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Database Descriptions
Alphabetical Order
Academic OneFile
(Gale) - Upgrade to General OneFile provides peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals
and reference sources. Includes coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social
sciences, the arts, theology, literature and, other subjects.
Academic Search Complete
(EBSCO) - Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most
valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text
periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing
and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports,
conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the
majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
Acceda Noticias
(Newsbank) - Acceda Noticias provides Web-based access to the complete electronic editions of more
than 20 Spanish-language newspapers published in major U.S. cities from Florida to California. It also
includes tens of thousands of current and archived full-text articles from other news sources and complete
electronic newspaper editions across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Columbia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru
and Spain. All news and information content is written in Spanish, rather than translated from other
languages.
Access Broadcast Transcripts
(NewsBank) - A full-text collection of current and archived broadcast transcripts from many of the top
television and radio news shows in the United States. With this specialized resource, libraries can
expand the coverage of their NewsBank collection, offering unprecedented depth and breadth for
research on many different topics.
Access Business News
(Newsbank)- Add on module for Americas Newspapers that consolidates current and archived content
from the complete, full-text electronic editions of approximately 200 business and law journals, local
and regional business news weeklies and other news sources across North America—most of which are
not available in any other database. It extensively covers industries, markets, companies, executives
and products to meet the needs of a wide range of patrons.
Access Military, Government and Defense
(Newsbank) - Add on module for Americas Newspapers that offers extensive coverage of the U.S. armed
forces and federal government, as well as military and defense news, issues, strategies, careers and
lifestyles, pay and benefits, training, law, equipment, technology and much more
Access US Newswires
(NewsBank) - A full-text collection of current and archived articles from key domestic newswires.
With this specialized resource, libraries can expand the coverage of their NewsBank collection, offering
unprecedented depth and breadth for research on many different topics.
Access World News
(NewsBank) - The most comprehensive collection of full-text newspapers globally, Access World News
provides extensive coverage at any level—local, state, regional, national and international. This fully
searchable Web-based resource features the vast majority of the top U.S. newspapers by circulation, along
with hundreds of hard-to-find local and regional titles, most of which are unavailable elsewhere.
Additionally, Access World News offers hundreds of international news sources from scores of countries
on six continents, translated into English when written in other languages.
Americas Newspapers
(NewsBank) - Updated daily, this comprehensive national news resource offers the complete electronic
editions of more than 600 U.S. newspapers, many of which are not available in any other library database.
The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post are all included. America's Newspapers
also includes many local Florida newspapers, and their Spanish-language versions, where available.
Applied Science & Technology Full Text
(H.W. Wilson) - Periodical coverage includes 575 trade and industrial publications, journals issued by
professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, as well as special issues such as
buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings.
ArchiveGrid
(OCLC) - Online access to nearly a million descriptions of archival collections owned by thousands of
libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. ArchiveGrid is an important destination for
searching for historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives.
Art Full Text
(H.W. Wilson) - Full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected
publications—now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western
art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.
ArticleFirst via FirstSearch
(FirstSearch) - ArticleFirst offers searching and browsing of articles and tables of contents from thousands
of journals. Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of
journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.
Each record describes one article, news story, letter, or other item. Includes 15.5+ million records from
15,000 journals from January 1990 to the present. Updated daily.
ARTStor
(JSTOR) - The ARTstor Digital Library Charter Collection is: A repository of hundreds of thousands of
digital images and related data; The tools to actively use those images; and A restricted usage
environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content
users.
Associates Program Source Plus
(EBSCO) - Developed for two year / community colleges. Features full-text journal and book content for
fields such as alcohol & drug abuse counseling, biotechnology, computer & data processing,
cosmetology, electrical technology, fashion design, forensics, graphic arts, health information technology,
interior design, law enforcement & criminal justice, travel & tourism, veterinary assisting, and other twoyear focused programs.
Behavioral Science eJournal Collection
(Springer) - SpringerLink provides full text access in a variety of topics, including mathematics,
economics, ecology, religion, history and more. Coverage for most titles begins in the late 1990s.
