Research Materials

Research materials for a variety of topics

Business

Business Source Elite
Provides full text coverage for more than 1,100 scholarly business, management and economics journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications.
Nevada Career Information System
A comprehensive resource that has background information on many occupations, tips on resume and cover letter composition, and a skills assessment for finding the right career.
Regional Business News
Comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Current Events

CQ Researcher
Analyzes a weekly "hot" issue from topics such as the environment, health, education, and technology. Henderson Residents Only.
TOPICSearch
A current events database for social, political, and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics

Education

ERIC
ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education, covering the document literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education, covering published literature from over 775 journals.
Professional Development Collection
Full-text journals for the education professional.

General Research

Academic Search Premiere
Do you need scholarly or peer reviewed magazine/journal articles? If so this is the place to look as this resource covers almost all academic areas of study. Most articles are full-text.
Discovering Collection
A database geared to high school students, coveringing topics ranging from cultures, geography, literature, science, U.S. and world history. Searches can be limited to creative works, primary sources, statistics, multimedia, and reference sources.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A searchable database of e-Reference books on topics such as biographies, the environement, history, law, literature, the nation and world, religion and science.
General Reference Center Gold
Database indexing a variety of general topics, focusing on magazines featuring more popular, layman coverage of topics.
MAS Ultra
A general interest and current events database designed for high-school age users
MasterFile Premiere
Covering virtually every subject area of general interest and designed specifically for public libraries, this resource provides full text for nearly 2,000 publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975.

Geography

Digital Sanborn Maps
Browsable index of Nevada city maps from 1867 - 1970. Henderson Residents Only.
State Geography
This easy-to-navigate resource provides overviews of geography for all U.S. States. Each state has a arelated overview, maps and flag, history, government, news, facts and figures, biographies, organizations, documents, and images.
World Geography
This resource offers an overview, maps & flag, history, government, culture, environment, facts & figures, news, biographies, organizations, documents, and images for all countries.

Health & Medicine

Health Source: Consumer Edition
Provides practical general health information including topics on nutrition, child care, and nutrition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.

History & Biography

American History
Covers topics from 1350 to the present. Subjects are easily explored through a timeline, or can be limited by categories such as biographies, court cases, organizations, or quotes, to name a few.
Biography Resource Center
Need a biography? Then this is the place to look as there are almost 500,000 biographies contained in this resource.
U.S. at War
This resource provides access to reference content, pertinent primary sources, and a wealth of historical insight and analysis on the important themes and consequences of all major U.S.-involved wars.
World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras
This resource features topics from prehistory to the year 1500 A.D. Specific time periods can be expanded out to search on broad topics in that era.
World History: The Modern Era
This resource covers topics in World History from the year 1500 to the present. Specific broad eras can be explored and articles outlining major happenings in each area of the world are featured.

Law & Government

American Government
Explore topics of American Government as well as domestic and foreigh policy. Also, access articles on topics recently in the news. Searchable by categories.
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
This resource is great for finding federal publications that include historical and current publications. It also provides direct links to those publications that are available online.

Science & Technology

General Science Collection
This database offers full text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications from 1992-present.
Science Resource Center
This resource features a long list of browseable topics that make searching easy. Regular keyword searching is also available. Magazines, Academic Journals, Newspapers, Multimedia, and Websites are indexed in this database.

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