Database Research

Database Research

Using Databases

• • Video: Databases: Tips and Tricks

  • Database Research Basics from Black Hawk College

  • Boolean Search Examples

Electronic Databases

• • Culinary Arts Collection (Gale)

The Culinary Arts Collection includes 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines as well as reference content. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

• • Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module (Gale)

Including the respected Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Health & Wellness Resource Center delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Additionally, consumers, students, and professionals are provided with descriptions of and links to many pertinent websites, selected for their usefulness and appropriateness.

• • Science Reference Center (EBSCO)

Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

• • Canadian Points of View Reference Center (EBSCO) Grades 9 - 12

This full-text database is designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides information on 100 key topics of interest to Canadian researchers, with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. Topics include the environment, human rights, race, substance abuse and many more. The database contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including 400 main essays, leading political magazines, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books. It also offers guides to debate, developing arguments and writing position papers. It provides the basis from which students can better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.

• • SIRS (Proquest) Grades 11 - 12

SIRS delivers the pros and cons on today’s complex social issues. Critical current issues and enduring social issues are covered through full-text articles, multimedia, primary sources, government documents and reference material from over 1,800 national and international sources. All publications and are hand indexed to subject headings.

Encyclopedias

• • Salem Press Encyclopedias (password required) 

    • • The 2000s in America

      • Adolescent Health & Wellness

      • Encyclopedia of Climate Change, Third Edition

      • Encyclopedia of Global Warming (electronic only)

      • Ethics: Questions & Morality of Human Actions, 3rd Edition

      • Genetics & Inherited Conditions (electronic only)

      • Great Events from History: The 21st Century (2000-2016)

      • Principles of Biotechnology (electronic only)

      • Principles of Climatology (electronic only)

      • Principles of Ecology 

      • Principles of Modern Agriculture

      • Principles of Sustainability (electronic only)

      • Nutrition 

      • Teens Growing Up: Skills & Strategies