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Magazine and On-line Databases
Available courtesy of Michigan eLibrary
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ACADEMIC
ONEFILE
Academic OneFile is the premiere source for peer-reviewed,
full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.
With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine,
social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic
OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. Mostly full text.
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ARTICLEFIRST
Recommended for: Colleges and Universities. Index only. OCLC's ArticleFirst
contains articles and other items listed on the table of contents pages of
journals.
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BIOGRAPHY
& GENEALOGY MASTER INDEX
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) indexes
current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important
retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from
every field of activity and from all areas of the world. Bibliographic
citations only -- no full-text.
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BUSINESS & COMPANY ASAP
Recommended for: General user, Professionals. Providing
researchers with information on companies, markets and industries. From
market trends, mergers, and acquisitions to current management theory and
company overviews. Access business and trade journals, newspapers, and
company directory profiles with full text and images. Michigan
residents or Michigan
library access only.
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BUSINESS
& COMPANY RESOURCE CENTER
Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing
together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports,
company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. Search this database to
find detailed company and industry news and information. Mostly full text.
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CAMIO-CATALOG OF ART
MUSEUM IMAGES ONLINE
CAMIO®—Catalog of Art Museum Images Online—is a premiere resource
of works of art from around the world contributed and described by leading
museums. Showcasing a wide range of fine and decorative art, CAMIO provides
high-quality art images for education, research and enjoyment. All content is
rights-cleared for educational use. Every work in CAMIO is represented by at
least one high-resolution image and a description. Many have additional views
of the work, sound, video and curatorial notes.
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CHILTONLIBRARY.COM
ChiltonLibrary.com represents the most authoritative automotive repair
information available to car owners. There are thousands of year, make, and
model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years,
plus additional coverage of specialty models. ChiltonLibrary.com gives you
the confidence to service or repair virtually any system on your vehicle.
Full text.
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CINAHL
BASIC
CINAHL provides indexing for 2,931 journals with 1,000,000 records dating
back to 1981, covering nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship,
complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In
addition, this database offers indexing to health care books, nursing
dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice,
educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited
references for more than 1,200 journals are also included. Limited full text
material includes 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations,
critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
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COMPUTER
DATABASE
Computer Database has over 2,687,481 articles from journals, trade magazines
and popular computing magazines. Some full text.
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DETROIT
NEWS
Full text of this local newspaper goes back to 1999. Updated daily.
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EDUCATOR’S
REFERENCE COMPLETE
Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than
450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many
premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational
principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education.
Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC
database. The database is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from
school or home. All full text.
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ELECTRONIC
COLLECTIONS ONLINE (ECO)
Recommended for colleges and universities. A collection of
scholarly journals in the sciences and social sciences. Includes agriculture,
library science, anthropology, literature, business, medicine, economics,
philosophy, education, political science, fine arts, psychology, geography,
religion, history, science, language, social science, law, technology. Some
full text.
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eLIBRARY
ELEMENTARY
Recommended for: K-12. Video, audio, books, pictures,
magazines, maps, newspapers, & transcripts of TV and radio shows. All
full text.
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ERIC
Contains annotated references to non-journal material issued in the monthly
Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly
Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Mostly full text.
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ACADEMIC ASAP
Recommended for: Junior and Community Colleges. Magazine, newspaper and
journal articles appropriate to college and university-level research. All
topics. Mostly full text.
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GALE VIRTUAL
REFERENCE LIBRARY
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias
and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These
reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can
access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library
creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the
database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your
office). All full text.
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GENERAL BUSINESSFILE
ASAP
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. All full text.
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GENERAL
ONEFILE
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a
wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics,
education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law,
literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology,
and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles. Updated
daily.
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GENERAL
REFERENCE CENTER GOLD
General
Reference Center
Gold on InfoTrac Web provides one-stop access to general interest magazines,
business periodicals, reference books, maps, historical images, and newspaper
articles. Records are available with a combination of indexing, abstracts,
image, or full text formats. Mostly full text.
