Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer science, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. The majority of full text titles are available in searchable PDF, or scanned-in-color. This database is updated on a daily basis.
JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. USF has access to the following collections: Arts & Sciences I - XV Collections, Business IV Collection, Ecology & Botany II Collection, Ireland Collection, Life Sciences Collection, and Sustainability Extension. For more information on these collection, please refer to https://about.jstor.org/librarians/journals/multi-discipline/. -- Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works, back to 1743. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content. More than 70,000 new full-text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide, and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations. Full-text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image. Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Where available, PQDTGlobal provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses. Starting 2023, dissertations are also accessible through the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index on the Web of Science platform. -- Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
A web database for scientific research that contains the full text of more than 2000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences available through the Internet. Contains abstracts and articles from the core journals in major scientific disciplines. The journals are arranged under subject areas for topical navigation. -- USF Libraries access is based on purchase of or subscription to specific titles in ScienceDirect. Access is generally back to 1995, with backfile access to selected titles. Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language journals published in the U.S. and elsewhere with full text and page images from scores of key publications, plus abstracting and indexing of hundreds of others. A resource for a wide variety of users from students to social workers, Social Sciences Full Text covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences. High quality indexing of periodicals as far back as 1983. In-depth abstracts of 50 to 150 words - written by professionals with backgrounds in the social sciences - let users know instantly if a cited article is useful to their research. Full text of articles from journals as far back as 1995. Search using the Wilson subject thesaurus developed specifically for this database. Up-to-date subject headings keep pace with today's changing issues, concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods. Graphical content adds a key dimension to research - PDF page images accompany full text articles, offering both words and images. Search by keyword, subject, personal names, title words, publication, year, type of article or any combination, to find exactly what you need. Daily updates bring users current information. -- Some subjects covered include: Addiction Studies ; Anthropology ; Area Studies ; Community Health & Medical Care ; Communications ; Corrections ; Criminal Justice ; Criminology ; Economics ; Environmental Studies ; Ethics ; Family Studies ; Gender Studies ; Geography ; Gerontology ; International Relations ; Law ; Mass Media ; Minority Studies ; Planning & Public Administration ; Policy Sciences ; Political Science ; Psychiatry ; Psychology ; Public Welfare ; Social Work ; Sociology ; Urban Studies -- Covers some 350 core periodicals in the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, and international relations.