List of Online Resources with Descriptions

E-Journal Portal
Use this portal to search for magazine, journal and newspaper titles that can be accessed through Glendale’s online database subscriptions. You can search by journal title as well as by subject area to find what titles are available in electronic format. Then you can launch a broad subject search against selected journal titles or databases.

Infotrac Periodicals Database
Extensive collection of full-text magazine and news service articles from mid-1980s to current.

Historic Los Angeles Times 1881-1985
Digitized reproduction of the Los Angeles Times from its beginnings. Currently contains 1881-1985. Searchable by (author, keyword, title of article, and date). Database is also searchable by full page or issue. Content may include photos, graphics, or advertisements.

L.A. Times ProQuest
Full-text articles from the Los Angeles Times newspaper dating back to 1985.

CQ Researcher
Comprehensive, balanced and unbiased reporting and analysis on American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs.

American Indian Experience
A full-text digital resource exploring the histories and contemporary cultures of the indigenous peoples of the United States from Pre-contact to the present day. Includes primary source documents, speeches, treaties, and images.

American Mosaic - The African American Experience
A full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora including primary source documents, speeches, and images.

American Mosaic - The Latino American Experience
A full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of U.S. Latinos content spans from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas, through the Spanish and Mexican settlement of much of what is now the United States, to the triumphs and challenges facing present-day U.S. Latinos. Includes primary sources and vetted web sites.

"Ask Now" Live Online Reference
Links to a 24-hour reference service staffed by librarians nationwide.

Associations Unlimited
Descriptive information regarding over 450,000 local, regional, national, and international associations including IRS information on nonprofit organizations.

Biography & Genealogy Master Index
Indexes current as well as important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.

Biography Resource Center
Collection of full-text articles from many print sources that provide brief biographical sketches of famous individuals.

California Libraries Catalog
Allows catalog searches for materials and a display of holdings for all participating California academic, government, public, special, and school libraries.

Daily Life America
A searchable, and ever-expanding, website that spotlights the day-to-day lives of average Americans, past and present including primary source documents, images, and maps.

Glendale Public Library Oral History Collection
The Glendale Public Library Oral History Collection features interviews with long-time residents, pioneers, and prominent citizens, from Glendale's early days to the 21st century. Much of the collection is being made available to the public for the first time.

ABC-CLIO eBook Collection
Popular reference resources covering a variety of U.S. history subjects. Included is the popular American popular Culture Through History series, which chronicles the significant moments, innovations, and people in each of the decades of the 20th century.

Health & Wellness Resource Center/Alternative Health
A vast collection of authoritative medical information from medical reference resources, journal articles, newspapers, and pamphlets. The Alternative Health Module provides access to information related to alternative medicine.

Marshall Cavendish Digital
Extensive collection of reference materials covering numerous subjects, including social studies and world cultures, health, geography, plants and animals, and science. In addition to reference articles, the database features maps, diagrams, and photographs to enhance student learning.

NoveList Plus
A reader’s advisory resource that recommends popular fiction and non-fiction titles based on the user’s personal preferences. The database also provides adult, teen, and juvenile reading lists and discussion guides for book clubs.

Popular Culture Universe
Covers information on “pop” culture from the 1920s through today, including movies, television, music, dance, and fashion styles as well as fads, trends in food, and groundbreaking advertising.

Salem Health - Magill's Medical Guide
The product covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.

Sams Photofacts (Available at Central Library only)
Service manuals and repair schematics for consumer electronics back to 1946. Covers televisions, tape recorders, radios, CBs, car stereos and more in over 200,000 manuals online. Search by model or chassis number.

World Folklore and Folklife
An exciting and accessible database that explores aspects of folklore including holidays, festivals, language, stories and fairy tales, proverbs, foods, and folk remedies.

American Indian Experience
A full-text digital resource exploring the histories and contemporary cultures of the indigenous peoples of the United States from Pre-contact to the present day. Includes primary source documents, speeches, treaties, and images.

American Mosaic - The African American Experience
A full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora including primary source documents, speeches, and images.

American Mosaic - The Latino American Experience
A full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of U.S. Latinos content spans from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas, through the Spanish and Mexican settlement of much of what is now the United States, to the triumphs and challenges facing present-day U.S. Latinos. Includes primary sources and vetted web sites.

College Catalogs (Available in library only)
Full access to catalogs of over 34,000 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional, and international colleges and universities.

Daily Life America
A searchable, and ever-expanding, website that spotlights the day-to-day lives of average Americans, past and present including primary source documents, images, and maps.

Daily Life through History—Basic Edition
Descriptions of the daily lives of people and cultures throughout history and across the globe. Features articles, primary documents, and books, including the Greenwood Dictionary of World History and Encyclopedia of Daily Life.

ABC-CLIO eBook Collection
Popular reference resources covering a variety of U.S. history subjects. Included is the popular American popular Culture Through History series, which chronicles the significant moments, innovations, and people in each of the decades of the 20th century.

Kids Search
A dictionary, encyclopedia and a collection of  images are included in this general reference source for children.

