INSPIRE Information
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Academic Search Premier
- Information from a wide range of academic areas including the social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural studies
- Full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles
- Abstracts and indexing for over 8,000 scholarly journals
- Journal List: HTML | PDF | Excel
- Other Resource List: HTML | PDF | Excel
Bartleby
- Bartleby.com is an electronic text archive, headquartered in New York and named after Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener. It was founded under the name "Project Bartleby" in January 1993 by Steven H. van Leeuwen as a personal, non-profit collection of classic literature on the website of Columbia University. In 1997, it moved to its own domain, bartleby.com, and was called "The New Bartleby Library". In September 1999, Bartleby.com was incorporated and started to focus on reference works, including the contemporary 6th edition of the Columbia Encyclopedia. Access to the collection is free to all Internet users.
Biography Resource Center
- In-depth coverage of current and historic people from almost every field of endeavor
- Search by name, nationality, place, date, occupation, gender, or ethnicity
- 400,000 biographies on more than 300,000 people compiled from over 100 Gale Group reference resources
- Full-text articles from over 250 periodicals
- 30,000 citations from Gale's Almanac of Famous People
- 7,000 portraits
- Publication List (Journals): HTML | PDF | Excel | Word
- Publication List (Reference Titles): Excel
Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic
- Designed for doctors, research scientists, students, clinical specialists and managers
- Full-text for over 100 journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study
- All titles included in the Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic are indexed in MEDLINE
- Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel
Business Source Premier
- Includes topics such as management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business
- Full-text for over 7,500 publications
- Full-text backfiles are available as far back as 1922
- Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel
Census.gov
- The Census Bureau Web Site provides on-line access to our data, publications, and products.
Company Profiles
- Accessible by selecting Company Profiles from the list of individual databases or by searching Business Source Premier or Corporate ResourceNet individually
- Extremely detailed company profiles for the 10,000 largest companies in the world
- Brief overviews and more in-depth (PDF) profiles
- Updated on a quarterly basis by Datamonitor
Corporate ResourceNet
- Designed to meet the diverse information needs of today’s companies
- Full-text articles from over 1,300 magazines and journals
- Full-text information dates as far back as 1985
- Publication List: Excel
Datamonitor
- Extremely detailed company profiles for the 10,000 largest companies in the world. Brief overviews and more in-depth (PDF) profiles .Updated on a quarterly basis by Datamonitor.
EBSCO Animals
- Offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals
- Indexing, abstracts, and full-text records describing the natures and habitats of familiar animals
- Images available for some records
EBSCOhost
- EBSCOhost is a subscription-based service provided by EBSCO Publishing. It is widely-accessible via private and public databases in libraries and schools. EBSCOhost is an umbrella term for various other databases which provide full text searches and abstracts of magazines, newspapers and reference books in a variety of subject areas, updated on a daily basis. Libraries and other institutions subscribe to EBSCOhost, and optionally choose one or more of the offered databases as part of their subscription. Customers can then search all of the subscribed databases, or focus their search on a subset.
Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC)
- Contains 2,200 digests and over 500,000 research and technical reports [ERIC documents=ED]
- Over 100,000 ERIC Documents include full text
- Indexes more than 980 education and education-related journals in the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) [ERIC journal articles=EJ]
- Selected full-text articles are available for some documents and journal articles
- Updated monthly
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
- Contains over 25,000 records
- Full text for each record
- Updated annually
Google Scholar
- Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
Health & Medical Full Text Journal List
- Subjects include: Medicine, Medical Research, Nursing, Allied Health, Pharmacology, Health Care Business, Management, Veterinary Medicine, Drugs & Medical Devices, Psychology, Social Work, Adult Education & Literacy, Ethics & Informatics
- Full text for each record
- Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel
Health Business FullTEXT
- Publications covering the business of health care administration, including topics such as staffing, health care regulation, health care facilities management, marketing, and finance
- Full text coverage for nearly 130 well-known administrative journals
- Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel
Health Source: Consumer Edition
- Provides full text from over 250 periodicals covering nutrition, exercise, medical selfcare, childcare, and drug and alcohol abuse
- Full text for over 1,000 pamphlets and 140 books
- Includes Stedman's Medical Dictionary
- Full text of books from the People's Medical Society
- Includes Clinical Reference Systems (over 7,000 reports in everyday language, many with images, including Spanish language records)
- Includes access to Lexi-PALS Drug Guide
- Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel
Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition
- Provides access to over 550 full-text journals, and 800 indexed journals
- Nursing, allied health and medicine journals are included
- Can search for peer-reviewed articles
- Includes access to Lexi-PALS Drug Guide
- Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel
Image Collection
- Over 100,000 images
- Includes maps and flags of countries and states
- Search by image description or browse through images of people, places, or nature
Informe!
