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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
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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 in Context

Virtually every course of study â€” from history to science to literature â€” is ultimately tied to the study of people. Biography in Context delivers outstanding research support with nearly a million biographical entries spanning history and geography. Just like all the new revolutionary In Context products, itâ€™s a curriculum-aligned resource that offers media-rich content in context that's updated daily to meet the needs of todayâ€™s user. In it youâ€™ll find:
600,000+ biographies covering more than 525,000 individuals
170+ award-winning Gale reference titles
50,000 new or updated bios added annually in addition to daily updates to account for awards and events
Integrated reference material, periodical information and multimedia content
Hundreds of hand-crafted topic pages covering the highest-interest features

Newly Included Collection

The included Lives & Perspectives Collection supports high-school curricula and university coursework by providing multidisciplinary content on notable figures and the societal forces that have shaped their lives. The integration of this collection provides first-time-ever access to 160,000 bios drawn from:
American Men & Women of Science
Encyclopaedia Judaica
Governments of the World
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
And nearly 40 other respected titles from Macmillan Reference USA, Charles Scribner's Sons and Gale
Biography in Context Fact Sheet - Academic Libraries: click here
Biography in Context Fact Sheet - K12 Schools: click here
Biography in context Fact Sheet - Public Libraries: click here
For a database title list: click here

Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic Edition

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
Subject Title List: HTML | PDF
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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

Census.gov

The Census Bureau Web Site provides on-line access to our data, publications, and products.

Contemporary Authors Online

Contemporary AthorsÂ® Online offers your students and patrons continuous access to current biographical and bibliographical data on more than 120,000 modern authors. Each Contemporary AuthorsÂ® Online entry contains the most complete and up-to-date entry, accessible through an easy-to-use interface with a variety of search paths to help you locate the information you need quickly and efficiently. You can easily search for an author by name, title of work, subject/genre, nationality, date and place of birth, honors, awards and much more.
Added to the database annually are approximately 3,000 new entries and 1,000 full-entry updates from the Contemporary AuthorsÂ® and Contemporary AuthorsÂ® New Revision Series print volumes. Look for recent information on J.K. Rowling, Isaac Asimov, Isabel Allende, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Crichton, Derek Walcott, Dave Barry, Toni Morrison, Neil Simon, and many others. In addition, Contemporary AuthorsÂ® Online offers continuously updated information on the most active authors in this database. Included are author-provided updates, expanded entries, bibliographies, awards, and recent update information.
Contemporary Authors fact sheet: click here

Corporate ResourceNet

Designed to meet the diverse information needs of todayâ€™s companies
Full-text articles from over 1,300 magazines and journals
Full-text information dates as far back as 1985
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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.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.

eBooks

There are currently 16,981 eBook titles available through EBSCO and over 7,000 eBook titles from Gale, which offers a rapidly growing collection of eBooks available via convenient Subject Sets that have been hand-crafted by collection development experts.
eBooks on EBSCOhost guides and tutorials
eBooks on EBSCOhost - Downloading (4min)
eBooks on EBSCOhost - Searching (4min)

eBooks - Gale Virtual Reference Library

The Gale Virtual Reference Library offers an online collection of premier reference eBooks. You can search a single eBook, within a Subject, or across your library or institution's entire eBook collection
Search Tips

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

Gale Virtual Reference Library

The Gale Virtual Reference Library offers an online collection of premier reference eBooks. You can search a single eBook, within a Subject, or across your library or institution's entire eBook collection
Search Tips

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.

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. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

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: | PDF | Excel

Health & Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health

Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials.
Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles.
Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.

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
Coverage List: HTML | PDF
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Health Reference Center Accademic

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.

