Consumers Index Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
index to consumer information from over 170 sources, 1986-present

Contemporary Authors
  in Literature Resource Center

full text bio-bibliographical guide to more than 120,000 authors, including those who were active prior to 1960, but continue to influence contemporary literature; now included in the Literature Resource Center

Contemporary Women's Issues Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
index to over 1,500 sources (books, journals, newsletters, research reports) from nonprofit groups, government and international agencies, 1992-

CQ Researcher - weekly full text reports on social issues from Congressional Quarterly, 1991-

Dissertation Abstracts Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
index to dissertations on all academic topics, 1861- | Purchase a dissertation reprint through document delivery.

Earthscape - See Columbia Earthscape

EconLit Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
index to journals, working papers, books in economics from 620 sources, 1969-

Encyclopaedia Britannica Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
full text of Britannica, plus Internet Guide and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

ERIC Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
comprehensive index to ERIC clearinghouse documents and to articles from 1,000 journals in education and related fields, plus technical reports, media, program descriptions, evaluations, and curricular materials, from 1966 to the present. Includes full text online for ERIC documents published since 1993. ERIC documents: ED; Journal articles: EJ

Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac) Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
full text articles and abstracts in all subject areasFor more peer reviewed journals, use Academic OneFile

Factiva Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
full text of over 8,000 business, news, and professional sources, plus investment analysis, company, and industry information. Full text of the Wall Street Journal, 1984 to present. Read front pages and link to web sites of daily newspapers from 23 countries, including Le Figaro, Le Monde, Die Welt, The Jerusalem Post, An-Nahar (Lebanon), El Mundo, The Guardian. (See Factiva Tour for a guide to searching the database.)

FirstSearch databases Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
citation databases, some with abstracts, in various subject areas

Gale Virtual Reference Library - 18 major reference works in searchable electronic books format

GEOBASE Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
index to literature in geography, geology, and ecology, from 2,060 sources, 1980-

Google Scholar @ Averett
Internet index to scholarly literature, with access to Averett subscriptions in selected databases (ACM). Search cited sources also in our Journal Locator. More info...

Government Information on the Internet
annotated descriptions and links to 5,000 URLs for federal, state, local, international, and intergovernmental Web sites; search by subject, keyword, agency, publication

GPO Monthly Catalog Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
catalog of U.S. Government Documents, 1976 to present

Granger's World of Poetry
over 200,000 poem citations and more than 23,000 full text poems, plus commentaries, author biographies and glossary

GroveMusic
comprehensive encyclopedia of western and world music, composers, and musicians; includes New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.), New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd ed.)

HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I (1857-1877)
Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions. - full text of Harpers Weekly, with illustrations

HighWire Press | Browse free backfiles
(1 to 24 months after publication) - search full text articles in Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Virology, Immunology, Neurosciences, Physiology, Botany, Medicine, Psychiatry and Psychology

Hoover's Online
company, industry, and market data

InfoTrac Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
  Academic OneFile
  Expanded Academic ASAP - full text articles in all subject areas; for peer reviewed content, use Academic OneFile

Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
indexes over 240 popular magazines and professional journals on microcomputing for business, education, industry, and home, 1985-

Internet Public Library Books
13,000 free electronic books that can be selected by author, title, subject, keyword or Dewey Decimal class

KBR Web
calculates 14 key business ratios covering solvency, efficiency and profitability, for comparison of selected companies or all in an industry; click "Help" at KBR for more information

Latino Literature
"... approximately 299 plays and over 51,000 pages of prose and poetry  by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States." 

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
full text news, business, legal, medical, and general reference sources; includes 4,288 full text journals, plus full text of the New York Times (1980 to present). See also, New York Times, 1851 to 1998

Lexis-Nexis Statistical Universe
full content statistics from federal, state, private, and international sources

Literature Online
full text of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose, plus film clips and new poets on screen; literary works are cross-referenced to critical works, including biographies, bibliographies, key reference resources, and 120 full text journals

Literature Resource Center Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
compendium of full text literary reference sources, including the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Scribner's and Twayne's authors series, the MLA International Bibliography, and an encyclopedia of literature; includes extensive bibliographies of works and criticism

Media Review Digest Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions. - reviews of educational and entertainment media not widely available through traditional reviewing sources; useful for research in media and film studies; provides citations of media source and review, rating, and brief synopsis of review; over 200 review sources, 1989-

MEDLINE Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals; link out to full text in other databases

MLA International Bibliography Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
comprehensive index to scholarly materials in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore, including articles, books, essays, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies, 1963-

Nature Online Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
full content of the journal Nature, from June 1997 through the current issue

netLibrary: create account | netLibrary: search
full text of 27,000 nonfiction electronic books, which are also listed in the library catalog. If you are off-campus, create a personal netLibrary account here before connecting to eBooks through the catalog.

