Databases (By Topic)

Below is a list of databases by topic available through the Paris Junior College library. These databases may only be accessed from within the PJC computer network.

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NURSING/HEALTH

• “Academic Search Complete: Multi-disciplinary database with full text articles in over 4000 magazines and journals.
• Alt Health Watch: Full text for 180 publications dating back to 1990 in the subject area of complementary and alternative medicine.
• CINAHL Plus with full text: The world’s most comprehensive source of full text for nursing and allied health journals.
• Consumer Health Complete: A full text database that is designed to support patient’s information and understanding of health-related topics.
• Health and Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health Module: Instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials that include medical journals, pamphlets and videos.
• Health Reference Center Academic: Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals.
• Health Source - Consumer Edition: Provides information for the consumer on many health topics including food and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
• Health Source - Nursing Academic: Provides full text of 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
• MedicLatina: A Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers.
• MEDLINE: Created by the National Library of Medicine.
• Natural & Alternative Treatments
• Salem Health: Brings online access to Salem Press’ award-winning health reference works. The first reference set included is Salem Press’ best-selling Magill’s Medical Guide. In its printed form, the current edition is five volumes and 3,500 pages. In addition, now available on Salem Health is Salem Health Cancer. This four-volume set covers more than 800 topics of crucial interest to students, patients, caregivers and others who have received a diagnosis or are associated with those who have cancer.
• Salud en Espanol: Consumer Health Complete in Spanish.

ENGLISH

• “Academic Search Complete: Multi-disciplinary database with full text articles in over 4000 magazines and journals.
• Bloom’s Literary Reference Online
• Contemporary Authors: Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information of more than 120,000 U. S. and international authors.
• Contemporary Literary Criticism: Critical essays on contemporary authors with biographical, critical, principal works and further study information.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography: Provides 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works and careers of influential figures from all eras and genres.
• GaleGroup Databases (All)
• GaleGroup Opposing Viewpoints Resource
• Gale Literature Databases
• Literature Resource Center: Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews of nearly 130.000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
• MagillOnLiterature Plus: Produced by Salem Press, this is the premier literary database, combining MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors. This database includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors. (Select “Academic Search Complete”; Choose Databases; Select “MagillOneLiterature Plus; Select “OK”)
• Scribner Writers: Includes 15-20-page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres.
• Twayne’s Authors Series: Literary criticism with in-depth introductions to authors included in the Twayne print series on world, U.S. and English authors.
• 20th Century Poetry (American and English): The poetry of over 1000 U.S. and English poets.

SOCIAL SCIENCES
History, Psychology, Geography, Government

• Bibliography of Native North Americans: A bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture.
• Handbook of Texas
• HeritageQuest Online: Research materials to trace family lineage and American culture.  Includes the federal census from 1790-1930.
• Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection: Full text publications covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, and many more.
• Salem Press — History: A free online database from Salem that accompanies The Decades series, the Great Lives from History series and the new five-part series Milestone Documents and now Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives.
• Texas Digital Sanborn Maps (1867-1970): provide digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of over 12,000 American towns and cities. Scanned from the microfilm in the Library of Congress Sanborn collection.
• World History Collection: Full text of 150 titles that offer a global look at history.

SCIENCE
Biology, Life Sciences, Agriculture, Geology, Nutrition

• “Academic Search Complete: Multi-disciplinary database with full text articles in over 4000 magazines and journals.
• Agricola: Bibliographic records from the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library.  Comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and other technical reports.
• EBSCO Animals: An extensive database provides students with thousands of easy-to-read entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals.
• Science & Technology Collection: Full text.

BUSINESS/COMPUTER SCIENCE/ECONOMICS

• “Academic Search Complete: Multi-disciplinary database with full text articles in over 4000 magazines and journals.
• Business Source Complete: The world’s definitive scholarly business database with more than 1200 journals that includes some full text.
• Computer Source: The latest information and current trends in high technology with full text for nearly 300 publications.
• Information Science & Technology Abstracts
• Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts
• Regional Business News: Full text.

GENERAL

• “Academic Search Complete: Multi-disciplinary database with full text articles in over 4000 magazines and journals.
• Funk & Wagnall’s New Encyclopedia
• MasterFILE Premier: Contains full text for over 2000 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education and much more.
• Teldan/TDNet: A journal finder offered by TexShare.
• TOPICsearch: This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics.
• Texas Reference Center: Full text articles from 80 journals and books about Texas.

EDUCATION/LIBRARY
Including World Cat

• “Academic Search Complete: Multi-disciplinary database with full text articles in over 4000 magazines and journals.
• Books in Print
• eLibrary Curriculum: Easy-to-use reference rsource-delivers large reference collection of periodical and digital media content designed specifically for libraries of all kinds.
• ERIC: Educational Resource Information Center.
• Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts
• Professional Development Collection: Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 550 high quality education journals.
• World Cat OCLC: World’s most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 58 million bibliographic records representing over 400 languages and all types of materials ranging from stone tablets to electronic books.

NEWSPAPERS/SERIALS/REGISTERS

• Info Trac Custom Newspapers: Over 100 sources including USA Today, Austin-American Statesman from 1996, Washington Times from 1996 with full text.
• Newspaper Source: Provides selected full-text for nearly 30 national and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
• Serials Directory: A bibliography of 184,000 U.S. and international titles including magazines, journals, newspapers and other serials with current pricing.
• Texas Register: A weekly publication serving as the journal of state agency rule making for Texas. Information includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor’s appointments, attorney general opinions and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.

FOREIGN/INTERNATIONAL

• “Academic Search Complete: Multi-disciplinary database with full text articles in over 4000 magazines and journals.
• Directory of Open Access Journals: Provides indexing, abstracting and free full text access for selected international scholarly journals in many subject areas.
• Economia y Negocios: A bibliographic database in Spanish for research in business and economics.
• Fuente Academica: A unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers.

LAW

• “Academic Search Complete: Multi-disciplinary database with full text articles in over 4000 magazines and journals.
• Legal Collection: Contains full text for nearly 250 of the world’s most respected, scholarly law journals.

RELIGION AND PHILOSPHY

• “Academic Search Complete: Multi-disciplinary database with full text articles in over 4000 magazines and journals.
• Religion & Philosophy: Full text of 300 journals that cover such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies and many more.