Databases

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

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• “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.
• Alt Health Watch: Full text for 180 publications dating back to 1990 in the subject area of complementary and alternative medicine.
• Bibliography of Native North Americans: A bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture.
• Books in Print
• Business Source Complete: The world’s definitive scholarly business database with more than 1200 journals that includes some full text.
• CINAHL Plus with full text: The world’s most comprehensive source of full text for nursing and allied health journals.
• Computer Source: The latest information and current trends in high technology with full text for nearly 300 publications.
• Consumer Health Complete: A full text database that is designed to support patient’s information and understanding of health-related topics.
• 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.
• 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.
• eLibrary Curriculum: Easy-to-use reference rsource-delivers large reference collection of periodical and digital media content designed specifically for libraries of all kinds.
• EBSCO Animals: An extensive database provides students with thousands of easy-to-read entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals.
• ERIC: Educational Resource Information Center.
• Fuente Academica: A unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers.
• Funk & Wagnall’s New Encyclopedia
• GaleGroup Databases (All)
• Gale Literature Databases
• Handbook of Texas
• 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.
• HeritageQuest Online: Research materials to trace family lineage and American culture.  Includes the federal census from 1790-1930.
• Information Science & Technology Abstracts
• Info Trac Custom Newspapers: Over 100 sources including USA Today, Austin-American Statesman from 1996, Washington Times from 1996 with full text.
• Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts
• Legal Collection: Contains full text for nearly 250 of the world’s most respected, scholarly law journals.
• Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts
• 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.
• MasterFILE Premier: Contains full text for over 2000 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education and much more.
• 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.
• Military & Government Collection: Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
• Natural & Alternative Treatments
• NetLibrary: More than 27,000 e-books are available for browsing, searching and virtual check-out.
• 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.
• Professional Development Collection: Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 550 high quality education journals.
• Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection: Full text publications covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, and many more.
• Regional Business News: Full text.
• Religion & Philosophy: Full text of 300 journals that cover such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies and many more.
• Salud en Espanol: Consumer Health Complete in Spanish.
• Science & Technology Collection: Full text.
• Scribner Writers: Includes 15-20-page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres.
• Serials Directory: A bibliography of 184,000 U.S. and international titles including magazines, journals, newspapers and other serials with current pricing.
• Teldan/TDNet: A journal finder offered by TexShare.
• 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.
• Texas Reference Center: Full text articles from 80 journals and books about Texas.
• TOPICsearch: This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics.
• 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.
• Vocational & Career Collection
• 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.
• World History Collection: Full text of 150 titles that offer a global look at history.

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