Coverage varies by title. Content is updated daily.
Biography in Context
(Gale) - online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people.
The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content (including Lives & Perspectives) with
periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to
search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender
as well as keyword and full text.
Biography Index
(H.W. Wilson) - cites biographical articles appearing in any of more than 3,000 periodicals, plus some
2,000 current books of individual and collective biography published each year, and biographical material
in otherwise non-biographical books. Besides biographies and autobiographies, it includes citations to
interviews, obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, juvenile literature, book reviews,
bibliographies and exhibition reviews. People covered range from antiquity to the present and represent all
fields and nationalities.
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus
(H.W. Wilson) - offers researchers convenient online access to the core literature of biology and
agriculture—much of it from peer-reviewed journals—plus full text. Full text citations also link to PDF
page images, featuring graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations indispensable to science research.
Biomedical and Life Sciences eJournal Collection
(Springer) - SpringerLink provides full text access in a variety of topics, including mathematics,
economics, ecology, religion, history and more. Coverage for most titles begins in the late 1990s.
Coverage varies by title. Content is updated daily.
Book Review Digest Plus
(H.W. Wilson) - A library classic for nearly 100 years, Book Review Digest indexes and provides
excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and non-fiction. Now, Book Review Digest has
become Book Review Digest Plus—dramatically expanding its scope (from its former base of 109
periodicals) with entries drawn from thousands of periodicals covered by other WilsonWeb databases.
Books and Authors
(Gale) - Books & Authors provides new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of
books, authors and topics. Adapted from Gale's acclaimed What Do I Read Next? Print series, Books &
Authors is specially designed to complement the browsing habits of today's Web user, integrating easyto-follow menus that allow users to broaden and narrow their searches according to author, title or series,
awards, and other criteria. An "if you like" search connects readers to the themes and genres that may
have otherwise gone unnoticed.
Books@Ovid
(OVID) - The Books@Ovid database includes full text, references, updates, and graphics from some
of the most respected sources in medicine, nursing, and pharmacology. A searcher can choose to run
a search in one text, selected texts, or all texts. Color diagrams, charts, and other textbook
illustrations are available as thumbnails or full-sized graphics. Within an individual book's interface,
single-frame or multiple-frame environments contain the retrieved text. Buttons bars on the top and
side of the screen facilitate navigation and provide links to the search page and Help. Search screens
provide links to Home, Logoff, Help, and the main Ovid database screen. If the user is accessing a
specific textbook, links are available to the text's table of contents and to the Search and Results
screens, making it easier for searchers to jump from one book section to another.
Business and Economics eJournal Collection
(Springer) - SpringerLink provides full text access in a variety of topics, including mathematics,
economics, ecology, religion, history and more. Coverage for most titles begins in the late 1990s.
Coverage varies by title. Content is updated daily.
Business Full Text
(H.W. Wilson) - Provides fast, convenient access to a multitude of outstanding sources—from The New
York Times Business Section and The Wall Street Journal to magazines and scholarly journals. Users
will find feature articles, product reviews, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles,
obituaries, surveys, book reviews, reports from associations, societies, trade shows and conferences, and
more.
Business Source Complete
(EBSCO) - Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing
the ultimate collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage
offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back
to 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references, Business Source Complete contains
detailed author profiles for the most-cited authors in the database. Journal ranking studies reveal that
Business Source Complete is the overwhelmingly superior database for full text journals in all
disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and
economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major
reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports,
industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and
more.
CAMIO
(OCLC) - A premier resource of high-quality art images from around the world contributed and
described by leading museums, all rights-cleared for educational use. Every work in CAMIO is
represented by at least one high-resolution image and a description. Many have additional views of
the work, sound, video and curatorial notes.
Chemistry and Materials Science eJournal Collection
(Springer) - SpringerLink provides full text access in a variety of topics, including mathematics, economics,
ecology, religion, history and more. Coverage for most titles begins in the late 1990s. Coverage varies by title.
Content is updated daily.
