Library Databases - Description

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Library Databases - Description

Database Descriptions    

ABI/INFORM Collection
The database covers around 5,000 journals, with nearly 3,900 full-text titles covering business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information. ABI/INFORM Complete consists of:
- ABI/INFORM Global™
- ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry™
- ABI/INFORM Dateline ™
- ABI/INFORM Archive™
- The Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition

ABI/INFORM Archive provides cover-to-cover full images, complete with illustrations and advertisements. The database contains complete runs of key business and management journals, providing a unique historical perspective on hundreds of topics, including corporate strategies, management techniques, marketing, product development, and industry conditions worldwide.

ABI/Inform Dateline
The database contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications.

ABI/Inform Global
The database covers business and economics journal and the Wall Street Journal articles on management techniques, theory and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. It also provides access to information on over 60,000 companies with business and executive profiles.

ABI/Inform Trade & Industry
The database provides latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and other topics. It contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and more.

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier is one of EBSCOhost's full-text databases. It covers full-text articles from nearly 3,200 scholarly publications, and numerous peer-reviewed journals with a coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies, etc.

Accounting, Tax & Banking Database
The database allows search key accounting standards from FASB, GASB, and IASB along with top accounting literature. Standards content includes Original Pronouncements, Statements, Interpretations, Board Opinions, AICPA Interpretations, Current Text, EITF Abstracts and much more. It also has in-depth coverage of accounting policies, state and national tax legislation, corporate taxation, as well as related accounting topics such as auditing, compensation, pension plans, and financial management.

ACM Digital Library
A searchable database that provides citations and full text to all ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings.

ACS (American Chemical Society) Publications
The database contains approximately 30 ACS journals online.

America: History and Life
This database covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. It provides full-text coverage of more than 200 journals and nearly 100 books, and selective indexing for about 1,700 journals.

APA PsycARTICLES
The database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. It provides full text access to selected APA journals from 1987 to the present.

APA PsycINFO
Access to all the citations and summaries of journal articles back to 1887 that PsycINFO has created in electronic form. This database is provided by the American Psychological Association.

Asian & European Business Collection 
Designed for students and faculty at business schools with a need for specialized information about these important regions and markets, ProQuest Asian and European Business Collection can be used in conjunction with other business information services such as ABI/INFORM for the broadest possible curriculum coverage, but also serves as an excellent stand-alone resource. ProQuest Asian and European Business provides information on companies, economies, markets, international trade and overall business conditions throughout these regions.

Biological AbstractsThe database provides millions of citations and abstracts of life science and biomedical research literature published in more than 4,000 journals.

Biological Science Database
This database includes over 370 titles in biology, with more than 325 available in full text.

Business Market Research Collection
This database provides geopolitical market research with information from these three sources:
Hoover's Company Profiles – information about more than 40,000 global public and non-public companies including location, financials, competitors, officers, and more.
OxResearch – succinct articles covering regional economic and political developments of significance from a network of 1,000 faculty members at Oxford, other leading universities, and think-tanks. Snapshots – market research overviews on 40+ industries and 40 countries.”

Business Source Elite
The database covers about 1,100 full-text business publications, of which nearly 500 are peer-reviewed. It also covers 10,000 company profiles from Datamonitor.

Business Source Premier
This full text database covers over 8,000 scholarly business journals and
publications, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed and scholarly journals
such as Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Journal of
Marketing Research, etc. It also provides detailed company profiles for the
world's 10,000 largest companies, with information in nearly all areas of
business.

Canadian Business & Current Affairs Collection
Canadian Business & Current Affairs™ (CBCA) provides more than 1,665 publication titles (majority titles are Canadian) in current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information.

Canadian Newsstream
The database covers full text of over 240 leading Canadian newspapers. Backfiles of some newspapers date back to late 1970s and 1980s.

Career and Technical Education Database
This is the definitive source for vocational information. The database includes over 790 titles, with more than 700 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.

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
This is a finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online.

