Databases A - Z: Databases

Indexes open-access academic resources including journals, institutional repositories, and digital collections. About 60% of the sources are available in full text. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
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Full-text articles of high-impact bioscience research journals focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
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Features select primary source documents related to critical people and events in Black Freedom and African American history.

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Contains thousands of scholarly and critical books, peer-reviewed journals, and other periodicals, along with reference essays and literary criticism. Also includes full text classic literature and poems, and full-length videos of classic plays and films.
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Provides indexing and full text of articles in business, leadership, marketing, management, computing and MIS, POM, accounting, finance, and economics.
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Video programming of floor proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, public affairs events, congressional hearings, press briefings, speeches, and news conferences related to public affairs.
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Legal research, including Federal, State, and Tribal cases, statutes, and regulations. All published cases for Federal courts. Although states vary, most published state cases are available back to the beginning, including Kansas (1862), Missouri Supreme Court (1821), and Missouri Appellate (1876). Also includes a “Citing References & Cited Cases Graph” to help determine if a case is still good law. *You will need to sign up using your @moval.edu email account the first time you access Casemaker.
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Maintained by Candid, this is a searchable database of the literature of philanthropy. The Catalog contains citations to materials collected by Candid's libraries and other sources. The Catalog was formerly known as Literature of the Nonprofit Sector.
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Abstracts and book reviews of material related to the growth and development of children through the age of 21.
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News, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. A password is required for access to this database. For assistance, please email library@moval.edu or call 660-831-4180.
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Full-text and abstracts for over 770 nursing & allied health journals, dating back to 1937.
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Focused primarily on computer and information science. Includes resources such as algorithms, data, metadata, services, techniques, and software that can be used to promote other digital libraries.
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Video courses on the basics of computers, from searching the Internet to using popular programs for word processing, creating spreadsheets and databases, implementing design, and computer certification exam preparation.
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Provides access to Congressional reports, legislation, congressional records, and other legislative information. Formerly "THOMAS Congressional Reports."
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Contains reports from the Congressional Research Service, which provides valuable insight and non-partisan analysis of issues of public debate.
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Resources for consumer-oriented health content including mainstream, complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. Also includes the Clinical Reference System, a medical dictionary, and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs.
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Contains more than 1,200 illustrated pages of definitions and diagnoses on virtually every known medical condition, plus treatment and preventative tips for many ailments.

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Aggregates authoritative journals, preprints, conference proceedings, and dissertations dealing with COVID-19 and other past coronavirus outbreaks, such as MERS and SARS, for context around the current global pandemic. Full-text content in the database is available either directly from ProQuest or via links to publisher sites.
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Abstracts and partial full text articles dealing with the SARS-II Novel Coronavirus 2019 from the World Health Organization. Updated daily (Monday through Friday) from searches of bibliographic databases, hand searching, and the addition of other expert-referred scientific articles. This database represents a comprehensive multilingual source of current literature on the topic.
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Online reference materials covering a variety of subjects. Includes special tools such as a Mind Map, topic search, and image search. Credo has a variety of Research Guides with links to topic pages and other useful content in over 60 different subject areas.
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full-text coverage of scholarly and trade titles on criminal justice, causes and impacts of crime, legal and social implications, litigation, and crime trends. 1981 to current.
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The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Contains data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, etc.
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Contains a variety of government statistical information.

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Electronic books from 18 collections, including K-12, general, academic, science, open dissertations, and nursing/health books. From MOBIUS and Murrell Library.
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Includes multiple general databases that can be searched separately or together. Provides full-text articles and links to other articles owned by Murrell Library or members of the Avalon and Mobius Consortium.
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Indexing and Abstracting only - no full text. References to article in educational administration, leadership, management, and research.
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These databases contain materials related to education and teaching. Some of the databases include: Book Education Collection | Education Full Text | Educational Administration Abstracts | ERIC | Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts | Development Collection | PsycARTICLES | PsycINFO | Teacher Reference Center.
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Covers over 400 core periodicals geared toward educators and future educators with indexing, abstracts, and full-text articles available.
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Environmental journals with both full text and references, going back to 1888.
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Indexes education books, articles, and documents (1966 to present), with some full text. For journal articles (with an EJ number) which are not linked, search for holdings by the journal title. For ERIC Documents that are not available online, Murrell Library has the text on Microfiche from 1988 - 2001 (ED284957 to ED453975), They are arranged by the ED number (ERIC Document Number), which is found in the record.

