ONLINE DATABASES

The Information Resource Center is moving towards greater electronic access of information. Presently, several commercial and government online services are available to greatly assist your research needs. The subscription-based online services include:

Dow Jones Interactive:

Dow Jones Interactive is the World Wide Web version of Dow Jones News/Retrieval. It provides same day, full-text coverage, for The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angles Times, The New York Times, The Financial Times of London, and business sections from 54 papers around the country. It also provides full-text of over 265 regional newspapers and 175 international publications and papers. Approximately 2800 business and trade publications are also included.

Ebsco Host Databases:

Academic Search Premier: The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Business Source Premier: This is the industry's most used business research database, providing the full text for nearly 8,200 serials. Business Source Premier provides full text back to 1965 and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Regional Business News: This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Environmental Issues & Policy Index: Environmental Issues & Policy Index offers cover-to-cover indexing and detailed abstracts for well over 1,000 international journals, with ongoing coverage for over 500 titles, providing a global perspective on important issues. The database features an in-depth thesaurus, and extensive subject area coverage ranging as far back as 1950.

Military & Government Collection: Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

GaleNet:

GaleNet is a one-stop shopping database for The Gale Group products available on the World Wide Web. This covers Encyclopedia of Associations; Contemporary Authors; Research Centers Family of Directories; Directories of Publications & Broadcast Media; Gale Directory of Databases, Gale Guide to Internet Databases; Biography Resource Center; Super LCCS; Gale Business Resources.

Lexis-Nexis (Access to Lexis/Nexis Universe, Lexis/Nexis Research & Political Universe):

A full text database of current and historic federal legislation, bill tracking, bill texts, state legislation, case law, law reviews and over 6,000 full text news sources and periodicals including the New York Times, Washington Post and AP wires.

ProQuest Direct:

Accessible on the internet through the World Wide Web, ProQuest Direct provides immediate access to an extensive collection of newspapers, journals, periodicals, magazines, and other information sources. It provides access to over 400 full text periodicals in the following formats: citations, abstracts, full text, image and image/text. Image is not available for all the 400 periodicals. It also provides citations and/or abstracts of over 1600 periodicals and newspapers including New York Times.