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APA

MLA
General & Interdisciplinary
     Information Includes more than 4,200 full-text titles; five newspaper indexes -- a total of nearly 8,000 titles in all with more than 20 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present. It includes newswires from 89 wire services, newspapers, general interest magazines, refereed academic journals, business publications, technology periodicals, and specialty titles in law, health care and computers.
General & Interdisciplinary

APA
 
Humanities
 APA MLA
     Information Provides students with different viewpoints through political commentaries and access to information about current events dealing with themes of American politics and public policy at all levels. Includes daily news reports on issues affecting state and federal governments, videos, quotes, abstracts and primary source documents. Also provides resources that compare the United States' and other nations' political and economic systems.
Government & Law
   

 
American History (ABC CLIO)
     Information Provides coverage from early exploration to the present. Discusses the political, scientific, economic, artistic and philosophical development of the country from an historical perspective. Includes feature stories, living history articles, This Day in History, maps, photos, videos, primary documents and topic explorations.
Social Sciences/History
  

 
     Information Provides access to selected local, regional and national U.S. newspapers. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded. Coverage varies.
News & Current Events

APA
     Information A collection of photos, graphics, text and audio from the Associated Press. The photo archive is updated daily and dates back to 1826. Audio is in wav format and provides coverage from 1920. Also includes logos, charts, maps and 800,000 news stories written by AP writers.
News & Current Events (Visual Aids)

APA
     Information Provides access to applied science and technology journals and magazines. Full text coverage begins in 1997. Subjects covered include Applied Mathematics, Chemistry, Computer Databases & Software, Construction, Food & Food Industry, Geology, Oceanography, Physics and Space Science.
Science

APA
     Information Provides indexing, abstracting and full text access to contemporary art worldwide with special emphasis given to developments in Canadian, Latin America, Asian and other non-western art, exhibition reviews and feminism criticism. Coverage from 1997. Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
Arts/Humanities

 
Arts/Humanities
General & Interdisciplinary
   
     Information Cites biographical articles from all time periods, fields and nationalities accessible through more than 3,000 magazines and 2,000 current books. Besides biographies and autobiographies, it includes citations to interviews, obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, juvenile literature, book reviews, bibliographies and exhibition reviews.
General & Interdisciplinary

 
     Information Contains more than 422,000 biographies on more than 335,000 people as well as full-text articles from nearly 300 magazines specifically chosen for their renowned biographical content in a broad range of subject areas.
General & Interdisciplinary

APA
     Information Provides indexing, abstracting and full text access to the core literature of biology and agriculture—much of it from peer-reviewed journals. Full text citations link to PDF page images, featuring graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations indispensable to science research.
Science

APA
     Information Indexes and provides excerpts and full text reviews of current English-language fiction and non-fiction from over 8,000 periodicals. Coverage is from 1983.
Books & Libraries
  

 
     Information Sources include The New York Times Business Section and The Wall Street Journal as well as 475 magazines and scholarly journals titles. Users will find feature articles, product reviews, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, book reviews, reports from associations, societies, trade shows and conferences, and more. Coverage is from 1995.
Business

APA
Business
     Information Provides full text access to more than 560 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 600,000 records dating back to 1937. Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
Medicine & Health
 APA
General & Interdisciplinary
    
     Information Offers access to today's most well-read and influential periodicals on the computer, telecommunications and electronics industries.
Sciences

APA
Controversial Issues
     Information Explores a single "hot" issue each week, ranging from social and teen issues to environment, health, education, and science. 44 reports produced each year, including four expanded reports. Includes charts, graphs and sidebar articles.
Controversial Issues

APA
     Information Ready reference source consisting of more than 160 sources from a variety of publishers. Provides 1.8 millon entries and 40 million cross-reference links. It also includes a vast collection of art images.
Reference Sources
  

 
     Information Covers a wide variety of criminal justice topics, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law. Indexes over 230 titles and provides full-text and image access to more than 75 journals.
Government & Law

APA
     Information Provides access to titles by 46 of the most widely read contemporary authors. Analyszes character development, themes, style and plots. Includes a complete bibliography of books, selected reviews and criticism. Alternative readings section provides various literary perspectives.
Languages & Literature
     Information A Journal of contemporary world affairs. Each issue contains a monthly chronology of world news.
     Special access procedures Requires Username and Password which can be obtained at Information Desk on 2nd floor of Library.
Social Sciences/
History

