Library and Information Science Databases
(see also
Computer Science,
Education, and
Union Lists)
[Indexes]
[Online Books]
[Cataloging]
[Reviews, Guides, & Selection]
[Also of Interest]
- Indexes to Journals and Books:
- Library,
Information Science & Technology Abstracts (Ebsco)
 
- Provided free by EBSCO to anyone interested in libraries and information management,
LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals as well as books, research reports, proceedings,
and patents, covering all fields of information science, including librarianship, classification,
cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines,
printed & electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication,
electronic publishing, and more. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, this is the
oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
[Absorbed: Information Science & Technology Abstracts]
- Library
Literature & Information Science Full Text (Wilson/Ebsco)
- Indexes articles and book reviews in more than 234 key library and
information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, as well as
books (over 300 per year), chapters, conference proceedings, library school theses, and
pamphlets. Cover to cover full-text from over a hundred selected periodicals begins in 1994.
Also covers such topics as censorship, copyright legislation, government aid, information
brokers, personnel administration, public relations, web sites, and more.
- Library
Literature and Information Science Retrospective: 1905-1983 (Wilson/Ebsco)
- Provides the retrospective content of Library Work (1905-1911),
Library Journal (1912-1920), and Library Literature (1921-1983). Nearly
80 years of citations to periodical articles, books, book chapters, essay collections,
conference proceedings, library school theses, and book reviews document all the
innovations, controversies, and people instrumental in the making of modern librarianship.
International coverage comprehensively surveys library science publishing in Europe,
Russia, China, India, Australia, and Latin America. Includes the full text of
Wilson Library Bulletin from 1914 to 1983.
(Note: the subscription allows for only two users at a time, so please click the
"Exit Program" button when you are finished)
- ASIS&T
Digital Library (Wiley)
- Provides the full text of publications from the American Society for Information Science
and Technology, an association of information professionals leading the search for new
and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to information through
reports of research and development in a wide range of subjects and applications in
information transfer and communication processes in general and in the context of recorded
knowledge in particular, along with issues, opinion pieces, pragmatic management reports,
and news of people and events. Includes
The Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology,
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, and
Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meetings.
- Association
for Computing Machinery Digital Library (ACM)
- Contains the full text of journals, magazines, transactions,
conference proceedings, newsletters, and other publications by
the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), its Affiliated Organizations,
and Special Interest Groups (SIGs), including an archive dating back to the 1950's.
The ACM is a major force in advancing
the skills of information technology professionals and students worldwide,
providing a portal to the computing literature through authoritative publications
and pioneering conferences.
- SPEC
Kits (Association of Research Libraries)
- Produced by ARL's Systems and Procedures Exchange Center, these research
surveys conducted by ARL member libraries examine the ever-changing challenges regarding
current practices, managing change, improving performance, and the implementation of new
practices and technologies. Each kit includes an executive summary of the survey results,
survey questions and responses, representative documents from the responding institutions
(such as policies, procedures, handbooks, guidelines, websites, records, brochures, and statements),
and a selected bibliography of books, journal articles, and websites. Covers 2006 to the present.
- LIUCat
on the Web:
- The online public access catalog of Long Island University's
six campuses. This can be searched from any computer. No password is needed.
- Online Encyclopedias and Books:
- 75
Outrageous Ways for Librarians to Impact Student Achievement in Grades K-8 (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Provides a resource of ideas that foster a unique, collaborative, and fun
library media program that addresses student learning standards.
- ACRL Metrics (ACRL)
- Provides access to academic library statistics gathered by ACRL
(Association of College & Research Libraries) and NCES
(National Center for Education Statistics)
for the years 2000 to the present to help support advocacy efforts, strategic planning, grant applications,
peer benchmarking, budget presentations, and multi-year trend analysis. Includes data
on hours, serials, trends, faculty, holdings, reference, personnel, circulation, enrollment,
instruction, expenditures, service points, selected ratios, interlibrary loan, digital
collections, electronic resources, and more.
(Absorbed ACRL's Academic Library Trends and Statistics).
- Archival
Appraisal: Theory and Practice (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Provides detailed information on the most recent techniques, theories,
practices, and recommendations in collection appraisal for the management and use of
archives. Aimed at information specialists, records managers, knowledge managers,
and archivists, it covers acquisition planning processes, policies, and procedures,
as well as appraisal criteria and report forms. Includes a glossary of terms with
detailed explanations of their meanings.
- Beyond
Degrees: Professional Learning for Knowledge Services (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Covers continuing professional development and lifelong learning in the
information services environment to provide guidelines for conceptualizing, designing, and
measuring successful programs for professional learning, staff development, and professional
growth in an organization.
