The Williamsburg Regional Library | Information Resources

FEATURED DATABASE: Contemporary Literary Criticism

Students, book club members, and those interested in finding out more about their favorite literature will find Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (CLC) very helpful. CLC is one of a collection of databases that the library offers to its users free of charge either from home or from within the library buildings. Contemporary Literary Criticism Select is an extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study. Updated monthly, CLC allows users to search by author name, title of work, nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more. You can access Contemporary Literary Criticism Select from home by starting at our home page (www.wrl.org) and selecting "online databases" from the lower right corner of the page. Select "at home use" and enter your library card number when prompted. Scroll down the page to find Contemporary Literary Criticism Select. If you have any questions, please call the Reference desk at (757) 259-7720.	Learn more about these WRL databases: Ancestry & HeritageQuest BigChalk eLibrary Business & Company Resource Center Computer Database EBSCOhost MasterFILE Gale Biography Resource Center Gale Literature Resource Center Gale Virtual Reference Library General Reference Center Gold Health & Wellness Resource Center InfoTrac OneFile LearnATest Litfinder LegalTrac Military & Intelligence NoveList Reference USA Science Resource Center

Health & Wellness Resource Center

Have you ever gone online to search for health-related information only to find thousands of results that are irrelevant or unreliable? Using the library’s online database, Health and Wellness Resource Center (HWRC), makes finding accurate health information easy. With HWRC, users can search for journal articles, search a medical encyclopedia, look up drug and herb information, search for medical terms in the online medical dictionary, and search for alternative health information. Searching for medical journal articles is easy in HWRC. The database provides full text of articles from hundreds of health and medical journals and reference books. In the “search for” box, just type in the name of the disease or condition you wish to search for, and HWRC will provide reference book articles and journal articles on the condition. Many of the articles are the full text of the article. To see the text of the article, just click on the article’s title. Articles can be printed, saved, and emailed. In addition to reference book articles and journal articles, HWRC provides a medical encyclopedia and a drug and herb finder. HWRC provides authoritative health information and drug information that is easy to understand. To search the medical encyclopedia from the HWRC home page, click on “medical encyclopedia.” Then scroll through the alphabetical listing to the disease or condition you wish to select. To find drug information simply click on “drug and herb finder” and then enter in the drug name. If you wish to find information on alternative health methods and treatments, HWRC has an Alternative Health Encyclopedia as well. From the database homepage, click on “Alternative Health Encyclopedia” and then scroll down the list to the condition you wish to research. To access the Health and Wellness Resource Center, go to the library’s homepage, www.wrl.org. Click on “online databases” in the bottom right of the screen and then click on “at home use.” When prompted, enter all fourteen digits of your library barcode number. If you have questions or you would like additional information on any of the library’s online databases, please call the Reference Desk at (757) 259-7720 or (757) 259-4050.

Reference USA

If you are looking for detailed company information, Reference USA is the source. Need a list of beauty salons in Virginia with 30-40 employees? Find it here. Want to know the Starbucks headquarters location and how to contact the company? Reference USA provides that information. A database with 12 million U.S. businesses, Reference USA is searchable in a variety of ways including company name, ticker symbol, yellow page heading or NAICS, geographic location, number of employees, and sales volume. From the search results list you may "link up" to access parent corporations or corporate headquarters or "link down" to find subsidiaries and branch locations. You may also select one or more records for viewing at a time. The detailed listing of each record includes address, contact information, Fortune 1000 and credit ratings, stock exchange and ticker symbol, number of employees, estimated sales, SIC and NAICS codes, and name and rank of officers. Additionally, you can link to the company website, to Google News for articles on the company, or to the Edgar database for financial information. Reference USA can also direct you to records of businesses located within a radius of 20 miles of your selected company. All information may be printed or downloaded. Reference USA is accessible at the library in the Adult Services department of both buildings. Go to the library’s website (www.wrl.org), click on "online databases" and select "in library use." Reference USA can be found under "business and companies." For help or more information on this or any of the library’s other databases, call or stop by either Adult Services reference desk.

