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PRO-QUEST CENTRAL |
2018 / 2019 Databases by Subject
Bibliographies & Indexes | Books & eBooks | Business | Career & Vocational Information |
Education & Library Science | Genealogy | General Research | Health & Medicine | History | International Resources | K-12 Student Resources |
Literature | News & Newspapers | Science & Technology | Social Sciences
Traveler databases offer magazines, books, encyclopedias,
and other resources to all Arkansas residents.
Research current events, science, business, health, notable people, hobbies,
and much more from your library, school, home or office!
Bibliographies & Indexes | Books & eBooks | Business | Career & Vocational Information |
Education & Library Science | Genealogy | General Research | Health & Medicine | History | International Resources | K-12 Student Resources |
Literature | News & Newspapers | Science & Technology | Social Sciences
Traveler databases offer magazines, books, encyclopedias,
and other resources to all Arkansas residents.
Research current events, science, business, health, notable people, hobbies,
and much more from your library, school, home or office!
BUSINESS
ABI/INFORM Complete [ProQuest Central]
The inclusion of ABI/INFORM Collection gives access to thousands of journals specifically on business, economics, accounting, finance, management, taxation, law as well as a comprehensive collection of top market, industry, and country reports from Economist Intelligence Unit, BMI, ISI Emerging Markets, and more.
Accounting & Tax Periodicals [ProQuest Central]
For accounting academics and professionals, access to reliable information is critical for this continuously evolving area of study. ProQuest Accounting, Tax and Banking brings together highly ranked global and scholarly journals with other key resources for locating quick and precise results covering current news and topics, as well as the trends and history influencing important financial issues of the day.
Asian and European Business Collection [ProQuest Central]
Designed for students and faculty at business schools with a need for specialized information about these important regions and markets, ProQuest Asian and European Business Collection can be used in conjunction with other business information services such as ABI/INFORM for the broadest possible curriculum coverage, but also serves as an excellent stand-alone resource.
ProQuest Asian and European Business provides information on companies, economies, markets, international trade and overall business conditions throughout these regions.
Canadian Business and Current Affairs Database [ProQuest Central]
A Canadian focus on current events, business, education, science and medicine, arts, law, academia, and lifestyles.
PQ Entrepreneurship [ProQuest Central]
The Entrepreneurship Database contains a unique and powerful database collection - designed to arm entrepreneurs with vital resources for developing and researching their ideas while providing valuable insight to help progress and grow their product or service.
Business Market Research Collection [ProQuest Central]
The Business Market Research Collection allows users to conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from these three sources:
- Hoover's Company Profiles – information about more than 40,000 global public and non-public companies including location, financials, competitors, officers, and more.
- OxResearch – succinct articles covering regional economic and political developments of significance from a network of 1,000 faculty members at Oxford, other leading universities, and think-tanks.
- Snapshots – market research overviews on 40+ industries and 40 countries
CAREER INFORMATION
Career and Vocational [ProQuest Central]
The Career & Technical Education Database is the definitive source for vocational information, offering full text journals, magazines, blogs, and video content. Students and instructors can research virtually any technical topic, including computing science, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, and photography.
Mango Languages [ProQuest Central]
Provides language learning experiences with step by step lesson plans for 71 different languages. This database features ESL lessons for over 16 languages along with a text translator. *First time users must create a profile in order to use this resource.
Provides language learning experiences with step by step lesson plans for 71 different languages. This database features ESL lessons for over 16 languages along with a text translator. *First time users must create a profile in order to use this resource.
CURRENT EVENTS
Canadian Newsstand Complete [ProQuest Central]
Canadian newspaper coverage from Prince Edward Island to Yukon Territory.
Ethnic NewsWatch™
Bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses.
PQ Newsstand [ProQuest Central]
Full text access over 1300 newspapers, news websites and blogs from leading publishers throughout the world
SIRS Issues Researcher
Background and analysis on 350+ leading issues, providing pros and cons on social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues
E-BOOKS
College Complete
37,000 high quality titles from renowned publishers and University Presses including Amacom, Oxford University Press, Wiley, World Bank Publications and others, covering the entire cross-disciplinary college curriculum
Public Library Complete
Diverse 31,000 titles non-fiction ebook collection that helps augment public library collection.
