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Academic
Search Complete
 
Comprehensive scholarly,
multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500
full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed
journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing
and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and a total of more than
10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference
proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as
far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native
(searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided
for nearly 1,000 journals
(EBSCOhost)
AccessScience
Includes the multi-volume McGraw-Hill
Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, updated continuously, as well as
biographies of scientists, late-breaking science and technology news, study
guides and image gallery. (McGraw-Hill Companies)
ACM Digital Library
Offers nearly 9,000 full-text
articles from the journals, magazines, and conference proceedings,
since 1991, of the Association for Computing Machinery, the world's
oldest and largest educational and scientific computing society.
Tables of Contents are cited from articles published in ACM journals
and magazines (1985) and conference proceedings (19851996).
(Association for Computing Machinery)
Adjunct Advocate
An online magazine
that
examines the trends within higher
education from the perspective of adjunct faculty members, with the
purpose of helping faculty manage their careers and their
classrooms more effectively.
African-American Poetry, 1760-1900
Provides
access to the full text of the works of over 2,500 poems by 54 AfricanAmerican poets of the 18th and 19th
centuries, including Phillis Wheatley and Paul Laurence Dunbar. The
poetry covers a wide range of topics, and a variety of poetic styles
and types including elegies, odes, ditties, hymns, and
sonnets. (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia)
AGRICOLA
Offers selective worldwide coverage of over three
million citations to material acquired by the National Agricultural
Library and cooperating institutions. It indexes journal articles,
book chapters, computer databases and software, maps, manuscripts,
serials and sound recordings on a broad range of agriculture and
related topics. (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
AIDS & Cancer Research Abstracts
Provides
comprehensive, multi-disciplinary coverage of the fields of
virology, immunology, and oncology. This comprehensive index allows
combined searching of the primary sources summarized and indexed in
Virology and AIDS Abstracts, Oncogenes and Growth Factors
Abstracts, and Immunology Abstracts. (Cambridge
Scientific Abstracts)
ALLDATA® Online
Western Campus
Online resource of diagnostic and repair
information for foreign and domestic cars that provides access to
manufacturers' automotive repair manuals from 1982 to the present.
Included are maintenance schedules, illustrated diagnosis and repair
procedures, as well as all the most recent technical service
bulletins and recall notices, which are updated daily. (ALLDATA)
ALT Health Watch
Database focuses on the many
perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to
health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for
more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and
reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets,
special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt
HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum
of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine.
This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as
1984, and full text going back as far as 1990 . (EBSCOhost)
Alternative Press Index
Comprehensive guide
to alternative sources of information. Coverage is international and
interdisciplinary. Provides in-depth coverage in the humanities and
social sciences. Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left
periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts
from research journals. (OCLC)
Aluminum Industry Abstracts
(AIA), formerly World Aluminum Abstracts (WAA)
Includes information abstracted from approximately 2,300 scientific
and technical journals, government reports, conference proceedings,
dissertations, books and patents. It offers easy access to
information about testing, marketing, conferences, forecasts,
company information, and the latest research on aluminum.
(Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
America: History and Life
Complete
bibliographic database to over 2,000 journals that cover the United
States and Canada prehistory to the present. In addition to
articles, this extensive database includes approximately 6,000
citations of book and media reviews, and citations of abstracts of
dissertations published in the field. (ABC-Clio, Inc.)
American Chemical Society
30 core journals in chemistry provide researchers
access to information from the leading American publisher of
chemical information. (American Chemical Society)
American Mathematical Society
Devoted to publishing research mathematics of high quality and
significance in all areas of pure and applied mathematics. Each journal
is unique in its offering of articles, book reviews, and reports. And
each is managed by editors who are prominent in their fields. (American
Mathematical Society)
American Poetry
Gathers the works of
the most influential American poets, from the colonial period to the
early twentieth century. American Poetry does not aim to be
comprehensive, rather it contains the following to 1900: the
complete works of all major poets, and the complete works of a
substantial number of additional writers. A few poets active after
1900 are also included. (Electronic Text Center, University of
Virginia)
Annual Reviews
Provides state-of-the-art
reports by experts on the current scholarship in many fields, and
are an invaluable support to faculty, graduate, and undergraduate
inquiry. In addition to containing the full text of review essays
published since 1996, tables of contents are included for 1984 to
1995, as well as previews of topics for upcoming annual issues.
