Search Full-text Electronic Journal Collections

The following databases are collections of full-text electronic journals. In most cases the ejournal collections may be searched individually or collectively. Access is limited to Vanderbilt users only. Please check the Heard Library list of ejournals for a comprehensive alphabetical list of the ejournals available to the Vanderbilt community. Note that Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff using an outside Internet service provider from off campus may be prompted for their VUnet IDs and password.

• ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery)
  This is a large resource of citations, abstracts and full-text articles for the educational and scientific computing society. Full-text access to the ACM journal collection only. Full text articles from 1991 forward. Tables of contents from 1985 forward.
  Search: ACM Digital Library Search (journal or subject search)
  
  
• American Chemical Society - Journals and Archive
  This is a large collection of high-quality peer-reviewed chemistry journals. Coverage is from vol 1. forward.
  Search: Search the ACS Journals
  


• American Institute of Physics, Online Journal Publishing Service
  A large collection of scholarly physics journals from AIP.
  Search: Search (individual titles)
  
  
• American Mathematical Society Journals
  Access to high-quality peer-reviewed journals in mathematics. Articles are posted upon acceptance, so electronic versions are available prior to the print version.
  Search: AMS Journal Search
  
  
• American Periodicals Series 1740-1900 - ProQuest
  Searchable database of the digitized images of the pages of over 1,500 American magazines and journals published between 1740 and 1900.
  
  
• American Society of Civil Engineers
  Access is from 1999 to full-text of journals for which Vanderbilt also has a subscription to the print version.
  Search: Search CEDB (Civil Engineering Database 1973-present. Searches all publications of ASCE)
  
  
• Annual Reviews
  Full-text annual reviews in the biomedical, physical, and social sciences.
  
  
• BioOne
  BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of these titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form. BioOne provides integrated, cost-effective access to a thoroughly linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
  Search BioOne
  List of Journals in BioOne
  

• Business and Company ASAP (Infotrac via the Tennessee Electronic Library)
  Use this database to research all business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as information on Finance, Trade, New Technologies, Trends and more. Coverage is from 1980-current.
  Search Business and Company ASAP
  
  
• Cambridge University Press Journals Online
  Access to full-text of journals for which Vanderbilt has a subscription to the print version.
  Search: Search (all journals or by title)
  
  
• Contemporary Women's Issues
  Provides full-text access to global information on women, including journals, newsletters, and research reports from non-profit groups and government and international agencies.  The source material covers women in over 190 countries and is pertinent to sociology, psychology, health, peabody, business administration, political science, and other disciplines. Coverage dates: 1992 to present. Journals included: Source List
  Search: Search CWI
  
  
• ECO (Electronic Collections Online)
  This is an index to electronic journals.  You may search the entire ECO database (note that you will see links to fulltext only for those journals to which Vanderbilt subscribes) or you may browse the Vanderbilt subscriptions and go directly to fulltext articles.
  Journals included: Browse Journal Titles
  Search: Search entire ECO
  
  
• Education Abstracts FTX
  Indexes articles from over 400 English-language periodicals, yearbooks, series and supplements. Subject coverage includes: preschool, elementary, secondary, and higher peabody; special and vocational education; teacher education; and special issues. Fulltext coverage is from 1996. Journals included: approx. 400
  Search Education Abstracts FTX
  
  
• Emerald: the Full Text Management Research Database
  Emerald Fulltext contains the full text of journal articles published from 1994 to date, in both HTML and PDF format, from over 100 journals, published by the MCB University Press. In addition abstracts are also provided for articles back to 1989. This makes a growing library of over 35,000 articles, updated on a weekly basis in advance of the printed journal.
  Search the Emerald Full-Text database
  
  
• Ethnic Newswatch
  This is a database featuring fulltext of newspapers, magazines and journals published for ethnic, minority and native communities in the United States. These sources cover local, national and global news. Coverage dates: varies by title, but is usually from the early to mid 1990s through the present.
  Search by keyword or publication title (may also browse).
  
  
• Expanded Academic ASAP (Infotrac via the Tennessee Electronic Library)
  From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers - with full text and images! Coverage is from 1980-current.
  Search Expanded Academic ASAP
  
  
• General Reference Center Gold (Infotrac via the Tennessee Electronic Library)
  Use this general interest/business database to search magazines, newspapers, and reference books for information on business, industry, current events, the arts, science, entertainment, etc. Coverage is from 1980-current.
  Search General Reference Center Gold
  
  
• Health Reference Center-Academic (Infotrac via the Tennessee Electronic Library)
  Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc.The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. Coverage is from 1996 - current.
  Search Health Reference Center-Academic
  
  
• Hein-On-Line - A comprehensive, ever-expanding, image-based collection of fulltext legal research material.
  Browse titles:
  
  
• ¡Informe! (Revistas en Español) (Infotrac via the Tennessee Electronic Library)
  Investiga las noticias y eventos más corrientes, la información de negocios del momento, los artículos de salud más importantes, temas de cultura popular y muchas otras materias incluidas en las revistas hispánicas más populares. Coverage is 1997 - current.
  Search ¡Informe! (Revistas en Español)
  
