Electronic Resources
Argosy University, Chicago Library subscribes to the following database collections which can be used to find citations, abstracts and full text content from variety of journal articles, books, dissertations, and other resources.
These password protected resources are available to currently enrolled students, faculty & staff only.
Complete List of Electronic Resources:
Academic Search Complete -general subject database which provides indexing for over 9,300 journals and full-text for over 5,300 publications
Business Source Premier -provides full text for more than 2300 journals, including 1200 peer-reviewed journals
Clinical Pharmacology -up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs
Education Research Complete -provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 journals, as well as full text for more than 900 journals, and includes full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.
ERIC -contains over 2,200 digests along w/ references, citations & abstracts from over 980 educational and education related journals
Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
Health Source/ Nursing Academic Edition - over 600 full text journals in many medical disciplines. Includes abstracts & indexing for over 615 journalsMental Measurements Yearbook - full text info & reviews of all English language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology and related area as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbook. This database contains data from Yearbooks 9-16
Newspaper Source -provides selected coverage for over 200 regional US & international newspapers, newswires. Updated daily
Professional Development Collection -highly specialized collection of over 750 full text journals, & 350 peer reviewed titles in education
PsycARTICLES -coverage includes 59 full-text journals:48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations
PsycEXTRA -includes technical, annual and government reports, conference papers, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more. It contains nearly 100,000 records with more than 250,000 full-text pages
PsycINFO-provides indexing and abstracts for over one million articles in over 2,200 journals, as well as abstracts for dissertations, books & book chapters
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection -includes over 575 full text titles specific to psychology related fields
Regional Business News -coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States
SocINDEX with Full Text -contains full text for 428 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 136 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 720 books and monographs, and full text for 6,785 conference papers.
Tests in Print -contains a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language.
Ebrary Includes over 37,000 full-text electronic books in Psychology, Business and Education, as well as Marketing, Economics, Information Technology, Health, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, History and Humanities, Life and Physical Science, and Social and Behavioral Sciences.
LIRN -ProQuest
ABI INFORM: Includes in-depth coverage for over 2830 publications, with more than 1850 available in full-text, as well as over 18,000 full-text dissertations, and hard-to-find local and regional business publications with news about local companies, analysis, information on local markets, and more.
National Newspaper Abstracts abstracts and indexing for New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal
Psychology Journals Based on the PsycINFO index, ProQuest Psychology Journals offers hundreds of titles from specialist publishers, including over 300 full-text titles
Research Library: provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 3,820 titles—over 2,550 in full text—from 1971 forward with a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
Business and Company Resource Center with PROMT and newsletters
company profiles, brand info, rankings, investment records, ect.
Criminal Justice Collection Includes access to 150 journals and 16 reference works in criminal justice, including "World of Forensic Science," "Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities", and more!
Expanded Academic ASAP: is comprised of more than 3,500 indexed and full-text titles — of which 2,100 are peer-reviewed — in all disciplines with more than 20 years of backfile coverage on a wide-range of topics including social sciences, humanities, education, science and technology.
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Health Reference Center Academic: Full text and indexing for journal sources in medicine & health, incl. psychology
Custom Newspapers Full text and indexing for select US newspapers
General Business File ASAP access to broker research reports, trade pubs,
newspapers, journals, and company directories. Full text
Health & Wellness Resource Center lay health info, including articles, directories,and definitions
Newsletters ASAP provides access to info from specialized business, industry, & technology newsletters issued by various news services & industry watchers
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center social issues, core reference content,includes articles, overviews, statistics, primary documents, and much more
Student Reference Center -Gold Curriculum targeted primary documents,biographies, topical essays, background info, critical analyses, articles and more
Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications
with a variety of flexible search options
►Off-campus access (password required to access Lexis-Nexis off-campus)
Net Library (no password required to access on-campus)
Includes 358 full text online books in a wide-range of topics including social sciences, humanities, education, science and technology. Off-campus access is unavailable at this time
OCLC First Search
Article1st: Index of articles from nearly 12,500 journals (full text)
ERIC: Journal articles and reports in education
GPO: U.S. government publications
MEDLINE: Abstracted articles from medical journals (partially full text)
NetFirst: OCLC database of Internet resources
PapersFirst: An index of papers presented at conferences worldwide
Proceedings: An index of conference publications
WorldAlmanac: The World Almanacs
WorldCat: Books and other materials in libraries worldwide
ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Dissertations from 1997 to the present can be downloaded full text for $29.00 (+ tax).
Citations and abstracts for every title in the Dissertation Abstracts database.
PEP (Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing)
spans a period of 120 years. It contains the full text of the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud and the full text of eighteen premier journals in psychoanalysis (current three years are not available full-text)
►Off-campus access (password required to access PEP off-campus)
includes full-text access to the DSM-IV-TR, APA Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders, and other texts. Full-text articles from the American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services, Psychosomatics and other journals published by the American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. are also available.
►Off-campus access (password required to access Psychiatry Online off-campus)