Biography Resource Center enables
searches for people based on one or more personal facts such
as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or
gender, or a combination of criteria. Includes the
Complete Marquis Who's Who for quick reference information on
an additional 900,000 people.
ABI/INFORM
Dateline allows users to research employment opportunities, compile
data on benefits and compensation, learn about corporate strategies,
and other topics from a local and regional perspective. ABI/INFORM
Dateline includes major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers,
wire services, and area business publications.
ABI/INFORM
Select is a source for acquiring business news and information.
ABI/INFORM Select delivers over 510 journals, with more than 400
available in full text. Users can research industry and economic
conditions, business tactics, market strategies, and more.
With
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, users can study and compare specific
trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing,
transportation, construction, petrochemicals, and many others.
Business and Company Resource
Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together
company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment
reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
Search this database to find detailed company and industry
news and information.
Analyze company performance and activity, industry
events and trends. Access to a combination of broker research
reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company
directory listings.
Newsletters ASAP provides access to information
from specialized business, industry and technology newsletters
issued by various news services and industry watchers.
Featuring profiles of more than 40,000 companies, 600 industries, and 225,000 key executives,
Hoover's Company Records provides easy access to the most thorough and up-to-date business information available.
PROMT -- Predicast Overview of Markets and Technology. Use
this database to research companies, the products and
technologies they produce, and the markets in which they
compete. Includes summaries and full text from nearly 1,000
business and trade journals, industry newsletters, newspapers,
market research studies, news releases, and investment and
brokerage firm reports.
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a
nationally recognized source of career information, designed
to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions
about their future work lives. The Handbook describes what
workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and
education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a
wide range of occupations.
indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; 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.
ProQuest
Education Journals offers a comprehensive research collection of more
than 760 magazines and journals for professional development and
continuing education—the ultimate resource to help teachers stay
current in their profession
Offering Science On-line; a complete
electronic reference for anatomy, physiology, physics,
chemistry, earth science and biology and Science
Experiments On-line for science experiments and projects
in Biology, Chemistry,
Earth-Science.
Provides instant access to trusted medical
reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical
journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related
videos, and articles from 2,200 general interest
publications.
MEDLINEplus brings together consumer
information from the National Library of medicine (NLM), the
National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government,
non-profit and health-related organizations. Search here for
answers to all your health questions.
ProQuest
Health and Medical Complete provides in-depth coverage from over 1,440
publications with nearly 1,200 available in full text include The
journals cover all major clinical and healthcare disciplines, including
medical sciences, immunology, pharmacy and pharmacology, nursing,
physical fitness and hygiene, surgery, and others.
What did people eat, wear, use? What
did they hope, invent, sing? Greenwood Daily Life Online brings history up close by providing award-winning
content in an authoritative and accessible
database.
Annals
of American History delivers more than 2000 primary source documents
plus 700 multimedia elements that guide you through the history of the
United States.
The EBSCO Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth
information describing the nature and habitat of familiar
animals. Images can be obtained by double-clicking any image
graphic.
Kids Search makes it easy for students to
search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search
results. Results can be easily sorted by source
type—magazines, Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia, reference
books, photos, flags, etc.
Designed for elementary school students providing full-text
magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on
current events, art, science, popular culture, health, people,
government, history, sports and more.
Designed for students in middle school, with
magazines, newspapers and reference books providing
information on current events, the arts, science, popular
culture, health, people, government, history, sports and
more.
Intended for users in elementary or middle schools.
Searchasaurus uses an animated interface with a dinosaur theme
that encourages students to develop basic search
methodologies. Searchasaurus offers Lexile limiters (reading
level), making it easy for students to research only
appropriate materials in math, science, social studies and the
arts.
provides access to biographies,
bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000
novelists, poets, essayists, journalists from every age and
literary discipline.
Contains Poem Finder which offers full-text poems, poem citations and excerpts as
well as explanations, biographies, pictures and a glossary, Story Finder featuring short stories, biographies, pictures and a genre navigator and Essay
Finder containing 20th century essays and discursive
writing which have been analyzed in standard library indexes.
A convenient digital guide to thousands of short
stories and anthologies. The Play Index covers every important
play ever written, from Aeschylus and Shakespeare to
contemporary playwrights.
InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 1,000 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. It allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section or other fields, eliminating random searching through newspaper archives.
Integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use
interface. Find articles from newspapers, reference books, and
periodicals featuring current events, popular culture,
business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports,
and hobbies.
The State Newspapers database offers ten major newspapers
published in the state of New York, including the New York
Times and the New York Post. Newspapers can be
searched by title, headline,author, or subject.
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.
The Central Intelligence Agency's World
FactBook contains information about over250 different
countries. Includes geography, People Government Economy
Communications Transportation Military Transnational Issues
Reference Maps Flags of the World International Organizations
and Groups, Selected International Environmental Agreements,
Cross-Reference List of Country Data Codes, Hydrographic Data
Codes, Geographic Names.
This database provides full-text Spanish-language information from 300publications for a wide variety of medical and health-related topics and is designed tomake useful health information more readily accessible for Spanish-speaking consumers and patients.
ProQuest
Computing Journals delivers vital information directly to your desktop
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,
intranets and extranets, and technology management.
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