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Academic Search Premier (via EBSCOhost)      Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

By far the world's most valuable and most numerous collection of active full text peer-reviewed journals, Academic Search™ Premier contains indexing for over 8,000 publications, with full text for more than 4,450 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.
Searches over 3,619 scholarly journals, magazines and trade publications from all academic disciplines.

Coverage: 1990 -   Backfiles - 1965.

Alt-Health Watch (via EBSCOhost)     Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries an immediate resource of full text articles, from more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals, reports, proceedings and association & consumer newsletters. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Full text titles include American Journal of Chinese Medicine, American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine, California Journal of Oriental Medicine, European Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine, Journal of Asian Natural Products Research, Journal of the Australian Traditional-Medicine Society, Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association and many others. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine.

Coverage: 1991-
 

American Humanities Index (via EBSCOhost)     Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC) Discontinued - January 2005

The American Humanities Index is a collection of bibliographic references to literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada from 1975 to the present. This database provides citation information  for articles, essays and reviews, poems and fiction. Photographs, paintings and illustrations are also referenced. American Humanities Index is a unique,
essential collection, providing in-depth coverage in areas of the humanities not covered in other databases.

Coverage: 1975 -

 

America's Newspapers (Newsbank) Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers--all in one easy-to-search database. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded. Includes: Florida Spanish Language Titles, Florida and national newspapers.

Direct access on campus:

• St. Petersburg Times
• Tampa Tribune
• Miami Herald
• Tallahassee Democrat
• Orlando Sentinel

Coverage: Current -

 

AP Archives  Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

New story photos and a few interviews on current events,

ArticleFirst (Via FirstSearch OCLC)  Password Access | Student ID Access (LINCC)

The ArticleFirst database indexes articles from the table of contents of nearly 12500 journals, along with a list of libraries holding the journal title.

Coverage: Current

Artstor Password Access | Student ID Access (LINCC)

ARTstor is a non-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As part of its ongoing effort to become a community resource, ARTstor is developing a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content includes approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's software tools support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline. This community resource will be made available solely for educational and scholarly uses that are noncommercial in nature.

Access Information:  Artstor can be used by anyone on campus. However you must establish a password while on campus to use for remote or home access.  For more information, contact:  Jorge Perez (perez.jorge@spcollege.edu) at Clearwater Campus Library.
 

Coverage: Current

Biography Resource Center (via Gale)   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Full-text biography resources: articles, bio's and web sites.This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
 

Coverage: Current

Book Index with Reviews (EBSCO)  Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Book Index with Reviews (BIR) helps you find information on the books you want and need to read. BIR is a cooperative effort between NoveList, EBSCO Publishing and Baker & Taylor.  The NoveList Team is the creator of NoveList, an electronic resource that is used in public libraries across the United States and Canada to help fiction readers find their next book. NoveList is a product of EBSCO Publishing.

Business Source Premier (via EBSCO)   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

This is the industry's most used business research database, providing the full text for more than 8,800 serials. Business Source Premier provides full text back to 1965 (or the first issue published for that journal) and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Premier is the superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

Searches over 1,400 business journals, magazines and trade publications for news and events.

Coverage: 1990-

Business Full Text  (via Wilsonweb)   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Wilsonweb Business Full Text 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. 

• Full text of articles, plus page images, from some 480 publications as far back as 1995, many of them peer-reviewed.

• Links to websites cited in articles help users find related information.

• Provides 170,000 subject terms with SIC and NAICS codes for names of corporations, products, and industries.

• Over 600,000 corporate names with cross-references to specific industries and countries.

Chronicle of Higher Education (via Chronicle)  Access: Special password -- call library)

Full coverage of Chronicle of Higher Education.

Coverage: Past 12 years.

 

CINAHL PLUS with Full Text.   (via EBSCO)  Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, nearly 400 have cover-to-cover indexing in CINAHL. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature. It provides indexing for 2,818 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 covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,170 journals are also included. Full text material includes 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. The EBSCOhost version of CINAHL includes PreCINAHL™ as a companion database for subscribers. PreCINAHL provides current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject indexing) that is available to searchers only while these articles are being indexed. 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 PreCINAHL.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, nearly 400 have cover-to-cover indexing in CINAHL. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.