- Full text and images of the most popular Spanish-language magazines and pamphlets - not just translations
- Spanish thesaurus and interface were created exclusively for native Spanish speakers
- Full-text coverage of over 100 titles
- Coverage from 1996 to present
- Updated Daily
- Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel | Word
IN.gov
- Indiana's public information portal, IN.gov, is the official Internet resource for Indiana state government resources and information.
KidsClick
- KidsClick! was created by a group of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System, as a logical step in addressing concerns about the role of public libraries in guiding their young users to valuable and age appropriate websites.
Lexi-Pals
- Covers over 1,000 generic medications, 100 natural products, and 19 vaccines.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (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 extends back as far as the mid-1960s
- Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel
Lit Finder
- Includes poems, stories, essays, speeches and plays
- 125,000 full-text poems
- 850,000 poem citations and excerpts
- Thousands of full-text classic and contemporary short stories
- Full-text essays and discursive writing based on books published in the 20th century
- The best and best-known speeches of the past 2,500 years categorized into easily searchable genres
- Over 1,000 plays complete covering the range of dramatic expression
MAS Ultra--School Edition
- Full text general reference database designed for high school students
- Indexes over 600 journals, with more than 500 journals in full text
- Includes over 5,000 Magill Book Reviews
- Includes Essential Documents of American History, a database of over 1,000 primary historical documents including the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, The Federalist Papers, historical speeches, etc.
- Coverage of the CIA World Factbook
- Full text for over 500 pamphlets
- Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel
MasterFILE Premier
- Full text from over 2,000 general reference, business, health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals
- Indexing and abstracts for over 2,500 periodicals
- Full-text backfiles go as far back as 1975
- Updated daily
- Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel
McClatchy-Tribune Collection (formerly Knight Ridder)
- 90-day archive of almost 300 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services
- Titles include: The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Orlando Sentinel, and The Sacramento Bee
- Updated daily
- Publication List: PDF
MEDLINE
- Provides authoritative article abstracts and citations from the professional journals and publications on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and healthcare
- In the EBSCOhost Interface there are links to some full-text EBSCOhost journals
- Covers over 4,000 current biomedical journals from around the world
- Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), with tree structures and explosion capabilities
- Updated monthly
Medlineplus
- MEDLINE® provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Middle Search Plus
- Designed for middle school students
- Provides full text from over 150 general reference, health and science magazines
- Indexing and abstracts for nearly 200 magazines
- Full text of 265 pamphlets, over 5,000 Magill Book Reviews, 36 reference books, and 1,800 full-text historical essays
- Full-text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990
- Indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as January of 1984
- Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel
Military & Government Collection
- Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military
- Cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals
- Indexing and abstracting of over 500 titles
- Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel
NetLibrary
- As the leading provider of eBooks, NetLibrary offers a growing catalog of more than 2,500 titles. You'll find essential reference materials, the latest social science, medical, art and IT titles, and more.
- Title Listing: HTML | PDF | Excel
Newspaper Source
- Provides selected full text for 200 U.S. and 20 international newspapers, 21 newswires and newspaper columns, and 26 TV and radio news transcripts
- Full text includes the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and the Washington Post plus indexing and abstracting for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal
- Updated daily
- Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel
Primary Search
- Provides full text articles from over 60 children's magazines appropriate for elementary schools and children's reading rooms
- Indexing and abstracts for over 85 magazines
- Includes over 1,100 full-text historical documents and 100 pamphlets
- Full text of 18 student reference texts, including the World Almanac and the World Almanac for Kids
- Contains 310 health and science related pamphlets
- Updated weekly
- Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel
Professional Development Collection
- A highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators
- Information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice
- Abstract and index coverage for over 800 well-known professional development titles
- Full text for over 750 journals
- Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel
Project Gutenberg
- Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.
Regional Business News
- Provides comprehensive full text for regional U.S. business publications (including titles from Crain Communications) covering business, politics, and economics
- Full-text items from more than 75 sources
- Updated daily
- Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel
TOPICsearch
- Explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms
- Over 78,000 full text documents
- Selected full text articles for nearly 100 U.S. newspapers
- 2,500 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information
- Includes an online dictionary
- Publication List: HTML | PDF | Excel
What Tree Is That?
- Full-color photographs identify trees by leaves, fruit or bark
- Includes information on over 170 different trees of the Midwest by both common and Latin names
WorldCat
- Includes millions of records built from the bibliographic and ownership information of contributing libraries.
- Records for everything from stone tablets to electronic books, wax recordings to MP3s, DVDs and Web sites.
- Many records are enriched with cover art, tables of contents, reviews, excerpts and other descriptive information.
- Records typically have library holdings information attached to show where they can be accessed.