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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) - Full-text resource containing information from a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science and education.
Applied Science & Technology Abstracts (H.W. Wilson) - Periodical coverage includes 575 trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, as well as special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings.
Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson) - Full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications—now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.
Biography Index (H.W. Wilson) - cites biographical articles appearing in any of more than 3,000 periodicals, plus some 2,000 current books of individual and collective biography published each year, and biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Besides biographies and autobiographies, it includes citations to interviews, obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, juvenile literature, book reviews, bibliographies and exhibition reviews. People covered range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.
Biography Resource Center (Gale) - Comprehensive, full-text, online biographical reference database covering literature, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events and the arts.
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus (H.W. WilsoN) - offers researchers convenient online access to the core literature of biology and agriculture—much of it from peer-reviewed journals—plus full text. Full text citations also link to PDF page images, featuring graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations indispensable to science research.
Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson) - A library classic for nearly 100 years, Book Review Digest indexes and provides excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and non-fiction. Now, Book Review Digest has become Book Review Digest Plus—dramatically expanding its scope (from its former base of 109 periodicals) with entries drawn from thousands of periodicals covered by other WilsonWeb databases.
Business & Industry (Gale) - A multi-industry business database with a strong global focus on company, product and industry information. Business & Industry provides the precise and relevant indexing that ensures easy and successful searching -- plus valuable facts, figures and trends. Business & Industry is one of the most widely-used business databases throughout the world.
Business Source Elite (EBSCO) - Comprehensive full-text business periodical database that includes scholarly journals and business periodicals covering topics such as management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business.
CINAHL with Headings (EBSCO) - Complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association. Over 1,200 nursing journals and publications dating back to 1982.
College Source (Career Guidance Foundation) - Search from over 19,000 college catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate, and professional schools.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO) - offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals in the field of communications and mass media, and selected coverage of over 100 more, for a combined coverage of over 400 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for nearly 200 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable citations from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915).
Computer Database (Gale) - Offers access to today's most well-read and influential periodicals on the computer, telecommunications and electronics industries.
Contemporary Women's Issues (Gale) - A multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries. Contemporary Women's Issues includes English-language titles from East and West Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe.
Criminal Justice Periodicals Index (ProQuest) - Covers a wide variety of criminal justice topics, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law. Full-text and image coverage for about 50 journals.
CQ Researcher (SIRS) - Current perspectives on the arts and humanities, including music, literature, film, performing arts, architecture, religion and visual arts and more. Many articles includes full-color art reproductions, photographs, and illustrations.
Custom Newspapers (InfoTrac/GaleNet) - Full-text access to more than 100 newspapers, including several Florida papers, The New York Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and other national and international newspapers.
eBooks (netLibrary) - Searchable collection of ebooks specifically selected for Florida's community colleges.
Education (H.W. Wilson) - Full-featured database covering such topics as technology, science, art, humanities, business, law, and social sciences. Many articles in full-text.
Encyclopædia Britannica (Britannica) - Access more than 72,000 articles, 10,000 illustrations, photographs, drawings, maps, and flags. More than 75,000 definitions, including pronunciation guides.
Essay & General Literature Index Full Text This unique reference offers precise access to nearly 65,000 essays contained in some 5,300 anthologies and collections—a wealth of information that might be otherwise hidden away in your library. Some 300 single and multi-author collections are indexed annually, plus more than 20 selected annuals and serials. Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, including literary works, art history, drama, and film.
Expanded Academic ASAP (Infotrac) (Gale) - Topics range from arts and the humanities to social sciences, science, and technology. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images.
FirstSearch (OCLC) - Collection of more than 50 full- and partial-text databases with topics ranging from the arts and humanities to science and medicine. Multiple databases can be searched at once.
General BusinessFile ASAP (Gale) - Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends, and the latest in management, economics and politics. Search broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings.
General Reference Center Gold (Gale) - Integrates a vast array of key business and general interest titles in a single database. It includes national news magazines, encyclopedias, core business journals, Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service newspaper articles, more than 15 reference books, and more than 2,000 titles, including 1,200 in full text.
General Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson) - Periodical coverage includes 242 popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Full Text also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday).
Health & Wellness Resource Center (Gale) - Easy-to-use interface with access to full-text nursing and allied health journals, encyclopedias and other reference sources, as well as informational pamphlets. Also includes the Alternative Health suite of resources.
Humanities Fulltext (H.W. Wilson) - Over 500 English-language periodicals covering literature and language, history, philosophy, archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts, history, religion and theology. Many articles in full text.
Index to legal Periodicals Full Text (H.W. Wilson) - International coverage and access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, and more. This is an excellent resource for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, students, paralegals, and others involved with the law.