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Databases aimed at K-12 students using the Explora interface. Includes: Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, MAS Ultra-School Edition, MasterFILE Premier, Middle Search Plus, Newspaper Source, Primary Search, Science Reference Center, and several eBook collections.

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Contains education-related databases and eBooks, K12 lesson plans and curriculum standards, student tools, and links for teachers.

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Contains data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau. (Formerly American Factfinder.)
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Contains career and education planning resources, information on various careers and educational institutions, salary information, a career interest assessment, and links to jobs and internships. “Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight” videos let users get a no-nonsense insider’s perspective from working professionals across multiple industries. Offers expert advice on writing résumés and cover letters, interviewing, applying for apprenticeships and internships, professional etiquette, and other workplace topics. Users can download résumés and cover letters in Word and PDF formats to use as templates to build their own.
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Full-length streaming videos in a variety of core subject areas.
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Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
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Compilation of publicly available information on developments in a globalised world. Presents data on a wide range of topics and from a broad range of international statistical resources.
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The academic form of Google, Scholar will search for scholarly articles and books instead of websites. This includes a large number of scholarly eJournal articles subscribed to by Murrell Library. To get full text articles, you must go to “Settings” and select Missouri Valley College in the “Library Links” the very first time you use Google Scholar on your computer. Your computer will save this information and you will not have to enter it again. Click here for a guide to setting up Google Scholar.
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Contains status of federal legislation, information about representative and senators including voting records, and original research on legislation and congressional oversight & investigations.
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Indexing, abstracts, and selected full text articles on the environment, climate change and global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling.
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A comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, convenient research guides, interactive census maps, and more.
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Indexing and Abstracting only - no full text. Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women’s history, history of education, and more. Provides indexing of more than 2,300 academic historical journals in over 40 languages dating back to 1955.
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Provides full text of over 1,200 journals and eBooks, as well as indexing for over 2,300 journals. Includes all data from the Humanities International Index.
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Contains musical scores, recordings, and articles that are in the public domain.
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Candid's online catalog of research reports, case studies, issue briefs, literature reviews, and annual reports published or funded by U.S. foundations. Links to the full text reports are provided. Covers 1971-present.
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Databases aimed at K-12 students using the Explora interface. Includes: Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, MAS Ultra-School Edition, MasterFILE Premier, Middle Search Plus, Newspaper Source, Primary Search, Science Reference Center, and several eBook collections.

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Contains education-related databases and eBooks, K12 lesson plans and curriculum standards, student tools, and links for teachers.

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Databases for K-12 students using the familiar EBSCOhost interface. Includes Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, eBooks, MAS Ultra, Masterfile Premier, Middle Search Plus, Newspaper Source, Points of View Reference Center, Primary Search, and Science Reference Center.
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An interactive online learning platform of tutorials and practice tests for computer software and standardized exams. The Computer Skills Center has self-directed video tutorials for commonly used software applications. The Resume and Cover Letter Builder templates and sample resumes.
Tutorials for standardized academic and licensing exams include the GRE, Praxis, Allied Health and Nursing exams, real estate, plumbing, cosmetology, law enforcement and many other occupational licensure exams. Learning Express also allows users to brush up on basic literacy skills, math skills, and science skills. Provided by MOREnet.
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Indexing and Abstracting only - no full text. Indexes journals, books, research reports, and proceedings in computer science, information systems, and librarianship.

