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Full-Text Databases included in JerseyClicks
BASIC
RESEARCH
EBSCO MasterFILE Premier
MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public
libraries, provides full text for more than 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 more than 2,600 titles. This database
features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 320
reference and travel books including the World Almanac & Book
of Facts 2001; full text from 91,600 biographies, 75,000
full text primary source documents, American Heritage
Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of
107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier
offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975 for key publications
including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History
Today, Judaism, Library Journal, National Review and
Natural History.
EBSCO Magazine Article
Summaries: Online
MAS Online is a comprehensive full text general reference
database designed for high school and junior college
libraries. This database includes: searchable full
text of articles, reports and special issues from nearly
200 of the most wanted K-12 magazines; searchable full
text for The Christian Science Monitor, winner of the
1996 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting; over
3,000 charts, tables and graphs converted to ASCII
text to provide students with a complete understanding
of the original printed articles; Essential Documents
of American History—a database of over 1,000
original historical documents including The Bill of
Rights, The Constitution, The Federalist Papers and
the speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; coverage
of the CIA World Factbook; coverage of the Department
of Education's College Guide; searchable full text
for 400 pamphlets; searchable full text for nearly
5,000 Magill's Book Reviews.
Biography
EBSCO Biography Collection Complete™
Biography Collection Complete™ offers
a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies
supporting history, science, the arts, music, literature,
multicultural studies, gender studies, business, government & politics,
sports, entertainment and many other areas. This database
features more than 177,000 full-text biographies from
many different sources.
Current Events
EBSCO Points of View Reference Center™
Points of View Reference Center™ is
a full-text database designed to provide students with
a series of essays that present multiple sides of a
current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each
with an overview (objective background/description),
point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).
Topics covered include: affirmative action, cloning,
DNA profiling, HIV/AIDS status disclosure, immigration,
Iraq, Israel & the Palestinians, Katrina and FEMA
response, nuclear proliferation, separation of church
and state, standardized testing, stem cell research,
tax cuts, voting machines, and many more. Points
of View Reference Center contains a balance of
materials from all viewpoints, including 600 main essays,
leading political magazines from both sides of the
aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts,
primary source documents and reference books. The database
also offers guides to debate, developing arguments
and writing position papers. Points of View Reference
Center provides the basis from which students
can realize and develop persuasive arguments and essays,
better understand controversial issues and develop
analytical thinking skills.
EDUCATION
EBSCO 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. The database contains more than 1,194,000
records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents
from ERIC.
EBSCO Professional Development Collection™
This is the most comprehensive and most valuable collection
of full text education journals in the world. The Professional
Development Collection™ 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. This database
also contains more than 200 educational reports
Espanol
GALE Informe
Los hispánicas de Espanol EBSCO Informe Una
colección de revistas con completos de los textos.
Negocios de Abarca, salud, tecnología, cultura,
materias de los otras de temas de actualidad y. Creado
exclusivamente para los usuarios de habla hispana,
esta herramienta de referencia electrónica con
texto completo es el primer sistema para proporcionar
la indexación de direcciones, imágenes
y con texto completo de compartimientos hispánicos
populares -- traducciones no justas. También
se incluye un tesoro y un interfaz que se diseñan únicamente
para los usuarios de habla hispana. ¡¡Informe!
piensa con cada pregunta en español. Los términos
y el tesoro se basan en el uso de los Español-altavoces
de las expresiones comúnmente, permitiendo que
los usuarios naveguen fácilmente a través
de la base de datos sin experimentar términos
inexactos de la búsqueda. ¡¡Informe!
también ofrece anotaciones del título
en inglés y español para ayudar a no-Español
- personal de discurso a fácilmente asistir
a usuarios. ¡Los estudiantes del español,
tan bien como altavoces extranjeros pueden también
tener acceso fácilmente al ¡Informe! 'recursos
de s con este acercamiento bilingüe.
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EBSCO Salud en Español
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EBSCO Salud proporciona informes evidencia-basados
comprensivos y las hojas del hecho en español
en todos los aspectos de la salud y de la salud del
consumidor. Informes específicos del asunto
que cubren todos los aspectos de las descripciones
valiosas de la oferta de la salud en enfermedades,
condiciones, procedimientos y varios tratamientos.
El contenido encontrado en esta base de datos incluye
una colección diversa de temas relativos a la
salud: primeros auxilios, cuidado y enfermedades infantiles
de niño, medicina alternativa, envejecimiento
y salud.
Genealogy
ProQuest HeritageQuest Online
HeritiageQuest Online provides libraries with
a unique and growing collection of research materials
for genealogists and historians. It
includes the digitized UMI Genealogy & Local History
Collection, 1790-1930 U.S. Federal Census, the Periodical
Source Index (PERSI), and the Revolutionary War Pension
and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files.