(Annual Reviews)
Articles First
Over 12.7 million entries for the
table of contents of over 12,000 sources with links to libraries
that own the periodicals. (OCLC)
Arts & Humanities Search
On-line version
of the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts & Humanities
Citation Index. It provides citations to articles from more than
1,300 arts and humanities journals and to relevant articles on arts
and humanities in over 5,000 social science and science journals.
(OCLC)
ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
Premier aquatic reference covering over 5,000
serial publications, books, reports, and other literature dealing
with the science, technology and management of marine, freshwater
and brackish water environments. ASFA is comprised of five sub
files: biological and living resources; ocean technology, policy and
non-living resources, and aquatic pollution and environmental
quality; aqua culture and marine biotechnology. (Cambridge
Scientific Abstracts)
Associates Programs Source
Designed
specifically for junior & community colleges with a primary
focus on disciplines of study within associate degrees and
certification programs. Areas explored include accounting,
agricultural sciences, child care services, cosmetology,
culinary arts, forestry, food service management, graphic arts,
hair dressing, hospitality management, interior design,
journalism, plumbing, heating & air conditioning, veterinary
technology and welding. Updated weekly. (EBSCOhost)
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Identifies
the location of nearly 12 million contemporary and historical
biographical sketches. Information is culled from some 1,000
biographical dictionaries, subject encyclopedias, literary
criticism, biographical indexes, and similar compilations, both
current and retrospective.
(Gale)
Biography Resource Center
*
Provides biographies for
over 340,000 people from throughout history, around the world,
and across all disciplines and subject areas. It contains more than
435,000 biographies from over 1,000 volumes of more than 135 Gale sources
such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography,
etc. and more than 538,000 full-text articles from nearly 300 magazines
including American History and U.S. News & World Report.
(Gale)
*Access restrictions: Only 2 users at any
one time so be sure to log out when done.
Biological Sciences
Interdisciplinary database offering abstracts
and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology,
zoology, ecology and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.
It provides access to literature from over 6000 sources including
serials, conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and
selected books and patents. (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Biology Digest
Compilation of abstracts and indexes of domestic and
international literature in the area of life sciences. Its purpose is to
aid in keeping students and instructors current on the latest
developments in biological research. The lengthy abstracts provide
considerable information and are written in non-technical language.
(Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
BioOne
Includes about 80 full-texts, peer-reviewed
journals and bulletins published by American Institute of Biological
Sciences member societies and other closely related organizations.
It covers volumes from 2000 forward. (BioOne)
Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts
Provides bibliographic coverage of ground-breaking
research across all areas of bioengineering and biotechnology, including
industrial and applied microbiology, genetics, the human genome and
genetic engineering. Abstracts are selected from over 2,000 sources
including journals, conference proceedings, books, and technical
reports. (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Bloom's Literary Reference
Based on Facts on Files' extensive
print literature collection, Bloom's Literary Reference Online examines
the lives and works of great writers throughout history and world. It
contains an archive of more than 40,000 characters, as well as extensive
entries on literary topics, themes, movements, and genres. (Facts
on File)
Books@Ovid
Full-text collection of 12 nursing books published by
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. (OVID)
Books in Print with Book Reviews
Provides
complete publisher-verified information on all U.S. books in print. It
includes more than 1.8 million new or revised records each year and
covers scholarly, technical, popular, adult, juvenile, and reprint
titles. Records describe in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books
from more than 44,000 North American publishers and U.S. distributors
and wholesalers. (Bowker)
Business Source Complete
Business database
includes collection of bibliographic and full text content. Indexing and
abstracts for scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are
included. Searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200
journals. (EBSCOhost)
Ceramics Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts
Comprehensive database for the ceramics
industry, providing international coverage on the manufacture,
processing, applications, properties and testing of traditional and
advanced ceramics. Source materials include over 300 journals,
conference proceedings, books, patents, and standards and company
product literature. (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Choice
Reviews Online
Provides
access to more than 115,000 Choice reviews plus all the editorial
content from Choice magazine. You can
perform advanced
search strategies, email search results, and create personal
profiles to save your lists and receive automatic updates matching
your interests. (ACRL)
First time users
need to register on a campus computer and set up usernames
and passwords for future access. This will also enable you to
save your lists, receive automatic updates matching your profile,
and access the database from off-campus. To register, click on "Login
to CRO" under "Member Log in" and then click on "REGISTER here
to create your profile." Please note our subscription only covers one simultaneous user. You will
be notified to try later if the session is in use. Please
logout after each usage. Automatic time-out is set to
15 minutes.
