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Online citations and abstracts for articles in
over 1700 journals published worldwide and includes the full text for over 600
periodicals in business and management areas. Search this database for any
aspect of business information. Descriptors and a classification code system
are available to help focus your searches. Updated monthly.
Includes primary source materials from a newly compiled directory of manuscript
repositories that updates and supersedes the Directory of Archives and Manuscript
Repositories in the United States, collection records from the National Union Catalogue of
Manuscript Collections, and the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United
States. Updated quarterly.
Contains indexing to articles in journals in
science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and
popular culture.
Educational Resources Information Center - Contains nearly a million abstracts of
documents and journal articles on education research and practice.
Contains information for approximately 440,000 U.S. national, regional, state, and
local, and international nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, and U.S. 501(c)
nonprofit organizations.
Biography
and Genealogy Master Index Historical to contemporary
(web)
Contains a master index to biographical information on over 3,000,000 persons who have
distinguished themselves in hundreds of fields.
*Broadcast News
1993 to 1999 Currently available only on campus
(CD-ROM)
Contains a full-text, comprehensive reference database of the news and current affairs
programming of ABC, CNN, and NPR.
Provides indexing and full-text articles from over 350 local and regional business
newspapers and journals. Updated monthly. CLICK ON CD-ROM ICON.
| *Choices 2000
Current Currently available only
on campus |
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Contains occupational information on 783
occupations, with information on programs and majors connected to those
occupations matched to a list of 7,424 post-secondary schools. Includes a
skills and interests assessment, and internet links to available jobs.
Almost 3,000 colleges in the U.S. and Canada are fully described including degrees
offered by colleges and by subject areas. Information is also given on financial aid and
occupational education. CLICK
ON CD-ROM ICON.
Contains college catalogs from nearly 4,000 U.S. and international institutions of
higher education.
*Computer Select
Current 12 months
(web)
Contains information on virtually every computer-related topic, including full-text
articles from over 100 publications. Updated monthly.
Indexes articles in the CQ Weekly (current 2
years) and the CQ Researcher (Jan 1991- current).
*Current Biography
1983 to 1998 Currently available only on campus
(CD-ROM)
Provides a convenient source of objective articles on the lives of the newsworthy
individuals. Indexes all the articles and obituaries in Current Biography Yearbook
back to 1940.
*Dallas Morning News
1989 to 1997
(CD-ROM)
Contains complete text of the newspaper and indexing of all articles 1989 through 1997.
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ON CD-ROM ICON.
Dallas
Morning News Archive 1984 to
date
(web)
Includes most of the stories that have been
published in the newspaper since August, 1984. Stories are available
approximately 48 hours after publication. If you are a DCCC student or staff
member, there is no charge. Click on "Click here to purchase
article" for your free copy.
*Electric Library Current
(web)
Provides full text of articles from hundreds of popular magazines and scholarly
journals, dozens of current newspapers and news wires, thousands of television and radio
transcripts, thousands of photographs and maps, hundreds of reference and historical
sources.
Includes the complete, updated Encyclopaedia
Britannica, with selected articles from top magazines to provide additional
feature and current-events coverage. Also included are web sites, the Books in
Print database, and current news covered by the washingtonpost.com.
Contains articles from the Encyclopedia Americana database, a 25,000,000-word
repository of text and images maintained by the encyclopedia's editorial staff.
Provides a complete encyclopedia for articles concerning the ethical, religious, and
moral dimensions of medicine, science, and technology. It is fully linked to the National
Library of Medicine's Bioethicsline, an annually updated bibliography listing virtually
every article written in the field since 1974. CLICK ON CD-ROM ICON.
Contains essays on important ideas, beliefs, rituals, myths, symbols, and persons that
have played a role in the history of religions from Paleolithic times to the present.
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Provides comprehensive biographical
information on nearly 7,000 persons and their contributions to human culture and society.
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A comprehensive database containing citations
to material in educational journals and documents.
*Ethnic NewsWatch
1995 to
date
(web)
A full-text collection of the newspapers,
magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
*Facts
On File
1980 to
date
(web)
Offers the depth of a 20-year news backfile and
the timeliness of weekly updates (with hourly newswire feeds). Plus it
provides seven interconnected core reference databases covering science,
current events, key statistics, opinions on controversial topics, even this
morning's news.
*Famous American Speeches 1850 to
date Currently available only on campus (CD-ROM)
Offers a multimedia history of the United
States, from 1850 to the present. One can search hundreds of famous speeches
by subject, speakers, time line, multimedia or use study guide. The audio
clips, photographs, and video clips are available in some speeches.
*Famous First Facts
Historical
to
Present (web)
Representing the entire range of "firsts"
throughout
American history, from the earliest known human activity in the area that is
now the U.S. to current social, cultural, and scientific developments.
*Federal Register
Current
(web)
The official daily publication of Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of
Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other
Presidential Documents.
Consisting of ArticleFirst, NetFirst,
World Almanac, and WorldCat. Online databases containing
citations to millions of books and thousands of articles and noting their
library locations worldwide.
