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Biographies Plus Illustrated More than 111,000 biographies and obituaries are included in this database. There are full text articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books. Biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, date of birth, date of death, keyword and presence of images. (A service provided by the Nebraska Library Commission through a licensing arrangement with H.W. Wilson)
Books in Print Provides publishing information on over 5 million book, audiobook and video titles. Included are contact information for publishers, distributors, agents and wholesalers along with many full text book reviews and brief author biographies. Browse for books by subject heading, author name or winners of various publishing awards. (A service provided by the Nebraska Library Commission through a licensing arrangement with Bowker)
Business & Company Resource Center This database contains accurate and up-to-date topical business information about company and industry intelligence on thousands of global companies. Information available includes: periodical and news articles, company financials, investment reports and industry overviews. (A service provided by the Northeast Community College Library through a licensing agreement with Thomson Gale/InfoTrac)
Country Watch The 192 countries of the world are covered in this database which provides socio-demographic, cultural, economic, political, and environmental information along with news, maps, and statistics for each country. The database’s Country Wire provides daily news coverage from several regional new services for every country. (A service provided by the Northeast Community College Library through a licensing agreement with Country Watch)
CQ Researcher Providing original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news, CQ Researcher is published in print and online 44 times a year. Each single themed issue report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics including health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U. S. economy. (A service provided by the Northeast Community College Library through a licensing agreement with CQ Press)
eLibrary eLibrary is a general research database providing current information from more than 2,000 full text magazines, newspapers, reference books and television and radio transcripts. It also includes thousands of pictures, maps, websites and audio/video files. (A service provided by the Nebraska Library Commission through a licensing arrangement with ProQuest) *
Expanded Academic ASAP This database offers balanced coverage of every academic concentration from advertising and microbiology to history and women’s studies. The database includes abstracts and full text sources. (A service provided by the Northeast Community College Library through a licensing agreement with Thomson Gale/InfoTrac)
Facts.com Facts.com presents the full text of Facts on File World News Digest since 1940. Six Facts.com databases can be search simultaneously or they can be search individually. The databases include World News Digest, Issues & Controversies, Today’s Science, World Almanac, World Almanac Encyclopedia and Reuters, a live newsfeed known as the world's largest international multimedia news agency. . (A service provided by the Northeast College Library through a licensing agreement with Facts On File News Service)
Fiction Connection A service to help you find fiction books you might like to read based on authors you like or topics of interest. (A service provided by the Nebraska Library Commission through a licensing arrangement with Bowker.)
FirstSearch The OCLC FirstSearch service is collection of the following databases: ArticleFirst - index to articles from over 12,000 magazines, ClasePeriodical – Latin American scientific and humanities journals, Ebooks – online electronic books available , ECO- over 3,000 scholarly journals, ERIC – articles and reports related to education, GPO – an index of US government publications, MEDLINE – all areas of medicine including nursing, PapersFirst - papers presented conference proceedings, World Almanac – Full text content form Funk & Wagnall’s New Encyclopedia and four almanacs. Please note that only the World Almanac is available full text. (A service provided by the Nebraska Library Commission through a licensing arrangement with OCLC.)
Health & Wellness Resource Center Up-to-date reference materials as well as full-text magazines, journals and pamphlets from a wide variety of authorized medical sources are available in this database. Health & Wellness Resource Center provides medical, statistical, health and wellness information for students, consumers and health care professionals. (A service provided by the Northeast Community College Library through a licensing agreement with Thomson Gale/InfoTrac)
Heritage Quest A database containing a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Included in the database are U.S. Federal Census records from 1790-1930, over 25,000 fully searchable family and local history books and an index to genealogy and local history periodicals. (A service provided by the Nebraska Library Commission through a licensing arrangement with ProQuest.)
Kiplinger Forecast Published by the company which developed the most successful business newsletter of modern times, The Kiplinger Letter, the KiplingerForecast offers predictive insights and analysis on the outlook for business, economic trends and the prospects for government regulation which will affect business and industry. (A service provided by the Nebraska Library Commission through a licensing arrangement with Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc.) *
LION Reference Literature Online Reference is a growing collection of literature resources ranging from author biographies, student guides and dictionaries of literary terms to specialist research materials such as current full text journals and bibliographic citations. (A service provided by the Northeast Community College Library through a licensing agreement with ProQuest)
Lit Finder This database is designed to connect users quickly to the poem, story, speech, play or essay that best suits their needs. There are more than 10,000 subject headings on every conceivable topic. (A service provided by the Northeast Community College Library through a licensing agreement with Thomson Gale)
Net Library Subscription service which provides access to a collection of over 20,000 electronic books. Searchable by title, author, keyword, subject. (A service provided by the Northeast College Library through a licensing agreement with NetLibrary, a division of OCLC)
OmniFile Full Text Select This full text database provides articles from a host of Wilson periodical databases which include Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Index to Legal Periodicals and Books, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text, Reader’s Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text and Wilson Business Full Text..( A service provided by the Nebraska Library Commission through a licensing arrangement with H.W. Wilson)
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center This database brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazine articles as well as links to more than 1,800 reviewed and subject-indexed websites. (A service provided by the Northeast Community College Library through a licensing agreement with Thomson Gale/InfoTrac)
Pro & Con Since 1921, Congressional Digest Corporation has continued the tradition set by its founder Alice Gram Robison of providing an “impartial view of controversial issues.” Congressional Digest’s Pro & Con continues in that tradition, covering Congress, the Supreme Court, the United Nations and other international tribunals. (A service provided by the Northeast Community College Library through a licensing agreement with Congressional Digest Corp)
Reader’s Guide Retro This database contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Current Coverage of this database includes the years 1890 through 1982. (A service provided by Northeast Community College Library through a licensing arrangement with H.W. Wilson)
WorldCat Contains over 49 million records of library materials from around the world including books, manuscripts, video recordings, periodicals and more. (A service provided by the Nebraska Library Commission through a licensing arrangement with OCLC.)
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