CINAHL Plus Full Text
(EBSCO) - CINAHL® with Full Text provides indexing for 1,835 journals from the fields of nursing and
allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. Offering complete
coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the
American Nurses Association, CINAHL with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences
librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
Clase and Periodica via FirstSearch
(FirstSearch) - CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American and Caribbean journals
specializing in social sciences and humanities. PERIÓDICA covers journals specializing in science and
technology. CLASE and PERIÓDICA offer access to more than 400,000 citations from documents
published in 2,600 selected scholarly journals. They have become significant reference resources for those
interested in what is published in or about Latin America. Includes 400,000+ records from 2,600 journals
from 1975 to the present. Updated quarterly.
Computer Database
(Gale) - Offers access to today's most well-read and influential periodicals on the computer,
telecommunications and electronics industries.
Computer Science eJournal Collection
(Springer) - SpringerLink provides full text access in a variety of topics, including
mathematics, economics, ecology, religion, history and more. Coverage for most titles
begins in the late 1990s. Coverage varies by title. Content is updated daily.
Consumer Reports.org
(EBSCO) - the largest paid-publication subscription-based website in the world — is available to
libraries from EBSCO Publishing.
CQ Researcher Plus Archive
(CQ Press) - Explores a single "hot" issue each week, ranging from social and teen issues to environment,
health, education, and science. 44 reports produced each year, including four expanded reports. Includes
charts, graphs and sidebar articles. Also contains the complete archive of Editorial Research Reports—the
venerable precursor to CQ Researcher—dating back to 1923 which includes over 3,000 in-depth reports
Credo Reference
(Credo Reference) - Access to a collection of aggregated and integrated reference books from highquality publishers.
Criminal Justice Periodicals Index
(ProQuest) - Covers a wide variety of criminal justice topics, including corrections administration, law
enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law. Full-text
and image coverage for about 50 journals.
DemographicsNow
(Gale) - A comprehensive web-based solution offering up-to-date resources on demographics and
extensive market level information.
Digital Collection
(ABC-CLIO) - The Digital Collection is a sophisticated research platform comprised of reference,
academic and general interest e-books. Titles come from titles from Praeger, Greenwood Press, and
Libraries Unlimited. This is not just a collection of PDF downloads, but complete texts — all searchable
by keyword, subject, author, title, or any Boolean search method.
Earth and Environmental Science eJournal Collection
(Springer) - SpringerLink provides full text access in a variety of topics, including mathematics,
economics, ecology, religion, history and more. Coverage for most titles begins in the late 1990s.
Coverage varies by title. Content is updated daily.
eBook Collection
(EBSCO) - EBSCO is now a key provider of eBooks and audiobooks to libraries and other institutions
worldwide. The synergy of eBooks and audiobooks with EBSCO’s multifaceted collection of
electronic content provides libraries with even more options for fulfilling their growing electronic
information needs. Making eBook and audiobook content accessible via the popular EBSCOhost
interface will provide for a more powerful, fully-integrated user experience and prove valuable to
librarians, students, and researchers. EBSCO offers a rapidly growing collection of eBooks available
via convenient Subject Sets that have been hand-crafted by collection development experts.
Education Full Text
(H.W. Wilson) - Indexes education periodicals as far back as 1983, over 450 of which are peerreviewed. Full text of articles from over 350 journals as far back as 1996. Education Full-text covers a
wide range of subjects such including Athletics Distance Education, Educational Technology,
Elementary Education, Government Funding, Higher Education, etc.
Education Research Complete
(EBSCO) - Education Research Center is the definitive online resource for education research. This
massive file offers the world’s largest and most complete collection of full text education journals. It is a
bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of
education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and
all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. The database
also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social
issues.
Educators Reference Complete
(Gale) - This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any
educator -- from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and
graduate level. Content included in the database is almost entirely full-text. The entire ERIC Database
will be fully integrated into ERC with direct links to over 50% of the ERIC titles in FULL-TEXT.
Electronic Collections via FirstSearch
(FirstSearch) - Searchable and browsable index to scholarly journals published in electronic format.
