EBSCO Publishing is a leading producer of electronic reference databases for a variety of library settings. These resources are designed to meet the needs of Iowa researchers through a pairing of the highest-quality content with subject-appropriate, state-of-the-art research environments. The specialized databases available from EBSCO offer content from leading information sources in various subject areas such as literature, poetry, history, multicultural studies, science, wildlife studies, automotive repair, and more. Such variety helps to ensure that patrons of school, public, and academic libraries are able to easily locate the exact information that they need.

Auto Repair Reference Center™
EBSCO Publishing has partnered with Point 5 Technologies to create Auto Repair Reference Center™. The Auto Repair Reference Center database includes automotive repair information supplied by Point 5 Technologies, Inc., under license from Nichols Publishing, the former publisher of Chilton® Information and information from Delphi Integrated Service Solutions. Auto Repair Reference Center contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945. Database content includes more than 31,660 vehicles covered from 1945 to present; over 205,000 drawings and step-by-step photographs; approximately 75,000 technical service bulletins & recalls issued by the original equipment vehicle manufacturer; over 130,000 enhanced wiring diagrams for easy viewing and printing; specifications & maintenance schedules; Labor Time Guide & Estimator; AutoIQ; Quick Tips, a complete guide to vehicle ownership & maintenance; unlimited remote access and much more. New repair procedures and updates will also be added continuously. All of the content in Auto Repair Reference Center has been created by ASE certified technicians.

Book Collection: Nonfiction™
Book Collection: Nonfiction™ is a rich research database for public libraries. A cross-curricular database, it provides content representing a wide spectrum of works, including popular series from top book publishers such as Allosaurus Publishers, Bess Press, Inc., Branden Publishing, Capstone Press, Compass Point Books, Fulcrum Publishing, Lerner Publishing Group, Mason Crest Publishers, Morgan Reynolds, Inc., Morning Glory Press, Oliver Press, Rourke Publishing, LLC and Stackpole Books. It contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 3,500 popular nonfiction books. The database includes full text entries on core subject areas, as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills and more.

For a complete title list, please see http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/nd-coverage.xls 

CINAHL®
CINAHL® provides indexing for 2,931 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,200 journals are also included. Full text material includes 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.

For a complete title list, please see http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/cin20-coverage.xls

Coin Career Community
This resource offers students, counselors, teachers and parents a centralized location to work together on career and college guidance. The Coin program, through the accessibility of the Internet, provides a quick, user-friendly system, whether a class of students is drafting career goals, or a student conducts a college search independently or one-on-one with a counselor. This comprehensive system offers tools for the individual and the educator, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Coin helps to make the career curriculum connection, and guide a plan for post-secondary options.

The Coin Career Community offers several important elements:

Career and Postsecondary Exploration – In this exploratory segment, users search current data on 2,000+ occupations, apprenticeships and military jobs; access a resume builder with tips and options for customization; view occupational interviews with experienced professionals; locate jobs classified into U.S. Department of Education's 16 Career Clusters; mine current data on more than 3,500 two-year and four-year colleges as well as private trade schools; and access occupational videos in English and Spanish.

Assessments – This segment lets users access research-based interest and skills assessments, which connect specific results to career clusters and/or occupations. These assessments are available in English and Spanish.

Academic Planning – This component allows for exploration of higher education and finds institutions that meet specific needs and goals. It offers a multi-year academic planner with drop-down course offerings; integrated, visible tracking of dual/articulated credits in partnership with technical or community colleges; crosswalks highlighting connections between high school subjects and/or college majors and occupations, and a comprehensive lifelong electronic portfolio (individual graduation portfolio), including ability to download personal history.

Skill Development – This component helps students to enhance their work-skills and knowledge through a series of tools. It includes journal prompts to promote analysis and growth of workplace skills; weekly quizzes to improve student achievement on SAT, ACT, GED, and state proficiency tests; daily history and vocabulary quizzes to reinforce content acquisition; student learning activities connecting job skills to curriculum topics; and a goal builder to identify important personal, career and academic goals.

Standards-Aligned Curriculum – This component offers Unit and Lesson plans providing career options in cross-curricular areas. It is designed to meet the objectives of No Child Left Behind and the ASCA National Model, and includes content aligned with most state and local curriculum standards.
Transition Tools – The Coin Career Community provides a variety of tools to add to the user experience including audio prompts for all assessment questions, summary of performance module to record postsecondary transition plans, and various life skills activities.

Administrative Reports/Management – The Coin Career Community provides many administrative options and reports for each user to customize and learn from his/her experience. It offers hundreds of real-time individual and aggregate reports on student usage, including assessment result reports by career cluster. Reports can be filtered by gender, ethnicity, and grade level. The system also offers the ability to upload course lists, graduation requirements, and certain student data. Additionally, checklists are provided for completion of career & college-related activities.

Consumer Health Complete™
Consumer Health Complete™ (CHC) is the single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full-text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. Full text (PDF) information dates as far back as 1946.

CHC offers a unique search interface designed to call attention to the full text content available from many important source-types, and provide an intuitive means for searching this specific information. Content in CHC includes:

• Full text for more than 200 health reference books and encyclopedias, including: Cornell Illustrated Encyclopedia of Health, American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia, Royal Society for Medical Health Encyclopedia, Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, Complete Guide to Prescription & Nonprescription Drugs 2007, and many more
• Thousands of full text evidence-based, health reports
• 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names from Lexi-Pal Drug Guide
• Hundreds of medical images and diagrams
• More than 700 physician-generated videos (with audio narration) on women's health, healthy aging, general health and men’s health
• More than 550 full-text consumer health pamphlets and leaflets
• Cover-to-cover full text from more than 560 consumer health related periodicals as well as full text of the UPI (United Press International) English-Language Health Newswire
• More than 200 animations (with audio narration)

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.

