The library provides database collections that offer a variety of search and access options for connecting with scholarly literature. Using our database collections is the best way to find the curated electronic content provided by subscription through the library. As a bonus, materials that are not available through the library may be requested directly through the databases using embedded links to our interlibrary loan (ILL) services.
Our database collections offer full-text academic journal articles covering topics in psychology, counseling, business, medicine, and education, as well as general sociological and historical subjects. Other types of electronic content include dissertations, conference papers, eBook collections, encyclopedias, Associated Press photos, book/test reviews, newspapers, and magazines, as well as professional resources in medicine, nursing, consumer health, and education.
Explore the accordions below and use their associated links to learn more about and access our database collections.
You can use these links if you need help with database searching, but please email the librarians at librarian@paloaltou.edu if you need further assistance:
Find articles covering topics in psychology, counseling, business, medicine, education, sociology, history, and political science using the EBSCOhost platform to search all EBSCO databases. This database collection includes additional academic content, including eBooks, reviews, reference materials, Associated Press photos, newspapers, magazines, and more! Use this database collection as your go-to for launching a literature search.
The Proquest/Clarivate database collection includes ProQuest One Psychology, a broad, user-friendly resource designed to support the unique needs of psychology and counseling in research, teaching, and learning. Content is organized to align with how psychology faculty and students approach common assignments, research questions, and methodologies. It includes diverse content types such as journals, therapy videos, counseling transcript, news, dissertations, and more. This database collection also includes the Alexander Street Press Counseling and Therapy in Video database and additional databases offering diverse content types such as journals, therapy videos, counseling transcript, news, dissertations, and more.
The Nexis Uni database is the place to start for finding articles and other content related to law and business. This database features more than 15,000 news, business, and legal sources from LexisNexis — including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790 — with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches, and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
Targeted database searching can be very useful to researchers, so the library provides a linked list of all PAU databases expressly for this purpose. Our list of databases is presented in the library guide linked below and is arranged alphabetically for browsing. It can also be searched by title, keyword, subject, type, or vendor. You will find all of the digital materials available through the PAU library using these links, including books, articles, videos, dissertations, and much, much more!