Electronic Resources – Databases Descriptions

Content:
Large, multi-disciplinary periodical database which covers nearly every area of academic study.

Type:
Fulltext for 4,700 titles; citations only for an additional 3,400 titles.

Coverage:
Some titles begin as early as 1974.

Content:
Indexing and abstracting of books and journal articles on agriculture.

Type:
Citations and abstracts only

Coverage:
Books 1970- , articles 1979-

Content:
Covers 170 international sources on many perspectives to healthcare

Type:
Full-text

Coverage:
1990-

Content:
Full-text of 30 ACS publications

Type:
Full-text

Coverage:
1996-

Content:
Covers 400 art journals in 7 languages

Type:
Citations with abstracts and some full-text

Coverage:
1984-

Content:
Covers 500 art journals

Type:
Citations only

Coverage:1929-1984

ARTstor

ARTStor is a digital collection containing over 500,000 images. The collections encompass images from many time periods and cultures. Images include architecture, painting, sculpture, photography and design. ARTStor is licensed by Mills for non-comercial use and includes feature such as zooming, panning, printing, exporting and downloading.

ARTstor training material in PDF format:

• Introduction & Searching
• Registered User Features & Remote Access
• Using Offline Viewer for Presentations

ARTICLE FIRST

Content:
Indexes over 12, 500 journals in the humanities, social sciences, medicine and popular culture.

Type:
Citations and abstracts only

Coverage:
1990-

Content:
Covers over 350 basic life science journals written for non-biology majors; includes popular and scholarly science journals

Type:
Citations and abstracts only

Coverage:
Current year and most recent four update years

Content:
Biographical information on more than one million people throughout history

Type:
Full-text

Content:
Electronic version of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Type:
Full-text

Coverage:
Current encyclopedia

Content:
Covers over 1000 journals in business and related fields

Type:
Citations with abstracts and some full-text

Coverage:
1984-, full-text 1990-

Content:
Provides full-text access to global information on women from over 1,500 sources

Type:
Full-text

Coverage:
1992-

Content:
Provides political, economic and business information for approximately 192 countries

Type:
Fulltext

Coverage:
Current

Content:
Lists works about all forms of dance in print and other media available in the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library; Includes materials in many languages

Type:
Citations only

Coverage:
Comprehensive retrospective coverage, as well as current material

Content:
Dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe

Type:
Citations with abstracts

Coverage:
1861- ; Abstracts 1980-

DRAM formerly the Database of Recorded American Music, is an on-demand, streaming database of works by contemporary composers.

EBSCOHost Research Databases 

Description:

This link provides a comprehensive listing of all EbscoHost databases, including Academic Search Premier, Business Source Elite and PsycINFO,
among others.

Content:
Indexes and abstracts books, journals and conference proceedings in economics.

Type:
Citations and abstracts only

Coverage:
1969-

Content:
Covers 500 education journals

Type:
Citations, abstracts and some full-text

Coverage:
Indexing, 1983-; abstracts, 1994-; full-text, 1996-

Content:
Collection of ethnographic material which covers all aspects of social and cultural life around the world

Type:
Fulltext

Coverage:
Fulltext multicultural database with considerable historical information

Content:
Indexes over 750 journals and thousands of ERIC documents

Type:
Citation and abstracts only

Coverage:
1966-

Content:
Collection of over 30 separate general & specialized databases with a common search interface

Type:
Citation, abstract and some fulltext

Coverage:
Date of coverage varies with each databas.

Content:
Contains 222 fulltext reference books such as encyclopedias, almanacs, directories, etc from numerous subject areas.

Type:
Fulltext.

Coverage:
Fulltext electronic reference books.

Content:
Indexes over 2000 journals in geology, ecology and environmental science. Also indexes over 2000 books.

Type:
Citation and abstract only

Coverage:
1980-

If you are using Google Scholar from off campus, follow the steps below to access fulltext journal articles available via the Mills College Library:

From Google Schalor  

Select Scholar preferences

Under Library Links, select Mills College (Fulltext @ Mills College)

Under Library Links, select Open WorldCat (Library search)

Once your preferences have been set, citations you find in Google Scholar that indicate "Fulltext @ Mills College" should now lead you to the specific article available though Mills.

GROVE DICTIONARY OF ART

Content:
Contains 45,000 articles on the visual arts, with links to images

Type:
Fulltext

Coverage:
Fulltext encyclopedia

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GROVE DICTIONARY OF MUSIC

Content:
Contains 29,000 articles covering all aspects of music studies

Type:
Fulltext

Coverage:
Fulltext encyclopedia

HEALTH SOURCE - NURSING/ACADEMIC EDITION

Content:
Covers nearly 600 scholarly full text journals, including over 400 peer-reviewed titles, in many medical disciplines

Type:
Full text and abstracts

Coverage:
Selected full text, 1975-

Content:
Mills subscribes to the following 4 JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences I and II, General Science and Business.

Type:
Full-text

Coverage:
Retrospective coverage from volume 1 of most journals. Does not cover most recent 3-5 years.

Content:
Full-text of over 500 online journals published by Springer Academic Publishers in the following subject areas: business, economics, education, engineering, law, philosophy, science, psychology and social science.

Type:
Full-text.