- Corporate
Memory: Records and Information Management in the Knowledge Age
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Dealing
with an International Clientele: Communications, Diplomacy and Etiquette (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Designed for information professionals, this book sets out how to provide an effective
library service to patrons from different countries and ethnic backgrounds, and covers communications
with patrons whose mother tongue is not English, as well as the differences in cultural etiquette.
- Digital
Libraries: Principles and Practices in A Global Environment
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- ebrary (ebrary)
- Currently
offers over 25,000 full-text books, sheet music titles, maps, reports, and other authoritative documents from more
than 180 leading academic, trade, and professional publishers. The collections are particularly strong in
business, economics, education, computers, technology, science, medicine, history,
language, literature, humanities, politics, and social sciences. Publishers include The McGraw-Hill Companies,
Random House, Penguin Classics, Taylor
& Francis, Yale University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Greenwood, and more
(more information).
- Encyclopedia
of Communication and Information (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Explores the full spectrum of communication, from careers to information
technologies, in an interdisciplinary fashion. Emphasis is on both historical and
current issues, topics, and people.
- Encyclopedia
of Information Science and Technology (Idea Group Inc)
- Online version of the five-volume, comprehensive, research-based
encyclopedia that covers concepts, issues, and trends related to the utilization
and management of information science and technologies.
Includes more than 550 articles written by over 900 noted researchers,
as well as a compendium of over 5,000 terms, definitions,
and explanations of concepts, processes, and acronyms.
Covers such topics as business applications, databases, data mining,
decision support systems, enterprise resource planning, geographic information systems,
information modeling, information systems, education applications,
evaluation, library applications, knowledge management, multimedia,
security, software engineering, telecommunications, networking,
web applications, and more.
- Encyclopedia
of Library and Information Science (Informaworld)
- Covers the collection, organization, storage, preservation, retrieval, transfer, and
display of the entire body of materials representing what cultures know and value, whether
they are produced as a result of business, government, education, creative endeavors, or daily
life. Includes: archival science - bibliography - document and genre theory - informatics -
information systems - knowledge management - library and information science - museum studies -
records management - social studies of information.
- Handbook
of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development, and Impact (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Provides comprehensive coverage of digital libraries. Through predictions
of future trends, examinations of techniques and technologies, and focuses on users,
interactions, and experiences, this collection provides developers and scholars with
an extensive collection of research articles from the field of digital libraries.
- Information
Science in Theory and Practice
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Open
and Novel Issues in XML Database Applications: Future Directions and Advanced Technologies (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Covers comprehensive issues and challenges discovered through leading
international XML database research.
- School
Library Management: Just the Basics (Abc-Clio)
- Written for the first-year librarian, as well as library aides, paraprofessionals, and other
noncertified personnel, this book presents a step-by-step guide to the setting up, operation,
and management of a school library media center. Covers: storage - circulation - work areas -
scheduling - privacy issues - activity centers - group activities - computer usage - professional materials -
discipline, incentives, and rewards - and training student and parent volunteers.
Includes passes, bookmarks, and other reproducibles.
- Thinking
for A Living: The Coming Age of Knowledge Work
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Who's
Buying Information and Consumer Electronics (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Examines how much Americans spend on information and consumer
electronics by the demographics that count: age, income, high-income households,
household type, race and Hispanic origin, region of residence, and education.
- Work
Culture Transformation: Straw to Gold - The Modern Hero's Journey
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Cataloging:
- Cataloger's Desktop
(Library of Congress)
- Incorporates of all of the indispensable cataloging publications that catalogers use daily, but
were previously available only in a large number of individual print editions. Includes the full text of
the current version of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (2nd edition) -
Library of Congress Rule Interpretations - Subject Cataloging Manual: Classification, Shelflisting,
Subject Headings - MARC 21 Formats for Bibliographic Data, Authority Data, Holdings Data, Classification
Data, Community Information - latest editions of all MARC Code Lists - assorted specialized cataloging
manuals - and much more. The first time you login, you will need to get a password from the
Reference Desk (516-299-2305). You will then be asked to create your own account
with your own password. 30 users may access this at a time. Please logout when you are finished.
- RDA
Toolkit (ALA, CLA, CILIP)
- RDA (Resource Description and Access) is the new cataloging standard designed for
the digital world that will replace AACR2 and will provide a comprehensive set of guidelines and
instructions - covering all types of content and media - with a stronger emphasis on helping users
find, identify, select, and obtain information. RDA Toolkit aids in evaluation, implementation, and
decision making to increase efficiency and facilitate collaboration in making bibliographic data
accessible on the Web. RDA instructions may be searched by AACR2 rule number.