Health
EBSCO Health Source®: Consumer Edition
This is the richest collection of consumer health information
available to libraries worldwide. This resource provides
access to more than 130 full text, consumer health
magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition,
Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts,
Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian
Times, and many others. This database also includes
searchable full text for current, health-related pamphlets
and 130 health reference books, including books published
by the People's Medical Society. Additionally, Health
Source: Consumer Edition contains more than 4,500
Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and
Spanish); Clinical Pharmacology, which provides
access to 1,100 drug monograph entries and 2,700 patient
education fact sheets; and Merriam-Webster's Medical
Desk Dictionary. Health Source®: Consumer
Edition covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes,
drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics,
children's health, women's health, etc.
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.
History
EBSCO History Reference Center®
History Reference Center® is the world's
most comprehensive full text history reference database
designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community
colleges, and undergraduate research. The database
features full text for more than 2,000 reference books,
encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history
publishers, such as: Branden Publishing, Compass Point
Books, Houghton Mifflin, Lerner Publishing Group, Mason
Crest Publishers, Morgan Reynolds Inc., Oliver Press,
Oxford University Press, Rourke Publishing LLC., Salem
Press, Stackpole Books, Toucan Valley Publications,
and more. The database also includes full text for
more than 120 leading history periodicals including America's
Civil War, American Heritage, American Historical Review,
American History, Archaeology, Aviation History, Beaver,
British Heritage, Chinese America: History & Perspectives,
Civil War Times, Foreign Affairs, German History, History,
History Review, History Today (back to January
1975), History: Review of New Books, Kansas History,
Journal of American History, Manitoba History, Military
History, Naval History, North Carolina Historical Review,
Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, Wild
West, World War II and more. Further, the database
contains 59,640 historical documents; more than 50,000
biographies of historical figures; more than 110,200
historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours
of historical video.
Literature
EBSCO Literary Reference Center™
Literary Reference Center™ is a comprehensive
database that provides users with a broad spectrum
of information on thousands of authors and their
works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
It has been specifically designed for public libraries,
secondary schools, junior/community colleges, and
undergraduate research. Literary Reference Center is
a full text database that combines information from
major respected reference works, books, literary
journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary
Reference Center contains full text for 26,000
plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly
100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, 140,500
author biographies (including 14,300 in-depth bios),
350 literary journals, 530,000 book reviews, 50,000
classic and contemporary poems, 13,500 classic and
contemporary short stories, 4,000 author interviews,
7,500 classic texts and much more. In addition, Literary
Reference Center also includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia
of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American
Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature,
Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature,
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics,
Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six
volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English
Literature, The Literary Encyclopedia, The Columbia
Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story,
all of MagillOnLiterature Plus™, and
much more.
Newspapers
GALE Custom Newspapers
Get the scoop with an innovative Web-based, full-text
ASCII-formatted newspaper database that lets you electronically
search articles by title, headline, date, author, section
or other assigned fields
Philadelphia Inquirer-NY Times-Bergen Record-Washington
Post.
EBSCO Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source™ provides cover-to-cover
full text for 28 national (U.S.) & international
newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor,
USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times,
The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc.
The database also contains selected full text for
more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The
Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press,
The Miami Herald, Daily News (New York), San
Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text
television & radio news transcripts are provided
from ABC, CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX
News, NPR, etc.
Science
EBSCO Science Reference Center™
Science Reference Center™ is a comprehensive
research database that provides easy access to a
multitude of full text science-oriented content.
Designed to meet every student's science research
needs, Science Reference Center contains
full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias,
reference books, periodicals, and other sources.
Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space
science, environmental science, health & medicine,
history of science, life science, physics, science & society,
science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. Science
Reference Center also satisfies the demand for
standards-based content by providing teachers and
librarians with articles correlated to state and
national curriculum standards.
FIND A BOOK
EBSCO
NoveList and NoveList K-8
Besides locating books to
read, users can learn more about books and authors
through Author Read-alikes, Feature Articles, Book
Discussion Guides, and BookTalks. These features have
been developed specifically with NoveList users in
mind, offering support for librarians, teachers, and
individual readers. The For Staff Only sections provide
additional support for readers' advisory and school
curricula. Hypertext links from title records allow
the user to go directly to articles or guides that
mention the title, as well as to the lists in Explore
Fiction or Best Fiction where the titles appear.
NoveList
contains materials for all ages including picture books,
children's "chapter" books,
young adult titles and books for adult readers. Updated
monthly, the NoveList database integrates information
from a variety of sources. The Hennepin County Library
is the main source of the enhanced subject access contained
in the NoveList database. NoveList contains full-text
reviews for adult, young adult, children's and easy
fiction titles from several journals, including: Booklist,
School Library Journal, Library Journal and Publishers
Weekly. In addition to these reviews, there are annotations
and summaries, and all of them are searchable! NoveList
adds about 10,000 new fiction records to the database
per year, along with reviews and descriptions when
they are available. The theme-oriented book lists in
Explore Fiction are periodically revised, and the awards
lists in Best Fiction are updated along with the full
database each month. New Author Read-alikes, Feature
Articles, Book Discussion Guides, and BookTalks are
also added monthly.
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