Informe Revistas en Espanol (Gale) - Created exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, this full-text electronic reference tool is the first system to provide indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic magazines -- not just translations. Also included is a thesaurus and interface that are uniquely designed for Spanish-speaking users. ¡Informe! thinks through every query in Spanish. Terms and thesaurus are based on the expressions Spanish-speakers commonly use, allowing users to easily navigate through the database without experiencing inaccurate search terms.
InfoTrac Junior Edition (Gale) - Designed for junior high and middle school students, and features the titles most critical to their libraries and curriculum. With Junior Edition's diverse perspectives and strong full-text coverage, students will find the answers they need to all their general reference questions.
InfoTrac Kids (Gale) - Gives younger students the tools they need to make sense of the content they access. User-friendly interfaces and ever-improving content make research not only a learning experience, but fun, too.
InfoTrac OneFile (Gale) - Includes more than 4,200 full-text titles; five newspaper indexes -- a total of nearly 8,000 titles in all with more than 20 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present. InfoTrac OneFile makes approximately 25 million database records available with a single search query. It includes newswires from 89 wire services, newspapers, general interest magazines, refereed academic journals, business publications, technology periodicals, and specialty titles in law, health care and computers.
InfoTrac Professional Edition (Gale) - A custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators that is updated daily. The Professional Collection offers balanced coverage for any professional educator in the arts and humanities, child and adolescent psychology and development, drug and alcohol abuse, health/nutrition/fitness, learning disabilities, literature, school law, science and technology, social sciences or sports/athletic training.
InfoTrac Student Edition (Gale) - Designed for secondary school students, and offers a quick and easy way to do classroom assignments and get answers to general reference questions. Student Edition is comprised of a variety of full-text sources that include the leading magazines, newspapers and reference books that librarians prefer and students enjoy.
Issues and Controversies (Facts.com) - Offers a wealth of current topics research information, including pro/con discussions of hot issues, newspaper editorials, numerical snapshots of key topics, photos and graphics, and selected historical source documents.
LexisNexis Academic (LexisNexis) - Full-text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Medical & health; federal, state & international legal materials; corporate news & financial information, and more.
Library Literature & Information Science Index (H.W. Wilson) - A bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed.
Literature Resource Center (Gale) - Full-text access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.
MAS Ultra School Edition (EBSCO) - Designed for high school students. Contains full-text for more than 490 popular, high school magazines as well as biographies, primary source documents, pamphlets and reference books.
Military & Government Collection (EBSCO) - Designed to offer current news and information to all branches of the military, with a thorough collection of military titles, trade publications and newsweeklies. Includes cover-to-cover full text for nearly 350 titles.
Nursing Journals (ProQuest) -Access articles and graphics from more than 270 nursing-related publications, including Nursing, Nursing Management, RN, American Journal of Sports Medicine, Physical Therapy, and Patient Care Management.
Omnifile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson) - Full text periodicals, along with article abstracts and indexing, covering business, education, science, social sciences, art, humanities and plus popular magazines.
Primary Search (EBSCO) - Designed for elementary school students. Contains full-text for more than 50 popular elementary school magazines as well as pamphlets and reference books such as the Encyclopedia of Animals and Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia.
Readers' Guide Full Text (H.W. Wilson) - Offers the ultimate in current events coverage, curriculum support, and quality periodicals research for students, educators, and library patrons.
Regional Business News (EBSCO)- Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for more than 50 regional business newspapers and periodicals.
Social Sciences (H.W. Wilson) - Full-featured database covering such topics as technology, science, art, humanities, business, law, and social sciences. Many articles in full-text.
The American Humanities Index (EBSCO) - A collection of bibliographic references to literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada. This database covers over 1,000 journals published from 1975 to the present, and all journals included in the American Humanities Index are indexed in their entirety (cover to cover). This database provides citation information for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems and fiction. Photographs, paintings and illustrations are also referenced.
What Do I Read Next? (Gale) - A powerful readers' advisory tool offering the expertise of specialists, critics and librarians to find the best examples of internationally known fiction and nonfiction. Contains over 100,000 titles, more than 58,000 plot summaries, 562 awards titles, recommended reading lists and biographical information. Genres include inspirational, mystery, romance, science fiction, fantasy, horror, western and historical novels, general fiction, classic fiction and nonfiction.
Wilson Business Full Text (H.W. Wilson) - Provides fast, convenient access to a multitude of outstanding sources—from The New York Times Business Section and The Wall Street Journal to magazines and scholarly journals. Users will find feature articles, product reviews, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, book reviews, reports from associations, societies, trade shows and conferences, and more.
Wilson Science Complete (H.W. Wilson) - Offers the complete content of three science-oriented databases at one time: Applied Science and Technology Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, and General Science Full Text can be accessed simultaneously with a single search. Includes full text and abstracts for a wide range of scientific and general interest publications.
