Skyline College
Library

 

Research Database Descriptions

 

Click on a resource below to link to a description of that resource:

TO FIND BOOKS:
PLS Online Catalog

TO FIND MAGAZINE OR JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Gale databases
History Cooperative
ERIC (Education)
PubMed (Medicine)
HighWire Science Journals
ASM Microbiology Journals
IPL Serials

TO FIND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES:
InfoTrac Newspapers
eLibrary
NewsLibrary
IPL Newspapers
NewsDirectory.com

TO FIND BOOKS IN OTHER LIBRARIES:
Melvyl (UC)
InvestiGator (SFSU)
LC Subject Headings
Libweb

TO FIND LITERATURE OR ART INFO:
Literature Resource Ctr.

TO FIND ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES:
Americana Online

TO FIND GOVERNMENT STATISTICS:
U.S. Census
Stat-USA
Rand California Stats
San Mateo County Stats
Congressional Info
County Social Services

TO FIND COUNTRY INFORMATION:
CountryWatch

TO FIND COLLEGE CATALOGS:
College Source Online

TO FIND WEB RESOURCES:
Web Search Tools

 

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Click on any category below to link to descriptions of those resources:

OUR BOOK CATALOG
MAGAZINE & JOURNAL DATABASES
NEWSPAPER DATABASES
OTHER LIBRARY CATALOGS
LITERATURE/ART INFORMATION DATABASES
ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS
GOVERNMENT/STATISTICS DATABASES
COUNTRY INFORMATION DATABASE

Click on any resource below to link to that resource.  

OUR BOOK CATALOG:

PLS Online Catalog: The online catalog for finding books in Skyline, CSM & Cañada College libraries and all San Mateo public libraries
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Freely accessible from off-campus (PLS library card required)

 

MAGAZINE & JOURNAL DATABASES:

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.
* Freely accessible from off-campus (PLS library card required)

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.
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Accessible from off-campus (PLS library card required)

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.
* Freely accessible from the World Wide Web
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How to use the ERIC database

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.
* Freely accessible from the World Wide Web
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How to use the PubMed database

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.
* Freely accessible from the World Wide Web
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How to use the HighWire journals database

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.

  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology
  • Clinical Microbiology Reviews
  • Infection and Immunity
  • Journal of Bacteriology
  • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • Journal of Virology
  • Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

* Freely accessible from the World Wide Web
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How to use the ASM journals database

 

NEWSPAPER DATABASES:

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)

SFGate: S.F. Chronicle Web Archives
Full-text articles from current and back issues of the S.F. Chronicle. The Chronicle is searchable back to January 1, 1995. The archives are limited to staff written material only--wire service and freelance articles are generally not included.
* Freely accessible from the World Wide Web
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How to use SF Gate Archives

 

OTHER LIBRARY CATALOGS:

InvestiGator: The catalog for books and periodicals at San Francisco State University Library.
* Freely accessible from the World Wide Web

Library of Congress Subject Headings: Search for the best subject headings to use for finding books in any library catalog.
* Freely accessible from the World Wide Web

Libweb: Links to over 3000 library catalogs around the world.
* Freely accessible from the World Wide Web

 

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 Gale Literature Resource Center includes Macmillan's Encyclopedia of Literature, the Scribner's Writers series, the Twayne Authors series, and Chadwyck-Healy's Literature On-Line (LION) database.
* Freely accessible from off-campus (PLS library card required)
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How to use Gale Literature Resource Center

 

ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS:

Encyclopedia Americana Online - on campus: An online version of Encyclopedia Americana, an excellent college-level encyclopedia
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Accessible from off-campus (w/ PLS library card)
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How to use Encyclopedia Americana Online

 

GOVERNMENT/STATISTICS DATABASES:

U.S. Census: Extensive statistical information from the U.S. Census Bureau.
* Freely accessible from the World Wide Web

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.
* Freely accessible from the World Wide Web

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.
* Freely accessible from the World Wide Web

Thomas: Comprehensive federal legislative information from Congress.
* Freely accessible from the World Wide Web

GPO Access: U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) databases
* Freely accessible from the World Wide Web

Community Information Program (CIP): information on health & human service agencies serving San Mateo County.
* Freely accessible from the World Wide Web

 

COUNTRY INFORMATION DATABASE:

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.
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Accessible from off-campus (PLS library card required)

 

ONLINE COLLEGE CATALOGS:

 

WEB SEARCH TOOLS:

Web Search Tools: many of the best World Wide Web search tools (subject directories, search engines and metasearch engines) all on one page
* Freely accessible from the World Wide Web

* How to Find Information on the World Wide Web

* How to Evaluate Information on the World Wide Web

 

 

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last revised: 11-17-10
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
These materials may be used for educational purposes All commercial rights are reserved.
To contact the author, email: Eric Brenner at brenner@smccd.edu