Lone Star College-Kingwood Library
SUBJECT GUIDE TO DATABASES (Articles
& More)
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If you are a NHMCCD student, you may apply for a library card online.
Problems accessing databases?
Articles from newspapers, popular magazines and scholarly journals:
e-Books and Reference:
- eLibrary (Curriculum Edition)
- Articles, images, videos, maps, dictionary & encyclopedia information.
- Facts.com
- 20 years of full-text news on the Internet with frequent updates.
- Gale Virtual Reference Collection
- Literature, science, economics, law and more.
- NetLibrary
- E-books on many subjects including business, computers, and literature.
- World Almanac
- Statistics, geography, politics and government information.
New or different databases to try :
- ARTStor
- Images of paintings, sculpture, photographs, artifacts, architecture,
interior design elements and more. Special NHMCCD instructor
privileges are available by sending an email to the Tomball
Service Desk with your course information.
- Gallup
Brain
- 60 years of public opinion polls.
-
Visual Thesaurus
- Expand your word IQ or find alternate keywords to improve your searches in our
other databases. Search results include a word map, definitions, pronounciation, parts of speech, and antonyms.
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- ARTStor
- Locate images of paintings, sculpture, photographs, artifacts, architecture,
interior design elements and more. Special NHMCCD instructor
privileges are available by sending an email to the Tomball
Service Desk with your course information.
- Biography Reference Bank
-
- GreenFile
- Search government documents, professional and research sources for information on "all aspects of human impact to the environment." Includes topics such as green building practices, sustainable agriculture, climate change, recycling, renewable resources, and more.
- Grove Art Online
- Articles and pictures.
- JSTOR
Arts & Sciences
- Back issues of scholarly journals. Search Project
MUSE for current articles.
- Project
MUSE
- Current issues of scholarly journals. Choose Advanced Search to narrow your search and add older JSTOR issues of journals included in Project MUSE . Search JSTOR independently for a complete search of its contents.
*Also recommended: Academic Search Complete and ProQuest
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Articles and company information:
- Business
& Company Resource Center
- Company directory and
investment and market share information.
Create lists of companies by SIC or NAICS code or geographical area.
- Business
Source Complete
- Search for articles by subject, company name, DUNS number or industry (NAICS) code.
-
Communication
& Mass Media Complete
- Over 200 journals in mass media and communication; full-text of
available for most sources. Includes historical coverage of 26 major
communication journals.
- GreenFile
- Search government documents, professional and research sources for information on "all aspects of human impact to the environment." Includes topics such as green building practices, sustainable agriculture, climate change, recycling, renewable resources, and more.
- JSTOR
Arts & Sciences
- Scholarly journal articles in economics. Search Project
MUSE for current articles.
- Project
MUSE
- Current issues of scholarly journals. Choose Advanced Search to narrow your search and add older JSTOR issues of journals included in Project MUSE . Search JSTOR independently for a complete search of its contents.
- Regional
Business News
- Business newspapers and journals with a focus on major urban and rural areas of the
U.S. Includes major newswires.
- RIA Checkpoint
- Professional research service for
tax, accounting and financial reporting and management research. *For Accounting students/faculty only. Logins
are issued by the Accounting faculty.
- Westlaw
Campus Research
- Regional business news and law from trade and industry publications and regional newspapers, news program transcripts and more.
Government & Industry Sources: 
Free access
- Census 2000
- Official population, housing, economic, and geographic data.
- Export.gov
- Assistance from the
United States Commercial Service for small to medium sized
businesses that benefit from international trade. Includes market research,
counseling, product promotion, exporting resources, and commercial news.
- FREDI
(Fast Retrieval of Economic Development Information)
- Local
demographic statistics for the Harris County and Montgomery County area
from the NHMCCD's Center for Business & Economic Development.
- Hoover's Online
- Annual reports, financials, industry
studies, investment information, and other company information.
