Product Information Databases
(see also
Business and
General)
[Online Books]
- Online Encyclopedias and Books:
- Business
Rankings Annual (Gale Directory Library) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
 
- Provides "top ten" rankings of companies, products, services,
and business-related activities compiled from a variety of published sources.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mental
Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (Ebsco)
- Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, it provides users
with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments.
Contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse
areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
Covers from Volume 1 to the present.
Tests in Print serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests
that are currently in print in the English language. It includes test purpose, test publisher, in-print status,
price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
- 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.
- 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.
- SRDS:
Standard Rate and Data Service (SRDS)
- SRDS provides valuable market information and advertising rates for more than
100,000 U.S. and international print, broadcast, and leading-edge digital and tablet media
properties to enable media planners, buyers, and brand marketers to identify where they
want to advertise and to find outlets that will reach their target audiences. Each entry contains:
editorial profile, publisher's positioning statement, representatives, commission, cash discount,
advertising rates, general requirements, closing dates, circulation, featured marketing opportunities,
and more. Subscription includes: Business Media Advertising Source -
Consumer Media Advertising Source - Direct Marketing List Source - Newspaper Advertising Source -
TV and Cable Source - Local Market Audience Analyst - Radio Advertising Source -
Out-of-Home Advertising Source - Interactive Advertising Source - Print Media Production Source -
International Media Guide: Business: The Americas -
International Media Guide: Business: Asia-Pacific/Middle East/Africa - International Media Guide: Business: Europe -
International Media Guide: Consumer Worldwide - International Media Guide: Newspapers Worldwide -
and SRDS Tablet Media Library.
Database descriptions are adapted from each database's website.
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