Coverage: 1986-

CINAHL w/Headings (via EBSCO)  Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Cumulated Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature.  Some full text.

Coverage: 1986-

Clase and Periodica (via FirstSearch).  Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Coverage: Current

Communication & Mass Media Complete (via CMMC)  Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Communication & Mass Media Complete, like Communication & Mass Media Index,
provides high quality research in areas related to communication and mass media.
CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals, and selected
("priority") coverage of over 100 more, for a combined coverage of over 400
titles.  Furthermore, this database includes full text for nearly 200
journals.  Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable
citations from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as
1915). CMMC contains a sophisticated controlled vocabulary and comprehensive
reference browsing (i.e. searchable citations for all peer-reviewed journals
covered as "core"). 

Coverage: Varies; some journal indexing back to 1915
 

Computer Database (Gale) LINCC   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Computer Database provides today’s most well read and influential periodicals on the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries. In one seamless search, researchers who need to keep pace with the fast changing world of high technology can scan the latest high-tech topics through industry status reports, company profiles and more. Full-text on 150 key technology periodicals

Coverage: Current

 

Criminal Justice Periodical Index (via Proquest)   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index™ is a comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals. The database provides research support for students interested in careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. The database includes abstract and indexing for over 230 titles, with more than 75 available in full-text. ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index titles include

• American Journal of Criminal Justice
• FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
• Journal of Forensic Sciences
• Women Police

Coverage:  1981 - present 

Criminal Justice (via Gale)   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

For law enforcement, paralegal, or Homeland Security issues, users have access to 150 journals and 16 reference works including: Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence and Security, Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity, Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement, Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities, Encyclopedia of Terrorism, Encyclopedia of U.S. National Security, Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime, Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law, Governments of the World: A Global Guide to Citizen's Rights and Responsibilities, Social Issues Essential Primary Sources Collection -- Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources, West's Encyclopedia of American Law, World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems and World of Forensic Science.

Coverage: Current

CQ Researcher (via CQ Researcher)   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Current events database with pro/con and popular topics.

Coverage: Current

Custom Newspapers (via Infotrac/Galenet)   Ends December, 2006.

EBSCO Databases: Spanish & French (via EBSCO)    Password Access

Search several databases simultaneously. Includes Academic Search Premier Business Source Premier/Elite, Health Source Nursing/Academic edition, MEDLINE & others.

Coverage: Varies by database.

 

Websites of the 87 journals that SPC has subscriptions to. Includes nursing, education, etc.

Coverage: Varies by journal.

For K - 12 use or teacher education. Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals

Coverage: Current
 

ECO (via OCLC FirstSearch)   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Citations to scholarly articles.

Coverage: Current
 

EDGAR (via EDGAR)  Open Access

Major government business database.

Electronic Collections (OCLC)      Student ID Access (LINCC)

The complete database of citations for articles in the nearly 3,000 electronic journals in Electronic Collections Online. Delivers full-image articles from electronic journals and links to articles from other full-text databases on the FirstSearch service.

Coverage: Current
 

ERIC (via ERIC)         Open Access

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature.  More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, will be available for free.

Coverage: 1993-Current

Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale)   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images

Coverage: Current

Facts.com  (via Facts.com)  Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)
or Alternate access: Facts.com | or Facts.com Use -- Passwords)

Contains Issues and Controversies section. Provides current events, social issues and controversies from  U.S. and world in full text.

Coverage: Current-

 

Findlaw (via Findlaw.com)    Open Access

Contains all areas of law and legal information.  Award winning database.

 

FirstSearch     Password Access   | Student ID Access (LINCC)

Includes: ArticleFirst, ECO, ERIC, FLGC, GPO, MEDLINE, PapersFirst, Proceedings, World Almanac, & WorldCat.

Coverage: Current

FLGC (via OCLC FirstSearch)     Student ID Access (LINCC)

Florida Group Catalogs.

Coverage: Current
 

Florida Electronic Library Databases   Access:  Use your public library card for access.

Series of databases, including InfoTrac OneFile, Health, Business, Article First, WorlCat and other databases.

Coverage:  Current

 

Florida Newspapers. (Newsbank - part of America's Newspapers).  Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Coverage: Current

 

Fitne's Nursing Theorists   Password Access   

Series of streaming video on priminent nursing theorists.

