This A to Z list provides links to and descriptions of all of the full text indexes, databases, and some ebooks.  Ebooks can also be found in our online catalog.  If you are off campus or using a wireless pc, you will be prompted to login.  Remote Login Information can be found here.  All of these databases are available to be searched individually.  Many of these are also available through MC Central Search if you want to search several databases simultaneously. 

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New Eresources

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Academic Onefile   Thomson Gale  (UL)  Title Lists  Help available at site
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.  Updated daily.  Academic Onefile includes Expanded Academic ASAP, a subset of AO.

Academic Search Complete EBSCO (MDL/UL) Help available on Web page.
Not entirely new, this is an upgrade of our former database, Academic Search Premier.  "Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,990 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,030 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,990 journals and a total of more than 10,400 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format."

Access Science  Not available in Central Search. McGraw-Hill  (UL/MDL)  Online Tutorial Available at Site 
An electronic version of the 9th edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.  It also includes Research Updates to trends and developments in science and technology, biographies of scientists, late breaking news, links to evaluated web sites, images and learning resources and study guides by topic.

African American Newspapers:  the 19th Century  Not available in Central Search.  Accessible Archives  (UL)
This collection of African-American newspapers "contains a wealth of information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day...[and] also contain[s] large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.

African American Song Alexander Street Press (MDL/UL)  Help Guides 
African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. The African American experience is deeply connected to music. Whether using guitar, piano, voice, harmonica, violin, or spoons, African Americans have always expressed their joy, pain, and hopes through song.

African American Studies Center - See Oxford African American Studies Center

African Studies Companion Hans Zell Publishing (UL)
This is the online companion to the print 4th edition (held by the Rockville campus library) and is updated on a regular basis throughout the year.

AJN:  American Journal of Nursing Not available in Central Search. OVID (UL) "AJN is one of the nursing profession's foremost publications and is the official journal of the American
Nurses' Association."  (Magazines for Libraries, 12/15/04)

American Song Alexander Street Press (MDL/UL)  Help Guides available on the Web page. 
"American Song is a history database that will [eventually] contain 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. [At present], this release includes 763 albums, equaling 12,542 tracks.

ARTStor  ARTstor Inc.  (UL)  Quick Start Guide  Other Tutorials Available at Site
The ARTstor Charter Collection currently contains approximately 300,000 images; by 2006 it is expected to contain 500,000. The Charter Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. We believe the Charter Collection will, in its richness, scope and variety, support the needs of teachers and scholars throughout the arts and humanities.  

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Biography Resource Center Thomson Gale (MDL/UL) Help & Search Tips available on homepage
BioRC "is a comprehensive database of biographical information on over 340,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 435,000 biographies from over 1,000 volumes of more than 135 respected Gale sources."

Biology Journals ProQuest (MDL/UL)  Title List  Help
The database provides access to a wide range of biology topics and includes over 285 titles, with more than 250 available in full text. With thousands of articles available online, ProQuest Biology Journals includes some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government, and public research environments.

Books in Print  Bowker  User Guide
Search for publication information for books, audios, & videos in print; some listings include reviews.  This is a finding aide and does not include full text information.  A link to this database can also be found on the Especially for Librarians page.

Business Source Complete  EBSCO  (UL/MDL)  Tutorial on Basic Searching  Title List
This database indexes more than 9,070 magazine and journal titles in all areas of business; approximately 8,197 of these are full text.  Also includes country reports.  

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Career Guidance Center  Ferguson's/Facts on File (UL)
This is a "comprehensive career research database, providing detailed and up-to-date profiles of more than 2,900 of today's most popular jobs in 93 industries."  

Choice Reviews Online American Library Association (20) Top Tips for Using Choice Reviews Online
"Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education."  Each year, Choice publishes over 7,000 reviews.  

Chronicle of Higher Education  Not available in Central Search. Chronicle  (UL)  Help
"No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. A subscription to The Chronicle includes access to all of this Web site and to Academe Today, our daily e-mail newsletter."  This is a collegewide site subscription for all users and we suggest adding it to your desktop for quick access.

Chronicle of Philanthropy   Chronicle Publishing (UL) 
Sister publication of the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Chronicle of Philanthropy "is the newspaper of the nonprofit world. It is the No. 1 news source, in print and online, for charity leaders, fund raisers, grant makers, and other people involved in the philanthropic enterprise."

Classical Music Library Alexander Street Press (MDL/UL)  Help  Blog
Classical Music Library is a fully searchable classical music resource—a ... database of ... classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to on the Internet. The audio selections are cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. Users can browse, search, click, and then listen to the music over the Internet through their headphones. If a score is available in the database Classical Music Scores, below, you will be able to see the score and hear the recording simultaneously.

Classical Music Scores Alexander Street Press (UL)  Help  Blog
"Content in the first release includes 800 scores (approx. 25,000 pages) of in-copyright material from Boosey and Hawkes and selected material from the University Music Editions microfilm series. 49 composers' works are included in this release, including notable 20th-century composers such as Aaron Copland, Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Ned Rorem. This first release contains 16 full operas, 7 oratorios, over 50 string quartets, 27 symphonies, 60 concerti, and more."  Eventually this database will grow to 400,000 pages of classical music scores.

