Entries by Sally Smith

Literature Criticism Online consolidates ten popular Gale literature series into a single database. Users can search all of the series at once, or limit their searches to a specificone. Series included are: Children’s Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Contemporary Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.

Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science is an innovative information service from Morgan & Claypool Publishers for the research, development, and educational community in engineering and computer science.

Royal Society of Chemistry Online provides full-text access to scholarly journals in chemistry and chemical engineering published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Dyabola is a control program used to search and browse multiple databases simultaneously. It searches databases related to historic art, archaeology, and literature
by combining relational and hierarchic elements. In contrast to other programs, complex data systems can be created, but they remain easily and quickly accessible due to the simplicity of the program.

The new World Book Encyclopedia database includes several different versions of World Book:

World Book Advanced is a general encyclopedia with 26,000+ articles (8,000 more articles than print edition) as well as 12,000+ pictures and maps, 100+ videos and animations, 10,000 sounds (including pronunciations), and 7,000 links to editor-approved Web sites. Also included is the World Book Dictionary with 248,000 definitions, the World Book Atlas with 750 maps, and the full text of primary source documents, major literary works, and selected recent articles from magazines. Continuously updated.

World Book Kids is designed especially for younger users, English-language learners, and reluctant readers. The site offers simple navigation, easy-to-read content, bright colors, and a graphical design. Includes thousands of colorful illustrations, diagrams, and maps. Each student activity has a "Teach It!" section, which contains a wealth of resources for educators, including correlations to standards and printable activity worksheets for use in the classroom or at home.

World Book Student is specifically developed for media centers and classrooms, and includes all of the articles from the 22-volume World Book Encyclopedia, plus thousands more. In addition, there are more than 20,000 pictures and maps, 115 videos and animations, 10,000 sounds, more than 100 simulated historic web sites.

Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos is the Spanish version of World Book Kids. It is designed especially for younger Spanish-speaking users or older students who are learning Spanish. The site offers simple navigation, easy-to-read content, bright colors, and a graphical design. Includes thousands of colorful illustrations, diagrams, and maps.

Life Science Analytics Report Center includes company, financial, and drug pipeline reports for more than 2,500 pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and biomedical companies worldwide. Also included are competitor reports providing detailed analysis of a company’s pipeline products by type of therapy and insight into the predicted likelihood of clinical success for each pipeline product. The database’s reports on deals and alliances provide information on companies’ deals and deal partners, including size of deals, type of product, type of technology, and therapeutic area and stage of development.

MarketLine Business Information Center features profiles of over 10,000 companies and 2000 industries. Company profiles include overviews, business descriptions, company histories, executive listings, and product listings. Industry profiles include industry historical information from the past five years, along with 5-year market forecasts, market share information, and analysis of major trends and competition within industries. The database also contains business, industry and economic performance reports on over 50 countries and breaking news of merger and acquisition activity, product launches and regulatory changes.

Social Explorer includes tools that allow users to produce detailed reports from U.S. census data using any geographic area ranging from the entire country down to individual cities or zip codes. Demographic information such as sex, race, poverty level, educational attainment, religion, etc. is available, and interactive data maps can provide graphic representations of this information. Users can also browse and download census data from 1790 to 2000 in convenient formats for processing in Excel or other applications.

Line of Duty Streaming Video Library contains hundreds of videos related to law enforcement. Real-life video along with analysis from officers and highly regarded law enforcement teachers and trainers are used to demonstrate concepts related to law enforcement. A set of PowerPoint slide presentations for training is included, as well.

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center includes full-text, up-to-date profiles of more than 3,300 of today's most popular jobs in more than 90 industries. Information includes job tracks, salaries, and prerequisites. Other resources include information on where to obtain education and training for desired occupations and guides to career assessment tests and scholarships. A library of 290 videos related to specific occupations, job-seeking strategies and appropriate workplace behavior is also included.

Innovest iRatings provides access to global company ratings, sector reports, weekly stock monitors, screening services, and other specialized research materials. It shows how different industry sectors are preparing for emerging environmental regulations and which companies exhibit advanced preparedness. Access to more than 1,750 risk profiles summarizing companies' strategies and activities in emerging markets is included, as are reports related to companies' compliance on issues of corporate governance and human resource management.

ASTM is an international organization for development of voluntary technical standards for materials, products, systems, and services. ASTM Digital Library contains full-text access to the following journals & publications:
• ASTM Special Technical Publications (STPs)
• Journal of ASTM International
• Journal of Testing and Evaluation
• Geotechnical Testing Journal
• Journal of Forensic Sciences, 1972-2005
• Journal of Composites, Technology and Research
• Journal of Cement, Concrete and Aggregates
• ASTM Monographs and Manuals

ASTM Digital Library

Format: Full Text Available: On Campus Only

Provides in-depth business information about nearly a million companies, including 600,000 large and mid-sized companies in the United States and Canada; 260,000 companies in Asia and the Pacific; and nearly 100,000 other companies globally. Global Business Browser aggregates and enhances content from more than 30 diverse content providers representing 2,000 separate information sources including Reuters, Investext, RMA, and STAT-USA.

Global Business Browser

Films on Demand provides streaming video programs on a variety of subjects. Click here for information about system requirements.

Films on Demand

GreenFILE is a bibliographic index of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. By drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health, and technology, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment.

GreenFILE