ONLINE ELECTRONIC DATABASES AT NIACC LIBRARY

Database  Special Features

     Requirements

EBSCO Academic Search Premier

Magazine and journal articles  (approx. 1/3 full text)

 

Business Source Elite

Full text business articles & publications

 

Health Source: Consumer

Full text consumer health information

 

Health Source: Nursing/Academic

Full text nursing journal articles

 

ERIC 

Full text education digests and abstracts of journal articles; links to full-text articles

 

Professional Development Collection

Full text articles from education journals

 

Newspaper Source

Full text coverage of national, regional & international newspapers

 

Vocational & Career Collection

Full text career information

 

Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL)

Citations with links to full text articles from health and nursing journals

 

PsychARTICLES

Full text articles from psychology journals

  • Boolean, natural language, and advanced searches

  • Can limit by type (scholarly), title, date, full-text, pdf, or NIACC-owned

  • Includes graphics

  • Results displayed by date, source or author

  • How to cite

  • Can E-mail articles

  • Links to electronic books & local library holdings

  • CINAHL thesaurus and limiters available

Password for remote use

Newsbank Newsfile (1992-)

Articles from local,  regional, national & international newspapers, wire services

Des Moines Register (1999-)

Cedar Rapids Gazette (1999-)
  • Advance search, headline search, Boolean search
  • Can limit by date, type of source
  • Full-text, maps
  • Results display by most current or best match
  • How to cite
  • Can E-mail articles

Password for remote use

 

On-campus access only to Des Moines Register & Cedar Rapids Gazette
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Covers pros and cons of ongoing controversies and hot topics; includes Opposing Viewpoints series, selections from Information Plus series, newspapers & magazines

 
  • Subject & Keyword searching
  • Links to statistics, images, web sites, & primary documents
  • Toolbox with information on how to cite & evaluate
  • Can e-mail articles
  • References to related topics
  

Issues & Controversies

 

 Articles from Facts.com database on 250             controversial topics, 1995-
  • Keyword & custom searching
  • Index
  • Maps & graphics
  • "Important topics of debate" section
  • Display by date or relevancy
  • Groups to contact

Password required from off campus
Access Science

Articles from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, and Science News®
  • Thousands of illustrations & biographies
  • Topic or keyword search
  • Study guide and easy topics list
  • Links to evaluated web sites
 Password required from off campus
Lexis-Nexis Academic

 

A full-text database of nearly 5,000 publications.

Access to news, financial, medical, and legal information, TV show transcripts
  • Quick News Search & Guided News Search options
  • Boolean searching of headline & lead paragraph
  • Full-text, fielded, name & source list searching
  • Can limit by date, type of source
  • Naviation panels, overview display
  • "More like this" option, "focus" search
  • Date or relevancy display, KWIC (keyword within context), expanded list
  • How to cite, "How do I..." How to do research
  • Can e-mail articles
 Off campus access requires NIACC computer lab acount UserId and password
Career Guidance Center

Career and industry descriptions and resources; articles from Career Opportunities News
  • Basic and advanced searching by career title
 Password required from off campus
Vocational Guidance Internet Web Service

Career information, including an online Career Test, Career Reports, Bulletin Boards, and up-to-the minute Career News and trends
  • Find the career titles you're looking for by using the pull down menus, clicking on the "List of all reports" link or searching with keywords.
 Password required from off campus

Encyclopedia Americana Online

 

Full-text online version of the encyclopedia, 

American Heritage Online Dictionary, Americana

Journal, Grolier Online Atlas
  • Title or full-text search
  • Browse, keyword, advanced Boolean searching
  • Links to evaluated web sites & online journal articles
  • Dictionary, atlas, graphics, timelines, Today in history

Available on campus only
Oxford Reference Online

Information from 100 Oxford subject dictionaries & reference books

Oxford English Dictionary

Online OED, 2nd ed.
  • Subject, keyword, & browse searching; links to related words
  • How to cite for each entry
  • Can e-mail articles
  • OED - entries include pronunciation, history, use of words in quotation, timeline of word use

 

NetLibrary

A collection of over 10,000 electronic books, some copyrighted and others in the public domain
  • Quick, power, and command search options
  • Browse or 3-day checkout
  • Free download software available
 Check-out function requires setting up an account from a computer on campus.

 
CQ Researcher

The CQ Researcher covers a wide range of social, economic, politicla, and environmental issues, from 1991 to date.
  • Search across all text, titles, or indices, topic, date.
  • "Find a topic", "How to Cite", "In the News", "Coming Up" sections
 Password required from off campus
Thomson MicroMedex

 

 

 Health care information.  MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series includes clinical databases on toxicology, diseases, drugs, and altermative medicine and CareNotes™ System, which provides patient information.
  • Multiple search options
  • Tabbed pull-down menus

FIRSTSEARCH DATABASES

Features of FirstSearch Databases
Database Name  Scope 

Requirements

WorldCat

Books, journals, audiovisual & other materials in libraries worldwide cataloged on OCLC

 

Article1st

Citations of articles listed on tables of contents pages of nearly 12,600 journals

 

Contents1st

Table of contents pages & holdings information of nearly 12,600 journals

 

NetFirst

OCLC database of Internet resources

 

GPO Monthly Catalog

Citations for all types of U.S. government documents, 1976 to the present

 

MEDLINE

Abstracts of articles on all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing

 

PapersFirst

An index of individual papers presented at conferences

 

Proceedings First

Tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide

 

SIRS Researcher

Full-text database with articles from newspapers, periodicals, and government publications related to social issues

Pay per search