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LINCCWeb
Electronic Resources
A variety of databases, many
offering full-text articles
from journals, magazines,
newspapers, and other types
of information resources.
Includes Academic
Search Premier, Health &
Wellness Resource Center,
Health Source Nursing Academic
Edition, MEDLINE, and
more.
Access available only to MDC
students and employees. Valid
Borrower ID and
LINCC PIN required. Your
Borrower ID is the
16-digit number on the front
of your MDCard. If you first
entered the College after the
Spring 2004 term, your
LINCC PIN is the last 4
digits of the 16-digit number
on your MDCard. Otherwise,
your LINCC PIN (unless you
changed it) is the last 4
digits of your Social Security
Number.
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LINCCWeb
Electronic Resources has the
following databases:
Academic
Search Premier (EBSCO):
Full-text resource containing
information from a wide range of
academic areas including business,
social sciences, humanities, general
academic, general science and
education.
Applied
Science and Technology Full Text
(Wilson): Periodical coverage
includes 575 trade and industrial
publications, journals issued by
professional and technical societies,
and specialized subject periodicals,
as well as special issues such as
buyers' guides, directories, and
conference proceedings.
Art Full Text
(Wilson): Full text plus
abstracts and indexing of an
international array of peer-selected
publications—now with expanded
coverage of Latin American, Canadian,
Asian and other non-Western art, new
artists, contemporary art, exhibition
reviews, and feminist criticism.
ArticleFirst
via FirstSearch (OCLC):
ArticleFirst offers searching and
browsing of articles and tables of
contents from thousands of journals.
Contains bibliographic citations that
describe items listed on the table of
contents pages of journals in science,
technology, medicine, social science,
business, the humanities, and popular
culture. Each record describes one
article, news story, letter, or other
item. Includes 15.5+ million records
from 15,000 journals from January 1990
to the present. Updated daily.
Biography
Index (Wilson): Cites
biographical articles appearing in any
of more than 3,000 periodicals, plus
some 2,000 current books of individual
and collective biography published
each year, and biographical material
in otherwise non-biographical books.
Besides biographies and
autobiographies, it includes citations
to interviews, obituaries, collections
of letters, diaries, memoirs, juvenile
literature, book reviews,
bibliographies and exhibition reviews.
People covered range from antiquity to
the present and represent all fields
and nationalities.
Biography
Resource Center (Gale):
Comprehensive, full-text, online
biographical reference database
covering literature, science,
multicultural studies, business,
entertainment, politics, sports,
government, history, current events
and the arts.
Biological &
Agricultural Index Plus (Wilson):
Offers researchers convenient
online access to the core literature
of biology and agriculture—much of it
from peer-reviewed journals—plus full
text. Full text citations also link to
PDF page images, featuring graphs,
charts, diagrams, photos, and
illustrations indispensable to science
research.
Book Review
Digest Plus (Wilson): A
library classic for nearly 100 years,
Book Review Digest indexes and
provides excerpts of reviews of
current English-language fiction and
non-fiction. Now, Book Review Digest
has become Book Review Digest
Plus—dramatically expanding its scope
(from its former base of 109
periodicals) with entries drawn from
thousands of periodicals covered by
other WilsonWeb databases.
Business &
Industry (Gale): A
multi-industry business database with
a strong global focus on company,
product and industry information.
Business & Industry provides the
precise and relevant indexing that
ensures easy and successful searching
-- plus valuable facts, figures and
trends. Business & Industry is one of
the most widely-used business
databases throughout the world.
Business Full
Text (Wilson): Provides
fast, convenient access to a multitude
of outstanding sources—from The New
York Times Business Section and The
Wall Street Journal to magazines and
scholarly journals. Users will find
feature articles, product reviews,
interviews, biographical sketches,
corporate profiles, obituaries,
surveys, book reviews, reports from
associations, societies, trade shows
and conferences, and more.
Business
Source Elite (EBSCO):
Comprehensive full-text business
periodical database that includes
scholarly journals and business
periodicals covering topics such as
management, economics, finance,
accounting, and international
business.
