Why use library databases if I can find what I need on Google?
Your teachers expect you to use reliable resources for high school research. Although Google and other Internet search engines may provide thousands of "hits" on any topic, those hits may not meet the criteria your teachers require for your research assignments. It may be difficult and time-consuming for you to locate relevant material among thousands of Google results and to evaluate the reliability of the sites you find using Google.
Library databases do a lot of the hard work of the research process for you. They have been professionally evaluated and selected by your school librarian for their reliable content.Library databases contain full-text peer-reviewed and scholarly journals as well as newspapers, professional, trade, and popular magazines. They provide primary source materials, reference sources, statistical resources, and a wealth of other information you can trust.
What databases are available to me?
- Academic Search Premier - contains unmatched full-text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics and more.
- Auto Repair Reference Center - repair information on approximately 25,000 vehicles from 1945 to the present.
- Biography Reference Center - a comprehensive collection of more than 450,000 full-text biographies.
- Business Source - provides the full text for more than 2,200 business journals.
- Consumer Health Complete - provides content covering all areas of health and wellness
- Computer Source - contains nearly 300 full-text journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming and software.
- HeritageQuest - comprehensive collection of genealogical and local history information available anywhere.
- Legal Information Reference Center - provides full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books.
- Literary Reference Center - provides users with broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works.
- MasterFILE Premier - contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering business, health, education and more.
- Military & Government Collection - current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
- Novelist - reviews, annotations and much more for over 120,000 fiction titles.
- NoveList K-8 - contains enhanced subject access for over 60,000 fiction titles aimed at the K-8 population.
- Proquest Culture Grams - one of the most trusted and widely used cultural reference and curriculum products in the education, government, and non-profit arenas.
- ProQuest eLibrary - images, video, eBooks, audio files, 100% full-text articles from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals, maps, transcripts, audio files, graphics, interactives, dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, timelines, slideshows, editorially created research pages, and hand-selected websites.
- Proquest - Magazine and Newspaper Index - search and retrieve full text articles from thousands of magazines.
- SIRS discoverer - a general reference database for students and educators covering curriculum areas content sets such as reading, language arts, current events, science, social studies, history, health and technology.
- Reference USA - over 180 million residential listings and directory information for businesses.
- Religion & Philosophy Collection - an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies
- Rosetta Stone - award-winning interactive approach to learning language has been used by millions around the world and now is accessible in the library- or anywhere, anytime.
How do I access the library's databases?
- Get a library card from the librarian
- The link below will take you to the library's database home page.
http://www.jclibrary.info/index.php?id=55
- Select the database you would like to use and enter your library card number when prompted.
- Search the database for the material you need to complete your research project.
Some databases like Proquest allow you to create an account so you can save your research. Each time you return to the site, your will be able to easily access the articles you have already reviewed and selected.
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