NA Electronic Resources

Database Descriptions

Access Science	The online version of the 9th edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, incorporating research updates, access to 110,000+ definitions from The McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, biographies of scientists late-breaking science and technology news.
American History	This database is a companion to two other ABC-CLIO products in our collection -- World History: The Modern Era and World History: Ancient & Medieval Eras. It combines primary and secondary sources in its coverage of American History since 1350. The focus is on the region that became the United States. It includes maps, photographs, audio and video clips, transcripts of court cases, thematic overviews, biographies, and statistics.
American National Biography (ANB)	The landmark American National Biography offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation. It is updated quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries. The ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites.
American Periodical Series	Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.
Annals of American History Online	This online chronicle explores the history of the United States by providing a year-by-year documentary of American thought and action. Read the original words of more than 1,500 authors who made and analyzed American history through their speeches, writings, memoirs, poems, and interviews. Includes primary sources such as speeches, essays, biographies, landmark court decisions, and editorials, all about the U. S. from 1493 to the present.
ARTstor	ARTstor is developing a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's present content includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's software tools support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations. ARTstor does not as yet include significant representation from many important 20th and 21st century artists, while copyright negotiations are in progress. You must register for an account while using ARTstor on campus in order to have off-campus access. After registering, faculty have a 90 day grace period for off-campus access; student have 14 days. To preserve off-campus access, faculty users must revisit ARTstor on campus every 90 days, students every 14 days.
Britannica Online	A full version of The Encyclopedia Britannica enhanced for schools with an Internet Guide, Student Dictionary, and resources for teachers. Contains encyclopedias for primary and middle school levels in addition to the standard version.
Business and Company Resource Center	An integrated database that brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search here to find detailed company and industry news and information.
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry	Includes both full-text poetry as well as an index to poetry in anthologies and collected works. There is also a helpful glossary of poetry terms such as "pentameter" and "elegy" as well as biographic information on poets, both living and departed.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)	Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. CIAO is also a source for teaching materials including original case studies written by leading international affairs experts and special features like the analysis of a bin Laden recruitment tape with video.
CQ Electronic Library	Includes: 1) *CQ Researcher* - appropriate for research on current events and for speech projects; especially useful for presenting both sides of controversial subjects and 2) *CQ Weekly*, authoritative, non-partisan coverage of Congress in particular and the US government in general.
Dictionary of American History	This authoritative work serves students, scholars, and general readers interested in a wide range of topics in American history, from the well studied and familiar to the obscure.
eLibrary	eLibrary offers five years of popular magazines, books, newspapers, pictures, maps, and transcripts of television and radio shows with information updated daily. All of the materials included are full-text.
eLibrary Science	Full-text articles from science and general periodicals, along with a multimedia image gallery.
Grolier Online	Comprised of three encyclopedias: The New Book of Knowledge (designed for elementary school students), the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (an image and graphics-rich general encyclopedia), and the Encyclopedia Americana (written at the secondary school and above level) -- as well as a dictionary and an atlas.
Grove Dictionary of Art	Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with annual additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference source.
JSTOR	Full-text of scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, science, and social science. JSTOR's mission is to digitally archive periodical literature. There is a "rolling backwall" of issues - the most current issues of a journal (typically the last two to five years worth) will not be available in JSTOR.
Literary Reference Centerurce Center	This comprehensive, full-text database provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It includes more than 10,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews; 75,000 articles of literary criticism; 130,000 author biographies; full text of more than 300 literary journals; 500,000 book reviews; 25,000 classic and contemporary poems; more than 11,000 classic and contemporary short stories; full text of more than 7,500 classic novels (anticipated by fall 2006); more than 3,000 author interviews; and more than 1,000 images of key literary figures. Includes the Bloom series of literary criticism.
NoveList	An annotated guide to fiction that allows the reader to locate works of fiction by genre, subject, series, and a number of other enhanced "access points." NoveList also contains book reviews and book discussion guides for selected titles.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)	A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. The OED Online traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources. The OED Online provides access to all of the material contained in the 20-volume Second Edition and the 3 volumes of Additions.
Oxford Reference Premium	Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. NA subscribes to both the Core Collection (over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works) and the Premium Collection (added functionality and more detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series).
Pro & Con Online NEW!	Pro & Con Online includes the online versions of *Congressional Digest, which provides independent monthly debates featuring controversies in Congress, Supreme Court Debates, which spotlights current court cases and controversies emanating from or surrounding the U.S. Supreme Court and International Debates*, which examines all the latest controversies in the United Nations and other international forums. All articles present both sides of the issues covered.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers	Contains the full-text of the following newspapers of national stature: The New York Times from 1851-2003 The Wall Street Journal from 1889-1989 The Washington Post from 1877 to 1990 The Christian Science Monitor from 1908-1993 Use ProQuest Platinum for more recent issues of these newspapers.
ProQuest Platinum	ProQuest offers access to abstracts and selected full-text articles from a broad selection of newspapers, magazines, journals, etc. In addition to its collection of periodicals, it includes newspapers such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal as well as other national and international newspapers. ProQuest Platinum is the largest database in the Batten Library's collection. Use PQ Platinum for recent New York Times articles (use the Advanced Search tab - enter New York Times in the text box and then use the pull down menu to select Publication Title - choose your other search terms and enter those in the remaining text box[es].)
SIRS Knowledge Source	A family of databases comprised of: SIRS Researcher® (General Reference, Social Issues, Health, Science, and Business), SIRS Government Reporter® (Historic and Government Documents, Directories and Almanacs), and SIRS Discoverer® (general reference database designed for young researchers).
United States at War	Developed by a team of military historians and expert educators, this new online resource provides access to authoritative reference content, pertinent primary sources, and a wealth of historical insight and analysis on the important themes and consequences of all major U.S.-involved wars, from the founding of the country to the present.
Webster's Dictionary Online	This online dictionary is a comprehensive database of words with robust search functionality which allow users to research language and study words in a variety of exciting ways.
World Data Analyst Online	This rich trove of current and historical statistics on 217 countries of the world makes historical and cross-national comparisons easy. Plus, World Data Analyst allows subscribers to create tables, charts, and even export the information to a spreadsheet for data crunching and deeper analysis.
World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras	Another ABC-CLIO resource that combines primary and secondary source coverage of world history to the year 1500. It includes important documents such as the Code of Hammurabi and the Edict of Milan, profiles of city-states, countries, and regions of the ancient world such as Ur, Canaan, the Roman Empire, Sparta, and Carthage, and interactive timelines for all chronological eras covered on the site, designed to help students compare developments in different regions across time. In addition, there are over 1,000 biographies of important figures such as Alexander the Great, Confucius, William the Conqueror, and Plato,
World History: The Modern Era [	World History: The Modern Era encompasses the evolution of modern Europe since the Renaissance; concurrent developments in Asia, Africa, and the Islamic world; the global impact of the Industrial Revolution; and the last hundred years of conflicts and international cooperation. It offers a comprehensive electronic library of historical reference materials and interactive curricular units, in addition to tools for enhancing lectures and creating research lists. It is a companion to two other ABC-CLIO databases in our collection -- World History: Ancient & Medieval Eras and American History.

February 12, 2007