Resource Guides: Archives and Special Collections Management: Databases

Indexes/Database

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is a large scholarly, multidisciplinary, full-text database, with more than 7,400 full-text periodicals, including more than 6,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,500 scholarly, popular, trade, and special interest serials, and a total of more than 12,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and more. Updated daily.
DigitalCommons@UMaine This link opens in a new window
Digital Commons at UMaine provides access to the scholarly, educational, and creative works of the University of Maine community. It contains over 12,000 full-text works from over 700 academic disciplines, including theses and dissertations, and provides links to other Maine Digital Commons as well as the global Digital Commons Network.
DigitalMaine This link opens in a new window
DigitalMaine is a service of the Maine State Library that partners with other libraries, historical societies, museums, and local organizations to digitize a repository collection of original primary source materials from and about Maine. The repository includes maps, church records, genealogical records, town reports, photographs, and other primary materials. Items cataloged to DigitalMaine are accessible through the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Full text and index to all aspects of library and information science including reference services, library automation, cataloging, children's literature, collection development, electronic searching and censorship.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) This link opens in a new window
Covers subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings, with coverage dating back to the mid-1960s.
LibraryMine This link opens in a new window
Provides access to mining publications that are available on the Internet, including thousands of conference proceedings, journal articles, magazine articles, theses, technical papers, and reports. The records link to papers that can be found on other websites (such as governments, universities, associations, societies, consultants, etc.). The database does not contain records where you have to pay to access the publication (pay-per-view or subscription); any publication found through LibraryMine is instantly available for free.
Alternate Title: InfoMine