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
Covers theory and research in international affairs. The database
includes journal abstracts, conference proceedings and the full text
of working papers and policy briefs from over 60 contributing
institutions. Also included are economic indicators, maps and
country data, and links to other resources. (Columbia University
Press)
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Online version of
Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature.
It offers complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and
publications from the National League for Nursing and the American
Nurses' Association. It provides full text of 337 journals and
indexing for 3,024 journals dating back to 1937.
Pre-CINAHL A companion database to CINAHL, is intended
to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a
rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject
searching), which are available to searchers only for the time when
these articles are being assigned additional indexing. This enables
users to gain access to article citations that otherwise would not
be available. Once the bibliographic records are complete, they are
added to the CINAHL database and removed from Pre-CINAHL.
(EBSCOhost)
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by
the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles
Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous
other journals in communication, mass media, and other
closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference
resource encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline.
CMMC offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more
than 440 journals, and selected coverage of nearly 200 more, for a
combined coverage of more than 640 titles. Furthermore, this
database includes full text for 326 journals. (EBSCOhost)
Computer and Information Systems Abstracts
Provides a comprehensive monthly update on the latest
theoretical research and practical computer applications around the
world. It indexes over 800 scholarly journals and conference
literature in computers and computer applications in fields from
bioengineering to applied physics. (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
Covers
the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied
sciences disciplines. CASC provides indexing and abstracts for more
than 1,720 academic journals, professional publications, and other
reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also
available for more than 670 periodicals. (EBSCOhost)
Conference Papers Index
Provides citations to
papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings
around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life
sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while
older material also covers physics, engineering and materials
science. Records include complete ordering information. (Cambridge
Scientific Abstracts)
Congressional Universe
Brings together a vast amount of information
published by and about the United States Congress. It offers
indexing and abstracting of the CIS/Index to Publications of the
U.S. Congress from 1970 forward and a seamless link to the full
range of legislative and public policy resources, including hearing
transcripts, bills, reports, public laws, Federal Register,
current Code of Federal Regulations and current
U.S. Code. (LexisNexis)
Consumer Health Complete
Provides content covering all areas of
health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many
perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer,
diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics,
children's health, men & women's health, etc. Includes: full
text from more than 560 consumer health related periodicals as well
as full text of the UPI (United Press International)
English-Language Health Newswire; full text for more than 200 health
reference books and encyclopedias; 1,300 generic drug patient
education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names from Lexi-PAL
Drug Guide; more than 550 full-text consumer health
pamphlets and leaflets; thousands of full text evidence-based,
health reports; more than 700 physician-generated videos (with audio
narration); and more than 200 animations (with audio narration).
(EBSCOhost)
Consumers Index
Offers a subject index to the
contents of over 100 periodicals. The database provides information
categorized from general (the home) to more specific (automobiles),
by periodical (Consumer Reports), or by a specific brand name
(Coca-Cola). Web links provide direct access to the contents of free
full-text journals, news releases, booklets, recalls, and other
sources. (OCLC)
Copper Data Center
Indexes and abstracts the world's literature
on copper, copper alloys and copper technology since 1965. This
index also includes over 5,500 documents published between 1863 and
1964. It consists of two databases: one on copper technology and one
on copper in the environment. (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Corrosion Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts the world's literature
on copper, copper alloys and copper technology since 1965. This index
also includes over 5,500 documents published between 1863 and 1964. It
consists of two databases: one on copper technology and one on copper in
the environment. (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
CQ Researcher
Published 44 times a year,
CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of
political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in
health, international affairs, education, the environment,
technology and the U.S. economy. Each report is written by a
seasoned journalist based on a common structure. Our
subscription to the database goes back to 1923 and up to present. Users may browse through articles by topics
in alphabetical order, or search for articles using words, dates, or
other criteria. (CQ Press)
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Premier source of chemical
and physical property data, molecular structures, conversion tables,
constants, formulas,
equations, symbols, and terminology. It has been published since
1913 and is updated and enhanced annually. (CRC Press)
Credo Reference
Digital collection of
about 240 reference books on various subject areas. (Credo)
Criminal Justice Collection
Access to 150 journals and 16 reference works covering law and
public affairs. (Gale)
Digital Library &
Archives
Digital Library & Archives (DLA), a department in the University
Libraries at Virginia Tech, evolved from the Scholarly
Communications Project (SCP) begun in 1989. Project's focus is to
work with the university community to host born-digital works,
beginning in 1991 with faculty-edited
electronic journals.
