Database Titles by Name - L-O
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LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons—students and adult learners—succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
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| Library Music Source | Library Music Source provides sheet music for more than 35,000 Western classical works, including music by Chopin, Schubert, Bach, and Beethoven. |
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Literary Reference Center (Ebsco) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a comprehensive database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works.
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Literature Resource Center (InfoTrac) allows you to find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.
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Literature Resources (InfoTrac) allows you to research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search across several major literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.
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| Mango Languages | Mango Languages offers a 100-lesson course that digs much deeper and is designed to provide a more complete understanding of the entire language and culture. It is available in nine foreign language and three ESL courses. Foreign language courses include Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. ESL courses include Polish, Spanish and Portuguese. |
| McGraw-Hill Medical eLibrary | McGraw-Hill Medical eLibrary contains full-text medical reference books and medical test preparation manuals from FirstAid. |
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Military & Intelligence Database (InfoTrac) has over 10 million articles (80% full-text) from more than 500 titles and basic reference materials.
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Mosby's Nursing Consult is brought to you by Elsevier, publisher of Mosby and Saunders, the world leader in nursing information. Mosby's Nursing Consult is the most trusted and comprehensive online resource for nurses, offering authoritative information to help provide better patient care. Resources are also excellent for other allied health professions.
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National Academies Press is the publisher for reports produced by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council. PDF copies of all of NAP's books are now available for free download. Find the book, then select "Download Free PDF." (http://www.nap.edu)
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National Center for Biotechnology Information has been charged with creating automated systems for storing and analyzing knowledge about molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics; facilitating the use of such databases and software by the research and medical community; coordinating efforts to gather biotechnology information both nationally and internationally; and performing research into advanced methods of computer-based information processing for analyzing the structure and function of biologically important molecules. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)
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| National Criminal Justice Reference Service |
The National Criminal Justice References Service (NCJRS) is a free government database offering extensive reference and referral services to help you find answers to your questions about crime and justice-related research, policy, and practice. Search Questions & Answers to access hundreds of questions related to juvenile and criminal justice, victim assistance, drug policy, and NCJRS services. (http://ncjrs.gov/index.html) University of Maryland provides a guide to using NCJRS.(www.lib.umd.edu/guides/ncjrs.html) |
| National Digital Newspaper Project | The National Digital Newspaper Project, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress, is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages.(http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/) |
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National Environmental Publications Information System is the EPA’s premier site for accessing EPA publications, with more than 7,000 in stock and 31,000 digital titles, free of charge! EPA’s print publications are available through the National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP), and EPA’s digital publications are stored in the National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS) database! You can search and retrieve, download, print and/or order only EPA publications from this site. (http://www.epa.gov/nscep/)
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National Image Library (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) contains the National Image Library--the Service's collection of public domain still photos. You may search all the images through the National Image Library link, or you may search by individual collections, which are listed underneath. (http://images.fws.gov/)
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| National Institute of Justice | National Institute of Justice is the research, development and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice. NIJ produces print and electronic publications, tools, and training materials about crime and justice. (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/publications/welcome.htm) |
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology Gateway provides access to a variety of databases covering everything from the structure of the HIV virus to biofuels to atomic weights and measures. Over 80 scientific and technical databases are available. (http://srdata.nist.gov/gateway/gateway?dblist=0)
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National Newspaper Index (InfoTrac) provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
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| Naxos Music Library | Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online offering over 550,000 tracks of Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. It includes the complete BIS, Chandos, Hänssler, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Naxos, Ondine and selected titles of other leading independent labels, with over 1,000 albums added monthly. Users can select music by composer, artist, period, year of composition, instrument or genre. |
| Nelson Mandela Digital Archive Project | The Nelson Mandela Digital Archive Project is a free archive aiming to locate, document, digitize, and provide access to all archival materials related to Nelson Mandela, former South African president and anti-apartheid activist. It includes photographs, videos, diaries, manuscripts, and much more. (http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!home) |
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NetLibrary contains electronic books you can read online. Through our subscription with NetLibrary, you have access to over 19,000 books covering a wide variety of issues. ***NetLibrary is now owned by EBSCO.***
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The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is the standard used by federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy. The official 2007 U.S. NAICS Manual, includes definitions for each industry, background information, tables showing changes between 2002 and 2007, and a comprehensive index. (http://www.census.gov/eos/www/naics/)
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| Nursing and Allied Health Collection | Nursing and Allied Health Collection (InfoTrac) covers all aspects of the nursing profession -- from direct patient care to health care administration. Including nearly 400 titles, this collection's current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum. |
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Nursing Resource Center (InfoTrac) brings together in an easy-to-use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts. The information is written in accessible language for nursing students completing class assignments and preparing for clinicals as they learn how to care for and treat patients. Search results are returned in tabs that correspond to steps in the nursing process.
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O*NET serves as the nation's primary source of occupational information, providing comprehensive information on key attributes and characteristics of workers and occupations. This is a comprehensive database of the U.S. Employment and Training Administration that identifies and describes occupations, worker skills, knowledge, abilities, and workplace requirements. (http://online.onetcenter.org/)
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OAIster is a combined library catalog describing the digital collections of a number of libraries. Digital resources can range from an old-time advertisement of electric refrigerators (from the Library of Congress American Memory project) to Harriet Beecher Stowe memoirs (from the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service Making of America collection). This resource provides access to resources from the "deep web" that are not normally returned by search engines such as Google and Yahoo. Some resources linked may have restricted access. (http://oaister.worldcat.org/)
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The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. Powered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, OOH provides the employment outlook for hundreds of different occupations. Topics included for each occupation are: nature of the work; working conditions; employment, training, other qualifications, and advancement; job outlook; and earnings. (http://www.bls.gov/oco/)
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| Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention | The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) provides national leadership, coordination, and resources to prevent and respond to juvenile delinquency and victimization. OJJDP supports states and communities in their efforts to develop and implement effective and coordinated prevention and intervention programs and to improve the juvenile justice system so that it protects public safety, holds offenders accountable, and provides treatment and rehabilitative services tailored to the needs of juveniles and their families. (http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org) |
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The Online Library of Liberty is where electronic versions of classic books about individual liberty are stored. These texts go back some 4,000 years and cover the disciplines of economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political theory, religion, war and peace. They are in a variety of formats - facsimile PDFs so scholars can view the original text, HTML for ease of searching and attractive layout, and text-based PDF EBooks for personal use. The Library also contains bibliographic information about the books as well as other "metadata" about the authors and editors. (http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=110)
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (InfoTrac) is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.
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| Oxford English Dictionary | The Oxford English Dictionary is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world. |
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Oxford Music Online is an award-winning resource that includes the full text of the acclaimed 29-volume New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd edition), the 4-volume New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and the 3-volume New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd edition). Including over 55,000 articles, sophisticated search and browse capabilities, Sibelius-enabled musical examples, and extensive links to musical sites on the Internet, Grove Music Online is the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music.
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