ABI/INFORM (Global) – Search 1,000 premier worldwide business periodicals for information on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more; includes information on thousands of companies.  The ABI/Dateline component covers local and regional news of large corporations, privately held companies, as well as executive profiles and other information not typically found in the national press sources.  Most articles are full-text.(includes ABI/INFORM Archive Complete, ABI/INFORM Complete, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry).

Academic Search Elite (Multidisciplinary) – This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,050 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

African American Studies – Information coming soon.

African American Biographical Database – This database is a resource of first resort when you are looking for biographical information, including photographs and illustrations, for African Americans. From the famous to the everyday person, AABD includes profiles and full- text sketches providing both biographical detail and narratives chronicling the lives of Black Americans.

Black Studies Center – Information coming soon.

Bloomberg Financial Markets – The Bloomberg provides 24-hour, instant, accurate and current financial, economical and political information covering all market sectors.  It also provides analytics, historical data (going back approximately twenty years, up-to-the-minute news reports, economic statistics and political commentaries.  It also provides access to a wide range of local, state, national and international newspapers.  Access is available through the Bloomberg terminals in the Reference Department on the 2nd floor.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) – This database is an acquisition, research, and reference service that offers more than 1,000,000 MARC records and more than 160,000 reviews of children’s books, all full text searchable from 32 review sources.

CollegeSource Online – A virtual library representing 28,968 college catalogs in full cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools. It also provides additional links page and resource guide to other Web sites.

Custom Newspapers (On InfoTrac) – This database provides full-text access to 20 selected national newspapers.  It allows keyword, relevance, or advanced searching within the title, citation, abstract or the entire article.  A search may be restricted to one publication or multiple publications, or to specific sections, or dates of a publication.

EBSCOhost (Electronic Journals Service) – Provides access to full-text of all online journals subscriptions at Nathan W. Collier Library that are managed by EBSCO.  “ARTICLESearch” allows one to find articles using simple keyword searching or advanced search techniques.  “JOURNALSearch” allows one to search by journal name, publisher, content description or International Standard Serial Number (ISSN).  The “BROWSE” option allows users to view Tables of Contents and Abstracts for the entire catalog of online journals.

Educator's Reference Desk [Formerly Ask Eric] – a personalized Internet-based service that provides education-related information to teacher, librarians, counselors, administrators, educators or anyone interested in education. It has access to all the resources of the entire ERIC system; contains selected educational resources, including lesson plans, info guides, article citations, and much more.

ENCARTA AFRICANA (CD-Rom) – Provides an interactive exploration of the history of African culture from early man’s appearance on the African continent to an explanation of the technology behind making a rap recording.  This comprehensive CD-ROM uses articles, photos, dates, maps, and facts to provide in-depth coverage of thousands of subjects.  The complete texts of 160 poems, essays, and novels about being of African descent are included. Nine major sections or features of this encyclopedia are as follows:  a library of Black America; a history and music timeline; a civil rights chronology; Africana on Camera; historic sites; an interactive map; Africa to the Americas; virtual tours; and topic treks – exploration of specific topics.

ERIC (New ERIC Online System) – Released on September 1, 2004, by the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Service (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, this is a centralized ERIC Web-site for searching the ERIC database going back to 1966. Effective October 1, 2004, more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, will be available for “free.”

ERIC® PlusText – provides extensive and enhanced search capabilities of the ERIC database with “links” to Full-Text documents and journal articles. The ERIC database is the world’s largest source of education information and contains more than 1-million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles.

Ethnic NewsWatch – Provides news, culture, and history from 200 publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press.  It contains nearly 650,000 complete articles dating back to 1990.  More than 7,500 articles are added each month.  Current and historical topics are easily accessed and are searchable in English and Spanish.

Expanded Academic ASAP (On InfoTrac) – From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines.  Accesses scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers – many with full-text and images.  It covers from 1980 to 2004.

FACTS.com (Facts on File) – Brings together content from seven core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics, and people of the last 20 years.  Special features include maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events since 1980.

FindArticles(LookSmart) – - designed to help you quickly and easily find published articles on different topics. The database has over 5.5 million articles from more the 900 magazines and journals, dating from 1998 through the present.

Florida Department of Education– main portal for all education news and information published by the Florida Department of Education.

Florida Electronic Library – gateway to select Internet resources. Use this site for current events, business, health issues, homework help, finding full-text articles and Florida history and information.

Guides to Microforms – Information coming soon.

Glossarist – a searchable and categorized directory of thousands of glossaries and topical dictionaries containing terms and definitions on hundred of subjects.

International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP Full Text) – Draws its current content from more than 150 international scholarly and popular periodicals in Black Studies and contains full-text coverage of 40 core Black Studies periodicals. It covers a wide array of humanities related disciplines including art, economics, education, health, literature, law, among others.

Issues and Controversies (Facts on File) – Explores controversial topics.  It presents up-to-date objective information including editorials, biographies, overviews of key events, and other items.  Topics include global warming, gun control, immigration and hundreds more.

