Database Descriptions

• Access Science  (VIVA only) 
  Access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms in all areas of science and technology.   Special features include over 2000 in-depth biographies, weekly research updates and links to web sites for further research, etc.
  

• ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery) (VIVA only)
  Access to 24 full text magazines and journals of ACM.
  

• ALLDATA® Online (On-campus access from JSRCC Western only)
  "The world's most comprehensive resource for automotive diagnostic and repair information."
  

• America History and Life (VIVA only) - Bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
  Introduction
  List of Periodicals
  

• American Chemical Society (ACM) (VIVA only)

  • List of ACS Journals
    

• American Mathematical Society (AMS) (VIVA only)

  • List of AMS Journals
    

• American National Biography - Provides biographical information of  "more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation".- JSRCC only.
  

• Annual Reviews (VIVA only)

  • List of Review Titles
    

• Bowker:

  • Books in Print (VIVA only)

  • Ulrich's Periodical Directory (VIVA only)
    

• The CRC ENGnetBase (VIVA only)
  Engineering Handbooks by CRC Press. 
  

• The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (VIVA only)
  

• Cambridge University Press (VIVA only)

  • List of Cambridge Titles
    

• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (VIVA only)

  • Alphabetical list of Abstracts

  • Subject list of Abstracts

  Provides access to 35 scientific databases of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Disciplines include: Aquatic Sciences, Medical and Biological Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Computer Sciences and Engineering Specialties, and Materials Sciences.
  

• Chadwyck-Healey Poetry Databases (VIVA only) - Includes:

  • African-American Poetry, 1760-1900

  • American Poetry

  • English Poetry (AD 600-1900)

  • English Verse Drama (AD 1300-1900)
    

• CIAO (VIVA only)- Columbia International Affairs Online
  CIAO is "the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences".

• Congressional Universe (VIVA only) - from Congressional Information Service, Inc.

  • Search an index of congressional publications from 1970 to the present

  • Retrieve CIS Legislative Histories for public laws going back to 1970

  • Find testimony from congressional hearings

  • Track bills as they move through the House and Senate

  • Search the Congressional Record and Federal Register

  • Locate information about members and committees

  • Search the National Journal
    

• CQ Researcher - Offers comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news, including health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.

• Ebsco  (VIVA only)
  Provides access to the following databases:

  • PsyInfo

    • PsycINFO User Guide

    • PsycINFO Search Tips

  • PsycArticles

  • Medline

  • CINAHL

  • Pre_CINAHL

  • ERIC

• Factiva (VIVA only)
  Provides full-text  access to over 8000 journals, magazines, newspapers, newswire from 118 countries in 22 languages.
  

• FACTs.com ( VCCS only)- includes Issues & Controversies, Today's Science and World Almanac.
  

• FindArticles - An open source database that searches free online articles from general-interest magazines, trade journals, and scholarly periodicals that.
  

• First Search (VIVA only)
  Includes over 60 bibliographic databases from OCLC.
  Training Databases (password required)  
  FirstSearch Information Web Site
  FirstSearch Tutorial - through VCCS
  

• GaleNet (formerly InfoTrac. VIVA only)
  Provides access to the following Gale products:

  • General OneFile 
    Help topics index

  • Literature Resource Center - Library, Scribner, Twayne US, Twayne English, and Twayne World Authors 
    Search Tips

  • Business and Company Resource Center

  • Health Wellness Resource Center

  • Expanded Academic ASAP

  • Computer Database

  • Associations Unlimited

  • Contemporary Authors

  • General Reference Center Gold

  • Biography and Genealogy Master Index

  Gale Databases Title Lists
  InfoTrac Tutorial -  through VCCS
  

• HARPWEEK (VIVA only) : Full text of HarpWeek: The Civil War Era (1857-1877)
  

• HIGHWIRE PRESS (selected titles) (VIVA only) - full text journals in science, technology and medicine supported by Stanford University Library.

• Titles
  

  • Academic Psychiatry

  • American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Biophysical Journal

  • Clinical Chemistry

  • Journal of Applied Physiology (JAP)

  • Journal of Biological Chemistry

  • Journal of Cell Biology

  • Journal of General Physiology

  • Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

  • Molecular Biology of the Cell

  • Science

• Historical Abstracts (VIVA only) - Bibliographic reference to the history of the world (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
  Introduction
  List of Periodicals
  

• IDEAL (VIVA only)
  (NOTE: The Ideal subscription was cancelled in 2002.  List of AP Journals connects to an archive copy of the issues owned by VIVA.)
  

• Institute of Physics Journal Archives
  

• MathSciNet (VIVA only)
  MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940.
  

• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (VIVA only)
  

• Nature (VIVA only)
   

• NetLibrary (JSRCC only)
  

• Opposing Viewpoints - "Brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazines articles, as well as links to more than 1,800 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites."

• Oxford English Dictionary (VIVA only)
  "This database contains the entire text of the 22-volume Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, which merges the original OED with the supplements prepared throughout this century. This electronic text not only contains definitions for most of the words in the English language but also information on their origins and quotations showing their range of meanings from the time they entered the language to the present. "
  

• Oxford University Press (VIVA only)

  • List of Oxford Titles

• Project Muse (VIVA only)

  • List of Project Muse Titles
    

• Science (VIVA only)
  

• SIRS Researcher  
  "Provides thousands of full-text articles on a variety of social, scientific, historic, economic, political and global issues. Articles are carefully selected from more than 1,200 newspapers, magazines, journals and government publications."
  

• Digital Library & Archive (formerly Scholarly Communications Project) - a service of  Virginia Tech University. 

• Statistical Universe (VIVA only) - from Congressional Information Service Inc.

  • All statistics issued by the U.S. government back to 1973 through CIS' American Statistics Index.

  • Some 1,000 of the best statistical publications of private and state government sources from 1980 forward through CIS' Statistical Reference Index.

  • Approximately 2,000 indispensable titles from some 100 international intergovernmental organizations, all published annually since 1983 through CIS' Index to International Statistics.
    

• Stat-USA (VIVA only)
  A governmental agency that produces, maintains and disseminates the "most extensive government-sponsored business, economic and trade information data bases", including: The national Trade Data Bank (NTDB), Economic Bulletin Board, Global Business Procurement Opportunities GLOBUS, and Bureau of Economic Analysis Economic Information Access.
  

• WestLaw ( JSRCC only) Provides federal and state case law and statutory and regulatory materials.

• WestLaw off-campus test