NebraskAccess Databases: The Whirlwind Tour

Introduction to NebraskAccess: The Whirlwind Tour Susan Knisely Nebraska Library Commission [email_address] 800-307-2665 / 402-471-3849 June 28, 2007

What is NebraskAccess? NebraskAccess is a portal to state-funded online databases provided to Nebraska citizens through public, academic, and K12 libraries and the Nebraska Library Commission. www.nlc.state.ne.us/nebraskaccess

How do I access NebraskAccess? From libraries and schools with IP access, click on the or icons. From anywhere else, click on the Login icon and login with a: NebraskAccess Password Nebraska Driver’s License number Nebraska State ID number

What’s available? eLibrary (excluding K12 schools) Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated PatronBooksInPrint.com Fiction Connection WorldCat HeritageQuest Online Business Information from Kiplinger Remote access is available for all databases!

eLibrary 100% full text database Indexes unique source types: Newspapers (240) Magazines & Scholarly Journals (1,561) Books (234) Maps (17) Pictures (24) Audio/Video (13) TV & Radio Transcripts (178)

Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select 100% full text periodical database HTML PDF Articles drawn from 2,000+ magazines and journals Content ranges from general interest (e.g., Time, People ) to peer reviewed (e.g., scholarly research) Coverage as far back as 1994 Updated daily

Wilson OmniFile FT Select (cont.) Art Applied Science & Technology Biological & Agricultural Index Education General Science Humanities Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Library Literature & Information Science Readers Guide Social Sciences Wilson Business Multidisciplinary – OmniFile FT Select is a compilation of full text articles drawn from the following Wilson periodical databases:

Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated More than 147,000 substantial narrative profiles, including: Content from Wilson biographical resources such as Current Biography , World Authors Series , and the Junior Authors & Illustrators . Over 80,000 profiles licensed from additional reference publishers, including Greenwood, Oryx, Oxford Publishing, and Oxford University Press. More than 36,000 images.

Wilson Biographies Plus Ill. (cont.) Links to full-text articles, abstracts, book review excerpts, and more—from the thousands of periodicals covered by other Wilson databases. Ability to search by name, profession, place of origin, gender, ethnicity, birth/death dates, century, etc.

PatronBooksInPrint.com A user-friendly interface to BIP that caters to both inexperienced and advanced searcher. Over 6.1 million records describing in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming book, audio, and video titles. Over 30,000 full text previews, 700,000 full-text reviews, and 140,000 tables of content. Over 200,000 publishers represented.

Why Use PatronBooksInPrint.com? To identify books, audios, and videos on topics of interest (for purchase or ILL) To verify bibliographic citations To determine availability (e.g., is item still in print?) To access reviews in response to a book challenge

Fiction Connection A reader’s advisory service that comes free with any BIP subscription. Focus is adult fiction and biography titles; also some children's and YA titles for grades 3 and up. Includes cover art, reviews, excerpts, edition and award information, etc. for many titles. Updated monthly as titles are reviewed. Coverage back to 1997 * . * Records for some older titles have been added if they are part of a series, are by popular authors, or are classics.

Why Use Fiction Connection? Use Fiction Connection to find book suggestions based on books you've read, authors you like, or topics of interest. Identify books in a series and determine the order in which they should be read.

WorldCat The most popular database available via OCLC’s FirstSearch Service A union catalog containing > 84 million records describing material owned by libraries around the world: Books, videos, sound recordings, maps, manuscripts, anything else libraries have cataloged using OCLC’s cataloging services Records represent material in over 470 languages and material dating back to 1,000 B.C.

Why use WorldCat? Search WorldCat when you want to: identify and locate an item you don’t own locally (either because you want to borrow it or purchase it) see what’s out there in the bibliographic universe on a topic.

HeritageQuest Online U.S. Federal Census Records from 1790-1930 Over 25,000 fully searchable family and local history books PERSI™ (PERiodical Source Index), an index to more than 6,500 genealogy and local history periodicals Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files Freedman's Bank Records

Business Information from Kiplinger The Kiplinger Letter - Concise weekly forecasts on business and economic trends, as well as what to expect from Washington. Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Advisor – A monthly editorial supplement to The Kiplinger Letter .

Helpful Resources Promotional Materials www.nlc.state.ne.us/nebraskaccess/toolbox/promotingdb.html Training Materials www.nlc.state.ne.us/nebraskaccess/toolbox/trainmaterials.html Lesson Plans www.nlc.state.ne.us/nebraskaccess/toolbox/lessonplans.html Citing Materials from NebraskAccess www.nlc.state.ne.us/nebraskaccess/help/citing.html

Questions? Susan Knisely Nebraska Library Commission [email_address] 800-307-2665 / 402-471-3849

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