Library Databases and Electronic Resources

Library Research Tools

E-Journal Portal E-Journal Portal Find e-journals by title or ISSN.
Provides links directly to database(s) with appropriate full-text source material.
RefWorks RefWorks Bibliographic Software RefWorks is an online bibliography tool that lets you build a bibliography and create citations for your papers. You may be prompted to enter a “group code” to access RefWorks – use “RWGoddardC” (case-sensitive, without quotes). If you’re having trouble with RefWorks, ensure that your browser allows Pop-Up windows by following these instructions.

RefWorks 2.0 Fundamentals Tutorial – a series of video tutorials covering the basics of RefWorks.

How to Cite Webpages With RefGrabIt – an optional RefWorks feature for capturing bibliographic information from web pages . This is a 2 minutes online video tutorial on how to use RefGrabIt.

Library of Congress Library of Congress Classification Outline Matches subject headings with call numbers.

Book and Article Request

Eliot D Pratt Library Eliot D. Pratt Library Online Catalog Locate and request books.
FirstSearch FirstSearch Home (*including) 12 research databases such as WorldCat and ArticleFIRST.
WorldCat *WorldCat 70 million records. Interlibrary loan requests. (via FirstSearch)
ArticleFirst *ArticleFirst 15,000 journals and periodicals. Use ILL icon to request articles. (via FirstSearch)
Medline *MEDLINE 9580 journals of medicine, dentistry and nursing collected by the National Library of Medicine. ILL icon to request. (via FirstSearch)
ProQuest PROQUEST (Dissertation Express “Dissertations” in the FirstSearch database are ONLY citations or abstracts. To purchase a full copy of a dissertation please follow this link to the ProQuest Dissertation Express site and choose “Connect to Dissertation Express as an Individual”

Full-text Articles

EBSCOhost EBSCO Host Research Databases This is an excellent source of full-text materials mostly from refereed or peer-reviewed journals. Includes the databases:PsycARTICLES, Academic Search Complete, and MLA International Bibliography.
EBSCOhost EBSCO Environment Complete Environment Complete™ offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
EBSCOhost PsycARTICLES 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.
OneFile InfoTrac InfoTrac OneFile Limit search to “articles with text” for full text. Millions of articles in thousands of journals.
Health and Wellness Resource Center Health and Wellness Limit search to “full text articles” for full text

JStor

JSTOR “Journal storage,” backfiles of 117 core academic journals in Arts and Sciences, social sciences and humanities
Annual Review of Psychology Annual Review of Psychology 1996-current issue, full text online.
Chronicle of Higher Education Chronicle of Higher Education When prompted, Log-in name: prattlibrary; password: eliotpratt
ERIC ERIC Education Resources Information Center – Full text documents from 1993 on and journal citations from the 1980s forward.
Vermont Online Library Vermont Online Library – 16 full text databases presenting thousands of journals, periodicals, newswire, newspapers

Digital Final Products

Digital Final Products Digital Final Products This digital collection brings together theses and BA final products as submitted by our recent graduates. It provides access to scholarly work accomplished by Goddard’s graduate and undergraduate students. Researchers may browse or search students’ contributions from a single point.

eBooks

ebrary ebrary Over 56,000 eBooks in a variety of disciplines. Available here and searchable in the Eliot D. Pratt Online Catalog. Checkout & download to PC & Adobe compatible devices. View on iPhone/iPad/iPod touch with the ebrary app.
eBooks on EBSCOhost (formerly Netlibrary) Over 3,800 eBooks in a variety of disciplines. Available here and searchable in the Eliot D. Pratt Online Catalog. Checkout & download to PC & Adobe compatible devices. View on iPhone/iPad/iPod touch with the EBSCOhost app.

OFF CAMPUS: You may be prompted for the following user ID and password:

User ID: goddardc
Password: ebsco

Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg Over 38,000 free  public domain eBooks (and some audiobooks). Download to your PC, Kindle, Nook, iPad, iPhone, Android or other portable device. Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats.

Literature and Image Collections

Alexander Street Alexander Street Literature is a comprehensive, cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender.
Alexander Street Alexander Street Drama/North American Theatre Online is a comprehensive, cross-searchable package covering 20th Century North American Drama, Black Drama, Asian American Drama, North American Women’s Drama, and Latino Literature.

Alexander Street

North American Indian Drama is also a part of the Alexander Street Drama collection, but it can only be searched separately.

Reference

Credo Reference CredoReference Multi-disciplinary reference sources.

Virtual Magazine Rack

Virtual Magazine Rack Virtual Magazine Rack Miss being able to browse magazines and journals at the library? Try the Virtual Magazine Rack! We’ve compiled a number of popular magazines as well as magazines & journals by program subject for you to browse at your leisure.

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