Columbia Granger's Poetry Database  Not available in Central Search.  EBSCO (UL)
Produced by Columbia University Press, this database contains works of poetry found in anthologies, and volumes of collected works and selected works for individual poets. This database currently has nearly 70,000 poems in full text and more than 500,000 poem citations.

Communication & Mass Media  EBSCO  (UL/MDL)  Tutorial on Basic Searching  Title List   
This database provides access to "core" titles in the field which are indexed and abstracted in their entirety and "priority" titles which include only those articles which are relevant to the field and "offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources".

Computer Database  Thomson Gale Infotrac  (UL)  Help Available at Site  Title List  
This database indexes 666 periodical titles; 362 of these are full text.  Covers all aspects of computer hardware and software and related topics.

CQ Press Political Reference Suite CQ Press (MDL/UL) Help available on Web page.
This database "integrates many of CQ Press's acclaimed reference titles on government and politics into
a user-friendly, electronic format."  Titles include Congress and the Nation, Historic Documents Series,
Political Handbook of the World, Politics in America, Supreme Court Yearbook, Vital Statistics on American Politics, and the Washington Information Directory.

Distance Education Report - see Magna Publications for all titles from this publisher.

Gartner   Gartner  (UL)  Help available on Web page.
"Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company." Gartner is the global leader in providing accurate and current research for the IT industry.  Gartner employs 1,200 research analysts and consultants who advise executives in 80 countries every day. They publish tens of thousands of pages of original research annually. 

Our subscription provides access to TOPICS reports and to the Education, Government and Healthcare Providers industry reports under the INDUSTRIES column.  Our subscription does not provide access to the reports under the MARKETS column and some other features may not be available as well.

Gartner requires login/authentication through our proxy server for on or off campus access.  Please use your MC ID number beginning with and including the M and all numbers.
 

Guide to Reference  ALA  (UL)
"The Guide to Reference, formerly Guide to Reference Books, has a long history in print as a core publication of librarianship in the United States. In this edition it celebrates its transformation as an online publication."  Even though this database is IP authenticated, users are urged to create their own accounts with login and password "for accessing the full content and for using interactive features like creating notes and lists."

 

Merck Index   CambridgeSoft (UL) 
"The Merck Index is an encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals that contains more than 10,000 monographs. Each monograph in this authoritative reference source is a concise description of a single substance or a small group of closely related compounds."

Mergent Online  Mergent (UL)  Help & Quick User Guide Available on Web page.
This database provides Internet-based access to the most detailed, accurate and comprehensive global company database available with access to information such as U.S. Company Data, International Company Data, U.S. Company Archives, International Company Archives, U.S. Annual Reports, International Annual Reports, U.S. Earnings Estimates, Industry Reports, Competitor Reports and much, much more.  Also includes lExperian National Business Private Company Database.

Military & Government Collection  EBSCO  (UL/MDL)  Tutorial on Basic Searching  Title List
Provides current news pertaining to all branches of the military and full text articles from 396
periodicals; indexes 503 titles.

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National Newspapers  See ProQuest Newspapers below.

Nature   Not available in Central Search. Nature Publishing Group  (UL)
This is the online edition of the weekly international science journal and has archives going back to 1950.

NetLibrary  OCLC/NetLibrary  (UL/MDL)  Help
NetLibrary includes 1, 433 eBooks that are digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction, and, also, includes 3,400 publicly-accessible titles.  You can search for ebooks by title, keyword, author, or full text and can browse the book online or "check it out" after creating a free online account.  Checking out a book allows you to view the book anywhere, anytime for the specified check out period.  These titles are also accessible through our online catalog.

New York Times Historical  (See Historical New York Times above.)

North American Theatre Online Plus Alexander Street Press (MDL/UL)  Help
"North American Theatre Online (NATO) is a major initiative to provide detailed reference information for
every theatrical figure, every play, every theatre, every major production, and every production company,
from Colonial times to the present, in both Canada and the United States."  It also includes "access to the following individual drama databases:  Asian American Drama; Black Drama; Latino Literature; North
American Women's Drama; and Twentieth Century North American Drama".

Nursing Resource Center Gale (MDL/UL)  Help available on Webpage
"Designed to match the "nursing process" workflow, ...this resource brings together respected medical title...[along] with thorough nursing-specific texts...The Nursing Resource Center provides authoritative information written in accessible language for students completing research papers, class assignments, and those preparing for their clinical experiences as they learn how to care for and treat patients."

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Online Classroom - see Magna Publications for all titles from this publisher.

Opposing Viewpoints  Thomson Gale Infotrac  (UL/MDL)  Search Tips  List of Sources 
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.

Oxford African American Studies Center  Oxford University Press (UL/MDL)
The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 8,000 articles by top scholars in the field. The core content includes Africana, Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895, Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present, Black Women in America, Second Edition and African American National Biography.  In addition to the full-text of these works, the Center draws on other key resources from Oxford's reference program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, the Oxford Companion to Black British History, and selected articles from other major reference titles. Over 1,750 images, more than 300 primary sources with specially written commentaries, and nearly 150 maps have been collected to enhance this reference content. 150 charts and tables offer information on everything from demographics to government and politics to business and labor to education and the arts.

