Databases by Subject
The Pratt Libraries subscribe to more than 25 electronic databases, as well as more than 700 magazines, journals and newspapers in print and electronic formats. Several new databases have been added to Pratt Libraries collection recently. Please see 
sign for new databases. For help getting started with research, see our Research Guides or Ask-A-Librarian. You will automatically be prompted for your Pratt OneKey username and password when you click on any of the links below from off campus.
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Art, Architecture & Design
Library & Information Science
General & Multidisciplinary
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Research Guides
Information Literacy
Ask-A-Librarian
Art, Architecture & Design
ARTbibliographies Modern
Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations and exhibition reviews with comprehensive bibliographic coverage of modern and contemporary art, architecture, design and photography. The time period coverage includes the 19th and 20th centuries. Covers literature published since 1974. A list of periodicals indexed is available. Updated monthly.
Art Full-Text
Provides full-text articles from more than 270 peer-selected publications about Latin American, Canadian, Asian, and non-Western art. It indexes and abstracts of over 600 periodicals as far back as 1984, including 260 peer-reviewed journals and over 18,000 art dissertations. Researchers can track the careers of artists, review their materials and methods, and find books by them, as well as interviews, profiles, and much more.
Art Index Retrospective
Covering content for the years 1929 - 1984 of art journalism, this retrospective resource includes articles, interviews, reviews and much more from over 600 publications.It features coverage of English-language periodicals, yearbooks and museum bulletins published in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch.
ARTstor
Digital image database containing over 1 million images in the areas of art, architecture, and design.
AskART
AskART is an online database containing over 155,000 artists. From its inception the focus was on American artists from the early 16th-Century through the present. However, in January of 2007 the database has expanded to include international artists' auction records.
Avery Index
Most comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation and interior design and decoration. Indexes articles from nearly 800 US and foreign architectural journals published worldwide, 75% of which are not indexed in any other source. Includes articles from previous electronic version as well as records converted from Avery Library card file, with records dating from the 1860s to the present. A list of periodical titles indexed is available.
Bibliography of the History of Art
The Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts articles, art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and art exhibition and dealer's catalogs. This extensive and comprehensive index covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. A list of periodicals indexed is available. Updated monthly.
Berg Fashion Library
The Berg Fashion Library offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and much more.
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)
Indexes over 500 journals that cover industrial design, interior design, fashion, graphic design, typography, packaging, etc., since 1973. Supplementary databases provide contact information for craft & design organizations, special collections of design & craft, design & craft education programs, and periodicals. Online help is available. Coverage is worldwide. A list of periodicals indexed is available. Updated annually.
BuildingGreen
Provides media and information resources including the award-winning Environmental Building News, BuildingGreen Suite of online tools, GreenSpec directory of products, and LEEDuser web tool.
JSTOR
Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX Collections provide full-text access to hundreds of journals published in different countries in business, economics, finance, health science, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences.
Material ConneXion
An online database of over 1,400 materials and processes of the latest materials typically unnoticed or difficult to reach by the design community. For architecture, interiors, furniture design, sports related design, consumer product design, apparel, automotive design, aerospace, military, medical, environmental design.
Please click here to create a personal account
Oxford Art Online
Composed of Grove Art, Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encylcopedia of Aesthetics & Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Contains over 41,000 articles on the art and architecture of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific, with links to images and further information in museum and other art-related web sites. Help is available.
StyleSight
Provides information to assess current trends and to collaborate and analyze trend forecasts and reports for effective results during the design cycle.
Taylor & Francis Online
Includes titles in library science, architecture, planning, and art therapy.
Library & Information Science
Emerald Management Xtra
A wide range of serials, series and books in library science, management and related fields. A list of periodicals indexed is available.
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Third Edition
Covers a spectrum of related information disciplines, including Archival Science, Bibliography, Document and Genre Theory, Informatics, Information Systems, Knowledge Management, Library and Information Science, Museum Studies, Records Management, and Social Studies of Information. Relevant articles can be found by entry title, subject category, or specific name or topic.
Guide to Reference
Guide to Reference is a selective guide to the best reference sources, organized by academic discipline.
Library Literature and Information Full-Text
Indexes the contents of books, journals, conference proceedings, library school theses, pamphlets, and book reviews in the literature of Library and Information Science published since 1980. Contains over 185,000 citations from English- and non-English-language sources. A list of periodicals indexed is available.
Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective (1905-1983)
Indexes of English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, library school theses, and over 300 books a year. It also delivers cover-to-cover full-text articles from over a hundred select publications.
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. A list of periodicals indexed is available.
Taylor & Francis Online
Includes titles in library science, architecture, planning, and art therapy.
Ulrichsweb
Ulrichsweb is an easy to search source of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals (also called serials) of all types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more.
General & Multidisciplinary
Business Insights: Essentials
Articles from business and management journals, trade journals, newspapers and directories needed for in-depth research on companies, products, markets, industries, economics and management disciplines. This database includes the resources that were previously available in Business & Company ASAP
Business & Company Resource Center | (Novel)
Search for information about brands, companies and corporations, company profiles and histories, investment reports, news articles, and press releases. A title list of journals and other sources is available.
