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This database is compiled by the National Agricultural Library of the U.S. Dept of Agriculture, and contains 2.9 million records. It covers 1970 to the present and is updated monthly. It contains records on the subjects of: all aspects of agriculture, plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, food and nutrition
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"BioOne is the product of innovative collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector. BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne’s titles are published by small societies and other not-for-profit organizational publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form. BioOne provides integrated, cost-effective access to a thoroughly linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences." It contains the full text for over 100 journals.
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| Academic Search Premier "This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles." |
| Topic Search "This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 139,800 articles from more than 4,800 diverse sources." |
| ERIC ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a very large education database that has been around since 1966. It was managed by the U.S. Department of Education until 2003. It contains over 1 million records in two types: (1) ERIC Documents, which are classroom guides , results of research not published, dissertations, manuals, results or research, and (2) Journal articles from almost 1000 journals. Many of the ERIC Documents from 1993-to the present are available full-text online. There is another online version at the Department of Education website, at: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ For more information on ERIC, go to the following website: http://www.se.edu/lib/eric.htm. |
| Health Source:Nursing/Academic Edition "This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names." |
| MEDLINE MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. |
| Professional Development Collection "Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world." |
| MasterFILE Premier "Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 85,827 biographies, 105,789 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost." |
| MAS Ultra School Edition "Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,639 biographies, 104,481 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines." |
| Health Source: Consumer Edition This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines." |
| Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. This database is updated annually. |
| EBSCO Animals "Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals." |
FirstSearch is a service provided by OCLC. It is a collection of databases on many topics that is accessed through the Internet. FirstSearch contains the following databases:
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List of Databases
| Article First
This database contains citations to articles that
appear in journals in science, technology, social science, business and humanities,
and popular culture. With over 15,000 journals indexed, this is one of the largest
journal databases in the SE Library's collection. It covers from 1990 to
the present, |
| Clase Periodica
This is an index of more than 2,600 journals in the sciences and humanities from Latin American countries. |
| GPO Monthly Catalog
This contains citations to 522,000 publications of the United States Government, such as: Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; documents issued by an executive department or federal agency (defense, education, justice) The database covers documents that have been published since July 1976. |
| Medline This is a database that contains 12,000,000 records on the subject of medicine. It covers 9,580 titles on all aspects of medicine, including: clinical medicine, dentistry, experimental medicine, health services administration, nursing, nutrition, pathology, psychiatry, toxiology, and veterinary medicine. It covers 1965 to the present. |
| PapersFirst
Contains citations to papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia. To be included the information must have been received by the British Document Supply Center. It covers from October 1993 to the is updated monthly. It has 4.9 million records and is updated 24 times a year. |
| Proceedings
Contains over 149,000 citations of every congress, symposium, conference, and workshop from all over the world that was received at the British Library from October 1993 to the present. This database is updated twice a week. |
| Union Lists of Periodicals
This database contains holdings information for journals and other covered items among the thousands of OCLC member libraries. Use this to determine what library holds a specific journal. There are currently around 8.5 million records in this database, and is updated twice a year. |
| H.W. Wilson Select Full Text
Covers 1,600 periodicals from 1994 to the present. Contains records from: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts, and Business Abstracts and other Wilson databases. It is updated weekly. An important feature of this database is that all articles are full text. |
| World Almanac
This database contains the contents of the following: The World Almanac and Book of Facts,, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, the World Almanac for Kids, and the World Almanac Knowledge Source. It is updated annually. |
| WorldCat
A database of over 95 million records of materials representing 400 languages, such as: books, magazines, films, slides, journals, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, videocassettes, audio-cassettes, computer data files, and computer programs, that have been cataloged by OCLC members worldwide. The records cover items from 1000 BC to the present, and this database is updated daily. |