Core Collection

Core Collection

Database Descriptions

Britannica

	Annals of American History Online Annals of American History Online provide a year-by-year documentary of American thought and action. Read the original words of authors who made and analyzed American history through their speeches, writings, memoirs, poems, and interviews.
	Encyclopedia Britannica Online Explore the Encyclopaedia Britannica Online featuring articles, biographies, videos, images, and web sites. This comprehensive multimedia encyclopedia has research tools to help with citations and bibliographies. Links to Britannica Junior developed especially for students aged 9 to 14.
	Global Reference Center The Global Reference Center is an extensive collection of Encyclopaedia Britannica's foreign language content, information in Spanish, Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese, and French. You will find comprehensive global content on subjects such as art, geography, history, politics, science, sports and technology. Each site also contains additional local content—including culture, history, and traditions.
	Merriam-Webster Third New International Dictionary Webster's Third New International Dictionary is the largest and most comprehensive American dictionary. It allows users to research language and study words.
	World Data Analyst World Data Analyst combines detailed statistics on every nation of the world with powerful tools for analysis and display. This resource features a unique collection of in-depth information about the countries of the world and allows you to create interesting and informative comparative charts and tables.

Gale

Kids InfoBits
Kids InfoBits is designed especially for students in kindergarten through grade five. It meets the needs of young students with simple, quick access to magazine and newspaper articles on current events, arts, sciences, health, people, government, sports, history and more.

General OneFile
General OneFile is a comprehensive resource that provides access to periodical and news information on a wide range of topics as well as indexing from a variety of general and specialized journals – from the New York Times and Christian Science Monitor to refereed academic journals. It provides more than 20 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to the present day. It is an unequaled source for virtually every popular, business and professional topic.

LitFinder
LitFinder is a unique resource for original literature content. Students and researchers can access the full text of poems, plays, speeches, short stories and more. LitFinder is international in scope and covers all time periods. It also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs and a glossary.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing ViewpointsResourceCenter is a full-text resource covering today's hottest social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control. Drawing on the acclaimed print series published by Greenhaven Press, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center brings together all the information that's needed to fully understand an issue.

PROMT
PROMT (Predicast Overview of Markets and Technology) is a multiple-industry database that provides broad, international coverage of companies, products, markets, and applied technologies for all industries. PROMT features abstracts and full text from international trade and business journals, industry newsletters, and newspapers, plus summaries from investment and brokerage firm reports. PROMT is ideal for precisely locating information about market size and share, industry trends, emerging technologies and competitive opportunities.

Greenwood

African American Experience
The African American Experience is a full text digital resource that explores the history and culture of African Americans as well as the Greater Black Diaspora. It was developed with the guidance of leading librarians and subject specialists. Its rich content includes slave narratives, primary documents, speeches, court cases, photographs, maps and a searchable timeline.

Daily Life America
Greenwood Daily Life America spotlights the day-to-day lives of average Americans past and present. It is a resource for discovering the history of American food and cooking, celebration, clothes, romance, work, religion, housing and social customs. State-by-state and regional material is a key feature and includes state history, geography, mottoes, animals and holidays.

Daily Life through History
Where did people live, study, play? What did they eat, wear and think? Greenwood Daily Life through History provides the answers. It is based on the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life and the Daily Life through History series, which explore everyday life from antiquity to the present. It also features content from the World Cultures Today database which spotlights the cultures and social customs of today's world.

Latino American Experience
The Latino American Experience marks the first ever-database dedicated to the history and culture of Latinos. Its resources include primary documents, Spanish language content, maps, images and links to vetted web sites.

Pop Culture Universe
Pop Culture Universe is an authoritative digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present. It provides a safe haven for investigating topics without bias, advertising, suggestive content or the questionable authorship of commercial or fan sites. It covers ipods, gaming, gadgets, chatspeak, movies, TV, radio, music, comics, graphic novels, sports, fads, fashion and fast food.

ProQuest

ABI/INFORM Dateline
ABI/INFORM Dateline is a unique resource focusing on hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news.

ABI/INFORM Select
ABI/Inform Select is a source for acquiring business news and information. Users can research industry and economic conditions, business tactics and market strategies.
ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry
ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry enables you to search business periodicals with a trade or industry focus. It provides users with the latest industry news and product information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Trade and Industry also contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation and construction.

Black Newspapers
ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers
is a collection of significant Black newspapers from the United States. They offer primary source material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. Major movements from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights are explored.

Financial Times
The Financial Times is a financial newspaper known for its in-depth reporting on European company and economic news, as well as its perspective on global business.
Coverage: 5/31/1996-Current

Health Management
Health Management is designed to meet the needs of researchers studying the field of health administration. Healthcare management content provides the most reliable and relevant information on a wide range of topics, including hospitals,insurance, law, statistics, business management, personnel management, ethics and public health administration.

Heritage Quest
This essential collection of unique material is for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. Use HeritageQuest to find your ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled. HeritageQuest Online has searchable images of U.S. federal census records.

Hoover's Company Records
Hoover's provides information on both public and non-public companies and key executives. It covers corporate data, industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors and top officers.

National Newspapers Premier
National Newspapers Premier includes a balance of national and regional newspapers chosen for their journalistic excellence and regional representation. All titles are available in full text. Papers include national titles such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post along with a selection of titles from across the U.S.
Newsday
Newsday reports news and events in the New York City area.
Coverage: 1985- Current
New York Times Historical
The New York Times (1851-2005) 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.

