Journals and Magazines
FirstSearch (On-Campus Link)
Off-Campus Link (Use Delta Username and Password)
FirstSearch provides access to an electronic collection of bibliographic, abstract, and full-text information from books, magazines, journals, newspapers, and the World Wide Web. The following indexes/databases cover a wide range of subjects: Art Abstracts; Article First; Applied Science and Technology Abstracts; Biography and Agricultural Index; Biography Index; Book Review Digest; ECO; Education Abstracts; ERIC; Essay and General Literature; General Science Abstracts; GPO (Government Printing Office); HandPressBook; History of Science, Technology, and Medicine; Humanities Abstracts; Legal Periodicals; Library Literature; MEDLINE; Readers Guide Abstracts; SCIPIO; Social Sciences Abstracts; Wilson Business; Wilson Select Plus; World Almanac; WorldCat (World Catalog); WorldCat Dissertations.
InfoTrac (On-Campus Link)
Off-Campus Link (Use Delta Username and Password)
InfoTrac includes articles from newspapers, reference books, journals, and magazines, many with full-text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more in indexes/databases such as Academic OneFile; Biography and Genealogy Master Index; Computer Database; Business and Company ASAP; Business and Company Resource Center; ChiltonLibrary.com; Educators Reference Complete; Expanded Academic ASAP; Gale Virtual Reference Library; General Business File ASAP; General OneFile; General Reference Center Gold; Grand Rapids Press; Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module; Health Reference Center Academic; Informe; InfoTrac Custom Newspapers; LegalTrac; Professional Collection; What Do I Read Next?
CINAHL Basic (On-Campus Link)
Off-Campus Link (Use Delta Username and Password)
Provides indexing for 2,931 journals with 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981, covering nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers indexing to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,200 journals are also included. Full text material includes 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. Contains limited full text (70 journals).
Chronicle of Higher Education
"Delta College has purchased a college-wide site license for the The Chronicle of Higher Education." The full-text of each print issue is accessible from 1989 to the present. Delta Library owns the current year plus the last twelve months in print. The online version of "Chronicle of Higher Education" is available from ON-CAMPUS. Access is not available from off-campus.
Issues and Controversies (ON-Campus)
Off-Campus Link (Requires Delta Username and Password)
Provides information covering the pros and cons of many "hot" topics. This resource is provided by Facts on File, a well-known publisher of current, historical, and statistical information.
JSTOR (On-Campus Link)
Off-Campus Link (Requires Delta Username and Password)
Journals that can be accessed by the LLIC
The "Moving Wall" that defines the time lag between the most current issue published and the content available in JSTOR. "JSTOR was founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. Today, JSTOR works with the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources." "With participation and support from the international scholarly community, JSTOR has created a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive of scholarship, is actively preserving over one thousand academic journals in both digital and print formats, and continues to greatly expand access to scholarly works and other materials needed for research and teaching globally. JSTOR is investing in new initiatives to increase the productivity of researchers and to facilitate new forms of scholarship."
National Library of Medicine (PubMed) (On-Campus and Off-Campus)
PubMed is a service of the National Library of Medicine, that provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed can provide some links to sites with free full-text articles and resources.
Scientific Journals from the Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics provides online access to scientific journals. Some of the publications provide the full-text of the article, free of charge. The site provides a search box for searching the journals and obtaining a citation and abstract for those journals that are not accessible free of charge. Once you receive a citation, you can contact the Delta Library Reference Desk or Interlibrary Loan Department in order to try to interlibrary loan a copy of the article, for free. Please call the Reference Desk at 686-9560 or Interlibrary Loan Department at 686-9013.
SIRS Renaissance (On-Campus Link)
Off-Campus Link (Requires Delta Username and Password)
Provides dynamic information on the following topics: architecture and design, culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion, and visual arts. Full-text articles are selected from more than 1,200 domestic and international publications. Many articles are accompanied by full-color images, including art reproductions, photographs, and illustrations.
Subject List of Delta College Periodicals (PDF Format)
Lists periodical titles arranged by subject.
Holdings List for Periodicals that can be found in the ONLINE databases (indexes)
"Provides a single alphabetical listing of periodicals which contain full-text articles from the Michigan eLibrary databases." This list covers the databases (indexes) that are part of FirstSearch and InfoTrac.
Holdings List for Periodicals that can be found at Delta College Library (PDF Format)
Lists periodical titles that are on the shelves at Delta College.
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