Guide to Online Databases

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General Reference

(formerly AP/Photo Archive) With millions of images dating back more than 100 years, AP Images is one of the world’s largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery. The AP Images collection is updated every minute of the day and includes entertainment, fashion, news and sports coverage from The Associated Press and a diverse selection of content partners.

CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc.

CQ Supreme Court Collection blends historical analysis with timely updates and expert commentary of Supreme Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution.

Facts on File: Curriculum Resource Center Online is suited for middle school, high school, and junior college teachers and students seeking material to supplement their coursework in core subject areas—including U.S. and world history, science, and geography. This electronic library of curriculum-related handouts provides access to a broad selection of visual content, including maps, science diagrams, science experiments, historical images, historical timelines, and other handouts, all of which can be saved in a password-protected folder, emailed, or printed and used for worksheets, overheads, and testing. Web links direct users to some of the web’s best educational sites.

EBSCO Host offers a range of advanced searching features. Results can be limited or refined by various criteria including subject, author, journal, date, peer-reviewed status and full text availability. Many products on EBSCOhost support an enhanced subject search allowing in-depth searching of people, companies, reviews or specific subject headings. Navigate subdivisions or related terms, explore subjects that contain periodicals, reviews, newspapers, pamphlets or reference books.

Global Issues In Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.

Users of the J STOR library willhave access to the J STOR collection of journals. The J STOR database is uniquebecause the complete backfiles of these core scholarly journals havebeen digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of whichdate from the 1800s. Over 4 million pages are now available. Newtitles and fields are being added constantly. Issues of journals arenever "out"; they are always accessible.

Lexis-Nexis lets you search 4 areas: NEWS - More than 65 major newspapers, 40+ magazines and hard-to-find broadcast transcripts. LEGAL RESEARCH - U.S. Supreme Court and State cases, law review articles and all federal laws from 1988 to presentLegislation and Statistics. LEGISLATION - Track bills under consideration, members of congress, history of voting reports, U.S. & state bill text, and much more. STATISTICS - Search Statistical Abstract of the U.S. and American Statistics Index.

MAPS 101 has access to more than 4,000 easy-to-print maps, over 200 K-12 lesson plans, daily and weekly current events articles, up-to-date World & U.S. Reference Atlases, educational quizzes, games, and so much more!

OED (Oxford English Dictionary) Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3). Many of the entries in the Additions volumes consist of sections which are additions to an entry previously published in the Second Edition; such sections are appended to the end of the appropriate Second Edition entry. Complete entries published for the first time in the Additions volumes are presented as free-standing entries, along with entries from the Second Edition.The OED is currently being revised, with the aim of producing a completely updated third edition by the year 2010. Draft material from the revision programme will also be published online, representing the latest progress towards the new edition. More revised and new entries will be added to the online Dictionary every quarter.

OXFORD ISLAMIC STUDIES ONLINE Is an authoritative, dynamic online resource for students, scholars, government officials, community groups, and librarians, Oxford Islamic Studies Online brings together the best current scholarship in the field and promotes accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world. Encompassing over 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines, Oxford Islamic Studies Online offers a multi-layered reference experience designed to provide a first stop for anyone needing information on Islam.

Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection enhances the 100+ books in the Core Collection with an expanding range of key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. This means an additional 70,000 entries, including 50,000 longer, in-depth, signed entries with bibliographies. The new Premium Collection includes: Over 100 authoritative quick-reference titles covering the full subject spectrum – everything from the humanities and social sciences to science and medicine, and from business and finance to law and computing, English and bilingual dictionaries. PLUS: Over 50,000 in-depth scholarly articles from titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series and all 20,000 quotations from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

Project Muse contains at least 190 full-text, full-image scholarly electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences. Literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many other fields are represented.

Polling the Nations is the most comprehensive collection of public opinion. It covers 5000 topics, with information from not only in the United States but also more than 100 countries around the world. The database includes the full text of the questions and responses covering a broad range of issues. Subjects cover issues such as gun control, abortion, government, women, race relations, the economy, and children. In addition to these recurring themes, episodic events such as reactions to September 11--trust in government, Americans' willingness to take military action against countries assisting terrorists, whether the rights of average Americans are being protected--are added in a timely fashion.