CINAHL Plus
with Full Text (EBSCO)
:
Provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied
health, with indexing back to 1937. In addition, this database offers access to
health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings,
standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters, as
well as Evidence-Based Care Sheet.
Clase and
Periodica via FirstSearch (OCLC):
CLASE indexes documents
published in Latin American and
Caribbean journals specializing in
social sciences and humanities.
PERIÓDICA covers journals specializing
in science and technology. CLASE and
PERIÓDICA offer access to more than
400,000 citations from documents
published in 2,600 selected scholarly
journals. They have become significant
reference resources for those
interested in what is published in or
about Latin America. Includes 400,000+
records from 2,600 journals from 1975
to the present. Updated quarterly.
Clinical
Pharmacology (EBSCO):
provides access to up-to-date,
concise and clinically-relevant drug
monographs for all U.S. prescription
drugs, hard-to-find herbal and
nutritional supplements,
over-the-counter products and new
and investigational drugs.
Computer
Database (Gale): Offers
access to today's most well-read and
influential periodicals on the
computer, telecommunications and
electronics industries.
Contemporary
Womens Issues (Gale): A
multidisciplinary, full-text database
that brings together relevant content
from mainstream periodicals, "gray"
literature, and the alternative press
-- with a focus on the critical issues
and events that influence women's
lives in more than 190 countries.
Contemporary Women's Issues includes
English-language titles from East and
West Africa, Asia, and South and
Central America, the Caribbean, North
America and Europe.
Criminal
Justice Periodicals Index (ProQuest):
Covers a wide variety of
criminal justice topics, including
corrections administration, law
enforcement, social work, industrial
security, drug rehabilitation, and
criminal and family law. Full-text and
image coverage for about 50 journals.
Custom
Newspapers InfoTrac (Gale):
Full-text access to more than
100 newspapers, including several
Florida papers, The New York Times,
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
and other national and international
newspapers.
eBooks (NetLibrary):
Searchable collection of ebooks
specifically selected for Florida's
community colleges.
Education
Full Text (Wilson):
Full-featured database covering such
topics as technology, science, art,
humanities, business, law, and social
sciences. Many articles in full-text.
Electronic
Collections via FirstSearch (OCLC):
Access to over 4,800 journals
in a variety of subject areas, all
with full-image articles online.
Articles from Electronic Collections
Online journals are linked to
corresponding citations in databases
throughout the FirstSearch service.
Articles from many journals may be
purchased on a per-article use basis.
Includes 1.8+ million records from
5,000+ journals. Updated daily.
ERIC via
FirstSearch (OCLC): A
guide to published and unpublished
sources on thousands of educational
topics, with information from RIE
(Resources in Education) and CIJE
(Current Index to Journals in
Education). ERIC records now include
full-text documents from the ERIC
Digest at no extra charge. The
database includes the ERIC thesaurus,
a complete list of descriptive terms
used by ERIC to index and search the
database. Includes 1.1+ million
records from 1,016 journals and other
documents from 1966 to the present.
Updated monthly.
Essay &
General Literature Index (Wilson):
This unique reference offers
precise access to nearly 65,000 essays
contained in some 5,300 anthologies
and collections—a wealth of
information that might be otherwise
hidden away in your library. Some 300
single and multi-author collections
are indexed annually, plus more than
20 selected annuals and serials.
Coverage spans the entire range of the
humanities and social sciences,
including literary works, art history,
drama, and film.
Expanded
Academic ASAP (Gale):
Topics range from arts and the
humanities to social sciences,
science, and technology. Access
scholarly journals, news magazines,
and newspapers - many with full text
and images.
Funk and
Wagnalls New Encyclopedia (EBSCO):
Funk & Wagnalls New
Encyclopedia database contains over
25,000 records, covering a wide range
of topics. Full text and images are
available.
General
BusinessFile ASAP (Gale):
Analyze company performance and
activity, industry events and trends,
and the latest in management,
economics and politics. Search broker
research reports, trade publications,
newspapers, journals and company
directory listings.
