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Take a look at some of the latest additions to our database collection!

To access any of these databases, visit Databases A to Z

Business, Economics and Theory Collection

With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit database, this collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, with more than 450 full-text journals to support their research and regular feeds of videos from Forbes.com that contain business news coverage and interviews with CEO's and entrepreneurs.

InfoTrac Communication & Mass Media Complete eCollection

A searchable Communication and Mass Media electronic collection.

Culinary Arts Collection

The Culinary Arts collection includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

InfoTrac Environmental Issues and Policy eCollection

A searchable Environmental Issues and Policy electronic collection.

Fine Arts and Music Collection

With more than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide your students with resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

Florida Database

Database with 373,983 articles updated as recently as June 3, 2010. Date Range: 1980-2010.

Florida on Florida

Florida On Florida is a catalog of digital materials related to Florida. It includes all sorts of items including maps, photographs, postcards, books, and manuscripts. The materials in Florida On Florida come from digital collections held by libraries, archives, museums and historical societies throughout Florida.

GPO Access via Firstgov

The U.S. Government Printing Office disseminates official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.

Home Improvement Collection

Even the smallest home improvement project can be daunting: with this collection of nearly 100 home improvement focused titles, hobbyists and professional carpenters alike will immediately put their projects on a more solid foundation. Coverage includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more.

Informe Revistas en Espanol

Created exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, this full-text electronic reference tool is the first system to provide indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic magazines -- not just translations. Also included is a thesaurus and interface that are uniquely designed for Spanish-speaking users. ¡Informe! thinks through every query in Spanish. Terms and thesaurus are based on the expressions Spanish-speakers commonly use, allowing users to easily navigate through the database without experiencing inaccurate search terms.

InfoTrac Criminal Justice eCollection

A searchable Criminal Justice electronic collection.

Popular Magazines

Popular Magazines includes 1000 of the most searched magazines across our InfoTrac products. All the titles were selected based on actual publication searches performed by library patrons. This database is 100% full text and includes over 600 titles recommended by Bowker's "Magazines for Libraries". Titles like Consumer Reports, Time, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, US News and World Report, Vogue, Fortune, Business Week, National Review, Cosmopolitan, NPR and even Oprah are included in this database.

InfoTrac Psychology eCollection

A searchable Psychology electronic collection.

InfoTrac Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure eCollection

A searchable Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure electronic collection.

Educator's Reference Complete Gale Database

The library is pleased to announce access to the Educator’s Reference Complete Gale database. This database has many exciting and useful features, including:

Access to over 1100 periodicals and over 200 reports
Appropriate for all educators – from teachers and administrators working in schools to students at the collegiate and graduate level
Complements the ERIC database by providing full-text results for nearly half of the journal titles found in ERIC
Covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college
Covers every educational specialty including technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing
Includes a focus on issues in administration, funding and policy
The database is cross-searchable with Gale eBooks

To access the Educator’s Reference Complete database from the library homepage:

select Databases A to Z
enter your borrower ID and PIN (for help with this, see the library FAQs page)
scroll down to select Educator’s Reference Complete
click “connect to database”

To view a help guide on searching in Educators Reference Complete, click this link: http://www.gale.cengage.com/pdf/facts/ERC.pdf

To view an Excel spreadsheet list of available titles, click this link: http://gale.cengage.com/tlist/edu_ref.xls

International Flag Display

The flag display in the library is courtesy of the Multicultural and International Affairs Committee. Each flag embodies nationalities represented by the GCCC employees and students. When the installation is complete, over 80 flags will be on display.

Primo

Announcing the launch of the next-generation interface to library resources. The new interface includes improvements like:

Multiple resources are available from the first screen
Access to more than 100 databases
Faceted display of search results in the catalog (e.g., subject, author, publication date, format type)
Single Google-like search box that searches multiple resources at once
“Did you mean?” spelling suggestions
Stemming of search terms
Merged results list that eliminates duplicates
“Haven’t found what you’re looking for?” help refining search
Customizable for our local information

Although the new interface facilitates navigation through the resources and library web site from a single interface, it will not replace the library’s current home page. Instead links to resources from the home page will be directed through the new interface.

LINCCWeb 2.0 was first launched by the College Center for Library Automation (CCLA) for Florida Keys Community College, Miami Dade College and Palm Beach Community College on August 21st. CCLA’s launch followed an extensive and comprehensive development, refinement, and beta design period that collected input from all 28 Florida colleges, their students, and faculty. In the spring, several central Florida colleges also will launch this interface. The remaining community colleges will migrate based on locally-established timelines.

Here is a link to the new Primo interface.

Database News

Business Source Complete now includes a business video collection with 55 videos from the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series. The series features engaging video lectures from renowned professors and experts at the Harvard Business School. All lectures are captured from executive education programs, and offer groundbreaking ideas, insightful research, and practical advice on management issues. The videos contain a table of content allowing the selection of a specific topic. Most lectures provide a transcript in PDF format.

Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source is new on GCCC's resources list and covers all facets relating to the areas of dentistry including dental public health, endodontics, facial pain & surgery, odontology, oral & maxillofacial pathology/surgery/radiology, orthodontology, pediatric dentistry, periodontology, and prosthodontics. The database is updated weekly on EBSCOhost.

Safari Business and Tech Books Online Safari Books Online's on-demand digital library provides access to over 9,800 technology, creative and business books from leading publishers. When you have a question or need information, use Safari Books Online to gain immediate access to many books with lots of answers — not just one. All of the content on Safari Books Online is vetted, reliable and provided by the world's leading publishers and authors. In February 2010 these book titles will appear in the library catalog. For now, to access these titles, go through the A to Z Database list, and when the My Safari Books web page comes up, click the Safari Books Online icon in the top left corner of the web page.

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