Engineering eJournal Collection
(Springer) - SpringerLink provides full text access in a variety of topics, including mathematics, economics,
ecology, religion, history and more. Coverage for most titles begins in the late 1990s. Coverage varies by
title. Content is updated daily.
ERIC (EBSCO)
(EBSCO) - A guide to published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics, with
information from RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education).
ERIC records now include full-text documents from the ERIC Digest at no extra charge. The database
includes the ERIC thesaurus, a complete list of descriptive terms used by ERIC to index and search the
database. Includes 1.1+ million records from 1,016 journals and other documents from 1966 to the
present. Updated monthly.
ERIC via FirstSearch
(FirstSearch) - A guide to published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics, with
information from RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education). ERIC
records now include full-text documents from the ERIC Digest at no extra charge. The database includes
the ERIC thesaurus, a complete list of descriptive terms used by ERIC to index and search the database.
Includes 1.1+ million records from 1,016 journals and other documents from 1966 to the present.
Updated monthly.
Essay & General Literature Index
This unique reference offers precise access to nearly 65,000 essays contained in some 5,300 anthologies
and collections—a wealth of information that might be otherwise hidden away in your library. Some
300 single and multi-author collections are indexed annually, plus more than 20 selected annuals and
serials. Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, including literary works,
art history, drama, and film.
European Views of the Americas 1493 to 1750
(EBSCO) - EBSCO Publishing, in cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, has created this
resource from European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to
the Americas, 1493-1750, the authoritative bibliography that is well-known and respected by
scholars worldwide. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to
printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European
exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are
covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery. The original bibliography was codeveloped by John Alden and Dennis Landis, Curator of European Books at The John Carter Brown
Library. The John Carter Brown Library, founded in 1846 is a foremost repository of rare books and
materials and is a center for advanced research in history and the humanities.
Expanded Academic
(Gale) - Topics range from arts and the humanities to social sciences, science, and technology. Access
scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images.
Florida Newspapers
(NewsBank) - Groups together major Florida newspapers.
Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia
(EBSCO) - Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia database contains over 25,000 records, covering a wide
range of topics. Full text and images are available.
General BusinessFile
(Gale) - Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends, and the latest in
management, economics and politics. Search broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers,
journals and company directory listings.
General OneFile
(Gale) - Includes more than 4,200 full-text titles; five newspaper indexes -- a total of nearly 8,000 titles
in all with more than 20 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present. InfoTrac OneFile makes
approximately 25 million database records available with a single search query. It includes newswires
from 89 wire services, newspapers, general interest magazines, refereed academic journals, business
publications, technology periodicals, and specialty titles in law, health care and computers
General Reference Center Gold
(Gale) - Integrates a vast array of key business and general interest titles in a single database. It includes
national news magazines, encyclopedias, core business journals, Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service
newspaper articles, more than 15 reference books, and more than 2,000 titles, including 1,200 in full
text.
General Science Full Text
(H.W. Wilson) - Periodical coverage includes 242 popular science magazines as well as professional
journals. General Science Full Text also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly
on Tuesday).
GPO via FirstSearch
(FirstSearch) - Consists of nearly 500,000 records published by the GPO since July 1976. Includes
references for documents to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from
executive departments, and more.
Granger's World Poetry
(Columbia University Press) - This premiere poetry on-line resource contains 250,000 full text poems
and 450,000 citations, as well as poetry commentary, poets' biographies, and literary glossary terms.
GreenFILE
(EBSCO) - This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans
affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as
agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for
anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general
interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. It contains nearly 300,000 records, full
text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles.
Health and Nursing
(EBSCO) - Search CINAHL, Health Source Consumer and Nursing, Medline, and
PsycARTICLES
Health & Wellness Resource Center
(Gale) - Easy-to-use interface with access to full-text nursing and allied health journals,
encyclopedias and other reference sources, as well as informational pamphlets. Also includes the
Alternative Health suite of resources.
