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LINCCWeb Electronic Resources 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.

 

 



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 daily.

 

PUBMED (MEDLINE): Access free PUBMED on the Web with a new state-of-the-art interface. It is easy to use and provides Boolean Search query.