Database Finder
Welcome to the Database Finder
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Welcome to the Experimental Database Finder. Use these databases to find articles and reference materials on all kinds of subjects from general information to scholarly journal articles. These databases contain encyclopedias, dictionaries, business directories, collections of images, TV and radio broadcasts, and almost any kind of information you can find in the paper-based collections.
Some of the databases are available only onsite, in the various branches of the library system; some of the databases are available offsite. The listings will indicate accessiblity.
Funding
Funding for these databases is provided by the following organizationsAlabama Public Library Service
- Learning Express Library - Practice Tests Online
- NoveList Fiction Guide
Alabama Virtual Library
- Academic Search Elite
- AccessScience: McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
- African-American History & Culture
- Alabama Libraries
- American Humanities Index
- ArticleFirst
- Business and Company Resource Center
- Business Index ASAP
- Business Source Elite
- ClasePeriodica (Latin America)
- Clinical Pharmacology
- Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC)
- Contemporary Authors
- EBSCO Animals
- EBSCOhost Web (databases are listed individually too)
- Electronic Collections Online (ECO)
- Encyclopedia Britannica Online
- Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition (middle and elementary)
- ERIC (EBSCO)
- ERIC (OCLC)
- Ethnic News Watch
- Expanded Academic ASAP
- First Search
- Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, The World Almanac for Kids
- Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
- General Reference Center Gold (Infotrac)
- GPO Monthly Catalog
- Guide to Conducting Literary Research (not a database)
- Health Source - Consumer Edition
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
- Informe [Hispanic Magazines]
- InfoTrac Adult
- InfoTrac Junior Edition (Formerly SuperTOM Junior)
- InfoTrac Kid's Edition (formerly PrimaryTOM)
- InfoTrac OneFile
- InfoTrac Student Edition (Formerly SuperTOM)
- LegalTrac
- Literature Resource Center
- LitFinder
- MAS Ultra - School Edition
- MasterFILE Premier
- Medline
- Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
- Middle Search Plus
- Military & Government Collection
- Newspaper Source
- PapersFirst
- Primary Search
- Proceedings: An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings
- Professional Development Collection
- PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
- Regional Business News
- Scribner Writers Series
- Searchasaurus
- Serials Solution: Full Text Electronic Journal Holdings
- SIRS Discoverer
- SIRS Knowledge Source
- Twayne Authors Series
- Union List of Periodicals
- Vocational and Career Collection
- WorldCat: OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide
Mobile Public Library
- Ancestry Plus (formally ancestry.com)
- Auto Repair Reference Center
- Big Chalk
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index
- Biography Resource Center and The Complete Marquis Who's Who
- Dun and Bradstreet Business Locator
- Hoovers Online
- Microsoft Bookshelf 98
- Microsoft Encarta Virtual Globe 1998 Edition
- Mobile Charitable and Civic Organizations - A test record
- Mobile Register on Newsbank
- Reference USA
NAAL: Network of Alabama Academic Libraries
- America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts
Public Access
- Amnesty International Library
- Ariadne
- Background Notes
- Bartleby.com Great Books Online
- Cites and Insights
- Cultivate Interactive
- Current Cites
- D-Lib Magazine
- First Monday
- Flying Cat
- Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship
- Journal of Electronic Publishing
- OAIster
- Patent Lens
- PopLine (Population Information Program)
- Public-Access Computer Systems Review (PACS Review)
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