  
• Institute of Physics Electronic Journals
  Access to full-text of complete IOP ejournal database. Full text coverage generally begins from 1993 forward.
  Search Subscribed Journals: Search
  
  
• IEEE Xplore
  IEL provides 15 simultaneous users Web access to all IEEE and IEE journals, conference proceedings and standards from 1988 to the present.
  Search: By Author, Basic Search, Advanced Search
  
  
• JSTOR
  JSTOR, an electronic journal storage project, is a developing effort to build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. It currently includes fulltext of journals in the areas of ecology, economics, finance, history, mathematics, political science, and population studies. JSTOR is a work in progress, and will continue to expand its coverage. Areas planned to be added next are Asian studies, philosophy, sociology and the sciences.
  Coverage dates: varies by title; usually from the first volume through the late 1980s or early 1990s.
  Journals included: Titles and by Subject
  Search: JSTOR Search (search journals by subject group)
  
  
• Kluwer Journals Online
  Kluwer Academuic Publishers recently merged with Springer Verlag. The SpringerLink ejournals platform now links to more than 1,250 journals, including all former Kluwer Academic journals. You may browse or search the content from the SpringerLink homepage.
  
  
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
  This is a powerful research tool featuring a rich variety of full text sources. It provides up-to-date information on current events, business, law, and medicine. It includes regional, national, and international newspapers; magazines; wire services; business publications (trade journals, corporate annual reports, tax sources); legal resources (law reviews, court cases, briefs, federal and state codes); government documents; medical information (medical journals); and reference sources (directories, biographical information).
  Sources included: Titles
  
  
• Link from Springer Verlag
  LINK contains over 400 fulltext journals and books published by Springer-Verlag and other publishers. You may browse the entire list of journals and select individual titles or search the entire database. You can also browse by Online Libraries in the life sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics & astronomy, engineering, environmental sciences, and economics.
  Search: Link Search (choose Global Search for full-text)
  
  
• Making of America
  Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts.
  Browse the MoA collection
  Search the MoA collection
  
  
• National Newspaper Index (Infotrac via the Tennessee Electronic Library)
  Use this database to find information on: Current Events, Lifestyle, Biographies, Sports, Economics, Consumer Products, World Affairs, Public Health, Business Trends, Entertainment and Travel. Coverage is from 1997-current.
  Search the National Newspaper Index
  
  
• Oxford University Press Journals
  OUP currently publishes over 150 journals, covering a wide range of academic disciplines. Vanderbilt has fulltext access only to those OUP titles to which we have a print subscription.
  Search: Titles (search individual titles)
  
  
• Project MUSE
  This collection includes complete full text coverage of over 40 journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. You may search the entire MUSE database by full text, article, author, or keyword, either in a single journal, among specific journals, or across all journals. The database supports Boolean searches. You may also browse individual journal tables of contents and select articles. Coverage dates: varies by title; usually from 1996 to the present.
  Journals included: Titles
  Search: Search Project Muse (by title or all journals)
  
  
• ProQuest
  This database and ejournal collection provides abstracts and full text of articles in hundreds of popular periodicals and scholarly journals. It includes articles indexed in Periodical Abstracts (Research II edition), Newspaper Abstracts (National edition), and ABI/Inform (Global edition). It covers a wide range of subjects, including the arts, business, commentary, computers, consumer issues, current events, education, health, lifestyles, literary reviews, politics, and science. Coverage dates: approx. 1986 to present.
  Journals included: Titles
  Search: by words or publication
  
  
• Royal Society of Chemistry
  Access to full-text of journals for which Vanderbilt also has a subscription to the print version.
  Content years vary.
  Journals included: Titles
  Search: Search (journal, title, author or subject search)
  
  
• ScienceDirect (as of 1/1/03 includes all Academic Press IDEAL electronic journals)
  Contains the full text of more than 1,700 electronic journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.  You may browse the entire list of journals and select individual titles or search the entire fulltext database.
  Coverage dates: generally 1996 to present, although backfile content has been licensed for some subjects.
  
  
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
  SIAM has a comprehensive publishing program in applied and computational mathematics. In addition to SIAM News, SIAM Review, and Theory of Probability and Its Applications, SIAM publishes nine peer-reviewed research journals.
  Search: Search Journals Online
  
  
• Springer LINK
  Contains the full text of more than 485 Springer-Verlag journals in the life, physical, medical and engineering sciences as well as 9 book series. One may browse the entire list of journals alphabetically or by subject in the LINK online libraries. One may also search the entire LINK collection. Fulltext coverage varies but dates are generally 1996 to present.
  Connect to LINK Search
  
  
• Wiley Interscience
  Full-text access to those journals published by John Wiley and Sons for which the Vanderbilt holds a subscription.
  Journals included: Journal Finder (by letter or subject)
  Search: Simple Search (all journals or subject categories)