ProQuest Direct now offers ProQuest Historical Newspapers which includes the entire backfile (1851-1999) of the New York Times in full-page digital images -- from news stories and editorials to graphics and advertisements. ProQuest Direct gives you access to abstracts and full-text of over 2000 periodicals and journals (abstracts begin1986 / full-text begins 1992). To view the list of periodicals available through ProQuest click here.

The Student Resource Center featuresFull-text articles from more than 350 magazines, updated daily -More than 1.7 million full-text magazines and newspaper articles -41,000 original biographies, essays and overviews -15,000 photos, maps and graphics -16,000 timeline references -Hundreds of audio and video clips -Results returned by source type -Intuitive and easy-to-use interface -And so much more

ENCYCLOPEDIAS Back to top

World Book Online provides access to all articles from the 22-volume print set plus over 1,800 more.You also get 7,500 pictures, over 100 virtual reality bubble views, 600 streaming sound clips, 60,000cross-reference links, links to 30,000+ periodical articles, links to thousands of editor-approved Web sites, Researcher Helper and more!

EB Online provides access to Britannica's collection of authoritative references,including their latest article database, articles not found in the hardcopy, Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary, the BritannicaBook of the Year, as well as thousands of links to other WWW sites selected byBritannica editors.

The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is based on the text of theAcademic American Encyclopedia which was the firstencyclopedia to make its text available online. It contains thousands of new andexpanded articles, extensive hyperlinking, bibliographies and links toother sources of information on the Web. The Grolier MultimediaEncyclopedia Online is updated monthly. Also included are the Encyclopedia Americana, New Book of Popular Science and the New Book of Knowledge.

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The Art Museum Image Gallery is a rich digital resource of art images and related multimedia gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world. The Art Museum Image Gallery can be searched alone or simultaneously with other WilsonWeb databases, including Art Full Text, Art Index Retrospective, and Biography Reference Bank. It is a rich digital resource of art images, right-cleared for educational use.Cultures and time periods represented range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works. The database includes numerous multimedia files.

The A Stor collection includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's tools allow you to view and analyze images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline;

Oxford Art Online is an innovative new gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. With the 2008 complete redesign of Grove Art Online, as well as the addition of substantial new Oxford reference content, Oxford Art Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online art resource available today, a virtual art reference library of unparalleled scope and depth.

Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content. Oxford Music Online also features Colin Larkin's landmark Encyclopedia of Popular Music — online for the first time by popular demand. The most comprehensive reference work devoted exclusively to popular music, the Encyclopedia is the authoritative biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists, covering popular music from 1900 to the present. It is exhaustive, meticulous, authoritative — and incredibly fun to read.

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The Biography Resource Center combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.

Wilson Biographies Plus offers full-text comprehensive coverage of over 38,000 figures from antiquity to the present. It includes the Current Biography: 1940-Present database. Wilson Biographies includes profiles from World Authors 800 B.C.- Present, Junior Book of Authors, World Artists 1950-1990, Composers, Musicians and Nobel Prize Winners. Service Note: Access to Wilson Biographies Plus is limited to 8 concurrentusers. If you have trouble logging on please wait a few minutes and try again.

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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.

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Accessible Archives was founded in 1990 with the goal of utilizing computer technology to make available vast quantities of archived historical information, previously furnished only on microfilm. In pursuit of this vision, primary source material has been selected to reflect a broad view of the times, and has been assembled into databases with a strict attention to detail allowing access to specific information with pinpoint accuracy. The ON-LINE full text search capability and digital imaging allows you to search and manipulate information in ways never before possible.

Facts on File: American History Online is a comprehensive and authoritative reference to the most important individuals, events, and topics in United States history. Spanning more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, this invaluable reference source is organized by content type, topic, era, and activity as well as by the National Standards for U.S. History. Thousands of fully hyperlinked entries allow you to follow a topic to related biographies, primary source documents, and images. Web links direct users to some of the web’s best educational sites.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. CIAO is also widely-recognized source for teaching materials including original case studies written by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political science classes, and special features like the analysis of a bin Laden recruitment tape with video. All sections of CIAO are updated monthly.

HARPWEEK has created a special Genre index to Literature in Harper's Weekly. The Literature and Publishing index includes works of prose and verse published in Harper's Weekly, as well as reviews, discussions, and advertisements for works of literature. To browse the Literature and Publishing index by genre, select "Browse the Literature in Harper's Weekly by Genre" by placing your cursor over the hyperlinked line and clicking. To browse the Occupation/Role categories, select "Find people by their Occupation or Role in Society" by placing your cursor over the hyperlinked line and clicking.

