Most used library databases (with abbreviated descriptions)
- Academic Search Complete
- This scholarly collection offers unmatched full-text coverage of information in many areas of academic study.
- Access World News Research Collection
- 4,500 newspapers and other news sources including the Miami Herald (5/19/82-Current), Orlando Sentinel (4/1/85-Current), and USA Today (7/1/87-Current).
- Business Source Complete
- This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. .
- ERIC (ProQuest)
- Provide extensive access to educational-related literature.
- Google Scholar (use directions for set up)
- Google Scholar uses Google's search engine to provide a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
- JSTOR
- A database of the back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
- Lexis-Nexis Academic
- Full-text coverage of general news, business, legal, governmental and other topics.
- Literature Resource Center
- Includes Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Select.
- PsycINFO (ProQuest)
- Psychological Abstracts, 1887 to present. Covers journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations, in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.
- RefWorks
- RefWorks is a web-based citation manager provided by the FSU Libraries for all Florida State University faculty, students, and staff. If you are off campus and asked for a "Group Code", it is "RWFlorStateU"
- Web of Science
- Includes Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
- WorldCat (OCLC)
- Over 40 million citations to books, periodicals, sound recordings, videos, musical scores, archival materials and much more.
- WorldCat.org
- WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services.