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Research Database
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Click on a
resource below to link to a description of that resource: TO FIND
MAGAZINE OR JOURNAL ARTICLES: TO FIND
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES: TO FIND
BOOKS IN OTHER LIBRARIES: TO FIND
LITERATURE OR ART INFO: TO FIND
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES: TO FIND
GOVERNMENT STATISTICS: TO FIND
COUNTRY INFORMATION: TO FIND
COLLEGE CATALOGS: TO FIND
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THIS PAGE IS NOT CURRENTLY MAINTAINED AND SOME
INFORMATION MAY BE OUT OF DATE Click on any category below to link to descriptions of those resources: OUR BOOK CATALOG Click on any resource below to link to that resource. PLS Online Catalog: The online catalog for finding books
in Skyline, CSM & Cañada College
libraries and all San Mateo public libraries
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
* Freely
accessible from the World Wide Web 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 InvestiGator: The catalog for books and
periodicals at San Francisco State University Library. Library of Congress Subject
Headings:
Search for the best subject headings to use for finding books in any library
catalog. Libweb: Links to over 3000 library
catalogs around the world.
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
Encyclopedia Americana Online - on campus: An online version of Encyclopedia
Americana, an excellent college-level encyclopedia
GOVERNMENT/STATISTICS DATABASES: U.S. Census: Extensive statistical information from the U.S.
Census Bureau. 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. 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. Thomas: Comprehensive federal legislative information from
Congress. GPO Access: Community Information Program
(CIP):
information on health & human service agencies serving
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.
Web Search Tools: many of the best World Wide Web search tools (subject
directories, search engines and metasearch engines)
all on one page * How to Find Information on the World Wide Web * How to Evaluate Information on the World Wide Web |
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