Schools and Educators Complete
A collection of over 11,000 titles with a wealth of information in professional development and training resources.
World Book eBooks
A collection of 25 classics and an additional 25 proprietary World Book non-fiction titles. Desktop computer and tablet users may access the site via browser or checkout for offline. Simultaneous checkout has eBooks available for an unlimited number of users.
EDUCATION AND LIBRARY SCIENCE RESOURCES
Education Database [ProQuest Central]
Access to over 1,090 top educational publications, including more than 800 titles in full text.
ERIC
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC provides extensive access to education-related literature, including coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts
Contains abstracts from over 300 periodicals from around 40 countries and 20 languages, providing comprehensive bibliographic coverage of the scholarly literature related to library science.
Library Science Database [ProQuest Central]
Access to over 150 top publications in library and information science. Specifically designed to provide full-text support for core titles included in the Library & Information Science Abstracts database.
Research Companion
Developed to help students do more effective research and assist educators in teaching the information literacy core principles of finding, evaluating, and using information.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Academic World Book
The premier resource for students and researchers at the university level with comprehensive reference tool that includes encyclopedia, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search. (Optimized for tablets)
Early World of Learning (World Book)
An online resource for preschoolers & children in early elementary that includes three interactive learning environments:
- Trek's Travels offers narrated stories, interactive games, and original videos that teach critical early childhood themes, including numbers, shapes, colors, opposites, and more.
- Welcome to Reading provides leveled readers to develop and strengthen phonics, vocabulary, phonemic awareness and comprehension skills. The Lexile Framework® for Reading ensures that early readers use text at their level.
- Know It offers a visually rich first encyclopedia that will captivate early learners with non-fiction topics of interest and importance to them.
World Book Advanced
A reference tool for 8th grade and up that includes an encyclopedia, multimedia, e-books, and primary source databases all fully integrated in a single search interface.
World Book Complete
A single link that goes to all 11 Traveler World Book database for selection.
World Book Discover
Reference resources for students reading below grade level because of language or learning difficulties, with content and tools specifically developed for these students.
World Book Kids
General reference tool for young students with easy-to-read articles, thousands of illustrations, videos, comparison tools, and a wealth of engaging games and activities, including an atlas, interactive maps, flags, and over 200 game and activities.
World Book Student
A research tool tailored for students in elementary & middle schools with over 40,000 encyclopedia and reference articles, 10,000 biographies, multimedia, videos, animations and student activities.
World Book Timelines
A resource for accessing or creating timelines for projects in the arts, literature, notable people, science & technology, world history, geography and more. Users can select a built timeline and make changes or create new timelines then images and videos.
GENEALOGY
PQ African American Heritage
A groundbreaking digital resource exclusively devoted to African American family history research.
HeritageQuest Online
Combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular ProQuest Genealogy & Local History collection and other valuable content.
GENERAL RESEARCH
PAVN (Public Video Library Online)
PAVN offers over 50,000 streaming videos on History, Science, Engineering, Health, Performing Arts, Religion, and films for research.
Credo Reference
Online reference service that combines authoritative reference content with a one-stop exploratory search platform.
eLibrary: Academic
General reference collection of periodical and digital media content specifically tailored for K-12 schools and libraries of all kinds, covering a variety of subjects including business, education, general interest, health, language arts, sciences, social sciences, and many other curriculum-specific subject areas.
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
World Book's content, rich media, and interactive features in Spanish for young learners.
ProQuest Central
A cross-disciplinary research tool with 39 databases that can be searched together or individually.
eLibrary: Guided Research Interface
Provides access to eLibrary's periodical and digital media collection through a user interface specifically designed for student researchers.
Research Library [ProQuest Central]
A mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and other resources covering 150 subject areas: arts, business, education, engineering and technology, health and medical, history, law, literature and languages, multicultural themes, psychology, natural sciences, social sciences, & women's studies.
