Statewide Access to Databases
Arizona State Library Archives and Public Records provides a package of databases for Arizonans through their public libraries. These Databases’ are provided with funding from Maricopa County Library District and Tucson Pima Public Library and Arizona State Library Archives and Public Records through LSTA Grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Database searches are powered by WebFeat, a global search tool that makes finding the information you want simple. The database package includes products from the following:
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EBSCO (in Library use only) MasterFile Premier features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, nearly 500 full text reference books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,135 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 188,323 photos, maps and flags.
OCLC (in Library use only) WorldCat - Catalog of books, videos, DVDs, Web resources and other library materials owned by libraries worldwide; ArticleFirst (now includes ContentsFirst) Index of articles from 12,000+ journals and magazines; Electronic Collections Online (ECO) - bibliographic index An index to scholarly journals; Union List of Periodicals Lists of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries; PapersFirst Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide; ProceedingsFirst Index of worldwide conference proceedings; ERIC Annotated references to educational materials issued in the monthly Resources in Education and journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education; GPO All types of U.S. government documents; MEDLINE All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing; World Alamanac
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For additional Legal, AZ Government and Genealogy, resources, please visit the ASLAPR Law and Research webpage at http://www.lib.az.us/is/.
For History and Archives resources, please visit the Arizona State Library History and Archives webpage at: http://www.lib.az.us/archives/
Updated: 07/31/2009