In 1995 we began envisioning electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
completed by VT graduate students. In 1996 SCP and the Special
Collections Department merged to enhance access to rare books,
manuscript collections, and the University Archives. (Virginia Tech)
Dissertation Abstracts Online
Covers doctoral dissertations submitted to accredited
North American institutions and more than 200 institutions
elsewhere. The database indexes dissertations from 1861 to the
present, with abstracts available since 1980. Abstracts of master's
theses have been included since 1988. (OCLC)
EBSCOhost
Use EBSCOhost's main menu to choose from
a wide variety of databases. (EBSCOhost)
EconLit
American Economic Association's electronic bibliography of
economic literature containing citations, with abstracts, to
articles from more than 400 economics journals. In addition, subject
indexing and abstracts of books and subject indexing of dissertation
titles are included. Corresponding printed sources are Journal of
Economic Literature, Index of Economic Articles, and
Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics.
(OCLC)
Economia y Negocios
Covers business and economics.
Collaborative effort between EBSCO Publishing and ESAN (Escuela
de Administración de Negocios para Graduados). More than 70,000
records, dating back to the early 1980s, provide coverage for
over 300 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals published
in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States
and elsewhere. (EBSCOhost)
Education Research Complete
Online
resource for education research. 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. Education Research Complete provides
indexing and abstracts for more than 1,840 journals, as well as full
text for more than 950 journals, and includes full text for more
than 81 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related
conference papers. (EBSCOhost)
Electronics and Communications Abstracts
Includes information that ranges from medical,
scientific and industrial applications in electronics to new
technologies in communications. Theoretical and applied research
summaries are provided as well as business and marketing aspects.
(Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Encyclopaedia Britannica
More than 118,000 articles and
over 14,000 illustrations. Also links to selected magazines and journals
from EBSCOhost and Proquest, and 225 classic works by 140 authors. New
features include hypertext dictionary and comparison of world data.
(Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.)
Engineered Materials Abstracts
Provides comprehensive coverage of the science,
development and production of ceramics, polymers and composite
materials. Over 1,600 sources including journals, technical reports,
patents, dissertations, books and conference proceedings are indexed
and abstracted. (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
English Poetry
Contains the complete English
poetic canon from Anglo-Saxon times to the end of the nineteenth
century by writers from the British Isles. Overall the database
contains over 165,000 poems drawn from about 4,500 separate printed
sources by 1,257 named poets and includes many items by diverse
anonymous hands. Every line by nearly every published poet can be
searched. (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia)
English Verse Drama
Contains more than
1,500 works by around 450 named authors and approximately 230
anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late
thirteenth century through the unparalleled output of the
Elizabethan and Jacobean periods to the end of the nineteenth
century. The completeness of the collection, as well as the complete
author notes to each work, provides a unique context for the
historical and linguistic study of English literature. (Electronic
Text Center, University of Virginia)
ENGnetBASE
CRC Press is one of the world's leading publishers of
engineering handbooks. Now the handbooks are available online.
ENGnet BASE combines more than 160 top resources into one powerful
research tool. (CRC Press)
Environment Complete
Offers coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem
ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine
& freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management,
environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social
impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete
contains more than 1,772,000 records from more than 1,680 domestic
and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,108
active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. The
database also contains full text for more than 650 journals.
(EBSCOhost)
Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
Multidisciplinary
database, provides coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts
and citations are drawn from over 6000 serials including scientific
journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and
government publications. (CSA Illumina / ProQuest)
ERIC (EBSCO
/ U.S. Dept. of Education)
Educational Resources Information Center
database, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, provides
extensive access to educational-related literature. The ERIC
database corresponds to print editions of Resources in Education
(RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE).
It indexes and abstracts over 14,000 documents and over 20,000
journal articles, as well as other related sources. Full text of
ERIC Digests is also included. (EBSCOhost)
Factiva
With a business focus, Factiva is a product of Dow Jones that offers
full text access to over 10,000 magazine, journals, leading local,
national and international newspapers and news wires. It
provides in-depth research on a company, industry or marketplace.
