DORM RESEARCH SITE

RESOURCES

       
 BOOKS

     Sirsi Online Catalog
     Netlibrary Online Books
     Ebrary Electronic Books
     Other Library Catalogs

 DATABASES
 (Passwords are necessary for off-campus access.  Call or email the LRC.)    

     Magnolia Databases
     MELO Databases
     MELO Home
     Nursing/Allied Health Databases
     Magill's Medical Guide
     Popular Culture Universe
     The Eighties in America
     World Book Online

 MAGAZINES

 RESEARCH WEBSITES

 Live Chat Reference Services   

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MELO DATABASES

       
 MELO Databases

     Anatomy TV (StatRef)
        key in user/password
        Select "resources" tab for Anatomy TV

     CQ Researcher
     Gale's Literary Index
     In the First Person
     Issues & Controversies
     Opposing Viewpoints
     PubMed (MedLine)
     SIRS Researcher
     StatRef*
     Live Chat Reference Services
   
    
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*Some resources may be restricted for off-campus access.
Contact the ICC Learning Resource Center for access.
Dr. Glenda Segars
862.8383
grsegars@iccms.edu
       

For a list of database passwords, ICC students
may call 662.620.5091 or 662.862.8384

Click here for tutorial for MAGNOLIA

EBSCO Host

GENERAL

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO Host)- Full-text of articles from 4,700 most commonly held magazines on college campuses.

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO Host) - Designed for public libraries, includes an extensive image collection and many full-text reference books, biographies, and primary source documents.

LITERATURE

MagillOnLiterature Plus (EBSCO Host) - The premier literary database, Includes author biographies, critical analyses, and plot summaries

HEALTH

Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO Host) - Hundreds of scholarly full text journals focusing on medical subjects.

Health Source Consumer Edition (EBSCO Host) - Rich collection of consumer health information, including medical science, food science and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health.

Clinical Pharmacology (EBSCO Host)- Up-to-date and concise information on prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, and over-the-counter products.

EDUCATION

Professional Development Collection (EBSCO Host) - The most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world. Includes full-text of hundreds of education journals and reports.

Teacher Reference Center (EBSCO Host) - Provides indexing and abstracts for hundreds of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals.

ERIC (EBSCO Host) - The Educational Resource Information Center, containing thousands of digests of education related publications.

NEWSPAPERS

Newspaper Source (EBSCO Host)- Selected full-text for nearly 30 national and international newspapers and 200 regional newspapers. Also includes television and radio news transcripts.

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO Host) - Over 25,000 entries on a variety of subjects.

BUSINESS

Business Source Elite (EBSCO Host)- Provides full text for over a thousand scholarly business journals.

Regional Business News (EBSCO Host)- Comprehensive full-text coverage of regional business publications, including journals, newspapers, and newswires.

EBSCOhost also includes The Serials Directory, Library Reference Center, MAS Online Plus, and the following children's databases: Middle Search Plus, Primary Search, and Ebsco Animals. Click here for access to the complete set of EBSCOhost databases

 

GALE / INFOTRAC

Social Issues

  • Opposing Viewpoints - A complete one-stop source for information on social issues.  Access viewpoints articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

Literature etc.

  • Discovering Collection - In-depth reference content for the areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies. 
  • Contemporary Authors - Complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism Select - Extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors.  
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography - Biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures.  

Business

  • General Business File ASAP - 1999 - Apr 2002 with access to backfile  (1980 - 1998)
  • PROMT 1999 - Apr 2002 -  Research on companies, the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in which they compete.
  • Business & Company Resource Center with PROMT - Brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.

Wilson Biographies

Contains full-text of more than 46,000 biographies and obituaries, which are searchable by name, profession, title, gender, date of birth/death, etc.

SIRS Researcher

Full-text articles on social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political, and global issues. Also contains the following databases: Today's News, World Almanac Excerpts, and Maps of the World

SIRS Discoverer

Contains biographies of every US President, complete information on more than 100 countries and Photo Essays depicting social issues and global concepts through visuals accompanied by brief text. Also contains the following databases: The World Almanac for Kids and an encyclopedia.

Novelist

NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 120,000 fiction titles.  It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Feature Articles.

Poetry Resources 

A collection of eleven poetry sites providing full text of poems, essays on poetry, audio of selected poems, etc.

First Search

ArticleFirst - Index of articles from the contents pages of journals.
ECO - A collection of scholarly journals.
Union Lists - List of magazines held by various libraries.
WorldCat - Catalog of books, web resources, and other library items owned by libraries worldwide.

Nursing/Allied Health Databases