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Fri - 7:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Sat - 7:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

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Sat - Closed

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North Little Rock, AR 72118
Phone: (501) 812-2272

Databases by Subject

Troubleshooting Guide for database access

Allied Health and Human Services
Art, Music, and Film
Business
Education
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
General and Multidisciplinary
History
Information Technology
Law

Literature and Composition
Political Science
Psychology
Religion and Philosophy
Sciences and Mathematics 
Sociology and Anthropology
Spanish Language Resources
Speech Communication
Technical and Industrial


Allied Health and Human Services

ERIC - (EBSCOHost) Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full text documents (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).

Health Source: Consumer Edition - (EBSCOHost) Information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - (EBSCOHost) Focusing on medical disciplines with emphasis on journal coverage of nursing and allied health issues. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

LexisNexis Academic - Medical news, articles from medical and health journals and Medline® abstracts.


Art, Music, and Film

Naxos Music Library - listen to individual tracks or whole CD’s of classical music and six other genres including Jazz, Blues, World and Chinese.

Oxford Art Online - offers access to thousands of images from MOMA and other museums, biographies, subject entries, and thematic timelines. Additional sources are Grove Art Online, Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Oxford Music Online - includes resources from Grove Music Online, Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford Companion to Music, and Encyclopedia of Popular Music.  Search for biographies, subjects, images, and timelines and refine results by source, specific era or subject category. 


Business

Business Source Elite - (EBSCOHost) Business journals in marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics, economics, and international business. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

LexisNexis Academic - National and international newspapers, including the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Regional Business News - (EBSCOHost) Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the U.S. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

World Data Analyst Online - (Encyclopedia Britannica) Current and historical statistics on countries of the world. Analyst features allow the creation of tables and charts which can be exported into spreadsheet software. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).


Education

Chronicle Campuswide - The online version of the weekly Chronicle of Higher Education.

Education Research Complete - (EBSCOHost) is the world’s largest and most complete collection of full text education journals. Includes indexing and abstracts for 1,700 journals, 830 full text journals, full text for 67 books, and numerous conference papers covering all levels of education from early childhood through higher education, all educational specialties, administration, policy, curriculum, and funding issues.

ERIC - (EBSCOHost) Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full text documents (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).

Professional Development Collection - (EBSCOHost) Provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full-text journals for professional educators. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

Teacher Reference Center - (EBSCOHost) TRC indexes (no full text) over 260 journal titles with articles on K-12 education topics such as assessment, continuing education, current pedagogical research, curriculum development, instructional media, language arts, literacy standards, science and mathematics and more.


Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Encyclopedia Britannica Online Academic Edition - Updated for 2006, with new content specifically designed to meet the needs of college students. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).

Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia - (EBSCOHost) Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

Oxford English Dictionary - (Oxford University Press) The source for the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. Traces word usage through quotations, classic literature, specialist periodicals, film scripts and cook books.


General and Multidisciplinary

MasterFILE Premier - (EBSCOHost) Multi-disciplinary, general interest periodicals including full-text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and photos, maps and flags. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).

NetLibrary - Provides online access to full-text books covering a wide range of subjects.

ProQuest - Contains over 2,500 magazines and scholarly journals on a wide range of subjects.

Student Resource Center - (Gale Group) Reference, magazines and journals, primary documents, and multimedia resources. Literary criticism, history, essays, critical analysis, biographies, timelines and science.

Newspapers

LexisNexis Academic - National and international newspapers, including the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Legal and medical research and reference (country and state profiles, polls and surveys, biography, and quotations).

Newspaper Source - (EBSCOHost) Full text national and international, full text television and news transcripts, and more than 200 regional newspapers. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

Scholarly

Academic Search Elite - (EBSCOHost) Multi-disciplinary database offering full text for nearly 1,850 scholarly journals. Covering social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

ACLS E-Books - The American Council of Learned Societies' Humanities E-Book Collection has over 1,550 fully searchable books on subjects across the humanities.

First Search - Abstracts and Indexes only. Contact Library for full text availability. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

JSTOR - An archival database of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.  The collection includes Arts and Sciences I and II.  Journal issues are not current; most titles are available after a 5-year delay.

Professional Development Collection - (EBSCOHost) Provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full-text journals for professional educators. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)


History

ACLS E-Books - The American Council of Learned Societies' Humanities E-Book Collection has over 1,550 fully searchable books on subjects across the humanities.

Annals of American History Online - (Encyclopedia Britannica) Primary sources from authors who made and analyzed American history through speeches, writings, memoirs, poems, and interviews (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).

Historic Documents Online - (CQ Press) Searchable e-books of primary source documents including presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.

History Resource Center: U.S. - (Gale Group) Primary documents, reference articles and full-text journal articles covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history.

History Resource Center: World - (Gale Group) Primary documents, reference titles and academic journal articles covering ancient times to present in world history.

JSTOR - An archival database of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.  The collection includes Arts and Sciences I and II.  Journal issues are not current; most titles are available after a 5-year delay.


Information Technology

Business Source Elite - (EBSCOHost) Provides full text for nearly 1,100 business publications, including full text for nearly 500 peer-reviewed business publications.

Computer Database - (Gale Group) Computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.