CINAHL Complete
CINAHL complete provides indexing and full text to journals in the fields of nursing and allied health. It includes CINAHL Subject Headings list; and the CINAHL index of health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters.

Computing Database
This database includes over 430 titles, with over 350 available in full text. Topics covered include: product reviews, database design and management, software, hardware, e-commerce, web site development, intranets and extranets, technology management, artificial intelligence, games, graphics, computer security, and information science.

Consumer Health Database
Covers health and nutrition topics from health science journals.

Criminal Justice Database
The database provides information on all criminal justice topics, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law. It offers full text coverage for about 50 of the titles most frequently accessed by criminal justice researchers, and includes complete indexing and abstracts for another approximate 140 relevant U.S. and international journals.

eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
This database provides full-text access to more than 125,000 eBooks from leading university presses, such as: Oxford University Press, MIT Press, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, and Harvard University Press. The titles included represent a broad range of academic subject matter, including: art, business & economics, education, language arts & discipline, literary criticism, medical, performing arts, philosophy, poetry, political science, religion, social science, technology & engineering, and others. Most titles are available with unlimited user access, and new titles are added each month.

EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service
Access to abstracts and tables of contents from thousands of journals, along with
approximately 150 full-text journals.

Education Database
The database gives access to over 745 top educational publications, including nearly 600 of the titles in full text. It covers the leading full-text journals in education, not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.

Education Research Index
ProQuest's Education Research Index combines ERIC, the leading education research database from the U.S. Department of Education, with the Supplemental Education Index by ProQuest, developed to extend the range of content beyond ERIC’s traditional scope. Together, they provide access to journal articles, reports, documents, and books—all indexed using ERIC’s controlled vocabulary for a unified and streamlined search experience. Coverage: 1966 to present.

Education Source 
This database covers scholarly research and information to meet the needs of education students, professionals, and policy makers covering all levels of education—from early childhood to higher education—as well as all educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education source contains the full text for more than 1900 journals and 550 books, indexing and abstracts for over 3500 journals, and includes citations for over 5.5 million articles including book reviews.

ERIC
This US Department of Educational Resource Information Center database contains citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals. The database also contains full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is a comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. This unique body of materials covers a wide range of current topics and countless other social, political and educational subjects. Ethnic NewsWatch also includes worldwide coverage of issues in Ireland, Israel and the Middle East, Mexico, Bosnia, Armenia, China, Nigeria and the Ukraine among other countries.

European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
Developed in cooperation between EBSCO and John Carter Brown Library, this bibliographic database provides index to more than 32,000 entries about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers a wide range of subject areas, including natural disasters, natural resources, religion and law, disease outbreaks and slavery, and more.

Explora Educator's Edition

Explora Primary Schools
The new Explora searching interface from EBSCOhost replaces the KidSearch and the Student Research Center interfaces. Explora was designed to meet the unique needs of its users, supporting both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality. Explora features a simple search that quickly delivers relevant results including articles, essays, and primary source documents to help students feel successful in their research. Includes topic overviews, 60,000 videos from the Associated Press, colorful, mobile-friendly design, reading level indicators (Lexile® Measures), text-to-speech for HTML articles to assist struggling readers or those learning English, an educators’ landing page where teachers can more easily find relevant support materials, an English Curriculum Standards Module to help educators in the U.S. and Canada correlate EBSCO content quickly and easily to Common Core, state or provincial curriculum standards

Explora Secondary Schools
The new Explora searching interface from EBSCOhost replaces the KidSearch and the Student Research Center interfaces. Explora was designed to meet the unique needs of its users, supporting both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality. Explora features a simple search that quickly delivers relevant results including articles, essays, and primary source documents to help students feel successful in their research. Includes topic overviews, 60,000 videos from the Associated Press, colorful, mobile-friendly design, reading level indicators (Lexile® Measures), text-to-speech for HTML articles to assist struggling readers or those learning English, an educators’ landing page where teachers can more easily find relevant support materials, an English Curriculum Standards Module to help educators in the U.S. and Canada correlate EBSCO content quickly and easily to Common Core, state or provincial curriculum standards

Family Health Database 
This database covers various aspects of family health, including sports injuries, women's health, food and nutrition, midwifery, eye care, dentistry, and more.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
A full-text searchable encyclopedia.

