[Peace] Fwd: New School and Military Databases on EBSCO
Al Kagan
akagan at uiuc.edu
Tue Mar 12 16:51:39 CST 2002
Here is an interesting military database for those affiliated with
UIUC. Go to the Library Gateway, http://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/
The pick Search for Articles.
When you get there, click on FULL TEXT, at the top.
The pick the first choice, EBSCO.
Then you will see Military Library FullText in the first group at the top.
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>Subject: New School and Military Databases on EBSCO
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>EBSCO is providing three new databases free to subscribers that are now on
>our EBSCO page..These are offered as separately searchable databases
>because, although they contain material that is of potential interest to
>academic libraries, the content is not, in general, scholarly or research
>oriented.
>
>The three databases are:Military Library FullTEXT™, MAS Ultra - School
>Edition, Primary Search. Probably the most interesting of the three
>databases is Military Library FullTEXT described briefly below. The
>journals it contains are not only about the military (e.g. Army Times) but
>materials that people in the military need or want to read. There are
>Economist Intelligence Unit Reports for China , Cuba, Egypt, European
>Union, France, Germany, India, Iran,Italy Japan Kazakhstan, Pakistan,
>Russia, Slovenia, South Korea dating back to 1996. Also a variety of
>foreign policy oriented titles, e.g. Studies in Confict and
>Terrorism, African Security Review, Arab Studies Q. etc. Altogether a
>very interesting title list. Clicking on "title list" doesn't seem to work
>from our EBSCO portal, but you can see the list by going to
>http://www.epnet.com/maglists/html/mt_h1.htm
>
>Full content lists for the other two databases can also be found at
>http://www.epnet.com/maglists/maglist.htm. Interestingly, the books
>section of MAS Ultra - School Edition contains full text of a large number
>of travel books.
>
>1. Military Library FullTEXT™
> Search military titles, trade publications and
>newsweeklies with Military Library
> FullTEXT. Designed to bring current news to all
>branches of the military, this database
> contains:
>
> searchable full text for nearly 240
>periodicals including Army Times, Navy Times,
> Naval Institute Proceedings and Joint
>Forces Quarterly
> abstracts and indexing for over 430
>periodicals
> over 240 pamphlets
>
>2 MAS Ultra - School Edition, the fourth addition to the MAS FullTEXT
>Family, is a
> comprehensive general reference database
>designed for high school and junior college
> libraries. MAS Ultra - School Edition includes:
>
> searchable full text of articles, reports
>and special issues from nearly 460 of the
> most wanted K-12 magazines
> abstracts and indexing for over 540 titles,
>including most major U.S.
> newsweeklies
> Essential Documents in American History—a
>database of over 1,000 original
> historical documents including The Bill of
>Rights, The Constitution, The
> Federalist Papers and the speeches of Dr.
>Martin Luther King Jr.
> over 3,000 charts, tables and graphs
>converted to ASCII text to provide students
> with a complete understanding of the
>original printed articles
> coverage of the CIA World Factbook
> searchable full text for 141 Macmillan Books
> searchable full text over 540 pamphlets
> searchable full text for nearly 5,000
>Magill's Book Reviews
> abstract coverage of The New York Times and
>USA Today
> total coverage includes over 1 million
>articles
> PDF coverage for more than 200 magazines
> Gather information on a wide range of general
>topics with Primary Search®. Designed
> for elementary schools and children’s reading
>rooms, this database includes:
>3. Primary Search
>
> searchable full text of articles, reports
>and special issues from over 50 of the most
> popular K-12 magazines
> abstracts and indexing for nearly 80 titles
> searchable full text for over 100 pamphlets
> two World Almanac Books—The World Almanac®
>of the U.S.A. and The World
> Almanac® for Kids
> over 500 charts, tables and graphs
>converted to ASCII text to provide students
> with a complete understanding of the
>original printed articles
>Two subsets of this databases are separately searchable:
> 3 a.The Encyclopedia of Animals—a full text
>database with over 2,200 entries about
> mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish
>and dinosaurs
> 3b. Funk & Wagnalls® New Encyclopedia—a
>student, home and general reference
> encyclopedia containing 25,000 articles
>
>
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>
>Paula D. Watson
>Director, Electronic Information Services
>University of Illinois Library, Rm. 246A, MC-522
>1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, Illinois 61801
>pdwatson at uiuc.edu; (217) 333-0318 (voice); (217) 244-4358 (fax)
--
Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801, USA
tel. 217-333-6519
fax. 217-333-2214
e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu
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