List of Online Resources with Descriptions

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.

"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.

Books in Print with Reviews
Bibliographic information on in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming book, audio, and video titles.

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

Greenwood Digital Collection eBooks
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.

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.

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 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.

Greenwood Digital Collection eBooks
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.

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.

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.

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

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

Novelist
A reader's advisory resource that suggests fiction books based on user preferences.

Novelist K-8
A reader's advisory resource for grades K through 8 that assists students in locating fiction books based on user preferences.

Poetry Index
Index with full texts of numerous poems. Indexes poems not available in full text and provides biographical essays on many poets.

Theatre In Video makes available streaming high-demand, DVD quality video of some of the world’s most important plays, actual original productions, captured and recorded while performed for a live theatre audience.  From Shakespeare to Arthur Miller to Eugene O’Neill, offers Theatre In Video more than 500 hours of on demand online streaming video available over the Internet for the first time.

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.

Mergent Online
Extensive information on individual businesses and industries. Company financials, annual reports, stock valuations, and other statistical information. Search by company name, stock ticker symbol, SIC, or NAICS code.

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.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Publication information on international journals, magazines, and newspapers.

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.

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.

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.

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 via the Internet to more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds.  Users can listen to such includes 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.