Online Library & Research Tools for City Vision Students

Step 1: Use City Vision's Subscription Libraries (free for students)

City Vision subscribes to library resources through the LIRN library consortium. To access these libraries:

  1. Click here to get the username and password (for existing students).
  2. Login here. You may want to save the username and password in your browser or password manager.
  3. Enter your search term in the “Search all databases” field. 
  4. Review these help videos as needed. For additional help email library@cityvision.edu 

Note: if you have a card with a public library, many public libraries will also have access to subscription journals. To find if your library has this, you might search for  “LIBRARY NAME subscription journal access” or something similar.

ProQuest

  • ABI/INFORM Collection: This database is the most comprehensive ABI/INFORM database, comprised of ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, ABI/INFORM Dateline and ABI/INFORM Archive, featuring over 3,000 full-text journals, 25,000 Dissertations, 14,000 SSRN working papers, key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country-and industry-focused reports and data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
  • ABI/INFORM Dateline: This database includes hard-to-find local and regional business publications, including McClatchey Tribune titles, with news about local companies, analysis, information on local markets and more. It also allows users to research employment opportunities, compile data on benefits and compensation, learn about corporate strategies and other topics from a local and regional perspective.
  • ABI/INFORM Global: This database is one of the most comprehensive business databases on the market. It includes in-depth coverage for over 3,000 publications, with more than 2,000 available in full text and the latest business and financial information for researchers at all levels.
  • ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry: This database includes in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends and other topics available in more than 2,000 publications, with over 1,800 in full-text. With ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry users can study and compare specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals and many others.
  • Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection: Comprehensive coverage of accounting and tax topics appearing in key industry publications and newspapers. The quintessential accountant’s database.
  • Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database: This collection provides unmatched discipline-specific coverage spanning thousands of publications, many in full text.
  • African Newsstream: Local and regional news coverage – newspapers for Africa.
  • Agriculture Science Database: This database covers over 200 full-text journals, with over 170 current titles including the leading agricultural journals from North America and beyond. Image articles contain all the charts, graphs, tables, diagrams, maps, photos, and other graphical elements often used to enhance the editorial value of the text published in agricultural journals. ProQuest Agriculture Journals can provide information on hundreds of topics, including earth and environmental sciences, food and human nutrition, agribusiness, agricultural education, aquaculture, climate, biosciences and organic gardening.
  • Arts & Humanities Database: This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. It is designed to complement the following indexes: ABM, Avery, BHA, BHI, DAAI, Index Islamicus, MLA, Philosopher’s Index and RILM.
  • Asian & European Business Collection: This database focuses on business and financial news from the eastern hemisphere. It covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications.
  • Asian Newsstream: Local and regional news coverage – newspapers for Asia
  • Australia & New Zealand Database: This database provides information pertinent to the study of business and finance topics across Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, newswires, and magazines.
  • Australia & New Zealand Newsstream: Local and regional news coverage – newspapers for Australia & New Zealand
  • Biological Science Database: This database provides access to a wide range of biology topics including some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government and public research environments.
  • Business Market Research Collection: This database contains company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research from three sources, including Hoover’s Company Profiles, OxResearch from Oxford Analystica, and Snapshots.
  • Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database: This database, with 600 full text titles, is the most comprehensive Canadian reference collection available today. Accessible to readers and researchers at every level, CBCA Complete features a highly-respected, diversified mix of publications, including scholarly journals, trade publications, dissertations, books, newspapers and magazines.
  • Canadian Newsstream: This database offers unparalleled access to the full text of over 190 Canadian newspapers from Canada’s leading publishers. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.
  • Career & Technical Education Database: ProQuest Career & Technical Education is the definitive source for vocational information. The database includes nearly 600 titles, with more than 500 available in full text for quick access to research on virtually any technical topic.
  • CBS News 60 MINUTES: CBS News 60 MINUTES offers unprecedented access to transcripts and nearly 500 hours of video from 1997–2014.
  • Computer Science Database: This collection provides unmatched discipline-specific coverage spanning thousands of publications, many in full text.
  • Consumer Health Database: This database includes journals and magazines covering an enormous range of health subjects, from sports injuries to women’s health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry.
  • Continental Europe Database: This database includes ongoing full-text academic journals published in certain European countries. The subjects cover major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
  • Criminal Justice Database: ProQuest Criminal Justice (formerly ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index or CJPI) is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends.
  • Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database: The Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database contains full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
  • East & South Asia Database: Ongoing full-text academic journals locally published in various East Asian and South Asian countries.The subjects cover major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
  • East Europe, Central Europe Database: This database includes ongoing full-text academic journals published in East and Central Europe. The subjects cover major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
  • Education Database: ProQuest Education Journals gives users access to over 900 top educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text. The coverage spans the literature on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling and adult education. Many titles are indexed in the ERIC database.
  • Engineering Database: This collection provides unmatched discipline-specific coverage spanning thousands of publications, many in full text.
  • Environmental Science Database: The Environmental Science Database is a cross-disciplinary resource of full-text content of global literature across this field and related disciplines. It provides the most complete collection of resources available to support research and learning in environmental science and related fields. Content is selected from several specialist topic resources in disciplines such as engineering, biotechnology, bacteriology, atmospheric science, ecology, and biology.
  • European Newsstream: Local and regional news coverage – newspapers for Europe
  • Global Breaking Newswires: In the modern news world, newswires are the chief source of timely news and, with increasing pressures on the traditional news industry, newswires are often the only news coverage for many large regions of the globe.
  • Health & Medical Collection: This database offers reliable, comprehensive journal coverage of clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration and more.