Health Reference Center Academic
(Gale) - An advanced interface to the full-text nursing and allied health journals found in the Health &
Wellness Resource Center. Does not include reference sources or the Alternative Health suite of
resources.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
(EBSCO) - Provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences
and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features
searchable full text for nearly 160 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men’s Health,
as well as abstracts and indexing for nearly 180 general health, nutrition and professional health care
publications.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
(EBSCO) - provides nearly 540 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also
featured are abstracts and indexing for over 570 journals. Click here for a complete title list. Click here for
more info
History Reference Center
(EBSCO) - History Reference Center offers full text from more than 750 history reference books and
encyclopedias, and cover-to-cover full text from nearly 60 history magazines. Further, the database
contains 58,000 historical documents; 43,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 12,000
historical photos and maps; and 87 hours of historical film and video.
Hoovers Premium
(Hoovers) - Hoover's Pro offers in-depth financial comparisons and analysis as well as the ability to
input specific search criteria to generate a customized, highly-targeted list of companies or people.
Deepen existing customer relationships, not to mention target and forge new ones
Humanities Full Text
(H.W. Wilson) - Over 500 English-language periodicals covering literature and language, history,
philosophy, archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts, history,
religion and theology. Many articles in full text.
Humanities, Social Sciences, and Law eJournal Collection
(Springer) - SpringerLink provides full text access in a variety of topics, including mathematics,
economics, ecology, religion, history and more. Coverage for most titles begins in the late 1990s.
Coverage varies by title. Content is updated daily.
Informe Revistas en Espanol
(Gale) - Created exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, this full-text electronic reference tool is the
first system to provide indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic magazines -- not just
translations. Also included is a thesaurus and interface that are uniquely designed for Spanishspeaking users. ¡Informe! thinks through every query in Spanish. Terms and thesaurus are based on
the expressions Spanish-speakers commonly use, allowing users to easily navigate through the
database without experiencing inaccurate search terms.
InfoTrac Junior Edition
(Gale) - Designed for junior high and middle school students, and features the titles most critical to their
libraries and curriculum. With Junior Edition's diverse perspectives and strong full-text coverage,
students will find the answers they need to all their general reference questions.
InfoTrac Kids
(Gale) - Gives younger students the tools they need to make sense of the content they access. Userfriendly interfaces and ever-improving content make research not only a learning experience, but
fun, too.
InfoTrac Professional Edition
(Gale) - A custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators that is updated daily. The
Professional Collection offers balanced coverage for any professional educator in the arts and
humanities, child and adolescent psychology and development, drug and alcohol abuse,
health/nutrition/fitness, learning disabilities, literature, school law, science and technology, social
sciences or sports/athletic training.
InfoTrac Student Edition
(Gale) - Designed for secondary school students, and offers a quick and easy way to do classroom
assignments and get answers to general reference questions. Student Edition is comprised of a variety
of full-text sources that include the leading magazines, newspapers and reference books that librarians
prefer and students enjoy.
Issues and Controversies
(Facts on File) - Offers a wealth of current topics research information, including pro/con discussions
of hot issues, newspaper editorials, numerical snapshots of key topics, photos and graphics, and
selected historical source documents.
JSTOR
(JSTOR) - Access back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Over 700 titles available.
LearningExpress Library
(Learning Express) - LearningExpress Library provides a completely interactive online learning
platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult
learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring,
complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
Legal Periodicals
(H.W. Wilson) - International coverage and access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional
surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, and more. This is an excellent resource
for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, students, paralegals, and others involved
with the law.
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text
(H.W. Wilson) - A bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews of key library and
information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Books, chapters in
collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
(EBSCO) - This world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as
librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information
management and more. Delivered via the EBSCOhost platform, LISTA indexes more than 600
periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts with
Full Text
(EBSCO) - Includes full text for more than 160 journals and a dozen full-text monographs. Subject
coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval,
information management and more.
Lit Finder
(Gale) - Includes access to three databases: Poem Finder, Story Finder, and Essay/Speech/Play Finder.
