Databases – Govt. Dyal Singh Graduate College Lahore

These are databases created by different universities having multiple books, journals, datasets, and many more. Some of the databases have specialized content like for different disciplines and some have mixed materials for the students of all disciplines. Before downloading any content, read the instructions and then act accordingly, as the institution is not responsible for any harmful activity you commit on any of the database.

These are some of the General Databases:

Academic Databases

JSTOR (Journal Storage) – Journals covering various disciplines, mainly on humanities and social science research.
PubMed – The MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics.
Web of Science – High-quality research information across all disciplines. It includes features like citation tracking and ranking articles by impact.
Google Scholar – Full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of disciplines.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) – Journal articles and other resources from various disciplines, including the physical sciences, social sciences, humanities, and more.
Scopus – Peer-reviewed literature, scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings in the fields of science, technology, medicine, the social sciences, the arts, and the humanities.
ProQuest – Dissertations, newspapers, and magazines across subjects like business, health and medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion.
Wiley Open – peer-reviewed articles on different disciplines by Wiley.
Sage Open – peer-reviewed articles on different disciplines by Sage.
PsycINFO (APA PsycNet) – Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in behavioral science and mental health.
ScienceDirect – Journal articles and book chapters, mainly on sciences and social science.
ArXiv – Scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and more.
IEEE Xplore – Documents from publications in computer science, electrical engineering, electronics, and related disciplines.
ERIC – Research and information sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education.
SpringerLink – Scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols, reference works, and proceedings mainly on science, technology, and medicine.
Cochrane Library – Independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and Cochrane Clinical Answers.
Agricola (Agricultural Online Access) – Agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators.
BioMed Central – Peer-reviewed open access journals on biology, medicine, and health, including broad-interest titles and specialist journals.
PhilPapers – Bibliography of philosophy, including journals, books, open-access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics.
PLOS (Public Library of Science) – Open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license.
SocArXiv – Free and publicly accessible platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers.
ChemRxiv – Repository of chemistry and related areas.

Science Databases

PubMed – The MEDLINE collection of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical subjects.
Web of Science – Citation tracking for articles, allowing users to trace who has cited certain works.
ScienceDirect – Scientific and medical research articles and book chapters, mainly on the subjects of the physical sciences, life sciences, and health sciences.
Scopus – An abstract and citation database for peer-reviewed literature, including journals, books, and conference proceedings.
IEEE Xplore – Articles from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers mainly for electrical engineering and computer science research.
ACS Publications – Access to chemistry journals and magazines by the American Chemical Society.
BioMed Central – Open-access database offering research articles in biology, medicine, and health.
ArXiv – Used for physics, mathematics, computer science, and quantitative biology preprints.
ChemRxiv – A free submission repository for the global chemistry community, allowing researchers to share findings before formal peer review.
Agricola – A key resource for agricultural and related sciences managed by the National Agricultural Library.
GeoRef – Geosciences database managed by the American Geosciences Institute.
PLOS (Public Library of Science) – Open access publisher, providing articles in areas of biology, medicine, and specific subfields of other sciences.
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) – A digital library for researchers in astronomy and physics.
GenBank – Annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences.
Environmental Science and Pollution Management – It covers environmental sciences and pollution management, providing abstracts and references to scientific journals.
Zoological Record – An interface that provides comprehensive coverage of zoological literature.
MathSciNet – It provides reviews, abstracts, and bibliographic information on the topics of mathematical sciences literature managed by the American Mathematical Society.
Biosis Previews – Coverage of life sciences research from journals, meetings, books, and patents.
SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) – A digital library for physics and astronomy, curated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and NASA.
Oceanic Abstracts – Covers marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, meteorology, and geology.

Business Databases

Business Source Premier (EBSCO) – Full-text for thousands of scholarly business journals, trade publications, and magazines.
ProQuest Business Collection – Coverage of business topics with access to journals, newspapers, and dissertations.
JSTOR Business – Numerous journals related to business and economics.
Factiva – Business news with content delivery tools and services, mainly containing news, photographs, and business information.
MarketResearch.com – Market intelligence products, services, and data on products, trends, regions, demographics, etc.
Statista – Statistics and studies from more than 22,500 sources.
IBISWorld – Industry market research reports, industry risk rating reports, and business environment profiles.
Mergent Online – Business and financial data on global publicly listed companies, including business history, executive contact details, financial data, and more.
S&P Global Market Intelligence – Offers financial news, data, and analytics.
Hoover’s – Company profiles containing company overviews, histories, products, financials, and additional insights.
Emerald Insight – Journals, books, and case studies covering a wide range of business disciplines such as accounting, finance, HR, marketing, and operations.
PitchBook – Specializes in data on venture capital, private equity, and M&A transactions.
Datastream (Refinitiv) – Provides financial and economic data and analytics.
Bloomberg Terminal – Provides access to the Bloomberg Professional service, through which users can monitor and analyze real-time financial data.
Gartner – Insights into IT, marketing, HR, supply chain, and other business operations.
Passport by Euromonitor – Business intelligence on industries, countries, and consumers, access to statistics, market reports, company profiles, and more.
ORBIS – Global company information, including financials, executives, and detailed structures.
Thomson ONE – Financial data on public companies, as well as merger and acquisition information and market data.
Nexis Uni – A wide range of business resources, including news, business, and company information.
RMA eStatement Studies – Financial statement data and other relevant financial and operational data for various industries.