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Indexing and Abstracting only - no full text. A compilation of literary commentary that gives users access to centuries of analysis. Scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals with the exact look and feel of the print originals. Also indexes Twentieth Century Literary Criticism and Contemporary Literary Criticism (located in Murrell Library Reference Section).
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Comprises concise, informative entries on all the most important terms in toxicology. Coverage includes biochemical and environmental toxicology, chemical carcinogenesis, risk assessment and risk management as well as those aspects of analytical chemistry and molecular biology that are of importance in toxicology. The most important toxic chemicals are covered, in most cases with structures and CAS numbers.
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An online language learning resource offering the cultural insights to communicate appropriately and fully understand a new language. Choose from 71 foreign language courses, English lessons, and specialty courses that teach cultural differences and etiquette. You must create an account the first time you log in.
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An interdisciplinary database with provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals. Selected full-text dates from. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books andand many primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
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K-12 database for high school students.
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Indexes articles from over 4,800 journals, 1965 - present, dealing with medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, preclinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine. For articles from 1947-1965, see OldMedline.
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Consumer health information from the National Library of Medicine.
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K-12 database for middle school students.

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Site which has current and archived Missouri state regulations. Updated each year.
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Access to more than 9 million records through Missouri Digital Heritage, including the collections of the Missouri State Archives, the Missouri State Library and other institutions from across the state.
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Search by Bill Number, Keyword, or Sponsor-Co-Sponsor to track actions on bills in the Missouri Legislature.
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A collection of selected Missouri State Government publications from Missouri State Agencies contributed to the Internet Archives by the Missouri State Library.
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Indexing and Abstracting only - no full text. A detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations in English, literature, folklore, poetry, and linguistics.
Click here for a list of journals indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, including editorial contact information, frequency, circulation, subscription prices, and submission guidelines.
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Contains captioned streaming video clips covering a range of disciplines including Astronomy, Anthropology, Atmospheric Science, Botany, Chemistry, Geography, and Zoology.
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MVC's subscription contains the current year and the previous year. Older issues are in Murrell Library in print.
Nature – Original research, editorials, news, and feature articles discussing current affairs, funding, business, scientific ethics, and research breakthroughs across a wide range of scientific fields, plus books reviews, arts, and short science fiction stories. Nature Reviews Microbiology – Reviews, perspectives and comments using an integrated approach to microbiology, bridging fundamental research and its clinical, industrial and environmental applications.
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Full text of 15 major magazines dealing with current events, international relations, and public policy. Coverage: 1918 – 2015. Titles include: Americas, Church & State, Common Cause Magazine, Dollars & Sense, Europe, Fellowship, In These Times, NATO Review, New Internationalist, Newsweek, State Legislatures, UN Chronicle, The Unesco Courier, Whole Earth, and The World Tomorrow.
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Provides cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers. In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts from major networks.
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A national leader in fact-based journalism. The NYT Online contains access to current issues as well as past issues and archives dating back to 1851. You will need to create your own unique login the first time that you access the New York Times website.
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includes occupational profiles covering hundreds of detailed occupations. Each occupational profile describes: what workers do, where they work, typical education and training requirements, wages, job outlook, state and area data.
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Provides citations to graduate theses and dissertations from the early 20th century to the present. Incorporates the American Doctoral Dissertations database.
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Provides pro and con articles providing in-depth information for all sides of controversial current topics. The database contains primary documents, topic overviews, and statistics. This is a good place to find supporting arguments for speeches, papers, and debates.
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Streaming Audio, Video, and eBooks available on computer, tablet, or phone with your MoVal login information. The Libby app is available from Apple's App Store, from Google Play, or from Microsoft. For questions, call Murrell Library at 660-831-4180.
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Contains over 175,000 entries and more than 1000 illustrations.

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Contains full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and other leading sources. Includes access to full-text issues from 1894 to the present.
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Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology, educational psychology, behavioral science, and mental health dating back to the 1800s.
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Indexing and Abstracting only - no full text. Over 45,000 randomized trials, systematic reviews, and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. PEDro trials are independently assessed with quality ratings to guide users to trials that are more likely to be valid and to contain sufficient information to guide clinical practice. From the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, School of Public Health at the University of Sydney and the Neuroscience Research Australia.
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A non-profit open-access science publisher.