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GPO MONTHLY
CATALOG
The GPO Monthly Catalog through OCLC includes thousands of U.S. government documents,
including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary
materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State,
Labor, Office of the President, etc.). Includes a bibliographic citation in
each record. This is not full-text. Index only.
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HAND
PRESS BOOK
Recommended for: Colleges
and Universities. The Hand Press Book Database is a unique and growing
catalog of European printing in the early modern era or “hand-press
period” (15th century to the 1830s). This resource integrates descriptive
records for major European national, university and research library
holdings. It is especially valuable for research in intellectual history,
social history and transmission of thought—as well as the history of
printing and the history of the book.
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HEALTH &
WELLNESS RESOURCE CENTER
Recommended for: Students, Patients, Health Professionals.
Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference
materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of
pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and
articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad
collection of Thomson Gale reference titles. Includes video. Mostly full
text.
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HEALTH
REFERENCE CENTER ACADEMIC
Recommended for: Students, Patients and Health Professionals. Provides access
to professional and personal health magazines, journals and reference
sources. Mostly full text.
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HERITAGE
QUEST ONLINE
Recommended for: Genealogy, local history and biography
researchers. HeritageQuest Online includes all of the images and extensive
indexing from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more than
22,000 digitized book titles, including early family histories and local
histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents
such as tax lists, city directories, probate records and more. It also
includes Periodical Source Index (PERSI), Revolutionary War Pension and
Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, the Freedman’s Bank Records, and
the U.S. Serial Set Private Relief Actions, Memorials and Petitions. Some
full text.
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HISTORY
OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, & MEDICINE (HSTM)
Recommended for: Colleges and universities. HSTM
integrates four premier tools (Isis Current Bibliography of the History of
Science, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, Bibliografia
Italiana di Storia della Scienza and citations from the Wellcome Library) to
create an international bibliography for the history of science, technology
and medicine. It reflects the influence of these fields on society and culture
from prehistory to the present and offers outstanding value for
interdisciplinary research. Database records describe journal articles,
conference proceedings, books, book reviews and dissertations in all
scientific disciplines and related fields. Citations reflect the contents of
nearly 9,500 journals.
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INFORME!
Recommended for: Spanish Language Resources. Full text.
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios,
salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
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INFOTRAC
CUSTOM NEWSPAPERS
A collection of approximately 900 full text newspapers from around the
country and the world. All full text.
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INFOTRAC
JUNIOR EDITION
Recommended for: Middle and Junior High School. Over 330 titles, cross
searchable with E-Books, this database is designed for students in junior
high and middle school 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. Full text.
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INFOTRAC STUDENT
EDITION
Recommended for: High School. Over 1100 titles, cross searchable with
E-Books, this database gives access to a variety of indexed and full-text
magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on
current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people,
government, history, sports and more. Mostly full text.
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KIDS INFOBITS
Recommended for: K-6. Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for
beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a
developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popular
search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the
subject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text
content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This
database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people,
government, history, sports and more. All full text.
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LANSING
STATE JOURNAL
Full text of this newspaper from 1999.
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LEARNINGEXPRESS
LIBRARY
Recommended for: General user. LearningExpress Library provides a completely interactive
online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series
designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the
academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring,
complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
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LEGALTRAC
Recommended for: General user, professional. Some full text. Students, law
school faculty and legal researchers will all find the legal publications
they need in LegalTrac®. Drawing on a wide variety of the most highly
regarded legal publications, LegalTrac® provides indexing for more than 1,400
titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association
journals and international legal journals. Each title included in LegalTrac®
is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee
of the American Association of Law Libraries. LegalTrac® also contains
law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest
titles.
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THE MAKING OF MODERN
MICHIGAN
Recommended for: General user. Michigan's
unique heritage is represented through photographs, family papers, oral
histories, genealogical materials and much more from local history
collections around the state. No login required. Some full text.
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MAKING THE
RIGHT CONNECTION
A user-friendly directory for Macomb
County school personnel
to help link students and their families with community services.
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MEDLINE
Recommended for: Patients and health professionals. Covers all areas of
medicine, including dentistry and nursing. From the National Library of
Medicine. Some full text.
