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The Bowden Library

 

The Bowden Library provides full text access to over 5,000 online journals, government documents, television and wire transcripts, and reference works.
Here is an alphabetized list of our electronic databases:


A to Z List
Provides a comprehensive list of all of the electronic titles to which we have access. EBSCO Host Web Provides access to the following databases:

  • Academic Search Elite: Full text of 1550 scholarly journals to 1985.
  • ERIC: Citations and abstracts of over 750 educational and related journals from the Educational Resource Information Center.
  • Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
  • Health Source: Consumer Ed: Full text, abstracts, and indexing for over 300 health periodicals.
  • MAS Ultra - School Ed.: Full text of 460 general -interest magazines back to 1990.
  • Newspaper Source: Full text of 159 regional and U.S. and 18 international newspapers, 6 newswires, and 9 newspaper columns.
  • NoveList: A reader's advisory of over 73,000 fiction titles including full-text reviews.
  • Primary Search: provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator and date as far back as 1990. Can be searched via Searchasaurus , the colorful interface for elementary school researchers.
  • Professional Development Collection: Full-text journals, designed for professional educators.
  • TOPICsearch: Full-text coverage of social issues and current events.
  • JSTOR: A full text database of academic journals in the sciences and the humanities
  • Lexis Nexis Scholastic Universe News: News from leading newspapers, magazines, wire services, and broadcast transcripts, including foreign language news sources in Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Dutch.
  • Legal Research Module: U.S. Supreme Court cases from 1789 to present, State High Court cases and law digests from all 50 states; law review articles and all federal laws from 1988 to the present.
  • Legislation: U.S. and state bills and tracking reports; Congressional Record with debates from the House and Senate floors; profiles of members of Congress and Congressional voting records; state legislative calendars
  • Statistics: 40,000 statistical tables from key publications of Federal and State agencies and international organizations.
  • Proquest Historical Newspapers: Includes full text articles from the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post with coverage dating back to the 1850s

 

To access these databases from the Walker campus please connect to A-to-Z.htm,  to access these databases from home please contact Mr. Auger to get a username and password then go to the On-line publications page.

 

 

CONTACTS:

Bob Murphy
Principal
678-581-6900

Michael Arjona
Academic Dean/
History
678-581-6918

Newton McCurdy
Dean of Students/
History
678-581-6908

Cheryl Rogers
Registrar/
Administrative Assistant 678-581-6895

Tom Auger
US/MS Media Specialist
678-581-6912

 

 
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