- Thomas Register
- Industrial
catalogs online. Free registration.
- ValueLine
- Investor's information. In-depth information requires a personal subscription. Select the "Education" tab to find "Value Line University."
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*Also recommended: Academic Search Complete and ProQuest
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*Also recommended: Academic Search Complete and ProQuest
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Research & reference sources:
- Gallup
Brain
- 60 years of public opinion polls; create your own trend analysis.
- NetLibrary
- Search e-Books for topics in criminal justice,
politics and law.
- Westlaw
Campus Research
- Legal encyclopedias, law reviews. Gain experience using WestLaw's exclusive
KeyCite® to research the history of federal and state cases, statutes and
administrative decisions.
*Also recommended: Academic Search Complete and ProQuest
Research Library
US & Texas government resources
Free access
- Congress.org
- Identify and contact your federal and
state elected officials
- USA.gov
- Index to all government
web sites.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- From the US Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs and related federal offices. Click on the "Library/Abstracts" link to
search the NCJRS Abstracts, an index of federal and state documents, books, journals and more dating back to 1970. Abstracts only, no full text.
- Texas Online
- From the link to "Government", go to "Laws and Criminal Justice" and search the Texas Statutes. Also new legislation from the Texas Legislature,
and statistics
from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
- Thomas (Legislative
Information on the Internet)
- Best resource to use for tracking a bill through
Congress.
*Also recommended: Findlaw.com, a directory of
online legal resources, including legal forms.
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Articles from newspapers, popular magazines and scholarly journals:
Facts, statistics and opinion polls:
- CountryWatch
- Political, economic, cultural , business & environmental
information.
- Facts.com
- Includes news, Issues & Controversies, World
Almanac, and Today's Science.
- Gallup
Brain
- 60 years of public opinion polls
Viewpoint essays, topic overviews, articles and more:
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- Chronicle of Higher Education
- The
premier professional publication for education news and insights.
- The Educator's Reference Desk
Free
access
- Selected educational resources.
- ERIC (EBSCO)
- The Education Resources Information Center includes
indexing for education
journals from around the globe. Also included are government
reports, conference proceedings, project and program descriptions,
curriculum guides, bibliographies, and more, with links to full-text
for an increasing number of its ED, or Eric Document references. Also search as a free database at http://www.eric.ed.gov/.
- Professional Development Collection
- Specialized collection of full-text articles from selected education journals,
reports, and more for educators.
- Project
MUSE
- Current issues of scholarly journals. Choose Advanced Search to narrow your search and add older JSTOR issues of journals included in Project MUSE . Search JSTOR independently for a complete search of its contents.
- Teacher Reference Center
- Index of popular professional publications in education.
*Also recommended: Academic Search Complete and ProQuest
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View a complete list of e-journals available for NHMCCD faculty, staff & students. Read online or subscribe via a RSS feed. For more information,
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- CIA
World Factbook Free access
- Country
capsules.
- CountryWatch
- Political, economic, cultural , business & environmental
information; choose "Countrywatch Maps" to explore map information available.
- eLibrary Curriculum Edition
- Choose the Maps section to view, print or order high quality maps; includes historical, relief and street maps from around the world.
- Geographic
Names Information System (USGS Gazetteer)Free access.
- Enter a geographic name and get a
description and map.
- Handbook of Texas Free access in Texas.
- Full text. Texas history &
geography.
- History Reference Center
- Select Images/Videos from the links just under the top tabs to find historical photographs, videos and maps.
-
History Study Center
- Select "Maps & Reference" from the menu located on the right.
- Maps 101 Academic
- Thematic, political, historical, and outline maps for display, download or printing; features include US and world atlases and current news related to geography.
- National Geographic
- In-library use or check-out.
CD-Rom has full text articles and pictures from 1888
- 1995. Online
IndexFree access
- Texas
Digital Sanborn Maps
- Historic property and land-use maps for
Texas towns and cities from the late 1800's to mid-1950's.