Coverage: Current and historical.
 

Funk & Wagnalls (via EBSCO)   Password Access   

For K - 12 use or teacher education.  Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.

Coverage: Current

GPO (via FirstSearch).  Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Government Documents.

Coverage: Current

Gale Virtual Reference Collection -- Password Access   Student ID Access (LINCC)

Essential reference works in all subject areas. Includes:

• Business Plans Handbooks Vol 1-9  |  Index to set
• International Directory of Business Biographies 4v, 2005
• International Directory of Company Histories Vol. 60 to 77
• Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America 6v, 2000
• Biology 4v, 2002 \World of Earth Science 2v, 2003
• St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture 5v, 2000
• Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine 2nd ed., 4v, 2005
• Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer 2v, 2002
• Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders 2v, 2002
• Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine 2nd ed., 5v, 2002
• Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America 2nd ed., 3v, 2000

General Business File (via Gale) Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

General Business File analyzes 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 listing. This fully international database is designed to provide users with unparallel access to 2000,000 company profiles; more than 50,000 full-text Investext® reports; late-breaking news and event coverage on companies, industries products and executives

Coverage: Current

General Reference Center Gold (via Gale)  Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

General Reference Center Gold 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.

Coverage: Current

 

GPO (via OCLC FirstSearch)    Password Access   |    Student ID Access (LINCC)

GPO contains bibliographic citations to United States federal government publications from 1976 to the present. Based on the Monthly Catalog of US Government Publications, GPO contains references to books, reports, studies, serials, maps, and other publications. Topics covered include finance, business, demographics, agriculture, medicine, public health, and more. The database contains over 400,000 fully indexed bibliographic records.

Coverage: Current

Granger's World Poetry ( via Columbia University Press) Password Access   |    Student ID Access (LINCC)   (January, 2007)

For over a century, Granger's® has been the definitive source in English for locating a poem in anthologies on library shelves. First published in 1904, The Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry is now in its 12th edition.  In 1999, Granger’s went online as The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry.  Included in the online version are a series of key Columbia poetry titles:

• The Classic Hundred Poems -- a fully annotated anthology of the one hundred poems that, in the Granger's® database, are most frequently anthologized
• The Top 500 Poems -- an annotated anthology of the 500 poems that, in the Granger's® database, are most frequently anthologized
• The Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry in Anthologies, editions 8–12 – an index to poetry in anthologies
• The Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works, editions 1-2 -- an index to poems in the other main type of poetry book found on library shelves
• The Columbia Granger's® Index to African-American Poetry -- an index to 65 volumes of the best poetry by African Americans
   

Coverage: 1904 - Current

Reference, academic and general interest e-books. Subjects include: Arts, Business, Education, Health,  Law, Literature, Military Studies, Science and others.

Coverage: Current

Grove Art Online (via Grove) Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide - prehistory to the present day, including articles, images, and web sites relating to the visual arts.

• Grove Art Online was updated to enlarge the broad coverage of women in Grove Art Online by adding nearly 120 new articles and essays on women artists and designers, and over 120 new images of works by women, to include over 850 women artists. New entries include Kara Walker, Shahzia Sikander, Hildegard of Bingen, Valie Export, Guerrilla Girls, Destiny Deacon, Sheila de Bretteville, Paula Scher and more.
• This month, Grove is also celebrating The Dictionary of Art's 10th anniversary. The Dictionary of Art (34 volumes, 1996), created with the participation of over 6,700 scholars, is the foundation of this remarkable online resource. Today nearly 1,000 art historians contribute to Grove Art Online's editorial program. We hope you will continue to find the growing diversity and depth of this resource valuable and enjoyable.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art for 2,000 images to be included in the Grove Art Online by Summer 2007.

Coverage: Current

Grove Music Online (via Grove)    Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the musical arts worldwide - prehistory to the present day, including articles, images, and web sites relating to the musical arts.  Includes some musical recordings.

Coverage: Current

Health Source/Consumer edition (via EBSCO)   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

This resource provides access to nearly 300 full text, consumer health periodicals, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others. This database also includes searchable full text for more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets and 129 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society. Additionally, Health Source: Consumer Edition contains more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to 1,100 drug monograph entries and 2,700 patient education fact sheets; and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. Health Source®: Consumer Edition covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc.

