| Descriptions
for Magazine/Newspaper/Journal Databases
AP
Images
More than 500,000 current and historical photographs and graphics
can be searched by date, place and subject. More than 800 photographs
are added to the archive daily.
Business
Source Premier (Select link under Business heading.)
Provides full text articles from general business magazines, trade
publications, business journals and business publications with
an international scope. Some titles start as far back as 1985
and more than 200 journals have PDF full text materials back to
1965 or first issue published. Over 10,000 company profiles are
included. Topics include accounting, management, marketing, economics,
finance, international business and more. Click
here for an online tutorial from the James V. Brown Library.
Consumer
Health Complete
Covers all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine
to complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. Zooms in
on topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol,
fitness, nutrition & dietetics, men’s & women's health,
and children's health. Includes a collection of high-quality consumer
health encyclopedias & reference books, thousands of evidenced-based
full text health reports, pamphlets, brochures, and more.
EBSCOhost
Comprehensive online resources ranging from general reference
collections to subject-specific databases, particularly in the
fields of health, business, and education.
ERIC
(Select link under Education heading.)
The Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC) provides full
text of 2,200 digests in addition to citations and abstracts from
over 980 education or education-related journals.
Health
Source - Consumer Edition (Select link under Health/Science
heading.) Search for information on medicine, food and nutrition,
childcare, sports medicine and general health. Over 200 general
health publications and more than 190 journals can be searched,
including Consumer Reports on Health and Men’s Health. Click
here for an online tutorial from the James V. Brown Library.
Health
Source: Nursing/Acad. Edition (Select link under Health/Science
heading.) Full text articles from nearly 600 medical journals
are provided. Abstracts and indexing is available from nearly
850 medical journals.
Historical
New York Times
The database covers The New York Times from its first
issue in 1851 through 2003. To see a complete article, just click
on the title in a list of search results, and the system displays
the image of the full article. You can also access the complete
image (in pdf format) of any page in any issue or even browse
the database and scan individual issues page by page.
History
Reference Center (Select link under General Reference
heading.)
750 history reference books and encyclopedias, and cover-to-cover
full text from nearly 60 history magazines; 58,000 historical
documents; 43,000 biographies of historical figures; more than
12,000 historical photos and maps; and 87 hours of historical
film and video.
Click here for an online tutorial from the James V. Brown Library.
New
York Times, The
2000 to Current. Complete full-text content of local and regional
news, including community events, schools, politics, government
policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries,
and people in the community.
Newspaper
Source (Scroll down in the EBSCOhost Web.)
Selected full text from 25 national and international newspapers,
200 regional (US) newspapers, television and radio news transcripts.
Philadelphia
Inquirer
1981-Current. Complete full-text content of local and regional
news, including community events, schools, politics, government
policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries,
and people in the community.
Professional
Development Collection and ERIC (Scroll down on the EBSCO
"Select Service" page.) PDC is designed for professional
educators, with 550 full text journals included in the collection;
the Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC) provides full
text of 2,200 digests in addition to citations and abstracts from
over 980 education or education-related journals.
Regional
Business News (Select link under Business heading.)
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.
Searchasaurus
Suggested for children, this resource includes an encyclopedia,
an encyclopedia of animals, magazine searches for primary and
middle school grade levels, a dictionary, photos, maps and flags.
A good homework resource.
SIRS
Discoverer
Includes full text articles and images from over 1,600 domestic
and international newspapers, magazines and government documents.
Articles are assigned a reading level –Easy, Moderate or Challenging-
based on age-appropriateness, educational content, interest and
reading level. This database is an excellent student resource.
Click
here for an online tutorial from the James V. Brown Library.
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