ELECTRONIC DATABASES
ELECTRONIC DATABASES
NIACC Library has purchased a subscription to Web versions of the following databases. On campus access is usually by IP Address. User IDs and Passwords for remote access are available in the library.
NOTICE: Due to license restrictions, use of these databases is restricted to NIACC students, faculty, and staff, and those others taking or teaching classes on the NIACC campus.
General Online Databases
EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier - A comprehensive database containing abstracts and indexing to over 4,700 journals, with full text of over 3,600. Images collection and company profiles are also available.
Newsbank Newsfile Collection - Contains full-text articles from major newspapers and wire services. The Des Moines Register and Cedar Rapids Gazette are also available at this site. Remote access (User Name and Password required)
Newspaper Source (EBSCO) - Provides selected full text coverage for nearly 225 newspapers and wire services, including some international newspapers.
Additional full text EBSCOhost databases include MAS Ultra (School Edition) designed for high school libraries, Middle Search® Plus for middle school libraries, Primary Search® for elementary school libraries, and MasterFile Premier™ for public libraries.
NIACC Library has purchased a subscription to Web versions of the following databases. On campus access is usually by IP Address. User IDs and Passwords for remote access are available in the library. NOTICE: Due to license restrictions, use of these databases is restricted to NIACC students, faculty, and staff, and those others taking or teaching classes on the NIACC campus.
AccessScience - AccessScience provides the finest collection of science reference materials—online and fully searchable - access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more.
Auto Repair Reference Center - Auto Repair Reference Center contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945. Database content includes approximately 28,350 vehicles covered from 1945 to present.
Business Source Elite (EBSCO) - Provides full text coverage of scholarly business, management, and economics journals, as well as company profiles.
CQ Researcher - offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important social, economic, political, and environmental issues. Each report is on a single topic--more than 12,000 words of text and extensive bibliographies. The database goes back to 1991 and also affords immediate access to the newest CQ Researcher reports as they are published.
Career Guidance Center - A career research database containing a career encyclopedia, in-depth job descriptions, current job-specific resource listings, career industry descriptions, and other useful career information. A free link to Career Opportunities News is also included.
ERIC (EBSCO) - Educational Resources Information Center - A database created to assist teachers and other educators in gaining access to information from journals in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Includes full text of ERIC digests, with citations and abstracts for educational journals. Links to some full-text articles are provided. Note: This searches Journals only, unless you remove the limiters when searching.
Issues & Controversies - Full-text database with up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day. Backfiles cover more than 250 controversial topics in the news since 1995. Issues & Controversies in American History gives balanced reports on the background, outcomes, and contemporary points of view for major topics in American history.
BizToolkit Online Business Information Center - "A gateway to premium business information tools, databases, and research resources to help you research the job market and turn your business ideas into a reality".
LearningExpressLibrary - This database contains interactive test preparation and practice (ACT, GED, SAT, Nursing & Teaching, ASVAB; skill-building exercises and self-paced study tools for reading, writing, math, & career skills. Note: You will need to set up your own login account when you start.
LexisNexis Academic - A full-text database of nearly 5,000 publications, giving access to news, financial, medical, and legal information. Included are newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K’s, 10-Q’s, and their exhibits.
Nursing & Health Databases - The CINAHL® Database contains records from 1982 to the present with abstracts to articles published in English-language nursing and allied health journals, as well as virtually all publications of the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing. HealthSource® Nursing/ Academic Edition (EBSCO) provides full text articles from many scholarly nursing and allied health journals, as well as pamphlets, reference books, drug information, and a medical encyclopedia. Thomson MICROMEDEX provides access to the following: MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series, a wide range of clinical databases, including unbiased, referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine; CareNotes™ System, which provides your patients with complete, easy-to-understand information about all aspects of their care, medications, and health, in English or Spanish. Salem Health is an online version of Magill's Medical Guide. It includes medical information suitable for general readers, student research, and patients/caregivers. It covers diseases, treatments, anatomy, and medical issues, as well as recent developments in medicine.