APA
News & Current Events
   
     Information A collection of primary documents, reference works, monographs, images, maps, illustrations, and time lines depicting essential activities of daily life across the globe and throughout history. Part of the Daily Life Online suite of databases.
Social Sciences/
Cultural Studies
  

 
     Information Searchable collection of ebooks specifically selected for Florida's community colleges.
Books & Libraries

APA
     Information Provides comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Full text of articles from some 300 journals as far back as 1996. Indexing of over 750 periodicals as far back as 1983, over 450 peer-reviewed.
Education

APA
     Information Covers all areas and levels of education by providing access to bibliography and full text scholarly sources. Multilingual education, heath education, curriculum instruction, administration, funding, testing and related social issues are some of the topics covered. Indexes and abstracts more than 1500 journals, contains 750 full-text journal titles 100 book and monograph full-text titles and includes full-text education-related conference papers.
Education
  

 
     Information Enhanced digital edition of the print reference source of same title. Offers over 120,000 articles, a world atlas, online dictionary and thesaurus, articles from over 400 magazines and journals, safe websites, comprehensive statistics on a wide variety of country and access to a thousand plus images and videos. Accesible at three levels: elementary, student (upper elementary, middle/high school)and adult (university).
Reference Sources
  
APA
 
     Information Database of journal and non-journal education literature. Provides a public Web site for searching nearly 1.2 million citations going back to 1966 and, with contributor permission, accessing more than 110,000 full-text materials at no charge.
    Special access procedures Free website
Education

APA
Education
 APA MLA
     Information A guide to published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics, with information from RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education). ERIC records include full-text documents from the ERIC Digest. The database includes the ERIC thesaurus, a complete list of descriptive terms used by ERIC to index and search the database. Includes 1.1+ million records from 1,016 journals and other documents from 1966 to the present. Updated monthly.
Education

     Information Offers precise access to nearly 65,000 essays contained in some 5,300 anthologies and collections. Some 300 single and multi-author collections are indexed annually, plus more than 20 selected annuals and serials. Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, including literary works, art history, drama, and film.
Languages & Literature
  

 
     Information Combining indexing, abstracts, full text and images, provides access to 3,800 indexed and 2,200 full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, medical journals, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times and many others. More than 25 years of backfile coverage ia available.
General & Interdisciplinary

APA
     Information Brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest since 1980 and selected content from six other core reference databases including Issues & Controversies and Todays's Science to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 20 years.
News & Current Events/
Controversial Issues/
Sciences

APA
     Information Provides access to ArticleFirst, Clase Periodica, Ebooks, Electronic Collections Online (ECO), ERIC, Florida Group Catalog (FloridaCat), GPO Monthly Catalog, MEDLINE, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst, World Almanacs (World Almanac), WorldCat, and WorldCat Dissertations and Thesis (WorldCatDissertations).
Reference Sources
  

 
FirstSearch (Password Protected)
      Information Provides access to ABI-INFORM, AGRICOLA, AHSearch, AltPressIndex, AltPressIndexArchive, BasicBIOSIS, BioDigest, BooksinPrint, BusDateline, BusIndustry, BusinessOrgs, BusManagement, Consumer Index, Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI), Disclosure, Dissertations, EconLit, FactSearch, GEOBASE, MediaRevDigest, NewsAbs, Periodical Abstracts (PerAbs), PsychFirst, WilsonSelectPlus, and Worldscope.
    Special access procedures Requires Authorization number and Password which can be obtained at Information Desk on 2nd floor of Library.
Reference Sources
  

 

FMG on Demand

     Information Films Media Group offers access to access to digital streaming videos spanning arts, business, communications, humanities, literature, science and social science topics. Play on QuickTime or Windows Media Player.
General & Interdisciplinary
     Information Public opinion polling data conducted from 1935 to today.
    Special access proceduresRequires Username and Password which can be obtained at Information Desk on 2nd floor of Library.
Reference Sources
  

 
     Information Offers a combination of indexing, abstracts and full text for business and trade publications. Includes directory listings for companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries. Covers industrial events and trends, and the latest in management, economics and politics. Provides access to broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings.
Business