Business Abstracts with Full-Text
Full text of articles from over 400 publications as far back as 1995. Quality abstracting and indexing of more than 800 publications as far back as 1982. Search using the Wilson subject thesaurus developed specifically for this product. A list of periodicals indexed is available.
Education Full-Text
Comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Full text of articles cover to cover, from hundreds of journals, make this a valuable source for education research. A list of periodicals indexed is available.
Encyclopædia Britannica
Includes the print Encyclopedia Britannica as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. Nearly 120,000 articles and 14,000 illustrations.
Encyclopædia Americana | (Novel)
Includes the print Encyclopedia Americana as well as The American Heritage Dictionary.
ERIC
Contains annotated references to nonjournal material in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Contains almost 1 million records from over 2,000 titles published since 1966. A list of sources is available. Updated monthly.
Gale Academic OneFile
A resource for peer-reviewed, full-text journals and reference sources covering physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, etc. It has more than 14,000 titles and full-text of The New York Times from 1985 to present.
Titles in Gale Academic OneFile are also covered in other subject oriented Gale databases. Please click HERE to search more Gale Databases which Pratt Libraries provide access to.
Gale General OneFile
A general interest periodical resource with a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, etc. It has more than 12,000 titles and full-text of The New York Times from 1985 to present.
Titles in Gale General OneFile are also covered in other subject oriented Gale databases. Please click HERE to search more Gale Databases which Pratt Libraries provide access to.
GreenFILE
a database which focuses on the relationship between human beings and the environment. Comprised of more than 600 scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. It offers a perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles. Also included in GreenFILE is a 6,800-term Thesaurus.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopædia | (Novel)
An 11-million-word repository of text and images maintained by the encyclopedia's editorial and technical staff.
Health Reference Center Academic | (Novel)
Multi-source database providing access to full-text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources that offer reliable health information to researchers, including nursing and allied health students.
Humanities Full-Text
Humanities Full-Text is a full text database that provides digital versions of a large array of prestigious academic journals in disciplines ranging from Anthropology, the Arts, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Literature, Literary Criticism to further support the Humanities, Art, and Social Science scholarship at the Institute. Humanities Full-Text provides access to over 500 journals in these disciplines. A list of periodicals indexed is available.
InfoTrac Newsstand (Novel)
This database includes over 2,200 full text newspapers, journals, and Newsletters, including the New York Times which has full-text from 1985 to the current year.
JSTOR
Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX Collections provide full-text access to hundreds of journals published in different countries in business, economics, finance, health science, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences.
National Newspaper Index | (Novel)
National Newspaper Index provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
New Book of Knowledge | (Novel)
The New Book of Knowledge database is a 7-million-word repository of text and images.
The New York Review of Books
A magazine with articles on literature, culture and current affairs.
New York State Newspapers | (Novel)
Full-text indexing (1985- present) of 28 major New York State newspapers, including the New York Times and the New York Post.
The New York Times (1851-2007) with Index (1851-1993)
Provides articles on politics, society and events of the time from New York Times.
OmniFile
A multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Also included, when available, are full-text articles from five additional periodical databases: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. A list of periodicals indexed is available.
Project MUSE
Provides full-text access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals which are heavily indexed and peer-reviewed, with critically acclaimed articles by scholars in their fields. Database content is from over 400 titles representing nearly 100 not-for-profit publishers.
Reader's Guide Full Text
Offers the coverage in current events , curriculum support, and quality periodicals research. A list of periodicals indexed is available.
Readers’ Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)
Indexes the most popular, general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 to 1982.
Sanborn Maps
The Pratt Library maintains a subscription to a Digital Sanborn Maps Database that contains current Sanborn Maps for Manhattan and Brooklyn. Access to this database is available at selected public-access computers throughout the library. Each terminal has a sign that says, “Sanborn Maps available here.”
Sanborn Maps are detailed fire insurance maps that include important architectural information such as, house and block number, the composition of building materials including the framing, flooring, and roofing materials, outlines of each building and outbuilding, the location of windows and doors, street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, fire walls, building use, indications of sprinkler systems, locations of fire hydrants, location of water and gas mains and the names of most public buildings.
Instructions for using the Sanborn Map database and a map key can be found on the Library website here.
http://library.pratt.edu/uploads/files/sanbornGuide.pdf
If you need assistance with the Sanborn Map Database, (or any database), please stop by the Reference Desk where a librarian can assist you.
ScienceDirect
Provides full-text scientific journal articles and book chapters in social and behavioural sciences.
Scopus
Provides abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources in science, technology, medical and social sciences fields, and arts and humanities.
Social Sciences Full-Text
Full text and page images from scores of key publications, plus abstracting and indexing of hundreds of others. An in-demand resource for a wide variety of users from students to social workers, Social Sciences Full Text covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.High quality indexing of periodicals as far back as 1983. A list of periodicals indexed is available.
Twayne's Author Series | (Novel)
Find biographical, bibliographical, and critical full-text information about US, English, and world authors.
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Use WorldCat through FirstSearch to search for advanced bibliographic information about books, periodicals, and other materials held in OCLC member libraries worldwide. Updated daily.
WorldCat Local
Use WorldCat Local to find and request books, periodicals, and other materials held in Pratt Libraries as well as OCLC member libraries worldwide. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century. Updated daily.
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