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Research & reference information:
- CountryWatch
- Political, economic, cultural , business & environmental
information.
- CQ Weekly
- Unique, non-partison coverage of U.S. Congressional issues includes updates on legislation and in-depth reports on current topics.
- Gallup
Brain
- 60 years of public opinion; create your own customized trend analysis.
-
Legal Collection
- Full-text articles from selected peer-reviewed journals. Includes cases, documents and abstracts for articles from additional journals.
- Military
& Government Collection
- Current news related to all branches of the military.
- NetLibrary
- E-books on criminal justice,
politics, law and more.
- Westlaw
Campus Research
- Use WestLaw's exclusive
KeyCite® to research the history of federal and state cases, statutes and
administrative decisions. Includes law encyclopedia and major law reviews.
*Also recommended: Academic Search Complete and ProQuest
Research Library
Internet resources: Free access
- Congress.org
- Identify and contact your federal and
state elected officials
- Findlaw.com
- Subject guide to to online resource,
including legal forms.
- USA.gov
- Index to all government
web sites.
- FREDI
(Fast Retrieval of Economic Development Information)
- Local
demographic statistics for the Harris County and Montgomery County area
from the NHMCCD's Center for Business & Economic Development.
- Legal Information
Institute
- Legal information gateway from Cornell.
- Martindale Hubbell
- Locate a lawyer by specialty and location.
- Texas
Statutes
- Search the
full-text.
- Thomas (Legislative
Information on the Internet)
- Best resource to use for tracking a bill through
Congress.
Choose another subject
- ARTStor
- Locate images of paintings, sculpture, photographs, artifacts, architecture,
interior design elements and more. Images can be printed or saved, but must
be used for non-profit, educational use for NHMCCD classes only. Special NHMCCD instructor
privileges are available by sending an email to the Tomball
Service Desk with your course information.
- Biography Reference Bank
- Famous people from antiquity to now.
- Gallup
Brain
- Search 60 years of public opinion, view the latest
polls, and create your own customized trend analysis.
- Handbook of Texas Free access
- Texas history & geography, full text.
- HeritageQuest
- Genealogical research materials including census records,
military records, and family and local histories
- History Reference Center
- Find the full-text for journal articles, reference books, non-fiction books, as well as thousands of historial photographs, maps and videos.
-
History Study Center
- Digital dissertations, articles and primary sources for
British, American and world history, including maps, photographs & videos.
- JSTOR
Arts & Sciences
- Scholarly journals. Search Project
MUSE for recent articles.
- MLA International Bibliography
- Comprehensive ndex
to scholarly research from books and journals. A small number of full-text articles are included.
- National Geographic Magazine
- In-library use or check-out.
CD-Rom has full text articles and pictures from 1888 to 1995. Online
IndexFree access.
- New
York Times Historical (ProQuest) - 1851 to 2003.
- Choose
"Collections" to select database and search deep back file; search ProQuest National Newspapers for more recent articles includes, from 1980 to the present..
- Project
MUSE
- Current issues of scholarly journals. Choose Advanced Search to narrow your search and add older JSTOR issues of journals included in Project MUSE . Search JSTOR independently for a complete search of its contents.
- Texas
Digital Sanborn Maps
- Historic property and land-use maps for
Texas towns and cities from the late 1800's to mid-1950's.
- Texas Reference Center
- A unique collection of full-text magazines and books provide up-to-date information on Texas current events, literature, history, science, business and more.
*Also recommended: Academic Search Complete and ProQuest
Research Library
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- ARTStor
- Locate images of paintings, sculpture, photographs, artifacts, architecture,
interior design elements and more. Images can be printed or saved, but must
be used for non-profit, educational use for NHMCCD classes only. Special NHMCCD instructor
privileges are available by sending an email to the Tomball
Service Desk with your course information.
- Columbia Granger's
World of Poetry
- Search for an entire poem by title, subject or
author.