  • Healthcare Administration Database: This database is a collection of reliable and relevant resources in the field of health administration, including journals and dissertations.
  • India Database: This database is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary resource of full-text, scholarly journals published in India, supporting many subjects, including business, medicine, science, technology, social sciences and humanities.
  • International Newsstream: International Newsstream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format.
  • Latin America & Iberia Database: Ongoing full-text academic journals published in Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal. The subjects cover major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
  • Latin American Newsstream: Latin American Newsstream enables users to search the most recent local, national, and regional news content with archives which span decades. It features newspapers, newswire, and news sites in active full-text format.
  • Library Science Database: Library science, online retrieval, archives, information technology – journal articles.
  • Linguistics Database: Full-text database with scholarly journal articles and other sources covering linguistics.
  • Materials Science Database: This collection provides unmatched discipline-specific coverage spanning thousands of publications, many in full text.
  • Middle East & Africa Database: Ongoing full-text academic journals published in Middle Eastern and African countries. The subjects cover major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
  • Middle East & African Newsstream: Local and regional news coverage – newspapers for the Middle East
  • Military Database: This database covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering and more. It includes over 550 titles, with more than 370 available in full-text, allowing you to search over 3.5M records, dating back to the early 1990’s.
  • Nursing & Allied Health Database: Reliable, comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals, evidence-based resources, video, dissertations, reference books and more.
  • Political Science Database: This database gives users access to hundreds of leading political science and international relations journals, providing full-text of many core titles indexed in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. In addition, over a thousand recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics are included, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country profiles, political news and other sources.
  • ProQuest Central: The ultimate cross-disciplinary research tool, ProQuest Central brings together 30 of our most highly used databases to create the largest single academic research resource available today.
  • Psychology Database: This database provides abstracts and indexing for more than 640 titles, with over 540 titles available in full text. Many titles are indexed in PsycINFO. Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics.
  • Public Health Database: Health, Medicine – journals articles, magazines, news, reports and dissertations
  • Publicly Available Content Database: Designed to complement other databases and collections, this database brings together or links to full text for publicly available scholarly content from a number of different sources from around the world. It includes content from major subject repositories such as arXiv as well as open access journals. Content includes journal articles, pre-prints, books, conference papers and reports.
  • Religion Database: This database provides a wide range of primarily full-text, international periodicals for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies of major religions, as well as the most recent trends and scholarly thought. Included are titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations. The resource reflects a wide spectrum of religious belief systems and supports the global study of religion.
  • Research Library: ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to more than 4,000 periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 academic disciplines.
  • Research Library: Business: This resource covers publications on the latest business and financial information for researchers of all levels.
  • Research Library: Health & Medicine: This resource covers publications on the latest medical information for researchers of all levels.
  • Research Library: History: This resource covers publications on history for researchers of all levels.
  • Research Library: Literature & Language: This resource covers publications on literature and language for researchers of all levels
  • Research Library: Science & Technology: This resource covers publications on the latest science and technology information for researchers of all levels.
  • Research Library: Social Science: This resource covers publications on social science information for researchers of all levels.
  • Research Library: The Arts: This resource covers publications on the arts for researchers of all levels.
  • Science Database: This database is a definitive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. With coverage dating back to 1986, ProQuest Science Journals features over 1030 titles, with more than 760 available in full text. Search over 2.7M records, dating back to the mid 1980s.
  • Social Science Database: This database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.
  • Sociology Database: This database covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more. This collection provides full-text coverage of many core titles included in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts.
  • Telecommunications Database: This database is an essential resource for anyone researching the industry or its technology. Whether you’re looking for the latest news on WAP technology, following market penetration of new technologies, or gathering information about the key players in this field, ProQuest Telecommunications helps you stay one step ahead. The database includes over 140 titles, with more than 115 available in full text. Search more than 600,000 records, dating back to the early 1990’s.
  • Turkey Database: This database includes ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published in Turkey. The subjects cover major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
  • U.S. Hispanic Newsstream: US Hispanic Newsstream offers access to the largest collection of leading Hispanic newspapers, news wires, websites and blogs in full text from US publishers in both Spanish and English.
  • U.S. Major Dailies: US Major Dailies provides access to five of the country’s most respected national and regional newspapers offering researchers complete and timely coverage of local, national, and world events: Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
  • U.S. Midwest Newsstream: US Midwest Newsstream enables users to search the most recent regional news content, as well as archives which stretch back to the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format.
  • U.S. Newsstream: US Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring top newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format.
  • U.S. North Central Newsstream: US North Central Newsstream enables users to search the most recent regional news content, as well as archives which stretch back to the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format.
  • U.S. Northeast Newsstream: US Northeast Newsstream enables users to search the most recent regional news content, as well as archives which stretch back to the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format.
  • U.S. South Central Newsstream: US South Central Newsstream enables users to search the most recent regional news content, as well as archives which stretch back to the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format.
  • U.S. Southeast Newsstream: US Southeast Newsstream enables users to search the most recent regional news content, as well as archives which stretch back to the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format.
  • U.S. West Newsstream: US West Newsstream enables users to search the most recent regional news content, as well as archives which stretch back to the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format.
  • UK & Ireland Database: Ongoing full-text academic journals published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. The subjects cover major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.