JSTOR (Journal Storage) – JSTOR is a fully searchable database which provides access to full-text articles from over 276 scholarly journals in various academic disciplines, including ecology, economics, education, political science, sociology, African-American studies, and others. The JSTOR archive presents high-resolution page images for viewing and printing articles.  It is unique in that complete archives of core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which were published as far back as the nineteenth century. (includes JSTOR Arts & Sciences I Collection, JSTOR Arts & Sciences II Collection, JSTOR Business Collection, JSTOR Ecology & Botany Collection, and JSTOR General Science Collection)

Kraus Curriculum Development Library – kcdlonline is a searchable database that provides you with curriculum information on a variety of subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education. With a growing database of over 5,000 curriculum documents, kcdlonline provides you with downloadable PDFs in an easy- to-use, searchable database.

LitFINDER (Formerly Poemfinder) – Access to poems, stories and essays through three individual databases.  (1) Poem Finder is a comprehensive and authoritative database of 800,000 indexed poems and 100,000+ full-text poems that is international in scope. (2) Story Finder provides thousands of full-text short stories plus explanations, biographies, pictures and more. (3) Essay/Speech/Play Finder is a unique database of full-text essays and discursive writing.  The essays focus on the humanities and social sciences, and include biographies and literary criticism.  Subjects include literature, history, economics, sociology, art and architecture, philosophy, psychology, science and drama.

LexisNexis Academic – Information coming soon.

LexisNexis Congressional – Information coming soon.

LexisNexis Environmental – Information coming soon.

LexisNexis Government Periodicals – Information coming soon.

LexisNexis State Capital – Information coming soon.

LexisNexis State at Large – Information coming soon.

Librarian's Index to the Internet – a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 14,000 internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for the usefulness to users; an excellent, reliable and efficient guide to Internet research.

Literture Online – Information coming soon.

Magill On Literature Plus – This database is the definitive online source for editorially reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature.  The information in this database equals the complete contents of 31 sets of reference books, including nearly 20 Masterplots and Masterplots II titles, the Cyclopedia of World Authors, the Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, as well as 10 years of Magill’s Literary Annuals and Magill Reviews.

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 allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals. 

MLA International Bibliography – The Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography on InfoTrac provides access to more than 1.5 million bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations from 1963 to the present in academic disciplines such as: language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts. MLA Bibliography on InfoTrac incorporates the MLA thesaurus as well as the MLA's Directory of Periodicals.

My Library Services – SEFLIN (Southeast Florida Library Information Network) provides a database of virtual library services including enhanced access to 25 member libraries and library systems in the five-county Southeast Florida Region. Single-search access is available to the online catalogs as well as ready-reference databases and SHELLS (Union List of Serials ).

National Criminal Justice Reference Service – a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy and program development worldwide.

National Library of Medicine – the world’s largest medical library; collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.

Plunkett Research – Information coming soon.

ProQuest Education Journals – Contains more than 600 titles on education.  Provides primary, secondary, and university level topics with nearly 300 in full-text.  Includes the indexing and abstracts from H.W. Wilson’s highly regarded Education Abstracts, plus many additional titles.

ProQuest Psychology Journals – ProQuest Psychology Journals contains nearly 300 academic journals in psychology and related areas. The full-text format includes “full-text, text+graphics, and images” as displayed in the articles.  Users may also search by author, title, keyword and use advanced search strategies.

ProQuest Research Library (Interdisciplinary Database) – Includes a full collection of journals, magazines and newspapers for information on a broad range of general reference subjects.  Search the core for basic coverage of all subject areas including: arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international law, military, multiculturalism, psychology, sciences, social sciences and women’s interests (includes ProQuest Biology Journals, ProQuest Science Journals, and ProQuest Social Science Journals).

PsycINFO (Abstracts) – Contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year.

Scirus – a comprehensive science-specific search engine, driven by the latest search engine technology; Scirus searches over 167 million Web pages, enabling you to pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web. Find the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles and journals that other search engines miss.

SIRS Government Reporter® – Provides current and historic government documents; landmark and recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions; information about federal departments, agencies, elected leaders and more. Full-text documents and graphics are offered in a variety of topics: health, science, economics, environment, politics, business and more. It also includes Historic Documents, National Archives Documents and more. Users can send documents and graphics to their personal e-mail addresses.

SIRS Knowledge Source – (SKS) is a comprehensive database portal which is comprised of several distinct reference databases including SIRS Researcher®, SIRS Government Reporter®, SIRS Renaissance®, and SKS WebSelect™. Updated daily, SKS provides relevant, credible information on social issues, science, history, government, and the arts and humanities. Full-text articles, graphics and Internet resources are carefully selected from thousands of domestic and international publications and respected organizations.

SIRS Researcher® – Is a general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. Additional content database include excerpts from The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2003. 

SKS WebSelect™ – Is an online database providing reviews and access to quality Web sites on almost any subject. SIRS editors evaluate sites originating from around the globe for credibility and relevance.

SPORTDiscus  – SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over 650,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800.

Student Gateway to the U.S. Government  – a comprehensive information portal providing answers to questions on education, careers, government and more.

Student Resource Center – College Edition (On InfoTrac) – Approach research from every angle with the Student Resource Center – College Edition, the Gale Group’s comprehensive, cross-curricular reference source for college and college-prep libraries. This database provides researchers with an expansive collection specifically designed to meet the needs of college freshmen and sophomores.

U.S. Department of Education  – web site links several federal agencies related to Education in the United States. The main mission is to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation.

Wilson Web (Multidisciplinary Mega-file) – Wilson Web is a multidisciplinary database providing the complete content (indexing, abstracts, and full-text articles) Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. More than 1,240 full-text journals; more than 2,610 journals with indexing coverage. 

Last Revised September 2007