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MeL BEST OF THE
WEB
Recommended for: General user. Librarian-recommended Web
sites on all topics, many with a Michigan
focus. No log-in required.
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MeLCAT
Recommended for: General user. A catalog of materials
available through Michigan
libraries. Patrons of participating libraries can order items from other
statewide participating libraries and have them delivered to their local
library branch.
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MICHIGAN
AUTHORS & ILLUSTRATORS
Recommended for: General user, Reading Advice. A searchable database of Michigan authors and
illustrators. Provides biographical and contact information. Indicates
whether person will do library presentations. No log-in required
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NETLIBRARY
Recommended for: General user. Over 20,000 eBooks available on all topics. Michigan residents or Michigan library access only. All full
text.
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NEW
YORK TIMES
Recommended
for: General user. The daily newspaper New York Times 1995-present. All full
text.
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NEWSBANK MICHIGAN NEWSPAPERS
Recommended for: General user. Full text of the Detroit News (1/1/1999-Current),
Grand Rapids Press (2002-Current), and Lansing State Journal
(1/1/1999-Current).
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NOVELIST
Recommended for: Readers of fiction
(all ages), librarians, and teachers. Helps to find the next best fiction
book to read. Search by author, title, series, plots, or even books like the
one you just finished. Browse lists of award winners, lists of genres, and
lists based on age. Create and save lists of your own favorites. Find book
discussion guides and more. This has something for children, young adults,
and adults, plus specific information for teachers, and librarians.
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SCIPIO:
ART & RARE BOOK SALES CATALOGS
Recommended for: General user and Colleges and
universities. Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs is the only online union
catalog of auction catalog records in existence. This database provides
bibliographic access to auction sales catalogs from all major North American
and European auction houses as well as private sales—valuable sources
of information on the provenance of art objects and rare books, the history
of collection, and contemporary and historical market trends.
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SIRS DISCOVERER
DELUXE
Recommended for: K-9. A children's database of articles, books, video, audio
on all topics. The interface is appropriate to children and includes reading
levels, teacher's help pages, over 3,000 maps, and more. All full text.
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SIRS RENAISSANCE
Recommended for: High school, College and University. Provides dynamic
information on the following topics: architecture and design, culture,
literature, multimedia, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion, and
visual arts. Full-text articles are selected from more than 1,200 domestic
and international publications. Many articles are accompanied by full-color
images, including art reproductions, photographs, and illustrations. Full
text.
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SLC DIGITAL
MEDIA ARCHIVE
This resource gives users access to historical and genealogical materials in
digital form. View old pictures, maps, and documents from Macomb County,
Troy, and Harper Woods.
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TURFGRASS
INFORMATION FILE (TGIF)
Recommended for: General user. In the 1960s, the Michigan
State University (MSU) Library began to collect printed turfgrass materials.
In 1968, the personal collection of the late O.J. Noer, pioneer turf
agronomist, was added to the library holdings through the O.J. Noer
Foundation. Today, the combined collection is recognized as the most
extensive public collection of turfgrass material in existence.
Between 1983 and 1992, the United States Golf Association (USGA) Turfgrass
Research Program supported the development of the USGA Turfgrass Information
File (TGIF). Using the Noer Collection as a foundation, TGIF was designed to
systematically inventory published turf research and make the bibliographic
information available via a computerized database. Michigan
residents or Michigan
library access only. Some full text.
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WHAT DO I
READ NEXT?
Recommended for: General user, Reading Advice. A database to help you decide
what to read next. Search by character, topic, setting, time period, genre,
title, author and series. Will also make recommendations based upon likes and
dislikes.
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WILSON
SELECT PLUS
Recommended for: High School, College. All full text articles in science,
humanities, education and business.
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WORLD
ALMANAC
Recommended for: General user. Contains full text of Funk & Wagnalls New
Encyclopedia, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac for
Kids, The World Almanac of the U. S. A., The World Almanac of U.
S. Politics.
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WORLDCAT
Recommended for: General user. The world's largest online catalog of books
and magazines. Includes a description of the item and which libraries own the
item.
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