Database and Resource List: ALL Databases

This database provides coverage of articles from more than 9,000 scholarly, trade, and general-interest periodicals including over 6,000 full-text titles. It also contains newspapers, newswire services, magazines, and podcasts, including coverage of the New York Times, London Times, and NPR. (Provider: Gale)

Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary full-text database, with 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 including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

Academic Video Online is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary video subscription that supports the entire range of curriculum, from anthropology to zoology. It includes a variety of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, and demonstrations. (Provider: Alexander Street, ProQuest/Clarivate)

The USDA National Agricultural Library’s main search tool. It provides simple, one-stop access to more than 7 million records covering all aspects of agriculture and related disciplines.

With broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields, this collection provides a comprehensive view of the agricultural industry. Comprised of hundreds of journals and magazines, researchers will have access to current and authoritative content that spans the industry -- from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture. (Provider: Gale)

Published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, AHFS includes drug information for more than a thousand drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers. It is available in both English and Spanish. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

Series I: 1691 -1820; Series II: 1821-1837; Series III: 1838-1852; Series IV: 1852-1865; Series V: 1866 through 1877. Collectively, these five series, spanning nearly two centuries, provide access to more than 6,500 historical periodicals, covering a range of subjects, including a wide-ranging view of American material, intellectual, and social life during this time period. For access to Series 2-5, select title above, go to Choose Databases link, change selected series, and choose OK.

The American Chemical Society publishes peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences. (Provider: American Chemical Society)

Providing non-partisan energy news, insights, and professional development opportunities, AES is a trusted voice with a mission to solve the world's greatest energy and environmental challenges. Users with an active esf.edu email can create an account to gain full, free access.

Full text access to critical reviews of primary research in the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences.

Applied Science and Technology Source covers the research and development spectrum of the applied sciences and computing disciplines including engineering, acoustics, aeronautics, neural networks and research concerning the business and social implications of new technology. This database provides abstracts and full-text to over 1,400 journals. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

Open access repository of pre-print articles in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, and Economics.

Use this database to locate approximately 22,500 U.S. national nonprofit membership organizations in all fields. The database is also used to monitor association trends; identify related associations; networking and making professional contacts; marketing to associations, their members and markets. (Provider: Gale)

This database provides a searchable interface to locate abstracts relating to the current literature in architecture and design. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is an online library providing free and open access to the legacy literature of taxonomy and biodiversity. Materials in BHL are provided by a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries who have come together to digitize the literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make it available as part of a global 'biodiversity commons.' The bulk of material in the BHL is in the public domain in the United States, meaning that the publication date is prior to 1923. Many of the collections contain rare published literature previously available only to those who could visit the institutions.

Contains journals that are available as open access including Environmental Health and BMC Biology.

A suite of full text peer-reviewed bioscience research journals.

Birds of the World engages the global ornithological community to create the most in-depth, science-based content to illustrate the life histories of birds and bird families. (Provider: The Cornell Lab of Ornithology)

Online resource for reliable content on sustainable design strategies, green building materials, and case studies of high performance buildings.

This collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics. (Provider: Gale)

Find information on companies, industries and more in the context of timely news, statistical data, and in-depth reports. (Provider: Gale)

A full text business research resource containing journal articles, company profiles, case studies, market research reports, and more. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

At Cambridge University Press, we currently publish more than 400 peer-reviewed academic journals covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine. (Provider: Cambridge)

One of the primary sources of information on higher education, including news, feature articles, opinion pieces, job listings, an archive of previously published content, discussion forums, and career-building tools such as online CV management and salary databases.

This comprehensive research database provides full text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals indexed in the CINAHL database. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

The ComAbstracts database contains abstracts of articles and books published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field as well as bibliographic records. (Provider: CIOS - Communication Institute for Online Scholarship)

Information about the communication field including ComAbstracts (abstracts in communication related journals) and ComVista (a directory of North American university departments and programs devoted to communication or journalism studies).

Incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

Computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. (Provider: Gale)

The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is a widely used source of data for chemists, physicists, and professionals in related fields of science. The Handbook provides broad coverage of all types of data commonly encountered by physical scientists and engineers.

