General Information Sources

ArticleFirst | Usage Help
(1990-present; updated daily) Contains abstracts for journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. 12,600 titles

Biography Resource Center | Usage Help
The Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 200,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Biography Resource Center + Marquis Who's Who® | Usage Help
Integrates Thomson Gale biographies with full-text magazine articles, images, and website links. Search for current or historic people by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, or by keyword and full text. The optional Marquis Who's Who® module provides quick reference information on over 1 million additional people whose entries have appeared in more than 20 Marquis sources published from 1985 to the present

Contemporary Women's Issues | Usage Help
(1992-present; updated weekly) Contains information on women in over 150 countries covering various disciplines: sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights. 1,500 titles

Dissertation Abstracts | Usage Help
(1861-present; updated monthly) Contains citations/abstracts for the complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions.
Please note: These are NOT full text journal articles. These are only abstracts of dissertations, which are Masters and PhD theses that other students have written in order to graduate. Seniors and graduate students of CLU who need these dissertations for their courses, may order them through Interlibrary loan. It usually takes a week or two to obtain a dissertation and there is occasionally a fee. Please consider using our full text databases before using Dissertation Abstracts unless you are required to use a dissertation for a class.

NOTE: Click here for a list of print dissertation titles available in the library.

E-BRARY | Usage Help
A growing collection of more than 23.000 full-text books. This collection spans multiple subject areas such as Business & Economics, Computer, Engineering & Applied Sciences, Humanities, Science, Medicine & Allied Health, and Social Sciences - READER DOWNLOAD NEEDED (FIRST TIME ONLY).

Electronic Collections Online | Usage Help
(1995; updated daily) Contains citations for a growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas. 1,300+ titles

Euromonitor: GMID | Usage Help
Euromonitor International’s Global Market Information Database (GMID) is an online business information system providing business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries. It offers integrated access to statistics, market reports, company profiles and information sources. 205 countries are researched, with extended coverage of 52.

First Research | Usage Help
Provides industry profiles on Construction and Real Estate; Public Services; Education; Recreation; Finance and Insurance; Retail; Food and Agriculture; Services; Healthcare; Manufacturing; Technology and Communications; Transportation; Energy; Storage; and Wholesale. Each topic features reports on specific industry sectors and occupational areas, reviewing the competitive landscape, products, operations & technology, sales & marketing approaches, employment projections and more. First Research State & Province Profiles deliver quarterly employment, real estate and business trends in each of the 50 U.S. States, Washington, D.C. and 10 Canadian Provinces. Reports are updated quarterly.

Gale Literary Databases | Usage Help
Made available via Gale Literary Resources. A resource of contemporary authors which provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on approximately 100,000 U.S. and international authors. Contemporary Literary Criticism: An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary writers; each entry also contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works and sources for further study. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Documents the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres; provides biographies, critical studies, bibliographies and sources for further reading. Literature Resource Center (LRC): Covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors.

GPO Monthly Catalog | Usage Help
(1976-present; updated monthly) Contains citations for U.S. government publications.

GuideStar | Usage Help
Grant Writing 101: Resources for Grant Writers. This database include the titles of several recommended books, web resources, and tutorials focused on writing grants.

Historical Abstracts | Usage Help
Historical Abstracts is your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). This database is packed with annotated references to information on topics from the Renaissance to Tiananmen Square-over half a million entries in all. Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts has long been recognized as the leading bibliography for historical study in the world. Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in this database.

International - ProQuest Research Library | Usage Help
Search periodicals on international subjects such as culture, history, social policy, politics, and more in this ProQuest Research Library module.

JSTOR | Usage Help
The JSTOR archive presents high-resolution page images for viewing and printing articles in combination with a linked text file for each article that enables full-text searching. The complete archives of core scholarly journals in the areas of African American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, language and literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics have been digitized starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800's. New titles and fields are being added regularly.

LEXIS/NEXIS | Usage Help
(coverage varies) Includes current company, industry and market, government, legal, medical, biographical, etc. information. Look here for SEC reports and filing, Hoover's company reports, stock reports and more. 4,500+ titles.

Library Literature Full Text | Usage Help
This database indexes English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, plus over 300 books per year. This invaluable resource delivers full text articles cover to cover from over a hundred select publications.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts | Usage Help

Literature Criticism Online | Usage Help
Thomson Gale™ takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online. Imagine centuries of analysis - the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals - delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. It's all designed to raise the level of research while providing the around-the-clock remote access that today's researchers demand.

