Bill nad Margot Lee Library Online Public Access Catalog

The Bill and Margot Lee Library is located in The Arnold Farber Building. The online public access catalog provides access to library resources including books and audiovisual programs. Crowder College is a member of the Missouri Bibliographic Users Information System (MOBIUS). This is a consortium that links Missouri’s academic libraries to provide electronic databases to students, faculty, and staff in member institutions. There are eleven clusters of libraries that share the automated library systems. Crowder College is part of the SouthWest Academic Network (SWAN).

To access the SWAN library catalog, go to the Crowder College library home page and click on SWAN library catalog. To locate resources, the catalog can be searched by author, title, subject, keyword, or Dewey Decimal call numbers. It provides links to search Crowder College resources only, the SWAN catalog that includes all libraries in the cluster, or the MOBIUS catalog which includes all Missouri libraries in the consortium.

Periodical Research Databases

Lee Library research databases provide access to articles on topics in periodicals (magazines, journals, newspapers). Many of the databases will provide full text articles along with the bibliographic citation information (author, article title, magazine or journal title, volume and issue numbers, date of issue, page numbers). When the full text is not available, an abstract or summary of the article helps the user determine whether to request the article by interlibrary loan. The interlibrary loan service ensures that the user will have access to the article when it is not available online via the research database or the source is not available in the library’s periodicals collection.

To access the research databases, go to the Crowder College library home page and click on Research Databases. This will provide a list of available databases to support library research.

Periodical databases available to Crowder students include the following:

EBSCO databases:

Academic Search Premier.  The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 4,500 publications, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for many journals, and searchable cited references are provided to other titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

MasterFILE Premier. Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes more than 500 full text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition.  This database provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Clinical Pharmacology .  Clinical Pharmacology provides access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.

Health Source: Consumer Edition.  This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 300 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Alt HealthWatch.  This alternative health database provides full text for more than 140 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.

Business Source Premier.  As the world’s largest full text business database, Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 8,350 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Regional Business News.  This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Newspaper Source.  Newspaper Source provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

Military & Government Collection.  Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.

America: History & Life. History and Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present; with indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present.

Historical Abstracts: Historical Abstracts is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.

Other databases available from this page include MAS Ultra - School Edition, Primary Search, Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia, EBSCO Animals.

Grolier Online  Crowder College   currently subscribes to the following encyclopedias for campus:  Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, Nueva enciclopedia Cumbra en linea, The New Book of Popular Science, and Lands and Peoples.

ProQuest  New York Times newspaper from 1851 to the present and Curriculum Essentials featuring full text articles from over 1400 titles covering many subjects.

CountryWatch  is an information provider for corporations, government agencies, universities, schools, libraries and individuals needing up-to-date news and information on each of the 192 recognized countries of the world.

NewsBank  This is the portion of NewsBank that relates to Missouri.  Three newspaper databases are available here - The Kansas City Star, News Missouri, and the St. Louis Post Dispatch.   There is also a special report section which includes articles on certain specific topics from other newspapers as well.

OCLC FirstSearch databases
Crowder College has a subscription to a few of the OCLC FirstSearch databases. These may be accessed from any computer that can access the Internet. However you must have the authorization number and password that is available from the LRC Director (mlargent@crowder.edu).

WorldCat is the place to find out what books have been published. It is OCLC’s cataloging records of over one billion books, which are located in hundreds of libraries. Books can be searched by author, title, or subject. Most of these books can be obtained through Interlibrary Loan. Interlibrary Loan request forms are available at the desk in the LRC.

Other FirstSearch databases which our authorization number and password gives us access to are:

Article First Index of articles from nearly 12,500 journals.

Ebooks Catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide

ECO Index to scholarly journals.

MEDLINE Abstracted articles from medical journals.

Papers First Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide

Proceedings An index of worldwide conference proceedings

MEDLINE PLUS is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) consumer database covering health and medical topics. From it, you can also link to Medline, a large database of articles from biomedical journals.

Merriam Webster  This is a free link to Webster's dictionary and thesaurus, word games, and word of the day.