Gale Academic OneFile
This multi-subject database contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources, with extensive coverage on physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.

Gale Business Insights: Essentials
This database replaces Gale’s Business & Company Resource Center. It provides in depth coverage of businesses, including company profiles, industry profiles, products and brands, financial reports, company rankings, histories and full text periodical articles, as well as analytical information and comparison of financial data with interactive charting tools, and study product and brand information.

Gale eBooks
The database provides the following e-books , encyclopedias and specialized reference sources. Those titles can also be accessed through the online catalog of the library.

  • Africa: An Encyclopedia for Students, 4v, 2002
  • The African-American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience, 2003
  • American Decades, 10v, 2001
  • American Decades Primary Sources, 10v, 2004
  • Ancient Europe, 8000 B.C. to A.D. 1000: Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, 2v, 2004
  • Ancient Greece and Rome: An Encyclopedia for Students, 4v, 1998
  • The Ancient Near East: An Encyclopedia for Students, 4v, 2000
  • Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 9, 2002
  • Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine, 2 nd ed., 2007
  • Celebrating Life Customs around the World : From Baby Showers to Funerals 3v 2017
  • Countries and Their Cultures, 4v, 2001
  • Dictionary of American History , 3 rd ed., 10v, 2003
  • Education Today : Issues, Policies & Practices 3v 2018
  • Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History , 2 nd ed., 6v, 2006
  • Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries 7th ed. 2017
  • Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, 2v, 2004
  • Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America, 3v, 2004
  • Encyclopedia of Religion , 2 nd ed., 15v, 2005
  • Encyclopedia of World Biography , 2 nd ed., 23v, 2004
  • Encyclopedia of World Biography , Vol. 24, 2 nd ed., 2005
  • Encyclopedia of World Biography, Vol. 25, 2 nd ed., 2005
  • Encyclopedia of World Cultures, 10v, 1996
  • Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Supplement, 2002
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America , 2 nd ed., 3v, 2000
  • The Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health 4th ed. 7v 2018
  • Harrison's Manual of Medicine, 16th ed., 2005
  • Human Diseases and Conditions, 2 nd ed., 4v, 2010
  • International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences , 2 nd ed., 9v, 2008
  • The Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia for Students, 4v, 1996
  • New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, 6v, 2005
  • Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students, 4v, 2004
  • The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Technology 2v 2015
  • The SAGE Handbook of Small Business and Entrepreneurship 2018
  • Women in American History : A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia and Document Collection 4v 2017
  • West's Encyclopedia of American Law, 2 nd ed., 13v, 2004
  • World Education Encyclopedia, 2 nd ed., 3v, 2002
  • World of Forensic Science 2nd ed. 2v 2016

Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Drawing on a book series under the same title, the database features viewpoint articles, magazine, journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, and inks to websites on most debated current social issues.

Gale in Context: Science
This database provides content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files, podcasts and web links on science topics to support high school curricula and university coursework. It includes such acclaimed science series, like Experiment Central; it also features curriculum-aligned content to aid educators and enhance student research.

Gale Literary Index
A master index to Gale publications of authors and works.

Gale Literature
GALE Literary Sources includes full text literary criticism, author biographies, plot summaries & work overviews, articles, essays, eBooks, book reviews, classic texts and more. Searches retrieve results from the following: Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Online, Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series, Dictionary of Literary Biography Main Series, Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Series, Gale Virtual Reference Library, & Literature Resource Center.

Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors
This database provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 US and international authors.

Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography
Dictionary of Literary Biography includes the main series, documentary, and yearbook volumes.

Gale Literature Criticism
A collection of literary commentary and analysis from book excerpts, periodicals, and more.

