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-A- Acronym
Finder
Find over 4 million acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms
in this database.
AfricaBib.org Two bibliographic databases covering Africana
periodical literature (the Bibliography of Africana
Periodical Literature Database and the African Women's
Database). You will also find a comprehensive bibliography
on women travelers and explorers to Africa (Women
Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa: 1763-2004:
A Comprehensive English Language Bibliography).
AGRIS/CARIS
Network A group of databases that allow you to search
for agricultural topics back to the 1970s (including
topics related to horses).
AIE
Artist Directory
Informs Ohio's schools and communities of the wide
variety of artists available for residencies, teacher
training, artist-teacher collaborations, workshops,
and local arts in education programming.
Amazon.com
Click on the Books tab to search by author, title,
or subject words. This site offers all bibliographic
information for both in print and out of print books,
and often gives reviews of the work and author information.
American
Factfinder
In depth database covering information from the US
Census Bureau.
Aria
Database
Designed for both singers and fans, this site indexes
information on over 1,000 arias.
askART
Over 52,000 North American artists. Painters, sculptors,
and illustrators are listed in this searchable resource.
Athena
Mineralogy
A "gem" of a site containing mineral lists and pictures,
other links, and a search engine.
-B- BarnesandNoble.com
An online bookstore that offers author, title, and
keyword access.
Bartleby
Verse
A searchable index of American and English Poetry
that also includes links to the Oxford Book of English
Verse, the Yale Book of American Verse, Modern British
Poetry, Modern American Poetry, Metaphysical Lyrics
& Poems of the 17th C., and the Golden Treasury.
Biography
Resource Center(via InfoTrac Web)
Search for people based on one or more personal facts,
such as birth and death years, nationality, ethnicity,
occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create
a highly-targeted custom search. Please contact the
library for password information.
Business
& Company Resource Center (via InfoTrac
Web)
Brings together in a single database company profiles,
company brand information, rankings, investment reports,
company histories, chronologies, and periodicals.
Search this database to find detailed company and
industry news and information. Call the library for
password information.
-C- CCH
Internet Tax Research NetWork (available to current LEC accounting students only)
This online service provides access to CCH's federal
and state tax libraries. Includes the latest tax news,
detailed explanations, analysis, cases, and other
primary source material. Please contact the instructor
for password information.
ChemSpy
According to the web site, ChemSpy makes the most
important chemical and chemical engineering databases
readily available through their portal.
Children's
Picture Book Database
This database offers abstracts of over 5,000 children's
picture books (preschool to grade three) for those
who design interdisciplinary curricula for elementary
schools and library programs.
Choice Reviews Online
This database is "the premier source for reviews
of academic books, electronic media, and Internet
resources of interest to those in higher education."
Constitution
Finder
This database offers constitutions, charters, amendments,
and other related documents.
Consultant
A diagnostic support system for veterinary medicine.
Searchable by keyword or symptom within each species.
Country
Profiles
This briefing service from ELDIS (Electronic Development
and Environment Information System) offers access
to a large amount of informative material on individual
countries.
Country
Studies
Handbooks for 101 countries prepared by a multidisciplinary
team of social scientists. Search for information
about each country; compare social and political life;
or learn about countries affecting current events.
-D- DoingBusiness
This database provides indicators of the cost of doing
international business by identifying specific regulations
that enhance or constrain business investment, productivity,
and growth. Domain Tools Come here to find out who owns which web sites.
Drugs@FDA
Find the catalog of approved FDA drugs here.
-E- EarthTrends
An environmental information portal offering searchable
databases, data tables, country profiles, maps, and
feature articles in ten topical sections.
EDGAR
The Securities and Exchange Commission's database
of company information.
Education
World
Contains a searchable database of thousands of sites.
EH Net
A database providing high quality reference articles
in the area of business.
Ejournals
This resource page is full of links to information
about electronic journals in the health sciences discipline.
They include an explanation of ejournals; directories
of ejournals; directories of publishers and vendors;
copyright; etc. Many of the journals referenced offer
free online access.
eNature
A searchable database for identifying more than 5,000
plant and animal species of North America.
The
English Server
Publishes the text of over 35,000 humanities publications
online. (Organized by topic.)
ERIC
Database
Click on ERIC Searchto perform a simple search, advanced search or
expert search for citations and abstracts to articles
from 1966-Present.
ERSYS Look up a city or state and get information on
age, education, demographics, and more in one simple
search.
Ethnologue
A large database containing information on languages
in the forms of bibliography, maps, and computer resources.
Expanded
Academic ASAP (via InfoTrac Web)
This database meets research needs across all academic
disciplines providing over 2,200 journal titles with
full text articles. Access scholarly journals, news
magazines, and newspapers.
Explore
Shakespeare with Google
Find the full text of every play through either a
simple keyword or provided topic (comedy, tragedy,
etc.)search.
-F- Facts.com
Contains an Encyclopedia, World Almanac, Issues and
Controversies, Today's Science, Historical Events,
Key Events, Maps, and more. Please call the library
for off-campus access username and password information. Film
Literature Index A
database of over 700,000 citations from 1976-Present.