Coverage:
Most recent 5 years.

Content:
Full-text articles, documents and other materials from newspapers, business and trade journals, general interest magazines, company reports, legal and tax documents.

Type:
Full-text, citations and abstracts

Coverage:
Varies according to file – present

Content:
Biographical and critical information on more than 120,000 writers

Type:
Fulltext

Content:
Index to 1700 periodicals in mathematics

Type:
Citation

Coverage:
1940-

Content:
Website created for consumers by the US National Library of Medicine. Information on over 650 diseases and conditions, drug information, lists of hospitals and physicians, etc.

Type:
Primarily fulltext information

Coverage:
Current information updated daily

Content:
Bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine and the health care system.

Type:
Primarily citation with abstract, some fulltext

Coverage:
Covers 4,600 biomedical journals. Most are English language.

Content:
Contains records for materials (books, journals, films, scores, recordings, etc.) held by the nine University of California libraries, aswell as several other libraries.

Type:
Online library catalog

Coverage:
Bibliographic records for materials published/produced at all times.

Content:
Indexes over 3000 journals in languages and literature

Type:
Primarily citations and abstracts, some fulltext.

Coverage:
1963-

Content:
Nature is one of the world’s top journals covering all areas of science.  It contains review articles, original research, reports, commentaries and correspondence.

Type:
Online journal.

Coverage:
Mills’ subscription offers full text access for the most recent ten years of publication.

Content:
Provides selected full text coverage for more than 240 newspapers, including the Christian Science Monitor and the San Jose Mercury News.

Type:
Selected full-text and abstracts

Coverage:
Varies for each title. Most are 1995-

Content:
Full text articles and page images from the New York Times

Type:
Full text

Coverage:
1851-2001

Content:
Electronic version of the OED

Type:
Full-text

Coverage:
Current encyclopedia.

 Philosopher's Index

Content:
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

Coverage:
1940-present

Content:
Indexes over 16,000 journals in Government and Public Policy

Type:
Citations and abstracts only

Coverage:
1972-

Content:
Indexes papers presented at worldwide conferences, meetings and symposia.

Type:
Citations only

Coverage:
1993-

Content:
Indexes publications from worldwide conferences, meetings and symposia

Type:
Citations and abstracts only

Coverage:
1993-

Content:
Articles published in over 40 journals from Johns Hopkins University Press.

Type:
Full-text

Coverage:
1995-

Content:
Covers 2800 periodicals and newspapers in art, business, humanities, social sciences and science

Type:
Citation and fulltext

Coverage:
Primarily 1986-

Content:
Scholarly full-text articles on current issues in psychology. All journals are also indexed in PsycINFO.

Type:
Full-text journal articles from 43 journals published by the American Psychological Association.

Coverage:
1987-

Content:
Indexes over 1300 journals and books in Psychology.

Type:
Citations and abstracts only

Coverage:
Article indexes 1967-, book indexes 1987-

  REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS

Content:

“Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.”

Type:

Fulltext articles.

Coverage:

Most recent 10 years.

Content: indexes and abstracts over 500 journals in all fields of music

Type: Citations and abstracts

Coverage:  1967-

Content:  Covers over 400 academic journals in the social sciences, life sciences, computer science, language, music and medicine.

Type:  Contains fulltext for most citations.

Coverage:  1985-

Content:
Contains abstracts in all areas of science with fulltext in the following
collections: Biochemistry, Genetics, Molecular Biology; Economics, Econometrics, and Finance; Environmental Science; Social Science

Type:
Citations, abstracts and some fulltext

Content:
Comprehensive directory of over 182,000 US and international periodicals

Type:
Online directory

Coverage:
Coverage Includes publisher name, address, phone & email; publication price; editor's name; indexing, circulation & description of publication.

Content:
Provides listing of all ejournals available at Mills College

Type:
Listing by title, with holdings and links to content

Coverage:
Current list of all Mills ejournals

Content:
Indexes over 550 journals in the social sciences

Type:
Citations and abstracts only

Coverage:
1963-

Content: 
Indexes and abstracts over 1,400 journal in social welfare and community development.

Type: Citations and abstracts

Coverage:  1980-

 SORA -- Searchable Ornithological Research Archive

Content:
Electronic journal archive of seven ornithological journals. 

Type:
Fulltext articles.

Coverage:
Includes articles published 1884-2000.

More information can be found on the About SORA Webpage

WILEY INTERSCIENCE

Content:
Fulltext of 200 ejournals in the following fields: business, chemistry, computer science, earth science, education, engineering, law, medicine, mathematics, physics and psychology

Type:
Fulltext

Coverage:
1997-

Content:
Fulltext database for the study of women in social movements in the us, 1600-2000. Covers topics such as civil liberites, suffrage, labor, anti-slavery and more.

Type:
Fulltext

Coverage:
Contains 1200 primary source documents, 400 images and related teaching materials.

Content:
Union catolog of libraries around the world. Contains records of over 32 million items.

Type:
Citations only

Coverage:1000 A.D.-

xreferplus

Content:
Contains 100 fulltext reference books such as dictionaries,
encyclopedias, statistical abstracts, etc from numerous subject areas.

Type:
Fulltext.

Coverage:
Fulltext electronic reference books.