- Gale
Literary Databases
- Search Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of
Literary Biography individually or in one step to locate
biographical and critical articles on more than 110,000 authors and
their writings.
- Great Books Online Free access
- From Bartleby.com. New: Complete works of
Shakespeare. (There are other resources for full-text books
online; search title and 'etext' in any web search engine, such as Google.)
- JSTOR
Arts & Sciences
- Scholarly journals with full-text for artm literature, economics, history, social sciences, science and
mathematics. Search Project
MUSE for more recent articles.
- Literature
Resource Center
- Full text articles from reference books and
Twayne's Masterworks books. Journal articles, some full text and
some excerpted.
- MLA
International Bibliography
- Select the link to "MLA International Bibliography" from the buttons at the top or the blue table. This is an index to literary criticism in
scholarly journals and books. Most thorough source from the
Modern Language Association.
- Project
MUSE
- Current issues of scholarly journals. Choose Advanced Search to narrow your search and add older JSTOR issues of journals included in Project MUSE . Search JSTOR independently for a complete search of its contents.
*Also recommended: Academic Search Complete and ProQuest
Research Library
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Articles and reference of general interest:
- Alt HealthWatch
- Alternative and complementary healthcare from full-text research journals,
pamplets, reports, proceedings and consumer health newsletters.
- Centers for Disease
Control Free access
- National
Center for Infectious Diseases. Includes epidemiology, diagnosis,
treatment and prevention.
-
Consumer Health Complete
- Popular magazines, reference books, pamplets and more; includes images and diagrams. Some content available in Spanish.
- Health Source: Consumer Edition
-
Health, medical and nutritional information, with an emphasis on popular sources. Also includes books, pamplets and and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, up-to-date drug monographs.
- MedlinePlus Free access
- Consumer Health and
Disease information from the National Library of Medicine includes
some full-text journal articles.
- Natural & Alternative Treatments
- Unbiased information on alternative therapies and
treatments.
*Also recommended: Academic Search Complete and ProQuest
Research Library
Additional resources for professionals and preprofessional students:
- CINAHL
(Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) with Full-Text
- Clinical trials, legal cases and more with indexing from 1937 to date; focus on nursing, but also includes dental hygiene and
respiratory & occupational therapy.
- Health
& Wellness Resource Center
- Scholarly research
articles, current health
and medical news and links to selected Internet sources. Also includes videos and alternative health sources.
- Health
Reference Center Academic
- Articles from journals, magazines, and reference books.
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
- Scholarly journal articles for nursing and allied health and and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, monographs for herbal and nutritional supplements, and over-the-counter and new prescription drugs.
- MEDLINE (EBSCO)
- Comprehensive database of international medical literature from the National Library of Medicine. Also available to the public as PubMed.
- Merck Manual Free access
- Full text of the classic medical reference
book covering diseases and treatment.
- Occupational Therapy [OT
BibSys]
- Comprehensive list of books and articles, with some abstracts.
- Stat!Ref
~ Help with links from Stat!Ref
- Full-text medical reference library.
- Thomson
Micromedex Healthcare Series
- Reference material
on clinical toxicology, basic medical calculators and evidence-based
answers for disease management and treatment; includes the
CareNotes system with easy-to-understand medical
information for patients, in English and Spanish.
- US
Pharmacopeia Free access
- A
guide to over 9,000 prescription and over the counter drugs.
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- Biography Reference Bank
- Locate biographical information on musicians,
composers, conductors and more; search by genre, role or name.
- NAXOS Music Library
- Listen to over 85,000 tracks of classical, jazz, folk and world
music and study music terminology, history and biographical sources, as
well as selected opera synopses and libretti. Instructors may go to this link to create a playlist for their students. Call 281-312-1693 or email kingwood.lrc@nhmccd.edu for an instructor username and password.
* Requires
Windows Media Player version 9 (select version 9 for Windows XP;
Windows 98 SE, Me, and 2000; or Mac OS X).
