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BOOK CATALOG Click on any resource below to link to that resource. PLS
WebPAC:
The online catalog for finding books in Skyline, CSM
& Canada College libraries and all San Mateo public
libraries
InfoTrac
Databases:
An excellent variety of general magazine and journal
databases (listed below) for finding articles on all
subject areas. Approximately 1/2 of articles include
full-text.
WilsonWeb
Databases:
A set of excellent databases (listed below) for finding
article abstracts and some full-text articles from academic
journals and popular magazines as well as book reviews and
biographical articles. Indexing goes back to 1983.
SIRS
Researcher:
A popular database of full-text articles on social,
scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political
and global issues selected from 1,500 domestic and
international newspapers, magazines, journals and U.S.
government publications. Articles are archived from 1989 to
present. Gender
Watch:
A database of full-text articles from 140 journals,
magazines, newsletters, newspapers and special reports that
focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of
subject areas. Archival material back to 1974. ERIC:
The world's largest source of education information,
including
abstracts
(summaries only- not full-text articles) of documents
and journal articles on education research and practice from
1966 to the present. PubMed:
The Medline database-- the most extensive medical journal
database available, including
abstracts
(summaries only- not full-text articles) of medical
journal articles from 1966 to the present. IPL
Serials:
Links to magazine & journal websites
Proquest Direct National Newspapers Database: A database of (mostly) full-text articles from 6 of the most important newspapers in the country, listed below:
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Accessible from campus only NewsLibrary:
A database including the full text of over 75 regional
newspapers from over 30 states and Canada.
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Accessible from campus only Ethnic
Newswatch:
A unique database of full-text articles from 200 newspapers,
magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native
press, in English and Spanish. IPL
Newspapers:
Links to newspaper websites NewsDirectory.com:
Links to newspaper and magazine websites
Melvyl:
The database for periodicals (magazines, journals &
newspapers) in most academic and public libraries in the
state and for books in all of the University of
California libraries. * To find which libraries in the Bay Area carry a specific periodical:
InvestiGator:
The catalog for books and periodicals at San Francisco State
University Library. Library
of Congress Subject
Headings:
Search for the best subject headings to use for finding
books in any library catalog. Libweb:
Links to over 3000 library catalogs around the world.
Gale
Literature Resource
Center:
This aggregate database combines the following Gale
databases: Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of
Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary
Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature
Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature
Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism,
Shakespeare Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry
Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and
Literature Criticism 1400-1800, It is augmented with
full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material,
work overviews, links to author-related internet sites,
scholarly journal articles and interviews. Additionally, the
Gale Literature Resource Center includes Macmillan's
Encyclopedia of Literature, the Scribner's Writers
series, the Twayne Authors series, and Chadwyck-Healy's
Literature On-Line (LION)
database.
Britannica.com:
Freely accessible commercial website (with ads) including
complete text of Encyclopedia Britannica, plus index
to selected web pages and magazine & journal articles on
various subjects. Britannica
Online:
An online version of Encyclopedia Britannica, the
most extensive and authoritative encyclopedia in the English
language (no ads). Encyclopedia
Americana Online:
An online version of Encyclopedia Americana, an
excellent college-level encyclopedia Grolier
Multimedia Encyclopedia
Online:
An online version of Academic American Encyclopedia,
a popular encyclopedia for students from upper elementary,
junior high school, high school or college level and for the
inquisitive adult.
GOVERNMENT/STATISTICS DATABASES: U.S.
Census:
Extensive
statistical information from the U.S. Census Bureau. Stat-USA:
U.S.
economic statistics, trade information and international
market research from the Department of the Commerce. Rand
California Statistics:
RAND
California is a subscription based service containing
information from more than 70 databases covering business
and economics, population and demographics, education,
health and socioeconomic measures, government finance,
census and current population, and quality of life measures.
Selected areas of the site are
free. San
Mateo County Statistical
Information:
The county website's statistical information on the entire
County and each of the individual cities. The source is the
1990 census with some updated information from ABAG and the
California Department of Finance Demographic Unit. California
Census Information:
Census information for all California cities, counties &
other census jurisdictions. Thomas:
Comprehensive federal legislative information from
Congress. Community Information Program (CIP): information on health & human service agencies serving San Mateo County.
Books
in Print:
Current and forthcoming books, plus more than 300,000
full-text book reviews. Searchable by author, subject, tile,
and numerous other fields. Also includes Books Out of Print
(books published or distributed in the U.S. since 1979, but
out of print or indefinitely out of stock), and Publishers,
Distributors & Wholesalers of the U.S. (editorial
contact information, publishers' other names, and publishing
specialties). NoveList:
Allows readers to search for books (fiction) by entering
the title, author, or subject of books they have previously
read.
CollegeSource
Online:
More than 9,500 college catalogs in complete cover-to-cover,
original page format. Includes 2-year, 4-year, graduate, and
professional schools.
Web
Search Tools:
11
of the best World Wide Web search tools (subject
directories, search engines and metasearch engines) all on
one page, organized by InfoPeople |
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