Electronic Databases
These databases are accessible to Fresno Pacific University students, faculty and staff using remote computers through Campus Cruiser. Log in to your account, click on ACADEMICS and then on LIBRARY RESOURCES. If you currently are logged into a computer in the FPU network, you may click on any of the links below.
- A comprehensive list of journal titles available on most of the databases listed below.
- Bowker's Books in Print
- Click on "Advanced Search"; you will be asked for a user name and password. These are available by calling Hope Nisly at 559-453-2223.
- Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
- Includes the following databases:
- ERIC (1966-present)
- Social Services Abstracts (1980-present)
- Sociological Abstracts (1963-present)
- Chemical Abstracts
- This database is available for student use in AIMS Hall. Please contact Dr. Jonathan Dick for more information.
- Chicano Database
- A comprehensive bibliographic index representing all types of material for information about Mexican-American topics and the only specialized database for and about Chicanos. The Chicano Database also includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database, covering psychological, sociological, and educational literature.
- EBSCOhost Research Databases
- EBSCOhost includes the following research databases:
- Academic Search Premier: Multi-disciplinary database with full text for nearly 4,500 journals, of which 3,600 are peer-reviewed.
Alt HealthWatch: In-depth coverage across the full spectrum of complementary and alternative medicine.
American Humanities Index: Bibliographic references to literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the U.S. and Canada (1975-present).
ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials: Major religion and theology journals back to 1949.
Biological Abstracts: A complete collection of references to life science journal literature (1969-present).
Book Review Digest: Provides review excerpts and book summaries for current English-language fiction and non-fiction books for all ages.
Business Source Premier: Virtually all subject areas related to business.
Catholic Periodical and Literature Index: Includes indexed citations to articles published in Roman Catholic periodicals, papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers.
Communication & Mass Media Complete: Research in areas related to communication and mass media.
Essay & General Literature Index: Provides access to nearly 65,000 essays found in over 5,300 printed anthologies and collections published in the U.S., Great Britain and Canada, with coverage dating as far back as 1985.
Health Source (Consumer Edition): Information on many health topics.
Health Source (Nursing/Academic Edition): Nearly 600 full-text scholarly journals focusing on various medical disciplines.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts: Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
MEDLINE: Provides citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals, containing authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, etc.
New Testament Abstracts: Contains more than 38,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 13,500 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts.
Newspaper Source: Selected full text for over 200 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires and newspaper columns.
Old Testament Abstracts: Includes indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more.
PsychARTICLES: Full text articles (1987-present) from 49 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations.
PsychINFO: Bibliographical references – most with abstracts or content summaries – to psychological literature (1887-present).
Regional Business News: Coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from across the United States.
Short Story Index: A detailed index of more than 76,500 stories from more than 4,025 collections.
Social Science Abstracts: Contains indexing for more than 500 publications covering a wide range of interdisciplinary fields such as addiction studies, anthropology, corrections, economics, gender studies, gerontology, minority studies, political sciences, psychology, sociology. Indexing coverage dates back to 1983.
SPORTDiscus With Full Text: The world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 415 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. Of those, nearly 250 have cover-to-cover indexing in SPORTDiscus. - The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
- ERIC is a personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and anyone interested in education throughout the United States and the world.
- JSTOR
- Journal Storage: The Scholarly Journal Archive provides electronic full-text access to back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
- Literature Resource Center
- Provides students and other researchers with single-search access to an assortment of traditional literary reference works, critical information on authors and their works, current journal articles and additional resources.
- RefWorks
- RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds. You will need to create an individual account the first time you login to RefWorks.
- OCLC FirstSearch
- FirstSearch provides access to OCLC's WorldCat, a worldwide union library catalog.
- Sage Journals Online
- SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's award-winning, discipline-specific research databases, are also available on SAGE Journals Online. A complete list of SAGE journals is available.
- Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
- The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG®) is a research center at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972 the TLG has already collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era.