LegalTrac

The Williamsburg Regional Library now offers LegalTrac, a database that provides a wealth of legal information from a variety of expert sources including law reviews, legal newspapers, international legal publications, and bar association journals. LegalTrac features over 1,300 legal publications and 1,000 business and general interest titles. Well-known publications include the American Criminal Law Review, the American Journal of Law and Medicine, the Supreme Court Review, and the Yale Law Journal. LegalTrac is endorsed by the American Association of Law Libraries, and its content is reviewed and selected by a special committee of this organization. Patrons can access LegalTrac from within the library and remotely from home. To access the LegalTrac database remotely, go to the library’s web page, www.wrl.org, click on “online databases,” select the “legal” category at the top, and then click on “LegalTrac.” You will be prompted to enter the 14-digit number on the back of your library card before using the database. There are a variety of ways to search this database to find what you are looking for. You can search via subject guide, keyword, relevance, and advanced search with multiple search terms. You can either browse through the complete list of journal titles, or search for a specific title with the journal search feature. You can narrow your search results by selecting the date feature of the database, where you can select to retrieve articles on, before, or after a certain date or between two dates. Once an article has been chosen, LegalTrac provides several options on how it can be used. These options can be found in the menu of options on the left side of the article screen. The print option will convert the document into a text view most convenient for printing, while the e-mail option enables users to send an article to their e-mail address. An option will allow the user to mark articles and create a list of marked titles that can be accessed and then printed or e-mailed at once, which can save time and energy. Patrons can receive help using this excellent new database by stopping by one of our Reference desks or by calling us at (757) 259-7720.

NoveList

Fiction readers, have you discovered NoveList? One of the many databases available through the Williamsburg Regional Library, NoveList is a search engine that helps readers find books they'll enjoy, based on books and authors they've liked in the past. NoveList has compiled over 120,000 titles and added subject headings (like those used to describe nonfiction) to make it easier to find fiction titles with the same settings, relationships, or character types. The database is available at the library or via the web by going to www.wrl.org/bookweb and clicking on the NoveList link. (You'll have to have your library card handy when you access the site outside the library.) NoveList offers several ways to search for new reads. To do a basic search, click the "Quick Search" button and enter the name of the author or title you are looking for, then click "GO!" Scroll down to the book you are interested in and click on the title link; a description of the book will come up. (For many of the books, you'll also see reviews from national publications like Publishers Weekly and Library Journal.) You'll also see subject headings that describe the story and its characters. By selecting the subjects you are interested in and clicking "Subject Search," you'll be able to find other books that offer the same topics, although the quality of the writing or the storytelling approach may differ. NoveList addresses those differences, which they call "appeal factors," in some of the additional features the database offers. If you click on the "New Search" button, you'll see a menu page that offers a variety of ways to look up books ("Search our Database"), a selection of preset titles ("Browse Lists"), and a group of articles written especially for NoveList ("Read About Popular Titles and Topics"). "Browse Lists" offers readers a chance to look at lists of award-winning fiction, as well as the best titles in popular genres such as Romance, Mystery, or Horror. Under the "Popular Titles and Topics" heading, you'll find a link to "Author Read-Alikes," a series of thoughtful essays linking the appeal of authors and titles to other writers and books you may not know. By focusing on the appeal factors of genre, writing style, or storytelling skill, NoveList helps readers find the type of books they know they'll enjoy. This is a great database to explore, with many more features than can be explained in a brief article. If you love books and reading, take a few minutes to look at it, but be prepared to come away with a long list of new reads! NoveList is planning to update the look of their search screens, but no start date has been given. The searches described in this article will still be available, but will be found through tabs at the top of the page rather than the item menus described. If you have any questions about searching NoveList, please contact the Reference Desk at (757) 259-4050 or (757) 259-7720.

