In the Hoop: Slam Dunk Databases (March)

Looking to find the right resources in your quest for information? Need to achieve high probability of success in your research? Check out the following databases, invaluable to numerous academic programs, particularly those within the departments of Arts and Humanities and Health and Behavior Studies.

Produced by the American Theological Library Association, ATLA Religion and ATLA Serials combine 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 database primarily offers coverage from 1949, though indexing goes back to the 1800s for select journals; it includes more than 537,000 article citations from more than 1,633 journals (518 currently indexed), over 225,000 essay citations from over 18,700 multi-author works, and nearly 500,000 book review citations.

Humanities Full Text offers full text, plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most notable scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as numerous lesser-known but significant magazines. The database indexes, abstracts and delivers the full text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more. Topics covered include archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary and social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.

Medline is a database produced by the National Library of Medicine that indexes biomedical literature from 1966 to the present. Areas covered include microbiology, delivery of health care, nutrition, pharmacology, environmental health anatomy, organisms, diseases, chemicals and drugs, techniques and equipment, psychiatry and psychology, biological sciences, physical sciences, social sciences and education, technology, agriculture, food, industry, humanities, information science and communications, and health care.

Primary Documents in American History provides links to materials digitized from the collections of the Library of Congress that supplement and enhance the study of important documents in American history, including the women’s movement and women’s history. The site contains bibliographies for general readers and for younger readers.
There are also web guides in the fields of African American History; states, cities, and towns, government and law; literature; presidents; technology and industry; and war and military.