Gale Literature Resource Center
This is a comprehensive online literary database, which covers all facets of literary study in one highly searchable interface. It includes biographical, bibliographical, critical, and contextual information on authors and their works. Many full text journal articles are provided.

Gale OneFile: Business
Updated information resources on activities of companies and industries worldwide.

Gale OneFile: Contemporary Women's Issues
This is 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. It includes English-language titles from East and West Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe.

Gale Power Search
A cross-search platform for content of Gale's OneFile periodicals, In Context databases, and eBooks.

  
The database provides tools and guidance on jobs, careers, and practice for entrance exams and civil service job exams.

Gale Research Complete
Gale Research Complete provides subscription access to the largest package of primary and secondary sources available to libraries today, covering journals, newspapers, eBooks, literature resources and archives. Empowering users at all academic levels, from the undergraduate student to the experienced researcher, and covering nearly every research area and discipline, Gale Research Complete offers high quality, authoritative and unique content

GenderWatch
GenderWatch is a full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. GenderWatch supports programs in business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture, gender and women's studies and more. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, n-g-o and special reports.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches peer-reviewed papers, dissertations, citations, abstracts and reports from a variety of scholarly sources provided by academic publishers, professional societies, pre-print repositories, universities and open access publishers. Searching Google Scholar from Guarini Library homepage, full text resources that are available from NJCU Library-subscribed databases or electronic journals will be automatically accessible (Gothic ID needed for off-campus access).

GreenFILE
Multidisciplinary by nature, the database covers scholarly articles and government publications on the topics of global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

Gun Regulation and Legislation in the United States
This database provides legislative histories, CRS reports, Congressional hearings, United States Supreme Court briefs, and other materials on the topic of gun regulation in the United States. 

Health and Medical Collection
This database provides access to over 1,530 publications with over 1,270 available in full text and of these, over 910 include MEDLINE® indexing. It covers clinical research titles as well as hundreds of additional consumer and health administration titles, such as: The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Journal of Clinical Investigation, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The American Journal of Psychiatry, Diabetes, Canadian Medical Association. Journal (CMAJ), Rheumatology, American Journal of Public Health, and more.

  
This full-text database covers nursing and allied health topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more.

 
This database provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines on topics such as medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

HeinOnline
Provides coverage to resources on essential government documents, case law, criminal justice, and other legal research materials.

HeritageQuest Online
This genealogical database provides unique primary sources in local and family histories, convenient research guides, interactive census maps, and more.

Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective : 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson)
This is a bibliographic database that covers scholarly articles in humanities and social sciences from 1907 to 1984.

Image Collection
The database includes more than one million photographs, images, and maps from sources such as Archive Photos, Canadian Press, Motion Picture & Television Archive, McClatchy, UPI, and Getty, as well as images from the public domain. It has a broad coverage on current news and events, historical places, people, nature, and more.

Infobase
Following databases are available:

  • American History Online: Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.
  • African-American History Online: Provides expansive and in-depth information on the people, events, and topics important to the study of African-American history.
  • American Indian History Online: Offers thorough access to more than 15,000 years of Native American culture, history, and heritage.
  • Modern World History Online: Covers the people, places, and events in the broad expanse of world history-from mid 15th century to the present.
  • Ancient and Medieval History Online: Explores the pre-modern world with in-depth focus on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
  • World Geography and Culture Online: Combines detailed, printable, full-color maps of countries, provinces, and states with up-to-date statistical and local information.
  • Science Online: Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.
  • Health Reference Center: Provides clear and comprehensive information on conditions and diseases, health and wellness, mental health, and the human body.
  • Curriculum Resource Center: Provides a library of printable teacher-handout material for the middle school, high school, and junior college curriculum.
  • Bloom's Literature: Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.
  • Ferguson's Career Guidance Center: Offers comprehensive career guidance through extensive job and industry profiles, career forecasting, and a monthly newsletter.
  • World Almanac for Kids Online: Provides resources for homework, reports, and projects to support the school curriculum.

International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center
This database includes hundreds of full text journals