In addition, about 3,000 images are added daily. Richmond
Times Dispatch is covered from 1989 - . (Dow Jones & Company,
Inc.)
Fuente Academica
Provides full text (including PDF) for a rapidly growing collection
of scholarly Spanish language journals. This multi-disciplinary
database offers full text content to many academic areas including
business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law,
computer science, library & information sciences, literature,
linguistics, history, philosophy and theology. (EBSCOhost)
Gale
Use Gale's main menu to choose
from a wide variety of databases. (Gale)
Gale
Virtual Reference Library
Database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for
multidisciplinary research (Gale)
GEOBASE
Provides comprehensive bibliographic references to
important journals in the fields of physical and human geography,
geology, mineralogy, ecology and development studies. It is the only
database in these fields to include abstracts. International in
scope, GEOBASE provides valuable coverage from over 2,000
primary journals, books, monographs, reports, and theses. GEOBASE
contains 600,000 records, updated quarterly, from 1980 to the
present. (OCLC)
GPO Monthly Catalog
Contains listings for
documents printed by the U.S. government and its agencies since July
1976. It covers all types of U.S. government documents, including
congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records, judiciary
materials, and documents issued by executive departments (Defense,
State, Labor, and Office of the President, etc.). Each record
contains a bibliographic citation. (OCLC)
Grove Art
Comprises the
full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner
(1996, 34 vols) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art,
edited by Hugh Brigstocke (2001). Includes over
3,000 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text
of articles; Links to searchable image databases and editorially
selected links to over 40,000 art images on museum and gallery web
sites around the world. (Oxford Univ. Press)
**Access restrictions: Only 3 users at any
one time so be sure to log out when done.
Grove Music
Comprises the full text of The
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition,
edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New
Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London,
1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition,
edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002). Through a partnership
with Sibelius notation software, over 500 of Grove's musical
examples are now available in sound as well as notated examples. (Oxford Univ. Press)
**Access restrictions: Only 3 users at any
one time so be sure to log out when done.
HarpWeek: The Civil War Era (1857-1877)
Provides access to the content and pages of
Harper's Weekly. The Civil War Era section covers issues
published from 18571877. The database provides indexing that
matches 19th century words, phrases and images with
today's terminology as well as digital images of every page of the
magazine. Searches can be done by occupation or role in society, or
by searching any combination of four indexes: subject,
illustrations, literature, and publishing. (HarpWeek, LLC.)
Heath Source - Consumer Edition
Provides consumer health information on many health topics including
the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports
medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition
provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
(EBSCOhost)
Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides nearly 550
scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the
Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient
education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names. (EBSCOhost)
Highwire Press
Internet imprint of the
Stanford University Libraries and provides access to
921
journals in the sciences and medicine. It hosts the
largest repository of free, full-text, peer-reviewed content of 264
journals.
(Board of Trustees of the Leland
Stanford Junior University)
Historical Abstracts
Index to the history
of the world from 1450 to the present (for the United States and
Canada see AMERICA: HISTORY AND LIFE). Over 2,000 journals
published throughout the world are covered in the database,
including key historical journals, and historical books and
citations to abstracts of dissertations of interest for historical
research. (ABC-Clio, Inc.)
History Resource Center - US
One-stop source of a variety of historical data. Provides
integrated access to over 1,000 primary documents, nearly 100 full
text journals, and 2000 images and maps. Reference sources
include American Decades, American Eras, DISCovering U.S.
History, and Worldmark Encyclopedia of Nations. (Gale) **Access
restrictions: Only 2 users at any one
time so be sure to log out when done.
Hospitality & Tourism Complete
Covers scholarly
research and industry news relating to all areas
of hospitality and tourism. This collection
contains more than 721,000 records, with
coverage dating as far back as 1965. There is
full text for more than 360 publications,
including periodicals, company & country
reports, and books. Sources are both domestic
and international in range and scope, with
material collected from countries and regions
such as Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia.
Subject areas covered include the culinary arts,
demographics & statistics, development &
investment, food & beverage management,
hospitality law, hotel management &
administrative practices, leisure & business
travel, market trends, technology and more.
