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Guides for Using Databases

• General and Interdisciplinary Databases
• Business Databases
• Education and Behavioral Science Databases
• Science and Technology Databases
• Social Sciences and Humanities Databases
• Software Information

General and Interdisciplinary Databases

	Date	Format	Topic areas
ProQuest	2007	PDF	All topics
NewsBank America's Newspapers		PPT	Local, regional, and national newspapers
LexisNexis Academic	2008	Web	News, business, & law
LexisNexis Academic	2008	Flash	News, business, & law
CSA Illumina databases			Databases in multiple areas
--CSA Basic	2008	PDF
--CSA Expert	2008	PDF
EBSCOhost 2.0	2008	Flash + PPT	Databases in multiple areas
ERL Webspirs Databases	2008	PDF	Databases in multiple areas

Business Databases

	Format
Hoovers Online Company Searching
-- to find information on a company's performance	Flash Movie
-- to find out about key people in a company	Flash Movie
-- to find industry rankings	Flash Movie
PC Quote Company searching	Flash Movie
ProQuest
-- Company searching	Flash Movie
-- Industry searching	Flash Movie
Reuters Research On-Demand
-- Industry searching	Flash Movie
Yahoo! Finance company searching	Flash Movie
Mergent Online Company searching	Flash Movie

Education and Behavioral Science Databases

	Date	Format	Notes
Education Resources Online	2008	PDF
CSA Illumina Basic	2008	PDF	ERIC, PsycINFO, & other databases
EBSCOhost 2.0	2008	Flash + PPT	ERIC, Professional Dev't Collection, & other databases
ERL Webspirs Databases	2008	PDF	Education Full Text & Mental Measurements YearBook

Science and Technology Databases

	Date	Format	Notes
CSA Illumina Basic	2008	PDF	Materials Research, Environmental Sciences, & other databases
EBSCOhost 2.0	2008	Flash + PPT	CINAHL, SPORTDiscus, Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide, & others
PubMed	2008	Web Tutorials with audio	Select from several short tutorials (1-5 min. each)
PubMed	2008	PDF
Web of Science	2007	Web Tutorial with audio	7 min. 33 sec.

Social Sciences and Humanities Databases

	Date	Format	Notes
CSA Illumina Basic	2008	PDF	ARTbibliographies Modern, Communication Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, & other databases
EBSCOhost 2.0	2008	Flash + PPT	America: History & Life, LGBT Life, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Historical Abstracts, & others
ERL Webspirs Databases	2008	PDF	Art Abstracts, Art Index Retrospective, EconLit, & others
Westlaw Campus	Various	Web + PDF	Legal resources

Software Information

Software	Notes
Download free Adobe Reader	For viewing PDF documents
Download free Flash Player	For viewing Flash movies
PPT	Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation

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