The following links will take you to our online databases,
either from within the library or from home. These can be searched 24
hours a day, 7 days a week. If you have any questions about using the
databases to find journal articles, medical or auto
information, newspaper
archives, or any other information, please call the Reference Desk at the
library at 245-7686.
EBSCO
Research Databases
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from the library
EBSCO
Research Databases
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from home (use your library card barcode as patron i.d.)
Includes the following databases, as well as Auto Repair
Reference Center, Consumer Health Complete, Student Research Center, Kids Search
and NoveList. NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading
access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It
also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author
Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and
Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are
Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.
Alt HealthWatch
This alternative health database provides full text
for 180 publications in the collection, including full text for many
peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across
the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative
medicine dating back to 1990.
Academic Search Premier
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary
database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650
serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF
backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals,
and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This
database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier is the industry’s
most used business research database, providing full text for more than 8,800
serials, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business
publications. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in
full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing,
management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is
updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text
coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates
coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan
and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily
basis.
MasterFILE Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this
multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,700 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, 84,774 biographies, 100,554
primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and
flags.
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 features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals. This database
is updated on a daily basis.
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 abstracts and indexing for nearly 850
journals.
Clinical Pharmacology
Clinical Pharmacology provides access up-to-date,
concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs,
hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and
new and investigational drugs.
Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source provides selected full text
for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also
contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text
for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated daily via
EBSCOhost.
Primary Search
Primary Search provides full text for nearly
70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles
included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and
full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily
on EBSCOhost.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic
entries covering a variety of subject areas.
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.
TOPICsearch
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.
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