Gale

  • Gale Academic OneFile: Gale Academic OneFile contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources, covering the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.
  • Gale Academic OneFile Select: From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers – many with full text and images!
  • Gale Business: Entrepreneurship: Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include; sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.
  • Gale Business: Insights: Gale Business: Insights uses case studies, statistical data sources, news articles, academic journals and topical reference materials organized by country, company and industry to quickly engage users in the global business environment.
  • Gale Business: Plan Builder: Gale Business: Plan Builder is a step-by-step online planning tool for starting, managing and optimizing a business or nonprofit. The program’s intuitive dashboard walks users through five areas of exploration to develop a business plan focused on long-term success.
  • Gale Directory Library: Gale Directory Library offers 60+ years of authoritative directories on companies, publishers, associations and more, with a wide-range of data sorting, filtering, and exporting options so users can tailor results and put them to practical use.
  • Gale eBooks: Gale eBooks is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
  • Gale General OneFile: A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.
  • Gale Health and Wellness: Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials from 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to Cengage Gale reference titles.
  • Gale In Context: College: Gale In Context: College School provides contextual information on a broad range of topics, people, places, and events from Gale’s reference content, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.
  • Gale In Context: Global Issues: Gale In Context: Global Issues offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia – including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs – enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.
  • Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints: Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites covering hundreds of today’s hottest social issues.
  • Gale In Context: Science: Gale In Context: Science features authoritative information for assignments and projects, and provides detailed coverage of popular subjects including earth science, life science, space, technology, mathematics, and science history and biography.
  • Gale Literature Resource Center: Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group’s core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
  • Gale OneFile: Agriculture: Comprised of nearly 200 titles, researchers have access to current and authoritative content that spans the agriculture industry and its related fields — from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.
  • Gale OneFile: Business: Provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications, updated daily.
  • Gale OneFile: Communications and Mass Media: From marketing professionals to students studying for advanced degrees in linguistic theory, this collection provides current and accurate information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and many more.
  • Gale OneFile: Computer Science: Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.
  • Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice: Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. Users will have access to 150 journals.
  • Gale OneFile: Culinary Arts: Gale OneFile: Culinary Arts includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.
  • Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies: Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community. The database is a must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework.
  • Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory: With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit database, this collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their research.
  • Gale OneFile: Educator’s Reference Complete: Gale OneFile: Educator’s Reference Complete provides access to academic journals, reports, and many premier reference sources in the field of education. The database includes content in key subject areas including administration, bilingual education, child development and psychology, funding, health education, technology, and testing. The majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database.
  • Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship: Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship provides access to academic journals and magazines perfect for both business school students and entrepreneurs. The database offers content that includes insights, tips, strategies and success stories.
  • Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy: A custom collection of nearly 200 journals providing robust coverage of environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
  • Gale OneFile: Fine Arts: With more than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide your students with resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
  • Gale OneFile: Gardening and Horticulture: Farmers, landscape architects, and biotechnologists alike will have their appetites sated with this collection of nearly 50 journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture, covering both the practical aspects and the scientific theory of horticulture studies.
  • Gale OneFile: Gender Studies: Gale OneFile: Gender Studies provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society. The database offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
  • Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine: Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac’s award-winning Health Reference Center. All in a single, easy-to-use database, The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
