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Accessible on the Internet through the World Wide Web, Dialog provides immediate access to over 450 databases covering a wide range of disciplines. This system contains millions of records of documents and articles drawn from scientific and technical literature, trade journals, newspapers, and newswires -- full-text capability is offered.

Dow Jones Interactive is the World Wide Web version of Dow Jones News/Retrieval. It provides same day, full-text coverage, for The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angles Times, The New York Times, The Financial Times of London, and business sections from 54 papers around the country. It also provides full-text of over 265 regional newspapers and 175 international publications and papers. Approximately 2800 business and trade publications are also included.

Federal News Service provides access to their transcripts via their web site. IIP, the Foreign Press Centers and 160 Information Resource Centers have access to all the transcripts of Congressional Hearings, Prepared Statements, Questions and Answers and Briefings.

First Search provides access to more than 65 databases and gives users an easy-to-use interface. This powerful tool increases the availability of reference information by providing seamless access to bibliographic, abstract, and full-text information with photographs and other images.

GaleNet is a one-stop shopping database for The Gale Group products available on the World Wide Web. This covers Encyclopedia of Associations; Contemporary Authors; Research Centers Family of Directories; Directories of Publications & Broadcast Media; Gale Directory of Databases, Gale Guide to Internet Databases; Biography Resource Center; Super LCCS; and Gale Business Resources.

Leadership Directories - the Leadership Library on the Internet - is a comprehensive database of who's who in the leadership of the United States.

A full-text database of current and historic federal legislation, bill tracking, bill texts, state legislation, case law, law reviews and over 6,000 full-text news sources and periodicals including the New York Times, Washington Post and AP wires.

Accessible on the Internet through the World Wide Web, ProQuest Direct provides immediate access to an extensive collection of newspapers, journals, periodicals, magazines, and other information sources. It provides access to over 400 full text periodicals in the following formats: citations, abstracts, full text, image and image/text (images may not be available for all 400 periodicals). It also provides citations and/or abstracts of over 1600 periodicals and newspapers, including the New York Times.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Economics and Statistics Administration) support this online information resource. It contains crucial and timely business and economic information produced by Federal agencies. This mostly text version of Stat-USA is accessible through the World Wide Web.

This database corresponds to the Thomas Register of American Manufacturers and Thomas Food Industry Register, which have been, for over 80 years, premier sources of product information for U.S. and Canadian manufacturing companies and the industrial, food service and retail segments of the food industry.

Databases on CD-ROM

Contains more than 112 million telephone directory listings for business and residences of the U.S. Software enables the user to generate mailing labels.

This Database provides descriptions and data on over 3,000 two- and four-year institutions, information on more than 2,000 sources of financial aid, and a guide to some 7,500 institutions providing occupational education.

This database contains information on more than 11,000 companies. Coverage includes more than 27,000 executives. For each company, the database provides name, address, telephone, fax number, names of key executives, industry description, stock symbol and exchanges, number of employees, and annual sales data. Includes built-in mailing label capability.

Type of information: Full text; image, audio; dictionary; directory. This database includes the full contents of the 22-volume print edition of the World Book Encyclopedia, chronicling history from 570 million years B.C. to the present. Includes 2000 articles not available in the print edition.

Type of information: Full text; Image; video; audio; and dictionary. Provides a comprehensive interactive encyclopedia with more than 40,000 articles, 900 sidebars, 495 charts and tables, 560 maps, 31 360-degree views, 150 videos and animations, 2300 sound clips and pronunciations, more than 10,000 web links and a built-in dictionary.

The database combines data from the U.S. Code, containing the official laws of the federal government and Statutes at Large, containing laws passed by Congress but not yet incorporated into the U.S. Code. Organizes information on federal laws into 11 tables: U.S. Code Classifications; Revised Titles; Popular Names; U.S. Code Sections Classified to D.C. Code; D.C. Code Sections Classified to U.S. Code; Revised Statutes 1878; Statutes at Large; Proclamations; Executive Orders; Reorganization Plans; and Internal References.

This database contains business and financial data summaries of U.S. public companies, gathered from their SEC filings.

Type of information: Full text; image; video; audio. This database provides biographies of more than 1000 famous American women, both past and present, from many different fields. It covers the arts, science, health, law, politics, religion, and social reform. It features text and illustrations for each entry, with movies or newsreel clips for some.

This database contains more than 530 Congress members' biographies and election data.

This is an electronic guide to United States Hospitals (more than 6,000), Health Care Systems, Networks, Alliances, Health Organizations, Agencies and Providers. This database also provides statistical and general information from the American Hospital Association.

Electronic publishing “Chase’s Calendar of Events” brings you dozens of reasons to celebrate each and every day of the year. This database delivers more day-by-day facts, fresh ideas and birthdays than any other source. Events can be searched by keyword, month, specific date, a range of dates, or by category.