Provides access to hundreds of full-text journals in the field of criminal justice. (Provider: Gale)

Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information from major cooking and nutrition magazines, culinary journals and several Delmar Reference titles. (Provider: Gale)

Diagnostic descriptions, illustrations and information on over 1,900 fungal and bacterial taxa. Also searchable within CAB Direct. (Provider: CABI)

Digital Commons has been migrated to our new institutional research portal: Experts at ESF.
Experts at ESF includes local conference proceedings, faculty publications, campus documents, and student work, as well as profiles for faculty, departments and research programs.

DOAB provides open access to hundreds of Academic peer-reviewed books from over 25 publishers.

Includes articles from over 18000 open access journals from around the world.

Database of ESF student theses and dissertations many of which are full text. Physical copies are located in the library and can be searched from our catalog.

This groundbreaking collection includes nearly 5,000 high-quality e-books assessed by EBSCO Collection development Librarians on the topic of diversity, equity and inclusion. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

Collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. This set includes more than 150 journals. (Provider: Gale)

The ESF Dataverse repository is a companion database to our Digital Commons Repository. The ESF Dataverse uses the Harvard Dataverse platform to share statistical data, scientific data and code. If you are a researcher at SUNY ESF, consider joining the Dataverse pilot.

Comprehensive, daily coverage of environmental and energy policy and markets. This includes Greenwire, Climatwire, and Energywire.

Offers over 240,000 e-books. This multidisciplinary collection includes thousands of e-books covering a wide selection of academic subjects and features e-books from leading publishers and university presses.

Education Source provides full-text access and indexing for thousands of education-related periodicals, monographs, yearbooks, and more. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

One of the oldest and most well-known reference sources, with both short and book-length overview articles in almost all disciplines. Also includes historical timelines, multimedia, selected magazine articles, notable quotations, and a dictionary and thesaurus.

This is a collaborative initiative to collect information on every species on earth and share that knowledge in an open, freely accessible digital resource.

Providing robust coverage of the field of environmental issues and policy, this collection, which includes magazines and academic journals, provides instant access to the multiple viewpoints of this volatile field of study, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests. (Provider: Gale)

Offers deep coverage in 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. It contains full text and/or abstracts for over 2500 journal and book titles. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

The Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

Combines indexing, abstracts, full text and multimedia to deliver detailed information from social science journals, humanities journals, general interest magazines, science and technology journals, and national and global news sources. (Provider: Gale)

Experts @ ESF is our new institutional research portal. It replaces Digital Commons.
Experts at ESF includes local conference proceedings, faculty publications, campus documents, and student work, as well as profiles for faculty, departments and research programs.

Film Platform is known globally for award-winning documentary films curated for academic audiences. Its exclusive collection of documentary films has been carefully selected from prestigious film festivals and made by the best filmmakers from including many OSCAR®-nominated and OSCAR®-shortlisted documentaries (Provider: ProQuest, Alexander Street)

Access to full-text magazines and journals in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. (Provider: Gale)

News for Forest Research Professionals published by the Society of American Foresters.

Focuses on the study of sustainability and the environment. Topics include ecosystems, global warming, food safety, and introductions to environmental disasters. Integrating case studies, news, reference materials, academic journals, videos, and more, Environmental Studies is updated daily with relevant information.(Provider: Gale)

Collection of journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. (Provider: Gale)

This collection of journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more. (Provider: Gale)

A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily. (Provider: Gale)

A collection of over 1,000 peer-reviewed journals, providing information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments. (Provider: Gale)

JSTOR’s Global Plants is a community-contributed database where worldwide herbaria can share their plant type specimens, experts can determine and update naming structures, students can discover and learn about plants in context, and a record of plant life can be preserved for future generations. This database contains the contributed collections of more than 300 herbaria from around the globe, which preserve plant type specimens that are used for the study of botany, ecology, and other plant science disciplines. (Provider: JSTOR)

A free search engine that searches across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. If you are on campus, many links in Google Scholar will go directly to journals that the university pays for.

Covers many aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

The Green Planet collection contains educational videos that cover nature and environmental issues from around the globe.

Provides access to nursing and allied health journals, other medical journals, newsletters and consumer health magazines. Many of the 2800 journals are available in full text. (Provider: Gale)

Provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health through access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines and features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

HeinOnline is a commercial internet database of historical and government documents, specializing in legal materials. Find resources in Gun Regulation and Legislation in America and Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture, and Law. (Provider: HeinOnline)

Offers some free articles in biological, physical and social sciences and medicine. Click here for a list of included titles.

