Our library provides access to the Gale Databases, the DKC Databases, and CountryWatch. These databases can be accessed both at school and at home from the Bishop Dunne Library’s web site called Books and Beyond. To access the databases from home, go to the BD web site > On Campus > Library. Then, choose from the options listed in the Pages section under ONLINE DATABASES in the right-hand margin. You will have the opportunity to search multiple databases simultaneously or individual databases separately.
Here’s a quick description of the databases:
- Click on Gale Databases > Login to Gale Databases to locate the following:
Custom Newspapers, Student Resource Center Gold, General OneFile, Informe, Student Resource Center – Junior, Texas Almanac, Literature Resource Center.
2. Click on DKC Databases > Click on the EBSCO button > EBSCOhost Web to locate the following:
Academic Search Complete, Alt HealthWatch, Biography Collection Complete, Book Collection: Nonfiction, Business Source Complete, CINAHL Plus with Full Text, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Computer Source, Computers & Applied Sciences Complete, EBSCO Animals, Economia y Negocios, Education Research Complete, ERIC, Fuente Academica, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Health Source – Consumer Edition, Health Source – Nursing/Academic Edition, History Reference Center, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text, Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts, Legal Collection, Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text, Literary Reference Center, MAS Ultra – School Edition, MasterFILE Premier, MedicLatina, MEDLINE, Middle Search Plus, Military & Government Collection, Newspaper Source, Professional Development Collection, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, Regional Business News, Science & Technology Collection, Science Reference Center, SocINDEX with Full Text, SPORTDiscus with Full Text, Texas Reference Center, The Serials Directory, TOPICsearch, World History Collection, Bibliography of Native North Americans, Library/Information Science & Technology Abstracts, Religion and Philosophy Collection, Vocational and Career Collection.
3. Click on DKC Databases > Click on the SIRS Researcher button. This database provides access to articles and analysis on controversial social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues.
4. Click on CountryWatch > Login to Country Watch for in-depth and up-to-date detailed written reviews for each country including geographical, political, economic, corporate, and environmental information.
Please stop by the Library office or email Ms. Gibson at mgibson@bdhs.org for the passwords for home access. The passwords are also listed on Edline in the Library group.
Click on the name of the database service for detailed information and access.
CountryWatch
DKC Databases
Gale Databases
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