Other Guides You May Find Useful
An appropriate subject guide may have more resources or research strategies focused on your literature review topic! You can view the full research guides list by subject, or choose from the selected research guides below:
How to Use This List
The lists below are recommended databases organized by topic that are available through the library. These databases include general resources that can be used to brainstorm and learn basic information about your topic as well as topic-specific scholarly/peer-reviewed materials.
These recommendations are just a starting point. If you need additional resources, please visit the lists of additional resources and Research Guides on the Recommended Resources page for more suggestions or contact a librarian for assistance.
Also, remember that you can search the library's full collection using WorldCat Discovery (and don't forget to sign in if you want to save your searches!).
General Information and Brainstorming (All Topics - Content is Not Scholarly/Peer-Reviewed)
- CQ Researcher
A full-text database of Congressional Quarterly Researcher, presenting overviews of current topics. Coverage includes overviews, chronologies, pro and con points of interest, and bibliographies of additional resources.
- Credo Reference
Credo Reference provides full-text online access to hundreds of multidisciplinary reference book collections, including art, history, law, medicine, psychology, technology, bilingual dictionaries, and encyclopedias through a one-stop search platform. Search results often include articles from a wide array of publications and frequently present subject coverage from multiple perspectives. Using Credo Reference to approach a topic from different viewpoints can be a great way to expand your familiarity with the topic and it can help you develop new arguments and observations for your research.
- Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Opposing Viewpoints includes viewpoints, reference articles, infographics, news, images, video, audio, and more on contemporary topics. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more. Opposing Viewpoints is cross-searchable with Gale In Context: Global Issues.
- Newspaper Digital Subscriptions
Connect to the Newspaper Digital Subscriptions for Students, Faculty, and Staff guide to learn how to sign up for your personal subscription to the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal through Norfolk State University.
These subscription services are available to all NSU Students, Faculty, and Staff for FREE by using your NSU email address at sign up.
Each subscription includes full access to the news source via their website or app and most also include archival materials
Literature Review Databases by Topic (Contains Scholarly/Peer-Reviewed Content)
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
This scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database includes more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals with coverage across nearly all areas of academic study. In addition to its 8,500 full-text periodicals, the database features more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press from 1930 to the present.
- Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
Contains more than 400,000 records selected from academic journals, magazines, conference papers, books, and reports. Subject areas covered include: criminology; criminal justice; criminal law and procedure; corrections and prisons; police and policing; criminal investigation; forensic sciences and investigation; history of crime; substance abuse and addiction; probation and parole.
- HeinOnline
This database offers access to 3,200 scholarly journals that examine more than a thousand topics, all dating back to the first issue published. There is a comprehensive U.S. government publications collection and an archive of case law consisting of federal, state, and overseas cases. The international resources address many countries, regions, and international organizations.
- JSTOR
A multidisciplinary digital library that includes all 2,800+ academic journals on JSTOR; spanning more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Access also includes more than two million primary source documents.
And, with the incorporation of Artstor's collections, JSTOR is now home to more than two million images.
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
This scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database includes more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals with coverage across nearly all areas of academic study. In addition to its 8,500 full-text periodicals, the database features more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press from 1930 to the present.
- Education Research Complete (EBSCOhost)
A resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals, as well as full-text for more than 1,200 journals, and includes full-text for nearly 500 books and monographs.
- ERIC (EBSCOhost)
The Education Resource Information Center (ERIC), provides access to education literature and research. It includes access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.
- Wiley Online Library
Wiley Online Library provides access to multidisciplinary content across more than 1,600 journals and 22,000 ebooks.
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
This scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database includes more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals with coverage across nearly all areas of academic study. In addition to its 8,500 full-text periodicals, the database features more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press from 1930 to the present.
- Alt HealthWatch (EBSCOhost)
This database provides in-depth coverage across the spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. The collection focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to healthcare and wellness. It offers full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports, in addition to hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
- Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals providing researchers, allied health professionals, nurses and medical educators with access to full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also provides indexing, abstracts and full-text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals, many of which are peer-reviewed. It also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
- Sports Medicine & Education Index (ProQuest)
This database provides curated abstract and index resources in the field of physical education. The database covers a wide range of topics, from physical and health education to fitness and recreation and the business of sports, as well as kinesiology, physical therapy, motor learning, and sport sociology and psychology. Coverage: 1970 - current
- PubMed Central
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
This scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database includes more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals with coverage across nearly all areas of academic study. In addition to its 8,500 full-text periodicals, the database features more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press from 1930 to the present.
- APA PsycArticles (EBSCOhost)
APA PsycArticles includes full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology with articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint - the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.
- Behavioral and Mental Health Online (BMHO)
BMHO provides a comprehensive, rich, and diverse collection of video and text for anyone studying or teaching in the area of mental health such as counseling, social work, nursing, psychology and behavioral health. This collection includes clinical mental health demonstrations, actual therapy sessions, compelling documentaries on the human condition, psychotherapy transcripts, as well client narratives and reference works.
- Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
Peer-reviewed journal for authoritative research on understanding the social, behavioral, and psychological impact of today's social networking practices, including X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, and internet gaming, and commerce.
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCOhost)
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. It offers full-text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
- PubMed Central
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
This scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database includes more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals with coverage across nearly all areas of academic study. In addition to its 8,500 full-text periodicals, the database features more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press from 1930 to the present.
- CINAHL with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
A comprehensive source of nursing & allied health journals, providing full-text for more than 770 journals indexed.
- Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals providing researchers, allied health professionals, nurses and medical educators with access to full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also provides indexing, abstracts and full-text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals, many of which are peer-reviewed. It also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
- OvidOvid contains 375 full-text journals and close to a million multimedia materials about all aspects in the fields of Medicine, Neurology, Nursing, Therapy, and more.
- PubMed Central
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
This scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database includes more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals with coverage across nearly all areas of academic study. In addition to its 8,500 full-text periodicals, the database features more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press from 1930 to the present.
- Taylor & Francis Online
This resource includes millions of peer-reviewed journal articles published under the Taylor & Francis, Routledge and Dove Medical Press imprints across many academic disciplines.
- PubMed Central
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
This scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database includes more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals with coverage across nearly all areas of academic study. In addition to its 8,500 full-text periodicals, the database features more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press from 1930 to the present.
- SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
This sociology research database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus. Contains full-text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full-text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full-text for over 16,800 conference papers.
- Taylor & Francis Online
This resource includes millions of peer-reviewed journal articles published under the Taylor & Francis, Routledge and Dove Medical Press imprints across many academic disciplines.
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
This scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database includes more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals with coverage across nearly all areas of academic study. In addition to its 8,500 full-text periodicals, the database features more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press from 1930 to the present.
- APA PsycArticles (EBSCOhost)
APA PsycArticles includes full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology with articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint - the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.
- Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
Peer-reviewed journal for authoritative research on understanding the social, behavioral, and psychological impact of today's social networking practices, including X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, and internet gaming, and commerce.
- SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
This sociology research database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus. Contains full-text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full-text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full-text for over 16,800 conference papers.
- Taylor & Francis Online
This resource includes millions of peer-reviewed journal articles published under the Taylor & Francis, Routledge and Dove Medical Press imprints across many academic disciplines.