Coverage includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more. (Provider: Gale)

Current and relevant content from industry journals, travel guides, and magazines in the hospitality and tourism field including cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism, and more. (Provider: Gale)

Humanities Source provides full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing for scholarly sources in the humanities. The database includes feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, and much more. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

Comprised of content from more than 100 leading industry journals, provides current and accurate information in the field of Library and Information Science, including such topics as information infrastructure, data processing techniques, metadata architectures, and more. (Provider: Gale)

Full-text newspaper database which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields. (Provider: Gale)

This collection of journals takes a broad view, covering such topics as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more. (Provider: Gale)

Searchable database of field guide information for plants, animals, and other objects in North America and around the world. Note: This database provides citations, not the full text.

Full-text archive of scholarly publications in mathematics, science, the arts and humanities, and the social sciences.

Database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more. (Provider: Gale)

Contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for more than 120 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 150 full-text monographs and books. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

Indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. This database also contains full text for more than 330 journals. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

Research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search across several major Literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews. (Provider: Gale)

Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

Coverage includes medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences found on MEDLINE, plus the database provides full text for more than 1,470 journals indexed in MEDLINE. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

Designed to offer current and often full text news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

Content from over 400 journals, which covers all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. Key subjects covered include: socioeconomic effects of war, governmental policies, the structure of armed forces, and many more. (Provider: Gale)

National Fire Codes Online provides access to current and past editions of the nearly 300 National Fire Protection Association codes and standards and many NFPA handbooks that define fire, electrical, and building safety today.

Since 1940, the National Big Tree Program has been a testament to American Forests’ legacy of leadership in recognizing the beauty and critical ecosystem services provided by our biggest and oldest trees. More than 750 champions are crowned each year and documented in the biannual publication — the National Register of Big Trees.

Full-text access for the last five years. Nature is a weekly international journal publishing peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public. (Provider: Nature Publishing)

The NCSU Digital Repository Technical Reports collection contains research-oriented technical reports published by the University's colleges, departments, institutes, and research centers, including Water Resources Research Institute, Center for Research in Scientific Computation, and Masters programs in Natural Resources, Forestry, Environmental Assessment, and Natural Parks, Recreation, and Tourism.

Newspaper Source Plus indexes more than 800 newspapers and news wire services from around the world, as well as television and radio news transcripts from many major broadcasting organizations. Many titles include the full-text or full-image content from recent years. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

New York Heritage is a research portal for students, educators, historians, genealogists, and anyone else who is interested in learning more about the people, places and institutions of New York State. The site provides free access to more than 170 distinct digital collections, representing a broad range of historical, scholarly, and cultural materials held in libraries, museums, and archives throughout the state. Collection items include photographs, letters, diaries, directories, maps, newspapers, books, and more. ESF's content includes items related to Fletcher Steele and the Roosevelt Wild Life Station.

NCEI (formerly National Climatic Data Center) is the world's largest active archive of weather data. NCEI produces numerous climate publications and responds to data requests from all over the world. (Provider: US Government Department of Commerce)

Collection including 400 titles, covering all aspects of the Nursing profession from direct patient care to health care administration. (Provider: Gale)

Provides full text access to differing points of view on current social issues. (Provider: Gale)

PAPERCHEM includes international coverage of journals and patents in the pulp and paper, packaging, printing, publishing, imaging and nonwovens industries. This database provides abstracts and citation information. (Provider: ProQuest)

Search for patents and applications for patents filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Collection including over 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine. Covering a wide spectrum of information, researchers will have access to a diverse, but focused set of topics in the field, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses, and many more. (Provider: Gale)

PNAS is a full text multidisciplinary journal that publishes research reports, commentaries, reviews, perspectives, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. Coverage in PNAS spans the biological, physical, and social sciences. PNAS is published weekly in print, and daily online in PNAS Early Edition.