(EBSCOhost)
Humanities
International Complete
Covers all aspects of the
humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to
literary, scholarly and creative thought. Provides full text of hundreds of
journals, books and other published sources from
around the world. Produced by Whitston
Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing),
this database includes all data from
Humanities International Index (over 2,000
titles and 2 million records) plus unique full
text content, much of which is not found in
other databases. The database includes full text
for more than 730 journals. ents, researchers,
and educators interested in Humanities
International Complete is an essential
collection for libraries looking to provide
comprehensive coverage of the humanities with
full-text content. (EBSCOhost)
IEEE ASPP
Provides full text access to the
world's highest quality technical literature in electrical
engineering, computer science, and electronics. IEEE ASPP contains
full text documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines,
letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IEE (Institution of
Electrical Engineers) publications. (IEEE)
Institute
of Physics Journals
Provides full text access
to 35 IOP journals published since 1996
where available, and perpetual access to IOP's 2004 Historic
Archive 1874-1994. (Institute of Physics)
Issues and Controversies in American History
Includes biographies, timelines, background articles,
photographs, and maps that augment the curriculum-based coverage of
historical events. Provides the points of view on all sides of the
debates as they were promulgated at the time (Facts on File
Services)
Issues and Controversies
Presents and enhances the full backfile of Issues and Controversies
On File, which has probed about 600 controversial topics in the news
since its debut in September 1995. Chronologies, illustrations,
maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies and contact information
augment the balanced, accurate coverage of current and historical
events. (Facts on File Services)
Journals@Ovid
Database is an aggregate of hundreds of scientific,
technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and
societies and provides access to the full text of nursing journals,
including the American Journal of Nursing, PsychArticles, as well as
citations to hundreds of other journals. Limiting searches to only
full text journals is available through
Your Journals@Ovid. (Ovid Technologies, Inc.)
JSTOR
Digital archive of full text
core journals in humanities, social sciences and sciences. It
contains the entire runs of over 500 hundred important scholarly
journals, from the first volume
up to the volumes published 3-5 years ago. JSTOR deliberately does
not have the most recent volumes of the journals in order to protect
the publishers’ current revenues. Each journal has a "moving wall"
of 3-5 years after which the current issues are added to JSTOR. For
more information and a list of journals we own through JSTOR, please
check
http://support.jstor.org/collectioninfo. (JSTOR)
LearningExpressLibrary
*
Provides interactive online
tests to help students succeed on the academic or licensing tests
they must pass. Instant scoring and customized feedback is
provided. First time users are required to register to
establish a personal account for future access and record keeping.
*Need
to register to use on or off-campus. Click on New Users from the
initial Learning Express screen. You can choose your own
username & password to register. (LearningExpress)
Legal Collection
Provides information centered on the discipline of law and
legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal
law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics,
and the environment. The collection of scholarly peer-reviewed
publications includes law journals, documents, and case studies.
Offers full text for more than 250 law journals. In addition
to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals
in the collection. Full text information in this database dates as
far back as 1965. (EBSCOhost)
LexisNexis Academic
Provides full-text documents from over 6,000 news, business, legal,
medical and reference sources, including: regional, national and
international newspapers, broadcast transcripts;
U.S. and international company financial information, market
research, industry reports, SEC filings; U.S. Federal and
state case law, codes, regulations, law reviews, patents, and
Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789,
plus polls
and surveys from the Roper Center, biographies and country and state
profiles. (LexisNexis)
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification,
cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information
management, etc. Indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books,
research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the
mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering
the field of information science. (EBSCOhost)
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Assists both generalists and specialists in keeping abreast of the
latest developments in disciplines concerned with the nature and use
of language. Abstracts are drawn from approximately 2,000 serials
published worldwide complemented with coverage of recent books,
occasional papers, monographs, technical reports, and dissertations.
(Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Literature Resource Center
Provides access
to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from
every literary time period and discipline. Combining information from
Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of
Literary Biography, Twayne's Author Series, and Scribner Writer
Series, with articles from literary journals, the Literature
Resource Center covers more than 124,000 novelists, poets,
essayists, journalists and other writers. (Gale)
MagillOnLiterature Plus
Produced by Salem Press, contains
thousands of editorially reviewed critical essays, biographical
records, plot summaries, character profiles, setting discussions,
and overviews of important literary genres, time periods, and
national literatures. (EBSCOhost)
MasterFILE Premier
Multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,750
general reference publications with full text information dating as
far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general
interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full
text reference books, full text from 86,019 biographies, 105,787
full text primary source documents, and an Image Collection of
293,480 photos, maps and flags. (EBSCOhost)
Materials Business File
Focuses on industry news, international trade data, government
regulations and management issues related to the metals and materials
industries. Citations for this database are pulled from over 2,000
journals, plus patents, dissertations, government reports, conference
proceedings, and books indexed by the editors of
Materials Information. (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
MathSciNet
Provides access to over 58 years of Mathematical Reviews and
Current Mathematical Publications. It reviews approximately
1,600 current serials and journals as well as books that contain new
contributions to mathematical research. The database also contains
links to original sources where available. (American Mathematical
Society)
Mechanical Engineering Abstracts
This is the only abstracts journal that surveys and
summarizes the worldwide literature in mechanical engineering,
engineering management, and production engineering. Presenting
theoretical perspectives as well as specific applications, the journal
reports on essential developments published in journals, articles, and
conference papers. (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
MedicLatina
Spanish
language collection of medical research and investigative journals
published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. Provides
access to full text for nearly 120 peer-reviewed medical journals in
native Spanish. A wide range of topics are covered including
neuroscience, cardiology, nephrology, biomedicine, clinical
research, pediatrics, human reproduction, clinical pathology, cancer
research, and hematology. (EBSCOhost)
Medline with Full Text
Provides
full text for nearly 1,200 journals on
a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical
practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services.
Some
of the full text coverage dates back to 1965.
(EBSCOhost)
METADEX
This is the only comprehensive source for information on
metallurgical science and technology. Records are indexed and
abstracted from over 2,000 journals and other worldwide technical
literature. Begun in 1966, METADEX contains over 950,000
references from the print database of Metals Abstracts.
(Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Military & Government Collection
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the
military and government, this database offers a collection of
periodicals, academic journals, and other content. The Military &
Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for
nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for
nearly 400 titles. (EBSCOhost)
MLA International Bibliography
Indexes materials
on modern languages, literature, linguistics, and folklore from 1963
to the present. The database includes citations from over 4,000
journals and series published worldwide, as well as chapters of
books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings,
dissertations, and bibliographies. (Gale)
National Fire
Codes Online
Provides online access to current NFPA
Codes 1 through 9999, Archive Codes 1 through 9999, the NFC Online
Glossary, and the NFC Online Master Index. It features the full
content of codes as published. Full text
searching of all codes is available. Call the
library for username and password. Call Library for username
and password. One simultaneous access
only, so be sure to log out. (NFPA)
Nature
Provides access to the full text of
this scholarly publication from 1960. (Nature
Publishing Group)
Nature Publishing Group
Search multiple
journals published by NPG. Full text of titles with "nature"
in the title and others marked as "free" are accessible to JSRCC
faculty and students. (Nature Publishing Group)
NetLibrary
*
Provides online access to 96
nursing books and general study guides, as well as 3,400 public
domain ebooks in literature
and history. Full text of the books in this collection can be searched.
*Need
to create an account to use off-campus.
Click here for a handout on creating a NetLibrary account
and basic getting started instructions. (NetLibrary/OCLC)
New York Times: (1851-2003)
on-campus access
/
off-campus access
Offers
full page and article images with searchable full text of the
New York Times
back to the first issue in 1851 up to the last issue in 2003. The
collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every
available issue during the period. (ProQuest)
Note: Full text coverage of NYT from 1995 to present is available
through
Academic Onefile; and from 1980 to present through
Factiva.
Newspaper Source Plus
Provides
cover-to-cover full text for 131 national & international
newspapers, including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San
Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The
Washington Post, The Washington Times, and The Times (London).
Also contains selective full text for more than 335 U.S newspapers.
In addition, full-text television & radio news transcripts are
provided from ABC News, CBS News, CNN, FOX News, National Public
Radio (NPR), etc. (EBSCOhost)
Nursing & Allied Health: Comprehensive
Contains nearly 400 full text journals, including nearly 300
peer-reviewed titles covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health
sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.
All full text journals covered in this database are also
indexed in CINAHL. (EBSCOhost)
Oceanic Abstracts
Focused exclusively on worldwide technical
literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment.
The journal is recognized as a leading source of information on
topics relating to the oceans, fisheries, aqua culture, meteorology
and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative
topics. (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Draws on
the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as
well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan
Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for
information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic
overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to web sites, and
full-text magazine and newspaper articles. (Gale)
Overdrive Digital Audiobook Collection
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