Databases by Name
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Database | Description | Available In SuperSearch | Alumni Access | More Info | Tutorial | |
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College (Gale in Context)
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Scholarly journals, newspapers, periodicals, images, and videos in many subject areas. | Partial | Yes | more information | ||
Communication Studies (Sage)
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Journals relating to journalism and communication. | Yes | Yes | more information | ||
Historic Documents Collection (Sage)
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Primary sources including presidential speeches, international agreements, Supreme Court decisions, US government reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions arranged chronologically. | Yes | No | more information | ||
MRI-Simmons Insights Platform | Provides access to consumer demographic, psychographic, brand preference, and media data from the Simmons National Consumer Survey.**Maximum of 10 simultaneous users.** | No | No | more information | ||
Sabin Americana 1500 - 1926 | Primary source documents pertaining to North, Central & South America, the Arctic, Antarctica, & West Indies. Includes original accounts of exploration, pioneering, settlement, the western movement, military actions, Native Americans, slavery & abolition. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Sage Data | Formerly Data Planet Statistical Datasets. Statistical data in a wide range of subject areas, with tools for searching, analyzing and visualizing. | Yes | No | more information | ||
SciELO Citation Index (Web of Science)
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SciELO content includes regional journals from Latin American and the Caribbean as well as titles from Spain, Portugal and South Africa. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science)
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Indexes more than 6,650 authoritative journals across 150 scientific disciplines and includes cited references. Coverage: 1899-present. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Science in Context (Gale)
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Articles covering science, including biological sciences, computing, engineering, and technology. | Yes | Yes | more information | ||
Science Online (EBSCO)
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Full-text of the journal Science, 1990 – present. Published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, hosted on EBSCO's Academic Search Ultimate database. | Yes | No | more information | ||
ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
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Journal articles in science, engineering, social sciences, and humanities. Drake University provides access to all of the book titles and a majority of the journal titles hosted on this platform, from 1995-present. | Yes | No | more information | ||
SciFinder Scholar (CAS)
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Chemistry patents, regulatory data, supplier, reaction, and substance information and journals. Note: Requires users to create individual accounts, see more information. | No | No | more information | ||
Social Services Abstracts (Proquest)
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Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Sociological Abstracts (Proquest)
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This database abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Sociology (Proquest) | Provides abstracts, indexing and full-text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, and more, including full-text from hundreds of leading sociology journals. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Sports Illustrated Magazine Archive (EBSCO)
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Sports Illustrated, 1954-2000. | No | No | more information | ||
Springer eBooks | A collection of electronic books in a variety of subjects. You also have the option to order a personal print copy of eBooks owned by Drake (2010-present) for $24.99 (regardless of the actual book price). These "MyCopy" books are soft-cover b/w print copies that are mailed to your address. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Springer Journals | Full text access (1997-present) to most journals available through Springer. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Statista | Online statistics portal providing access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organizations and government institutions. Includes many easily-cited authoritative infographics. | No | No | more information | ||
Statistical Abstract of the United States (ProQuest)
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Authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. | No | No | more information | ||
Swank Streaming Films | A curated collection of streaming films chosen to align with Drake courses. Instructors may request access to non-licensed Swank films if they register with an instructor account. Guide to Swank Streaming Films | Yes | No | more information | ||
Travax (Shoreland)
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Travel medicine database that is peer reviewed and continuously updated. **Requires username and password. Contact reference@drake.edu to obtain these credentials. | No | No | more information | ||
Ulrich's Online (Serials Solutions)
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Information about journals, magazines, newspapers and other periodicals. | No | No | more information |