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OCLC FirstSearch Databases
The following OCLC FirstSearch databases are available
with Search Express:
Alternative Press Index - Alternative Press
Center
Indexes almost 300 alternative, radical and left
periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. Interdisciplinary and
international in scope. Other features include selected
abstracts, journal record information and hot links to
publisher websites.
Coverage: 1991 - present
Alternative Press Index Archive - Alternative Press
Center
Comprehensive index of alternative, radical and left
periodicals, newspapers and magazines published from 1969 to
1990. Interdisciplinary and international in scope. Includes
book, film and television reviews, interviews, obituaries and
biographical information in addition to feature articles.
Coverage: 1969 - 1990
Business & Management Practices - The Gale Group
Provides information on business and management issues such as decision making; implementing new technology; planning for the future; dealing with internal and external issues; and expanding businesses. Covers business methodology with emphasis on case studies and practical applications. Approximately 60% of the records include full text.
Coverage: 1995 - present
OCLC ArticleFirst - OCLC
Offers searching and browsing of articles and tables of
contents from thousands of journals. Contains bibliographic
citations that describe items listed on the table of contents
pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social
science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Each
record describes one article, news story, letter, or other
item.
Coverage: 1990 - present
Clase and Periodica - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de
Mexico (UNAM) Systems
CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American and
Caribbean journals specializing in social sciences and
humanities. PERIÓDICA covers journals specializing in science
and technology. CLASE and PERIÓDICA offer access to more than
400,000 citations from documents published in 2,600 selected
scholarly journals in Spanish, Portugese, French, and English.
They have become significant reference resources for those
interested in what is published in or about Latin America.
Coverage: Clase 1975 - present; Periódica 1978 -
present
Consumers Index - The Pierian Press, Inc.
Indexes periodicals with consumer-oriented articles.
Provides information categorized from general (the home) to
more specific (automobiles), by periodical (Consumer Reports),
or by a specific brand name (Coca-Cola). Intended for
consumers, librarians and library users, business
professionals, and educational instructors. Records include
Web site addresses so that users can access free full text for
some citations.
Coverage: 1986 - present
Contemporary Women's Issues - The Gale Group
Covers sources (periodical and nonperiodical) published
by more than 100 organizations around the world. Focuses on
timely and relevant topics and meaningful issues for women,
including health, human rights, the work place, legal status,
and more. Full text is available from most sources.
Coverage: 1992 - present
OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online -
OCLC
Access to over 5,300 journals in a variety of subject
areas, all with full-image articles online. Articles from
Electronic Collections Online journals are linked to
corresponding citations in databases throughout the
FirstSearch service. Articles from many journals can be
purchased on a per-article use basis. Additionally, customized
sets of bibliographic records are available for subscription
journals.
Coverage: varies by journal
FactSearch - The Pierian Press, Inc.
Based on the printed publication, A Matter of Fact.
Each record contains a bibliographic citation for an item, an
abstract containing facts and statistics with a reference to
its original source and library holdings. The information
comes from newspapers, periodicals, the Congressional Record
and congressional hearings. Records include web site
addresses; users can access free full text for some citations.
Coverage: 1984 - present
GPO Monthly Catalog - U.S. Government Printing
Office
Consists of records published by the GPO since July
1976. Includes references for documents to congressional
committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from
executive departments, and more.
Coverage: July 1976 - present
Media Review Digest - The Pierian Press, Inc.
Provides extensive review coverage of educational
media, along with strong supplemental coverage of
entertainment resources from 1989 to the present. In addition
to providing citations to reviews of media resources in
several leading print publications, the Media Review Digest
database also contains links to over 300,000 full-text reviews
and related resources accessible on the Internet.
Coverage: 1989 - present
Newspaper Abstracts - ProQuest Information and
Learning
Indexes and abstracts U.S. and regional newspapers,
including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington
Post, and USA Today. The Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition)
is indexed beginning Jan 1, 1990.
Coverage: 1989 - present
PAIS Archive - CSA (Cambridge Scientific
Abstracts)
Indexes and abstracts U.S. and regional newspapers,
including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington
Post, and USA Today. The Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition)
is indexed beginning Jan 1, 1990.
Coverage: PAIS Bulletin 1915 - 1976
OCLC PapersFirst - OCLC
Covers every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop,
and meeting added to The British Library Document Supply
Centre's (BLDSC) vast proceedings collection since October
1993. The BLDSC is a document supplier for the OCLC
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service.
1993 - present
Periodical Abstracts - ProQuest Information and
Learning
A complete general reference resource, with indexing
and abstracts for popular and academic periodicals. Included
are transcripts of news-oriented television and radio shows.
Full-text articles from this database link to citations
throughout the FirstSearch service.
1987 - present
OCLC ProceedingsFirst - OCLC
Provides tables of contents of papers presented at
conferences worldwide. Each record contains a list of the
papers presented at each conference. Like its companion,
PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst provides access to The British
Library Document Supply Centre's vast collection of conference
proceedings.
1993 - present
World Almanacs - World Almanac Education Group,
Inc.
Includes the full text of all of the Almanac titles:
The World Almanac and Book of Facts, providing key facts on a
wide variety of subjects internationally; The World Almanac of
the U.S.A. with essential facts about the United
States--current and historical; The World Almanac of US
Politics, a guidebook to federal, state, and local
governments; The World Almanac for Kids, covering information
and facts of interest to middle-school children and teachers;
and the Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, a comprehensive
general encyclopedia.
Coverage: Current file.
WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) -
OCLC
The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more
than 57 million bibliographic records representing over 400
languages on materials ranging from stone tables to electronic
books. WorldCat is now easier to search than ever. Recent
enhancements include the ability to search by Library of
Congress or Dewey Decimal Classification numbers, and to limit
searches by material types, audiences and material formats.
WorldCat includes information from 2100 BC to the present with
thousands of records containing evaluative content such as
tables of contents, cover art, book summaries and notes about
the authors. It uses the Library of Congress Subject Headings
as its thesaurus. Users can also directly browse issues of
periodicals in the ArticleFirst database from bibliographic
records for these titles in WorldCat. WorldCat adds value to
other databases in FirstSearch by linking citations to
interlibrary loans and to materials in users' own libraries.
Most databases in FirstSearch are enriched with holdings from
WorldCat.
Coverage: Approximately 2100 B.C. - present
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April 10, 2008