Coverage: 1990- 
 

Health Source Nursing/Academic edition (via EBSCO)  Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

This resource provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, and many more. In addition, this database includes the Clinical Pharmacology database, providing access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs. Provides full text for over 550 health periodicals, over 1,000 health pamphlets, and 23 health reference books.

Coverage: 1990-

 

Health Reference Center - Academic (via Gale)     Password Access

Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center. All in a single, easy-to-use database, The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. Articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.

Coverage: 1980 - Present

 

History Reference Center  (via EBSCO)    Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for 60 history magazines, 58,000 historical documents, 43,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 12,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.

Coverage: Historical

Hoovers Premium  (via Hoovers)   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)   (January, 2007)

Hoover's Premium contains a powerhouse of public, non-public, and international companies, as well as industries and key people. Contact information and vital statistics are included for all companies within a specific region (US/Canada, UK, Europe, Asia/Pacific).

• Select customized, in-depth, downloadable company information
• Downloads include additional decision makers, financials, and growth data
• Select additional regions to broaden the geographic reach of your business
• Family Tree and Access Hoover's available as add-ons

Coverage: Current

Humanities Full Text  (via Wilsonweb)   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

The most comprehensive resource available in its field, Humanities Full Text brings you full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. The database indexes, abstracts and delivers the full text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more.

• High quality indexing of some 600 periodicals as far back as 1984, over 400 of them peer-reviewed.
• Full text of articles from nearly 250 journals as far back as 1995.
• Visit our Journal Directory for a searchable list of the journals covered.
• Graphical content adds a key dimension to research—PDF page images accompany full text articles, offering both words and images.
• Search by keyword, subject, personal names, title words, publication, year, type of article or any combination, to find exactly what you need.
• Links to websites cited by articles help users find related information and images.

• IEEE Computer (new developments in computers and industry hiring)
• IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
• IEEE IT Professional (Security)
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (Networking)
• IEEE Software (programming and project management)

Veterinary Science Research database providing reprints of articles from professional veterinary journals and conferences proceedings. Titles Include: Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association and American College of Veterinary Surgeons - Veterinary Symposium Equine and Small Animal Proceedings.

Coverage: Current

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 Spanish-speaking 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.

Coverage: Currentt

Produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, provides indexing of 850 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, bar association publications, university publications, and government publications. In addition, this database also includes coverage of 1,400 monographs per year. Coverage in the database is international in scope, citing publications published in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, and dating as far back as 1981. Subjects covered include administrative law, antitrust legislation, banking, constitutional law, domestic relations, environmental protection, estate planning, food, drug & cosmetic law, international law, labor law, landlord/tenant decisions, malpractice suits, minorities, multinational corporations, negligence, non-profit corporations, occupational health & safety, politics, probate, products liability, public law, real property, securities, tax law, and trade regulation.

Coverage: 1981

 

International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center (EBSCO)   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

This database offers information on virtually every dimension of security & counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process, as well as enhance the general understanding of security and terrorism-related issues. ISCTRC provides a comprehensive Open Source Intelligence Resource for analysts, risk management professionals, and students. Content includes hundreds of full text journals and periodicals, hundreds of thousands of selected articles, news feeds, reports, summaries, books, blogs, FAQs, and proprietary Background Information Summaries that pertain to terrorism and security. ISCTRC also combines deep background from scholarly writings with expert commentary from a variety of organizations, agencies and publisher and timely reviews of recent developments across the international political, military, economic, social and technical spectrum.

Coverage: Current

InfoTrac® Junior Edition    Password Accesss   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

InfoTrac® Junior Edition is 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.

Coverage: Current

 

InfoTrac® Kids' Edition (via Gale/Infotrac)  Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

InfoTrac® Kids' Edition now gives younger students the tools they need to make sense of the content they access. User-friendly interfaces and ever-improving content make research not only a learning experience, but fun, too.

