Online Resources / Research Databases: Detailed Descriptions

Books24x7, IT Pro Collection

NOTE: e-Books in the Books24x7 IT Pro Collection can also be searched individually by subject, title, author in NEIT Library Online Catalog.

NEIT students, faculty, and staff only:
Follow the directions on the Passworded Databases Page.

STUDENTS: Use Blackboard username (9 digit student ID) and password
FACULTY: Use ATS ID and password
STAFF: Contact Sharon Charette for username and password

If you you have trouble accessing this database off-campus, send an email to the library.
[Note: The Passworded Databases page may work differently ON or OFF campus. The Passworded Databases page on administrative computers on campus will take you directly into Books24x7.]

Books 24x7's ITPro offers thousands of books with broad and deep coverage of over 100 technology topics.

EBSCO A-to-Z®
EBSCO A-to-Z® is an organizational tool for the NEIT library's collections of serials publications such as periodicals, journals, newspapers, and magazines. These include ALL publications available in print only, electronic only or print and electronic formats. Quickly look up publications by title or ISSN. Another possibility is to browse titles or subjects. Try now.

Periodical Holdings List
This is a list of all current and bound periodicals titles that the Library owns. The list includes the physical location of the print subscriptions in the Library or in storage and whether or not back issues are available in bound format, online, or both.
Go to Periodical Holdings List.

EBSCOhost consists of a number of databases (each described below) that contain full text and full image publications including scholarly journals, newspapers, periodicals and magazines as well as citations and abstracts for other articles.

Databases included in EBSCOhost Web:

General/Scholarly Database
Academic Search Premier
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
MasterFILE Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 2,050 general reference publications with information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, also includes more than 350 full text reference books, 82,968 biographies, 90,915 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.

Business Databases
Business Source Premier
As the world’s largest full text business database, Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 7,600 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.
Regional Business News
Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Health Databases
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, and also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
The richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health, searchable full text for nearly 300 journals.
MEDLINE®
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences,allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Coverage of more than 550 full text journals, including more than 525 peer-reviewed titles, covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

Education Databases
Professional Development Collection
A highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles, the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
ERIC
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.

Specialized Databases
Military & Government Collection
Offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.
Newspaper Source
Provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers,contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
Religion & Philosophy Collection
Extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy, offers more than 300 full text journals.
Sociological Collection
Offers information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. Provides coverage of more than 500 full text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles.

Technical Database
Vocational and Career Collection
Full text coverage for 400 trade and industry-related periodicals.

Auto Repair Reference Center

The Auto Repair Reference Center database includes automotive repair information supplied by Point 5 Technologies, Inc., under license from Nichols Publishing, the former publisher of Chilton® Information and information from Delphi Integrated Service Solutions. Auto Repair Reference Center contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945. Database content includes more than 31,660 vehicles covered from 1945 to present; over 205,000 drawings and step-by-step photographs; approximately 75,000 technical service bulletins & recalls issued by the original equipment vehicle manufacturer; over 130,000 enhanced wiring diagrams for easy viewing and printing; specifications & maintenance schedules; Labor Time Guide & Estimator; AutoIQ; Quick Tips, a complete guide to vehicle ownership & maintenance; unlimited remote access and much more. New repair procedures and updates will also be added continuously. All of the content in Auto Repair Reference Center has been created by ASE certified technicians.

Using EBSCOhost Databases (online tutorials)

Basic Searching for Academic Libraries (runtime 3.25 minutes)
Advanced Search with Single Find Field; Creating Search and Journal Alerts (runtime 3 minutes)
Advanced Search with Guided Style (runtime 4 minutes)

ProQuest
A database to access full text of New York Times publications (late edition, book review, magazine) dating back to June 1980.

ON campus:
ProQuest on-campus link

OFF campus:
ProQuest off-campus link.
[Password required for off-campus use. Contact Library staff for assistance.]

New York Times (Late Edition, East Coast)
Full-text coverage --The ProQuest subscription is only for the newspaper (1980 - current), New York Times Book Review (1997- current), and New York Times Magazine (1997 - current)
ON campus link / OFF-campus link
Coverage of the U.S. newspaper of record. Offers superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions and presidential press conference transcripts.