FIRST:
Facts on International Relations and Security Trends
For politicians, journalists, and the general public,
this site "contains clearly documented information
from research institutes around the world" relating
to international relations.
-G- The Gateway
to Educational Materials (GEM)
The main objective of this site is to expand educators'
access to Internet-based lesson plans, curriculum
units, and other educational materials by improving
the organization of the large number of uncataloged
collections of materials available on various federal,
state, university, nonprofit, and commercial Internet
sites.
GLOPAD
(Global Performing Arts Database)
Over 4,500 objects are included from around the world,
including authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions
of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings,
and complex media objects.
GovEngine
Federal, state, and local links to many government
sites, divided by topic.
GPO
Access
Free electronic access to the Government Printing
Office's suite of databases providing the full text
of laws, regulations, reports, data, and other information
published by the federal government.
Gracenote
Search for downloadable music here, by artist, album,
or song.
-H- HighWire
Press
Free online access to the full text of more than 4
million articles in the areas of science, technology,
and medicine.
-I-
International
Database
Contains
statistical tables of demographic and socio-economic
data for 227 countries and areas of the world.
InfoTrac
Web
This is Lincoln Library's database of full-text journal
articles, searchable by keyword, subject, title, journal,
author, etc. Contact the library for password information.
InfoTrac includes the following specialized collections:
Expanded Academic ASAP; Business & Company
Resource Center; Biography Resource Center;
and Literature Resource Center.
The
Internet Broadway Database
"The official archival database for Broadway theatre
information...provides records of productions from
the beginnings of New York theatre until today." Search
by show, people involved (actors, directors, set and
costume designers, stage managers, producers, theater
owners, etc.), theater, or character.
Internet
Movie Database An
excellent site that compiles filmographies, biographies,
photographs, and a search engine for both current
and early films.
-J- -K- -L- Langenberg.com
Contains zip, city, area, and county codes; census
and time zones; and zip code maps.
Library
of Congress
From the web site, the Library of Congress is "comprised
of approximately 115 million items in virtually all
formats, languages, and subjects, and its collections
are the single most comprehensive accumulation of
human expression ever assembled."
Literature
Resource Center (via InfoTrac Web) Provides access to biographies, bibliographies,
and critical analyses of authors from every age and
literary discipline, and includes more than 120,000
novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other
writers.Please contact the library for password
information. Includes access
to the MLA International Bibliography.
Local TV News
Media Project
Contains a searchable database of over 10,600 individually
digitized local television news stories from across
the US. Each story is viewable full-text.
Looksmart's
FindArticles.com
This database of 10 million articles can be searched
by keyword, topic, or publication name.
-M- MagPortal
Updated each business day, this current awareness
resource keeps users abreast of recent free magazine
articles available online, and is organized into twelve
main categories including: Business, Internet, Health,
and Science & Technology.
Marquis
Who's Who on the Web
Features comprehensive profiles on 1.2 million of
the most accomplished individuals from all fields
of endeavor including: government, business, science
and technology, the arts, entertainment, and sports.
International in scope.
MedHist
A guide to medical history sites on the web.
Melvyl
Melvyl is the catalog of the California Digital Library.
Mergent
Online Allows you to access information on more than
10,000 US companies listed on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ
exchanges, including access to EDGAR filings back
to 1993, as well as a 17,000 non-US public companies.
Call the library for password information.
Metacritic Provides
access to and summarizes the vast amount of entertainment
criticism available online and is one of the Web's
best resources for critical information about film,
video, music, and games.
Mineralogy
Database
Contains over 4,400 individual mineral species descriptions
with links.
Movie
Review Query Engine Over
67,000 titles available with references to reviews
from sources such as the New York Times, Atlantic
Monthly, and Chicago Sun-Times, as well as online
review sites.
-N- North
American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
NAICS was developed jointly by the US, Canada, and
Mexico to provide new comparability in statistics
about business activity across North America. It is
replacing the SIC system.
NAL Catalog
(AGRICOLA)
Created by the National Agricultural Library, this
site is a bibliographic database relating to agricultural
literature and includes references to animal and veterinary
sciences.
National Academy Press
Read over 3,000 books online for free. NAP publishes
over 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in
science, engineering, and health, capturing the most
authoritative views on important issues in science
and health policy.
National Archives
and Records Administration
There is an incredible amount of information contained
on this site. The NAIL and GILS search engines allow
for visitors to search the entire site for historical
records and information (images, sound files, or texts)
to view and download.
National
Environmental Directory
A searchable directory of over 13,000 organizations
in the US concerned with environmental issues and
environmental education.
National
Geographic Library
This
index contains records describing each NGS magazine
article, book, map, video, CD-ROM, and more.
NCES
Annuals
Recently unveiled by the National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES), this modest-looking site offers
quick and easy access to recent versions of the following:
The Condition of Education; The Digest of Education
Statistics; Indicators of School Crime and Safety;
and the Projections for Education Statistics.
NewsBank, including the New York Times from 1995-Current.