ProQuest Computing
ProQuest Computing is the resource for those who need access to comprehensive coverage of computer topics. Computing delivers information from scholarly journals and trade publications as well as consumer titles. The database includes product reviews, database design and management, software, hardware,
e-commerce, Web site development and technology management.

ProQuest Education Periodicals
ProQuest Education Periodicals delivers full-text professional magazines and journals that address all aspects of education, including all core and supplemental curricula subjects, information technology, library science, business and administration, guidance and careers.

Research Library
Research Library is designed to cover a broad range of subject areas including business, education, general interest, health, humanities, law, psychology, sciences, social sciences and women's interests. Research Library features a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.

	Kids InfoBits Kids InfoBits is designed especially for students in kindergarten through grade five. It meets the needs of young students with simple, quick access to magazine and newspaper articles on current events, arts, sciences, health, people, government, sports, history and more.
	General OneFile General OneFile is a comprehensive resource that provides access to periodical and news information on a wide range of topics as well as indexing from a variety of general and specialized journals – from the New York Times and Christian Science Monitor to refereed academic journals. It provides more than 20 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to the present day. It is an unequaled source for virtually every popular, business and professional topic.
	LitFinder LitFinder is a unique resource for original literature content. Students and researchers can access the full text of poems, plays, speeches, short stories and more. LitFinder is international in scope and covers all time periods. It also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs and a glossary.
	Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Opposing ViewpointsResourceCenter is a full-text resource covering today's hottest social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control. Drawing on the acclaimed print series published by Greenhaven Press, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center brings together all the information that's needed to fully understand an issue.
	PROMT PROMT (Predicast Overview of Markets and Technology) is a multiple-industry database that provides broad, international coverage of companies, products, markets, and applied technologies for all industries. PROMT features abstracts and full text from international trade and business journals, industry newsletters, and newspapers, plus summaries from investment and brokerage firm reports. PROMT is ideal for precisely locating information about market size and share, industry trends, emerging technologies and competitive opportunities.

	African American Experience The African American Experience is a full text digital resource that explores the history and culture of African Americans as well as the Greater Black Diaspora. It was developed with the guidance of leading librarians and subject specialists. Its rich content includes slave narratives, primary documents, speeches, court cases, photographs, maps and a searchable timeline.
	Daily Life America Greenwood Daily Life America spotlights the day-to-day lives of average Americans past and present. It is a resource for discovering the history of American food and cooking, celebration, clothes, romance, work, religion, housing and social customs. State-by-state and regional material is a key feature and includes state history, geography, mottoes, animals and holidays.
	Daily Life through History Where did people live, study, play? What did they eat, wear and think? Greenwood Daily Life through History provides the answers. It is based on the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life and the Daily Life through History series, which explore everyday life from antiquity to the present. It also features content from the World Cultures Today database which spotlights the cultures and social customs of today's world.
	Latino American Experience The Latino American Experience marks the first ever-database dedicated to the history and culture of Latinos. Its resources include primary documents, Spanish language content, maps, images and links to vetted web sites.
	Pop Culture Universe Pop Culture Universe is an authoritative digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present. It provides a safe haven for investigating topics without bias, advertising, suggestive content or the questionable authorship of commercial or fan sites. It covers ipods, gaming, gadgets, chatspeak, movies, TV, radio, music, comics, graphic novels, sports, fads, fashion and fast food.

	ABI/INFORM Dateline ABI/INFORM Dateline is a unique resource focusing on hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news.
	ABI/INFORM Select ABI/Inform Select is a source for acquiring business news and information. Users can research industry and economic conditions, business tactics and market strategies.
	ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry enables you to search business periodicals with a trade or industry focus. It provides users with the latest industry news and product information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Trade and Industry also contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation and construction.
	Black Newspapers ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers is a collection of significant Black newspapers from the United States. They offer primary source material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. Major movements from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights are explored.
	Financial Times The Financial Times is a financial newspaper known for its in-depth reporting on European company and economic news, as well as its perspective on global business. Coverage: 5/31/1996-Current
	Health Management Health Management is designed to meet the needs of researchers studying the field of health administration. Healthcare management content provides the most reliable and relevant information on a wide range of topics, including hospitals,insurance, law, statistics, business management, personnel management, ethics and public health administration.
	Heritage Quest This essential collection of unique material is for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. Use HeritageQuest to find your ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled. HeritageQuest Online has searchable images of U.S. federal census records.
	Hoover's Company Records Hoover's provides information on both public and non-public companies and key executives. It covers corporate data, industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors and top officers.
	National Newspapers Premier National Newspapers Premier includes a balance of national and regional newspapers chosen for their journalistic excellence and regional representation. All titles are available in full text. Papers include national titles such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post along with a selection of titles from across the U.S.
	Newsday Newsday reports news and events in the New York City area. Coverage: 1985- Current
	New York Times Historical The New York Times (1851-2005) 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.
	ProQuest Computing ProQuest Computing is the resource for those who need access to comprehensive coverage of computer topics. Computing delivers information from scholarly journals and trade publications as well as consumer titles. The database includes product reviews, database design and management, software, hardware, e-commerce, Web site development and technology management.
	ProQuest Education Periodicals ProQuest Education Periodicals delivers full-text professional magazines and journals that address all aspects of education, including all core and supplemental curricula subjects, information technology, library science, business and administration, guidance and careers.
	Research Library Research Library is designed to cover a broad range of subject areas including business, education, general interest, health, humanities, law, psychology, sciences, social sciences and women's interests. Research Library features a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.