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Culture
Grams
CultureGrams provides country reports that go beyond mere facts and
figures to deliver an insider's perspective on daily life and
culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the
world's people. CultureGrams now covers 202 countries with complete
coverage of all 192 United Nations member-states! CultureGrams
Online includes the World, States & Canadian Provinces
Editions. We’ve also recently added videos and slideshows: These
unique multimedia resources literally bring the world to you
through images, interviews, and sounds that illuminate daily life
in other countries. The streaming videos (45 in total) show
locations, people, and events in 2 to 5 minute clips. The
slideshows (72 in total) illustrate a theme using 10 to 15 images
not from our Photo Gallery.
ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Full Text
ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index is a comprehensive
database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals. The
database provides research support for both students and
professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug
enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.
The database includes abstract and indexing for over 240 titles,
with more than 80 available in full-text.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health SourceTM provides users with
healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative
and complementary medicine, consumer health, and much more.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides abstracting
and indexing for more than 700 titles, with 580+ titles in
full-text. Also included are over 10,000 nursing dissertations
(exclusive to ProQuest) capturing the latest research in nursing
and related fields. We’ve also added easy-to-use Study Paths and
evidence-based nursing content from the acclaimed Joanna Briggs
Institute.
ProQuest Psychology Journals
ProQuest Psychology Journals provides abstracting and indexing for
more than 620 titles, with over 520 titles in full-text and over
4,000 full text dissertations. Designed to meet the needs of
students at academic institutions, ProQuest Psychology Journals
covers a wide range of psychology topics, offering complete
information from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications.
ProQuest Psychology Journals image content includes all charts,
tables, diagrams, and other graphical elements essential in
psychological research.
Heath and Medical Complete
ProQuest Health & Medical Complete is the complete online
healthcare resource serving a wide range of people looking for
healthcare information. ProQuest Health & Medical Complete
includes in-depth coverage for over 1,390 publications, with more
than 1,140 available in full-text. Furthermore, over 850 of the
full text titles also include MEDLINE indexing. It can serve as a
core collection of healthcare journals for academic research
environments, providing information on thousands of medical topics.
The journals cover all the major healthcare specialties, including
medical sciences, nursing, pediatrics, public health, pharmacy and
pharmacology, cardiology, physical fitness, health management, and
more.
ProQuest Medical Library
ProQuest Medical Library combines full text for more than 850
medical titles with MEDLINE indexing for those titles. Full-image
content includes all charts, tables, diagrams, and other graphical
elements essential in medical research. ProQuest Medical Library
covers all major healthcare specialties, including, nursing,
pediatrics, neurology, pharmacology, cardiology, dentistry,
physical therapy, and more offering comprehensive coverage for
academic libraries. Selected journals are available in color with
coverage from 1986 forward.
ProQuest Science Journals
ProQuest Science Journals is a definitive source for those who need
access to applied and general science journals. The database
includes over 630 titles, with more than 510 available in
full-text. ProQuest Science Journals provides information on
hundreds of topics, including physics, engineering, astronomy,
biology, earth science, and more. The database provides research
support for both students and professionals in academic research
environments.
ProQuest Career & Technical Education
ProQuest Career and Technical Education is the definitive source
for vocational information. The database includes over 545 titles,
with more than 460 available in full-text. Both students and
instructors can access the database to research virtually any
technical topic, including computing science, healthcare, building
trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic
design, photography, and nursing. ProQuest Career and Technical
Education is an excellent source of vocational information for
community colleges, two-year institutions, public libraries, and
institutions offering technical training.
eLibrary®
eLibrary - the user-friendly general reference tool - is the
perfect resource for delivering full-text and multimedia reference
essentials that supports user inquiry. The eLibrary database family
offers content sets to support every range of user, including
college-level researchers, and professional educators. Content
types include: magazines & journals, newspapers, reference
books, TV & radio transcripts, maps, pictures, websites, and
audio/video.
SIRS
SIRS Knowledge Source® is a comprehensive database portal
which is comprised of several distinct reference databases
including SIRS Researcher®, SIRS® Government Reporter, SIRS®
Renaissance, and SIRS® WebSelect. It provides relevant, credible
information on social issues, science, history, government, and the
arts and humanities.
SIRS Researcher--When it comes to helping researchers make
sense of the major issues of the day, SIRS Researcher® makes the
grade by offering only the very best article selections from more
than 1,600 sources—exploring social, scientific, health, historic,
economic, political, and global issues. Articles and graphics in
SIRS Researcher are carefully selected according to strict SIRS
criteria for content reliability, relevance, and
age-appropriateness. Titles include: American History, The
Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Affairs, Global Viewpoint,
Maclean’s, National Geographic, New Internationalist, Newsweek,
Science News, and Time.