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Family Health Database [ProQuest Central]
Includes journals and magazines covering an enormous range of health subjects, from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry.
Health and Medical Collection [ProQuest Central]
Provides reliable, comprehensive journal coverage of clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration and more.
Health Management Database [ProQuest Central]
Full-text access to journals covering all aspects of health administration, including hospitals, insurance, law, health economics, public health administration and more.
Medical Database
Provides access to over 1,400 essential publications in full text covering topics across all areas of the medical sciences. The content is diverse enough to support the needs of medical students, faculty, and clinicians.
MEDLINE
Abstracts of authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more from the National Library of Medicine. For full text to materials abstracted in MEDLINE, access the Health and Medical Collection or Nursing & Allied Health databases.
Nursing & Allied Health Database [ProQuest Central]
Provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and more. Suitable for researchers at healthcare facilities in addition to students of nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions.
Public Health Database [ProQuest Central]
Provides access to core literature in the field of public health, including new and periodical coverage. Includes access to full-text dissertations covering topics such as biostatistics, environmental health sciences, epidemiology, health services administration, international public health, maternal and child health, and occupational safety and health.
HISTORY & LAW
History Study Center
Collection of primary and secondary sources on global history from ancient times to the present.
PQ Criminal Justice [ProQuest Central]
Comprehensive collection of U.S. and international criminal justice journals including information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security
PQ Military Collection [ProQuest Central]
Comprehensive collection of material on military subjects such as defense, aeronautics and space flight, civil engineering, political science, and more.
PQ Political Science [ProQuest Central]
Full-text of leading political science and international relations journals. This collection provides full-text coverage of many core titles included in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
PQ Religion [ProQuest Central]
Comprehensive collection of journals covering religious issues and perspectives, including religious news and information, commentary on topics of general interest from the perspective of a particular religion, and formal theological studies.
PQ Social Science Journals [ProQuest Central]
Covering various aspects of economics, politics and society
PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL
CultureGrams™
CultureGrams™ is a leading reference for concise and reliable cultural information on the countries of the world. With world events increasingly affecting our lives, it's more important than ever to educate students about the world around them, and for college students and business people to stay up-to-date.
CultureGrams provides country reports that go beyond mere facts and figures to deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people. The reports are written and reviewed by in-country experts and are updated as new information becomes available, so you can be sure you are offering only the very best, most current information to staff and students. Users link to the reports via an engaging, map-based interface that can be accessed anywhere, anytime.
CultureGram Kids CultureGrams Provinces CultureGram States CultureGrams World
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
AGRICOLA
Literature citations for journal articles, monographs, proceedings, theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, computer software, and technical reports pertaining to all aspects of agriculture.(AGRICultural OnLine Access).
Agricultural and Environmental Science Database [ProQuest Central]
Provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. This database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources covering such topics as the effects of pollution on people and animals and environmental action and policy responses.
Biology Database
Wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.
Computing Database
Full text research on subjects such as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, and the Internet.
Science Database
Full text and images for the leading periodicals in science and technology, covering computers, engineering, physics, telecommunications, transportation and more.
STEM Database
Composed of more than 500 full-text scholarly journals and popular science magazines covering research and instruction in earth, life, physical, medical and applied sciences; and technology, engineering, and math.
Telecommunication Database [ProQuest Central]
Full text of top telecommunications industry publications. Includes magazines, journals, and newsletters, including graphics and images.
eLibrary Science
Supports the study of earth, life, physical, medical, and applied sciences providing resources K-12 and up in magazines and journals, newspapers, TV and radio transcripts, reference books, websites, images, and streaming audio/video.
ProQuest Research Companion
Developed to help students do more effective research and assist educators in teaching the information literacy core principles of finding, evaluating, and using information.
SIRS Discover
General reference database for elementary and middle school learners, researchers, and educators covering curriculum areas and content sets such as reading, language arts, current events, science, social studies, history, health, and technology. SIRS Discoverer provides editorially-selected, indexed, and curated materials from over 2,100 newspapers, magazines, and websites offering guided research for young researchers.
SIRS Issues Researcher
Background and analysis on 350+ leading issues, providing pros and cons on social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues.