American (a small selection)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Boston Globe
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Tribune
Christian Science Monitor
Denver Post
Detroit News
Hartford Courant [04/05]
Houston Chronicle
Miami Herald [04/08]
Los Angeles Times
New York Times [also available via library subscription.] [02/07]
Philadelphia Inquirer

Providence Journal (daily)
Currently available full text from 1997 > present via EBSCO. (one week embargo - print available in the library.) To obtain articles pre 1997, see the Reference Librarian.
San Francisco Chronicle
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Stars and Stripes
URL: http://www.stripesonline.com/
"Stars and Stripes is a Department of Defense-authorized daily newspaper distributed overseas for the U.S. military community. Editorially independent of interference from outside its editorial chain of command, it provides commercially available U.S.and world news and objective staff-produced stories relevant to the military community in a balanced, fair, and accurate manner."
USA Today
Wall Street Journal
URL: http://online.wsj.com/public/us
[12/06]
Washington Post

Rhode Island
Block Island Times
The Call (daily, formerly Woonsocket Call) [04/08]
The Chariho Times (weekly)
The Coventry Courier (weekly)
Cranston Herald (weekly)
EastBayRI.com
Includes Barrington Times, Bristol Phoenix, East Providence Post, Newport This Week, Sakonnet Times, Seekonk Star, Swansea News, Warren Times, Westport Shorelines.
East Greenwich Pendulum (weekly)
Kent County Daily Times (daily)
Narragansett Times (twice weekly)
Newport Daily News (daily)
Pawtucket Times (daily)
Providence Business News
Providence Journal (daily)
Currently available full text from 1997 > present via EBSCO. (one week embargo - print available in the library.) To obtain articles pre 1997, see the Reference Librarian.
Providence Phoenix (weekly)
Rhode Island Catholic
URL: http://thericatholic.com/
Established in May 2007 in its present format, weekly, Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, original since 1875, formerly known as the Providence Visitor [05/08]
The Standard-Times (weekly, North Kingstown)
Warwick Beacon (weekly)
Woonsocket Call (now known as The Call)
The Westerly Sun (daily)

Online News Resources - Find news and newspapers
Findnews.org
URL: http://www.findnews.org
Provides news links to mainstream news, Internet news, newspapers in North America and around the world.
Newspaper Index
URL: http://www.newspaperindex.com/
Listing of newspapers from all over the world with front pages of each. No US papers. [06/08]
Online Newspapers
URL: http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
Thousands of newspapers from all over the world, includes United States. [06/08]
U.S. Newspaper List
URL: http://www.usnpl.com/
Links to newspaper sites by state.

Online News Sources
msnbc.com
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
cnn.com
URL: http://www.cnn.com/

International/ Foreign Newspapers and News Services

General Links
Foreign Newspapers
Newspapers from around the world.
News and Newspapers Online
Newspapers from around the country & the world.
News Directory.com
Newspapers and magazines from around the world.
Online Newspapers.com
World Newspapers
Newspapers, news services, and television stations around the world.
World-Newspapers.com
English-language newspapers and magazines from around the world.

Digests of News From Around the World
The Atlantic Online: Foreign Affairs
BBC World Service
OneWorld.net
WorldNetDaily
World News.com [05/08]
World Press Review

Specific Newspapers
(Newspapers are in English unless otherwise noted.)
Al Jazeera in English
Athens News (Greece)
Deutsche Welle (Germany)
Die Welt (Germany)
El País (Madrid, Spain – in Spanish)
Evening Standard Online (London, England)
Guardian Unlimited (United Kingdom)
Independent (United Kingdom)
International Herald Tribune
Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland)
Japan Times (Tokyo, Japan)
Jerusalem Post (Jerusalem, Israel and Palestine) [06/08]
Kashmir Times (Jammu & Kashmir, India)
La Reppublica (Rome, Italy – in Italian)
Le Figaro (France – in French)
Le Monde (France– in French)
L'Osservatore Romano (Vatican City)
Montréal Gazette (Montréal, Québec, Canada) [06/08]
Moscow Times (Moscow, Russia)
News.com.au (Australia)
News International (Karachi, Pakistan)
Ottawa Sun (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
Público (Lisbon, Portugal – in Portuguese)
The Standard China's Business Newspaper. (Hong Kong, China)
Star (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, Australia)
Times (London, England)
Times of India (New Delhi, Delhi, India)

News Wire Services and Internet News Service

1stHeadlines
Collected from newspapers and news services around the world.
NewsBlip
Search engine for news.
NewsDirectory.com
URL: http://www.ecola.com
Access to websites of over 14,000 English-language news sources, including newspapers and magazines.
NewsIndex
Index of more than 300 news sources.[RETRY, not working -- 05/08]
NewsLink
Searchable database and links to news sources by subjects, city, or country.
PR Newswire: News and Information
A variety of news sources listed by continent and country.
Total News
Searchable news database featuring major network news outlets.
Yahoo! News
Headlines from major news providers from around the world.

Online Periodicals, Journals (Free)
Collections of periodicals or journals that are Internet accessible, and free. Some may require registration. Some may now include a fee for certain articles.

See Online Publications for a complete listing.