SIRS®
Government Reporter is a comprehensive
student resource for the study of all aspects of U.S. federal
government. It contains thousands of full-text documents,
summaries, and graphics covering a wide variety of topics including
health, science, economics, environment, politics, foreign affairs,
business, and industry.
SIRS® Renaissance—Current Perspectives on the Arts &
Humanities—is a reference database that provides dynamic
information on the following topics: architecture and design,
culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing arts, philosophy
and religion, and visual arts. Full-text articles are selected from
more than 1,200 domestic and international publications. Many
articles are accompanied by full-color images, including art
reproductions, photographs, and illustrations
SIRS®
WebSelect: Every day, our
editorial team evaluates dozens of new websites spanning the globe.
Each site is carefully selected for its relevance, credibility,
appropriateness, and reliability before it's added to our SIRS®
WebSelect (designed for use in grades 9-14) collections. Each site
includes an editor-written summary to help users evaluate a site's
content and mission prior to linking. How reliable are the 14,000+
links in WebSelect? In a word, very. Special software monitors
website content changes throughout the day. When a change is
detected, the site is removed from the product until personally
reviewed by our staff to ensure compliance to our rigorous
standards.
SIRS® Interactive Citizenship is an online social studies
program that combines cutting-edge content with state-of-the-art
technology. It contains three award-winning interactive content
sets: What Citizens Need to Know About Economics, What Citizens
Need to Know About Government, and What Citizens Need to
Know About World Affairs. In-depth chapter essays provide
background context and concepts. However, SIRS Interactive
Citizenship doesn’t rely on these titles alone. Links to current
related articles, primary source documents, and websites make this
an unparalleled educational resource that emphasizes reading,
writing, and critical thinking skills. The content is continuously
updated and carefully monitored according to strict SIRS criteria
for relevance, reliability, and adherence to learning
standards—making it the perfect complement to any social science
curriculum.
Literature Online
(LION) Complete
Literature Online (LION) is the world's leading academic full-text
and reference online resource for literature in English, combining
unique content with 21st century functionality. LION provides
students with texts, criticism and search tools for academic
research and undergraduate learning. Integrating over 357,250 works
of poetry, prose and drama from the 8th to the 21st century with a
huge library of criticism and reference material, including
thousands of literary articles, 6500+ essays, 4100 biographies and
encyclopaedia entries, LION represents an indispensable resource
for literary studies. Literature Online now also includes Poets On
Screen which offers 839 filmed poetry readings of contemporary
poets reading their poems and classic poems.
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Public Libraries:
Culture
Grams
CultureGrams provides country reports that go beyond mere facts and
figures to deliver an insider's perspective on daily life and
culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the
world's people. CultureGrams now covers 202 countries with complete
coverage of all 192 United Nations member-states! CultureGrams
Online includes the World, States & Canadian Provinces
Editions. We’ve also recently added videos and slideshows: These
unique multimedia resources literally bring the world to you
through images, interviews, and sounds that illuminate daily life
in other countries. The streaming videos (45 in total) show
locations, people, and events in 2 to 5 minute clips. The
slideshows (72 in total) illustrate a theme using 10 to 15 images
not from our Photo Gallery.
Ancestry Library
Edition
The Ancestry Library Edition collection has approximately 4,000
databases including key collections such as U.S. Federal Census
images and indexes from 1790 to 1930; the Map Center containing
more than 1,000 historical maps; American Genealogical
Biographical Index (over 200 volumes); Daughters of the
American Revolution Lineage (over 150 volumes); The Great
Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1630; Social
Security Death Index (updated monthly); WWI Draft
Registration Cards; Federal Slave Narratives; and a strong
Civil War collection. Ancestry Library Edition updates continually,
with more indexes and original images added all the
time.
HeritageQuest
Online
HeritageQuest Online™ combines digital, searchable images of U.S.
federal census records with the digitized version of the popular
UMI® Genealogy & Local History collection and other valuable
content. This online database is an essential collection of unique
material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with
coverage dating back to the late 1700s. Researchers can use
HeritageQuest Online to find their ancestors, trace their paths
across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where
they settled.