(New users will be asked to create a User Profile. Allows up to 37 simultaneous users.)
- WorldCat : The OCLC Online Union
Catalog (OCLC)
- Lists the holdings of all OCLC member libraries
worldwide. Includes: books, manuscripts, computer
data files, maps, computer programs, musical scores,
films and slides, newspapers, journals, sound recordings,
magazines, videotapes. (No password required)
- Reviews, Research Guides, and Selection Tools:
- Best
of the Web: Geography (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Evaluative guide that provides in-depth information on the best websites
for geography. Covers area studies, bibliographies, cartography, current awareness services,
cybergeography, development, earth sciences, environment, geographic information systems,
journals, libraries, mailing-lists, meteorology, oceanography, organizations, population,
remote sensing, subject gateways, teaching, tourism, and urban studies.
- Books in Print
Professional (Bowker)
- Bibliographic database with more
than 5 million in-print, out-of-print, forthcoming,
audio book, and video titles. Includes full-text reviews from 15 respected,
professional sources such as Booklist, Publishers
Weekly, Library Journal, and Choice, as well as the first chapter of more than
30,000 entries.
- Business
Information Handbook (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Describes the major sources of business information for information
specialists and researchers. Also discusses the role of business information in the business
process as well as the recent changes brought about in sources and delivery by the new
web-based technologies. Includes case studies from business information specialists that
provide practical insights into the use of business information.
- Cambridge
Guide to Children's Books in English (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Provides a critical and appreciative overview of children's books
written in English around the world. Covers the history of children's books from pre-Norman
times to the present as well as current developments in publishing practices and in children's
own reading. Includes coverage of television, comics, annuals and the growing range
of media texts.
- Children's
Core Collection: A Selection Guide (Wilson/Ebsco)
- Formerly Children's Catalog, this selective listing of fiction and nonfiction works,
story collections, picture books, magazines, and web resources recommended for readers from
preschool through sixth grade. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings,
a descriptive annotation, evaluative quotations from a review (when available), and citations to
additional reviews.
- Children's Literature
Comprehensive Database (CLCD)
- Provides an extensive array of information about more
than 900,000 children's books, video and audio recordings,
film strips, and other children-focused media.
Records come with all of the official cataloging data, subject
terms, and annotations. In addition, CLCD contains more
than 130,000 critical reviews of thousands of children's books,
ranging from the earliest baby board books to novels and
nonfiction for young adults, and an average of more than 1500
new reviews are added to the database monthly. Includes
award information and placement on Best Books lists.
- ChoiceReviews.online
(ACRL)
- Produced by the Association of College and Research
Libraries, this provides access to the entire database of Choice reviews published since September
1988, covering significant current books and electronic resources of interest to
those in higher education. Updated monthly, Choice publishes more than 6,500 reviews by
subject experts each year. The newest reviews are arranged by academic discipline and broad
cross-disciplinary topic. All reviews can be searched by combining various criteria.
- Ethical
and Socially Responsible Investment: A Reference Guide for Researchers (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Annotated bibliography of 500 information sources that discuss
ethical issues that can relate to business: the environment, human rights, working
conditions, animal welfare, arms issues, food safety, sexual exploitation, health
& safety, and tobacco. Includes a chapter that describes sources on socially
responsible investment (SRI) and a selected list of ethical and SRI investment funds
available on the UK and US markets.
- Fiction
Core Collection: A Selection Guide (Wilson/Ebsco)
- Designed for collection development, selection, readers' advisory, and general reference,
this selective listing delivers information on thousands of works of fiction for adults, either written in or
translated into English. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, a descriptive annotation, notes
about related works, evaluative quotations from a review (when available), and citations to
additional reviews.
- Graphic
Novels Core Collection: A Selection Guide (Wilson/Ebsco)
- For collection development, readers' advisory, curriculum support, and selection and
purchasing, this database highlights approximately 2,000 recommended titles with descriptive and
evaluative annotations (including review excerpts and awards the title has won), plus cover art.
Standards for rating material by age appropriateness are strictly applied, plus all titles are searchable
by author, title, subject, genre, and grade level.
- Growing
and Knowing: A Selection Guide for Children's Literature
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Guide
to Reference (American Library Association)
- Formerly known as Robert Balay's Guide to Reference Books, this is a selective,
annotated list of "core collection" reference sources judged to be useful based
on their content, organization, and popularity. It includes sources produced by governments, professional
societies, commercial publishers, and other organizations, with a preference for the online
versions of sources available in multiple formats, as well as free websites, metasites,
directory sites, and portals that have gained a reputation for quality. To access the full
range of functions, such as notes, users need to create a free individual profile.