Poem Finder is the largest, most comprehensive and most current poetry database available. It is
international in scope, and covers poetry from antiquity to the present. It is a one-stop resource for
locating over 4 1/2 million lines of poetry. Story Finder provides thousands of full-text short stories plus
explanations, biographies, pictures and more. The database will be updated constantly with classic and
contemporary stories. Speeches represent the finest examples of recorded oratory, covering the
milestones of history as well as the minutiae of everyday life. Over 1,000 complete plays cover the range
of dramatic expression from many countries, including one-act plays, puppet plays, Harlinquinades,
tragedies, gothic, childrens, religious, romantic, historical, childrens and comedic plays.
Literary Reference Center
(EBSCO) - Literary Reference Center is a full text database that combines information from major
respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing .
This resource includes more than 10,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews; 75,000 articles
of literary criticism; 130,000 author biographies; full text of more than 300 literary journals; 500,000
book reviews; 25,000 classic & contemporary poems; over 11,000 classic & contemporary short stories;
full text of more than 7,500 classic novels (anticipated by Fall 2006); over 3,000 author interviews; and
over 1,000 images of key literary figures.
Literature Resources from Gale
(Gale) - Provides students and other researchers with single-search access to an assortment of traditional
literary reference works, critical information on authors and their works, current journal articles, and other
additional resources. Full-text access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from
every age and literary discipline.
MAS Ultra School Edition
(EBSCO) - Designed for high school students. Contains full-text for more than 490 popular, high
school magazines as well as biographies, primary source documents, pamphlets and reference books.
MasterFILE Premier
(EBSCO) - Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE™ Premier contains full text for
nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science,
multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text more than 500 reference
books, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos,
maps & flags.
Mathematics and Statistics eJournal Collection
(Springer) - SpringerLink provides full text access in a variety of topics, including mathematics,
economics, ecology, religion, history and more. Coverage for most titles begins in the late 1990s.
Coverage varies by title. Content is updated daily.
Medicine eJournal Collection
(Springer) - SpringerLink provides full text access in a variety of topics, including mathematics,
economics, ecology, religion, history and more. Coverage for most titles begins in the late 1990s.
Coverage varies by title. Content is updated daily.
MEDLINE via FirstSearch
(FirstSearch) - Covers all areas of medicine, including clinical medicine, experimental medicine,
dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and much more. Now includes the
MeSH thesaurus. Includes 12+ million records from 9,500+ sources from 1965 to the present.
Updated daily.
MEDLINE with Full-Text
(EBSCO) - Full text for nearly 1,200 journals with coverage dating back to 1965. Authoritative
medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care system, and
much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine. Search abstracts from over 4,000 current
biomedical journals.
Micromedex Healthcare Series
(Thomson) - Access gateway to several Thomson Healthcare products including: MICROMEDEX
Health Care, which includes information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative
medicine; CareNotes System, which provides patients with easy-to-understand information about all
aspects of their care, medications, and health; and, the PDR Electronic Library.
Military & Government Collection
(EBSCO) - Designed to offer current news and information to all branches of the military, with a
thorough collection of military titles, trade publications and newsweeklies. Includes cover-to-cover full
text for nearly 350 titles.
NAXOS Music Library Online
(NAXOS) – Contains over 1 million tracks from all genres of music.
New York Times - Current
(Gale) - Provides national and international news, opinion and commentary; published in a national and
a New York metropolitan edition. Includes local, and state news, science, sports, arts and entertainment,
and business and finance news. Covers January 1, 1985 - Current
New York Times (Historical)
(ProQuest) - Full-text and full-image articles for The New York Times®, covering the period from
1851-2007.
Nursing and Allied Health Source
(ProQuest) - Access articles and graphics from more than 270 nursing-related publications, including
Nursing, Nursing Management, RN, American Journal of Sports Medicine, Physical Therapy, and Patient
Care Management.
R2 Library
(Rittenhouse) - Health Sciences ebooks that are fully searchable. Tools include savable
searches, bookmarks, an A-Z Drug Index, A-Z Topic Index, and more.
Nursing Reference Center
(EBSCO) - This is a point-of-care reference tool designed to provide relevant clinical resources to
nurses.
