Databases and ResourcesIn support of the college's academic programs, the Eliot D. Pratt Library provides a broad range of electronic resources and technology to assist with the research process. These are subscription services available to Goddard students, faculty and staff and require Goddard ID and password for remote access.
Ebook Collections The ebrary collection provides full-text online access to 34000 authoritative digitized books with concentrations in Humanities, Social Sciences as well as Business and Economics. Additional ebook titles from leading publishers are available through out Netlibrary collection.
EBSCO Host Research Databases This is an excellent source of full-text materials mostly from peer refereed and peer-reviewed journals. Academic Search Premier is the world’s largest multi-disciplinary database with full-text access to nearly 4500 journals. PsycArticles, from the American Psychological Association (APA) is a source of full-text peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. The bibliography contains over 1.8 million citations with subject coverage including literature, language and linguistics, dramatic arts, literary theory and criticism.
FirstSearch This is a rich database collection of electronic abstracts and indexes covering multiple disciplines. At the center of Firstsearch is WorldCat, the world’s largest most complete databse of bibliographic records. It’s easy to use and facilitates interlibrary loan requests for items not owned by the Eliot D. Pratt library.
Vermont Online Library (VOL) –Gale Group The Vermont Online Library provides full-text access to national and international newspaper and scholarly journals. This also includes databases covering health and medical information resources.
JSTOR “Journal Storage” JSTOR’s Arts and Sciences I collection is an archive of important scholarly journals with full-text access to complete back runs of 119 titles periodicals covering fifteen disciplines. Established in 1997, it is JSTOR's first collection and includes many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology.
American Film Scripts Online American Film Scripts is a searchable archive of screenplays, providing access to particular scenes and characters. It allows users to see and understand the structure of the films, character development, plot points and more
Reference Sources Oxford English Dictionary - This is the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary, providing authoritative definitions of over 500,000 words, scholarly information on the meaning, history and pronunciation of words in the English language. Oxford Reference Online - The Core Collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. Encyclopedia Britannica - Full-text of the complete Encyclopedia Bristannica Online Academic Edition, with over 73,000 articles, containing both short and book length-length articles on every subject. Grove Art Online - provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001). Includes over 3,000 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links, and sophisticated search and navigation tools.
Library Research Tools The E-Journal Portal directs users to full text resources, proving powerful journal title searching that link directly to databases with appropriate full-text content. RefWorks is an online bibliography tool used to manage lists of works cited and bibliographies. Various databases allow direct export of citations into Refworks.
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