Free Online Databases

FREE DATABASES
Here is a list of free and open access databases or searchable collections:

RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH

BOOK REVIEW SOURCES

Amazon at www.amazon.com
Look for reviews by “Kirkus”, “Hornbook”, and “Publisher’s Weekly”; use caution with “customer reviews” as these are often written by friends or paid reviewers to increase book sales.

The Bryn Mawr Classical Review – http://ccat.sas.upenn.bmcr/achive.html
Archive from 1990 to present of book reviews for classical resources. The site also can be searched across the years by keyword.

FREE ARTICLE DATABASES

BioMed Central – http://biomedcentral.com. Free access to full text articles from over 170 open access journals in biology and medicine. The site does require a free registration.

FindArticles.com –http://www.findarticles.com. The site provides both basic and advanced search options and access to millions of articles.

Highwire – Free online-full-text articles – http://highwire.standford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl

Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/ Advanced search in hundreds of journals.

Public Library of Science
http://www.plos.org/oa/index.html


OPEN ACCESS FOR RELIGION AND CULTURE
Journal of Religion and Culture
http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/

Journal of Religion and Theater
http://www.rtjournal.org/

Journal of Southern Religion
http://jsr.fsu.edu/

Cyberjournal for Pentecostal-Charismatic Research
http://www.pctii.org/cyberj/


ENGLISH LITERATURE

CLCWEB; Comparative – Perdue
http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/

English and American Lit.
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/bysubject/engweb.html

Literary Resources on the Internet
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

Literary Resources
http://www.ithacalibrary.com/subjects/english


OTHER FREE FULL TEXT DATABASES
Open Access journals - subject
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/dean/peer_reviewed.htm

The Princeton BBS Reprint Archive – http://www.bbsonline.org/bbsprints.html Searchable database of over 670 academic papers from the Behavior and Brain Sciences archive.

National trade Data Bank – http://www.stat-usa.gov/tradtest.nsf. Contains over 100,000 documents, tables, and time series, along with economic and statistical information.
-- SCU Library Commons, 8/8/08