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InfoTrac OneFile (via Gale)    Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

For researchers at all levels, periodical and news information is now available in one user-friendly electronic resource. InfoTrac OneFile includes more than 6,000 full-text titles; more than 3,000 refered journals; five newspaper indexes -- a total of nearly 10,200 titles in all with more than 25 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present; Thomson Gale support and training; and much more. InfoTrac OneFile puts approximately 50 million database records at your users' fingertips with a single search query. It includes:

• Newswiress -- 89 wire services covering agriculture, general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry topics, sports and current events from all over the world
• Newspapers -- Full indexing of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor
• Periodicals -- General interest magazines; refereed academic journals; business publications; technology periodicals; plus specialty titles in law, health care and computers

InfoTrac OneFile features a fully updated, intuitive interface -- providing multiple pathways to key information. Its browser style format enables users to browse the latest news, review a set of subject areas, review and select a particular resource, or search across the entire database. With its time-tested InfoTrac search functionality, this essential resource is versatile and easy to use

InfoTrac OneFile 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. It is the singe interface for searching combined contents of Infotrac & Ingenta core periodical database.

Coverage: 1980 - br>  

 InfoTrac OneFile includes more than 6,000 full-text titles; five newspaper indexes —a total of nearly 10,000 titles in all — with more than 25 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present. InfoTrac OneFile puts approximately 50 million database records at your users’ fingertips with a single search query. InfoTrac OneFile includes:
 

■ Newswires — 121 wire services covering agriculture, general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry topics, sports and current events from all over the world

■ Newspapers — The full indexing of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor

■ Periodicals — General interest magazines; refereed academic journals; business publications; technology periodicals; plus specialty title

JSTOR  (via JSTOR)  Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)
 Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences II)

Archive of scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas.

Arts & Sciences I Collection

Arts & Sciences II Collection

Biological Science Collection

Business & Business II Collection

Ecology & Botany Collection

General Science Collection

Language & Literature Collection

Coverage: Back Issues

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts    Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts™ (LISTA) is now available FREE to any library - compliments of EBSCO Publishing. 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 in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Coverage: Current

Literature Resource Center (via Gale)     Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Full-text resource providing access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.. Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.

 

 

Litfinder (via Roth).  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Coverage: Current

MagillOnLiterature Plus (via EBSCO)    Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

MagillOnLiterature Plus, produced by Salem Press, is the premier literary database, combining MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors. This database includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors.

Coverage: Current
 

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE, AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE, and HealthSTAR.

Examples of publications covered in MEDLINE include: Accident and Emergency Nursing, Addiction, Administration and Policy in Mental Health, Behavior Modification, Behavioral Medicine, Cancer Detection and Prevention, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Maternal and Child Health Journal, etc.

Coverage:  1965 - Present

Military & Government: (via EBSCO)   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, the Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

Coverage: Current

Netlibrary Ebooks (via Netlibrary)   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Over 54,500 full text online books  for all subjects covered including Arts, Humanities, Business, Communications, Social Science, Science and technology.

• IT Center (Topics include: networks, security, Web design, game programming, wireless, A+ certification, and firewalls)
• Reference Center - All subject areas -

New York Times

New York Times (via ProQuest Historical Newspapers )1851 - 2003) Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

The New York Times (1851-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. more info...

Coverage: Sept 18,1851-Dec 31, 2003  | View titles

New York Times -Current (via Americas Newspaper-Newsbank)  Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

The New York Times - selected articles

Coverage: 2000-Current

New York Times -Current (via Lexis Nexis)  Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

The New York Times - selected articles

Coverage: 1980-Current

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (via Gale)     Password Access

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is the premier database covering social issues, such as Gun Control, Genetic Engineering, Censorship, Endangered Species, and Terrorism.  It includes articles, topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazines articles and links to more than 1,000 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites offers pro and con viewpoints of current social issues.  ;

Coverage: Current 

Ovid's Essential Nursing Collection provides electronic versions of today's leading titles in nursing and related studies - such as The American Journal of Nursing, Journal of Nursing Scholarship, Nursing Standard, and Nursing Management - and pairs them
with the superior searching capabilities of the Journals@Ovid interface. Together, this combination of premium nursing content and effective research tools.

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Coverage: Historical

Major database for descriptions of thousands medicines and drugs..

 

Papers First. (via OCLC)      Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

 

Lexi-PALS via Health Source Nursing Academic (via EBSCO)   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Drug Information.

Coverage: Current

Primary Search (via EBSCO)      Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Primary Search contains full text for more than 50 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. Additionally, Primary Search includes the Encyclopedia of Animals, and features the Funk + Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, which provides students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. This database also provides the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 91,000 photos, maps and flags.