Science Resource Center

A wealth of high-quality science information is now available to library patrons through the Science Resource Center (SRC), an online subscription database. In the library or from home, users can quickly find and read complete articles on topics ranging from tsunamis to cloning to asteroids. Searching is easy. Simply type in a term such as global warming, Archimedes, or guinea pigs, just as you would in an Internet search engine. Results are organized by the type of source: reference books; magazine articles; newspaper articles; academic articles; web pages; or multimedia, including pictures, diagrams and audiovisual clips. Articles are color coded by difficulty level. Students who use the Science Resource Center should be able to complete assignments far more quickly than their classmates who use Google—and their teachers will probably be happier with the quality of their research. For a chemistry project on carbon dioxide, for example, SRC offers several encyclopedia articles, news about effects of carbon dioxide gas on the environment, a colorful diagram of the molecule, and a graph that shows increasing levels of the gas in Earth’s atmosphere since 1800. Several tools and features will help take the pain out of science homework. Students unsure where to start can select from popular topics, including DNA, weather, and African-American inventors. A toolbox includes quick reference materials such as a periodic table of the elements, solar system facts and figures, a geological timeline, and charts of the plant and animal kingdoms. Citation information is given for each article, so creating a bibliography should take no time at all. While Science Resource Center is geared to students, anyone of any age with an interest in science will find it worth a visit. For example, current news about topics such as the cleanup of Chesapeake Bay or stem cell research is much easier to find here than through a web search engine. To search the Science Resource Center from home, go to the library’s website at www.wrl.org and click on the link for online databases at the bottom right of the screen. Click on at home use and choose *Science Resource Center* from the list of available databases. You will be prompted to enter your patron number from the back of your library card (all 14 digits, no spaces). For more information or a demonstration, stop by the Reference Desk or call us at (757) 259-7720.

Ancestry & Heritage Quest

Good news for family historians! The Williamsburg Regional Library now subscribes to both of the major collections of online genealogical records: Ancestry (Library Edition), available on computers at both library buildings, and HeritageQuest Online, which is also available for research from home via the library’s web site. Using either collection, genealogists can search and view federal census records from 1790 to 1930 in their original handwritten form. While Ancestry’s name index to census records is more complete at this time, HeritageQuest adds the ability to search by place of birth, ethnicity, and other variables. For example, researchers can quickly see all African-Americans or all persons born in Ireland living in a state or county during a census year. Researchers can also search for references to their ancestors in thousands of family and local histories. These books have been digitized from microfilm collections in all 50 states and Canada. Every word is searchable, and pages can be easily saved or printed. Other records available through Ancestry and HeritageQuest include military records; court, land, and probate records; ship’s passenger lists; and city directories. HeritageQuest includes pension and bounty land warrant applications for more than 80,000 veterans of the American Revolution. Ancestry adds the ability to search for Civil War service records and World War I draft registration cards. HeritageQuest users have access to the world’s largest subject index for genealogy articles in magazines. PERSI, the PERiodical Source Index, lists names and places mentioned in over 6,500 genealogical and local history magazines. For help obtaining the articles cited in PERSI, ask at the Reference Desk. With a library card and Internet access, users can search HeritageQuest Online from home. Go to the library’s website at: www.wrl.org and click on the link for Online Databases at the bottom right of the screen. Click on At home use and choose HeritageQuest Online from the list of available databases. You will be prompted to enter the number from your library card (all 14 digits, no spaces). For help using any of the library’s online databases, please contact the Reference Desk at (757) 259-7720.

LearnATest

The Williamsburg Regional Library offers library patrons LearnATest, an online testing service that covers a wide variety of academic and professional licensing tests, including the GED, SAT, ASVAB, and others. The LearnATest database provides practice tests that can help test takers gain confidence and improve test performance. LearnATest users will need to set up an account to use the database, which involves creating a username and password. If you access this database from home, then your username is your 14-digit library card number. This account enables you to save and keep a record of the practice tests that you have taken. Once your account is set up, you can start taking a practice test. There are a variety of tests offered in eighteen major categories including subjects such as cosmetology, EMS, civil services, and nursing assistant. Some of the tests, like the SAT practice test, are timed to simulate the real test. Others, like the U.S. Citizenship practice test, provide review questions that can help you prepare for the real test, which is done orally. If you need to stop before you are finished with a test, you can save it and go back to it later. When you finish a test, LearnATest provides instant scoring, customized analysis of your answers, and recommendations on where to go for more help. The results of your test can be printed out for your records. Tests may be taken more than once, but the questions will remain the same. The tests are free, and you can take as many tests as you need. LearnATest can be accessed from a home computer. Visit the library's website at www.wrl.org and click on the link for "online databases" at the bottom right of the screen. Click on "at home use." Select the "testing" category and click on "LearnATest" to open the database. You will be prompted to enter your 14-digit library card number to get started. Patrons can receive help using this database by stopping by the Reference Desk at either library or by calling the Reference Desk at (757) 259-7720.

