Biography in Context 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 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.
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
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.
An indispensable resource for anyone wanting to understand the context of global trade and finance. This huge database of financial and economic news offers instant access to hundreds of thousands of articles and features from one of the world's leading sources of accurate and unbiased financial, economic and political news.
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.
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.
Newsletters ASAP provides access to information
from specialized business, industry and technology newsletters
issued by various news services and industry watchers.
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.
Learning Express Library is an interactive online learning platform of
practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help
patrons—students and adult learners—succeed on the academic or
licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete
answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
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.
Este portal le ofrece recursos de referencia en español para todas las edades en dos interfaces exclusivos — cada uno con una enciclopedia adaptada al lector: Enciclopedia Universal en Español para High School (edad de 14+) y la Enciclopedia Juvenil para edades de 6-12 años.
Science in Contextfeatures authoritative information for assignments and projects, and provides detailed coverage of popular subjects. From earth science and life science, to space, technology, mathematics and science history and biography.
This database is a definitive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. With coverage dating back to 1986, ProQuest Science Journals features over 1030 titles, with more than 760 available in full text. Search over 2.7M records, dating back to the mid-1980s.
ProQuest
Health and Medical Completeprovides 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.
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.
Multi-source database providing access to full-text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources that offer reliable health information to researchers, including nursing and allied health students. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
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.
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.
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.
The
curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best
elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers
geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people,
government, history, sports and more.
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.
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.
Extensive coverage of the sciences, technology, medicine, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions; updated daily.
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.
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.
Provides one-stop access to more than 4,000 periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 academic disciplines.
This publication"s detailed indexing helps users quickly find the news information they need. Each issue is indexed thoroughly, so they have access to not only top news stories but also the information contained on the various sections of the paper.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context 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 over 250 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.
Provides indexing, images and full-text of popular Hispanic magazines, not just translations. The text of the articles is in Spanish, and some in English, as originally published.
This database provides full-text Spanish-language information from 300 publications 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.
Este portal le ofrece recursos de referencia en español para todas las edades en dos interfaces exclusivos — cada uno con una enciclopedia adaptada al lector: Enciclopedia Universal en Español para High School (edad de 14+) y la Enciclopedia Juvenil para edades de 6-12 años.
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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