ACU Library All Databases: M-P

General periodical database contains full text for more than 700 popular, high school magazines. Provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags.

Multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags.

An electronic publication of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.

An electronic publication of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.

Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. Provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.

Another source of medicine and health related information in journals. Includes 3,800 current biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries. Includes dentistry and nursing.

Another source of medicine and health related information in journals. Includes 3,800 current biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries. Includes dentistry and nursing.

Comprehensive index to journal articles in the fields of medicine and health. Coverage begins in 1966. Contains the full text of some articles.

Contains full-text information and reviews of over 2,000 commercially available English-language tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks. All entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. Coverage is from 1985 (Volume 9) to the present.

Full text for 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Also contains 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.

Offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military. Includes abstracts and indexing for over 400 titles with full text for over 300 and also includes full text for nearly 250 pamphlets.

ProQuest Military Collection covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. It includes around 550 titles, with more than 400 available in full-text.

Includes full text of Bible commentaries, articles, prayers, music, videos, and more. The Research Library contains Biblical reference (Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation), commentaries, lectionary resources, sermon illustrations, children's sermons, worship resources, pastoral resources, devotions and prayers, and teaching resources.

Editorial, subscription and advertising information for periodicals indexed in MLA Bibliography.

Includes journal articles, books and dissertations in criticism, drama, folklore, humanities, language, and literature.

Online full text books published by National Academy Press. Browse categories or search by title or full text.

The digital National Geographic Virtual Library provides students and researchers with a graphical, easy-to-use method of accessing the wealth of material from National Geographic magazine, along with a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images, and videos.

The National Jukebox makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. Includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives. Recordings include music by composers Bach, Chopin, Gershwin, and Berlin. Singers include George Price, the Brox Sisters, Elliott Shaw, and Billy Murray.

Provides in-depth analysis of more than 200 distinct health conditions and the natural treatments used to treat them.

Most extensive streaming music in classical works. Includes some jazz and world music, but mostly classical. Also available is the Naxos app for iPhone or Android , plus app account instructions .

This EBSCO database provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press on a continuous basis. This collection includes AP Top News, WorldStream, Financial News, AP Online, U.S. Politics & Government and 50 State Reports.

Provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. Contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.

Global directory of newspapers with web sites. Most have full-text of most recent issues.

An archive of Newsweek magazine, one of the premier US weeklies of the 20th -21st centuries. With coverage from 1933 through 2012, it comprises 80 years of news reporting and commentary, charting the key US and global events during this period.

A dynamic, interactive resource, containing the full-text of Shakespeare's works, edited from the base-texts themselves, and drawing on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship.

Partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. Contains more than 38,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 13,500 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts.

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Archive of articles from the New York Times going back to 1851. Register with the ACU New York Times Digital Subscription at http://accessnyt.com/

The New York Public Library's digitized collections online including African American Migration, NYPL Digital Gallery, Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project, and much more full text.

Partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association. Features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies.

Search most of the library's subscribed databases at once, which also includes items from the catalog (books, media, and ebooks).

Opposing Viewpoints in Context presents each side of an issue and help students develop critical thinking skills and draw their own conclusions. Exclusive Viewpoint pages bring balance and perspective to every controversy using targeted arguments from recognized subject-matter experts and top journalistic sources.

Provides information necessary to plan orchestral programs and organize rehearsals: instrumentation, duration, and source of performance materials. Contains over 6,700 entries and 900 composers.

Includes 45 premier full-text journals from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) as well as citations and abstracts from the Nursing subset of MEDLINE which covers approximately 276 nursing journals.

Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is an entirely new research tool for the social sciences and humanities. A scholar-curated library of discipline-based subject modules, OBO is designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information in half the time by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set they need for their research.

Search the full text of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Collection of the best Handbooks across many different subject areas. One of the most prestigious and successful strands of Oxford’s scholarly publishing, the Handbook series contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field.

Contains Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Opera Grove, Jazz Grove, and Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Also includes The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition (revised 2006), which supplements Grove's more-extensive articles with content geared toward undergraduates and general users. (Also known as Grove Music Online)

Electronic editions of Oxford's award-winning scholarly reference titles which include: The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance, International Encyclopedia of Dance, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, The Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Encyclopedia of Evolution, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, and many more in the subjects history, art, literature, social work, and Christianity.

Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford books in the areas of biology; business and management; economics and finance; history; law; linguistics; literature; mathematics; music; philosophy; political science; public health and epidemiology; social work.

Very Short Introductions offer concise introductions to many topics in Religion and Theology. All titles provide intelligent and serious introductions, written by experts in the field who combine facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make challenging topics highly readable.

An index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.

Web-based discovery and workflow tool that combines a comprehensive source of global funding opportunities with the largest collection of scholar profiles into one intuitive solution. Pivot-RP aids funding organizations to increase their discoverability and attract the best talent through focused award promotion. Opportunities are indexed by keywords for applicants to find and eligibility to make sure essential requirements are met.

Includes approximately 31,000 plays published individually or in collections dating from 1949 to present time and over 600 monologues. Covers one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, classic drama and monologues from playwrights such as Shakespeare, Aeschylus and Euripides, Moliere and many more.

Provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.

An index of worldwide conference proceedings.

ProCitizen is an online course to prepare New Americans for the civics, reading, and writing parts of the USCIS Naturalization Test. Includes 100 instructional videos in both English and Spanish.

Online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. Sole source of complete, full-text versions of titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. Currently, MUSE provides full-text access to current content from over 400 titles representing nearly 100 not-for-profit publishers.

This database includes a variety of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, and demonstrations. Patrons will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners. Academic institutions will find frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.

Online access to citations and abstracts for every title in Dissertation Abstracts plus all dissertations with a degree date of 2000 or 2001. Full text is available for some dissertations. Choose Proquest Dissertations & Theses Global from the list.

Ebook Central provides authoritative, full-text e-books in a wide range of subject areas along with powerful tools to find, use, and manage the information.

This database provides access to the latest medical information essential for medical students and researchers. Health Research Premium Collection offers a central access point to a variety of essential medical content

Provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. Provides abstracting and indexing for more than 850 titles, with over 715 titles in full-text, plus more than 12,000 full text dissertations representing the most rigorous scholarship in nursing and related fields. (Select Medical Sciences - Nursing & Allied Health Source from drop-down menu.)

The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and the Technology Collection and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.

Definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.

Includes more than 25,000 chapters in PDF from over 1,600 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. It also includes over 900 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from the 1600s and the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology

Provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO.

Streams high quality training videos in the field of psychotherapy. View actual sessions and to hear leading experts discuss their thoughts behind their interventions. Videos also capture the critical non-verbal aspects of therapy, including body language, facial expression, tone of voice, and the rhythm of the therapist-client interaction.

From the APA-contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages. (Some full-text)

Comprehensive index to journal articles in the fields of medicine and health. Coverage begins in 1966. Contains the full text of some articles.