History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series.

History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.

The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading American journal for the study of European intellectual, political, and cultural history. The Journal's geographical and temporal scope—the history of Europe since the Renaissance—makes it unique: the JMH explores not only events and movements in specific countries, but also broader questions that span particular times and places.

SIRS Decades: 20th Century American Sources , is an electronic subscription resource containing Primary Source and reference content from the 20th century. Content is organized into curricular topics pertaining to American History, culture, and daily life of the time. Primary source types include: Advertisements, Editorial Cartoons, Letters, Memos, Messages, Maps and Charts, Original Documents, Original Works of Art, Photographs, Poems and Literary Works, Posters, Published Articles, Speeches and Addresses.

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The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry contains 250,000 poems in full text and 450,000 citations, numbers that will continually expand with each update. The poems in full text are the most widely-read in the English language, as well as in Spanish, French, German, and Italian. Included also is poetry in Portuguese, Polish, Yiddish, Welsh, Gaelic, and other Celtic languages, as well as poems in the ancient languages: Anglo-Saxon, Provencal and Latin. Scholars in each of these languages have reviewed and guided the selection of poems, so that the poetry on Granger’s is also the poetry encountered in the classroom. The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry offers complete coverage of the works of several individual great poets, including the complete poems of Shelley, Blake, Burns, Keats, Marvell, Poe, Unamuno, Heine, Baudelaire, and other major poets.

Over 85,000 full-text poems and accompanying explanatory materials are carefully selected to meet curriculum needs by Roth's Editorial Board in consultation with Roth's Advisory Board composed of English teachers, librarians and poets. The LitFINDER has now added full-text short stories and essays and will grow on a daily basis with more new features!

Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.

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AccessScience@McGraw-Hill - the online version of the #1 bestselling McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology lets you browse through 7,000 articles, 115,000 definitions, and biographies of more than 1,200 key scientists. And AccessScience is updated with 3 or 4 breakthrough science and technology stories every week.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE SCIENCES (ELS) features more than 4,000 specially commissioned and peer-reviewed articles, making it an essential read for life scientists and a valuable resource for teaching. Aimed at researchers, students and teachers, articles provide comprehensive and authoritative coverage, written by leaders in the field. Colour illustrations and tables accompany articles, with appendix and glossary material providing essential information for the non-specialist, including biochemical and taxonomic information, acronyms, synonyms, units and other technical data. Importantly, all articles have been peer-reviewed to ensure a balanced representation of the literature.

Facts on File: Science Online conveys the visual nature of science in a clear and easy-to-comprehend manner. All content in this comprehensive database is divided into sections based on the science curriculum established by the National Science Education Standards, allowing you to access printable diagrams, definitions, biographies, and essays in a specific subject area or discipline with a single click. Thousands of hyperlinks allow users to follow a diagram to a definition and on to a related essay or biography.

Health & Wellness Resource Center (HWRC) provides integrated access to medical, statistical, health, and wellness information through an intuitive Web interface. Including the respected Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, HWRC delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Additionally, consumers, students, and professionals are provided with descriptions of and links to several pertinent Web sites, selected for their usefulness and appropriateness. Health and Wellness Resource Center has partnered with Healthology, an industry leader in providing health and medical video content and physician-authored articles. Users of HWRC can search the extensive online library provided by Healthology directly from the HWRC home page. The Alternative Health module looks at health care from a holistic lens. The Disease Profiler module offers an empirical, statistical complement to the disease information in HWRC.

ProQuest AP Science delivers a comprehensive collection of more than 500 magazines and journals designed to support advanced placement and college-prep level science studies. Disciplines covered include earth, life, physical, medical, and applied sciences. Coverage is front-to-back full-text, as well as full-page image and Text+Graphics to reproduce images and diagrams exactly as they appeared in the original publication.

Science Reference Center (Ebsco) Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. Designed to meet every student's science research needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

Science Resource Center Researching science topics has never been easier -- with Science Resource Center, thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards.

Scientific American Archive currently contains the entire editorial contents of Scientific American Magazine, from January 1993 through to the present. The issues are presented in PDF format, which maintains the integrity of the printed page with all the graphics.

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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles