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Academic Search™ Premier
This database contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,300 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those 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. Academic Search Premier contains unmatched full-text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion and theology, etc.
Business Source® Premier
This is the industry's most-used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals dating back to 1965, and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Journal ranking studies reveal that 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. Additional full-text non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
Regional Business News™ is a supplemental database for customers of Business Source Premier. With daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications) for more than 50 sources.
CINAHL®
Providing indexing for 2,938 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, CINAHL contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,200 journals are also included, and full-text material includes 71 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
CINAHL® with Full Text
This database is the world's most comprehensive source of full-text content for nursing and allied health journals, providing full text for more than 580 journals and indexing for 2,938 journals dating back to 1981. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most prominent nursing journals and publications in the fields of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. With full-text coverage dating back to 1981, CINAHL with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
ERIC®
ERIC®, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources, including journals in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,243,000 records and links to more than 224,000 full-text documents.
GreenFILE™
Providing well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment, this database draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Subject coverage includes global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
Health Source®: Consumer Edition
This database is a rich collection of consumer health information, covering topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition and dietetics, children's health and women's health. Providing users access to nearly 80 full-text consumer health magazines, this resource includes searchable full text for current health-related pamphlets and reference books, and also contains more than 5,100 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide; and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary.
Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Health Source®: Nursing/Academic Edition
This resource provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong and includes full text from many prominent medical journals and publications in this field. In addition, this database includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts™
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) is available FREE to any library—compliments of EBSCO Publishing. LISTA indexes nearly 690 periodicals, as well as books, research reports and proceedings and author profiles, and contains a thesaurus of 6,800 terms. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Literary Reference Center™
Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive, full-text database combining information from major respected reference works, books and literary journals. This database contains full text for 27,500 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews; nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism; more than 420 literary journals; over 593,000 book reviews; more than 60,000 classic and contemporary poems; nearly 140,000 author biographies (including 20,000 in-depth bios); more than 15,000 classic and contemporary short stories; over 5,100 author interviews; and more than 7,100 classic texts; as well as a variety of encyclopedias and resource companions. It has been specifically designed for public libraries, secondary schools, junior/community colleges and undergraduate research.
MAS Ultra™—School Edition
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this comprehensive database contains full text for more than 500 popular high school magazines, including America's Civil War, American Heritage, American History, Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers and Colleges, Civil War Times, Congressional Digest, Discover, Economist, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II, etc. Full text is also available for 84,774 biographies and 105,787 primary source documents. Additionally, this database contains hundreds of reference books; an Image Collection of 293,480 photos, maps and flags; color PDFs and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975).
MasterFILE™ Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 1,750 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books; 86,017 biographies; 105,786 primary source documents; and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps and flags.
Middle Search® Plus
This database contains full text for more than 140 popular middle school magazines, and offers users access to thousands of biographies, historical essays, primary source documents and an Image Collection of 293,480 photos, maps and flags. In addition, this resource contains several reference books, including Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia, the American Heritage®Dictionary (4th Edition from Houghton Mifflin), and EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals™.
MEDLINE®
Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE® provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences and much more. Using MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals, this database includes citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE®, AIDSLINE®, BIOETHICSLINE®, and HealthSTAR®.
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 these sites. Military and Government Collection provides full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals, and offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 journals, including Air Force Comptroller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defence Studies, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces and many more.
Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 35 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc.
The database also contains selective full text for 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full-text television and radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.
NoveList®
As a readers' advisory service, NoveList not only provides access to 155,000 fiction titles, but also offers a wide range of feature content. Including author read-alikes, book discussion guides, reading lists and more, this database expands the ability to serve fiction readers of all ages and increase the reach of a library's program. With over 60,000 juvenile fiction records, as well as feature materials designed for both the younger reader and the adults that work with them, this resource allows libraries to enhance reading programs by pointing the way to quality fiction for students and teachers alike.
Primary Search®
This resource contains full text for nearly 70 popular elementary school magazines. Additionally, Primary Search includes the Encyclopedia of Animals™, Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, the American Heritage® Children's Dictionary (3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin), and an Image Collection of 293,480 photos, maps and flags.
Professional Development Collection™
This is the most comprehensive and most valuable collection of full-text education journals available. Offering users access to prominent publications in the field of professional development, this database contains more than 200 educational reports and includes full text for nearly 520 high-quality education journals, including Booklist, Education, Education Digest, Education Week, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal and many others.
PsycINFO®
From the American Psychological Association (APA), PsycINFO®contains more than 2.4 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations—all in psychology and related disciplines—dating as far back as the early 1800s. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage—which spans 1887 to present—includes international material selected from more than 2,200 periodicals in more than 27 languages. PsycINFO is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®, and 98 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection™
With 570 full-text journals and 48 books and monographs available, school counselors and psychologists find this resource to be a vital instrument in helping them achieve their goals. Particularly strong in child and adolescent psychology and various areas of counseling, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection includes journals such as Adolescent Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Child Development, Child Psychiatry and Human Development, Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Journal of Child Psychotherapy, Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Journal of Clinical Psychology, Professional School Counseling, Psychology in the Schools, Psychological Science, School Psychology Review and many others.
Religion and Philosophy Collection™
This database is a comprehensive resource covering topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. With nearly 300 full-text journals and unparalleled coverage of the subject areas listed above, the Religion and Philosophy Collection™ is an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.
Sociological Collection™
This database provides coverage of more than 500 full-text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. Sociological Collection offers information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Teacher Reference Center
Teacher Reference Center (TRC) is now available FREE to any K-12 library—compliments of EBSCO Publishing. TRC provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 periodicals. In addition, 96 percent of journals indexed in TRC are peer-reviewed. Topics include: Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science and Mathematics and Teacher Education. It is EBSCO Publishing's intention to provide access to TRC on a continual basis at www.TeacherReference.com.
TOPICsearch™
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms, including controversial opinions and viewpoints. TOPICsearch™ contains full text for over 105,000 articles from 1,622 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets and government information.
More Information
For more information on these databases, contact your local EBSCO representative:
- High School and Public Libraries
- Jill Putze
- 800-653-2726 x2224
- jputze@ebscohost.com
- Elementary School (K-8) Libraries
- Sara Mendillo
- 800-653-2726 x2593
- smendillo@ebscohost.com