Gale Literary Index
Current
(web)
Provides a master index to 675 volumes of literary criticism published by Gale
Research. References to criticism of over 120,000 novels, short stories and poems are
included.
*Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Current
(web)
Includes 36,000 articles from Academic American Encyclopedia, multimedia links,
a digital magazine, and the Grolier Internet Index to an easy-to-access authoritative
collection of web links.
*Guidance Information
System Current Currently available only on campus
(CD-ROM)
Provides online career assessment, information
on schools, financial aid, apprenticeships, internships, and other educational
programs. Includes resume guide and letter writing tools.
*Handbook of Texas
1996
(web)
Is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. It
comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes,
institutions, and a host of other topic categories.
*Hoover's Online Current
(web)
Provides in-depth information and many useful Internet links for companies by industry,
location, annual sales, and/or company type. Can also be searched to find stock
information. The Industry Information section lets the user read Hoover's detailed
overviews and get lists of companies in dozens of industries.
*Information Please Almanac
Current
(web)
Combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and several up-to-the-minute
almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records. It places the resources of
an entire reference information center at your fingertips. Whatever you are interested in,
whether it's sports, entertainment, history, you name it, a search will get you the facts
on your topic.
Library Catalog
Current
(web)
Online listing of materials in the DCCC libraries. Also
available on the web at http://library.dcccd.edu.
Includes 90,000 biographies, criticism on all
generations of literary works, plot summaries and explications for more than
2,000 works, recommended reading lists for the most-studied authors, the full
text of Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature, and 12,000 articles and
critical essays on 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Full-text journal
articles are also included.
Medline 1966 to date
(web)
MEDlars onLINE - Provides an extensive database to citations and abstracts in the
fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and
the preclinical sciences.
Merriam Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus
Current
(CD-ROM)
Contains the full text of Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate® Dictionary, Tenth Edition, with 214,000 definitions, and
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Thesaurus, with 130,000 synonyms, antonyms, and
more. CLICK ON CD-ROM ICON.
*Multicultural America
Historical
to date
(CD-ROM)
Features primary source documents organized with regard to curriculum-related
multicultural thematic essays. Includes full-text documents, images, and audio clips in an
interacitve environment. CLICK
ON CD-ROM ICON.
NetFirst
Current
(web)
Contains bibliographic citations including
abstracts, subject headings, and classification codes. Includes a variety of
Internet accessible resources.
*New York Times 1992 to date
(CD-ROM)
Provides indexing to and full text of articles appearing in the New York Times
newspaper, including the New York Times Book Review and the New York Times
Magazine. Updated monthly. CLICK
ON CD-ROM ICON.
NewsBank Index 1986 to
1998
(CD-ROM)
Provides an index to selected articles from newspapers from over 450 U.S. cities. Most
articles (over 100,000 per year) are available on microfiche. CLICK
ON CD-ROM ICON.
*NewsBank Infoweb 1991 to date
Available only on the Richland campus (web)
Is a comprehensive full-text news resource consisting of more than 500 regional,
national and international newspaper and newswire sources. Provides easy access to social
issues, economic, environment, government, health, and science and sports.
*Periodical
Abstracts 1986 to date
(web)
Contains indexing and abstracts to articles in
over 1,800 general periodicals and full-text articles from over 600 of these.
Updated monthly.
*PubMed
1966 to date
(web)
Provides a search tool for accessing medical information with citations linking to
full-text journals at websites of participating publishers.
*Scribner Writers
Series
Historical
to
Present
(web)
Contains more than 1500 original biocritical
essays on authors of all nationalities and time periods.
*Shakespeare
Dictionary
Current
(CD-ROM)
Contains a wealth of information about
Shakespeare's works, including plot outlines, lexicon, character descriptions,
and biographical information. CLICK ON
CD-ROM ICON.
*SIRS Researcher
1989 to 1997
(CD-ROM)
Contains a database of thousands of full-text, indexed articles concerning a wide
variety of science, social science and world affairs topics. Updated annually.
CLICK ON CD-ROM ICON.
*STAT-USA
Current
(web)
Contains comprehensive domestic and international economic information. Includes
State of the Nation, Globus, and NTDB (National Trade Data Bank).
*Thomas Register
Current
(web)
Includes a serchable database of manufacturers and products from over 155,000 American
and Canadian companies, 124,000 brand names, and links to over 1,000 company web sites.
*Twayne's Authors
Series
Historical
to
Present (web)
Includes U.S., English, and world authors and
provides literary criticism, the history and influence of literary movements,
and the development of literary genres for approximately 200 authors.
*Wall Street Journal Current 3 years
(CD-ROM)
Provides indexing to and full-text of articles appearing in the Wall Street Journal.
Updated monthly. CLICK ON CD-ROM ICON.
*World
Almanac
Current
(web)
Includes the contents of The World Almanac
and Book of Facts 1998, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The
World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids.
WorldCat
1200 to
date
(web)
Contains records of any type of material
cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as
the 12th century.
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