General Proprietary Databases

• ***** Central Search (Googlize ebooks & ejournals) - Search all or selected proprietary & some public domain ebooks & ebook & ejournal databases. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• Academic Search Complete - Designed for academic institutions. Search articles in over 5,300 publications (over 4,460 peer-reviewed) back to 1865, citations & abstracts for 9,300 journals & 10,900 publications (monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.), cited references for 1,000 journals. Covers all areas of academic study (area studies, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, etc.). Updated daily. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• American National Biography (ANB) - Search & browse over 17,400 articles with descriptive bibliographies & 2,500 illustrations of famous, distinguished, infamous, dead Americans. Limit to special collections on Black History, Women's History, Asian Pacific American Heritage, Hispanic Heritage, American Indian Heritage. Has a teacher's guide. Updated quarterly. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, South, Berlin, France), Law, TUI.



• Associations Unlimited - Search information (full contact, meetings & publications, etc.) on over 460,000 international & U.S. national, regional, state, local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields. Includes IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations, standard industrial classification (SIC) codes. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, South, Berlin), Law, TUC, TUI.



• BooksInPrint.com Professional - Search over 700,000 reviews of titles by over 200,000 publishers; 30,000 full-text previews; 140,000 tables of contents. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South). WHEN FINISHED, CLICK ON LOGOUT TO CLOSE YOUR SESSION.



• ChoiceReviews.online - Search over 115,000 reviews back to 1987. Covers books & electronic resources of interest to higher education. Updated monthly. You can register, create a profile, and have resources of interest emailed to you monthly. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South).



• Credo Reference - Was xreferplus. Search over 210 reference sources (biographies, conversions, dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotations) in 16 academic disciplines. Covers art, business, history, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, psychology, science, social sciences, technology, etc.. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• Custom Newspapers - Provided by NOVEL, NY State Library's free public statewide virtual library pilot project funded via a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to the NY State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Search articles in 150 national & international newspapers (The New York Times, The Financial Times, etc.) & its subset New York State Newspapers. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY), Law, THmed.



• ebrary - Search & browse over 31,000 ebooks. Covers all areas of academic study. To get started, go through the ebrary Quick Start Training Program flash demo (covers the ebrary Reader & ebrary InfoTools) or read the ebrary Quick Start Guide. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUI, TUN, LIJ. WHEN LOGGING IN THE 1ST TIME, DOWNLOAD EBRARY READER.



• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online - Academic edition. Search the encyclopaedia of over 73,000 articles & 10,000 illustrations, or limit to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus. Includes a World Atlas, Compare Countries, Timelines, Year in Review, World Data, Video Browse, Gateway to the Classics. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• Encyclopedia Americana - Grolier Online. Search 45,000 articles by 6,500 specialists, links to 100,000 periodical articles, 9,000 bibliographies, 3,000 images, 155,000 Web links. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel), Law, LIJ.



• Ereserves - Link to required electronic course material selected by professors & input by library staff after filing with the Copyright Clearance Center. Includes ebooks & ejournal articles; scanned book chapters & journal articles; Web sites, documents, databases, etc.; Course Reserves pages in the Books & Media (Library Catalog). Read "Information for New Users," then go to "Electronic Reserves & Reserve Pages" & search for material by course, department, instructor, document. There is a link to EReserves in Blackboard courses that require online course materials. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, South), Thmed.



• Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia - Grolier Online. Search 40,000 quick reference articles, 24,000 encyclopedia articles, 7,500 photos & illustrations, 114,000 Web links derived from the Academic American Encyclopedia. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel), Law, LIJ.



• Grolier Online - Search the entire Grolier Online, or limit to the Encyclopedia Americana or Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Includes dictionaries, an atlas, news, links to world newspapers, information for educators (lesson plans, etc.). RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, Israel), Law, LIJ.



• JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, III & IV and Business II Collections - Browse articles in over 500 arts, sciences & business journals back to the mid-1800s. Covers education, history, Jewish studies, language & literature, law, mathematics, political science, sociology, etc.. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts - Search citations & abstracts of articles in 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports, proceedings back to the mid-1960s. Covers librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, etc.. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC,TUI, TUN.



• Marquis Who's Who On The Web - Search over 1 million concise & comprehensive biographies of accomplished individuals worldwide from all fields of endeavor. Drawn from 20 Marquis print titles back to 1985 (Who Was Who in America, Who's Who in (America, American [Art, Education, History, Law, Nursing], 20th Century America, the East, Midwest, South & Southwest, West, the World, Entertainment, Finance & Business, Media & Communications, Medicine & Healthcare, Religion, Science & Engineering), Who's Who Among Human Services Professionals, Who's Who of (American Women, Emerging Leaders in America). Updated daily. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, South, Berlin), Law, TUC, TUI.



• Masterfile Premier - Search nearly 1,750 periodicals, nearly 500 reference books, 86,017 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos and maps. Covers general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues, etc. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, NY-Alumni, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• netLibrary - Search over 13,180 ebooks. Covers all areas of academic study. To get started, go through the Welcome to NetLibrary flash demo (covers econtent & eaudiobooks) or read the NetLibrary QuickStart Guide & NetLibrary Audiobooks QuickStart Guide. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ. WHEN YOU LOG IN THE FIRST TIME, CREATE YOUR OWN ACCOUNT. CHECKOUTS LAST FOUR HOURS.