World Book Advanced
A reference tool for 8th grade and up that includes an encyclopedia, multimedia, e-books, and primary source databases all fully integrated in a single search interface. (World Book Online Reference public library version)
World Book Discover
Reference resource with content and tools specifically tailored for students reading below grade level because of language or learning difficulties.
World Book Timelines
A resource for accessing or creating timelines for projects in the arts, literature, notable people, science & technology, world history, geography and more. Users can select a built timeline and make changes or create new timelines then images and videos.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Criminal Justice Database [ProQuest Central]
Literature citations for journal articles, monographs, proceedings, theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, computer software, and technical reports pertaining to all aspects of agriculture.(AGRICultural OnLine Access).
CultureGrams
Provides access to cultural reports, statistics, and primary source material for countries across the globe, including the United States and Canadian provinces. Includes unique information such as native recipes, interviews, photos and videos. Contains four modules: Kids, Provinces, States and World.
Linguistics Database (ProQuest Central)
Comprised of index and full-text articles covering all linguistics subject areas, including the Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) and Linguistics Database.
Military Database (ProQuest Central)
Full-text access to a comprehensive collection covering military subjects including defense, aeronautics and space flight, civil engineering, political science, and more.
Political Science Database (ProQuest Central)
Full-text of leading political science and international relations journals. Provides full-text coverage of many core titles from Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
Pronunciator
Pronunciator provides both guided and self-directed instructions for 80 foreign languages, and ESL for 50 non-English languages. Includes a Course Designer for the creation and deployment of custom courses by educators.
Mango Languages
Provides language learning experiences with step by step lesson plans for 71 different languages. This database features ESL lessons for over 16 languages along with a text translator. *First time users must create a profile in order to use this resource.
Psychology Database (ProQuest Central)
Full-text coverage from top psychology publications; suitable for both students and mental-health care professionals.
Religion Database (ProQuest Central)
Comprehensive collection of journals covering religious issues and perspectives, including news and commentary on topics of general interest from the perspective of a particular religion, and formal theological studies.
Social Science Database (ProQuest Central)
Full-text access to journals and publications covering sociology, social work, anthropology, politics and related fields.
Sociology Database (ProQuest Central)
Full-text coverage of many core titles indexed in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts (SASSA). Includes full-text doctoral dissertations on sociology.
Access to databases provided through the Traveler Program is available to Arkansas citizens residing within the state, and to academic, public and school libraries statewide. Arkansas libraries may register with the State Library to offer Traveler resources through their own institutional websites.
Traveler resources are available exclusively to Arkansas residents and libraries within state boundaries. If ineligible for Traveler, contact your local public library to learn about similar services and resources that are available in your area.
* Newton County Library Patrons can access database resources the library or the State Library from home. To do this you must enable your Geo-location services tool on your computer for access success.
Biblio Labs authenticates based on the patron’s IP address being within the State of Arkansas. *
The Traveler program provides free remote access for all Arkansas citizens to high-quality subscription databases from reputable publishers. The databases contain a variety of information sources: popular magazines, newspapers and periodicals; academic and professional journals, eBook collections, and general reference and discovery sources that are suitable for online and scholarly research. The resources selected support a variety of education and reading levels. This project is made possible by a grant from U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services to the Arkansas State Library under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act.
Traveler resources are available exclusively to Arkansas residents and libraries within state boundaries. If ineligible for Traveler, contact your local public library to learn about similar services and resources that are available in your area.
* Newton County Library Patrons can access database resources the library or the State Library from home. To do this you must enable your Geo-location services tool on your computer for access success.
Biblio Labs authenticates based on the patron’s IP address being within the State of Arkansas. *
The Traveler program provides free remote access for all Arkansas citizens to high-quality subscription databases from reputable publishers. The databases contain a variety of information sources: popular magazines, newspapers and periodicals; academic and professional journals, eBook collections, and general reference and discovery sources that are suitable for online and scholarly research. The resources selected support a variety of education and reading levels. This project is made possible by a grant from U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services to the Arkansas State Library under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act.