Marshall Cavendish Digital
Extensive collection of reference materials covering numerous subjects, including social studies and world cultures, health, geography, plants and animals, and science. In addition to reference articles, the database features maps, diagrams, and photographs to enhance student learning.

Middle Search Plus
A general reference resource primarily for middle/junior high school students. Includes encyclopedia, magazine, and biographical articles, as well as an image library.

Novelist K-8
A reader’s advisory resource for children that recommends books based on the child’s personal preferences. The database also provides reading lists and discussion guides to assist parents and teachers who work with children.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Pro and con arguments for a broad range of current social issues, providing facts, references, articles from many resources, and links to appropriate web sites.

Popular Culture Universe
Covers information on “pop” culture from the 1920s through today, including movies, television, music, dance, and fashion styles as well as fads, trends in food, and groundbreaking advertising.

Searchasaurus
A general reference resource primarily for children. Includes encyclopedia, dictionary, and magazine articles, as well as an image library.

World Folklore and Folklife
An exciting and accessible database that explores aspects of folklore including holidays, festivals, language, stories and fairy tales, proverbs, foods, and folk remedies.

Biography Resource Center
Collection of full-text articles from many print sources that provide brief biographical sketches of famous individuals.

Magill on Literature - Analysis & Authors
Biographical material, plot summaries, and literary criticism of major authors and their works.

Novelist K-8
A reader’s advisory resource for children that recommends books based on the child’s personal preferences. The database also provides reading lists and discussion guides to assist parents and teachers who work with children.

NoveList Plus
A reader’s advisory resource that recommends popular fiction and non-fiction titles based on the user’s personal preferences. The database also provides adult, teen, and juvenile reading lists and discussion guides for book clubs.

Business & Company Resource Center
Rich collection of information on individual businesses and industries. Company profiles, industry overviews, histories, financials, and rankings. Many magazine articles are full text.

California Code of Regulations
Online version of the regulatory codes for California.

California Laws
Online version of the California State Constitution and Statutes/Laws. Full text searchable by keyword or by code name and section number.

Rand California Statistics
Vast storehouse of statistical analyses for California demographic, business, financial, political and governmental information, some dating back as far as 1970.

Reference USA
A compilation of white and yellow page telephone directories nationwide, including some financial data on businesses.

Stat-USA/Internet (Available in library only)
Actually, two separate entities - "State of the Nation" compiles current and historical economic and financial data on the U.S. economy. "Globus & NTDB (National Trade Data Bank)" covers current and historical trade releases, international market research, trade opportunities, and country analyses.

African American Song documents in sound the African American experience from the earliest records through the 1970s. A people’s history, from post-Reconstruction through the Great Migration to the Civil Rights movement, these 50,000 recorded tracks—for online listening—document the struggles, triumphs, and ongoing journey of African Americans, with recordings by figures in the history of black American music.

American Song contains recordings of American roots music and pre-1960 American popular music. It encompasses American musical genres including country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, and shape note singing—combined with recordings by artists such as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Si Kahn, Lead Belly, Sleepy LaBeef, the New Lost City Ramblers, Otis Clay, Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater, Nanci Griffith, The Lilly Brothers, Merle Travis.

Art Fact (Auction Records): (Available at Brand Library only)
Database of more than ten million auction records for antiques, art and collectibles sold by auction houses around the world, including prices estimated and realized prices, descriptive text from auction catalogs, and photographs.

Art Full Text & Art Index Retrospective
Index to articles from over 850 art, architecture, decorative arts, crafts, textiles, graphic arts, fashion, and interior and industrial design periodicals published throughout the world. Listings include abstracts and in many cases the complete text of the articles with images. Indexing covers the years 1929 to the present.

AskART (Available in library only)
AskART is an online database containing biographical information, book and periodical references, and American auction history (from 1987) and international auction history (from 2007) for over 100,000 artists. Images of works are included with most auction records.

Classical Music Library is a growing, fully searchable classical music resource—a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to on the Internet.

Contemporary World Music includes recordings of contemporary reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres. Traditional music such as Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku is also featured.

International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)
Indexing and abstracts for more than 400 international music periodicals from over 20 countries. Also includes full text for a selection of these journals. Covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from scholarly studies to popular topics.

Music Online offers a single cross-search of three streaming music databases: American Song, Classical Music Library, and Contemporary World Music. Soon to be added are: African Music and Smithsonian Global Sound, now available as separate databases. Listen to music directly from these resources!

Overdrive Music
Download and listen to select music on your PC, iPod or other portable digital music player using the Overdrive software.

Oxford/Grove Art Online
Access to 45,000 articles from The Dictionary of Art (1996) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art (2001) as well as newly added articles by art historians and experts from around the world. Over 2,500 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links, and sophisticated search features.

Oxford/Grove Music Online
Full text articles, including updates, from The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.

Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries offers streaming access to more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. Includes such varied materials as dramatic performances, poetry, political speeches, war and protest songs, and great performances of music (traditional, blues, bluegrass, Native American, children’s recordings, and more) from virtually everywhere in the world and on any type of instrument imaginable.