Popular Databases ("Quicklinks")

Here is a list of the most popular article or fulltext databases the USC Libraries subscribes to. Access to these will require a valid USC ID and password.

Credo Reference

Credo Reference is a digital reference library that places a world of factual information at your fingertips. Containing a selection from 645 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers, Credo Reference is the ideal place to start any research.

Engineering Village 2

Ei CompendexWeb is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research literature, containing references to over 5000 engineering journals and conferences.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.

JSTOR

A growing full text collection of core social science, humanities, and science journals.

LexisNexis Academic

Database of full text online news, business, financial, legal, medical, biographical, government and domestic and international newspaper resources.

Naxos Music Library

Naxos Music Library is the world's largest online classical music library. 
Access to the database is limited to 15 concurrent users.

Oxford English Dictionary

The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3).

Project MUSE

MUSE provides access to the complete content (including all images) of nearly 500 current scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.

ProQuest - Multiple Databases

ProQuest Multiple Databases is a multi-disciplinary index suitable for both undergraduates and graduate students.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997.

PsycINFO

Abstracting and indexing database with more than 3 million records devoted to peer-reviewed literature of journal articles, chapters, books, dissertations and reports in psychology, the behavioral sciences, and mental health.

PubMed@USC

Provides access to the MEDLINE database, customized for USC users.

Web of Science

Web of Science (formerly Web of Knowledge) provides citations covering over 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as international proceedings coverage for over 120,000 conferences.

WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch)

WorldCat is an online union catalog of materials held by OCLC member libraries.