Database Descriptions

This is an alphabetic list of all the databases available through KYVL.

Academic Search Elite -- EBSCO
This database offers comprehensive, academic periodical coverage in many disciplines, including general reference, social sciences, humanities, general sciences, education, library and information science and multicultural studies.

Applied Science & Technology Abstracts--H. W. Wilson Company
This database leads users to the latest findings in every area of science, engineering, and technology.

ArticleFirst® Database--OCLC
This database contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of journals in the areas of science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

Biological & Agricultural Index--H. W. Wilson Company
In this index, information ranges from groundwater pollution to genetic engineering and covers the entire range of sciences related to biology and agriculture.

Books in Print with Reviews -- RR Bowker
This database provides complete bibliographic records from over 44,000 publishers supplemented by fulltext book reviews.

Business Source Premier -- EBSCO
This comprehensive business periodical database is designed for both business schools and libraries. It offers fulltext for nearly 1,300 general business and academic journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.

CINAHL -- CINAHL Information Systems
This comprehensive database offers complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association. Topics covered include nursing, biomedicine, health science librarianship, consumer health, and 17 allied health disciplines.

ContentsFirst® Database--OCLC
This unique database contains the table of contents pages and holdings information for journals in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Although most of the journals are published in English, journals in other languages are also included.

Electronic Collections Online (ECO) Database--OCLC
Electronic Collections Online is a growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas.

ERIC--U.S. Department of Education
The ERIC database is a guide to published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics.

GPO Monthly Catalog--U.S. Government Printing Office
GPO covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.)

Health Source Plus -- EBSCO
This comprehensive consumer health periodical database covers health topics including medical science, psychology, food science and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, health care law, and general health.

MAS (Magazine Article Summaries) FullTEXT Ultra -- EBSCO
This comprehensive, general database covers a broad range of topics including general reference, business, consumer health, general science and multicultural studies.

MasterFILE Premier -- EBSCO
This comprehensive, general periodical database gives access to information on a broad range of topics including general interest, business, consumer health, general science and multicultural titles. Designed specifically for the public library.

Medline with FullTEXT -- National Library of Medicine
This comprehensive database includes links from the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE citations to the corresponding actual fulltext articles found in more than 80 leading medical journals. This authoritative database offers information related to the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the pre clinical sciences.

MEDLINE--U.S. National Library of Medicine
This specialized database covers all areas of medicine, including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and much more.

Middle Search Plus Online -- EBSCO
This database is designed to assist middle and junior high school students in learning how to research current events.

NetFirst® Database--OCLC
NetFirst is the premiere database that contains bibliographic citations--complete with summary descriptions and subjects--describing high-quality Internet-accessible resources.

Newspaper Source -- EBSCO
This database features cover to cover coverage of The Christian Science Monitor; coverage of valuable national and international titles, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune and others; local coverage of The Lexington Herald-Leader and Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, KY).

NoveList -- EBSCO
Novelist is an electronic readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. It is searchable by title, author or simply by describing a book they would like to read.
PAIS International--Public Affairs Information Service, Inc.
PAIS contains references to articles, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories.

PapersFirst®--OCLC
This database provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide. It is a major research aid covering every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop, and meeting added to The British Library Document Supply Centre's (BLDC) vast proceedings collection. The BDLC is a document supplier for the OCLC Interlibrary Loan service. The FirstSearch/OCLC ILL link is the best way to obtain conference papers cited in PapersFirst.

Primary Search Online -- EBSCO
Designed for elementary schools and children's reading rooms. Primary Search Online covers a wide range of general interest topics.

ProceedingsFirst--OCLC
This database provides the table of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at each conference.

Professional Development Collection -- EBSCO
This database is a collection of electronic information especially for professional educators. This collection offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice.

PsycINFO -- American Psychological Association
PsycINFO contains more than one million references to psychological literature ranging in date from 1887 to the present. It provides access to a collection of electronically stored bibliographic references--most with abstracts or content summaries. Although the references themselves are all written in English, the covered literature includes material published in over 45 countries and written in more than 30 languages.

Union List of Periodicals Database--OCLC
This database includes more than 7,000,000 listings in the WorldCat database.

Vocational Search -- EBSCO
This comprehensive, trade-related periodical database is designed for vocational and technical curriculums.

WorldCat Database (the OCLC Online Union Catalog)--OCLC
WorldCat is the world's most comprehensive bibliography. Covers information back to the 11th Century. It contains records from more than 30 thousand libraries all over the world.

The World Almanac--Primedia Reference, Inc
This reference database provides key facts on a wide variety of subjects via almanacs.

World Book Encyclopedia--World Book, Inc.
This database contain 2000 version of The World Book Encyclopedia, international edition.

World Book Online Global - World Book, Inc.
The World Book Online global version provides multimedia to both the American and International edition of the World Book Encyclopedia.

 

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