  • Gale OneFile: Home Improvement: This collection of nearly 100 home improvement focused titles for both hobbyists and professionals alike covers such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more.
  • Gale OneFile: Hospitality and Tourism: With content from over 500 industry journals, this collection provides coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field, while also allowing for focused study of cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism, and more.
  • Gale OneFile: Information Science: Gale OneFile: Information Science provides access to scholarly journals and trade publications essential for information professionals and other knowledge workers. The database offers coverage of topics including information infrastructure, metadata architecture, publishing, and more.
  • Gale OneFile: Informe Académico: A collection of Hispanic magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects.
  • Gale OneFile: Insurance and Liability: Gale OneFile: Insurance and Liability provides access to academic journals and trade publications covering the insurance industry and topics such as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more. The database offers content of interest to individual property owners and multinational corporations alike.
  • Gale OneFile: Leadership and Management: Provides access to authoritative periodical content covering topics such as 21st-century skills, organizational dynamics and leadership, adult learning and continuing education, and more. Updated daily, this library resource is useful for researchers or any professional interested in career development.
  • Gale OneFile: LegalTrac: Gale OneFile: LegalTrac provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals selected by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries.
  • Gale OneFile: Military and Intelligence: Gale OneFile: Military and Intelligence provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. The database offers content in key subject areas including governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.
  • Gale OneFile: News: Gale OneFile: News is an innovative Web-based full-text collection of more than 1,000 newspapers which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields.
  • Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health: Including nearly 400 titles covering all aspects of the Nursing profession — from direct patient care to health care administration — this collection’s current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
  • Gale OneFile: Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine: Gale OneFile: Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine provides access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of fitness and sports. The database offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.
  • Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies: Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.
  • Gale OneFile: Psychology: This set of over 200 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals explores what makes people “tick” from childhood to death. This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops — and diminishes — over time.
  • Gale OneFile: Religion and Philosophy: Gale OneFile: Religion and Philosophy provides access to scholarly journals and magazines of interest to both researchers and general users. The database offers balanced content that covers topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions.
  • Gale OneFile: Science: Gale OneFile: Science provides access to scholarly journals and magazines covering the latest scientific developments. Key subjects covered by the database include biological sciences, computing, engineering, and technology.
  • Gale OneFile: Vocations and Careers: Providing content from nearly 400 journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
  • Gale OneFile: War and Terrorism: Gale OneFile: War and Terrorism provides access to academic journals and magazines of interest to analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science. The database offers balanced coverage of both historic and contemporary topics in the fields of war and terrorism.
  • Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep: Test Prep provides users with in-depth information on colleges and universities, graduate and professional programs, distance learning, corporate training, available scholarships and awards, preparatory entrance tests and much more.
  • The Economist Historical Archive: The Economist Historical Archive (‘EHA’) is the fully searchable facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. Containing every issue since its launch in 1843, EHA offers full-colour images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys. It is an unrivaled multidisciplinary primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries.

Other Resources

  • Chicago Manual of Style: The Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format. It is the indispensable reference for writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers, informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice. Note: City Vision uses APA in our courses, but this is provided for doctoral students who might want to Chicago Manual of Style in their Doctoral Project if they prefer.

Step 2: Install Browser Extensions for Free & Open Access Libraries

  1. Install Unpaywall browser extension. As you browse, the Unpaywall extension automatically searches a massive database of legal, author-uploaded, and institutionally archived articles. When a free version of a paywalled paper is found, a convenient green tab appears on the side of your screen. Clicking this tab takes you directly to the full-text PDF.
    Instructional video: Adding Unpaywall to your browser and How to Access Research Articles for FREE with Unpaywall 
  2. Install Open Access button browser extension. Similar to Unpaywall, the Open Access Button extension actively searches for free versions of articles as you land on publisher pages.
  3. Use the OA.mg website and/or install OA.mg browser extension which has the widest coverage with over 250 million papers in its index.