Law

Arkansas Legal Index An index of legal documents including the UALR Law Journal (PTC has 1984-2007), Arkansas Law Review (PTC has 1985-2007), and Arkansas Law Notes (PTC has 1985-2006).  (Link provided with permission of the UALR – Pulaski County Law Library)

Legal Collection - (EBSCOHost) Legal topics, scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents and case studies. Current issues, studies, thoughts, and trends of the legal world. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

LexisNexis Academic - Legal news, legal reviews, case law, codes and regulations and patent research.

VersusLaw - Appellate case law from all 50 states, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit Courts, Federal District Courts, state statutes and administrative codes.

JSTOR - An archival database of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.  The collection includes Arts and Sciences I and II.  Journal issues are not current; most titles are available after a 5-year delay.

Literature Resource Center - (Gale Group) Literary criticism, biographies, and full-text articles and reference titles on authors from every age and literary discipline.

Literary Reference Center - (EBSCOHost) A full text database with literary criticism on authors and poets, author biographies, interviews and images of key literary figures from reference sources, books and literary journals.

Student Resource Center - (Gale Group) Reference, magazines and journals, primary documents, and multimedia resources. Literary criticism, history, essays, critical analysis, biographies, timelines and science.


Political Science

ACLS E-Books - The American Council of Learned Societies' Humanities E-Book Collection has over 1,550 fully searchable books on subjects across the humanities.

Annals of American History Online - (Encyclopedia Britannica) Primary sources from authors who made and analyzed American history through speeches, writings, memoirs, poems, and interviews. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).

Historic Documents Online - (CQ Press) Searchable e-books of primary source documents including presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.

History Resource Center: U.S. - (Gale Group) Primary documents, reference articles and full-text journal articles covering themes, events, individuals and periods in history

History Resource Center: World - (Gale Group) Primary documents, reference titles and academic journal articles covering ancient times to present in world history.

JSTOR - An archival database of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.  The collection includes Arts and Sciences I and II.  Journal issues are not current; most titles are available after a 5-year delay.

LexisNexis Academic - National and international newspapers, including the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Reference, country and state profiles, polls and surveys.

World Data Analyst Online - (Encyclopedia Britannica) Current and historical statistics on countries of the world. Analyst features allow the creation of tables and charts which can be exported into spreadsheet software. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).


Psychology

ERIC - (EBSCOHost) Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full text documents (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).

Health Source: Consumer Edition - (EBSCOHost) Information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - (EBSCOHost) Focusing on medical disciplines with emphasis on journal coverage of nursing and allied health issues. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

PsycARTICLES - (American Psychological Association) Peer-reviewed journals and chapters from selected American Psychological Association books and journals from 1988 to the present.

PsychiatryOnline - (American Psychiatry Publishing) Includes the DSM-IV-TR Library, full-text psychiatry journals, books and American Psychiatry Association guidelines.


Religion and Philosophy

ACLS E-Books - The American Council of Learned Societies' Humanities E-Book Collection has over 1,550 fully searchable books on subjects across the humanities.

JSTOR - An archival database of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.  The collection includes Arts and Sciences I and II.  Journal issues are not current; most titles are available after a 5-year delay.


Sciences and Mathematics

 

Greenfile - (EBSCOHost) Focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, Ebscos's Greenfile offers over 600 titles with 295,000 records (full text for 4,600) from journals such as Bioscience and Conservation Biology.

Health Source: Consumer Edition - (EBSCOHost) Information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - (EBSCOHost) Focusing on medical disciplines with emphasis on journal coverage of nursing and allied health issues. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

JSTOR - An archival database of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.  The collection includes Arts and Sciences I and II.  Journal issues are not current; most titles are available after a 5-year delay.

Science Resource Center - (Gale Group) Science related biographies, experiments, illustrations, and full-text articles.

Student Resource Center - (Gale Group) Reference, magazines and journals, primary documents, and multimedia resources. Literary criticism, history, essays, critical analysis, biographies, timelines and science.

World Data Analyst Online - (Encyclopedia Britannica) Current and historical statistics on countries of the world. Analyst features allow the creation of tables and charts which can be exported into spreadsheet software. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).


Sociology and Anthropology

JSTOR - An archival database of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.  The collection includes Arts and Sciences I and II.  Journal issues are not current; most titles are available after a 5-year delay.


Spanish Language Resources

EBSCOhost Espanol - Spanish text version of the EBSCOhost databases. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

Enciclopedia Juvenil - The Spanish language version of Britannica written for children. Includes a Spanish-English dictionary. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).

Planeta Saber - Encyclopedia Britannica in Spanish for the native Spanish speaker, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).


Speech Communication

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - (Gale Group) A social issues database providing viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

TOPICsearch - (EBSCOHost) Provides access to social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)


Technical and Industrial

ALLDATA Online - Automotive diagnostic, repair and estimating information.  Available on campus only.  Contact the Library or your automotive instructor for access.

Business Source Elite - (EBSCOHost) Business publications. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

LexisNexis Academic - Industry and market news.

Regional Business News - (EBSCOHost) Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the country-region place country-region (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

Science Resource Center - (Gale Group) Science related biographies, experiments, illustrations, and full-text articles.


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