Pulaski Technical College: two year community college in central Arkansas

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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 History E-Book Project - The American Council of Learned Societies' History E-Book Project has over 700 fully searchable books of major significance to historical studies.

American Humanities Index - (EBSCOHost) Index to literary, scholarly, and creative journals. Offers citations for articles, essays and reviews, and creative works, including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings, and illustrations. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

Annals of American History Online: 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).

Books In Print -Search for books, audios and videos by title or browse by subject. Includes cover images, reviews, a readers’ advisory service and a children’s section.

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)

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

Clinical Pharmacology - (EBSCOHost) Up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products, and new drugs. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

Communication and Mass Media Complete - (EBSCOHost) Provides full text, abstracts and citations in all areas of communication and mass media research. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

Communication Institute for Online Scholarship – CIOS database contains online scholarly activity in the communications field.

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

Discovering Collection - (GaleGroup) Reference, primary documents and multimedia resources covering literature, history, biography, science and social studies. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

EBSCOhost Espanol - Spanish text version of the EBSCOhost databases, including Business Source Elite, Clinical Pharmacology, ERIC, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Health Source - Consumer Edition, Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition, Newspaper Source, and MasterFILE Premier. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

Enciclopedia Universal en Español: Encyclopedia in Spanish for the native Spanish speaker, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish.  (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).

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).

ERIC - (EBSCOHost) Educational Resource Information Center contains digests, citations and abstracts from educational and education-related journals. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

First Search - Abstracts and Indexes only. Contact Library for full text availability. (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)

GPO Access - a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to information products produced by the Federal Government.

Grove Art – (Oxford University Press) includes art images, articles, biographies and links to national and international galleries and museums.

Grove Music – (Oxford University Press) includes images, sound and audio links, and articles on musicians, instruments, techniques, genres and styles.

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)

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.

In the First Person - provides an in-depth index of first-person content, including letters, diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies, and other personal narratives.

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 - 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).

LexisNexis U.S. Politics and World News - Provides updated news stories from over 4,000 U.S. and International news sources.

Literary Reference Center - 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.

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

Making of America - Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Subject areas include education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

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)

MedlinePlus - Consumer health information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

National Cancer Institute (NCI) – offers consumer-oriented, cancer-related health information on a wide range of topics.

National Center for Education Statistics - Statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Education. Provides reports, data and analyses on the condition of American education.

Naxos Music Library – Listen to individual tracks or whole CD’s of classical music and six other genres including Jazz, Blues, World and Chinese. New releases are added monthly.

Newspaper Source - (EBSCOHost) Regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns, and indexing and abstracts for national newspapers. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

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

Oxford English Dictionary - 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. Covers words from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean.

Professional Development Collection - (EBSCOHost) Designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full-text journals, including more than 300 peer-reviewed titles. (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library)

ProjectMUSE – (Johns Hopkins University Press) full-text articles from humanities, arts, and social sciences journals.

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

PsycARTICLES - Peer-reviewed journals and chapters from selected APA books. Browse journal issues from 1988 to the present.

PsychiatryOnline – (American Psychiatry Publishing) includes the DSM-IV-TR Library, full-text psychiatry journals and APA guidelines.

Public Library of Science - Peer-reviewed journals in biology and medical research.

PubMed Central - U.S. National Institutes of Health archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

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)

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.

ThomasNet – Includes the Thomas Register and the Thomas Regional. A listing of industrial suppliers and manufactures and their products, includes detailed information such as, line-item product details, CAD drawings, and more.

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

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.

Webster's Third International Dictionary, Unabridged Online: (Provided by LSTA funds administered by the AR State Library).

Women Working, 1870 - 1930 - Explores women's roles in the U.S. economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Includes books, photographic images and manuscript pages from the Harvard University Library collections.

World Data Analyst Online: 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).

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