General
Reference Center Gold (Gale):
Integrates a vast array of key
business and general interest titles
in a single database. It includes
national news magazines,
encyclopedias, core business journals,
Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service
newspaper articles, more than 15
reference books, and more than 2,000
titles, including 1,200 in full text.
General
Science Full Text (Wilson):
Periodical coverage includes
242 popular science magazines as well
as professional journals. General
Science Full Text also covers The New
York Times Science Section (published
weekly on Tuesday).
GPO via
FirstSearch (OCLC): Consists of
nearly 500,000 records published by
the GPO since July 1976. Includes
references for documents to
congressional committee reports and
hearings, debates, documents from
executive departments, and more.
Health and
Wellness Resource Center (Gale)
:
Easy-to-use interface with
access to full-text nursing and allied
health journals, encyclopedias and
other reference sources, as well as
informational pamphlets. Also includes
the Alternative Health suite of
resources.
Health Source
- Consumer Edition (EBSCO)
:
Provides information on many
health topics including the medical
sciences, food sciences and nutrition,
childcare, sports medicine and general
health. Health Source: Consumer
Edition features searchable full text
for nearly 160 journals including
Consumer Reports on Health and Men’s
Health, as well as abstracts and
indexing for nearly 180 general
health, nutrition and professional
health care publications.
Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO)
:
Provides nearly 540 scholarly
full text journals focusing on many
medical disciplines. Also featured are
abstracts and indexing for over 570
journals.
Humanities
Full Text (Wilson): Over
500 English-language periodicals
covering literature and language,
history, philosophy, archaeology,
classical studies, folklore, gender
studies, performing arts, history,
religion and theology. Many articles
in full text.
Informe!
Revistas en Espanol (Gale):
Created exclusively for
Spanish-speaking users, this full-text
electronic reference tool is the first
system to provide indexing, images and
full text of popular Hispanic
magazines -- not just translations.
Also included is a thesaurus and
interface that are uniquely designed
for Spanish-speaking users. ˇInforme!
thinks through every query in Spanish.
Terms and thesaurus are based on the
expressions Spanish-speakers commonly
use, allowing users to easily navigate
through the database without
experiencing inaccurate search terms.
InfoTrac
Junior Edition (Gale):
Designed for junior high and middle
school students, and features the
titles most critical to their
libraries and curriculum. With Junior
Edition's diverse perspectives and
strong full-text coverage, students
will find the answers they need to all
their general reference questions.
InfoTrac Kids
Edition (Gale): Gives
younger students the tools they need
to make sense of the content they
access. User-friendly interfaces and
ever-improving content make research
not only a learning experience, but
fun, too.
InfoTrac
OneFile (Gale): Includes more
than 4,200 full-text titles; five
newspaper indexes -- a total of nearly
8,000 titles in all with more than 20
years of backfile coverage from 1980
to present. InfoTrac OneFile makes
approximately 25 million database
records available with a single search
query. It includes newswires from 89
wire services, newspapers, general
interest magazines, refereed academic
journals, business publications,
technology periodicals, and specialty
titles in law, health care and
computers.
InfoTrac
Professional Collection (Gale):
A custom selection of more than 300
full-text journals for educators that
is updated daily. The Professional
Collection offers balanced coverage
for any professional educator in the
arts and humanities, child and
adolescent psychology and development,
drug and alcohol abuse,
health/nutrition/fitness, learning
disabilities, literature, school law,
science and technology, social
sciences or sports/athletic training.
InfoTrac
Student Edition (Gale):
Designed for secondary school
students, and offers a quick and easy
way to do classroom assignments and
get answers to general reference
questions. Student Edition is
comprised of a variety of full-text
sources that include the leading
magazines, newspapers and reference
books that librarians prefer and
students enjoy.
Issues and
Controversies (Facts on File):
Offers a wealth of current topics
research information, including
pro/con discussions of hot issues,
newspaper editorials, numerical
snapshots of key topics, photos and
graphics, and selected historical
source documents.
Legal
Periodicals & Books (Wilson):
International coverage and access to
scholarly articles, symposia,
jurisdictional surveys, court
decisions, legislation, books, book
reviews, and more. This is an
excellent resource for attorneys,
educators, business people, law
librarians, students, paralegals, and
others involved with the law.
