Research Guides: Purdue Polytechnic High School Library Resources: INSPIRE Resources

INSPIRE Databases A-Z

Academic Search Complete
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Useful database for benchmarking, market research, competitive intelligence.
Alt HealthWatch This link opens in a new window
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This alternative health research database provides the latest information and materials for the evolving practice of holistic medicine and therapies, with in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas.
Biography Reference Bank This link opens in a new window
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biographical database offers the in-depth, original profiles from the Current Biography and World Authors series, the thorough periodical coverage of Biography Index and the specialist biographical content of Junior Authors & Illustrators. It provides biographical full-text articles, page images and abstracts from today’s leading magazines and journals.
Biography Reference Center This link opens in a new window
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This database offers a collection of full-text biographies and unique narrative biographies. Including coverage for several of the most popular and heavily-researched biographies and genres, including those contained within Biography Today and Biography (both dating back to the first issue published).
Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic
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Designed for doctors, research scientists, students, clinical specialists and managers, this database provides nearly 900 full text journals, including nearly 850 peer-reviewed publications, covering virtually all areas of medical study. Journals available in full text in Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive Edition are indexed in MEDLINE.

Book Connections

Business Source Complete
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An all-purpose, vast business database with thousands of full-text academic journals and mainstream publications. Also includes thousands of case studies, SWOT analyses, industry reports, and a selection of brief company profiles.

Business Wire News
Useful database for current events

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Establish market and find out about economy via data about community.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
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Media studies - find out how a topic is being presented across the span of the media.
Consumer Health Complete This link opens in a new window
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Basic health topics, from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
EBSCOhost eBook K-8 Collection This link opens in a new window
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Currently with 15,155 titles, this e-book collection supports a quality learning experience for K-8 students across all subject areas taught in elementary and middle schools. It’s an effective way to provide educators with full-text e-books to support their curricula.
EBSCOhost eBook High School Collection This link opens in a new window
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Currently with 12,237 titles, this collection gives students, educators and administrators on-the-go access to popular e-books. This robust collection is an easy way for libraries to provide full-text e-books that align with their school’s curricula. It includes a selection of classic literary works, important historical documents and general reference materials.
EBSCOhost eBook Public Library Collection This link opens in a new window
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Access to self-help, fitness, game, hobby, and booking books and adult and teen levels.
EBSCO eBook Collection
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60,000 multi-disciplinary books. Look here for benchmarking, business, economics, marketing, college readiness, and if you are curious about a topic and just want to learn. Serendipity may be on your side in this database.
Entrepreneurial Studies Source This link opens in a new window
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Use this to learn about the hows and whys of the design process, market studies, business planning, fund raising, growing business, etc.
ERIC (EBSCO interface)
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Look here for problem based learning resources, STEM education articles, and research on educational best practices.
Essay and General Literature Index
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Indexes essays and chapters in anthologies, and multi-author collections. Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, art history, drama, and film.
Explora Educator's Edition This link opens in a new window
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A tool designed to help teachers with lesson plans, student tools, curriculum standards and valuable sites.

Explora for High School
Focused on arts, literature, biography, current events, geography, culture, health, history, math, science, more. Aligned with educational standards.
Explora for Middle Schools
Focused on arts, literature, biography, current events, geography, culture, health, history, math, science, and more.

Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text
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Scholarly and popular sources in film and television studies
Fonte Acadêmica This link opens in a new window
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Portuguese language scholarly multidisciplinary journals

Fuenta Academica Premier
Spanish language scholarly multidisciplinary journals

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
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For when you want more information than a definition, but still want a structure introduction to a topic.
GreenFILE
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Human impact on the environment through scholarly, government and general interest titles. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more.
Health Business FullTEXT
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Healthcare administration journals in full text
Health Source Consumer
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Popular journals on health
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
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Scholarly journals on health, primarily focused on nursing and allied health fields.
History Reference Center This link opens in a new window
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This database features full text for thousands of primary source documents and informational texts.
Hoosier State Chronicles
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Digital images of historic Indiana newspapers
Indiana Memory
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digitized primary sources in Indiana libraries, archives, museums and cultural institutions. Includes books, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, maps, and other media.
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance This link opens in a new window
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Full text for performing arts journals

Legal Information Reference Center
tools and how-to instructions as well as legal reference books
LearningExpress Library
Fundamental life skills support, such as how to obtain a job, change careers, become a US citizen, etc.

Literary Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new window
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A full-text database providing information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
MagillOnLiterature Plus This link opens in a new window
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A source for editorially reviewed critical analyses, character studies, author biographies and plot summaries of the most studied literary works.
MAS Complete
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Periodical collection covering art, history, sports, music, film, travel, science, the Internet, fashion, religion, nature, hobbies, current events, fiction.
MasterFILE Complete This link opens in a new window
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Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1922. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Complete also contains full text for more than 1,000 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
McClatchy-Tribune Collection
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The McClatchy-Tribune Collection includes a 90-day archive of approximately 290 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. This database is updated daily.
MEDLINE (PubMed interface) This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises more than 25 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCO interface)
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Access to top-tier biomedical and health journals. A desk reference for nurses, doctors and health professionals.
MedlinePlus
Consumer health portal from National Library of Medicine. Consumer friendly language about diseases, conditions and wellness
Middle Search Plus
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Middle school level magazines, biographies and historical essays, primary sources, reference books, etc.
Military and Government Collection
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Current news on all branches of the government, including 300 journals and periodicals.

Multilingual Health Databases
A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content, Multilingual Health Databases is designed to support the information needs of patients and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. This resource provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. Available languages include: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese and English.

Newspaper Source Plus
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40 national and international newspapers, including The Washington Post, The Times (London) and the Toronto Star. Also includes television transcripts and radio news transcripts.
Newswires This link opens in a new window
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near real-time access to top world-wide news via Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire on a continuous basis
Play Index
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classic and historic plays
Points of View Reference Center This link opens in a new window
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Resources that present multiple sides of an issues. Helps create persuasive arguments and essays and develop analytical thinking skills.
Professional Development Collection
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500 education journals and 230 educational reports on pedagogical theory and practice

Psychology & Behavioral Science Collection
Full text journals in psychology and counseling
Read It!
Customized articles and practice quizzes that promote reading comprehension across a variety of school subjects and life skill areas.

Readers' Guide Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
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Searchable full text for popular periodicals.

Referencia Latina
Reference books and general interest magazines in Spanish.
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Full text and scholarly journals in world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy

Rosetta Stone Level One for Personal Use This link opens in a new window
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Learn language through immersion.
Science Reference Center This link opens in a new window
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Full-text, science oriented content, including encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc.
Short Story Index This link opens in a new window
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Lists short stories by author, or genre.
Small Business Reference Center This link opens in a new window
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Small business reference books, videos, and tools
Social Sciences Full Text
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full text to English-language social science journals
TeachingBooks.net This link opens in a new window
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Developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.
TOPICsearch
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Current events database, containing full text for 140,000 articles from 300 diverse sources including international newspapers and periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.

Vente et Gestion
French language business journals, for both academics and business professionals
Vocational and Career collection
Designed to meet a wide variety of vocational and technical research needs, this collection provides full-text coverage for trade and industry-related periodicals for high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public.
Vocational Studies Premier
Comprehensive coverage of scholarly content relevant to vocational programs.

Web News This link opens in a new window
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near real-time access to thousands of top news feeds from around the globe
WorldCat
WorldCat database is the OCLC online catalog. It contains over 271 million records pointing to over 1.83 billion physical and digital assets in more than 470 languages