Research Databases

 

Academic Search Complete

This most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, has more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications.

AFHS Consumer Medication Information

The AHFS Consumer Medication Information database is a trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information.  It includes more than a thousand drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers.

Updated monthly.

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection

The collection contains hundreds of important dramatic works in streaming audio form. The plays - which include some of the most dramatic works of the 19th-21st centuries - are performed by leading actors from around the world.

American Chemical Society Journals

ACS Journals provides abstracts and full text for journal articles from the American Chemical Society. This is a comprehensive collection of the most cited peer-reviewed journals in the chemical and related sciences.

Business Source Ultimate

Business Source Ultimate works for your students like a solid business plan – it offers an unprecedented wealth of peer-reviewed, full-text journals and other resources that provide historical information and current trends in business that spark discussion on future developments and changes in the business world.

Caribbean Search

A multidisciplinary database that provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles pertinent to the countries and people of the Caribbean region. The collection contains over 730 Caribbean focused scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, reports and reference books making this the largest collection of full text content available to academic, school and public libraries in the region. This database is updated weekly on EBSCOhost.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text (Nursing & Allied Health)

CINAHL Plus® with Full Text is the world’s most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 770 journals indexed in CINAHL®. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index – with no embargo. CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.

CQ Researcher

CQ Researcher provides award winning in-depth coverage of the most important issues of the day dating back to 1991. The full-length  articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, plus resources for additional research

eBook Collection

EBSCO eBook Collection is a library of electronic books (e-books) on many academic subjects. The collection includes titles purchased by UVI  plus thousands of public-domain e-books. Users can preview an e-book online, peruse a page, read each page in depth, jump to specific chapters or pages, or use links in the Table of Content or Index to go directly to specific chapters of interest. Every word in every book is searchable. Readers may check out e-books for seven (7) days.

EBSCO Host Research Databases

EBSCO Host Research Databases offer a broad range of full text and bibliographic databases designed for research. Available databases include: Academic Search Complete, AHFS Consumer Medication Information, Caribbean Search, CINAHL, Education Source, European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750, GreenFILE, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts, Newspaper Source Plus, Newswires, PsyArticles, and Web News.

Education Source

Education Source is designed to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers.  The collection includes full-text for education journals, and encompasses an international array of English-language periodicals, monographs, yearbooks and more.  Coverage in Education Source spans all levels of education—from early childhood to higher education—as well as all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education and testing.

ERIC

ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. It contains abstracts of documents and journal articles on educational research and practice. The database covers descriptions and evaluations of programs, research reports and surveys, curriculum and teaching guides, instructional materials, etc.

European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750

This is a bibliographic database of European works that relate to the Americas. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.  It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

GreenFILE

A database of well-researched information from scholarly, government and general-interest titles covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its content includes material on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition

Full text from 590 scholarly journals, and abstracts from another 625 journals. Focuses on many medical disciplines, particularly nursing and allied health.

Coverage: 1975- present

Inter-Research Science Journals

Inter-Science Research Center is a privately owned and independent organization devoted to serving science. Its principle activity is the publication of highly respected science journals. Available titles include: Marine Ecology Progress Series, Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Climate Research, Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, Aquatic Biology, Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, Endangered Species Research, Aquaculture Environment Interactions.

JSTOR

JSTOR is not a current issues database. It provides electronic, full text access to the back files of approximately 670 scholarly periodicals in a variety of disciplines, notably: Arts & Sciences; Business; Ecology & Botany;  Mathematics & Statistics. Coverage begins with the first issue of the journal, and typically there is a gap from 1 to 5 years between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

Indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. 

Coverage: Mid-1960- present.

Literature Resource Center

Literature Resource Center is the most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature resource. It's materials support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skill.

Newspaper Source Plus

Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, including Virgin Islands Daily News, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts

Opposing Viewpoints

Opposing Viewpoints in Context is the premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration.  Helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.

PsycArticles

This full-text psychology database contains articles from over 50 highly-cited full-text, peer reviewed scholarly and scientific articles from journals published by the APA. 

Coverage: 1985 to present

PubMed

PubMed is a free search engine accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) maintains the database as part of the Entrez system of information retrieval.  It comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Coverage: 1950 – present

U.S. Government Publications

A finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications.