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Research Database
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Click on a
resource below to link to a description of that resource: TO FIND
MAGAZINE OR JOURNAL ARTICLES: TO FIND
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES: TO FIND
BOOKS IN OTHER LIBRARIES: TO FIND
LITERATURE OR ART INFO: TO FIND
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES: TO FIND
GOVERNMENT STATISTICS: TO FIND
COUNTRY INFORMATION: TO FIND
COLLEGE CATALOGS: TO FIND
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Click on any category below to link to descriptions of those resources: OUR BOOK CATALOG Click on any resource below to link to that resource. PLS Online Catalog: The online catalog for finding books
in Skyline, CSM & Cañada College libraries and all San Mateo public
libraries
Gale databases: A set of excellent databases
(listed below) for finding full-text articles from magazines, journals and
newspapers in all subject areas. See
the specific database descriptions below. ·
Gale
Powersearch databases: Articles from academic journals, magazines, newspapers, reference
books & other published sources in all subject areas. A combined search of the following databases: Expanded Academic ASAP,
InfoTrac OneFile and Full Text Newspapers, Student Resource Center - Gold, Informe, Health Reference
Center Academic, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, General Business File
ASAP, and General Reference
Center Gold.
SIRS Knowledge Source: A set of three popular databases
(described below) of full-text articles on social, scientific, political and
many other issues, government documents and information and information on
many humanities topics.
eLibrary –
on campus: History Cooperative:
Database of full-text journal articles from the following history journals: Journal
of American History, American Historical Review, Law and
History Review, The History Teacher, Western Historical
Quarterly, Common-place, Labour/Le Travail, Labour
History, Journal of World History, History of Education
Quarterly & Environmental History. ERIC:
The world's largest source of education information, including
abstracts (summaries only- not full-text articles)
of journal articles and full-text of documents on education research and
practice from 1966 to 2003. 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. HighWire Press Science Journals: HighWire Press is an online
journal publisher and database of over 200 academic science journals. Many of
the journals available through HighWire provide free access to the full text
of some of their articles--either back issues before a specific date or all
articles for a limited trial period. Click here to see
list of free full-text journals from HighWire. ASM Microbiology Journals: The American Society for Microbiology provides a free database of articles from its10 journals (listed below), including full text from January 1998 to the present and abstracts only from January 1992 to December 1997.
* Freely
accessible from the World Wide Web Free Medical Journals.com: Links to Web sites of several hundred medical journals providing some free full-text articles-- usually either back issues before a specific date or all articles for a limited period. FindArticles: A free Web database containing
full-text articles from more than 300 magazines and journals in all subject
areas, dating back to 1998. Digital Dissertations: Free access to the most current two years of citations, abstracts plus the first 24 pages of each dissertation in the Dissertation Abstracts database. (To search more than two years back in the database--which includes more than 1.6 million titles--you will need to connect from a subscription institution.) Publist.com: A directory of over 150,000
domestic and international print and electronic publications including
magazines, journals, e-journals, newsletters, and monographs. PubList.com
provides access to detailed publication information including, titles,
formats, publisher addresses, editor contacts, circulation data, and ISSN
numbers. PubList.com also provides links to publication websites. IPL Serials: Links to over 3000 magazine &
journal websites, searchable or browsable by subject or by title. Part of the
Internet Public Library website. (Newspaper links are listed separately in
the IPL
Newspapers section.) Links to Academic
Science Journals on the Web:
Links to websites of academic science journals. (Many charge fee for
accessing full-text articles.)
Gale Newspapers: Full-text articles from N.Y. Times, S.F. Chronicle, L.A. Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Seattle Times, Fresno Bee, Times (London, England), Financial Times (London, England) & Manila Bulletin (Philippines) 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. eLibrary –
on campus: NewsLibrary: A database including the full
text of over 450 regional newspapers & news sources from the
World News Digest: A set of seven core reference
databases focusing on events, issues, statistics and people of the last 20
years. The seven databases are: Facts On File World News Digest, Issues and
Controversies On File, Today's Science On File, Editorials On File, Funk
& Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, Reuters On-Line News Service and The World
Almanac and Book of Facts. Also included are in-depth features on
"Historic Events" drawn from the 60-year Facts On File archive and
additional special features including maps, photographs, historic documents,
and overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events since 1980. Published by
Facts On File News Services. SFGate: S.F. Chronicle Web
Archives N.Y. Times Archives IPL Newspapers: Links to newspaper websites NewsDirectory.com: Links to newspaper and magazine
websites
Melvyl: The database for books in all of
the 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.
LITERATURE/ART INFORMATION DATABASES: 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
Encyclopedia Americana Online – on campus: An online version of Encyclopedia
Americana, an excellent college-level encyclopedia
GOVERNMENT/STATISTICS DATABASES: U.S. Census: Extensive statistical information from the U.S.
Census Bureau. Stat-USA: 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. National Criminal Justice
Reference Center: Summaries
of more than 160,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State,
and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and
unpublished research, plus more than 1,500 full-text publications on this
site as well as full-text publications and other web pages from NCJRS partner
agency web sites: the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs*
and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Thomas: Comprehensive federal legislative information from
Congress. GPO Access: Community Information Program
(CIP):
information on health & human service agencies serving
CountryWatch - on campus:
a set of political, economic, and business information in the form of Country
Reviews and the Country Wire. Country Reviews provide a political and
economic survey for each of the 191 countries of the world. Coverage of every
country in the world is updated continuously on the Web. Country Wire is an
on-line information update from ten respected international news
organizations, as well as periodic data updates from the CountryWatch.com
staff which provides the latest political, economic, corporate, and
environmental news on a country by country basis as it occurs.
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: many of the best World Wide Web search tools
(subject directories, search engines and metasearch engines) all on one page * How to Find Information on the World Wide Web * How to Evaluate Information on the World Wide Web |
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