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Academic Search Premier
  • Information from a wide range of academic areas including social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural studies
  • Full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
  • Abstracts and indexing for over 8,000 scholarly journals
  • Journal List: HTML | PDF | Excel
  • Other Resource List: HTML | PDF | Excel


Biography Resource Center
  • In-depth coverage of current and historic people from almost every field of endeavor.
  • Search by name, nationality, place, date, occupation, gender, or ethnicity
  • 400,000 biographies on more than 300,000 people compiled from over 100 Gale Group reference resources
  • Full-text articles from over 250 periodicals
  • 30,000 citations from Gale's Almanac of Famous People
  • 7,000 portraits
  • Publication List (Journals): HTML | PDF | Excel | Word
  • Publication List (Reference Titles): Excel


Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic
  • Designed for doctors, research scientists, students, clinical specialists and managers
  • Full text for over 100 journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study
  • All titles included in the Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic are indexed in MEDLINE
  • Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel


Business Source Premier
  • Includes topics such as management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business
  • Full text for over 7,500 publications
  • Full text backfiles are available as far back as 1922
  • Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel


Career Collection
  • 100 full text electronic books on resume writing, job hunting, interviewing and more
  • Search within individual titles for the information you need.
  • Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader (PDF) to view ebook text.


Company Profiles
  • Accessible by selecting Company Profiles from the list of individual databases or searching Business Source Premier or Corporate ResourceNet individually
  • Extremely detailed company profiles for the 10,000 largest companies in the world
  • Brief overviews and more in-depth (PDF) profiles
  • Updated on a quarterly basis by Datamonitor


Corporate ResourceNet
  • Designed to meet the diverse information needs of today’s companies
  • Full text articles from over 1,300 magazines and journals
  • Full text information dates as far back as 1985
  • Publication List: Excel


EBSCO Animals
  • Offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals
  • Indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals
  • Images available for some records


ERIC
  • ERIC is the Educational Resource Information Center
  • Contains 2,200 digests and over 500,000 research and technical reports [ERIC documents=ED]
  • Over 100,000 ERIC Documents include full text
  • Indexes more than 980 education and education-related journals in the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) [ERIC journal articles=EJ]
  • Selected full text articles are available for some documents and journal articles
  • Updated monthly


Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
  • Contains over 25,000 records
  • Full text for each record
  • Updated annually


Health Business FullTEXT
  • Publications covering the business of health care administration including topics such as staffing, health care regulation, health care facilities management, marketing, and finance
  • Full text coverage for nearly 130 well-known administrative journals
  • Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel


Health Source: Consumer Edition
  • Provides full text from over 250 periodicals covering nutrition, exercise, medical self-care, childcare, and drug and alcohol abuse
  • Full text for over 1,000 pamphlets and 140 books
  • Includes Stedman's Medical Dictionary
  • Full-text of books from the People's Medical Society
  • Includes Clinical Reference Systems (over 7,000 reports in every-day language, many with images, includes Spanish language records)
  • Includes access to Lexi-PALS Drug Guide
  • Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel


Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
  • Provides access to over 550 full-text journals, and 800 indexed journals
  • Nursing, allied health and medicine journals are included
  • Can search for peer-reviewed articles
  • Includes access to Lexi-PALS Drug Guide
  • Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel


Image Collection
  • Over 100,000 images
  • Includes maps and flags of countries and states
  • Search by image description, or browse through images of people, places, or nature


Informe!
  • Full-text and images of the most popular Spanish-language magazines and pamphlets - not just translations
  • Spanish thesaurus and interface were created exclusively for native Spanish speakers
  • Full-text coverage of over 100 titles
  • Coverage from 1996 to present
  • Updated Daily
  • Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel | Word


Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
  • Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings
  • Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more
  • Coverage extends back as far as the mid-1960s
  • Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel

Lit Finder
  • Includes Poems, Stories, Essays, Speeches, and Plays
  • 125,000 full-text poems
  • 850,000 poem citations and excerpts
  • Thousands of full-text classic and contemporary short stories
  • Full text essays and discursive writing based on books published in the 20th century
  • The best and best known speeches of the past 2,500 years categorized into easily searchable genres
  • Over 1,000 plays complete covering the range of dramatic expression


MAS Ultra--School Edition
  • Full text general reference database designed for high school students
  • Indexes over 600 journals, with more than 500 journals in full-text
  • Has over 5,000 Magill Book Reviews
  • Includes Essential Documents of American History, a database of over 1,000 primary historical documents including the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, The Federalist Papers, historical speeches, etc.
  • Coverage of the CIA World Factbook
  • Full text for over 500 pamphlets
  • Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel


MasterFILE Premier
  • Full text from over 2,000 general reference, business, health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals
  • Indexing and abstracts for over 2,500 periodicals
  • Full text backfiles go as far back as 1975
  • Updated daily
  • Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel


McClatchy-Tribune Collection (formerly Knight Ridder)
  • 90-day archive of almost 300 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services
  • Titles include: The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Orlando Sentinel, and The Sacramento Bee
  • Updated daily
  • Publication List: PDF


MEDLINE
  • Provides authoritative article abstracts and citations on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and healthcare from the professional literature
  • In the EBSCOhost Interface there are links to some full-text EBSCOhost journals
  • Covers over 4,000 current biomedical journals from around the world
  • Created by The National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), with tree structures and explosion capabilities
  • Updated monthly


Middle Search Plus
  • Designed for middle school students
  • Provides full text from over 150 general reference, health and science magazines
  • Indexing and abstracts for nearly 200 magazines
  • Full text of 265 pamphlets, over 5,000 Magill Book Reviews, 36 reference books, 1,800 full-text historical essays
  • Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990
  • Indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as January of 1984
  • Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel


Military & Government Collection
  • Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military
  • Cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals
  • Indexing and abstracting of over 500 titles
  • Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel


Newspaper Source
  • Provides selected full text for 200 U.S. and 20 international newspapers, 21 newswires and newspaper columns, and 26 TV and radio news transcripts
  • Full text includes the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and the Washington Post plus indexing and abstracting for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal
  • Updated daily
  • Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel


Primary Search
  • Provides full text articles from over 60 children's magazines appropriate for elementary schools and children's reading rooms
  • Indexing and abstracts for over 85 magazines
  • Includes over 1,100 full-text historical documents and 100 pamphlets
  • Full text of 18 student reference texts, including the World Almanac and the World Almanac for Kids
  • Updated weekly and 310 health and science related pamphlets.
  • Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel


Professional Development Collection
  • A highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators
  • Information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice
  • Abstract and index coverage for over 800 well known professional development titles
  • Full text for over 750 journals
  • Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel


Regional Business News
  • Provides comprehensive full text for regional U.S. business publications (including titles from Crain Communications) covering business, politics, and economics li>Full-text items from more than 75 sources
  • Updated daily
  • Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel


TOPICsearch
  • Explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms
  • Over 78,000 full text documents
  • Selected full text articles for nearly 100 U.S. newspapers
  • 2,500 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information
  • Includes an online dictionary
  • Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel


What Tree Is It?
  • Full-color photographs identify trees by leaves, fruit or bark.
  • Includes information on over 170 different trees of the Midwest by both common and Latin names.


WorldCat
  • Includes millions of records built from the bibliographic and ownership information of contributing libraries.
  • Records for everything from stone tablets to electronic books, wax recordings to MP3s, DVDs and Web sites.
  • Many records are enriched with cover art, tables of contents, reviews, excerpts and other descriptive information.
  • Records typically have library holdings information attached to show where they can be accessed.

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