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's free search service that provides access to over 11 million citations in MEDLINE and other related databases, with links to participating online journals. MEDLINEplus is a goldmine of good health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine., and contains authoritative and up-to-date information for both health professionals and consumers. It includes information on over 500 diseases and conditions, lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. HealthSource® Consumer Edition is a rich collection of consumer health information from many full text health periodicals, pamphlet, and reference books. Clinical Pharmacology is an extensive drug reference of use to health professionals and patients.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - This database covers the pros and cons of everything from ongoing controversies to today's hot topics. It includes the Opposing Viewpoints series, selections from Reference USA sources and Information Plus Reference series, newspaper and magazine coverage, and links to statistics and to related Web sites.
PsychARTICLES - This database contains searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology and covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. It contains more than 39,000 searchable full text articles from 45 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations. Coverage spans from 1985 to the present.
Professional Development Collection (EBSCO) - A comprehensive collection of full text education journals.
Vocational and Career Collection (EBSCO) - This database is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. It provides full text coverage for nearly 400 trade and industry-related periodicals.
Vocational Guidance Internet Web Service - This database of the Institute For Career Research includes reports on a variety of different careers, as well as other useful information.
OCLC FirstSearch provides access to a variety of subscription and pay-per-search databases that can be searched to find books, articles, films, computer software, Internet resources, and other materials. Databases accessible from NIACC Library on FirstSearch are listed below. NOTICE: Due to license restrictions, use of these databases is restricted to NIACC students, faculty, and staff, and those others taking or teaching classes on the NIACC campus.
AGRICOLA - Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture, forestry, and animal science.
Article1st - Citations of articles listed on the table of contents pages of nearly 12,600 journals.
Business & Management Practices - Contains online articles about the practical aspects of business management.
Consumers Index - Index of articles providing consumer information.
ECO - Electronic Collections Online - Citations to articles from more than 1300 full-text electronic journals.
ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center - A database created to assist teachers and other educators in gaining access to information from journals and documents in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education. Includes full text of ERIC digests, with citations and abstracts for educational journals.
FactSearch - Cites facts & statistics on topics of current interest from the A Matter of Fact database, with links to full text.
MEDLINE - Abstracts of articles from medical journals.
PapersFirst - An index of individual papers presented at conferences.
ProceedingsFirst - 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.
World Almanac - Full text of the World Almanac.
WorldCat - Books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
NetLibrary - NIACC's eBook collection includes over 2,800 copyrighted titles and approximately 4,000 public domain titles. Users may view eBooks for a brief period or "borrow" them for a three-day period by setting up a User Account from a computer on campus. Note: If you are off campus and would like to have an account set up for you, please call or e-mail Karen Dole (NIACC students, staff/faculty and partnership students/faculty only).
On-Line Books Page - Links to 12,000 titles worldwide, mostly in HTML format.
Project Gutenberg - Online e-texts of major literary classics in the public domain.
Encarta - Free online version of the encyclopedia. A dictionary and atlas are also included.
Encyclopedia Americana Online - Full-text online version of the encyclopedia, with links to related Web sites. off campus link
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO) - Full-text online encyclopedia covering a variety of subjects.
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (Gale Virtual Reference Library) - This 8-volume electronic reference set covers all aspects of the social sciences.
American Heritage Dictionary - Searchable online version of the fourth edition; contains many full-page illustrations.
Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary - Available with Britannica Online. Remote Access to free version.
Oxford English Dictionary - Full-text of the Second Edition of the OED. The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language and guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources. off campus access
Roget's Thesaurus - Several online versions available.
Electronic Reference Databases
Oxford Reference Online - An authoritative and indispensable research resource bringing together 100 of Oxford's renowned dictionary and reference titles across more than 20 subject areas into a single cross-searchable database. off campus access
Gale Virtual Reference Library - This database offers you an online collection of premier reference eBooks. You can search a single eBook or across an entire eBook collection.