Coverage: Current

 

Proceedings First  (via OCLC)    Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

A database of over 19000 citations to every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at the British Library..

Coverage: Current

Professional Collection -Education (via Gale)     Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Professional Collection is a custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators that is updated daily and provides 24 hour access from school or home. The Professional Collection offers balanced coverage for any professional educator:

• 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
• Sports/Athletic Training

Coverage: 1990

 

PsycARTICLES (via EBSCO)      Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)
 

PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 45,000 articles from 57 journals - 46 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: 1985 to present.

Readers' Guide Full Text  (via Wilsonweb)   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

For libraries that want a 100% full-text database, the Select Edition of Readers’ Guide Full Text is the most popular choice.  Your patrons get searchable full-text plus abstracting and indexing for a broad selection of the most-wanted popular periodicals.

• Searchable full text as far back as 1994, plus professionally written abstracts and high-quality indexing.

Coverage: 1994

RECAL (National Centre for Training and Education in Prosthetics and Orthotics.) Password Access

RECAL index and abstracts articles in the world's most comprehensive bibliographic database in the field of prosthetics, orthotics and related rehabilitation engineering. Originally developed as part of a research programme funded by the Scottish Office, Home and Health Department it currently contains 65,000 bibliographic records

Coverage:  1980's

 

Regional Business News  (EBSCO)     Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)
 

Coverage: Current

Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community.

Coverage: 1987-
 

USCB Librarian lists major free science and technology databases available from various government and educational sources.
 

Coverage:  Varies

 

Student Resource Center covers people, literature, social issues, business and general research. Professional Collection covers general education.

Coverage: Current

 

Student Resource Center Silver (via Gale)  Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Student Resource Center covers people, literature, social issues, business and general research. Professional Collection covers general education.

■ Up to 1.7 million full-text periodical andnewspaper articles, updated daily

■ More than 17,000 biographies, 13,500 critical essays and 18,000 overviews

■ Thousands of primary source documents, including diary entries, letters, interviews, etc.

■ More than 8 hours of audio and video clips

Coverage: 1980

 

Teacher Reference Center (Via EBSCO) Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Provides indexing and abstracts for over 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional educators.

Coverage: Current

 

Testing & Education Resource Center  (via Gale)  Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)   

Testing & Education Reference Center (TERC) provides users with in-depth information on colleges and universities, graduate and professional programs, distance learning, corporate training, available scholarships and awards, preparatory entrance tests and much more. This online education resource provides everything users need to learn more about furthering their education and making informed decisions on their future from one single, handy database.

And now we’ve taken this database to the next level with the availability of TERC with Careers, which includes tools to help users match their personality to suitable occupations, build outstanding and appealing resumes, and learn valuable cover letter, interviewing, and salary negotiation tips specific to their career stage. Some of the specialty programs featured are:

• Education Reference Center include:
• Information Technology Programs
• Law Programs
• Nursing Programs
• Private Secondary Schools
• Programs for International Students
• Vocational & Technical Schools

Coverage: Current

Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition) newspaper in full text.

Coverage: 1984- Present

A definitive collection for students of history, social science and current events. Researchers will gain valuable insight to conflicts and their cause as well as their impact and how they are perceived on a global scale. References include 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals and the following works: Americans at War, Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, Encyclopedia of Terrorism, and Encyclopedia of U.S. National Security.

Coverage: Current

Westlaw (via Westlaw) Passwords only for paralegal students.

Major law database and information service.  Restricted to paralegal program.

 What Do I Read Next  (via Gale/Infotrac)     Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

What Do I Read Next? is a powerful readers' advisory tool offering the expertise of specialists, critics and librarians to find the best examples of internationally known fiction and nonfiction. Contains over 100,000 titles, more than 58,000 plot summaries, 562 awards titles, recommended reading lists and biographical information. Genres include inspirational, mystery, romance, science fiction, fantasy, horror, western and historical novels, general fiction, classic fiction and nonfiction.
 

WilsonWeb Applied Science & Technology Full Text.   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Full text of articles from 150 publications and indexing/abstracts of 730periodicals.Graphs, Charts, diagrams, photos and illustrations.  Broad spectrum of coverage: professional, trade, industrial and technical society journals.  Also contains buyers guides, directories and conference proceedings.

