Alabama Virtual Library and EBSCOhost

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Alabama Virtual Library and EBSCOhost

• helping Teachers teach and Students learn

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Databases Designed for Each Type of Library
EBSCOhost

• Academic Databases
• Public Library Databases
• School Databases
• See EBSCOs database list on the AVL homepage
  for more complete database descriptions
  
• All databases are available to all Libraries

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For Academic Libraries

• EBSCO and AVL offer you...

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Academic Search Elitesubject areas covered
EBSCOhost

• General Science
• Applied Sciences
• Education
• And more...

• General Academic Reference
• Social Sciences
• Humanities
• Health/Medical

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Academic Search Elite
EBSCOhost

• Nearly 3,000 journals indexed and
  abstracted(cumulative coverage)
  
• Over 1,200 full text journals (cumulative
  coverage)
  
• Over 400 full text journals back to 1990
• Over 400 journals with imbedded images and over
  800 journals with PDF images
  
• Dun Bradstreet directory for 1,300,000
  companies
  

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Including the following Scholarly Journals
EBSCOhost

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• Taylor Francis
• SAGE
• MIT Press
• Transaction Publishers
• Heldref Publications
• Carfax
• And more

• Indexing and abstracts available for IEEE
  journals
  
• Indexing for more than 1,600 peer reviewed
  journals
  
• Full text for over 800 peer reviewed journals

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Some Unique and notable Full Text Journals in ASE
EBSCOhost
American Art American Sociologist Applied Beh
avioral Science Review Central European History
Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report
Consumer Reports International Journal of Roboti
cs Research International Review of Sociology
International Social Science Review
Issues in Education

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More unique and notable Full Text Journals in ASE
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Issues in Law Medicine Journal of Academic L
ibrarianship Journal of Education Journal of E
nvironmental Law Practice Journal of Environme
ntal Planning Management Journal of Environmen
tal Sciences Journal of Information Systems Jo
urnal of Psychology Interdisciplinary Applied
Serials Review

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Business Source Elite subject areas covered
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• Business
• Management
• Economics
• Banking
• Finance

• Marketing
• International Studies
• Labor
• Industry
• And more...

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Business Source Elite
EBSCOhost

• Over 1,500 journals indexed and abstracted
  (cumulative coverage)
  
• Over 930 journals in full text (cumulative
  coverage)
  
• Over 500 peer reviewed journals indexed and
  abstracted
  
• Over 250 peer reviewed journals in full text
• Over 280 journals with imbedded images and over
  750 journals with PDF images
  
• Dun Bradstreet Directory for 1,300,000 companies

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Some Unique and notable Full Text Journals in
Business Source
EBSCOhost
Asian Business Review Behavioral Research in Ac
counting Economic Development Quarterly Human
Resource Management Review International Review
of Economics Finance Issues in Accounting Educ
ation Journal of Asian Economics Journal of Ec
onomic Social Measurement

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more Unique and notable Full Text Journals in
Business Source
EBSCOhost
Journal of Economic Education
Journal of Economics Management Strategy
Journal of Management Education
Journal of Marketing Education
Journal of Quality Management
Management Communication Quarterly
North American Journal of Economics Finance
Review of Economics Statistics

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Vocational Search

• Over 150 titles in full text
• perfect for technical and trade related
  curriculums
  
• industry specific information including reviews,
  newspapers and trade journals
  
• Over 500 titles indexed and abstracted

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For Public Libraries

• EBSCO and AVL offer you

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MasterFILE Premier subject areas covered
EBSCOhost

• General Interest
• Business
• Consumer Health
• General Science

• Multi-cultural
• Religion
• Childrens
• And more.

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MasterFILE Premier
EBSCOhost

• Over 2,750 periodicals indexed and abstracted as
  far back as 1984 (cumulative coverage)
  
• Over 1,800 full text periodicals with cumulative
  coverage as far back as 1990
  
• Over 650 periodicals with imbedded images and
  over 1,100 periodicals with PDF images
  
• Over 6,000,000 articles available

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Some Unique Full Text Content
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• Artists Magazine
• Chinatown News
• Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report
• Consumer Comments

• Consumer Reports
• Cricket
• Earthwatch
• George

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Some Unique Full Text Content
EBSCOhost

• Golf Digest
• Grand Street
• Hispanic Times Magazine
• Lesbian News

• Native American Connections
• Tennis
• Windows Magazine

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Health Source Plus
EBSCOhost

• Indexing and abstracts for over 420 health
  related periodicals
  
• Full text for over 250 health related periodicals
  
  
• Full text for nearly 1,200 health related
  pamphlets
  
• Full text for 23 health reference books
• Full text of 7,000 Clinical Reference Systems
  reports
  
• USP Pharmacopoeia DI Vol. II Advice for the Lay
  Patient

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EBSCOhost
Newspaper Source
Selected full text coverage from 143 newspapers
including
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
The Boston Globe The Christian Science Monitor T
he Detroit Free Press
The Houston Chronicle
The Miami Herald The News (Mexico) The New York
Daily News The Philadelphia Inquirer The San Jo
se Mercury News
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EBSCOhost
Newspaper Source
Coverage from 6 newswires (new content, currently
adding data) including
AP Online (Associated Press) Asia Pulse Canadia
n Corporate News
Canadian Press Wire Newsbytes News Service World
Stream Newswires
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For K-12 Libraries

• EBSCO and AVL offer you

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MAS Ultra for High Schools
EBSCOhost

• full text for over 560 popular high school
  magazines
  
• indexing and abstracts for nearly 660 titles,
  including most major newsweeklies
  
• over 240 periodicals with imbedded images
• over 300 periodicals with PDF images
• Essential Documents of American History
• Coverage of CIA World Factbook

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Middle Search Plus
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• Includes the following
• Full text from nearly 100 magazines
• Indexing and abstracts for over 200 titles
• 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews
• Over 300 pamphlets in full text
• Searchable full text for 5 reference books
• Essential Documents of American History
• Encyclopedia of Animals
• Funk Wagnalls New Encyclopedia

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Primary Search
EBSCOhost

• Includes the following
• Currently offers full text for over 70 childrens
  magazines
  
• Over 300 pamphlets in full text
• Essential Documents of American History
• The World Almanac of the U.S.A.
• The World Almanac for Kids
• Funk Wagnalls New Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia of Animals
• New Elementary User Interface - Searchasaurus

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Professional Development Collection
EBSCOhost

• Specialized collection of electronic information
  designed especially for professional educators
  
• Offers full text for over 240 journals
• Offers over 75 periodicals with imbedded images
  and over 110 periodicals with PDF images
  
• Offers indexing and abstracts for over 320
  journals (cumulative coverage)

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ERIC

• Citations and abstracts from over 750 educational
  journals and documents
  
• Educational symposium literature to 1967
• Full text for ERIC Digest Records
• Breakdown of 16 ERIC clearinghouses

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EBSCOhost Features
EBSCOhost

• Optional Electronic Journal link (via EBSCO
  Online)
  
• Link to journal table of contents
• Link to OPAC journal holdings information
• Database specific fields and limiters
• Search by publication type
• PDF images
• Multiple database searching with merged results
• Review search history

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