How to Use Databases

Contents

Using ARTstor
Using Gale Databases
Using JSTOR
Using Wilson Databases
Using WorldCat

Links

Ask-A-Librarian
Research Guides
Information Literacy

ARTstor

ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences, with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching. Also included is the Pratt Institute Digital Image Collection, consisting of images locally created and licensed by the Pratt Institute Libraries' Visual Resources Center and Pratt Institute's History of Art and Design Department.

Please see ARTstor's YouTube Tutorials, as well as the ARTstor Help Pages.

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Gale Databases

Includes over 150 full text newspapers, including seven New York State newspapers and the New York Times, which is indexed in full text for the full current year.

Please see the tutorial for the Gale Newspaper Databases.

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JSTOR

JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.

JSTOR is a database that includes Arts and Sciences I and III Collections providing full-Text to over 200 journals . Collection I covers core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. Collection III covers languages and literature, as well as essential titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture.

Please see the JSTOR Tutorial.

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Wilson Databases

HW Wilson periodicals databases bring users full text, page images, abstracts, and indexing of thousands of leading magazines and journals. The databases Pratt subscribes to are: Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984, Art Full Text, Wilson Business Full Text, Education Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, General Science Full Text, Wilson OmniFile Full Text--Mega Edition.

Wilson OmniFile Full Text features, in a single database, full text from over 4,000 periodicals in business, the humanities, science and technology, education, social sciences, law, library and information science, and art, plus popular Readers’ Guide publications.

Please see the Omnifile Tutorial and the Wilson Tutorial (PDF).

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WorldCat

WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. You can search for popular books, music CDs and videos—all of the physical items you're used to getting from libraries. You can also discover many new kinds of digital content, such as downloadable audiobooks. You may also find article citations with links to their full text; authoritative research materials, such as documents and photos of local or historic significance; and digital versions of rare items that aren't available to the public. Because WorldCat libraries serve diverse communities in dozens of countries, resources are available in many languages.

Please see the WorldCat Tutorial.

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