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Last update March 17, 2008
Most users should access PASCAL Electronic Resources through their home institution’s library web site. However, the links below should work if you use them from on-campus, or if your institution uses a proxy server.
Access Science: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
Over 8,500 articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science &
Technology, 10th edition; supplemented with research updates, current
news, dictionaries and other science reference materials published by
McGraw-Hill.
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Academic Search Premier
Full text journal articles covering most academic disciplines: biology,
chemistry, engineering, physics, religion, politics, international
affairs, the arts, literature, and behavioral and social sciences.
Academic Search Premier contains indexing and abstracts for more than
8,200 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles.
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Business Source Premier
More than 2,300 full text journals, Business Source Premier is the
industry's most used business research database. Full text coverage in
all disciplines of business: marketing, management, MIS, POM,
accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal
content includes market research reports, industry reports, country
reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses. Includes Regional Business
News database.
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text Nursing & allied health research
A comprehensive nursing &
allied health research database, providing full text for more than 620
journals and more than 200 books. Material covered includes complete
texts of selected state nursing journals, newsletters, monographs,
standards of practice, government publications, practice acts, research
instruments, patient education material, and evidence-based care
sheets.
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Computer Source
Almost 300 full text journals and
magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming,
artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics,
and software. Computer Source™ provides a balance of full text
technical journals and full text consumer computer titles.
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Ebsco Animals for Elementary school use
Not for college or
university-level research. Designed specifically for Elementary school
use, Ebsco animals is a PASCAL resource presented for use in lesson
planning and those in Masters in Education programs. Provides students
with thousands of easy-to-read entries about mammals, birds, reptiles,
amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. Each entry begins
with a simple category breakdown of the animal including Kingdom,
Class, Order, Genus & Species, and Geographical Locale as well as a
detailed description. Many entries include colorful images.
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ERIC Education
ERIC, the Educational Resource
Information Center, provides access to education literature and
resources. The database provides access to information from journals
included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in
Education Index. The database contains more than 1,194,000 records and
links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC.
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GALE Literature Resource Center
This electronic full text
collection includes many of the core literary reference works:
Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Authors New Revision Series,
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography,
Twaynes' Author Series, and Scribners Writers.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition
Most academic users should refer to Health Source: Nursing / Academic
Edition, below. Health Source Consumer has almost 80 full text consumer
health magazines such as American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit
Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts, Men's Health, Muscle
& Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
for more than 800 journals
Indexes and abstracts for more than 800 journals with over 500
scholarly full text journals. Focus is on medical disciplines as well
as the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, including 1,300 generic drug patient
education sheets and more than 4,700 brand names.
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LexisNexis Academic News, business and legal
Full text access to over 6,000
news, business, and legal sources. Outstanding historical and current
news coverage, with up-to-the-minute stories from national and regional
newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news,
and non-English language sources. The Company Dossier module retrieves
detailed company information and financial performance measures, users
can also identify and compare companies matching specific criteria.
This product also provides access to the renowned Shepard's Citations®
service for all federal and states court cases back to 1789.
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
LISTA indexes nearly 690
periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject
coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging,
bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and
more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
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Liebert Online
Liebert Online offers
authoritative, peer-reviewed journals in biotechnology, biomedical
research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, alternative and
complementary medicine, law, philanthropy, environmental science and
sustainability. Liebert Online includes sixty authoritative journals,
all full-text searchable and linked to external bibliographic
databases.
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MAS Ultra -- High School Edition
Not for college or university-level research. For high school
libraries, MAS Ultra has 500 popular, high school magazines including
America's Civil War, American Heritage, American History, Archaeology,
Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times,
Congressional Digest, Discover, Economist, History Today, Nation,
National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science
News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II, etc. All full
text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
Contains more than 360 reference books (including the Columbia
Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of
Facts), and an image collection of almost 300,000 photos, maps &
flags, color PDFs. Key magazines have full text backfiles dating back
to 1975.
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MEDLINE
MEDLINE provides authoritative
medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary
medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical
Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and
explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current
biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus,
International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE,
SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE®, AIDSLINE®, BIOETHICSLINE®, and HealthSTAR®.
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MLA International Bibliography Literature, Linguistics and Folklore
MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of
journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern
Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography
dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from
more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.
Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore,
literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the
historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and
composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language
and literature are also included. In addition to the bibliography, the
database includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals; the association's
proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the
bibliography; and a proprietary, searchable directory of noted authors'
names, with links to brief descriptive notes.
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Military & Government Collection
Designed to offer current news
pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a
thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content
pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military &
Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300
journals and periodicals. The database also offers indexing and
abstracts for nearly 400 titles. Some publications covered in this
database include Air Force Comptroller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defense
Studies, and JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, Combat
Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and
many more.
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Nature
Nature is a weekly international
journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of
science and technology on the basis of originality, importance,
interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and
surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative,
insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming
trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public. PASCAL’s
access is from 1997 to present, with special web focuses and advance
online publication papers. Nature News is included in this
subscription.
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Primary Search for Elementary school use
Not for college or
university-level research. Designed specifically for Elementary school
use, Primary Search contains full text for nearly 70 popular,
elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a
reading level indicator (Lexiles). Additionally, Primary Search
includes the Encyclopedia of Animals, and features the Funk &
Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, which provides students with
easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. This
database also provides the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd
Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an image collection of almost
300,000 photos, maps and flags.
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ProQuest Nursing &
Allied Health Source
ProQuest Nursing & Allied
Health Source provides abstracting and indexing for more than 700
titles, with over 580 titles in full-text. ProQuest Nursing &
Allied Health Source offers reliable healthcare information covering
nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and
much more. This versatile database is designed to meet the needs of
nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions as well as
researchers at healthcare facilities.
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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers emotional
and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental
processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection can be searched independently, but also allows users to conveniently link to full text from citations within PsycINFO. Links to articles from more than 500 full text journals contained within Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection.
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Regional Business News
A supplement to Business Source Premier, offering daily updates to full
text regional business publications from more than 50 sources.
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Science Online
Science Online provides access to all content in print Science back to
1997, including Peer Review and Research Articles, News, Perspectives,
Reviews, plus additional enhanced material only available online. Also
included is access to the ScienceNOW web site, a daily news service.
Science Online features access on the date of print publication, full
searching capability, links to citations and related resources in
PubMed, ISI, and 200 scientific journals on the HighWire platform as
well.
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