Coverage: Full text - 1997; indexing - 1983

WilsonWeb Art Full Text.   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Full text of articles from 111 publications and indexing/abstracts of 377periodicals.  78,000 images included in AMICO Library. Covers international array of peer-selected publications.  In addition to European and American art, the database includes Latin American , Canadian, Asian and non-Western art.  Also contains contemporary art, exhibition reviews and feminist criticism.

Coverage: Full text - 1997; indexing/abstracts - 1984

WilsonWeb Biological and Agricultural Index Plus.   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Full text of articles from 52 publications and indexing of 297 periodicals. Core literature of biology and agriculture from many peer reviewed publications.  Covers Marine Biology, Microbiology , Environment and Veterinary Science.

Coverage: 1994

WilsonWeb Business Full Text.   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Full text of articles from 303 publications, including New York times Business section, Wall Street Journal, specialized trade journals and annual reports. Feature articles, product reviews, corporate profiles, reports and conferences.

Coverage: 1995
 

WilsonWeb Book Review Digest.   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Excerpts from book reviews of current fiction and nonfiction  Draws from 1,000's of periodicals.

Coverage: Current
 

WilsonWeb Education Full Text.   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Education Full Text brings you comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Full text of articles cover to cover, from hundreds of journals, make this a one-stop source for research.

• High quality indexing of nearly 750 periodicals as far back as 1983, over 450 of which are peer-reviewed.

• In-depth abstracts of 50 to 150 words let users know instantly if a cited article is useful to their research.

• Full text of articles from over 350 journals as far back as 1996.

• Visit our Journal Directory for a searchable list of the journals covered.

• Graphical content adds a key dimension to research—PDF page images accompany full text articles, offering both words and images.

• Covers a broad range of educational specialties.

• Especially thorough coverage of special education with over 50 journals devoted specifically to this important topic.

Coverage: 1996
 

WilsonWeb Essay and General Literature Index.   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Indexes 1,000's of essays contained in anthologies and collections. Spans entire reange of humanities and social sciences.

Coverage: Current
 

WilsonWeb General Science Full Text.   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Full text of articles from 75 publications and indexing/abstracts of 250 periodicals. Astronomy, Biology, Chemsitry, Earth Science, Environment, Nutrition, Genetics, Health & Medicine, Mathematics, Microbiology, Physics, Oceanography, Psychology and Zoology.  Graphs, Charts, diagrams, photos and illustrations.

Coverage: Full text - 1995; indexing/abstracts - 1984

WilsonWeb Humanities Full Text.   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Full text of articles from 182  publications and indexing/abstracts of 502 periodicals. Covers most scholarly sources in the humanities as well as specialized periodicals. Includes books, movies, dance, state, operas, TV and more.  Interviews, obituaries and original writings included. Graphs, Charts, diagrams, photos and illustrations.

Coverage: Full text - 1995; indexing/abstracts - 1984

WilsonWeb Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text.   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Full text of articles from 182 publications and indexing/abstracts of 843 periodicals.  All aspects of law from administrative to sports. International coverage from US. Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Retrospective topics cover to 1981.

Coverage: 1994

WilsonWeb Library Lit & Inf Full Text   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Reflecting the latest trends in a rapidly evolving field, this database indexes English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, plus over 300 books per year. This invaluable resource delivers full text articles cover to cover from over a hundred select publications. PDF page images of the full text articles bring researchers charts, graphs, photos, and other valuable graphical information. Providing enhanced access to your periodical collection, this database also steers users to valuable information on the Web with hotlinks to sites mentioned in articles.

Coverage: Indexing 1984+ | Select Full Text - 1994+

WilsonWeb Omnifile Mega   Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

Wilson OmniFile V Full Text is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from five of Wilson's full-text databases. It covers full text of 1,800 publications and indexes/abstracts from 3600 titles.  Serves as single source access for many topic and subject areas.

Coverage: Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.
 

World Almanac (via OCLC)  Password Access   | Student ID Access (LINCC)

Almanac of World events.

Coverage: Current

WorldCat (OCLC)                Password Access   |  Student ID Access (LINCC)

OCLC WorldCat database is the OCLC online catalog. It contains over 43 million records describing library holdings.

Coverage: Current

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