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New Databases
We've recently added these new databases to our collection. Please take a look at them.Book Index with Reviews
EBSCOHost Text Only
Professional Development Center
NoveList / Book Collection: NonFiction
History Reference Center
Novelist K-8
Research Databases in Alphabetical Order
These are the major databases that offer access to thousands of professional research journals. You can search for articles in journals or newspapers in two ways---either by accessing the databases themselves or searching by subject.BOOK INDEX with REVIEWS
Book Index with Reviews helps you find information on the books you want and need to read. BIR is a cooperative effort between NoveList, EBSCO Publishing and Baker & Taylor.
CQ RESEARACHER
CQ Researcher offers nonpartisan, in-depth reports on important topics of interest to researchers of contemporary issues, such as: War on Terrorism and Future Job Market. In addition to the 12,000-word report, each issue contains bibliographies and a pro and con section.
EBSCO-HOST
EBSCOHost provides internet searches through thousands of periodicals, newspapers, journals, papers, and more. Separated out just below are the fourteen sub-databases from EBSCOHost that Luzerne County Community College purchased, ranging from the Academic Search Elite to Regional Business News.
Text Only Version
Text Only provides a limited search of EBSCO's databases without graphics, for older computers.
Academic Search Elite
Academic Search Elite provides full text for more than 2,000 serials, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all 3,466 journals in the collection. This database offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies and more.
Book Collection: NonFiction
Book Collection: Nonfiction is a rich research database for school and public libraries, and includes general interest, high interest, leveled full text articles on civics, social studies, science, careers, health, sports, adventure, hobbies, technology, biographies and much more. This database contains informative abstracts and full text for more than 3,100 popular nonfiction books.
Business Source Elite
Business Source Elite provides full text coverage for nearly 1,100 business publications and economics journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 journals. Business Source Elite contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals. This database includes full text (PDF) coverage dating back as far as 1985, and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies.
Clinical Pharmacology
Clinical Pharmacology contains current, 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. Drugs may be searched by their generic or brand names. Clinical Pharmacology is made up of Drug Monograph and Patient Education Records. Drug Monographs include description, mechanism of action, and pharmacokinetics. Patient Education Records contain such information as what the medication is used for, what their health care professional should know before taking the medication, how the medication should be taken, what they should do if a dose is missed, what other medications can interact, what side effects may be noticed, what to watch for, and where to keep the medication. Patient Education records are available in English or Spanish.
Animals
EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals offers 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. Within some of the full text, image links are available for the Windows client. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic.
ERIC
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
Funk and Wagnall's Encyclopedia
Funk and Wagnall's Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually.
Health Source/Nursing Academic Edition
Health Source/Nursing Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1975.
History Reference Center
History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for 60 history magazines, 58,000 historical documents, 43,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 12,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
MAS Ultra-School Edition
MAS Ultra-School Edition: designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 700 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra - School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
MasterFILE Premier
MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for nearly 1,950 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,650 titles.
Middle Search Plus
Middle Search Plus provides full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high 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. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Military and Government Collection
Military and Government Collection: designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.
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.
Professional Development Collection
Professional Development Collectionis designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 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.
Regional Business News
Regional Business News 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.
EBSCO E-Journals
EBSCO E-Journals provides 67 additional journals that LCCC carries on diverse topics from medicine to psychology to education.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA ONLINE
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Academic Edition brings together the world renowned content of the encyclopedia, with the speed and convenience of the Internet.
Galegroup's INFO TRAC
InfoTrac provides thousands of periodicals, newspapers, biographies, and articles on various topics. Separated out are the following five databases that are more subject specific.
InfoTrac: Health Reference Center Academic
Health Reference Center Academic: Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
InfoTrac: Health and Wellness Resource Center
Health and Wellness Resource Center: Use this Resource Center to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, videos, & reference information on: Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Pregnancy, Prescription Drugs, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, health assessment sites & government databases. Easily access 700+ videos from Healthology, Inc.'s consumer health video library. Spanish-language videos are available. The material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
InfoTrac: Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center: provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
InfoTrac: Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
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.
InfoTrac: Contemporary Authors
Contemporary Authors: provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
LEXI-COMP
Lexi-Comp Online delivers current clinical information in dentistry essential for safe treatment, accurate diagnosis, and informed clinical decisions. This database has rich information in dentistry, including Drug Information, Dental Office Medical Emergencies, Oral soft Tissue Diseases, Oral Hard Tissue Disease, Manual of Clinical Periodontics, Lexi Natural Products, and Clinician's Endodontic Handbook.
Lexis-Nexis
Lexis-Nexis offers databases from over 23,000 news, legal, business and government sources.
Lexis-Nexis: News
Lexis-Nexis: News provides access to most of the newspapers in America and some from other nations, including Great Britain, Canada, France, etc.
Lexis-Nexis: Business
Lexis-Nexis: Business provides coverage of business, economic, accounting news and periodicals. It also provides access to companies's financial reports, company profiles and directories.
Lexis-Nexis: Legal Research
Lexis-Nexis: Legal Research provides access to legal news and law reviews. It also provides access to case laws from the Federal, State, and Supreme Court cases. It provides the Federal Code, Federal Regulations, State Codes, and the Tax Law for study and research. It also provides materials from international legal sources, such as the Commonwealth, the European Union, and Canadian law. It provides information on patents since 1971. It also gives a directory for law firms and law schools throughout the nation.
Lexis-Nexis: Medical
Lexis-Nexis: Medical provides articles from medical & health journals covering a wide range of medical topics
Lexis-Nexis: Reference
Lexis-Nexis: Reference provides information on biographies on business executives, politicians and others, country profiles, polls, surveys, quotations, state profiles, and access to the World Almanac.
LITERATURE ONLINE REFERENCE EDITION
Literature Online Reference Edition is a comprehensive study resource for institutions offering English and American literature courses, creative writing programs and literature-based degrees
NOVE-LIST
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.
NOVE-LIST K-8
NoveList K-8 allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in your classroom.
OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
PRO-QUEST NURSING JOURNALS
ProQuest Nursing Journals provides abstracting and indexing for more than 430 titles-with over 390 titles in full text. Designed to meet the needs of students and researchers at academic institutions, this unique database offers complete information from leading nursing and related publications and covers a wide range of topics including general nursing, obstetrics, geriatric care, oncology, and more. Titles in ProQuest Nursing Journals have been editorially selected because they are substantially indexed in The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL®).
WILSON WEB
Wilson Web contains two databases.
OmniFile Full Text is a multidisciplinary, 100% full-text database providing full text articles, with their accompanying indexing and abstracts, from the following Wilson periodical databases: Art Full Text, Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, Wilson Business Full Text.
Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated contains more than 111,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 32,000 photographs of the subjects. Many of the biographies are enhanced with full text, abstracts, and citations from H. W. Wilson databases. Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated contains the full text of the articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books published by H. W. Wilson, including all the articles from all volumes of Current Biography, the World Author Series, Nobel Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, American Reformers, and numerous biographical books on musicians and composers from throughout history. In addition, Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated includes over 65,000 profiles licensed from a number of respected reference publishers, including Chambers Harrap, Fitzroy Dearborn, Garland Publishing, Grove's Dictionaries Inc. & Macmillan UK, Harvard University Press, Helicon, and Oryx.