Database Descriptions



	Academic OneFile With extensive coverage of all academic disciplines, premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Millions of articles, including full-text coverage of the New York Times since 1995. Academic Search Premier Multi-disciplinary database covering a wide range of subject areas. Provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals. Access Science Instant computer access to the excellent McGraw-Hills Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Includes updates not available in the print version! American Government Presents the issues of the day with the foundations of government and compares the political and economic systems of the United States with other countries. American History Online This database includes primary sources, timelines, images, maps and charts, biographies and encyclopedic entries for events, themes, organizations, places and cultural developments in American History. American Women's History A great resource for historical info about American women, including photos, artwork, timelines, maps, documents, and biographies of important women. Ancient History Online Biographies, timelines, maps, and primary sources are just some of the things you will find in this database covering ancient Africa, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesoamerica, and Mesopotamia. Art Museum Image Gallery A rich digital resource of over 100,000 high quality art images and related multimedia gathered from museum collections from around the world. ARTstor ARTstor is a digital library containing over 300,000 images centering around the visual arts and visual culture. Find digital images of important paintings, sculpture and photography here. Biography Resource Center One-stop shopping for information about a person! Find links to full-text journal and magazine articles, web pages, and references to print books and about people from Cleopatra to Bill Gates. Business Source Complete Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more. College Source Online Looking for a place to send a transfer application? This resource contains the information found in over 20,000 college catalogs, including admissions policies, tuitions costs, majors, and more! Columbia Gazetteer A gazetteer is a companion to a map; you use it to look up a place name when you don't know where the place is. This global gazetteer contains not only listings of place names, but descriptions and characteristics of those places as well. Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Contains 250,000 poems in full text and 450,000 poem citations. Full-text poems are those most widely-read in the English language, as well as in Spanish, French, German, and Italian. Searchable by poem or poet. Also organizes poems by related themes and subject categories. Coverage includes commentaries and poets biographies. Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) A great resource for topics related to international affairs. You'll find working papers, journal articles, books, policy briefs, and case studies in CIAO. CQ Historic Documents Series: Online Edition Online version of over 32,000 print pages of primary source materials relating to the one hundred most significant events of each year since 1972. Materials include presidential speeches, court decisions and governmental reports. CQ Researcher If youre researching a controversial topic for a paper or a speech, make CQ Researcher your first stop. These reports will give you unbiased background information about your topic and suggest further books and articles for your research. CQ Researcher Global CQ Researcher Global provides coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints. It offers focused, single-topic reports on vital world issues written by seasoned journalists with years of international experience. Reports feature such sections as "current situation", "pro-con", and "voices from abroad". CQ Weekly A complete source for nonpartisan coverage of the United States Congress such as status of bills, votes and amendments, committee action as well as overviews of current issues. Culinary Arts Collection Includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines. Contains thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information. Daily Life Online This database covers the detailed interconnections of everyday life throughout history, combining reference works, monographs, primary documents, maps and illustrations. Educator's Reference Complete The collection of over 100 periodicals and 200 reports caters to educators ranging from school teacher and administrator to collegiate and graduate level. This database provides full text results for nearly one-half of the journal titles in the ERIC database. Encyclopaedia Britannica Original Sources This database contains over 350,000 documents and more than 5,000 complete books used as original source material for Encyclopaedia Britannica. Subjects covered include U.S. and world history, literature and social science, political science, law, science mathematics, religion, philosophy and language. Encyclopedia of American Religions Instant computer access to the Encyclopedia of American Religions, 7th ed., 2003. Contains general essays that historically trace the major religious families and traditions, as well as directory listings that include contact and descriptive information on individual churches, religious bodies, and spiritual groups. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences An online biology database with links to recent news articles, web pages, and a glossary. Regular updates keep this information current; whether youre a student or a pro in a life sciences field, youll find current information here. ERIC The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is the world's premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The public can search through more than 1.1 million citations in the education field dating back to 1966. ERIC (EBSCOhost) The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is the world's premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The public can search through more than 1.1 million citations in the education field dating back to 1966. Facts On File World News Digest @ FACTS.com Instant access to U.S. and world news from 1940 to present. Includes in-depth features, images, charts, and primary documents. GVRL (Gale Virtual Reference Library) A database of specialized reference sources for multi-disciplinary research, accessible online twenty-four hours a day. Health & Wellness Resource Center Consumer-focused health information from magazines, journals, directories, etc., on popular health and wellness topics such as fitness, pregnancy, and prescription medication. Includes alternative health information and links to sites on the Web. Health Reference Center Academic Access to full-text scholarly nursing and allied health journals as well as health reference books. This database also includes overviews of topics and pamphlets if youre seeking consumer health information. Health Source: Consumer Edition Covers consumer health information, including medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Provides consumer health magazines, pamphlets, reference books, education sheets, and more. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, including nursing and allied health. Features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets. History Resource Center: Modern World Full-text articles from books and journals focusing on international happenings in the Twentieth Century. Includes timelines, maps, and images. History Resource Center: U.S. Lots of articles and primary sources from great American history encyclopedias, and links to full-text journal and newspaper articles, too. Includes timelines, maps, and images. H.W. Wilson Art Museum Image Gallery Rich digital resource of art images and related multimedia obtained from the collections of distinguished museums around the world. IPA Source: IPA Transactions and Literal Translations of Songs and Arias IPA Source is a library of International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Issues and Controversies @ FACTS.com In-depth investigations of today's top issues. Issues and Controversies in American History @ FACTS.com Reference database that combines authoritative factual accounts with in-depth explanations of the great debates in American History. This allows users to view these issues as they were being argued. JSTOR JSTOR provides full text access for over 200 journal titles in the arts and sciences. Current issues (usually the last 2 - 5 years) are NOT included by JSTOR and may be available for a fee directly from the publisher or through another source. HCC Library has access to the Arts & Sciences I Collection and the Arts & Sciences II Collection. LexisNexis Academic A great source for national and international newspaper and magazine articles about very current issues. Also great for business, legal, and medical topics. LexisNexis Congressional Congressional Universe provides the best coverage youll find about whats happening in the legislative branch of our government. Here, you have access to, among other things: congressional publications, testimony from congressional hearings, bills passing through the House and Senate, and information about congressional members and committees. LexisNexis Primary Sources in US History Specializes in articles and historical documents about African-Americans, the Presidents, and American Women. LexisNexis Statistical Another face of LexisNexisget the numbers you need here. Nothing helps you persuade or argue better than the numbers that back you up! Literature Resource Center Everything you need to get going on that English paper. Find texts of great literary works, or articles about your chosen story, novel, or poem or its author. LitFinder Includes PoemFinder with over 125,000 full text poems, PlayFinder with over 1000 complete full text plays, StoryFinder with over 5,000 full text stories, EssayFinder with over 2800 essays, and SpeechFinder with over 1800 speeches. MEDLINE Provides over 17 million citations from biomedical publications back to the 1950s. Coverage includes medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Naxos Music Library This comprehensive collection of classical music with over 251,000 tracks includes classical, jazz, world, folk, and Chinese music. It also includes notes and biographical information on featured composers and artists. Nursing Resource Center Designed for nursing students, the database brings together in an easy-to- use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results, and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts. Search results are returned in tabs that correspond to steps in the nursing process. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Covers contemporary social issues, including viewpoints articles, topic overviews, statistics, biographies of social activist, newspaper and magazine articles as well as links to reviewed and subject indexed websites. Ovid Nursing/Medical Collection Nursing and allied health students: search for articles about your topic in Ovids collection of nursing journals. Also be sure to try the ProQuest Nursing Collection. Oxford Music Online Instant computer access to the excellent print reference books The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online and The Oxford Companion to Music. Popular Culture Universe A digital library of information on American and world popular culture and popular history. ProQuest Biology Journals Full text, biology related articles from over 200 scientific journals. ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Online access to important publications in the field of criminal justice. ProQuest Education Journals Full text, scholarly, peer reviewed articles from over 600 education journals going back to 1988. ProQuest National Newspapers Online access to the Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. For the most complete newspaper coverage, be sure to search LexisNexis Academic as well. ProQuest Nursing Journals Nursing and allied health students: search for full-text articles about your topic in ProQuests nursing journals. Also be sure to try the Ovid Nursing & Medical Collection. ProQuest Psychology Journals Online access to full text articles from over 400 top psychology journals and related publications. PubMed / PubMed Central PubMed is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Public Health Nursing A bimonthly publication of discussions, reviews, clinical reports and commentary by the nation's health care leaders in the field of public health. Regional Business News Offers full text coverage for 75 regional business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Science Direct: Social & Behavioral Sciences Scientific, medical and technical information from peer-reviewed journals and quality multi-volume major reference works. Science Online Diagrams, biographies, timelines, definitions and essays from the areas of Anatomy, Earth Science, Genetics, Physical Science, Space and Astronomy, Weather and Climate, to name a few. Shakespeare Collection A comprehensive and authoritative online resource for scholarly research on William Shakespeare and his works. The Shakespeare Collection includes general reference data, full-text scholarly periodicals, criticisms and primary source materials. Small Business Resource Center This database offers users complete small business management resources via a combination of periodicals and reference content. It covers all major areas of starting, operating and maintaining a business from financing, management, marketing, accounting, taxes, and more. Standard & Poor's Online access to the economic experts. A great source for investment news, market overviews, stock quotes, and more. Statistical Abstract Authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political and economic organization of the United States. Teacher Reference Center Indexing and abstracting for more than 270 teacher and administrator journals and magazines. Topics include: Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education. Testing and Education Reference Center Provides college and graduate school search information, as well as practice for admissions, entrance and career exams. Today's Science @ FACTS.com Science news written especially for students. World Authors Over 10,000 authors dating from 800 BC to the present are highlighted in full text biographies and bibliographies. Globally represented, the database features poets, novelists, dramatists, chroniclers, essayists, scientists and theologians. World Geography Focuses on global literacy, including the geographic, political, social, economic, and cultural forces that influence our world.