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Research ID Card

To begin research:

  1. Have your library card number ready to log-in (See photo on right).  For more info, call our Reference Department (321-697-4154)
  2. Click on the button below and login:

Click here to login and begin your research

Below you will see a description of our most popular electronic research databases available for research with the use of your library card ID number.

  • Academic Search Premier (EBSCO):

    • Locate full text articles from journals and popular magazines

  • Biography Resource Center:

    • Contains biographies as well as images of notable people throughout history

  • Business Source Premier:

    • Offers full-text articles and abstracts from scholarly business journals

  • Criminal Justice Periodicals Index (ProQuest):

    • Full-text and image coverage on criminal justice topics

  • Custom Newspapers:

    • Full-text access to the New York Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and nine major Florida Papers.

  • Encyclopedia Britannica (Britannica):

    • Access more than 72,000 articles

  • Facts.com:

    • Contains articles from 7 sources, including Issues and Controversies on File.

  • FirstSearch:

    • Provides over 60 electronic databases including some full-tex

  • Grove Dictionary of Art:

    • An extensive visual arts reference resource

  • Health and Wellness Resource Center:

    • Contains both full-text articles and abstracts from health and nursing journals

  • HealthSource:  Clinical Pharmacology, Nursing and Academic, and Consumer Edition:

    • This resource provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. In addition, this database includes the Clinical Pharmacology database, providing access to 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 drugs.

  • LexisNexis:

    • LexisNexis Academic contains over 5,600 sources covering law, business, medicine, reference, and world news.

  • Literature Resource Center:

    • Access to biographies, plot summaries, bibliographies and full-text criticisms of more than 90,000 writers.

  • MagillOnAuthors:

    • Comprised of information on over 1,500 notable authors.

  • MagillOnLiterature:

    • Brief critical analyses & plot summaries.

  • Newsbank Newsfile:

    • This database contains full-text news resource covering selected current events.  Includes the Orlando Sentinel.

  • netLibrary:

    • Searchable collection of electronic books.

  • Regional Business News:

    • Access to full-text coverage of business news.

  • Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

    • full-text articles on controversial issues.
  • Knowledge Source (SIRS):

    Consists of SIRS Researcher, Renaissance and Government Reporter.

 

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