Literature Resource Center - LRC, Scribner Writers Series Online, Twayne's Authors Online | Usage Help
Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world

Los Angeles Times | Usage Help
Made available via ProQuest Newspapers. Includes the major daily newspaper from Los Angeles. With the nation's largest editorial department, it offers extensive coverage of national, international, and local news.

Los Angeles Times: Historical Issues | Usage Help
Made available via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. The Los Angeles Times (1881-1984) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Multicultural - ProQuest Research Library | Usage Help
Search periodicals on multicultural subjects such as ethnic minority and gay/lesbian issues in this ProQuest Research Library module.

Net Library | Usage Help
Browse through CLU's collection of electronic books available through our subscription to Net Library. You will need to set up an account. There are several eBook collections available to CLU students and faculty. The Library Collection contains books that CLU has purchased for its patrons to use. The Public Collection contains public eBooks that NetLibrary has made available to all subscribing institutions.

OmniFile Full Text Mega | Usage Help
Includes electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from thousands of sources (Full text of articles from over 1,750 publications and article abstracts and indexing from over 3,500 publications). Coverage back as early as 1982 ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad. Users have access to information on virtually any subject.

Oxford Reference Collection | Usage Help
Over 130 subject dictionaries, plus the World Encyclopedia, offer unrivalled coverage of everything from art to accountancy, politics to physics, and computing to classics.

PapersFirst | Usage Help
(1993-present; updated 24x/year) Contains citations from Papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library.

PBS Online Video Database | Usage Help
The PBS Online Video Database of America's History and Culture is a valuable educational resource directing users to over 300 hours of PBS video programming located in Pearson Library. It offers direct access to an online index containing descriptions of over 1,600 video chapters and 35,000individual video segments. These video segments are cross referenced to lesson plans and linked to related curriculum resources including primary source documents, maps, graphs, timelines and illustrations. All of these curricular resources can be downloaded and printed out for classroom use.

Proceedings First | Usage Help
(1993-present; updated 24x/year) Contains citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library.

Project Muse | Usage Help
(1993-present) Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.

ProQuest (click here to search ALL modules) | Usage Help
(coverage varies) Includes the business/management database ABI/INFORM Global, ProQuest Newspapers, ProQuest Religion, and a research core of scholarly articles, accompanied by extra modules in key research areas. Includes the L. A. Times.

Rand California | Usage Help
RAND California is a subscription-based service on California and U.S. public policy issues with an emphasis on statistics. RAND California is sponsored by RAND, the nation's leading think tank.

Readers' Guide Full Text | Usage Help
An electronic database to access the current events, curriculum support, and quality periodicals research.

Reference Library | Usage Help
Made available via the Gale Virtual Reference Library. This is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).

Research Library | Usage Help
Made available via Proquest. Simultaneously search 16 subject modules, including the Research Library Core, Arts Module, Business Module, Children's Module, Education Module, General Interest Module, Health Module, Humanities Module, International Module, Law Module, Military Module, Multicultural Module, Psychology Module, Sciences Module, Social Science Module, and Women's Interest Module.

ResearchNow | Usage Help
ResearchNow is a database of scholarly information drawing its content from the roster of peer-reviewed, Berkeley Electronic Press journals and all working papers, preprints and other “grey literature” content from institutional repositories hosted by bepress that have opted for inclusion, as well as subject-matter repository materials from the bepress Legal Repository and COBRA: Collection of Biostatistics Research Archive. ResearchNow also includes an XML gateway (see below) to expose indexed content to federated search engines. Readers can browse ResearchNow by subject area, or set up tailored email notifications of newly posted content.

SCOPUS | Usage Help
SCOPUS is an abstract and indexing database which includes 27 million records and 230 million references from over 14,000 journals. Perform literatures searches and keep current with what is going on within your area of interest. This database includes the ability to search for authors and citations as well as patents and web resources.

Women's Interest - Proquest Research Library | Usage Help
Search periodicals on women's interest subjects such as feminism, history, political science, social science, and general interest as they relate to women's issues in this ProQuest Research Library module.

WorldCat | Usage Help
(1200-present; updated daily) Contains over 40 million records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century.