Points of View Reference Center is a full text database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

This collection provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art or liberal arts course. This collection is made up of more than 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals. (Provider: Gale)

Includes more than 1,000 of the most searched magazines. This database is 100% full text and includes over 600 titles. (Provider: Gale)

PAPERCHEM provides comprehensive coverage of the literature of the pulp and paper, packaging, printing, publishing, imaging and nonwovens industries from around the world. This database provides abstracts and citation information. (Provider: ProQuest)

This database covers information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops and diminishes over time. Researchers will have access to hundreds of subject-appropriate full-text periodicals - many cited in the PsycINFO index. (Provider: Gale)

PubAg covers all of the core topics of the agricultural sciences including nutrition, food safety, food quality, animal and crop production and protection, natural resources, sustainable agricultural systems, rural development, agricultural economic and policy issues, agricultural imports and exports, agricultural statistics, extramural research, and extension education.

A collection of open access peer-reviewed research journals in science and medicine that include original research as well as timely feature articles. Journals cover the fields of medicine, biology, computational biology, genetics, pathogens, neglected tropical diseases and clinical trials.

Open access full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications; incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

Research different religions, philosophies and how they impact our daily lives. Contains over a million articles printed from 1980 to present. (Provider: Gale)

Online access to peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and books geared toward the chemical science community.

Searches peer reviewed articles. Full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,400 journals and books. (Provider: Elsevier)

Full text access to one of the world's leading journals for scientific news, commentary, and peer-reviewed research articles. (Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS))

A research discovery tool that provides access to research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more. To create an account or learn more visit ESF's SciFinder guide.

Provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories through access to hundreds of full text subject-appropriate periodicals. (Provider: Gale)

Provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language journals published in the social sciences. This resource provides detailed indexing for over 625 periodicals dating back as far as 1983—nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed. (Provider: EBSCOhost)

SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database for journals, books, protocols, eReferences, and book series published by Springer.

A repository where two dozen SUNY institutions have provided digitized items unique to their collections.

An online portal to some of the treasures in the Terrence J. Hoverter College Archives.

A database of ESF student theses and dissertations many of which are available in full text. Starting in 2017, ESF student dissertations have been collected in a new platform: Digital Commons. The library also keeps physical copies which can be searched in the catalog.

Browse or search for recent Honors theses done by undergraduates. Physical copies can be found in the library and searched using the library catalog.

Access to full text articles produced by the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI).

Provides searchable peer-reviewed journal citations and access to some full text resources covering fisheries, forestry, landscape architecture, soil science, and related sciences.

Soil information and surveys gathered by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.

A variety of publications from the USDA Forest Service. Topics include Fire and Incident Management, Business, Science and Technology and more (Provider: United State Forest Service).

Treesearch is an online system for sharing free, full text publications by research and development scientists in the USDA Forest Service. Included in Treesearch are scholarly works authored by the agency's scientists and published by journals, in conference proceedings, or in books (Provider: United States Forest Service).

Search the authoritative catalog for USGS peer reviewed scientific publications including USGS publication series, journal articles, books, book chapters, other government and nongovernment publications, cooperator publications, and conference proceedings.

This collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the current thinking and events in US History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field. This compilation of journals provides robust and balanced coverage of this field, useful both to the novice historian as well as to the advanced academic researcher. (Provider: Gale)

This collection provides content from nearly 400 journals, including content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals. Topics include: finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career. (Provider: Gale)

A definitive periodical collection of hand selected titles for analysts, risk management professionals and students of military science, history, social science. (Provider: Gage)

Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 12,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 150,000 conference proceedings. (Provider: Clarivate)

The Environmental Science and History digital archive focuses on critical aspects of anthropogenic change and includes unique and rare archival collections from multiple global sources. (1790's-2000's) (provider: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

Provides abstract searches and full-text access to many peer-reviewed journals covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. (Provider: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

Provides well-rounded coverage of both the current thinking and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field. This compilation of journals provides robust and balanced coverage of this field, useful both to the novice historian as well as to the advanced academic researcher. (Provider: Gale)

WorldCat connects you to the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. It also simultaneously searches OAIster which is a collection of open access digital resources.

A suite of full text peer-reviewed bioscience research journals.

Offers over 240,000 e-books. This multidisciplinary collection includes thousands of e-books covering a wide selection of academic subjects and features e-books from leading publishers and university presses.

Full-text archive of scholarly publications in mathematics, science, the arts and humanities, and the social sciences.

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Open access full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Searches peer reviewed articles. Full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,400 journals and books. (Provider: Elsevier)

A research discovery tool that provides access to research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more. To create an account or learn more visit ESF's SciFinder guide.