WNC Library: Databases in Alphabetical Order

Academic Search Premier tutorial	provides full text coverage for nearly 4,700 scholarly publications, including more than 3,700 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study from current articles back to 1975.
Access Science	is the online equivalent of the most current edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, which also includes biographies of scientists, recent science-related news articles, study guides, and web site links.
All Data	is the leading provider of automotive diagnostic and repair information. The database includes manufacturer’s technical service bulletins and recall information; wiring diagrams; automatic repair information updates; as well as inspection forms, system checklists, and answers to common customer questions. Note: This database is not available from off-campus.
American National Biography Online	provides portraits of more than 17,400 significant American men and women from all eras and walks of life. The ANB Online, published by Oxford University Press, also includes thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to selected web sites, and bibliographies for further research.
Associates Program Source (trial)	Associates Programs Source™ contains 1,000 full-text journals as well as 100 full-text books oriented towards vocational programs and subjects taught in two-year colleges.
Biography Reference Bank	produced by HW Wilson,provides profiles of more than 500,000 figures from antiquity to the present. The database is searchable by name, profession, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, date of birth, or keyword. It includes images, bibliographies and millions of magazine articles for further research, as well as thousands of links to book review citations.
Britannica (Encyclopaedia) Online tutorial	see the description under Encyclopaedia Britannica
Business Source Elite	provides full text for nearly 1,100 business and economics magazines and journals, including 500 peer-reviewed publications. It includes company profiles for 10,000 of the world’s largest companies and is updated daily. back to top
Chronicle of Higher Education	provides access to the complete contents of the Chronicle updated weekly. Users can search back issues to 1989. It includes data (by state) on faculty, students, and administrators from the annual Almanac of Higher Education. It also provides employer profiles and lists job openings.
CINAHL Plus tutorial	provides full text for more than 560 nursing and allied health journals. This database contains over 600,000 articles as well as evidence-based care sheets, clinical innovations, drug records, and clinical trials. It also includes over 100 interactive continuing education units (CEUs) on patient care and drug administration.
CQ Researcher Online	Congressional Quarterly’s award-winning weekly report series, provides in-depth, unbiased analyses of current controversial topics. Each issue provides a broad overview of a single subject including a history of the issue, important government actions, pros and cons, and additional reading lists and information for contacting relevant organizations.
Criminal Justice Periodicals Index (CJPI)	Criminal Justice Periodical Index (ProQuest) CJPI provides complete, full-text coverage for 45 criminal justice journals, plus indexing and abstracts for an additional 150 journals. CJPI covers practical issues in crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, police issues, and courtroom procedures. A sampling of topics includes domestic violence, alternative sentencing, drug addiction, forensic science, etc. back to top
Ebscohost	(links to over 20 article databases) You can gain access to all the article database search engines published by Ebsco with this link.
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) from First Search	supported by the U.S. Department of Education, provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals. This database contains more full-text ED documents.
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) from Ebsco
eHRAF World Cultures	The eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online	includes more than 118,000 articles, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus. It also provides links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. back to top
First Search
Health Source: Consumer Edition tutorial	full text for nearly 300 journals in health related fields. Topics include the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition tutorial	provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
History Reference Center	offers full text from more than 650 history reference books and encyclopedias, 50 history magazines, 58,000 historical documents, 43,000 biographies and 12,000 historical photos, maps and other images. back to top
Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe	includes the full-text of more than 350 major newspapers including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Financial Times. It has a wealth of legal and business information as well as television transcripts.
Literary Reference Center	includes plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, literary criticism, author biographies, full text of over 300 literary journals, book reviews, poems and short stories,the full text of classic novels, author interviews, and images of key literary figures. It also includes the full-text of hundreds of books which contain literary criticism including the Bloom Series from Chelsea House Publishers.
Literature Resource Center tutorial	provides information on authors from all time periods and their works, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and journalism. Over 100,000 authors are covered in general. "Author Resource Pages" provide a biography of the author and list of works, criticism and overview of the author's works, further resources, and current journal articles on selected authors. back to top
Masterfile Premier tutorial	provides indexing and abstracting to approximately 4,600 journals and general-interest magazines - 1,840 in full-text. It also includes hundreds of full-text books, thousands of biographies, historical documents and photos, maps and flags.
Medline Plus	Produced by the National Library of Medicine, this web site contains comprehensive information on medical conditions and diseases, drugs, current research, and clinical trials. back to top
NetLibrary tutorial another tutorial	provides full-text online access to over 4,000 e-books covering a broad range of topics.
Newspaper Source	provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. back to top
Newspaper Source Plus (trial)	Newspaper Source Plus provides cover-to-cover full text for six national (U.S.) and 125 international newspapers, full text for more than 335 regional (U.S.) newspapers, and tv and radio transcripts.
Opposing Viewpoints tutorial	provides thousands of pro/con articles on current controversial social issues taken from more than 170 books. It also provides overviews of related court-cases, and profiles of federal agencies and special interest groups including links to their web sites.
One Search	allows users to search all library databases at once. Alternatively, users may pick and choose which databases they wish to search at the same time. This is known as a federated search engine. back to top
Points of View (trial)	is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).
Professional Development Collection	provides access to 440 full text journals oriented towards teaching.
Pubmed Central	is a free article archive from life sciences journals.
Reno Gazette-Journal	Complete full-text content of the Reno Gazette-Journal newspaper from 1999 - current. back to top
Scientific American	provides all the articles with images of the Scientific American magazine and its special editions.
SIRS	contains thousands of full-text articles from newspapers, magazines, and U.S. government publications on a wide variety of topics. Time period covered: 1989 to the present.
SMART (Scientific and Medical Images)	contains medical charts, animations, images with labels, and other resources to teach and learn about anatomy and physiology, medical procedures, and medical specialties. Images may be viewed online or downloaded to use for presentations, reports, and study aids.
Student Research Center	Oriented towards the high school student and beginning researchers, this database offers an easy to use graphical interface.
Wilson Biographies	now called Biography Reference Bank back to top
WorldCAT	searches the library catalogs of libraries across the United States and throughout the world. back to top