While many of following databases are indexed by Unpaywall, Open Access Button and/or OA.mg, it may also be worth searching some of the following databases directly. 

  • CORE (COnnecting REpositories): As the world’s largest aggregator of open access research, CORE provides access to millions of full-text articles from a global network of over 10,000 institutional and subject repositories. Open Access Button directly uses CORE in its searches.
  • SSRN (Social Science Research Network): This is a premier open-access repository containing over 1.6 million research papers and preprints in the social sciences, including extensive subject networks for leadership, management, and nonprofit studies.
  • BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine). Covers over 315 million documents with about 60% being open access. Open Access Button directly uses BASE in its searches.
  • RePEc (Research Papers in Economics): With over 4.4 million indexed works, RePEc is a vital resource for research at the intersection of economics, business, and public policy, directly relevant to students studying organizational strategy and nonprofit financial management.
  • ERIC (Education Resources Information Center): Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC is the world’s largest digital library for education research, indexing over 1.6 million records.
  • Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD): An index of over 6.6 million graduate theses and dissertations from more than 1,100 institutions worldwide.
  • PubMed: The premier biomedical literature database from the National Institutes of Health, offering over 39 million citations and abstracts vital for research in addiction and health-related fields, with about one-third being available as open access.
  • GlobeEthicsLib (GEL) – launched in 2008 by Globethics.net, offers free access to over 700,000 texts, documents, articles and other resources. Focused on “Dialogue, reflection and action for responsible leadership.” Register for free to access full text documents, journals, reference books and eBooks.
  • Open Access Digital Theological Library with over 480,000 ebooks and 50 million articles.
  • Theological Commons at Princeton Seminary with over 164,000 items.
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): The largest directory of its kind, providing access to over 11.5 million articles from more than 21,000 peer-reviewed open access journals.
  • The Internet Archive: The Internet Archive contains a wide range of free content, including public domain books provided by Project Gutenberg.

Step 3: Search Using Google Scholar & Research Tools

Search using https://scholar.google.com. Google Scholar is both more user-friendly and has wider coverage compared to City Vision’s LIRN library search. When you find an article that is behind a paywall:

  1. Use the free access browser extensions from Step 2 to see if a free or open access version of the article is available.
  2. Search for the article using City Vision’s Subscription Libraries from Step 1.
  3. You may consider accessing through your public library. Many public libraries provide access to academic databases, such as JSTOR and EBSCO, to any patrons who have a library card.

Step 4: Search using AI Research Tools

We encourage students to make ethical use of AI tools when conducting research based on the following guidelines:

  1. Students conducting research are encouraged to follow AI Prompt Suggestions and Guidelines for Research at CVU. 
  2. City Vision’s planned doctoral program requires a subscription to Google’s Gemini Pro to aid in research. In most cases, AI research reports should be considered secondary research. Students conducting academic and peer reviewed research are encouraged to follow Suggested Prompts to Use AI for Academic and Peer Review Research. To access articles behind paywalls, students should see if they are available through the methods of step 1 and 2 above.
  3. Students should follow City Vision’s Policy on ChatGPT and Use of Generative AI Tools when using AI in writing papers.

Step 5: Use a Citation/Reference Manager

Citation/reference managers help users collect, organize, and manage bibliographic references from online databases and websites. They automatically generate formatted in-text citations and bibliographies for documents.

Subject-Specific Libguides

  • Start first with our Internet Tools for Church Leaders list, focusing on Bible study tools such as Bible encyclopedias, dictionaries, concordances and commentaries. These are used in our Bible & theology courses for exegetical papers.
  • Bible Hub – the best free online Bible study suite, featuring interlinear comparison of the Greek and Hebrew text of the Bible to translations, plus concordances, commentaries, dictionaries, sermons, topical studies, and devotionals
  • BibleProject– highest-quality overview videos on Bible books & related topics, used in many City Vision courses
  • BiblicalTraining.org – free Bible lessons & courses
  • Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) – collection of classic Christian writings (theology, devotional &  Biblical studies) from the 1st century until the 1900s that in the public domain
  • Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life – articles, research and statistics on religion in America
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – open-access database containing  hundreds of articles on philosophical theory, biographies of key philosophers, and topics in philosophy.
  • Thirdmill.org – free Bible lessons & courses, partners with City Vision

Open Databases:

City Vision University’s Resources

Grant & Nonprofit Research

Note: We have not provided a Libguide on Organizational Leadership or other topics because we have determined that the best approach for students is to use the research tools described in the steps above.