HeritageQuest Online includes all of the images, and extensive
indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers
more than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family
histories and over 12,000 local histories. Additionally, there are
more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city
directories, probate records, and more.
eLibrary®
eLibrary - the user-friendly general reference tool - is the
perfect resource for delivering full-text and multimedia reference
essentials that supports user inquiry. The eLibrary database family
offers content sets to support every range of user, including
college-level researchers, and professional educators. Content
types include: magazines & journals, newspapers, reference
books, TV & radio transcripts, maps, pictures, websites, and
audio/video.\
eLibrary
Elementary
eLibrary® Elementary tailors all the media types and search
functionality of eLibrary for the young reader. Students use the
colorful, graphical search interface to find the answers they need
from more than 130 magazines, newspapers, books, transcripts, maps,
images, weblinks, and audio/video titles, all selected as
appropriate for elementary school studies. For a Content List, go
to the product detail. The wealth of resources support student
inquiry whether it's fact checking, homework help, or personal
interest. Every magazine, journal, newspaper, book, and transcript
is provided in 100 percent full-text-saving valuable search time
and reducing the frustration of abstract-only results. Plus, the
variety of multimedia content supplements and enhances text-only
information, assists beginning readers, and supports multiple
learning styles.
eLibrary
Science
Explore thousands of full-text and multimedia files that help
researchers better understand concepts in science, and that allow
educators at all levels (from K-12 to university and beyond) to
build engaging science materials, lessons, and activities for
students of all ages. Users find the answers they need from more
than 440 sources including magazines and journals, newspapers, TV
and radio transcripts, reference books, websites, images, and
streaming audio/video.
Literature Online
(LION) Complete
Literature Online (LION) is the world's leading academic full-text
and reference resource for literature in English, combining unique
content with 21st century functionality. LION provides students
with texts, criticism and search tools for academic research and
undergraduate learning. Integrating 357,250+ works of poetry, prose
and drama from the 8th to the 21st century with a huge library of
criticism and reference material, including thousands of literary
articles, 6500+ essays, 4100 biographies and encyclopaedia entries,
LION represents an indispensable resource for literary studies.
Literature Online now also includes Poets On Screen which offers
839 filmed poetry readings of contemporary poets reading their
poems and classic poems.
SIRS
SIRS Knowledge Source® is a comprehensive database portal
which is comprised of several distinct reference databases
including SIRS Researcher®, SIRS® Government Reporter, SIRS®
Renaissance, and SIRS® WebSelect. It provides relevant, credible
information on social issues, science, history, government, and the
arts and humanities.
SIRS
Researcher--When it comes to
helping researchers make sense of the major issues of the day, SIRS
Researcher® makes the grade by offering only the very best article
selections from more than 1,600 sources—exploring social,
scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global
issues. Articles and graphics in SIRS Researcher are carefully
selected according to strict SIRS criteria for content reliability,
relevance, and age-appropriateness. Titles include: American
History, The Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Affairs, Global
Viewpoint, Maclean’s, National Geographic, New Internationalist,
Newsweek, Science News, and Time.
SIRS®
Government Reporter is a comprehensive
student resource for the study of all aspects of U.S. federal
government. It contains thousands of full-text documents,
summaries, and graphics covering a wide variety of topics including
health, science, economics, environment, politics, foreign affairs,
business, and industry.
SIRS® Renaissance—Current Perspectives on the Arts &
Humanities—is a reference database that provides dynamic
information on the following topics: architecture and design,
culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing arts, philosophy
and religion, and visual arts. Full-text articles are selected from
more than 1,200 domestic and international publications. Many
articles are accompanied by full-color images, including art
reproductions, photographs, and illustrations.
SIRS®
WebSelect: Every day, our
editorial team evaluates dozens of new websites spanning the globe.
Each site is carefully selected for its relevance, credibility,
appropriateness, and reliability before it's added to our SIRS®
WebSelect (designed for use in grades 9-14) collections. Each site
includes an editor-written summary to help users evaluate a site's
content and mission prior to linking. How reliable are the 14,000+
links in WebSelect? In a word, very. Special software monitors
website content changes throughout the day. When a change is
detected, the site is removed from the product until personally
reviewed by our staff to ensure compliance to our rigorous
standards.
SIRS®
Interactive Citizenship is an online social
studies program that combines cutting-edge content with
state-of-the-art technology. It contains three award-winning
interactive content sets: What Citizens Need to Know About
Economics, What Citizens Need to Know About Government, and
What Citizens Need to Know About World Affairs. In-depth
chapter essays provide background context and concepts. However,
SIRS Interactive Citizenship doesn’t rely on these titles alone.
Links to current related articles, primary source documents, and
websites make this an unparalleled educational resource that
emphasizes reading, writing, and critical thinking skills. The
content is continuously updated and carefully monitored according
to strict SIRS criteria for relevance, reliability, and adherence
to learning standards—making it the perfect complement to any
social science curriculum.
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