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. - See Grove Music

New York Times, 1851 to present
Search the entire NY Times archive from the newspaper's public web site: full text articles from 1851-1922 are free (out of copyright); articles from 1987-present are offered free of charge; some articles published between 1923 and 1986 (freelance, under copyright) will require payment. AU students and faculty may either pay for articles online or contact the library. We will pay the fee and place the order at no cost to you.

New York Times, 1851 to 2004 (This subscription expires October 31, 2007)
full content of the New York Daily Times, 1851-1857, and New York Times, 1857-2004

New York Times, 1980 to present See Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe for current indexing and full text of the New York Times (1980-present)

North American Theatre Online
40,000 pages of major reference materials, together with records to more than 30,000 plays, over 57,000 people, 5,400 theatres, nearly 22,000 productions and 2,500 production companies

North American Women's Drama
1,021 plays by 247 playwrights, with detailed information on productions, theaters, production companies

Oxford English Dictionary Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
definitions, word origins, quotations from the English speaking world, as illustrated in historic and current publications; web edition, with full text of the 22-volume 2nd ed. (1989), plus draft material for the upcoming 3rd ed.; updated quarterly

Oxford Reference Online Premium
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
, Oxford Companions series, 100+ dictionaries and thesauruses, bilingual dictionaries, subject encyclopedias, 50,000 signed entries with bibliographies

PAIS International and PAIS Archive Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
index to articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, statistical directories on public affairs, from over 3,600 sources, 1972-

PapersFirst Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions. - index to papers presented at conferences worldwide, 1993-

Polling the Nations - "a compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by over 1000 polling organizations in the United States and 100 other countries from 1986 to the present time" ... more information

Pro & Con
nonpartisan analysis of controversial issues before Congress, the Supreme Court, and the United Nations; includes Teaching Resources, Civil Rights and the Judiciary, Economic and Environmental Policy, Government and Politics, and Foreign Policy; online access to Congressional Digest, Supreme Court Debates, and International Debates

ProceedingsFirst Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
index to worldwide conference proceedings, 1993-

Project Muse
(See also Literature Online) index to university press journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Connect to full text and interlibrary loan with Citation Linker.

PsycArticles
search APA journals directly for full-text, peer-reviewed articles in psychology from 59 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations

PsycInfo Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
| Start here: Link to APA and other psychology journals - comprehensive index to scholarly books and journals in psychology and related disciplines from the late 1800's to the present; 97 percent of the material covered is peer-reviewed; coverage is international; link out to full text in PsycArticles and other sources. Guide to searching PsycInfo.

Pub Med
access to over 14 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals, plus links to molecular biology databases of DNA/protein sequences and 3-D structure data

PLoS (Public Library of Science)
open access publication of peer reviewed articles

Regional Business News Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
full text of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from U.S. metropolitan and rural areas

Science Online (limited access)
subscription cancelled) - includes citations and some full text articles from Science Magazine and Science Now

Social Services Abstracts
index with abstracts to research in social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development; covers over 1,500 serials; cites articles, dissertations and book reviews

Sociological Abstracts
comprehensive index to international literature in sociology and related disciplines, 1963 to present, abstracts 1974 to present; covers over 1700 journals, plus book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers

SportDiscus
index to journals and books in recreation, exercise physiology, sports medicine, coaching, physical fitness, the psychology, history and sociology of sport, training, and conditioning, 1800- Note: This subscription permits only one connection at a time. Please try again if access is blocked

Twentieth Century North American Drama
319 plays by 53 playwrights, including Eugene O'Neill, William Saroyan, Paul Green, and Thornton Wilder; 25 plays published here for the first time; includes selected playbills, photos, production details

Ulrich's Web Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
comprehensive index of periodicals, including links to tables of contents, article abstracts, full-text, and document delivery; includes content of Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.

Union List of Serials Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
identify specific journal holdings of worldwide (OCLC) libraries

World Shakespeare Bibliography
"... annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1964 and 2005. "

World Almanacs Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia
The World Almanac and Book of Facts
The World Almanac of the U.S.A.
The World Almanac of U.S. Politics
The World Almanac for Kids
--coverage from 1998 to the present

World Fact Book Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
CIA maps and demographic information on countries and regions (published annually)

WorldCat Sponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.
comprehensive catalog of books, film, Internet resources selected by libraries, with limit to Internet sources option

WorldscopeSponsored by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia and member institutions.

Print This Page
E-mail This Page
Research
Reference Shelf
Databases by Subject
Academic OneFile
Subject Research Guides
ABI Inform Global
Business Source Premier
Google Scholar@Averett
Averett Library Catalog
WorldCat
Apply Research
Annotated Bibliography
Research Paper
Oral Presentation
Cite Sources
Modern Language Association Citation Style
American Psychological Association Citation Style
Reference Desk
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Library Friends