Government Resources and Databases
Government Resources on the Internet (NIACC List) - A list of links to government information and resources.
GPO - U.S. Government publications.
GPO Access - Access to many federal government online databases.
American FactFinder - U.S. Census Bureau's web site for population, housing, geographic, and economic data.
GovEngine.com - Comprehensive directory of Official Federal, State, and Local Government and Court links.
USA.gov - Online government information, services, and resources.
National Science Digital
Library - NSDL is the Nation's
FREE online library for education and research in
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
Public Agenda Electronic Discussion Guides - In depth analysis and opinion studies done by Public Agenda, a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization based in New York City.
Academic Info
- Academic Info aims is to be the premier educational directory to high school,
college and research level Internet resources. Academic Info selects, organizes, and reviews quality educational websites to makeinformation on the Internet accessible to students, educators
and researchers in an easy to use online directory.
iTools - Easy clear access to a wide variety of electronic basic reference tools
Electronic Journals
New Directions for Student Services - Online version, beginning with vol. 97 (2002). At the login screen, click on the Journal Finder link in the login box (not the button at the top of the screen). You do not need to register or enter a username/password. Choose Education, then New Directions for Student Services. You can browse the contents for the 2002 issues and get the PDF full text of an article.
Remote (Off-campus) Access to Online Databases
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NIACC Library has purchased subscriptions with remote access to the following databases. User IDs and Passwords are available in the library. Due to license restrictions, use of these databases is restricted to NIACC students, faculty, and staff, and those others taking or teaching classes on the NIACC campus.
AccessScience - AccessScience provides the finest collection of science reference materials—online and fully searchable - access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more. off campus link
EBSCOhost Databases - A collection of databases containing abstracts and indexing to magazine, journal, and newspaper articles, as well as full text access to many articles. General databases, as well as specialized databases for business, health, and education, as well as ones designed for K-12 users and teachers, are included.
Encarta - Free online version of the encyclopedia. A dictionary and atlas are also included. (No password needed)
Encyclopedia Americana Online - Full-text online version of the encyclopedia, with links to related Web sites. off campus link
Issues & Controversies - Full-text database with up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day. Backfiles cover more than 250 controversial topics in the news since 1995. Issues & Controversies in American History gives balanced reports on the background, outcomes, and contemporary points of view for major topics in American history.
LearningExpressLibrary - This database contains interactive test preparation and practice (ACT, GED, SAT, Nursing & Teaching, ASVAB; skill-building exercises and self-paced study tools for reading, writing, math, & career skills. Note: You will need to set up your own login account when you start.
LexisNexis Academic - A full-text database of nearly 5,000 publications, giving access to news, financial, medical, and legal information. Included are newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K’s, 10-Q’s, and their exhibits.
Newsbank Newsfile Collection - Contains full-text articles from major newspapers and wire services.
Nursing Databases - The CINAHL® Database contains records from 1982 to the present with abstracts to articles published in English-language nursing and allied health journals, as well as virtually all publications of the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing. Internet Grateful Med provides free access to NLM databases, including MEDLINE, AIDSLine, BioethicsLine, and HealthSTAR. PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's free search service that provides access to over 11 million citations in MEDLINE and other related databases, with links to participating online journals.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - This database covers the pros and cons of everything from ongoing controversies to today's hot topics. It includes the Opposing Viewpoints series, selections from Reference USA sources and Information Plus Reference series, newspaper and magazine coverage, and links to statistics and to related Web sites.
Oxford English Dictionary - Full-text of the Second Edition of the OED. The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language and guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources. off campus access
Oxford Reference Online - An authoritative and indispensable research resource bringing together 100 of Oxford's renowned dictionary and reference titles across more than 20 subject areas into a single cross-searchable database. off campus access
Vocational Guidance Internet Web Service - This database of the Institute For Career Research includes reports on a variety of different careers, as well as other useful information.