- Information
Sources in Patents
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Guide to where and how patent information can be found. Discusses
patent information within the context of the current legal framework for patents both from a
national and international perspective, as well as future developments and their likely effect
on patent information, the three major patent systems, information sources on different media,
and the varying patent information needs within different subject fields. Covers alerting
searches, patentability, portfolio & legal status searches, commercial intelligence, and
patent analysis tools. Includes a glossary of patenting terms.
- Middle
and Junior High Core Collection: A Selection Guide (Wilson/Ebsco)
- Formerly Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog, this is a selective listing of
thousands of fiction and nonfiction works (including CD-ROMs) for children and
adolescents in grades five through nine to help with collection development, curriculum support,
selection, readers' advisory, and general reference. Entries provide complete bibliographic data,
price, subject headings, a descriptive annotation, evaluative quotations from a review (when available),
and citations to other reviews.
- Nonbook
Materials Core Collection: A Selection Guide (Wilson/Ebsco)
- Selective listing of electronic resources, audiobooks, video recordings, sound recordings,
games, simulations, and much more for collection development, readers' advisory, and curriculum
support, highlighting resources for schools and public libraries. Searches are possible by document
type, author, title, subject, genre, and grade level. Annotations include review excerpts and awards.
Cataloging information is provided for all items.
- Public
Library Core Collection - Nonfiction: A Selection Guide (Wilson/Ebsco)
- Formerly Public Library Catalog, this lists the most highly recommended
reference and non-fiction books for adults to aid in collection development, selection, weeding,
readers' advisory, and general reference. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price,
subject headings, a descriptive annotation, evaluative quotations from a review (when available),
and citations to other reviews as well as information on electronic editions of works where available.
- RCLweb:
Resources for College Libraries (Bowker)
- Formerly Books for College Libraries, this core list of hand-selected print
and electronic titles for academic libraries features 65,000 titles arranged into 58
curriculum-specific subjects. Can be searched by a variety of criteria including: RCL subject,
LC classification range, Dewey number range, audience, format, awards, and date added to
the database. Includes the full text of reviews from Choice. Updated quarterly.
- Senior
High Core Collection: A Selection Guide (Wilson/Ebsco)
- Formerly Senior High School Library Catalog, this is a selective list of more than ten
thousand fiction and nonfiction books, CD-ROMs, and curriculum-related material
recommended for young people in grades 9 through 12 to aid in collection development, readers'
advisory, and curriculum support. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings,
a descriptive annotation, evaluative quotations from a review (when available), and citations to other reviews.
- United
States Government Internet Manual (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- A guidebook for official U.S. government resources on the Web.
This manual contains more than 2,000 site records that provide descriptions and
URL's for each site. Evaluations are given for the most important and frequently sought sites.
- Also of Interest:
- American Juvenile
Collection:
- A research collection of children's fiction,
folklore, and fairy tales printed in North America, covering the years
1910-1960. The AJC continues the gathering of children's books by
Christine B. Gilbert, that included fiction and non-fiction, mostly from Great Britain, published
before 1909. The AJC retains a few of them, especially appropriate
fiction titles. This can be searched from any computer. No password is needed.
- Communicating
Knowledge: Publishing in the 21st Century
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Emerald
Fulltext (Emerald Insight)
- Provides full text access to almost 150 journals.
Emphasis is on business, technology, and library & information science, but
some coverage is also given to education, health, science, public policy, and criminal justice.
Journals can be browsed issue by issue or searched by keyword.
- ERIC :
Education Resources Information Center (Ebsco)
- Covers education literature and resources by providing access to information from
journals included in the Current Index to Journals in Education and from documents in the
Resources in Education index. The database contains more than 1,282,000 records and
links to more than 314,000 full-text documents from ERIC.
- ERIC :
Education Resources Information Center
(US Dept of Education)
- United States Department of Education website access to the ERIC database and the
full text of ERIC documents. No password needed for remote access
- Journal
Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters)
- Covering the previous
few years, this enables you to see how often a particular journal
is cited by other publications to evaluate its impact on the scholarly world.
Database descriptions are adapted from each database's website.
NOVEL (New York Online Virtual
Electronic Library) is a statewide virtual library provided free to
the public by the New York State Library.
It is currently a pilot project funded through a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA)
grant to the NY State Library by the Federal Institute of
Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
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