A-Z Databases & Resources (2024)

Frequently Used Databases

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New/Trial Databases & Resources

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askART features extensive artist biographies, auction records, images, and additional information on art & artists. askART is a comprehensive research database of over 250,000 artists, covering both historical and contemporary artists from around the world.

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Alternate Name(s) Bloomsbury Visual Arts

A large collection of over 3,000 peer-reviewed scholarly articles on the art trade covering art galleries, auction houses, art fairs, dealers and selected individuals in Europe and North America from around 1900 to the present.

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Alternate Name(s) Music Online: Classical Scores Library

A collection of full, study, piano, and vocal scores, encompassing all major classical musical genres and time periods from medieval to contemporary.
*New in June 2024: Volume VI - The Boosey & Hawkes Collection*

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Primary and secondary source materials including video, books, and documents on the experiences of the disability community. Highlights include The Disability Rag (1980-) periodical, Red Cross records from 1918-1919, and over 250 videos.

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Alternate Name(s) Docuseek2

Over 3,000 streaming videos including the Pragda Stream Complete Collection, The Docuseek Complete Collection (3rd Edition), The Global Environmental Justice Documentaries, and other selected titles.

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A monthly publication steered toward the African-American community, Ebony typically covered the lifestyles and accomplishments of influential black people, fashion, beauty, and politics. A highlight of the publication is its annual list of "100 Most Influential Blacks," which began in 1963. The publication was founded by the Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, IL in 1945 and ran in print until 2019.

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Alternate Name(s) Boundless

eRead Illinois provides Illinois libraries with affordable access to over 45,000 popular e-books and audiobooks. Access is also available through the Boundless app.

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A weekly magazine focusing on news, culture, and entertainment featuring mostly young adult African Americans. The publication was founded by the Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, IL in 1951 and ran in print until 2014.

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Latino Book Review is a nonprofit publication that seeks to amplify the diverse voices of the Latinx community by providing platforms for literary works that celebrate our culture, history, art, and experiences. Contributors include Sandra Cisneros, Isabel Allende, and Julia Alvarez, among many others.

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Alternate Name(s) Oxford DNB

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford DNB) is the national record of men and women who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century. The Dictionary offers concise, up-to-date biographies written by named, specialist authors, and includes over 65,000 biographies and 12,000 portraits.

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An educational streaming platform for Latin America, Spanish, and Latinx cinema. This collection of 500 videos features documentaries and feature films from more than 30 countries, all in their original language with English subtitles.

FAQs

What is the A to Z database? ›

The A-Z Database List allows users to find and search individual databases that the library subscribes to. Users can view all the databases alphabetically, search for a database by title, or use the three dropdowns on the A-Z Database List to search for databases by subject, type, or vendor.

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What is the difference between a search engine and a library database? ›

A search engine, like Google, uses computer algorithms to search the Internet and find websites that match the keywords you enter. Library databases search for published and academic resources, including articles in journals, newspapers, and magazines.

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Is EBSCOhost a library database? ›

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EBSCO is a company that supplies information resources to many different libraries. The HCC libraries subscribe to many different EBSCO databases, and use EBSCOhost to access those databases.

What is AZ in database? ›

Highly available, durable relational databases deployed across up to three Availability Zones (AZs)

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How to do a database search? ›

Focus your search in databases using these search tips:

Find the appropriate database.
Choose your search terms carefully.
What are you searching?
Combine search terms (AND, OR, NOT)
Word variations (Truncation or Wildcards)
Phrase searching.
Limit or refine your results.

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Is Google a search engine or database? ›

Google Search is a fully-automated search engine that uses software known as web crawlers that explore the web regularly to find pages to add to our index.

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Why use library databases instead of Google? ›

You can add multiple keywords to your database searches, meaning you can make your search very specific to your topic. Library databases also have great filters that you can use to refine your search to find exactly what you're looking for.

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Which database is best for search engine? ›

Non-relational databases are particularly adept at managing semi-structured or unstructured data, making them ideal for search engines that need to retrieve and index varied types of data quickly.

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Are there two main types of library databases? ›

Types of Databases

Bibliographic databases provide a descriptive record of an item, but the item itself is not provided in the database. ...
A full-text database provides the full-text of a publication. ...
Some databases provide numeric information, such as statistics or demographic information.

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What does EBSCO stand for? ›

"EBSCO" is an acronym for Elton B. Stephens Company. EBSCO Industries has annual sales of about $3 billion. It is one of the largest privately held companies in Alabama and one of the top 200 in the United States, based on revenues and employee numbers.

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Why is EBSCO trustworthy? ›

Reliable, peer-reviewed content

EBSCOhost offers high-quality articles licensed from reputable publishers recognized by library professionals, chosen to meet the specific needs of researchers.

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What is Ebsco A to Z? ›

A-to-Z was originally designed as a listing service and link resolver focused on journals. The proliferation of over a million eBooks and the growth to thousands of journal packages demands a new, modern approach.

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What is the AK key in database? ›

Alternate Keys (AK) - key associated with one or more columns whose values uniquely identify every row in the table, but which is not the primary key.

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What does database mean in search engine? ›

Search-engine databases are optimized for dealing with data that may be long, semistructured, or unstructured, and they typically offer specialized methods such as full-text search, complex search expressions, and ranking of search results.

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What type of database is Xano? ›

Xano stores your data on PostgreSQL, which provides the flexibility of a relational database along with the big data needs of a NoSQL solution. In addition to common field types like Text, Integer, and Date, we also allow you to store images, files, raw JSON, and GEO coordinates.

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