Gale Literature Resource Center

Have you been assigned a ten-page paper on Edgar Allan Poe, due tomorrow? Does your book group expect you to lead a lively discussion about The Other Boleyn Girl or The Kite Runner? The library’s subscription to the Gale Literature Resource Center (LRC) can help. Available online for research from home as well as on the library’s computers, the LRC can help students and avid readers learn more about an author’s life and writings. The LRC covers authors of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, histories, or journalism. Most of the articles available in the LRC come from three long-running, authoritative print references: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. These resources are rounded out with full-text articles from more than 260 literary journals. Search by author or title, and follow the resulting links to “biographies” as well as “literary criticism, articles, & work overviews.” Each full-text article can be easily printed or emailed. Biographies include personal data (you can often find a mailing address for living authors here) and details of the author’s career, awards, and published writings. Literary criticism ranges from brief reviews of a single title to in-depth analyses of character, theme, or symbolism throughout an author’s works. Where the LRC editors have found a particularly helpful and accurate website about an author, it will be linked under “additional resources.” You can also choose an “Authors by Type” search to find writers based on their age, gender, nationality, ethnicity, the time period during which they lived, or the genres in which they wrote. For instance, you can request a list of Japanese authors writing since 1950, or women novelists during the Victorian era. With a library card and Internet access, you can search the LRC from home. Go to the library’s website at: www.wrl.org and click on the link for Online Databases at the bottom right of the screen. Click on At home use and choose Gale Literature Resource Center from the list of available databases. You will be prompted to enter the number from your library card (all 14 digits, no spaces). For help using any of the library’s online databases, call the Reference Desk at (757) 259-7720.

EBSCOhost MasterFILE

Whether you are looking for a book review, product comparisons, or other information from a journal, magazine, or newspaper, the Williamsburg Regional Library’s EBSCOhost MasterFILE database can help you locate what you need quickly. MasterFILE is a good choice for students, as it provides quick access to journal and newspaper articles. It is also a useful resource for the general researcher who is looking for information on a wide range of topics. MasterFILE contains the complete articles from over 2,000 periodicals covering topics such as consumer health, business, science, popular culture, politics, books and reading, education, and more. Additionally, the databases has abstracts (short summaries) of articles from an additional 2,800 titles. In MasterFILE, you will also find more than 320 reference books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts, full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,135 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. The basic search function is extremely easy to use. Simply type in your search topic and click on the “search” button. If you want to limit your search to only articles where you can read the entire piece online, be sure to check the box labeled “Full Text.” You can also limit your search to a specific time period if you only want very current articles. Simply indicate the month and year that you want to search in the appropriate boxes. If you choose the “Advanced Search” tab at the top of the page you have even more options to narrow down your search. You can choose to limit your search to a particular publication type such as only searching newspapers. You can also limit your search to a particular document type, such as a book review or a product review. With a library card and Internet access, you can search the EBSCOhost MasterFILE from home. Go to the library’s website at: www.wrl.org and click on the link for Online Databases at the bottom right of the screen. Click on At home use and choose EBSCOhost from the list of available databases. You will be prompted to enter the number from your library card (all 14 digits, no spaces). For help using any of the library’s online databases, call the Reference Desk at (757) 259-7720.

Gale Biography Resource Center

Our featured database for November is the Biography Resource Center. Within this database you will find biographical information on 325,000 people, pulled from 135 different sources. Examples of these sources are Encyclopedia of World Biography, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, and Contemporary Black Biography. People past and present, from all walks of life are included. Useful for students, researchers, book club members, and the curious, the Biography Resource Center contains a variety of information. For basic facts on a living person, there is the "thumbnail biography" category. In the "narrative biography" option, more detailed information and description are presented. When available, relevant magazine articles and websites are given as further options. If there is current news on a person, look for the "view recent update" link. Searching the database is easy. The best way is to enter a name in the "name contains" box, for example, either "Saul Bellow" or "Bellow, Saul." You can also enter a search in the "start of last name" option. In either case, you may be given several names; you can make your selection using the birth and death dates as a guide. From this link you will find the biographical information mentioned above. In the advanced search option, you can search by name, keyword, full text, or source. When searching for magazine articles, you can limit a search with the date range option. A search category useful to students is the Biographical Facts Search. By making selections in a number of categories, you can obtain a list of names fitting your search limits. The categories include nationality, ethnicity, occupation, gender, and age. Here's an example of how it works. If a student were looking for a female writer, from India, born after 1900, he would obtain a list of 87 writers using the Biographical Facts Search. From this list he could choose one to research. The "help" menu offers more details on searching. There is also a research guide which contains pointers on doing research and on using the database. The Biography Resource Center is available from the computers in the library as well as from your home computer. When accessing at home, be sure to have a current Williamsburg Regional Library card. From your home computer, to to the library's web site at www.wrl.org and click on the link for online databases at the bottom right of the screen. Click on Gale Biography Resource Center and when prompted, enter your library card number (all 14 digits, no spaces).