APA
General OneFile (formerly InfoTrac OneFile)
  
General & Interdisciplinary
     Information Integrates a vast array of key business and general interest titles in a single database. It includes national news magazines, encyclopedias, core business journals, Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service newspaper articles, more than 15 reference books, and more than 2,000 titles, including 1,200 in full text.
Reference Sources

APA
     Information Periodical coverage includes 242 popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Full Text also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday).
Sciences

APA
     Information Provides access to 190,000 poems in full text and indexing of 90,000 poems in 550 anthologies. Biographical entries include bibliographies and links to some of the poet's works, commentaries, notes on form and a glossary. Searching is possible by nationality. The Columbia Granger's® Index to African-American Poetry -- an index to 65 volumes of the best poetry by African Americans is included.
Languages & Literature
  

Grove Art Online (now Oxford Art Online)
     Information Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (34 volumes, covering all aspects of the visual arts of every civilization from prehistory to the 1990s) with annual additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links.
Arts/
Humanities

 
Grove Music Online (now Oxford Music Online)
     Information An integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Contains over 500 musical examples in sound as well as notated examples. Includes over 3000 links to related sites including sound archives and illustrations, illustrations and musical examples.
Humanities
  

 
     Information Offers access to full-text nursing and allied health journals, internet websites, encyclopedias and other reference sources including the Medical and Health Information Directory and PDR Family Guides. Includes an alternative health module and multimedia library of 700+ videos from the Healthology, Inc.'s consumer health library. Updated daily by new periodical and newspaper articles.
Medicine & Health

APA
     Information An advanced interface to the full-text nursing and allied health journals dating back to 1980 found in the Health & Wellness Resource Center. Also includes current editions of newletters, pamphlets, newspaper articles, topical overviews and reference books. Does not include reference sources or the Alternative Health suite of resources.
Medicine & Health

 
     Information This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 additional journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Medicine & Health

APA
     Information Provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Features searchable full text for nearly 160 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for nearly 180 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.
Medicine & Health

APA
     Information History Reference Center offers full text from more than 750 history reference books and encyclopedias, and cover-to-cover full text from nearly 60 history magazines. Further, the database contains 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.
Social Sciences/
History

APA
     Information Contains information pertaining to the history, products, operations, employees, sales, subsidiaries,competitors, market niche, financial status and SEC filings for 40,000 firms. Over 12 million companies can be accessed through the database with more than 4 million European and Asia Pacific (APAC) companies included.
Business
 APA
 
Humanities International Complete  
Humanities
    
     Information Covers literature and language, history, philosophy, archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts, history, religion and theology. Provides access to full text articles from 230 journals as far back as 1995. Includes interviews, obituaries, book reviews, reviews of plays, radio and television programs, motion pictures, dance programs, musicals, plays and more. Indexing and abstracting provided for additional titles from 1984.
Humanities

 
     Information Created exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, this full-text electronic reference tool is the first system to provide indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic magazines -- not just translations. Also included is a thesaurus and interface that are uniquely designed for Spanish-speaking users.
General & Interdisciplinary (Spanish Language)
     Information Designed for junior high and middle school students, and features the titles most critical to their libraries and curriculum. Contains more than 215 indexed and 196 fulltext general interest magazines, thousands of newspaper articles from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service and United Press International, and several reference sources including The Columbia Encyclopedia.
General & Interdisciplinary (Junior/Middle School)
     Information A multi- source general interest database designed for elementary schools. It provides indexing, abstracts, and full text children's and general interest magazines, reference books and thousands of newspaper articles.
General & Interdisciplinary (Elementary School)
     Information A custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators that is updated daily. Offers balanced coverage for any professional educator in the arts and humanities, child and adolescent psychology and development, drug and alcohol abuse, health/nutrition/fitness, learning disabilities, literature, school law, science and technology, social sciences or sports/athletic training.
Education

APA
     Information Offers a quick and easy way for secondary students to do classroom assignments and get answers to general reference questions on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. Comprised of a variety of full-text sources that include magazines, newspapers and reference books, 559 indexed titles and hundreds of maps.
General & Interdisciplinary (Secondary/High School)
     Information Offers a wealth of current topics research information, including pro/con discussions of hot issues, newspaper editorials, numerical snapshots of key topics, photos and graphics, and selected historical source documents.
Controversial Issues

