JKM Library

Online Databases
The databases below are available for use by current Chatham students, faculty and staff. To access the databases, log on to the Library's web page on myChatham and follow the Databases link.

Academic Search Premier
Full text and/or abstracts for scholarly publications covering most academic areas. Large collection of peer reviewed journals and an extensive image collection.

ArtStor
A canonic, digital library containing over 300,000 images and descriptions, ArtStor enables the searching and browsing of diverse collections of art, architecture, design, and archaeology. The Huntington Archive of Asian Art, the MoMA Architecture and Design Collection, and the Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection are just a few of ArtStor’s ever growing holdings. Users can view and analyze images, save groups of images, and create and deliver presentations both on and offline.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is the only comprehensive American guide to the current literature of architecture and design. Created by the Getty Research Institute, this database surveys over 2,500 journals and includes over 13,000 architects’ obituaries, making it an invaluable tool for research in architecture, historic preservation, archaeology, interior design, and landscape architecture.

BioOne
BioOne is the product of innovative collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector. BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne's titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers.

Business Source Elite
Full text scholarly business journals covering economics, finance, accounting, international business, etc. Contains a large collection of peer reviewed journals and a company directory search feature.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Indexes professional nursing and 17 allied health disciplines articles from 1982 to the present. Healthcare books, standards of practice, and conference proceedings are included.

Columbia Earthscape
A comprehensive aggregation of resources in the Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Columbia International Affairs Online
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.

Communication & Mass Media Complete
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). . Communication & Mass Media Complete offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources. In total, several hundred valuable sources are coveredCommunication & Mass Media Complete offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources.

EBSCO Animals
Provides in-depth information on topics relating to animals.

Encyclopedia Britannica
Online version of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
Indexes / abstracts of articles and documents on education research and practice. Includes lesson plans, educational bibliographies, etc.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Online encyclopedia.

Garden, Landscape, and Horticultural Index
GLHI is a resource with access to articles about plants and gardens. Topics include horticulture, garden and landscape design and history, botany, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. It is indexed and abstracted are more than 300 core titles, the majority of which are published in English.

GPO Monthly Catalog
Consists of records published by the Government Printing Office since July 1976. Includes references for documents to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more.

HaPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments)
This database provides evaluation and measurement tools in health and psychosocial studies. It provides ready access to information on measurements instruments (e.g. questionnaires, checklists, rating scales, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in subject areas including health sciences, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information sciences.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Full text or abstracts/indexing for journals in the medical disciplines. Includes USP Pharmacopoeia, DI: Vol. II, and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.

JStor
Full text articles from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and selected science areas. Most recent 2-5 years not included.

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe
Full text newspapers and wire services, business news, market reports, SEC filings, legal research including Shepard's Supreme Court citation service, state and federal codes and case law, medical news, journals, and abstracts.

MarketLine Business Information Center
Datamonitor contains full text reports covering Europe, the United States, and countries around the world from 1992 through the present. The reports are drawn from Gallup surveys, consumer panels, and in-depth trade interviews. Reports discuss products, the competitive environment, pricing, market share, and other key issues affecting industries. Areas of coverage include: Apparel, Automobiles, Banking, Communications, Cosmetics and Toiletries, Electrical Products, Food, Insurance, OTCs, Packaging, Paper, Passenger Airlines, Petrochemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Plastics, Professional Services, Retailing, Software, and Consumer Goods.

MAS Ultra - School Edition
Full text and/or abstracts for information covering general reference, health, science, etc. Substantial collection of charts, tables, and graphs.

Material ConneXion
Material ConneXion is a resource center for materials used in building and interior design. It includes over 3,500 new and innovative materials representing eight categories: polymers, glass, ceramics, carbon-based materials, cement-based materials, metals, natural materials, and natural material derivatives.

MEDLINE (National Library of Medicine)
Covers all areas of medicine, including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and much more. Now includes the MeSH thesaurus.

Military and Government Collection
The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

MLA Bibliography
Indexes and abstracts to scholarly articles on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore from 1963 to the present.

NASW Clinical Register
Lists clinical social workers who have met National Association of Social Work standards of education and experience.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Full text access to over 50,000 pages of women's diaries and letters, ranging from the colonial period to 1950.

Newspaper Source
Provides full text and/or abstracts for 159 US newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six newswires, and nine newspaper columns.

OCLC FirstSearch Service
A collection of databases covering subjects from agriculture to geology and religion to zoology.

OT Search
A database of article abstracts on Occupational Therapy and related subject areas.

Ovid Books
This database houses an online collection of core clinical texts, including the top-ranked, most highly referenced titles covering primary and specialty care, as well as nursing and pharmacy.

Ovid Databases
This database is an aggregate of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies. It includes both indexes and full-text material.

Primary Search
Full text and/or abstracts of selected children's magazines and pamphlets.

PsyCRITIQUES
This resource contains reviews of current books and films dealing with psychology and psychiatry.

PsycInfo
Indexing and abstracts from the American Psychological Association for articles, dissertations, technical reports, books and book chapters from 1887 to the present that cover psychology and psychological aspects of related fields.

PsycARTICLES
contains more than 25,000 full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Coverage includes general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.

Regional Business News
This database provides full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

SAGE Publications
SAGE Publications includes over 470 full-text journals in Business, the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, Technology and Medicine. Access is available from 1999 to the present.

Social Work Abstracts
Indexes/abstracts from 1977 to the present on social work issues including homelessness, AIDS, aging, community organizations, etc.

WorldCat
With over 47 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages. WorldCat covers information from before 1,000 BC to the present, and includes holdings information from libraries in 45 countries.

World Almanacs
Includes the full text of all of the Almanac titles: The World Almanac and Book of Facts, providing key facts on a wide variety of subjects internationally; The World Almanac of the U.S.A. with essential facts about the United States—current and historical; The World Almanac of US Politics, a guidebook to federal, state, and local governments; The World Almanac for Kids, covering information and facts of interest to middle-school children and teachers; and the Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, a comprehensive general encyclopedia.

World History Collection
This database offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. It contains full text for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964.