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At Alumnae Library, Elms College
or
From Your Home Computer
| General | Available Databases | Accessing First Search | Special Features | Organizations |
OCLC First Search Databases
OCLC First Search Databases Provide:
· Art Information
· Books
· Business Information
· Conference Proceedings
· Education Information
· Encyclopedias
· Health Information
· Internet Resources
· Legal Information
· Magazine articles
· Religious Studies Information
· Science Information
Special Features And Useful Hints For First Search· To Print: click "print" on gray bar. Then click "print" on browser toolbar.
· Full text articles and citations can be emailed to your own off-campus address.
· Journal Citations not owned by the Elms can be submitted to the Interlibrary Loan Department for retrieval (For Elms Students only).
· Your search can be limited to articles with full text
· Search words can be truncated with an asterisk (*)..
· Search 3 databases at the same time.
· Databases may be viewed in English, Spanish, or French.
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Applied Science and Technology Abstracts (ASTA) provides information on management, careers and employment, and financial trends in the scientific and technological fields. Coverage: 1983 to present |
| Art Abstracts database includes leading prublications in the world of the arts. It serves as a comprehensive record of reporductions of works of art that appear anywhere in any of the indexed publications. |
| ArticleFirst is an index of articles from the contents pages of journals. |
| ATLA Religion database provides an index to religious and theological literature for students and faculty. The database spans over 50 years with selected records going back to 1818. |
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Clase and Periodica indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social science, humanities, science and technology. |
| Electronic Books (Ebooks) contains all the online electronic books cataloged by OCLC member libraries. |
| Electronic Collections OnLine (ECO) gives access to a collection of scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas, all with full-text articles online. |
| ERIC provides a centralized Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. |
| General Science Abstracts covers general science literature from the U.S. and Europe. Citations start in 1984 and abstracts start in 1993. |
| GPO (Government Publication Office) covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.). Bibliographic citations are included in each record. |
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Index to Legal Periodicals database includes information covering all areas of jurisprudence. |
| Medline covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. The database corresponds to the print indexes, Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index. |
| PAIS chronicles global public policy and social issues. |
| PapersFirst is an index of papers presented at conferences worldwide. |
| ProceedingsFirst is an index of worldwide conference proceedings. |
| World Almanac provides a fundamental reference source, including biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, and statistics. |
| WorldCat provides a list of books, web resources, and other material worldwide that have been cataloged by OCLC member libraries. |
| WorldCatDissertations is a database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat. |
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In Alumnae Library…
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In your home…
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computers -Click "Bookmarks" or "Favorites" -Click database title (ex.: Art Abstracts) |
-Point your browser to one of the following: -When prompted, enter: -Click database title (ex.: Art Abstracts) And begin your search! |
Access to these databases is made possible by the following organizations:
OCLC (Online Computer Library Center, Inc.)Nelinet
http://www.nelinet.net
And Alumnae Library!
Http://www.elms.edu/Departments/library/libframe.htm