ARTstor

ARTstor is a digital library of art images and associated information. ARTstor contains over 300,000 images from a variety of cultures and time periods.  Available to St. Ambrose University students, faculty, and staff on campus only.  Requires Flash Player v. 6 or above and that pop-up blocking software be disabled or set to allow pop-ups from this site.

Catich Digital Collection

The database provides digital access to the artwork of Father Edward Catich, one of the world's finest calligraphers.  Fr. Catich, an art professor at St. Ambrose University, was an international authority on stone incising, topography, and the origin and history of the Roman alphabet.

Cochrane Library of Evidence-Based Medicine Databases

This database provides full text and abstracts of methodology reviews, trials register, protocols, assessments, and evaluations of health care interventions.  Also included is a section on how to cite the information found in this database.  Off-campus use is limited to St. Ambrose students, faculty, and staff that login to the proxy server.

Criminal Justice Abstracts
 

Covering the period of 1968 to the present, this database contains comprehensive coverage of major journals in criminology & related disciplines, reports from government & nongovernmental agencies, and books. The information given includes a summary of the document, methodology, and conclusions.  Only abstracts are available; no full-text is provided.  Available to SAU students, faculty & staff on campus, or by logging in through the proxy server.

EBSCOhost
 

EBSCOhost is provided by IowaLink, and funded by the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust.  This service is a collection of databases (many full-text) focusing on business, health & clinical reference, academic subjects, and international newspapers.  The materials found in this service include journals, books, pamphlets, reference resources, and newspapers.  This resource is available from both on and off campus.  In order to access this service from off campus, you will need a valid SAU library card.  If accessing from off campus, all you need to do is click on the "off-campus" link, and enter the barcode on the back of your SAU library card for admittance, or log in through the proxy server.  If you have any questions please contact the information desk at (563)  333-6245. 
  

      ERIC

ERIC database covers of 983,00 items focusing on journal articles and reports in education from 1966 to the present.  ERIC contains annotated references to non-journal material issued in the monthly "Resources in Education" (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly "Current Index to Journals in Education" (CIJE).

FirstSearch Databases
 

FirstSearch is a collection of over 70 different databases. Included in this service is access to full text information through ABI Inform, Periodical Abstracts (PerAbs) and Wilson Select. This service includes databases which also provide access to dissertations, book catalogs, and journals in psychology, sociology, business, health sciences, public policy. This service requires a password and is only available to St. Ambrose students, faculty and staff. For assistance you may e-mail librefdesk@sau.edu or call the reference desk at the Library, (563) 333-6245. Any librarian can assist you.

Grove Art Online

Grove Art Online includes the full text of over 45,000 articles and over 130,000 images.  The database provides information on civilizations, cultures, and people who have created visual art in all its forms and mediums from the beginning of time to the present day.  Available to St. Ambrose students, faculty, and staff on campus, or by dialing in to the campus server.

 

Grove Music Online

Grove Music Online includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2nd edition, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Dictionary of Jazz 2nd edition.  It contains nearly 50,000 articles, audio musical examples, and extensive links to musical sites on the Internet.  Available to St. Ambrose students, faculty, and staff on campus, or by dialing in to the campus server.

 

High Wire Press
 

This database provides free access to abstracts and some full-text articles in the science fields.  Full-text articles are clearly marked as "free".  Some articles require a password or subscription to obtain full text.  Available on or off campus.

 

Historical Abstracts

This database provides citations and abstracts about the history of the world, excluding North America, from 1450 to the present.  Off-campus use is limited to St. Ambrose students, faculty and staff that dial in to SAU for internet services.

 

History Universe
 

This database provides a variety of African American materials covering the colonial era to the present day.  Included in this database are primary and secondary resources including major federal legislation, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, autobiographies, manuscript materials, reference articles, and scholarly articles.  Available to all computers on campus or available off-campus if you log into the proxy server with your login ID and password. 

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

 

JSTOR

 

Lexis-Nexis

This database is full-text and offers access to the contents of over 5,000 journals, magazines, newspapers, legal documents and reference resources. It includes company financial information, industry and market news, foreign and U.S. newspapers, magazines and trade journals, federal and state case law, accounting information, medical news and abstracts, law reviews, state and country profiles and more. The vast majority of articles are available full-text. Searching is done by selecting from 19 different topic areas and filling in an electronic search form. Available at all computers on campus or available off-campus if you login to the SAU proxy server with your ID and password. For assistance you may e-mail librefdesk@sau.edu or call the reference desk at the Library, (563) 333-6245, where any librarian can assist you.

          Literature Resource Center

Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors.  It covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.  It also includes a literary-historical timeline.  Availability is limited to St. Ambrose students, faculty, and staff on campus and off-campus via the proxy server.

MEDLINE
 

PubMed is a project developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). MEDLINE (MEDlars onLINE) is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the pre-clinical sciences. The MEDLINE file contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from approximately 3,900 current biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries. The file contains approximately 9 million records dating back to 1966. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts."

netLibrary
 

A comprehensive collection of full-text online books and resource materials, which can be accessed from any location.  First you must create an individual account with netLibrary from any computer on campus.  After you create your account you are free to login to netLibrary from anywhere.

OT Seeker

Oxford English Dictionary
 

Offers comprehensive information from the Oxford English Dictionary considered "the internet's biggest, most prestige-laden reference book" (The Guardian).

Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection

 

Book Catalog
 

This book catalog contains the holdings of our library and all the public, academic and special libraries in the Quad-Cities and surrounding areas, with the exception of Augustana College. You can limit your search to display only the holdings of St. Ambrose University Library, or you can search in all libraries. 

Augustana College Library book catalog details books that are available for students, faculty, and staff to check out.  Your SAU ID card will enable you to check materials out from the Augustana College Library.  As an alternative, you can request that these materials be sent to the Library for pickup at your convenience. 

PsycINFO
 

This database from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from approximately 2,050 periodicals in more than 25 languages.  Available to St. Ambrose students, faculty, and staff on campus, or via the proxy server off-campus.

 

Social & Behavioral Sciences
          This database provides full-text for over 370 journals covering a broad range
          of psychology and business titles.  Available to St. Ambrose students,
          faculty, and staff on campus, or via the proxy server off-campus.

 

 

Social Work Abstracts
 

Social Work Abstracts Plus, from the national association of social workers, contains two separate databases, Social Work Abstracts and the Register of Clinical Social Workers. Social Work Abstracts contains information on the fields of social work and human services from 1977 to present. The database provides exceptional coverage of more than 450 journals in all areas of the profession, including theory and practice, areas of service, social issues and social problems. The Register of Clinical Social Workers is a directory of clinical social workers in the U.S.  It contains information such as name, address, telephone number, employer, education and employment history, as well as type of practice and licensing information. This database does not supply full text information. Authorization number and password are required for use.