Oxford Art Online Oxford University Press (UL)  Quick Tour
Oxford (formerly Grove) Art Online now provides expanded web access to not only the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art (2001) but to other art references as well. Included are ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 3,000 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links, and sophisticated search and navigation tools.

Oxford English Dictionary   Oxford University Press  (MDL)  Help using OED Online
The 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.

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R2 Library   Rittenhouse (UL but one concurrent user per title)
"R2 is a web-based application that aggregates health sciences book content from leading publishers in a single platform."

RCLweb  Bowker  (UL)  About RCLweb
RCLweb is the new online edition of Resources for College Libraries, last published in 1988, that identifies 65,000 titles in 58 curriculum-specific subject areas.

Reference Universe  Paratext  (UL/MDL)  About and Help available from their homepage
We have had indexes to periodical literature for years but this is the first product to index reference works by subject.  "Reference Universe is designed to help you begin your research using the truly authoritative resources found in your own library. That may be an online encyclopedia, or a printed specialized encyclopedia.  Moreover, because Reference Universe is matched to your own catalog, it offers unprecedented access to your reference collection."

RefWorks   ProQuest (UL) RefWorks Tutorial  Quick Start Guide
"RefWorks -- an online research management, writing and collaboration tool -- is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies."  Even though this database is IP authenticated, users will have to create a free, individual account in order to generate bibliographies and the like.  This software tool is currently in beta as the Library works on customizing output styles to conform to the standards.  As with any citation software, users need to review their bibliographic entries for accuracy.  For handouts on citation styles, go to Handouts for Students and select the Citing Sources tab.

Regional Business News  EBSCO  (UL/MDL)  Tutorial on Basic Searching  Title List
Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering some metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

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Safari Tech Books Online  Not available in Central Search. ProQuest  (5)  Help
This collection currently consists of over 1,800 full text eBooks on a broad range of technical subjects in the computer applications and computer sciences field.  Users can do a simple keyword search, an advanced search, or even search code fragments or can browse a range of topics listed on the left ranging from Artificial Intelligence to Certification to Enterprise Computing to Internet/Online to Software Engineering and much, much more.  Contains books from the current year plus two.  Users can sign up for an RSS feed to get the latest title news sent to them.  These titles are also accessible through our online catalog.

Sage Journals Online (Premier) Not available in Central Search.  Sage (Palinet/UL)  Help
"SAGE publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine."  We have, through a consortial deal, access to 452 of the 460 titles.  We recently added the backfile so that titles go back to their first published issue.

Science AAAS (UL) Help
The Library subscribes to a suite of AAAS publications including the current Science publications from January 1997 to the present, Science Classic from July 1880 to December 1996, Science Xpress for early breaking, electronic journal articles, Science Signaling and more.

Science Direct  Elsevier  (UL/MDL)  User Guides and Tutorials 
ScienceDirect indexes more than 7 million journal articles in the sciences and applied sciences.  Through the MDL consortium, we have access to the full text of many of these articles through a shared title list.  Other tabs can be used as a citation index.  It is recommended that users create a one-time registration so that users can create alert profiles, etc.

Science Resource Center  Thomson Gale (MDL/UL)  Help available on homepage.
This database includes "thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations...and the latest scientific developments...covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites."

SIRS Researcher  ProQuest  (UL/MDL)  Quick Start Guide (pdf)
SIRS Researcher is a...general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues.  Articles and graphics are...selected from 1,500 domestic and international publications according to strict criteria with regard to content and age appropriateness.

Small Business Resource Center Gale (MDL/UL)  Help available on Webpage
Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.

Smithsonian Global Sound Alexander Street Press (MDL/UL)   Blog
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries® includes the published recordings...of the...Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.

StatRef   Teton Data Systems (5 concurrent users) 
StatRef is a cross-searchable database of medical, nursing and allied health reference works.

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Teaching Professor - see Magna Publications for all titles from this publisher.

Teacher Reference Center  EBSCO  (UL/MDL)  Tutorial on Basic Searching
The Teacher Reference Center database is made up of indexing, abstracts, and full text for over 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional educators.

Tests in Print (see, also, Mental Measurements Yearbook above)  EBSCO  (MDL/UL)
Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).

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Ulrich's Periodicals Directory  Not available in Central Search. Bowker  (2)  Virtual Tour Demo
The premier source for locating publishing information about magazines, journals, newspapers and newsletters.  This database can be searched by title, keyword, ISSN or browsed by subject.  This database can be found on the Especially for Librarians page.

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Washington Post Historical  (See Historical Washington Post above.)

Westlaw Campus Research  Not available in Central Search. Thomson West  (UL)  Help Available at Site
This full text legal database includes encyclopedia and law reviews, federal, state and Supreme Court cases, federal (USCA) and state statutes and administrative materials, etc.  You can search a document by citation if known or search a case by title.  You can also search by keyword, natural language or something West calls "Terms and Connectors".  They do have an extensive help guide in the database.