Databases - Descriptions

Academic OneFile - The premiere source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Mostly full-text. 

ACM Digital Library - Full-text journals, transactions and magazines from the Association for Computing Machinery. 

American Chemical Society Web Editions - Full-text ACS publications back to the first issue of each title.

ASME International - Full-text publications of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers from 2000 to the present.

Book Review Index Plus - A comprehensive source for book reviews that electronically indexes reviews from 1965 to the present. Provides more than 634,000 full-text reviews (and links to others) to researchers in seconds.

Books & Authors - A database to help you decide what to read next. Search by character, topic, setting, time period, genre, title, author, and series. Includes over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner, and librarian's favorites lists. Titles include both fiction and non-fiction.

Business and Company Resource Center - Fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.

Chilton Library - The most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners. There are thousands of year, make, and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models.

CollegeSource Online - Full-text college catalogs.

Computer Database - Over 2,687,481 articles from journals, trade magazines and popular computing magazines; some full text.

CRCnetBASE - Full text of 1000+ CRC Press and other engineering handbooks.

Critical, Physical and Math Tables - Full-text reference volumes of tabular data of interest to chemists, physicists & engineers.

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EI Engineering Index (Compendex) - Citations & abstracts only (no full text) from 5000 journals & conference proceedings in all engineering fields dating back to 1969. Most comprehensive overall engineering database.

ERIC - Contains annotated references to non-journal material issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Mostly full text.

Expanded Academic ASAP - Magazine, newspaper and journal articles appropriate to college and university-level research. All topics. Mostly full text.

FDSys (Federal Digital System) - FDSys provides free online access to official federal government publications which include congressional, presidential, and federal agency materials. Through FDSys, you are able to search, browse, and download documents and publications.

Full Text Electronic Journal Holdings - An aggregated list of all full-text online journals available at Kettering University, whether from databases or by individual subscription.

Gale Virtual Reference Library - A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. All full text.

General BusinessFile ASAP - Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available. All full text.

General OneFile - A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Mostly full text.

General Reference Center Gold - One-stop access to general interest magazines, business periodicals, reference books, maps, historical images, and newspaper articles. Mostly full text.

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HarpWeek - Full text of Harper’s Weekly, a leading American illustrated newspaper, from 1857-1889.

Health and Wellness Resource Center - Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., articles from 2,200 general interest publications and links to reputable health Web sites in addition to a broad collection of Thomson Gale reference titles. Includes video. Mostly full text.

Health Reference Center Academic - Provides access to professional and personal health magazines, journals and reference sources.

IEEE Online - Full text of the IEEE All Society Package of 130+ journals, transactions, and magazines from 1998 to the present.

InfoTrac - A group of partially and totally full-text databases covering general, business, and health-related periodicals, and newspapers. Both scholarly journals and general interest magazines.

InfoTrac Newsstand - All full text. A collection of more than 1,000 newspapers from around the country and the world. Includes the New York Times (1985-current).

InfoTrac Student Edition - Over 1,100 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this database gives access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. Mostly full text.

INSPEC - Citations & abstracts only (no full text) from 5000 journals & conference proceedings in the areas of electrical engineering, physics, and computer science.

Institute of Physics Electronic Journals - Full text journals from the British Institute of Physics.

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Job and Career Accelerator - Easy-to-use online application combining everything you need for a successful job search. This innovative job hunting system enables users to explore, in detail, over 1,000 different occupations and match interests and skills with the career that's best. It allows searches for over five million recent local and national job postings while conveniently organizing and tracking the users' job search progress, all in one place. In addition, job seekers can create professional resumes and cover letters as well as practice and master interviewing skills.

LearningExpress Library - Interactive online learning platform of academic and licensing/certification practice tests. A tutorial course series designed to help all learners succeed on the tests they must pass; includes a section that takes users from job assessment to success on the job.

LegalTrac - Students, law school faculty and legal researchers will all find the legal publications they need in LegalTrac®. Drawing on a wide variety of the most highly regarded legal publications, LegalTrac® provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Some full text.

Mango Languages - Mango uses real-life situations and actual conversations to more effectively teach a new language. By listening to and repeating after material designed from native conversations, you'll not only learn the individual words and phrases, you'll know how they're used in practical situations and conversations. You'll learn more than grammar, vocabulary and conjugation, you'll learn how to communicate.

Marquis Who’s Who - Current biographies of individuals who have appeared in Who’s Who volumes since 1985 as well as in Who Was Who in America.

MathSciNet - Published by the American Mathematical Society, MathSciNet is a comprehensive reviewing, abstracting and indexing database covering items published in the mathematical sciences world-wide from 1940 to present, containing over 2 million items with more than 700,000 direct links to original articles. Bibliographic data from retrodigitized articles dates back to 1864.

MedlinePlus - Covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. Some full text.

MeLCat - A catalog of materials available through Michigan libraries. Patrons of participating libraries can order items from other statewide participating libraries and have them delivered to their local library branch.

MeL eBooks - Over 20,000 eBooks available on all topics. All full text.

Michigan Authors and Illustrators - A searchable database of Michigan authors and illustrators. Provides biographical and contact information.

Michigana (Sabin Collection): Sources in U.S. History Online - This digital archive documents state history. Drawn from the Sabin collection and other Gale sources, the archive provides access to a wide variety of documents: personal narratives and memoirs, pamphlets and political speeches, sermons and songs, legal treatises and children's books.

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New York Times - The daily newspaper New York Times 1995-present. All full text.

OAIster - This catalog of digitized materials includes books, articles and multimedia, representing multidisciplinary resources from more than 1,000 contributors worldwide.

OCLC FirstSearch - Twenty-seven databases in many subject areas, one of which, WilsonSelect Plus, is totally full text.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context - Features contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the new solution features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

ProQuest ABI/INFORM Global - Largely full-text business database, including Hoover’s Company Records.

SAE Digital Library - Full-text ground vehicle technical papers from 1998-current from the Society of Automotive Engineers. Indexing of all SAE publications back to 1906. Standards are available in the Library.

Science Citation Index Expanded - Citations & abstracts only (no full text) from 5900 journals across 150 scientific disciplines. Backfiles to 1988. Most comprehensive overall science database. Cited reference searching available.

ScienceDirect - Indexing for over 2000 scientific journals of which more than 700 physical science and engineering titles include full text back to 1995.

SIRS Renaissance - Provides dynamic information on the following topics: architecture and design, culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion, and visual arts. Many articles are accompanied by full-color images, including art reproductions, photographs, and illustrations. Full text.

Small Business Resource Center - Learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.

WorldCat - The world's largest online catalog of books and magazines. Includes a description of the item and which libraries own the item.

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