List of database descriptions for including in research resource lists.

EBSCO Animals
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Internet version of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

ERIC-DISCUS (Collegiate DISCUS)
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.

ERIC-OCLC (OCLC)
Educational Resources Information Center contains more than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.

ERIC-Public (Public)
Educational Resources Information Center contains more than 100,000 documents in ERIC® that can be downloaded for free.

Expanded Academic ASAP (DISCUS)
Database for research in all academic disciplines including astronomy, communications, current events, history, humanities, law, psychology, religion, social sciences, sociology, and the general sciences and technology. Publications: National news magazines, general interest magazines and the New York Times. Coverage combines indexing, abstracts, full text, and images.

General Business File ASAP? (DISCUS)
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia? (Collegiate DISCUS)
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

General Reference Center? (DISCUS)
Covers current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc. Publications: Magazines, reference books, and newspapers.

Geo Ref?
Provides access to over 2.3 million references, covering the geology of North America from 1785 to the present; and the rest of the world from 1933 to present.

Global Books in Print?
Title information on English language books, audios and videos printed worldwide. Also provides searchable information about publishers, awards, bestsellers and authors.

Grolier Online Encyclopedia? (DISCUS)
Site consists of three databases: New Book of Knowledge Online (for children), Encyclopedia Americana Online (for in-depth research) and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online (for quick reference).

Grove Music Online?
Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition). Includes over 3000 links to related sites, including sound archives and illustrations. Updated annually.

Harp Week: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I?
An internet resource providing access to Harper’s Weekly, a 19th and early 20th century American news magazine. Currently available: Reproduction of all pages of issues published between 1857–1871. Harp Week is searchable by date, index terms, literary genre and occupation/role.

Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970?
Presents data describing the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 −1970. Electronic version of the Bicentennial Edition of the Historical Statistics of the United States (1975).

JSTOR?
JSTOR is a collection of over 160 scholarly journal titles including more than 2,000,000 full-text articles on a wide range of topics. Both current articles and an extensive backfile are available for use.

Junior Edition?
This periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Kid’s Info Bits?
Kids Info Bits meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

L’Annee Philologique?
An index of over 375,000 bibliographic records from 1969 to present in the Classics. Divided into two parts: ancient authors and texts; subjects and disciplines.

Law Library Microform Collection?
LLMC is a non profit cooperative that is digitizing many primary sources of government publications, ex. Interior Department Decisions; Attorney General Opinions, Treasury decisions, etc.

Law for All?
Their mission is to help people understand everyday legal matters in plain English.

Legal Trac?
This database is best used to find articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers.

Lexis Nexis Academic Universe?
Provides full-text information from a variety of sources within these five categories: news, business, legal research, medical and general reference.

Lexis Nexis Primary Sources in U.S. History?
Search the full text of sources or browse entire collections of documents.

MAS Ultra - School Edition?
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 550 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, 339 full text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSC Ohost.

MLA International Bibliography?
MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.6 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.

Military & Government Collection?
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.

National Atlas of the United States?
The National Atlas promotes greater national geographic awareness. It delivers easy to use, map-like views of America’s natural and sociocultural landscapes.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service?
Search Full-Text Publications or the Abstracts Database for criminal justice data.

Naxos Music Library?
The Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. Students and faculty have access to over 80,000 tracks of near-cd quality music from over 2,500 composers. The library also includes contemporary jazz, world, folk, and new age music.

One File - Infotrac?
Provides access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics, including humanities, education, business, science, current events, art, politics, economics, social science, law, health care, computers, technology, environmental issues, and general interest topics. The database offers over 6000 indexed and abstracted titles and 3100 full-text titles.

Oxford Reference Online?
Oxford Reference Online contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving subscribers unprecedented access to a comprehensive information resource.

Papers First?
Papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium and meeting received at the British Library.

Population Index?
An annotated bibliography is presented of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other material on population topics.

PR Eprint Network?
Provides access to electronic preprints (generally, manuscripts that have not yet been published) covering physics, materials, chemistry, mathematics, biology and environmental sciences. Developed by DOE and Office of Sci & Tech. Info (OSTI).

Primary Search?
Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSC Ohost.

Proceedings?
Citations of every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium and meeting received at the British Library.

Project Muse?
Project MUSE® offers nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community’s primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

Psyc ARTICLES?
Psyc ARTICLES is a definitive source of searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. The Psyc ARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 35,000 searchable full text articles from 41 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations. Coverage spans from 1987 to the present.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection? (Collegiate DISCUS)
This database provides coverage of more than 550 full text journals, including more than 525 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in Psyc INFO. This database is updated daily via EBSC Ohost.

Psyc INFO?
Index & abstracting service of the broad discipline of psychology.

Public Library of Science?
(PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.

Regional Business News?
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Religion Case Reporter?
The Religion Case Reporter indexes and reports all relevant cases relating to religion, a religious institution, or clergy that various courts have designated for publication. The online edition of The Religion Case Reporter is comprised of (1) Case Digests, (2) a Cumulative Index, and (3) a Cumulative Table of Statutes and includes case digests going back to January 1998.

Science Direct?
This database covers life, physical, technical and social sciences. It gives access to over 1,200 journals - the majority providing full text coverage.

SIRS Knowledge Source?
Four primary databases can be searched concurrently or separately, SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Renaissance, and SIRS Net Select.

Source OECD?
Source OECD is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. It covers a variety of topics including business. Some articles are available full text.

Springer Link?
Over 1,000 full-text journal titles from publishers Springer, Kluwer, and Brill in a variety of disciplines. Purchased individually, titles included would cost $1.2 million. Includes current issues and recent backfile.

The State Newspaper?
Full text articles available from 1987 to to latest edition through DISCUS.

Student Edition?
This database is designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

US Business Advisor?
Created by the Small Business Administration (SBA) as a one-stop electronic link to the information and services government provides for the business community.

US Gazetteer?
Place names for the United States and its territories from the 1990 Census Lookup Server. Searchable by name and state abbreviation or zip code.

What Do I Read Next??
Reader’s advisory database. It helps librarians and users identify adult, young adult, and children’s fiction and nonfiction titles of interest. For over 80,000 recommended titles (contemporary mainstream fiction, classic fiction and popular nonfiction), it gives brief book descriptions, notes important characters, provides author information, indicates book awards, etc.

Wikipedia
A free encyclopedia available internationally in a vast spectrum of subjects with nearly 200,000 articles in English.

Wiley Interscience?
Nearly 300 full-text journal titles in a variety of disciplines including Business, Life and Earth Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, and more. Includes current issues and recent backfile.

World Almanac?
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.