Nursing Resource Center
(Gale) - Thomson Gale's Nursing Resource Center is a premier destination for nursing students at
community colleges across the United States. Available on Gale's PowerSearch platform, this
resource brings together in one easy-to-use interface important titles from Gale and Macmillan and
excellent, thorough nursing-specific texts from Thomson Delmar. Additionally, relevant journal
results from top publications in the field and animated depictions of the human anatomy
complements the core reference texts from Gale and Delmar. The Nursing Resource Center provides
authoritative information written in accessible language for students completing research papers and
class assignments as they learn how to care for and treat patients.
OAIster via FirstSearch
(OCLC) - A union catalog of more than 19 million digital resources from over 1,000 organizations
developed by the University of Michigan and harvested using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives
Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).
Omnifile Full Text Mega
(H.W. Wilson) - Full text periodicals, along with article abstracts and indexing, covering business,
education, science, social sciences, art, humanities and plus popular magazines.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
(Gale) - online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of
today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the new solution
features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic
journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to
vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Ovid Nursing Journals
(OVID) - Ovid’s nursing offerings span traditional specialty areas like pain management, maternity care,
surgical nursing, nursing management and evidence-based nursing. They include clinically-relevant
tools in diagnosis and care procedures, practitioner journals, references for nurse education and CME,
resources for nursing administrators, and foundational research literature. And with OvidSP, your users
can uncover relevant current or historical information quickly and easily.
Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove Art)
(Oxford University Press) - Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of
Art (34 volumes, covering all aspects of the visual arts of every civilization from prehistory to the 1990s)
with annual additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links.
Oxford English Dictionary
(Oxford Univ. Press) - Searchable online version of the Oxford English Dictionary. Includes the
complete text of the Oxford English Dictionary's twenty-volume Second Edition and three-volume
Additions Series. Updated quarterly.
Oxford Music Online (formerly Grove Music)
(Oxford University Press) - Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including
the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of
Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection
(Oxford Univ. Press) - Fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of over 100 dictionary, language
reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. In addition to a wealth
of facts, figures, definitions, and translations, also includes detailed information across a broad
subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series.
PapersFirst via FirstSearch
(FirstSearch) - Covers every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop, and meeting added to The
British Library Document Supply Centre's (BLDSC) vast proceedings collection since October
1993. The BLDSC is a document supplier for the OCLC Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service. Includes
5+ million records. Updated biweekly.
PDR3D
(Physicians Desk Reference) - Searchable index of hundreds of drugs and medications. Search by
product name, manufacturer, product category, indications, contraindications, side effects, or drug
interactions. Includes product photos.
Physics and Astronomy eJournal Collection
(Springer) - SpringerLink provides full text access in a variety of topics, including mathematics,
economics, ecology, religion, history and more. Coverage for most titles begins in the late 1990s.
Coverage varies by title. Content is updated daily.
Primary Search
(EBSCO) - Designed for elementary school students. Contains full-text for more than 50 popular
elementary school magazines as well as pamphlets and reference books such as the Encyclopedia of
Animals and Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia.
ProceedingsFirst via FirstSearch
(FirstSearch) - Provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each record
contains a list of the papers presented at each conference. Like its companion, PapersFirst,
ProceedingsFirst provides access to The British Library Document Supply Centre's vast collection of
conference proceedings. Includes 153,000+ records from 1993 to the present.
PQ (ProQuest) Central
(ProQuest) - Large aggregated full-text database totaling more than 11,250 titles—with over 8,400
titles in full text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets.
PsycArticles
(EBSCO) - Provides full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It
contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American
Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles,
letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.
Readers' Guide Full Text
(H.W. Wilson) - Offers the ultimate in current events coverage, curriculum support, and quality
periodicals research for students, educators, and library patrons.
Regional Business News
(EBSCO) - Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications
(including titles from Crain Communications). This database has full text for more than 50 sources.
Sage Journals
(SAGE Publications) - SAGE is the world’s 5th largest journals publisher. Our portfolio includes more
than 645 journals spanning the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology, and Medicine,
and more than 280 are published on behalf of 225 learned societies and institutions.
