CINAHL Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health

coverage 1982 to present, abstracts since 1986

• Includes nursing and allied health articles from worldwide, scientific literature presented for the needs of health professionals.
• Provides articles about nursing, allied health, biomedical, consumer health journals, and publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing.
• Includes health care books, nursing dissertations, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts and educational software.

FirstSearch

• 52 databases- search 1 to 3 databases at a time by author, keyword, title, ISBN or date. Locate item and request through Interlibrary Loan if not available at the Learning Resources Center. (A Fee is charged for all ILL articles, 10 cents per page.)

ProQuest Career and Technical Education™

coverage 1991-present

• Designed for both students and instructors, ProQuest Career and Technical Education is an excellent source of vocational information for community colleges, two-year institutions, public libraries, and high schools offering technical courses.

LoisLaw

• Legal research database with tutorial. Loislaw publishes case law, statutory law, constitutions, administrative law, court rules, and other authority for all 50 states and D.C. plus the 18 most important Federal law libraries.

Literature Resource Center

• Information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. LRC contains criticism, biographies, bibliographies, work overviews and explications, Web sites, periodical articles, compare and contrast pages, full-text author's works, and reading lists.

The Following Group of Databases provided by

• 45,000 encyclopedia articles on all subjects
• Interactive atlas; dictionary; images
• Links to selected web sites & periodical articles
• Weekly news feature with teacher resources & links to news sources

General Business File ASAP (Gale-InfoTrac) (1980 - present) For college-level & adult researchers and advanced high school students

• Full-text periodical articles & indexing on business & management topics
• Newswire articles; newspaper indexing
• Directory listings on 150,000+ companies
• Investment & broker research reports
• Searches may be limited to refereed journals

Custom Newspapers (Gale-InfoTrac) For all age groups, searches may be limited to one or more newspapers

• Full-text articles from:
  The New York Times (latest 365 days) & The Greenville News (SC) (1/2002+)
  • Selected full-text articles from:
  The Post & Courier (Charleston, SC) (1/2001+)
  

Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale-InfoTrac) (1980 - present) For college-level & adult researchers and advanced high school students

• Periodical indexing (3000+), full-text (2000+) & full-image (1600+)
• Coverage of all academic subjects
• Scholarly and professional periodicals; selected general interest magazines
• New York Times article citations (1980+)
• Searches may be limited to refereed journals

General Reference Center (Gale-InfoTrac) (1980 - present) For high school students through adults

• Magazine indexing (1100+), full-text (800+) & full-image ( 600+)
• General, consumer interest & current events topics
• Maps; articles from reference sources
• Selected full-text articles from the Washington Post & Christian Science Monitor
• Indexing of NY Times & Wall Street Journal

Health Reference Center Academic (Gale-InfoTrac) (1980 - present) For college-level & other adult researchers

• Nursing, allied health, medical journals
• Consumer health magazines
• Medical reference titles
• Selected health & medical articles from general interest magazines
• Consumer health pamphlets
• Searches may be limited to refereed titles

Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale) (1980 - present) For advanced middle school students through adults

• Magazine, journal & newspaper articles on health & medical topics
• Medical encyclopedia articles
• Health organizations directory
• Links to diet, cancer & health assessment web sites
• Links to government health & medical databases
• Health news from around the world
• Information on specific drugs

InfoTrac OneFile (Gale-InfoTrac) (1980 - present) For college-level & adult researchers and advanced high school students

• Largest InfoTrac collection; periodical content only
• Magazine indexing (8000+), full-text (4000+) & full-image (3000+)
• Searches may be limited to refereed titles
• Newswires, newspapers, general & children’s magazines, scholarly & professional journals
• Periodical content* from all InfoTrac databases merged into a single database

*NOTE: Not included are maps, reference books, pamphlets, LegalTrac newsletters, full text Custom Newspapers content, and other InfoTrac databases’ research supplements.

LegalTrac (Gale-InfoTrac) (1980 - present) For college-level & adult researchers and advanced high school students. Index to over 1000 law and legal periodical titles (full-text for about 100) including:

• Major law reviews
• Newsletters
• Legal newspapers
• Bar association journals
• International legal journals
  NOTE: Most of the legal newsletters are unique to LegalTrac & are NOT found in InfoTrac OneFile

Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who(r) (Gale) For all age groups

• Biographies from respected publications
• Full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals
• Search by name, birth/death year or place, nationality, ethnicity, occupation, gender
• Combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search
• Complete Marquis Who's Who - quick reference information on nearly one million people

What Do I Read Next? (Gale) For librarians & teachers - For readers of all ages

• Recommendations on 100,000+ book titles
• Covers fiction & nonfiction for children, young adults & adults
• Find recommended books by author, title, subject, reading level, genre, setting, etc.
• Lists award winners & best sellers
• Monthly highlights; latest award winners; seasonal selections

SIRS Discoverer (SIRS) For students in grades 1-9 and their teachers/parents

• Age appropriate, full-text articles selected from 1,600+ sources
• Newspapers, magazines, government documents, reference sources
• Reading levels assigned to all articles
• Pictures, photo essays, images
• Maps, activities, biographies, country facts
• Current events; World Almanac for Kids
• WebFind for Kids: organized links to age appropriate web sites

SIRS Knowledge Source (SIRS) For advanced middle school students through adults

• Carefully selected articles from thousands of domestic & international sources
• Newspapers, magazines, reference sources, government documents & more
• Interactive textbook on citizenship with teacher resources
• Primary sources; Supreme Court decisions
• Continuously-updated news
• Images; maps; country profiles
• SKS WebSelect: organized links to evaluated web sites

Student Edition (Gale-InfoTrac) (1985 - present) For upper middle & high school students and their teachers/parents

• Magazine indexing (450+), full-text (400+) & full-image (200+)
• Covers subjects studied in high school
• Articles from reference books
• Newswire articles
• Maps; historical images

Kids InfoBits (Gale) (1990 - present) For K-5 students and their teachers/parents

• Full-text articles from 75+ children’s magazines
• Articles, images & maps from children’s reference sources
• Reading levels assigned to articles
• Special content: activities, recipes, experiments, poetry & stories by children
  NOTE: Kids InfoBits has replaced Kid’s Edition.

Junior Edition (Gale-InfoTrac) (Latest four years) For middle school students and their teachers/parents

• Full-text articles from 140+ magazines
• Full-image for about half of these titles
• Maps; articles from reference books
• Newswire articles
• Special content: short stories, poems, quizzes, experiments, activities
• Toolbox to help students learn research & writing skills