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Designed to assist researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. Can be used as guide to debating, developing arguments, writing position papers, and developing critical thinking skills. Includes thousands of supporting articles from political and societal publications.
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A project of the Center for Governmental Studies, PolicyArchive is a comprehensive, free digital library of public policy research providing access to thousands of research documents.
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K-12 database for elementary school students.
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Over 500 high quality education journals, including over 350 peer-reviewed titles, as well as more than 200 educational reports.
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Full text on a wide range of topics from leading psychological and psychosomatic publications. Covers clinical and social psychology as well as related disciplines including genetics, psychology of business and economics, communication, criminology, addiction, neurology, social welfare, and education.
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Indexing and Abstracting only - no full text. Indexes publications, research summaries, and information sheets on PTSD and other mental health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. The database attempts to include all publications relevant to PTSD and other forms of traumatic stress from 1871 – current, whatever their origin, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographic limitations. Created by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Contains information about molecules such as nucleotides, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, and chemically-modified macromolecules. Includes information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, and toxicity data.
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Indexing and Abstracting only - no full text. Indexes global contemporary public policy issues including public health, the environment, housing, human and civil rights, international conflict, and natural disasters. This database draws on a diverse array of scholarly publications, conference papers, government documents, and current reference works. Click here to access this database.
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Comprises more than 28 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.
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A free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine.
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Offers resources to help build background knowledge, conduct research and improve study skills. Content Includes:
* Step-by-step research guides.
* “Read Out Loud” text-to-speech tool that enables students to highlight and listen to text.
* Lexile Measures to indicate a text’s level of reading difficulty.
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Full text coverage of more than 80 regional U.S. business publications.
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Part of the Learning Express Library, this database contains over 200 expert-developed resumes covering a range of occupations and preparation levels. Build your own or use filter templates. Provided by MOREnet.
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The academic form of Google, Scholar will search for scholarly articles and books instead of websites. This includes a large number of scholarly eJournal articles subscribed to by Murrell Library. To get full text articles, you must go to “Settings” and select Missouri Valley College in the “Library Links” the very first time you use Google Scholar on your computer. Your computer will save this information and you will not have to enter it again. Click here for a guide to setting up Google Scholar.
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The Sage Health Practice and Services Collection contains 54 peer-reviewed e-Journals. Use Advanced Search and turn on the Sage Journals Available to me setting turned on. Otherwise you will be shown articles that are not available for free.
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This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc.

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Full-text articles in physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, biomechanics, movement science, injury prevention, rehabilitation, sport & exercise psychology, allied health, occupational health & therapy, public health, etc.
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Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
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Provides access to Congressional reports, legislation, congressional records, and other legislative information. Formerly "THOMAS Congressional Reports."
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This database for making nursing, medical, and health care decisions at the point of care can be searched by disease, symptom, lab abnormality, or drug, and filtered by adult or pediatric topics or inclusion of graphics. Each topic contains both basic and advanced levels. Practice guidelines contain graded recommendations using a number (the strength of the recommendation) and letter (the quality of the supporting evidence). Contains over 185 medical calculators, drug information, and food and drug interactions. Includes patient education briefs and Continuing Medical Education (CME). Drug information includes “Boxed Warnings,” dosing (including for special populations), generic forms, administration, labeled indications, label and off-label use, adverse reactions, warning and precautions, drug and food interactions, and reproductive and pregnancy considerations. All information is cited to references.

To use UpToDate, sign in with your MOVAL username and password. After being logged in, you will be prompted to create an individual account. Online video tutorials are available.
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Streaming access to over 7,000 historic public radio and television programs along with data records for approximately 2.5 million items.
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Historical and archival films from multiple sources, including: The Prelinger Archives – U.S. cultural and social history; The WPA Film Library – over 2,800 clips and newsreels since the late 1800s; The United Newsreel collection – World War II newsreels from the U.S. Office of War Information; The Universal Newsreel collection – 7 to 10 minute newsreels, released twice per week between 1929 and 1967; Recordings from the National Archives and Records Administration of historic speeches and events.
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Online reference materials covering a variety of subjects. Includes special tools such as a Mind Map, topic search, and image search. Credo has a variety of Research Guides with links to topic pages and other useful content in over 60 different subject areas.
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Electronic books from 18 collections, including K-12, general, academic, science, open dissertations, and nursing/health books. From MOBIUS and Murrell Library.
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Full-length streaming videos in a variety of core subject areas.
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Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
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Contains captioned streaming video clips covering a range of disciplines including Astronomy, Anthropology, Atmospheric Science, Botany, Chemistry, Geography, and Zoology.
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Provides citations to graduate theses and dissertations from the early 20th century to the present. Incorporates the American Doctoral Dissertations database.
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Streaming Audio, Video, and eBooks available on computer, tablet, or phone with your MoVal login information. The Libby app is available from Apple's App Store, from Google Play, or from Microsoft. For questions, call Murrell Library at 660-831-4180.
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This new edition offers newly updated terms, and provides the latest research on word origins and meanings, with guidelines on accurate usage.

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Explanations of medical terms in nursing, medicine, and other health care professions.

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Contains synonyms, alternatives, and cross-references, reflecting both technical and day-to-day aspects of Modern English.

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Comprehensive coverage on a variety of subjects including, arts, business, geography, history, literature, philosophy, politics, pop culture, science, sports, and more. Contains pronunciation help, relevant tables, and international maps.

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An online dictionary of the English language.

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Drawn from the Collins Corpus, the largest in the world with more than 4.5 billion words, and combined with a selection of emerging words submitted by the public on collinsdictionary.com, the Collins English Dictionary is a snapshot of real English as it is spoken today around the world.

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This edition of Collins French Dictionary & Grammar has been revised and updated to offer extensive and relevant coverage of today's English and French, with thousands of phrases and examples guiding the user to the most appropriate translation.

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Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
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Comprises concise, informative entries on all the most important terms in toxicology. Coverage includes biochemical and environmental toxicology, chemical carcinogenesis, risk assessment and risk management as well as those aspects of analytical chemistry and molecular biology that are of importance in toxicology. The most important toxic chemicals are covered, in most cases with structures and CAS numbers.
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Contains over 175,000 entries and more than 1000 illustrations.

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Streaming access to over 7,000 historic public radio and television programs along with data records for approximately 2.5 million items.
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Historical and archival films from multiple sources, including: The Prelinger Archives – U.S. cultural and social history; The WPA Film Library – over 2,800 clips and newsreels since the late 1800s; The United Newsreel collection – World War II newsreels from the U.S. Office of War Information; The Universal Newsreel collection – 7 to 10 minute newsreels, released twice per week between 1929 and 1967; Recordings from the National Archives and Records Administration of historic speeches and events.
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News, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. A password is required for access to this database. For assistance, please email library@moval.edu or call 660-831-4180.
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Video programming of floor proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, public affairs events, congressional hearings, press briefings, speeches, and news conferences related to public affairs.
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An interdisciplinary database with provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals. Selected full-text dates from. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books andand many primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
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Access to more than 9 million records through Missouri Digital Heritage, including the collections of the Missouri State Archives, the Missouri State Library and other institutions from across the state.
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Full text of 15 major magazines dealing with current events, international relations, and public policy. Coverage: 1918 – 2015. Titles include: Americas, Church & State, Common Cause Magazine, Dollars & Sense, Europe, Fellowship, In These Times, NATO Review, New Internationalist, Newsweek, State Legislatures, UN Chronicle, The Unesco Courier, Whole Earth, and The World Tomorrow.
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Provides cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers. In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts from major networks.
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A national leader in fact-based journalism. The NYT Online contains access to current issues as well as past issues and archives dating back to 1851. You will need to create your own unique login the first time that you access the New York Times website.
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Full text coverage of more than 80 regional U.S. business publications.
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