Salem Health
(Salem Press) - Salem Health brings online access to Salem Press’ award-winning health reference
works. The first reference set included is Salem Press’ bestselling Magill’s Medical Guide. In its printed
form, the current edition of the Guide has grown to five volumes and 3,500 pages. Even better, the
purchase of the printed set entitles a school or library to free online access to the Medical Guide’s
content.
Science in Context
(Gale) - online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of today's most
significant science topics. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text
magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted
websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Small Business Resource Center
(Gale) - This comprehensive database covers all major areas of starting, operating and maintaining a
business from financing, management, marketing, accounting, taxes and more.
Social Sciences Full Text
(H.W. Wilson) - Full-featured database covering such topics as technology, science, art, humanities,
business, law, and social sciences. Many articles in full-text.
Sources in U.S. History Online: The Civil War
(Gale) - Sources in U.S. History Online is a series of archival digital collections intended for public library
patrons as well as high school, community college, and university students. The Civil War digital collection
contains nearly 500 significant documents of the time--personal narratives, monographs, regimental
histories, collected essays, sermons, songs, legal tracts, and political speeches--enabling students, faculty
and patrons to study one of the key events in American history.
Springer eJournal Collection
(Springer) - SpringerLink provides full text access in a variety of topics, including mathematics,
economics, ecology, religion, history and more. Coverage for most titles begins in the late 1990s.
Coverage varies by title. Content is updated daily.
Teacher Reference Center
(EBSCO) - Teacher Reference Center (TRC) contains journal information for K-12 teachers and
librarians and is a FREE resource offered by EBSCO Publishing to the library and education
communities. This bibliographic database provides coverage on topics such as Assessment, Best
Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedogogical Research, Curriculum Development,
Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards,
School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education.
Testing & Education Resource Center
(Gale) - Testing & Education Reference Center helps prepare students for specialized tests for college,
graduate school, the military or trade school. It includes preparatory tests from the GED (General
Educational Development) to the GRE (Graduate Record Examination General Test). Testing &
Education Reference Center provides a variety of search options to help you find all the information you
need on private high schools, distance education, two-year programs, undergraduate and graduate
programs and executive education programs. The database can also assist you in writing admission's
applications essays or resumes. preparatory examinations including entrance exams and certification
and licensing tests.
Turfgrass Information File (TGIF)
(Michigan State University) - provides bibliographic and descriptive records of all types of works related
to turfgrass culture. TGIF was established in 1983 by the United States Golf Association (USGA)
Turfgrass Research Committee and the Michigan State University Libraries, and is now maintained by the
Turfgrass Information Center, a division of MSU Libraries. The ultimate goal of TGIF is to provide access
to all published materials reporting on aspects of turfgrass and its maintenance.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
(Gale) - Gale Virtual Reference Library offers more than 85 reference sources including encyclopedias,
series and more, allowing libraries to provide respected authoritative essays on varied topics from
numerous subject areas. Gale Virtual Reference Library provides the flexibility to buy one eBook or
multiple eBooks; search across a single eBook or an entire eBook collection.
World Almanac via FirstSearch
(FirstSearch) - Includes the full text of all of the current Almanac titles: The World Almanac and
Book of Facts, providing key facts on a wide variety of subjects internationally; The World Almanac
of the U.S.A. with essential facts about the United States--current and historical; The World
Almanac of US Politics, a guidebook to federal, state, and local governments; The World Almanac
for Kids, covering information and facts of interest to middle-school children and teachers; and the
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, a comprehensive general encyclopedia. Updated annually
(encyclopedia updated quarterly), contains 32,000+ records.
WorldCat via FirstSearch
(FirstSearch) - The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 55 million
bibliographic records representing over 400 languages on materials ranging from stone tables to
electronic books. WorldCat includes information from 2100 BC to the present with thousands of
records containing evaluative content such as tables of contents, cover art, book summaries and
notes about the authors. It uses the Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus. Users
can also directly browse issues of periodicals in the ArticleFirst database from bibliographic
records for these titles in WorldCat. WorldCat adds value to other databases in FirstSearch by
linking citations to holdings that help users find these materials in their own libraries and to the
Interlibrary Loan service. Updated daily.