Section Navigation

• 1 Introduction to the Before the Term Section
• 2 Faculty Development Support
• 3 Getting a Class List Online
• 4 Designing Instruction
  • 4.1 Writing Learning Objectives
    • 4.1.1 School of Business and Technology
    • 4.1.2 All Other Schools
  • 4.2 Writing Your Syllabus
  • 4.3 Fair Use
  • 4.4 Preventing Plagiarism
• 5 Supporting Research for Your Students and Yourself
  • 5.1 Introduction to Library Resources and Services
  • 5.2 Library Catalog
  • 5.3 Accessing Other Library Catalogs
  • 5.4 Using Library Databases to Find Articles and Other Information
    • 5.4.1 Searching for Articles in a Database
    • 5.4.2 Obtaining Full-Text Articles
  • 5.5 Research Guides
  • 5.6 Websites / Search Engines
• 6 Getting Materials from the Library
  • 6.1 Document Delivery
  • 6.2 Reserving Videos
• 7 Other Faculty Library Services
  • 7.1 Electronic Reserves
• 8 Review of Before the Term Section

Using Library Databases to Find Articles and Other Information

The Library website offers currently registered faculty, students, and staff access to over 130 databases.

Selecting a Database
Webster University Library provides access to over 130 databases to support Webster University's curriculum. These databases include:

• Periodical indexes (both subject specific and multi-subject) many of which link to the full-text of the articles. Passports' examples include Business Source Premier, PsycInfo, and Academic Search Premier.
• Collections of full-text newspaper articles. Examples include Lexis/Nexis Academic's "News" section, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal
• Reviews of tests and measurement instruments can be found in the Mental Measurements Yearbook
• Country economic, marketing, and cultural data from such databases as EIU's Viewswire, and CIAO Columbia International Affairs Online.
• Federal and state case law and statutes and law reviews are collected in the "Legal" section of Lexis/Nexis Academic
• Company financials, investment resources, and directories are available in Mergent Online, Value Line, and Business & Company Resource Center respectively

Databases are accessed via the Articles / Databases page, which arranges the databases into broad discipline/subject categories. To begin a search, select the category which is likely to contain the information you seek. Each subject-specific page will further divide the databases either by narrower subject or by the format of the information (for example, business articles or company financials).

The General/Multidisciplinary Databases page lists databases which cover periodicals from all disciplines including the social sciences (which includes business), science and medicine, the fine arts, and the humanities. If different aspects of your topic might be covered in the literature of several disciplines, you might start your research in one of these databases. For example, a search for articles about the economic impact of mental illness on society would span medicine, public policy, business, etc.