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Electronic Resources
RichLyn Library subscribes to a number of
internet services for the research needs of our patrons. Several of the
resources are indexes to periodical articles but many also index newspapers,
reports, pamphlets, books, and various other media. The services include
vendors such as Ebscohost that provides access to dozens of subject and
skill level databases. Off-Campus users either use the Off-Campus Link supplied
below or you can access the databases from the
my.huntington.edu portal.
Specific resources can be accessed by using:
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ARTICLE DATABASES |
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America's Historical
Newspapers |
Off-Campus
Link |
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Huntington subscribes to
a part of the set called Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1786.
Series 1 offers more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23
states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1876.
Focusing largely on the 18th century, Series 1 is based on Clarence S.
Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820" and
other authoritative bibliographies. |
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BNET |
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Formerly, Look Smart's
Find Articles contains full text articles from thousands of resources.
Articles date back to 1984. Articles are take from leading academic,
industry and general interest publications. |
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Ebscohost |
Off-Campus
Link |
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Ebscohost
is produced by Ebsco Information Services. The
company provides a variety of services to libraries including Full-text and
bibliographic databases. There are currently 28 different databases available
as part of our Ebscohost package. These databases
range from the general MasterFILE premier to the
more specific Clinical Pharmacology. |
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Entrez |
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Entrez is the integrated, text based search and
retrieval system used at NCBI for the major databases, including PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein
Structure, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, and others. ... Use the Entrez Journals database to search for a journal and then
link to records for that journal in the database: ...proper attribution...US
National Library of Medicine (NLM).... |
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The
Free Library |
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Free full-text periodical and literature articles covering a multitude of
disciplines. |
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Guide to Social Science and Religion |
Off-Campus
Link |
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Includes only citations to
articles, no full text |
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HighBeam
Library Research |
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[An] extensive archive of more
than 35 million documents from over 3,000 sources -- a vast collection of
articles from leading publications, updated daily and going back as far as
20 years. Save your searches, save articles and set up alerts to save time
and increase your efficiency. Most entries are citations but there are a
few free full text articles. |
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High Wire Press |
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A very large periodical databases
covering many subjects. It retrieves free, full-text, abstracted, and
previewed articles. |
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IngentaConnect |
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IngentaConnect is a comprehensive
collection of academic and professional publications. It indexes about 20
million articles, chapters, and reports from 29,500 publications with
about 8,000 online entries. Most entries are citations but there are a few
free full text articles. |
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Inspire.Net |
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INSPIRE is Indiana's Virtual
Library on the Internet. INSPIRE is a collection of commercial databases
and other information resources that can be accessed by Indiana residents
using any computer equipped with an Indiana Internet connection and a Web
browser such as Netscape or Internet Explorer. |
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JSTOR |
Off-Campus
Link |
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The library subscribes to two
JSTOR collections "Arts & Sciences II & V" and "Mathematics and Statistics."
The collections provide access to approximately 270 journals in the
disciplines of archaeology, economics, history, Asian studies, political
science, literature, philosophy, classics, religion, art, sociology, mathematics, and statistics as well as in other key
fields in the humanities and social sciences. |
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Newspaperindex |
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Newspaperindex is "the best
online newspapers in all the country." |
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Northern Light Search |
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"provides [free] access to
business and industry news from thousands of hand-selected business news
sites, leading business publications, industry authority blogs, regional
newspapers, and national news sources." |
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Open J-Gate |
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Open J-Gate is an electronic
gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. ... Open
J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available
online. Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature, indexed from
3000+ open access journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites. |
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Westlaw Campus Research |
Off-Campus
Link |
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Do you need full text information
from a newspaper including the New York Times? Do you need legal news? Do
you need company information? Welcome to one of the most comprehensive
full-text, databases available, including over 300 newspapers, the Westlaw
comprehensive collection of legal briefs, etc., and business news from
Hoover's, legal due diligence reports, and SEC filings. |
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BOOK DATABASES |
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Digital Book Index |
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Digital Book Index provides links
to more than 142,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800
commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various
private sites. More than 100,000 of these books, texts, and documents are
available free, while many others are available at very modest cost. |
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FirstSearch |
Off-Campus
Link |
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A global database providing
access to WorldCat and INCat. The WorldCat catalog provides access to
books and other materials in libraries worldwide. INCat is a subset of
WorldCat with just libraries in Indiana. Use FirstSearch if you are making
an Interlibrary Loan request for a book or video. |
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GoogleBooks |
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The search engine includes
excerpts and full-text digital books from Amazon, and several renowned
research libraries from across the country. ...a good supplement to First
Search/World Cat. |
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WorldCat.Org |
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orldCat.Org is a free online
service that gives a unified library catalog from libraries throughout the
world. It provides bibliographic and location information about books,
monographs, pamphlets, journal titles, audiovisuals, etc. from public,
school, special, and academic libraries throughout the world. It also
provides MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian, and Harvard citations for each of
the items. |
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REFERENCE RESOURCES |
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CountryWatch |
Off-Campus
Link |
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CountryWatch provides critical
country-specific intelligence and data to over 4000 clients including
public and private sector organizations with overseas operations and
global interests. In addition, CountryWatch provides country information
to large media audiences in various venues as part of its media strategy. |
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CQ Researcher |
Off-Campus
Link |
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CQ Researcher is often the
first source that librarians recommend when researchers are seeking
original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news.
Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher is
noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends,
criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment,
technology, and the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and
online 44 times a year by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly
Inc. |
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Credo Reference |
Off-Campus
Link |
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Ebscohost
is produced by Ebsco Information Services. The
company provides a variety of services to libraries including Full-text and
bibliographic databases. There are currently 28 different databases available
as part of our Ebscohost package. These databases
range from the general MasterFILE premier to the
more specific Clinical Pharmacology. |
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EBSCO Animals |
Off-Campus
Link |
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EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals
offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals.
Designed mainly for the elementary school student the database provides
students with thousands of easy-to-read entries about mammals, birds,
reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. Each entry
begins with a simple category breakdown of the animal including Kingdom,
Class, Order, Genus & Species, and Geographical Locale as well as a
detailed description. |
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Online |
Off-Campus Link |
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Britannica Online is a one stop
search service for several reference databases including encyclopedias,
dictionaries, thesaurus and atlases. In addition to providing answers to a
multitude of questions, Britannica Online also leads users to additional
information about their topics through related articles, links to outside
Web sites, and bibliographies. |
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Encyclopeida.com |
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Encyclopedia.com, the Internet's
premiere free encyclopedia, provides users with more than 57,000
frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
Each article is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as
well as pictures and maps - all provided by HighBeam Research. |
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia |
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For students and adults alike,
the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000
records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be
easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The
database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as
information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated
annually. |
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Gale Virtual
Reference Library |
Off-Campus
Link |
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Titles include:
- The Encyclopedia
of leadership.
- Encyclopedia of education
- Ancient
Europe, 8000 BC-1000 AD: An encyclopedia of the
Barbarian world
- Encyclopedia of European social history
- Encyclopedia
of modern Asia
- Encyclopedia of the modern Middle East and North
Africa
- Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World
- Encyclopedia of religion
- New Catholic
Encyclopedia
- Encyclopedia of bioethics
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Global Road Warrior |
Off-Campus
Link |
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The Global Road Warrior is the
most comprehensive business travel, telecommunications and business
culture reference available in the world. The Global Road Warrior covers
175 countries in three volumes of 3,840 full-sized pages. |
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Knovel Library |
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A full text science, technology,
and engineering site: Aerospace & radar technology, biochemistry,
biotechnology, biology, ceramics & ceramics engineering, chemistry &
chemical engineering, environment & environmental engineering, food
science, mechanics & mechanical engineering, pharmaceuticals/cosmetics &
toiletries, safety/health & hygiene, etc. |
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Magill's
Medical Guide |
Off-Campus
Link |
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Magill's Medical Guide
from Salem Press is the full-text online version of our print medical
encyclopedia by the same name. |
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MLA Directory of Periodicals |
Off-Campus Link |
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The MLA Directory of Periodicals
contains all information available on the journals and series on the
bibliography's Master List of Periodicals. This information has been
gathered by the MLA staff with the cooperation of MLA bibliographers and
the editors represented in these listings. Over 7,100 titles are included;
of these, over 4,400 are currently indexed. The entries list editorial
addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of
publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures,
subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission
guidelines. The directory also provides statistics on how many articles
and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many
are submitted. |
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Oxford English Dictionary |
Off-Campus Link |
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The Oxford English Dictionary is
the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the
last millennium. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation
of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage
of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international
English language sources, from classic literature and specialist
periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. |
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Questia's Free Encyclopedia |
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Questia's FREE encyclopedia
includes more than 52,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth
Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to Questia's premium
reference library of more than 67,000 full-text books and 1,500,000
journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. |
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Reference USA Business Directory |
Off-Campus Link |
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The Oxford English Dictionary is
the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the
last millennium. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation
of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage
of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international
English language sources, from classic literature and specialist
periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. |
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