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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
| 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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