Research Library

Journal Directory
(a comprehensive A-Z directory of print & electronic journals available through the Pacifica Library)

Online Databases:
(Required passwords available from library staff)

Cambridge Collections OnlineEBSCO DatabasesGale Virtual Reference LibraryProQuest Digital DissertationsOxford English Dictionary
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Cambridge Collections Online

Cambridge Collections Online offers subject or theme based collections of content within a richly functional, fully cross-searchable online environment. The Complete Cambridge Companions is available as a complete collection and as two sub-collections comprising the Cambridge Companions in Literature and Classics and the Cambridge Companions in Philosophy, Religion and Culture. Each collection is updated with new Companions on publication. Also available through Cambridge Collections Online, Shakespeare Survey Online makes the distinguished 60 year history of the print series available online for the first time and exclusively.


EBSCOhost Research Databases

Academic Search Premier

This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. The database includes the content of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection and of the Religion and Philosophy Collection.

Subsets of Academic Search Premier include:

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection 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. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

Religion and Philosophy Collection

This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database includes more than 488,000 article citations from more than 1,500 journals (506 currently indexed), more than 215,000 essay citations from over 15,700 multi-author works, and more than 446,000 book review citations. This database begins in 1949 although indexing for some journal titles extends back into the nineteenth century. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.

Humanities International Complete

Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (over 2,000 titles and 2 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. Humanities International Complete is an essential collection for libraries looking to provide comprehensive coverage of the humanities with full text content.

PsycINFO

PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (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.

PsycBOOKS

PsycBOOKS, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a database of more than 16,000 chapters in PDF from over 1,000 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. The database includes most scholarly titles published by APA from copyright years 1953 - 2005. It also includes 100 out-of-print books and a total of more than 400 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology.

PsycARTICLES

PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a 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.

PsycCRITIQUES

PsycCRITIQUES, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), is an electronic serial of book reviews featuring full text reviews of current scholarly and professional books in psychology. It also publishes reviews from a psychological perspective of popular films and trade books.

PsycEXTRA

PsycEXTRA, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), is a bibliographic and full-text companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database. The document types included in PsycEXTRA consist of technical, annual and government reports, conference papers, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more. It contains more than 85,000 records with nearly a quarter million full-text pages.

PEP Archive

The PEP Archive is the definitive source of peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles from the field of psychoanalysis. Produced by Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing, Inc, the database offers the full text of 20 principal psychoanalytic journals and more than 40 classic psychoanalytic books dating as far back as 1920. In all, the database includes more than 50,000 articles, book chapters, book reviews, letters and commentaries and 4,000 figures and illustrations.

Mental Measurements Yearbook

Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. First published by Oscar K. Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable judgments and informed selection decisions about the increasingly complex world of testing. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present.

ERIC Database

ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.


Gale Virtual Reference Library
Includes full-text access to the following collection of reference books:

Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook, 2005
Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, (2 volumes) 2005
Encyclopedia of African Religion, (2 volumes) 2009
Encyclopedia of Aging, (4 volumes) 2002
Encyclopedia of Anthropology, (5 volumes) 2006
Encyclopedia of Black Studies, 2005
Encyclopedia of Buddhism, (2 volumes) 2004
Encyclopedia of Counseling, (4 volumes) 2008
Encyclopedia of Community, (4 volumes) 2003
Encyclopedia of Human Development, (3 volumes) 2006
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, (2 volumes) 2004
Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America, (3 volumes) 2004
Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Health, (2 volumes) 2008
Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology, 2006
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (2nd Ed., 10 volumes) 2006
Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law, (2 volumes) 2008
Encyclopedia of Religion, (2nd Ed., 15 volumes) 2005
Encyclopedia of Religious and Spiritual Development, 2006
Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, (4 volumes) 2007
Encyclopedia of Shamanism, (2 volumes) 2007
Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, (2 volumes) 2007
Encyclopedia of Social Theory, (2 volumes) 2005
Handbook of Death and Dying, (2 volumes) 2003
International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, (3 volumes) 2005
International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family, (2nd Ed., 4 volumes) 2003
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, (6 volumes) 2005
SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods, (2 volumes) 2008

ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Doctoral dissertations and master's theses are a vital fund of scholarship for any discipline. The massive body of work available through ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) represents the most comprehensive source of academic research in the world.

Oxford English Dictionary

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