Contains the full text of over 2,100 newspapers
from the United States, the United Kingdom,
and Asia, including: New York Times;China Daily; Washington Post;
Boston Globe, London Times; New
York Post;and Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Newswise
A database of news releases "from top institutions
engaged in scientific, medical, liberal arts and business
research."
NUPI
Centre for Russian Studies Database
A major resource for researchers and students studying
contemporary Russia, this site consists of a collection
of several searchable databases. More than 1,000
public figures and a searchable chronology with over
2,000 entries are updated almost daily.
-O- Occupational Outlook
Handbook 2006-2007
Offers a wealth of career information for a wide range
of occupations including: a brief review of important
features, working conditions, the training and education
needed, earnings, and expected job prospects.
Ohio
Educational Directory
Obtain demographic information for Ohio School districts.
Allows searching by district or building
OhioLink
Allows bibliographic access to other Ohio colleges'
materials by title, author, subject, and keyword.
O*Net
The Occupational Information Network summarizes tasks,
skills, knowledge, and abilities of a wide range of
occupations.
Online
Books Page
Contains over 25,000 online texts, searchable by author,
title, and subject.
OPLIN:
Ohio Access
Select your local Ohio public library and enter your
library card number to access databases such as Archives
USA; EBSCOhost; Electric Library; Encyclopaedia Britannica;
Gale Health Resource; Novelist; SIRS Discoverer; and
SIRS Knowledge Source.
-P- Penn
World Table
Provides purchasing power parity and national income
accounts converted to international prices for 168
countries for some or all of the years 1950-2000.
Photo
Study Collection and Database
Over 2 million photographs encompass this collection,
concentrating on the photographic reproduction of
western art, architecture, and decorative arts.
PIKA:
Canadian Children's Literature Database
A searchable database of over 35,000 titles. Options
for searching include: title, keyword, subject, publisher,
and name.
PLANTS
Database
Provides standardized information about the vascular
plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens
of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names,
plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species
abstracts, characteristics, images, plant links, references,
crop information, and automated tools.
Political
Database of the Americas
Offers documentary and statistical political information
for scholars and politicians studying democracy in
Latin America.
Project
Gutenberg
Search for the full texts of classic books online.
PsycInfo
Access both a collection of electronically stored bibliographic
references of psychological literature (1872-Current)
and the full text of articles from APA journals and
selected EPF journals (most from 1988 to the present).
See the Coverage Information(http://www.apa.org/psycarticles/covlist.html)
for which journals are available. Must be accessed
from the computers on campus.
PubMed
Integrates information from a number of databases
(nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, macromolecular
structures, whole genomes, and MEDLINE) and provides
access "to over 14 million citations dating from the
1950's."
purportal
Allows users to search five of the most well-known
sites dedicated to combating hoaxes and misinformation:
Snopes Urban Legends Archive; About.com Urban Legends
search; CIAC Hoax Database; CERT Computer Security
Database; Symantec; Fraud Watch; and the Anti-Phishing
Working Group.
-Q- -R- -S- School Matters
You can research the test results by district or school
name for each state as reported per the No Child Left
Behind Act legislation.
SPIRO
A searchable database of architecture slides. Standard Industrial Classification Search (SIC)
Search by keyword to access descriptive information
for a specific SIC. The NAICS is replacing this 1987
code.
Standard
& Poor's
This service offers free information in the form of
credit ratings, indices, and stock information and
is international in scope. Free registration is required
for some information; however, you must be a paid
subscriber for other information.
Statistical
Abstract of the United States
Contains 30 sections of statistical data including:
population, vital statistics, education, elections,
energy, transportation, health and nutrition, and
much more.
-T- Terrorism
Knowledge Base
Create custom graphs and tables on terrorist incidents
or federal terrorism indictments. TKB also offers
predefined reports on terrorist incident statistics
and a comparison tool for groups.
Thomas Global Register
Europe
You can search for over 210,000 industrial suppliers
(organized by 10,500 industrial product classifications)
in 6 languages from 17 European countries.
ThomasNet A site for both industrial suppliers and buyers,
it allows you to search for a product or company by
name or category in the US or Canada.
United
States Government Manual
The most current version of this information source
about the agencies of the legislative, executive,
and judicial branches.
USA Search
This portal to US government web sites offers users
access to all government sites from a single central
point.
-V- Vascular
Plant Images
With wonderful, colorful photographs of vascular plants,
this site includes a searchable database, arranged
alphabetically by name.
Voice of America
Pronunciation Guide
This site allows the user to find the correct pronunciations
of names that are currently in the news. You can search
a name alphabetically or regionally, or view the whole
list.
-W- Wildfinder
This map-driven, searchable database of more than
26,000 species worldwide, allows users to discover
where species live or else explore wild places to
find out what species live there.
WorldCat
This site will allow you to see books, sound recordings,
musical scores, etc. located in libraries across the
country (including local libraries). Lake Erie
College's holdings ARE NOT included here, so you
will also need to check the library's
catalog to see if we have it locally before using
Interlibrary
Loan.
World
Factbook
From the CIA, this site gives general information
about every country in the world. It also includes
information about colonies and unpopulated regions.
