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Databases by Subject

Biography Format Availability
Biography Resource Center
Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. Full text Campus or home
Student Resource Center
Comprehensive, cross-curricular reference source for college and college-prep libraries. Full text Campus or home

Books Format Availability
Ebrary
Collection of 18,000 + e-books on wide variety of subjects. Full text Campus or home
Library Catalog
Books, audiocassettes and videos available in the Garrett College Library Citations Campus or home
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Full text Campus or home
Title Source 3
Comprehensive and accurate title information on over 3 million book, audio and video titles. Citations and book reviews See librarian

Business Format Availability
Business Source Premier
World's largest full text business database, covering virtually all subject areas related to business. Full text Campus or home
ReferenceUSA
Comprehensive database of U.S. corporations with data useful for job searches, marketing and general information. Also contains a residential database for searching individuals. Data Campus

 

Criminal Justice Format Availability
ProQuest
Periodical articles from thousands of journals in education, business, science, psychology and many other disciplines. Full text Campus or home

Current Events Format Availability
Issues & Controversies
Articles that highlight the important issues in today's news. Full text Campus or home
Information on social issues; viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles Full text Campus or home

Education Format Availability
ERIC
Contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals. Mostly abstracts with some
full text
Campus or home
ProQuest
Periodical articles from thousands of journals in education, business, science, psychology and many other disciplines. Full text Campus or home

General Format Availability
Academic Search Premier
Periodical article index in general academic subject areas. Full text Campus or home
Britannica Online
Online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Full Text Campus or home
Ebrary
Collection of 18,000 + e-books on wide variety of subjects. Full text Campus or home
eLibrary
Over 1 million newspaper articles, 250,000 journal & periodical articles, TV & radio transcripts, reference books, pictures & images on a wide variety of topics. Full text Campus or home
National Newspapers
Access to articles in the Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Baltimore Sun. Full text Campus or home
ProQuest
Periodical articles from thousands of journals in education, business, science, psychology and many other disciplines. Full text Campus or home
Student Resource Center
Comprehensive, cross-curricular reference source for college and college-prep libraries. Full text Campus or home

Government Documents Format Availability
SIRS Knowledge Source
Information about the federal government; Supreme Court decisions; current & historic government documents on a wide variety of topics Full text Campus or home

Health Format Availability

Health Source Plus | Nursing/Academic Edition | Consumer Edition

Covers many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Full  text Campus or home
Magills Medical Guide
An up-to-date & easy-to-use medical compendium, the Guide provides general readers with an authoritative reference source that helps bridge the gap between medical encyclopedias for professionals and popular self-help guides. Full text

Campus or home (through 12/31/2010)

National Library of Medicine
Comprehensive medical database for the general public and professionals in the health field. Abstracts & full text Campus or home
PsycBOOKS
Indexes individual chapters from books in the area of psychology. Full text Campus or home
Salem Health: Psychology and Mental Health
Provides general readers with an authoritative reference source that helps bridge the gap between encyclopedias for professionals and popular self-help guides. Full text Campus or home

 

History Format Availability
Milestone Docsuments in American History
Combines 134 full-text primary source documents with expert analysis and commentary. Full text Campus or home (through 12/31/2011)

Literature Format Availability
LION: Literature Online
Fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. Full text Campus or home
Literature Resource Center
Access to biographical and bibliographical information on writers from every era and literary discipline and critical analysis of their works. Full text Campus or home
Magill on Literature
Over 11,000 essays on literary works, including plot, characters and critical analyses. Full text Campus or home

 

Newspapers Format Availability
National Newspapers
Access to articles in the Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Baltimore Sun. Full text Campus or home

Science Format Availability
Access Science
Online encyclopedia of science and technology. Full text Campus or home
Birds of North America
Comprehensive life histories for each of the 716+ species of birds breeding in the USA (including Hawaii) and Canada. Full text Campus
GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources)
Authoritative reference content in the area of the environment, energy and natural resources. Full text Campus or home
Grzimek's Animal Life
Complete description of all animal species, with habitat, behavior, physical characteristics, diet and more. Full text Campus or home
Science Resource Center
Thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures, illustrations and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards. Full text Campus or home

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