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Social Sciences and Art/Architecture Databases

SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers sociology in general and its subdisciplines, such as aging, ethnic & racial studies, family and gender studies. Provides full text contains full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908, 830 books and monographs, and over 16,800 conference papers.
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
This resource includes bibliographic records and full text covering essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology. The increasing globalization of criminology is reflected in Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text’s coverage of hundreds of journals from around the world.
Research Library from ProQuest This link opens in a new window
From business and political science to literature and psychology, ProQuest Research Library™ provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 4,560 titles—over 3,240 in full text—from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
Proquest Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new window
Covers research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends.
Criminal Justice Collection This link opens in a new window
Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. Users will have access to hundreds of full-text journals.
Social Sciences Citation Index (via Web of Science) This link opens in a new window
Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully covers journals across 47 social sciences categories and includes all cited references captured from indexed articles. Publication years: 1900 to present
Social Science Research Network This link opens in a new window
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is an open-access, online, preprint community. It is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (via Web of Science) This link opens in a new window
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities, covering 1975-present. Some of the disciplines covered include: archaeology, architecture, art, Asian studies, classics, dance, folklore, language, linguistics, literary reviews, literature, music, philosophy, poetry, radio, television & film, religion, and theater.
Artstor This link opens in a new window
Artstor's interface has become integrated with JSTOR as of August 1, 2024. Personal artstor accounts have been migrated to the new home on JSTOR

ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences Databases

Aquatic Science Collection (now called Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Collection) This link opens in a new window
Includes Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database, Meteorological & Geoastrophyical Abstracts, and ASFA

The ASFA series is the premier reference in the field of aquatic resources. Input to ASFA is provided by a growing international network of information centers monitoring over 5,000 serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations and limited distribution literature.
Additional databases, include: Aqualine‎, Oceanic Abstracts and Water Resources Abstracts.
AGRICOLA (Agricultural OnLine Access) This link opens in a new window
AGRICOLA describes publications, dissertations and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources.
Environmental Studies and Policy Collection This link opens in a new window
Providing robust coverage of the field of environmental issues and policy, this collection, which includes magazines and academic journals, provides instant access to the multiple viewpoints of this volatile field of study, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
GreenFILE includes scholarly, government, and general interest titles that focus on the environment. It is a multidisciplinary database, which pulls together resources from many fields including agriculture, environmental sciences,health, law and technology.
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JOVE) - Education Unlimited This link opens in a new window
Simple, easy-to-understand video demonstrations of procedures and techniques, covering biology, chemistry, engineering, psychology, statistics, physics, clinical skills, and environmental sciences.
Our subscription only covers JoVE's Education content and does not include the content marked Research. When using the Search, results tagged “Research” will not be available.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
ScienceDirect provides full text online access to over 4500 Elsevier scholarly journals and ebooks from the humanities and physical, life, health, and social sciences.
Sage Knowledge This link opens in a new window
SAGE Knowledge is the ultimate social sciences digital library for students, researchers, and faculty. With more than 2,500 titles, it includes an expansive range of SAGE eBook and eReference content, including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, and more.

Business and Economics Databases

ABI/Inform Collection This link opens in a new window
The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive coverage of accounting and tax topics appearing in key industry publications and newspapers. The quintessential accountant's database.
Boston Business Journal This link opens in a new window
Find out why over 100,000 readers get their Greater Boston business news from the Boston Business Journal. Every issue is jam-packed with information that will help you succeed in the Boston market.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
This business resource exceeds all other databases available in terms of its premium content of peer-reviewed, business related journals. Included as part of the comprehensive coverage offered by Business Source Complete are indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals, dating back as far as 1886. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.
Also includes industry analysis and market reports
EconLit with full text This link opens in a new window
The American Economic Association’s Econlit covers all fields of economics and is international in scope. It indexes journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers and book reviews from 1969 to the present. Includes coverage of over 400 major journals as well as articles in collected volumes, books, book reviews, and dissertations
Financial Times This link opens in a new window
The Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news organisations, is recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. Providing essential news, comment, data and analysis for the global business community. Whether you're on or off-campus, you will be prompted to sign in with your UMB email.

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Once you type in your @umb email in the Sign In field, a "Sign in via UMASS Boston" button will appear and prompt you to log in with your UMass Boston login.
Registration required. Once you're prompted to go through registration, an account will be created with your @umb email.
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) This link opens in a new window
Provides abstracts, many with full-text access to the NBER Working Papers in the program areas of aging and the elderly, and health and healthcare. Access to full-text of the papers is in PDF format, and they generally do not pre-date the 1990s.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Open Knowledge Repository This link opens in a new window
Open Knowledge Repository incorporates the former World Bank e-library. It is an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 5,000 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 2,000 World Bank publications and over 3,200 Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published.

Legal and Government Databases

Congressional Publications This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive, full-text access to over 200 years worth of detailed information about US Congress, including committee assignments; Congressional hearings (1824 to present); legislation; member biographies; voting records; financial data; and full-text of key regulatory and statutory resources.
GovInfo This link opens in a new window
Access to Congressional bills and reports; public laws and regulations; executive and federal agency documents; a catalog of government publications, and links to government websites.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 150 million pages of legal history and government documents including 2,300 law reviews and journals in an image-based PDF format from the legal publisher William S.Hein.
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis) This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis ®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new window
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts This link opens in a new window
The NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database is published by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service, an information clearinghouse for people around the U.S. and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control.
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis) This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis ®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.

Related Disciplines

Ageline This link opens in a new window
Produced by American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and focuses on the subject of aging and middle-aged and older adults, particularly addressing the social, psychological, economic, policy, and health care aspects of aging. Delivery of health care to the older population and its associated costs and policies is particularly well covered, as are consumer, employment, and public policy issues.
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
America: History and Life is a very important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of American Studies. It covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. It includes dissertations, book citations and reviews
Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
This database offers worldwide indexing of all core periodical and lesser-known journals from the early 19th century to today, providing extensive indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, interdisciplinary studies, etc.
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
This database provides full-text, indexing and abstracts for many top communication journals covering all related disciplines, including media studies, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse. Incorporates the content of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index.
ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is a digital library of education research materials sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC is the most comprehensive education database with access to over 1,000 journals.

Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Contains scholarly journals, popular interest magazines and reference sources. Multidisciplinary coverage, including arts, humanities, sciences and technology. Provides full text coverage to the New York Times from 1985 to the present.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary coverage, including arts, humanities, sciences and technology.
Contains scholarly journals and popular interest magazines. Many articles are available in full text.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a collection of thousands of high-quality academic journals and ebooks across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The journal archive includes back issues and some current issues.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Central is a comprehensive multidisciplinary research database. It provides access to databases across all major subject areas, including business, health and medical, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion. The collection includes thousands of full-text scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, and market reports all together in one platform.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
ScienceDirect provides full text online access to over 4500 Elsevier scholarly journals and ebooks from the humanities and physical, life, health, and social sciences.
UMBrella This link opens in a new window
Search Healey Library Resources including articles, books, ebooks, journals, maps, videos and recordings.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science provides access to the combined Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index.
This is one of the largest scholarly databases to which Healey Library subscribes. Use Cited Reference to find out who used a particular book or article for his/her research.