• New York State Newspapers - A subset of Custom Newspapers. Provided by NOVEL, NY State Library's free public statewide virtual library pilot project funded via a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to the NY State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Search over 879,900 articles in 10 major newspapers (The New York Times, New York Post, etc.). Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY), Law, THmed.



• Newspaper Source - Search articles in 25 U.S. & international newspapers (The Washington Post, The Times (London), etc.), selected articles from over 200 regional U.S. newspapers (The Miami Herald, The New York Daily News, etc.). Includes television & radio news transcripts (CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc.). Updated daily. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, Israel, Moscow), Law, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• NoodleTools - Generate, edit, publish an MLA Works Cited list or APA References list that complies with rules of the current MLA Handbook & APA Publication Manual. For detail on using this program, read our Creating Your Bibliography with NoodleTools. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South). WHEN YOU LOG IN THE FIRST TIME, CREATE YOUR OWN ACCOUNT. WHEN FINISHED, CLICK ON LOG OUT TO CLOSE YOUR SESSION. FACULTY - Create a Class Name for your students so they can share their citation/reference lists with you for review & comment.



• OCLC FirstSearch - Search over 30 bibliographic, numeric, full-text specialty databases. Includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index, BasicBIOSIS, Biology Digest, Business and Management Practices, Clase and Periodica, Contemporary Women's Issues, Dissertation Abstracts Online, EconLit, GEOBASE, MDX Health Digest, Media Review Digest, PAIS International, ProceedingsFirst, SIRS Researcher, WorldCat, etc.. RESTRICTED to TC (NY) library PCs.



• OED Online (Oxford English Dictionary) - Search for definitions, etymologies, quotations from the 20 vol., 2nd ed., 1989 & 3 vol. add. series, 1993-97. Updated quarterly. RESTRICTED to the TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUN, LIJ.



• Original Sources - From Encyclopaedia Britannica. Search & browse original source documents in history, politics & government, philosophy, religion, science, the social sciences & original work of literary figures writing in English & other languages. Has a quotation finder, concordance. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel), Law, LIJ.



• Oxford Reference Online (premier collection) - Search & browse over 100 ebooks in 24 categories. Covers the English language, history, literature, physical sciences & mathematics, politics & social sciences, religion & philosophy, science, etc.). Includes bilingual dictionaries. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY). WHEN FINISHED, CLICK ON LOG OUT TO CLOSE YOUR SESSION.



• ProQuest Central - Search articles in over 11,300 periodicals and in over 760 full-text newspapers. Encompasses ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, Accounting & Tax with Standards, Asian Business and Reference, Banking Information Source, Canadian Business & Current Affairs, Canadian Newstand, Career & Technical Education, Criminal Justice Periodicals, Full Text Dissertations (30,000), Hoover's Company Records, OxResearch, Pharmaceutical News Index, ProQuest Biology Journals, ProQuest Computing, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Health Management, ProQuest Medical Library, ProQuest Military, ProQuest Newspapers, ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source, ProQuest Psychology Journals, ProQuest Religion, ProQuest Science Journals, ProQuest Social Science Journals, ProQuest Telecommunications, Research Library, Snapshots (3,000 industry reports), and Social Science Research Network. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• Public Documents Masterfile - Search & browse citations of federal, state, local, international public documents back over 200 years, Includes links to World Bank publications back to 1946. RESTRICTED to TC (NY).



• SAGE Premier Collection - Search articles in over 485 journals. Covers business, health science, humanities, social sciences, science, and technology. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, Berlin, France), Law, THmed, LIJ.



• Serials Directory, The - Search bibliographic & pricing information on over 184,000 U.S. & international titles, historical data for 20,000 titles. Includes newspapers. Data from 83,500 publishers worldwide. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, Israel, Moscow), Law, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• SIGI PLUS (System of Interactive Guidance and Information) - Use this interactive self-assessment software to make informed & rational educational & career decisions by evaluating your values, interests, skills, resources (educational, financial, etc.). RESTRICTED to TC (NY). WHEN YOU LOG IN THE FIRST TIME, CREATE YOUR OWN ACCOUNT (USE YOUR TOURO I.D. NUMBER AS YOUR USER I.D. AND MAKE UP YOUR OWN PASSWORD).



• SPORTDiscus with Full Text - Search articles in 230 journals. Covers sports, fitness, sports medicine. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, Berlin), THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN.



• Web Sites of Print Subscriptions - EBSCOhost EJS (Electronic Journals Service). Link to Web sites for over 150 of Touro College Libraries' print subscriptions, most with articles back several years. RESTRICTED to TC (NY).



• Westlaw Campus Research - Search & browse news (hundreds of U.S newspapers, magazines, trade journals, international & foreign language publications, 400 newswires, newsletters, broadcast transcripts, company information) & law-related content (analytical sources - American Jurisprudence, American Law Journal, 800 law reviews & journals; primary law sources - US Code, federal/state/Supreme Court cases, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, European Union Law). Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.