APA
Controversial Issues
APA MLA
     Information Provides access to back issues of hundreds of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.
General & Interdisciplinary

APA
     Information A bibliographic database that indexes articles from more than 1,000 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association, university and government publications. Full text coverage for over 250 selected journals as far back as 1994 is also included. Provides access to some 1,400 monographs per year.
Government & Law

APA
     Information Contains over 5,600 sources including: national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, legal resources, Shepard's® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789 and business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.
News & Current Events

APA
     Information A bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed.
Books & Libraries

APA
    
Books & Libraries
     Information Includes over 125,000 full text poems, an index to 4 1/2 million lines of poetry, 850,000 citations, biographies and 2,500 poem explanations from all eras. Provides access to thousands of full-text short stories which are updated frequently plus explanations, biographies, pictures and more. Contains thousands of full-text essays and includes literary criticisms and biographies focusing on the humanities and social sciences together with over 1,000 plays with character lists and full-text speeches categorized by genre.
Languages & Literature
  

 
 
Languages & Literature
Literature Resources from Gale (formerly Literature Resource Center)
     Information Contains biographical, bibliographical and critical content. Provides information on literary figures from all time periods. Built on three reference sources: Contemporay Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism and Dictionary of Literary Biography. Additional Gale Group titles are included as well as literary journals and websites.
Languages & Literature

 
     Information Offers extensive coverage of the ancient world; American History; cultures and civilizations in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas and Oceania. Includes approximately 10,000 records, more than 1,800 historical images, charts, graphs and maps, an index of more than 13,000 names, and more than 4,000 biographical essays.
Social Sciences/
History

APA
MagillOnLiteraturePlus
Now part of Literary Reference Center (see above)!
     Information Provides access to critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature. Contains information from many useful reference sources, including MasterPlots I,II, and Critical Surveys series, the Cyclopedia of World Authors, the Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature and Magill Book Reviews. Also includes embedded hyperlinks to related author essays and a literary glossary of over 800 terms.
Languages & Literature

 
     Information Designed for high school students. Contains full-text for more than 490 popular, high school magazines as well as biographies, primary source documents, pamphlets and reference books.
General & Interdisciplinary (Secondary/High School)

APA
Medicine & Health
     Information Designed to offer current news and information to all branches of the military and matters relating to the military and military life. Provides full text from over 320 military and general interest publications. Also indexes and abstracts over 360 magazines, including Military Review, Parameters, Army Times, and Defense.
Government & Law

APA
Books & Libraries
  MLA
     Information Searchable collection of ebooks specifically selected for Florida's community colleges.
Books & Libraries

APA
     Information Full-text and full-image articles for The New York Times®, covering the period from 1851-2003
Social Sciences/
History

APA
     Information Provides access to selected local, regional and national U.S. newspapers. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded. Coverage varies.
News & Current Events

APA
Medicine & Health
Medicine & Health
APA  
     Information Full text periodicals, along with article abstracts, indexing, and page images, from over 4,000 journals. Coverage extends back as early as 1982. Includes all entries from Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Reader's Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text and Business Full Text databases.
General & Interdisciplinary

APA
     Information Based on the print series Opposing Viewpoints published by Greenhaven Press, as well as as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources. Provides viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazine articles and more concerning social issues, such as genetic engineering, environmental policy, prejudice, abortion, health care reform, and media violence.
Controversial Issues

APA
     Information Daily newspaper of Orlando, Florida, and surrounding areas. Provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including specific information about local companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and the people in the community. Date Range: (4/1/1985-Current). Paid advertisements are excluded.
News & Current Events

APA
Oxford Art Online  
Arts/ Humanities
  MLA
     Information Searchable online version of the Oxford English Dictionary twenty-volume Second Edition and three-volume Additions Series. Provides the defintion, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. 2.5 million quotations are used to illustrate the evolution and usage of words. Updated quarterly.
Reference Sources
  

 
Oxford Music Online  
Arts/ Humanities
  MLA
     Information Searchable index of hundreds of drugs and medications. Search by product name, manufacturer, product category, indications, contraindications, side effects, or drug interactions. Includes product photos.
Reference Sources/
Medicine & Health

APA
Play Index (Valencia)