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Do you have a paper due tomorrow and need access to reference books now? A collection of online reference titles is available from the library's online database, Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL). From home and within the library, Gale Virtual Reference Library users have access to full-text reference books anytime day and night. The library owns a variety of online reference titles in subjects such as: arts, biography, business, environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation and world, and science. Some of the titles included in the GVRL are: Colonial American Reference Library, World War II Reference Library, Animal Sciences, and Cities of the World. Users can find a list of all available titles listed on the homepage of the Gale Virtual Reference Library database. Browse the whole book or do a keyword, document title, or full-text search within the book to find information on a particular topic. Use an advanced search to limit articles to a specific date or date range or limit to a specific subject or audience. Once you find a relevant article in the database, GVRL offers many document features. You can print out a copy of the article or e-mail the article to a friend or yourself. GVRL allows you to download the article onto your computer or you can mark articles to store in a folder for use. One very helpful feature for those writing reports or papers is the "How to Cite" feature which generates citations. When you are in an article, just click on "How to Cite" at the top next to the document links. GVRL can create an MLA citation or an APA citation that can be copied and pasted into a document. Gale Virtual Reference Library can be accessed either at the library or from home by going to www.wrl.org and clicking on the "online databases" link. Next, click on "at home use," then "e-books," and select "Gale Virtual Reference Library." When prompted, enter all 14 digits of your library card number. If you need help accessing the GVRL database or would like more information, please contact the Reference Desk at (757) 259-7720.

Computer Database

The library offers a variety of online databases which can be accessed from the library or at home. One of our newer databases, the Computer Database, is a useful tool for finding magazine and journal articles that cover topics related to computers, telecommunications, and the electronics fields. A wide range of information is available, including product reviews, industry status reports, company profiles, and more. The Computer Database indexes over 650 periodicals, half of which include full-text articles. Users can search by subject, keyword, or relevance as well as an advanced search that allows you to find articles by title, author, journal, publication date, etc. All of the search methods allow you to limit to full-text only, enter a journal name, or set date ranges to find articles on a topic published during a certain time period. Some entries will only give you citation information and/or abstract, meaning you will have to find a print copy of the magazine to read the full article. Other entries you can read online, print, or e-mail to yourself. If you would like to search the Computer Database from home, visit www.wrl.org. Click the "online databases" link on the right side of the screen. Choose "at home use" and then "magazine and newspaper databases." After clicking on "Computer Database," enter your library card number (all 14 digits without spaces). If you have questions about this or any other database, please call the Reference Desk at (757) 259-7720.

BigChalk eLibrary

The BigChalk database is one of three comprehensive, general interest databases currently available from the Williamsburg Regional Library (the other two general databases are EBSCOhost and Infotrac One File). BigChalk is aimed at the youngest audience of the three: high school students and younger. It is also useful for people of any age who would prefer articles from popular magazines to those from academic journals. As of this writing, BigChalk has rights to full-text articles in 1,631 magazines. A strength of this database is its full-text coverage of 250 newspapers, including many national and international papers that the library does not carry in print. BigChalk also offers online access to 221 reference books. In addition to keyword searching, BigChalk offers a topical index that is handy for those with a particular subject interest or a paper to write. Finally, BigChalk includes multimedia: map collections, pictures, and the transcripts of many programs from ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, and NPR. BigChalk can be accessed at the library or from home (with the barcode from your library card). To access it, or any of our many other databases, visit www.wrl.org and click the "online databases" link. Big Chalk is listed under "magazine and newspaper databases." For help with this or any other database, call the Reference desk at (757) 259-7720.