Library
Literature & Information Science Full
Text (Wilson): A bibliographic
database that indexes articles and
book reviews of key library and
information science periodicals
published in the United States and
elsewhere. Books, chapters in
collected works such as conference
proceedings, library school theses,
and pamphlets are also indexed.
Library,
Information Science and Technology
Abstracts (EBSCO): This
world-class bibliographic database
provides coverage on subjects such
as librarianship, classification,
cataloging, bibliometrics, online
information retrieval, information
management and more. Delivered via
the EBSCOhost platform, LISTA
indexes more than 600 periodicals
plus books, research reports, and
proceedings. With coverage dating
back to the mid-1960s, it is the
oldest continuously produced
database covering the field of
information science.
Literature
Resource Center (Gale):
Full-text access to biographies,
bibliographies, and critical analyses
of authors from every age and literary
discipline.
MagillOnLiterature Plus (EBSCO):
Combines the two Magill
literary databases -- MagillOnAuthors
and MagillOnLiterature -- into one
powerful interface. MagillOnLiterature
is the definitive online source for
editorially reviewed critical analyses
and brief plot summaries of the most
studied works in the history of
literature. MagillOnAuthors provides
access to information on notable
authors from 15 complete Salem Press
sets containing a total of 62 volumes.
The full database includes 12 volumes
from Masterplots, 61 volumes from
Masterplots II, the Cyclopedia of
World Authors, the Cyclopedia of
Literary Characters, 26 volumes of
Magill’s Literary Annual, Magill’s
Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy
Literature and Magill Book Reviews.
Also includes images for many
well-known authors, embedded
hyperlinks to related author essays,
and a literary glossary of over 800
terms.
MAS Ultra -
School Edition (EBSCO):
Designed for high school students.
Contains full-text for more than 490
popular, high school magazines as well
as biographies, primary source
documents, pamphlets and reference
books.
MEDLINE via
FirstSearch (OCLC)
: Covers all
areas of medicine, including clinical
medicine, experimental medicine,
dentistry, nursing, health services
administration, nutrition, and much
more. Now includes the MeSH thesaurus.
Includes 12+ million records from
9,500+ sources from 1965 to the
present. Updated daily.
Miami Herald
(NewsBank): Daily newspaper of
Miami, Florida, and its surrounding
areas.
Military and
Government Collection (EBSCO):
Designed to offer current news and
information to all branches of the
military, with a thorough collection
of military titles, trade publications
and newsweeklies. Includes
cover-to-cover full text for nearly
350 titles.
NetLibrary
eBooks: Searchable collection
of ebooks specifically selected
for Florida's community colleges.
NewsBank:
News articles covering social,
economic, environmental, government,
sports, health and science issues and
events from more than 500 U.S.
regional and national newspapers, wire
services, and broadcasts.
OmniFile Full
Text Mega Edition (Wilson):
Full text periodicals, along with
article abstracts and indexing,
covering business, education, science,
social sciences, art, humanities and
plus popular magazines.
Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center (Gale):
Search viewpoint articles,
contextual topic overviews,
government and organizational
statistics, court cases, profiles of
government agencies and special
interest groups, newspaper and
magazine articles and more
concerning social issues.
PapersFirst
via FirstSearch (OCLC):
Collection of more than 50 full- and
partial-text databases with topics
ranging from the arts and humanities
to science and medicine. Multiple
databases can be searched at once.
Physicians
Desk Reference (PDR) (Micromedex)
:
Searchable index of hundreds of
drugs and medications. Search by
product name, manufacturer, product
category, indications,
contraindications, side effects, or
drug interactions. Includes product
photos.
Primary
Search (EBSCO): Designed for
elementary school students. Contains
full-text for more than 50 popular
elementary school magazines as well as
pamphlets and reference books such as
the Encyclopedia of Animals and Funk &
Wagnall's New Encyclopedia.
ProceedingsFirst via FirstSearch (OCLC):
Provides tables of contents of
papers presented at conferences
worldwide. Each record contains a list
of the papers presented at each
conference. Like its companion,
PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst provides
access to The British Library Document
Supply Centre's vast collection of
conference proceedings. Includes
153,000+ records from 1993 to the
present.
