Research Databases Descriptions

 

 

Facts on File: Science Online

Facts On File is one of America’s leading publishers of print and online reference materials for the school and library market. Known to librarians worldwide as "the Information Publisher," Facts On File has been publishing quality reference titles since 1941. Our list has grown to more than 1,300 titles and spans a multitude of subject areas such as U.S. history, world history, language and literature, science and technology, careers, social issues, and many others. Our publishing program covers five reading levels: elementary (grades 3-6), middle school (grades 6-8), high school (grades 9-12), college/academic, and general adult.


Annals of American History Online

2,100 entries from 1493 to the present, including original source documents such as speeches, essays, biographies, editorials written by contributors like Madeleine Albright, Henry Ford, John Hancock, Malcolm X, and Edgar Allen Poe. From Encyclopædia Britannica.


ART Collection

The OhioLINK Art and Architecture images database is a collection of digital images from AMICO (the Art Museum Image Consortium) as well as contributions from OhioLINK institutions. The AMICO Library™ is a growing online collection of high-quality, digital documentation of works of art from around the world. Images, text and multimedia represent a broad range of works of art in AMICO Member collections, highlighting cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms. Cultures and time periods represented range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works. The 2002 edition of The AMICO Library documents over 100,000 works of art: paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, textiles, costumes, jewelry, manuscripts.
Current AMICO Members


Biographies Plus Illustrated

H. W. Wilson's collection of 95,000+ biographies from over 50 reference titles, thousands of biographical magazine articles, and over 20,000 printable images. Search by name, profession, ethnic background, place of birth, and more. Literary criticism articles are also accessible from an author's biography. Make certain the box next to the database name is checked before searching.


Literature On-Line

Includes databases of English and American literature (poetry, verse, drama, and prose) including various English translations of the Bible, Shakespeare and searchable collections of 18th, 19th, and 20th century British and American Poetry. Full-text, searchable works. Current resources include:
  • African-American Poetry
  • American Poetry
  • The Bible in English
  • Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
  • Eighteenth Century Fiction
  • English Poetry
  • English Prose Drama
  • English Verse Drama


EBSCOhost Databases

EBSCOhost is home to a number of comprehensive databases ranging from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific collections, including the following:

MasterFILE Premier provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes 315 full text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags.

Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 23 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), and The Toronto Star. It also contains selected full text from more than 180 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, The New York Daily News, and The San Jose Mercury News. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, and NPR.

Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications, including full text for nearly 3,100 peer-reviewed journals dating as far back as 1975.

Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 3,300 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1000 peer-reviewed business publications.This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.

Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text coverage for 75 regional business publications -- business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public with full text coverage for nearly 400 trade and industry-related periodicals.

Computer Source - the latest information and current trends in high technology. Full text for more than 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for over 400 publications.

Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides a specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, including more than 300 peer-reviewed titles. In addition, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 800 journals. Examples of titles: Booklist, Curriculum Administrator, Education, Education Digest, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal. Information dates as far back as 1965.

The Sociological Collection is a comprehensive database covering information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. Full text for more than 500 important journals, including more than 450 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 500 journals.

Religion and Philosophy Collection covers such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. It offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides full text for 600 scholarly plus abstracts and indexing for more than 850 journals.

Health Source: Consumer Edition - full text for over 190 journals as well as abstracts and indexing for over 205 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.

Alt HealthWatch covers complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990. Full text for nearly 140 publications in its collection, including many peer-reviewed journals.

Clinical Pharmacology provides up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. Includes Patient Education information.

Primary Search for children provides full text for more than 60 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. also provides the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags

Middle Search Plus for older elementary students includes Primary Search and adds full-text articles from over 140 K-12 magazines, full text of 52 reference books, and over 5,000 book reviews, with full text backfiles dating to 1990.

EBSCO Animals provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. Indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

EBSCOhost Help

Searchasaurus
A search tool designed for children, featuring the following areas: EBSCO's Primary Search, Middle Search Plus, Encyclopedia of Animals, General Encyclopedia, Dictionary, and Pictures. Young researchers can find great information on topics like animals, history, health, science, and what's in the news. Tutorial

 

Consumer Health Complete

Convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles. Designed to support consumer and patients’ information needs. Access to 4,100 full text health reports written for the lay person covering diseases, conditions, injuries, and procedures. Full text for more than one thousand consumer health pamphlets & leaflets from trusted organizations. Full text from 765 periodicals. Clinical Pharmacology is the basis for drug coverage, along with Complete Guide to Prescription and Non-Prescription Drugs. In addition, 5,000 Spanish-language health reports and a Spanish-language health newswire are provided. A cool set of diagrams and illustrations that print well. There will be 1,200 streamed video presentations (starting with 700 and updated monthly) on health/wellness topics by physicians from Healthology.

Enciclopedia Universal en Español

The most comprehensive encyclopedia in the Spanish language, from Encyclopædia Brittanica, with over 47,000 articles; 8300 photos, tables, maps, flags, and images; a dictionary with 65,000 entries; a world atlas detaling countries, maps, statistics, major world cities, and distribution of languages and religions; timelines that show the events of the past in rich graphical form.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online

Includes all of the text of the print set, plus thousands of additional articles, digital images, Internet links tied directly to the articles, statistics for over 190 nations, Merriam Webster's 10th Collegiate Dictionary (including pronunciation guides and word histories), and special multi-media databases. Allows natural language or Boolean search methods, as well as alphabetic topic browsing. Works with either graphical (Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Explorer) or non-graphical (Lynx) browsers. Articles can be delivered immediately and directly to the desktop or printed locally.


Job Prospector

The JOB PROSPECTOR internet site is used by local job seekers to research the Ohio job market. Along with targeting Ohio employers for employment, the Job Prospector also allows job seekers to put their resumes on-line and to track which employers may be searching for resumes like theirs. It even helps job seekers write their own cover letters so that they can quickly get their resumes out to employers.

NewsBank

Newspaper package, including 17 Ohio papers and the papers of over a dozen major cities.
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NoveList

Anyone looking for a new fiction title to read should try NoveList. NoveList allows readers of all ages to use a favorite author or title to discover new books to read. You can also search NoveList's 96,000 title database by subject or genre. With NoveList's Explore Fiction feature, you can browse through 350 different categories of science fiction, romance, mysteries, fantasy, horror, westerns, and adventure.
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Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection

Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection is a huge and comprehensive resource that contains over 100 dictionaries and reference titles covering the complete subject spectrum: from General Reference and Language to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and Social Sciences to Business and Professional.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

The Digital Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps provides a searchable interface for locating historical Maps of Ohio towns and cities. These maps were digitized from microfilm copies by Chadwyck-Healey, a Bell & Howell Information and Learning company. The searchable database is a joint project of OPLIN and OhioLINK.

From 1876 to 1970, the Sanborn Insurance Company created more than 40,035 maps of Ohio towns and cities. Originally used for fire insurance records, these detailed maps identify individual buildings on each block. Detailed information on the maps includes a given building’s occupant status (e.g., hotel or state capitol), the building’s height, and building’s street address among other things. The printed maps have been long used by Ohio’s historians, urban geographers and archaeologists, and researchers in architecture and ethnic studies.
Sanborn Maps Help

 
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QUALITY INFORMATION

The use of high-quality research databases not freely available on the World Wide Web is made possible by the Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN).


PATHFINDERS

Quality information from the Web, compiled by Library staff into subject guides and pathfinders.