InfoTrac OneFile

InfoTrac Onefile is a member of the Gale family of databases offered by the library. This is a good database to search for topics in current events, social science, education, humanities, politics, and entertainment. Sources are varied and include newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals. A search may retrieve both full-text articles, which can be printed or e-mailed, and citations with abstracts only. If a desired article appears to be available only as a citation, a librarian may be able to find the full text in another database or obtain the article for you from another library through our Interlibrary Loan service. Ask about this at the Reference Desk. To get to InfoTrac OneFile, start at www.wrl.org and click on "online databases." If you are using a computer in the library, click on "in library use." If you are searching from home, click on "at home use." Enter your library card barcode number and a list of database topics will appear. Click on "Magazine and Newspaper Databases," then click on "InfoTrac OneFile." To search this database, enter keywords in the entry box and click the "search" button. InfoTrac will automatically search for the words within two words of each other in either direction. If you need help using this or other library databases, please call (757) 259-7720.

Litfinder

Students and lovers of literature may be inspired to compose a joyful ode in honor of Litfinder, a new online database available to all library patrons. This collection of literary works includes 125,000 poems and 5,000 complete short stories, along with smaller collections of speeches, essays, and plays. Litfinder makes it easy to find works by title or author, but its real power lies in the ability to search by subject or keyword, author's nationality, time period, or other criteria. For example, when a patron asked a librarian for help in finding a suitable poem to present with a gift of pearls to her granddaughter, the librarian typed the keywords "girl pearls" in the Litfinder search box and retrieved a list of poems containing those words. The patron thought "Pearls" by the Mississippi poet David E. Guyton was just right for the occasion. You can try Litfinder in the library or access it from home (with your library barcode number). Just connect to www.wrl.org and click on the "online databases" link. Litfinder is in the Books and Reading/ Literature section. For help with this or any other database, call the Reference desk at (757) 259-7720.

Military and Intelligence Database

If you are looking for information on matters of a martial nature, check out the library's Military and Intelligence Database. It provides easy access to over 600 military-related and general interest periodicals, 500 of which are displayed in full text. You'll find book reviews, articles, and abstracts from magazines, newspapers, and encyclopedias as diverse as Jane's Intelligence Review, Naval Aviation News, Middle East Policy, The Africa News Services, and The Journal of Military History. Citations on weapons, wars, battles, military life and personnel, espionage activities, and world affairs both historic and present day are just a few of the many, many topics that can easily be located in this one database. To access the library's computer database system from home, start at www.wrl.org and click on "online databases" in the lower right hand corner of the screen. Choose "at home use." Enter your library card barcode number and a list of database topics will appear. Scroll down the page to find the Military and Intelligence Database. If you have any questions, please call the Reference desk at (757) 259-7720.

Business & Company Resource Center

If you belong to an investing club, are taking business classes, or are just interested in finances, this is the database for you. Business and Company Resource Center is part of the Gale family of databases provided by the library to help you access the information you need quickly and easily. Use it to find company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. Articles from over 4,400 journals and reference sources are included in this comprehensive collection. Search by company name, industry, or article subject. When you find the information you want, you can print it or e-mail it. As with most of the databases, the Business and Company Resource Center is available in the library or from your home computer. From home just go to www.wrl.org and click on the "online databases" link on the bottom right of the screen. Choose "at home use," then the Business and Company Resource Center link. Be sure to have your library card ready. Need help? Contact the Reference desk at (757) 259-7720 for assistance.

General Reference Center Gold

If you're looking for magazine, newspaper, or encyclopedia articles, check out the General Reference Center Gold online database. This database includes a variety of periodicals, from business magazines like Fortune, Business Week, or The Economist to national news magazines like Time, Newsweek, or Atlantic Monthly to specialty magazines like Consumer Reports, Parenting, Horse and Rider, and Real Simple. Newspapers include the Daily Press, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post and New York Times. Over 3,000 resources have articles available in their entirety, or full-text. Others may have just the citation for the article. If you need to see the full story from a citation, stop by the reference desk and a librarian may be able either to find the story in another database or to obtain the article through our interlibrary loan service. Other features in this database include Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Reader's Companion to American History, Democracy Reader, and Great Thinkers of the Western World. To get to the General Reference Center Gold database, start at www.wrl.org and click on "online databases." If you are using a computer in the library, click on "in library use." If you are searching from home, click on "at home use" and enter your library card barcode number. Select "Magazine and Newspaper Databases," then choose General Reference Center Gold. To search this database, enter keywords in the entry box and select the "search" button. If you need help using this or other library databases, please call (757) 259-7720.

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