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The
following can be accessed OFF-CAMPUS through the INTERNET by COS Students and
Staff only by calling the Library Information Desk at
737-6179 and obtaining a
password.
Tutorials:
Key word Searching
Newspapers
- Fresno Bee
- This full-text database
covers 1985 to the present (Annual Cost
$2,310)
- Los Angeles Times
- This full-text database covers 1985 to the present
- Lexis/Nexis
- LEXIS-NEXIS®
Academic Universe provides access to a wide range of news, business,
legal, medical and reference information. (Annual
Cost $5,518) Not available off campus!!!
Magazines
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Academic
Search Elite - This database indexes over
1000
periodicals from 1984 to the present. It will identify the
periodical titles that the COS Visalia Library owns. (Annual
Cost $11,000)
- CQ Researcher
- Your complete source on the most current and controversial issues of the day with
complete summaries, all the pros and cons, bibliographies and more. (Annual
Cost $523)
- ERIC -- Educational Resources Information
Center - ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million
bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related
materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by
the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
- Infotrac
- Infotrac
provides articles from more than 500 scholarly, trade and
general-interest publications, as well as references for The New York
Times. The databases integrate core titles in every major academic
concentration; area
and issue-specific journals; academic journals with application
in the professions; and publications with national news coverage and
commentary.
The time period it covers is current year to date + the previous 3 years. The
optional backfile extends coverage as far back
as 1980. (Annual Cost $9,732)
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Lexis/Nexis
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LEXIS-NEXIS®
Academic Universe provides access to a wide range of news, business,
legal, medical and reference information.
(Annual Cost $5,518) Not available off
campus!!!
- SIRS (Social Issues
Research Series) - SIRS contains all full-text articles
from a variety of newspaper and magazines covering current social
issues. (Annual
Cost $1440)
Countries
- CountryWatch
- CountryWatch provides a
political and economic survey of 191 countries. It also has
updates from United Press International, other news organizations, and
the CountryWatch.com staff which cover the latest economic, corporate,
and environmental information on a country by country basis as they
occur.
Reference Books
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Gale Virtual Reference Library - Gale
provides access to 200 reference books. All the books are full-text
and cover a wide variety of topics including art, science,
literature and much more. All 200 titles can be searched
simultaneously or individual titles may
be selected. (Cost $20,000)
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Student Research Center -
This site provides access to the Columbia
Encyclopedia as well as government reports, magazines, news
transcripts, Primary Source Documents and more.
Books
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