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SJRCC library news and innovations
The SJRCC Libraries are pleased to introduce the newest additions to our lineup of online databases:
ARTStor (JSTOR) - Publisher's Marketing: “The ARTstor Digital Library Charter Collection is: A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data; The tools to actively use those images; and A restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content users. The ARTstor Digital Library includes more than 80 collections totaling more than 700,000 images. These collections have been added to the library because the images have noted teaching or research value, or because the community has asked for a particular body of content. ARTstor works with a range of individual photographers, scholars, artists and artists’ estates, museums, library special collections, and photo archives, and we are committed to continued development to enhance the quality of ARTstor's services, collections, images, and data.”
Business Source Complete (EBSCO) - Publisher's Marketing: “Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the ultimate collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the most-cited authors in the database. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Complete is the overwhelmingly superior database for full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.”
Education Research Complete (EBSCO) - Publisher's Marketing: “Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. This massive file offers the world's largest and most complete collection of full text education journals. It is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,820 journals, as well as full text for more than 900 journals. This database also includes full text for 71 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.”
ERIC (EBSCO) - Publisher's Marketing: “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 now include full-text documents from the ERIC Digest at no extra charge. 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.”
Literary Reference Center (EBSCO) - Publisher's Marketing: “Literary Reference Center™ is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It has been specifically designed for public libraries, secondary schools, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. Literary Reference Center is a full text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Center contains full text for 27,500 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, 140,500 author biographies (including 20,000 in-depth bios), more than 400 literary journals, more than 569,000 book reviews, 57,000 classic and contemporary poems, 14,500 classic and contemporary short stories, 4,700 author interviews, 8,400 classic texts and much more. In addition, Literary Reference Center also includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Literary Encyclopedia, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus™, and much more.”
MEDLINE with Full-Text (EBSCO) - Publisher's Marketing: “MEDLINE® with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,200 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than 1,180 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE, and of those, nearly 400 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search™, Health Source® or Biomedical Reference Collection™. This wide-ranging file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the MEDLINE index - with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1965, MEDLINE with Full Text is the definitive research tool for medical literature.”
Nursing and Allied Health Source (ProQuest) - Publisher's Marketing: "ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health SourceTM provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This versatile database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides abstracting and indexing for more than 700 titles, with over 580 titles in full-text.”
Science Resource Center (Gale) - Publisher's Marketing: “The Science Resource Center is an in-depth, curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs. The Science Resource Center reflects curriculum trends and focuses on key concepts taught in school classrooms, including:
* Earth Science
* History of Science
* Life Science
* Physical Science
* Science and Technology
* Science as Inquiry
* Space Science
* And much more
Features of this exciting new resource include:
* Three core, proprietary reference titles,
offering in-depth topic overviews from all science disciplines
* More than 50 additional proprietary reference titles, offering subject-specific
topic overviews, biographies, science experiments and more
* 270 full-text science magazines, ranging from those intended for a general
audience to scholarly academic journals
* More than 14,800 multimedia records, including pictures, illustrations,
audio clips and video clips
* Links to more than 500 Web sites, all chosen for their authoritative
content and relevancy to the curriculum
* Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 10th Ed. and a proprietary science
glossary containing definitions of difficult terms and concepts
* Multiple search options
* Tabbed results lists organizing articles by content type: Reference,
Magazines, Scholarly Journals, Newspapers, Multimedia, and Web sites
* Content Level indicators to help students choose articles that meet
their individual needs
* Spotlight articles highlighting topics of high interest to students
* Additional links for further reading
* A toolbox containing search tips, a research guide and other useful
tools for students
* And much more”
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