Database Descriptions

AccessScience: Online Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
American National Biography: A Biographical Resource for deceased notable people in American History.
CAMIO -- Catalog of Art Museum Images Online: 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.
Cochrane Library: The Cochrane Library is a unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. Published on a quarterly basis, The Cochrane Library is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care. The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases.
CQ Electronic Library: Includes CQ Researcher and CQ Weekly.
Credo Reference: Online library providing access to a selection of over 400 books, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and subject-specific titles. Features interactive concept maps.
CSA: Illumina: Content coverage includes the life sciences, environmental and aquatic sciences, computer sciences, materials science and engineering, aerospace, social sciences, and humanities. Databases available include: Biological Sciences, Conference Papers Index, ERIC, MEDLINE, MLA Directory of Periodicals, MLA International Bibliography, PILOTS Database, Plant Science, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, and TOXLINE.
EBSCOhost: EBSCOhost offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers including: Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, Religion and Philosophy Collection, Catholic Periodical and Literature Index, CINAHL Plus with Full Text, Social Work Abstracts, and World History Collection.
eLibrary Elementary: eLibrary Elementary delivers the largest collection of periodical and digital media content designed specifically for K-12 schools. Students use the powerful, yet easy-to-use search interface to find the answers they need from more than 1,200 magazines, newspapers, books, transcripts, maps, images, web links, and audio/video titles.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences: Covers the entire range of life sciences research. It highlights structures, processes, methods, systems and applications across the biological and biomedical sciences. With 6,000 color illustrations, 30,000 internal cross-references and 30,000 external bibliographic references for further reading ELS directs undergraduates, graduate students and researchers to the next level of research.
Faulkner Advisory on IT Studies: Contains a virtual library of clearly-written reports covering such key technology areas as IT infrastructure, telecom, data networking, wireless communications, security, enterprise systems, the Internet and World Wide Web, as well as technology vendors.
FirstSearch: A collection of databases, containing information about books, articles, and other publications, and some full-text articles. Databases include: Article First, ECO, ERIC, GPO, MEDLINE.
FACTS.com: Issues & Controversies combines objective analysis, clear explanations of opposing points of view and numerous special features, so students and other users can quickly grasp the essentials of even the most complex topics.; Today's Science bridges the gap between textbooks and what's happening in science today covering all the topics that today's students study: health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and space science, and science and society it presents the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them.
Gale Databases: Suite of 48 indexes to periodicals, including: Academic OneFile, Kids InfoBits, Student Edition, Junior Edition, General OneFile, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Health and Wellness Resource Center, Business and Company ASAP, Business and Company Resource Center, Educator's Reference Complete, InfoTrac Newstand, Books & Authors, Biography and Genealogy Master Index, Business and Company ASAP, Informe, and ChiltonLibrary.com
HeritageQuest Online: A genealogical research database that includes images and indexing from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses and information from more than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, and probate records. This database replaces Ancestry.com in the MeL database collection.
LearningExpressLibrary: An 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.
LexisNexis: LexisNexis Academic provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.
NewsBank: The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers. Available newspapers include: The Detroit News, The Grand Rapids Press, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
Naxos Music Library: A music database containing a wide range of standard and specialist repertoire. Naxos includes close to 23,100 CDs, over 329,000 tracks of music with comprehensive liner notes. 500 CDs are added every month. Includes opera synopses and libretti, composer and artist biographies and other essential information.
NoveList: A database that provides keyword access, reviews, and annotations for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such book discussion guides and annotated book lists. Search by author, title, series, plots, or even books like the one you just finished.
Oxford Journals: A major international publisher of academic and research journals, Oxford Journals publishes well over 200 journals, many in partnership with the world’s leading prestigious learned societies. Collections cover Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law, and include some of the most authoritative journals in their fields.
ProQuest: A collection of 15 periodical indexes, including: ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/ INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, Criminal Justice Periodicals, ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source, ProQuest Religion, and the ProQuest Research Library.
RIA Checkpoint Tax Library: Checkpoint is a tax and accounting research tool anchored by products from RIA.
SIRS Discoverer: Children's index to articles from magazines, newspapers, and government documents.
SIRS Renaissance: Provides dynamic information on the following topics: architecture and design, culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion, and visual arts.
WilsonWeb: Composed of several indexes to periodical articles: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological and Agricultural Index Plus, Education Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Social Science Full Text, and OmniFile Full Text Select.

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