- Project
MUSE
- Current issues of scholarly journals. Choose Advanced Search to narrow your search and add older JSTOR issues of journals included in Project MUSE . Search JSTOR independently for a complete search of its contents.
*Also recommended: Academic Search Complete and ProQuest
Research Library
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- Houston
Chronicle
- Full text articles, no pictures, obituaries, or ads,
from 1985 to date.
- Facts.com
- 20 years of full-text news on the Internet with frequent
updates from Facts on File World News Digest and Reuters.
- Gallup
Brain
- Search 60 years of public opinion, view the latest
polls, and create your own customized trend analysis.
- InfoTrac Newspapers
- National & international newspapers, updated daily.
- Newspaper Source
- Full-text articles for 25 national and international newspapers; also includes transcripts from television and radio news programs.
- ProQuest
National Newspapers
- Search the New York Times (1980 to date), Wall
Street Journal (1984 to date), Washington Post (1987 to date) , or Christian
Science Monitor (1988 to date) or select the "Publications" tab to add Houston Chronicle (1985 to date) and Los Angeles Times (1985 to date) to your search.
- Westlaw
Campus Research
- Recent news from around the globe, including television transcripts, as well as legal and business
information from industry and trade publications, regional newspapers and more.
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*Also recommended: Academic Search Complete and ProQuest
Research Library
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- Biography Reference Bank
- Locate biographical information on artists, painters, sculptors, photographers
and more.
- Columbia Granger's
World of Poetry
- Search for an entire poem by title, subject or
author.
- CountryWatch
- Political, economic, cultural , business & environmental information.
- eLibrary (Curriculum Edition)
- Articles, images, videos, maps, dictionary & encyclopedia information on all topics.
- Gale Virtual Reference Collection
- A collection of reference sources in humanites, literature, history, business, law, science and sports.
- Grove Art Online
- Grove Music Online
- Merck Manual Free access
- Full text of the classic medical reference
book covering diseases and treatment.
- Natural & Alternative Treatments
- Encyclopedia-type articles provide unbiased information on alternative therapies and
treatments. Select one of five categories (Conditions, Herbs & Supplements, Drug Interactions,
Alternative Therapies, and Functional Foods.
- Stat!Ref
- An online, full-text medical reference library.
- Texas Reference Center
- A unique collection of full-text magazines and books provide up-to-date information on Texas current events, literature, history, science, business and more.
- Texas Statutes Free access
- Searchable full-text statutes of the state of Texas.
-
Visual Thesaurus
- Expand your word IQ or find alternate keywords to improve your searches in our
other databases. Search results include a word map, definitions, pronounciation, parts of speech, and antonyms.
- World Almanac
- Available through Facts.com.
Choose another subject
- Academic Search Complete
- Scholarly, multi-discipline, full-text
database. Subject areas include sciences, social sciences, education,
computer sciences, literature, and medical sciences.
- Agricola
- Comprehensive indexing of literature in agriculture and related subjects from the National Library of Agriculture.
- GreenFile
- Search government documents, professional and research sources for information on "all aspects of human impact to the environment." Includes topics such as green building practices, sustainable agriculture, climate change, recycling, renewable resources, and more.
- JSTOR
Arts & Sciences
- Scholarly journals. Search Project MUSE for recent articles.
- Project
MUSE
- Current issues of scholarly journals. Choose Advanced Search to narrow your search and add older JSTOR issues of journals included in Project MUSE . Search JSTOR independently for a complete search of its contents.
- Science.gov Free
access
- "Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science
information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research
and development results."
- Today's
Science On File
- From Facts.com, the latest
developments in science, medicine, and technology. Click on the
"Today's Science" tab to access.
- ProQuest Research Library
- Over 1900 journals in all subjects, mostly full
text, updated daily. Includes such disciplines as astronomy,
biology, chemistry, general science, geology, mathematics and
physics.
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