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
Coverage List: HTML | PDF
Subject List: HTML | PDF

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
Coverage List: HTML | PDF
Subject List: HTML | PDF

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
Coverage List: HTML | PDF

Lit Finder

LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. A subject navigator provides over 10,000 subject headings, and basic and advanced search modes allow users to search by keyword, author, subject, work title, work date, nationality, gender, timeline, and more.
LitFinder's easy-to-use interface allows users to easily target the information they are looking for or to browse the database through various refine search and browse options. For example, users can find everything from the sonnets of Shakespeare to the poetry of Maya Angelou, the love poetry of the 13th century to contemporary poems by African American women, the inaugural speeches of George Washington through George W. Bush, short stories by Edgar Allan Poe to stories by up-and-coming writer Elizabeth Weld, or essays on such subjects as the arts, science, and religion.
For a title list: click here
For a basic search guided tour: click here
For a guided tour on Managing Results in LitFinder: click here
To visit the LitFinder Product Website: click here

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

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

McClatchy-Tribune Collection (formerly Knight Ridder)

90-day archive of almost 300 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services
Updated daily
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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

MEDLINEÂ® 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
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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
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Military & Intelligence Collection

The Military and Intelligence Database periodical list has been hand-selected by Gale editors to meet the content needs of libraries serving military personnel.
Additionally, the product includes some basic reference materials that are updated annually: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia and The World Almanac
and Book of Facts.
Journals: 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
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Nursing & Allied Health Collection

All aspects of the Nursing profession -- from direct patient care to health care administration -- are covered in this collection. Including nearly 400 titles, this collection's current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.

Nursing Resource Center

Designed for nursing students, the Nursing Resource Center brings together in an easy-to-use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts.
The information is written in accessible language for students completing class assignments and preparing for clinicals as they learn how to care for and treat patients.
Search results are returned in tabs that correspond to steps in the nursing process.

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

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
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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
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Science InContext

Part of Thomson Gale's science product line for students, the Science Resource Center is an in-depth, curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs. The Science Resource Center reflects curriculum trends and focuses on key concepts taught in school classrooms.

Science InContext - Academic Libraries click here
Science InContext - K12 Schools click here
Science InContext - Public Libraries click here
Searching Tips click here

Small Business Resource Center

Small Business Resource Center -- is the perfect resource for public and academic libraries, chambers of commerce and small business development centers -- covers all major areas of starting and operating a business including financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting and taxes. Startup and established businesses alike can find the answers they're looking for from an easy-to-use interface that includes a "How To" menu that tackles the most-frequently asked new business questions -- including "How to start a small business."
Whether the aspiring businessperson searches by existing business topics, types, sample business plans or creating their own, search results will be returned quickly and are designed for easy readability and use. Small Business Resource Center is home to the best resources Gale has to offer, including the entire Business Plans Handbook Series, which contains hundreds of sample business plans created by real-life entrepreneurs. Also included are the Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources, Encyclopedia of Management and Small Business Management - A Framework for Success. Small Business Resource Center also features as dozens of titles from John Wiley & Sons -- best known for the popular and easy-to-understand "For Dummies" series -- such as Portable MBA Strategy, 2nd Ed., The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Small Business Growth and Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship. Small Business Resource Center also includes nearly 200 business journals -- both specialty/vertical market and general business.
For a title list: click here
For a current Webinar Schedule for this product: click here

TeachingBooks.net

TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. Our online database is developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the Kâ€“12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.
Video Demonstrations of TeachingBooks.net click here

Testing and Education Resource Center (TERC)

Taking a college entrance or licensing exam? Looking for a college or graduate school? Need help finding scholarships? Use this database to search thousands of college and graduate school entries. Identify scholarships that meet their financial needs. Take on-line practice tests and use test prep eBooks to obtain your education goals.
Create your own account to track your progress
Free electronic study guides / prep books (SAT, MCAT, ASVAB, etc.)
Publication List: 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

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.

INSPIRE is a service of the Indiana State Library. INSPIRE is supported by the Indiana General Assembly through Build Indiana Funds, The Institute of Museum
and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act and in partnership with the Academic Libraries of Indiana. \