Medical Databases

PubMed – The MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics, managed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
EMBASE – A biomedical and pharmacological database, especially on drug-related information.
Cochrane Library – High-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, including systematic reviews and clinical trials.
Bio Med – Open Access publishing in Biology, Health, and Medicine.
Web of Science – Coverage in the biomedical sciences, which is useful for citation tracking.
ScienceDirect – It provides articles in health and life sciences.
PsycINFO – While it focuses on psychology, it also covers related medical, psychiatric, and health topics, managed by the APA.
ClinicalTrials.gov – Information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies on a wide range of diseases and conditions.
BioMed Central – Open-access journals in biology and medicine.
Google Scholar – Free scholarly articles from various disciplines, including medicine.
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) – An authoritative source for nursing and allied health literature.
Scopus – An abstract and citation database that covers health and life sciences.
UpToDate – An evidence-based clinical decision support resource used by healthcare practitioners to aid in patient care.
BMJ Best Practice – The latest information when making diagnosis and treatment decisions.
DynaMed – A clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other healthcare professionals for use primarily at the point of care.
ACP Journal Club – A publication of the American College of Physicians that summarizes the most clinically relevant articles from the biomedical literature.
Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database – A range of resources, including evidence-based recommended practices, evidence summaries, best practice guidelines, and more.
Drug Information Portal – Information on over 81,000 drugs from the National Library of Medicine and other government agencies.
Gale Health and Wellness – Full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more.
OMIM – Compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes, focusing on inherited conditions.

Social Sciences and Humanities Databases

Sociology Central – Site for teachers and students of sociology.
ProQuest LibGuides – Sociological abstracts from international literature on sociology.
SSCI – Social Sciences Citation Index from Thomson and Reuters.
ACL’s Humanities – Over 100 free, full-text ebooks on a variety of humanities topics.
CultureGrams World – Detailed cultural information on over 200 countries.
Online Library for Open Access Books – The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.
Perseus – The Perseus Digital Library covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world.
Smithsonian – images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
Chaucer’s Work – This has all the works of Geoffrey Chaucer
The Bibliographic Society – Features articles and notes on analytical bibliography, textual criticism, manuscript study, the history of printing and publishing, as well as related matters of method and evidence.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – A large, academic encyclopedia produced by philosophy scholars.
SSRN – Search over half a million articles in the humanities, social sciences, and business.
Religions Database – different articles on religion and its relations with life.
Political Science Database – comprehensive global search, discovery, and viewing source for digital content created by the United Nations on Politics
PurdueLib – Research Guides on political science
Oxford Academics – Open Access for the Arts and Humanities.
Cambridge Companions Online – Covers: 1991-. Offers the full text of reference works in literature, classical studies, philosophy, religion, and music.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism – Covers: 2004-. Presents a comprehensive historical survey of the field’s most important figures, schools, and movements. It includes entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.
Dictionary of Old English (DOE) – The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the vocabulary of the first six centuries (600 – 1150 A.D.) of the English language. The DOE provides a listing by headword of every spelling which is attested for a word in the Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus, providing frequency counts and noting the type of texts and authors where the words tend to occur.
Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus (DOE) – Presents a collection of texts from the first six centuries (C.E. 600-1150) of the English language, composed of at least one version of every surviving Old English text. These texts form the basis for the Dictionary of Old English (DOE) online.
Oxford Classical Dictionary – A comprehensive reference source covering all aspects of the classical world, including Greek and Roman history, literature, myth, religion, linguistics, philosophy, law, science, art and archaeology, and topics in near eastern studies and late antiquity. Bibliographies at the end of each signed article list both secondary works as well as recommended editions / translations of ancient authors. This new “5th” edition will be continuously updated.
Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography – Covers: 1978-. Provides biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world’s major literary figures from all eras and genres. DLB Complete Online includes the DLB main series, the DLB Documentary Series, and the DLB Yearbook Series. Also available through the Gale Literary Sources platform.
MLA International Bibliography – Covers: 1926-. Compiled by the Modern Language Association, the MLA indexes journals and series published worldwide on all topics related to literature, language, folklore, and related areas, such as film, drama, communication, or popular culture.
Project MUSE Premium Collection – Covers 1906-. A collection of online journals in the humanities and social sciences. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and more. The Libraries do not have access to most Muse book content.
Gale Literature – Gale Literary Sources draws together several important research databases from Gale: including Literature Criticism Online, Literature Resource Center, Scribner’s Writers, and Twayne’s Authors.
International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) – Covers 1967-. Indexes books, articles, book chapters, and other publications on the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500.
Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature (ACLL-2) – Covers 400-1200 C.E. A collection of texts used thus far by the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources.
Black Drama – Covers: 1850s-. Offers works by playwrights of African descent, together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
Black Short Fiction and Folklore – Covers: 1870-. Offers stories, folk tales, and other short works from Africa and the African Diaspora.
Black Women Writers – Covers: 19th century-. Offers fiction, poetry, and essays written by women from Africa and the African Diaspora.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) – Covers: 1470 – 1700. Offers page images of almost every work printed in the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere from the beginning of printing through the 17th century.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO): Parts 1 and 2 – Covers: 1680-1800. Based on the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO) captures most significant books (monographs) published in the United Kingdom during the 18th century regardless of language, plus thousands of English-language works from elsewhere.
ProQuest One Literature – Covers: 700 BCE-. Offers searchable texts of more than 355,000 works of literature, including works of poetry, drama, and prose stretching back to the 8th century through to the present day.
North American Indian Thought and Culture – Covers: 1492-. Includes biographies, autobiographies, oral histories, reference works, manuscripts, and photographs.
EBSCO Literature and Language – EBSCO’s literature and language databases feature top literary journals, literary magazines, and primary source documents.
Purdue and ProQuest – Linguistics Databases

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