For a complete title list, please see http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/cm-coverage.xls.

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 130 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.

For a complete title list, please see http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/kh-coverage.xls.

Home Improvement Reference Center™
Home Improvement Reference Center™ is the definitive online tool for home improvement assistance, including: maintenance, remodeling, electrical work, plumbing, wood projects, outdoor improvements, decorating home & garden, etc. This comprehensive resource contains 26 major reference works in full text with more than 10,000 images (none found available online anywhere else). Additionally, the database contains full-text magazines (e.g. This Old House). Remote access is available for library patrons for use from home.

For a complete title list, please see http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/h4-coverage.xls.

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 27,500 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, 140,500 author biographies (including 20,000 in-depth bios), more than 420 literary journals, more than 569,000 book reviews, 57,000 classic and contemporary poems, 14,500 classic and contemporary short stories, 4,700 author interviews, more than 7,100 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.

For a complete title list, please see http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/lf-coverage.xls.

MagillOnLiterature Plus™
MagillOnLiterature Plus™, produced by Salem Press, combines all the quality content of both MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors in a fully integrated and enhanced single database. This database is composed of approximately 35,000 critical analyses of individual works of literature, 6,500 biographical records, more than 1,000 images, and a glossary of 1,310 literary terms. MagillOnLiterature Plus contains editorially reviewed critical essays, brief plot summaries, extended character profiles, and detailed setting discussions covering works by more than 8,500 long and short fiction writers, poets, dramatists, essayists, and philosophers. The biographical essays reflect extended coverage of the 2,500 most studied authors and include up-to-date lists of each author's principal works and current secondary bibliographies. In addition, 395 comprehensive genre-driven overview essays provide details about important literary genres, time periods, and national literatures.

NoveList®
NoveList is an online readers’ advisory service that helps librarians and readers find fiction books based on books they have read or topics in which they are interested. Readers can search for books by title, author or by simply describing a book they would like to read. Currently, the database includes more than 155,000 fiction titles for all ages with subject and keyword access; more than 36,000 individual subject headings (fiction); 200,000 full-text reviews and descriptions from Booklist, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and others. Searches can be limited by reading level, using Lexile scores to match students with books geared to their reading ability. NoveList helps libraries provide the best service possible to fiction readers. NoveList is more than a database; it is a set of resources and services designed to help libraries create, develop and support the library’s services to its fiction readers. NoveList gives libraries access to the best subject indexing available for fiction, bibliographies and lists for the most popular authors, and a complete training program for library staff in the area of providing quality service for fiction readers.

NoveList contains:

• More than 155,000 Fiction Titles
• Over 36,000 Subject Headings
• 125,000 Annotations
• 200,000 Full-Text Searchable Reviews
• 130, 000 Titles with Popularity Ranking
• Over 225 Author Read-alikes, with new ones added monthly
• Over 300 Book Discussion Guides for Book Clubs
• Over 300 Annotated Thematic Bibliographies
• Over 500 Genre- and Theme-Based Lists
• Over 330 different award lists (Best Fiction)
• Over 500 BookTalks
• More than 14,000 First Chapters

NoveList® K-8
If you are looking for ways to introduce both teachers and students to new books, and if you want to encourage independent reading and help students think more about why a particular story appeals to them -- you should look at NoveList K-8. NoveList K-8 contains enhanced subject access for over 50,000 fiction titles aimed at the K-8 population. Full-text reviews from sources like School Library Journal and Booklist are available for many titles.

NoveList K-8, a fiction database, is designed with a bright, appealing layout, especially for elementary and middle schools. The Teacher Resources tab provides easy access to a wide range of curriculum-related material.

NoveList K-8 contains:

• Over 55,000 Fiction Titles
• Over 36,000 Subject Headings
• Over 47,000 Annotation
• Over 50,000 Full-Text Searchable Reviews
• Over 200 Annotated Thematic Bibliographies
• Over 1,100 Genre- and Theme-Based Lists
• Over 850 different award lists (Best Fiction)
• Over 500 BookTalks (Children’s and Young Adult)
• Over 100 Picture Book Extenders

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 800 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. Additionally, this database contains the Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century, providing students with a searchable collection of some of the most important social, political, and cultural moments of the 20th century. 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. Critical Thinking Guides for every topic covered helps the student judge Fact vs. Opinion and enhances the student's ability to read and think critically.

For a complete title list, please see http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/pw-coverage.xls and http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/pw-psd.xls

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.

For a complete title list, please see http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/sc-coverage.xls.

Small Engine Repair Reference Center™
Small Engine Repair Reference Center™ is the definitive online tool for small engine repair assistance, including: ATVs, commercial mowers, farm tractors, generators, motorcycles, marine (boats), outdoor power equipment, PWC (personal watercraft/jet ski), snowblowers, snowmobiles, tillers and other small engines. This comprehensive resource contains 407 reference books in full text with original photos and illustrations that guide the user through every job. The database often contains more than 25 years of an engine model, and offers assistance in providing routine maintenance, such as tune-ups and brake service, as well as extensive repairs involving engine and transmission disassembly. Also, the database allows users to select a type of product, specific brand, specific model/engine type, and specific area of that model/engine type. Additionally, model numbers will also be searchable.

For a complete title list, please see http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/s9-coverage.xls.

Client Eligible for Participation:

K-12 Schools-public and private

Colleges and Universities

IEC Contact:

Jerry Cochrane

jcochrane@aea10.k12.ia.us

(800) 798-9771 Ext. 6741