Readers Guide
Full Text (Wilson): Offers the
ultimate in current events coverage,
curriculum support, and quality
periodicals research for students,
educators, and library patrons.
Regional
Business News (EBSCO): Regional
Business News provides comprehensive
full text for more than 50 regional
business newspapers and periodicals.
Science
Complete (Wilson): Offers the
complete content of three
science-oriented databases at one
time: Applied Science and Technology
Full Text, Biological & Agricultural
Index Plus, and General Science Full
Text can be accessed simultaneously
with a single search. Includes full
text and abstracts for a wide range of
scientific and general interest
publications.
SIRS
Government Reporter (SIRS):
Current and historic government
documents; landmark and recent U.S.
Supreme Court decisions; information
about federal departments, agencies,
elected leaders and more.
SIRS
Knowledge Source (SIRS):
Integrated online access to
full-text articles and Internet
resources from SIRS reference
databases - SIRS Researcher, SIRS
Government Reporter, SIRS
Renaissance and SIRS
NetSelect.
SIRS
Renaissance (SIRS): Current
perspectives on the arts and
humanities, including music,
literature, film, performing arts,
architecture, religion and visual
arts and more. Many articles
includes full-color art
reproductions, photographs, and
illustrations.
SIRS
Researcher (SIRS): Current
perspectives on the arts and
humanities, including music,
literature, film, performing arts,
architecture, religion and visual arts
and more. Many articles includes
full-color art reproductions,
photographs, and illustrations.
Social
Sciences Full Text (Wilson):
Full-featured database covering such
topics as technology, science, art,
humanities, business, law, and social
sciences. Many articles in full-text.
Virtual
Reference Library (Gale):
Gale Virtual Reference Library
offers more than 85 reference
sources including encyclopedias,
almanacs, series and more, allowing
libraries to provide respected
authoritative essays on varied
topics from numerous subject areas.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
provides the flexibility to buy one
eBook or multiple eBooks; search
across a single eBook or an entire
eBook collection.
WebSelect
(SIRS): Current perspectives
on the arts and humanities,
including music, literature, film,
performing arts, architecture,
religion and visual arts and more.
Many articles includes full-color
art reproductions, photographs, and
illustrations.
What Do I
Read Next? (Gale): A powerful
readers' advisory tool offering the
expertise of specialists, critics and
librarians to find the best examples
of internationally known fiction and
nonfiction. Contains over 100,000
titles, more than 58,000 plot
summaries, 562 awards titles,
recommended reading lists and
biographical information. Genres
include inspirational, mystery,
romance, science fiction, fantasy,
horror, western and historical novels,
general fiction, classic fiction and
nonfiction.
World Almanac
via FirstSearch (OCLC):
Includes the full text of all of the
current Almanac titles: The World
Almanac and Book of Facts, providing
key facts on a wide variety of
subjects internationally; The World
Almanac of the U.S.A. with essential
facts about the United States--current
and historical; The World Almanac of
US Politics, a guidebook to federal,
state, and local governments; The
World Almanac for Kids, covering
information and facts of interest to
middle-school children and teachers;
and the Funk & Wagnalls New
Encyclopedia, a comprehensive general
encyclopedia. Updated annually
(encyclopedia updated quarterly),
contains 32,000+ records.
WorldCat via
FirstSearch (OCLC): The world's
most comprehensive bibliography, with
more than 55 million bibliographic
records representing over 400
languages on materials ranging from
stone tables to electronic books.
WorldCat includes information from
2100 BC to the present with thousands
of records containing evaluative
content such as tables of contents,
cover art, book summaries and notes
about the authors. It uses the Library
of Congress Subject Headings as its
thesaurus. Users can also directly
browse issues of periodicals in the
ArticleFirst database from
bibliographic records for these titles
in WorldCat. WorldCat adds value to
other databases in FirstSearch by
linking citations to holdings that
help users find these materials in
their own libraries and to the
Interlibrary Loan service. Updated
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