Online Web Databases 

The Library offers instant access to a broad range of online bibliographic and full text databases covering almost every area of academic study. The Online Services can only be used by College staff & students with a valid username and password, provided by the Computing Centre. 

Ebsco Databases

FirstSearch (OCLC Databases)

How to Access the Online Web Databases

Ebsco databases are accessible through EBSCOhost, an online system that combines superior content with a user-friendly, customizable interface with unique features for searching and retrieving information. There are no restrictions to the number of faculty, staff, or users that can access EBSCO’s databases during their subscription period. To meet the reference and research needs of City College, the library has subscribed to the following databases:

Business Source Complete ^[Fulltext]
The world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the ultimate collection of bibliographic and full text content. BSC contains far more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any other database currently available. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals are included. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Complete is the overwhelmingly superior database for full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.

Computer Source ^[Fulltext]
Provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology with abstracts and indexing for over 366 periodicals. This database features over 287 full text periodicals covering valuable market information in computers, telecommunications, electronics, programming, artificial intelligence, information systems, and the Internet. Computer Source provides researchers with full text journals such as, AI Communications, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics & Systems, Expert Systems, Information Systems Research, International Journal of Computational Intelligence & Application, Journal of High Speed Networks, Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, Mathematical Programming, MIS Quarterly and many more.

Computers & Applied Sciences Complete ^[Fulltext]
Covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. CASC provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,300 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also available for more than 500 periodicals.

Wilson Select Plus ^[Fulltext]
A database of OCLC ( Online Computer Library Center ) that includes fulltext articles in science, humanities, education and business. Students, researchers, and academic staff, may use this database to obtain information on the following subjects: accounting, advertising, arts, auditing, banking, broadcasting, computers, economics, education, engineering, environment, finance, general interest, general science, health care, human resources, insurance, international trade, international trends, investment analysis, management, marketing, planning and strategy, public administration, real estate, taxation, telecommunications, transportation.

Cohrane ^[Fulltext]
Provides the researcher high quality data to inform those providing and receiving care, and those responsible for research, teaching, funding, and administration at all levels. The Cochrane Collection includes:

§ Cochrane Controlled Trials Register: a bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews. Cochrane Controlled Trials Register includes reports published in conference proceedings and in many other sources not currently listed in MEDLINE® or other bibliographic databases. This database is updated quarterly.

§  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare. The reviews are highly structured and systematic, with evidence included or excluded on the basis of explicit quality criteria, to minimize bias. Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually. This database is updated quarterly. 

§ The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE): includes abstracts of published systematic reviews on the effects of health care from around the world, which have been critically analyzed according to a high standard of criteria. Reviewers at the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York, England conduct this appraisal. DARE’s abstracts include a description of the systematic reviews methodology, results and conclusions. It provides access to quality reviews in subjects for which a Cochrane review may not yet exist.

EconLit with fulltext ^{[Bibliographic]}
The American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature. EconLit is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. It provides comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labour economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more. EconLit records include abstracts of books, journal articles, and working papers published by the Cambridge University Press. These sources bring the total records available on the database to more than 825,000.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences ^[Fulltext]
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioural characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Examples of publications offered in the Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection include: American Journal of Family Therapy,  Clinical Neuropsychologist, Current Psychology, European Archives of Psychiatry & Clinical Neuroscience, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, European Journal of Neuroscience, International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, International Journal of Psychotherapy, International Journal of Social Psychiatry, International Review of Psychiatry, Journal of Clinical & Experimental Neuropsychology, Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, Journal of Cognitive Neurosciences, Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, Psychotherapeut, Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, and many more. The database also includes many leading journals in the areas of management and marketing, such as, Advances in Consumer Research, Journal of Advertising, Journal of Leisure Research, Journal of Management Development, Journal of Marketing Research, etc.

Regional Busines News ^[Fulltext]
Regional Business News, is a supplemental database of Business Source Premier. With daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). Regional Business News has full text for more than 50 sources.

FirstSearch Databases

FirstSearch is an online reference search tool, that gives access to a rich collection of reference databases. FirstSearch offers seamless electronic access to respected bibliographic and fulltext databases and to more than 10 million fulltext and full-image articles. To meet the reference and research needs of an Academic Library, FirstSearch offers access to the below databases:

ArticleFirst: OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals ^{[Description]}

ClasePeriodica: Index of Latin American journals in sciences & humanities ^{[Description]}

ECO: An OCLC collection of scholarly journals ^{[Description]}

ERIC: Journal articles and reports in education ^{[Description]}

GPO: U.S. government publications ^{[Description]}

MEDLINE: All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing ^{[Description]}

PapersFirst: OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide ^{[Description]}

Proceedings: An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings ^{[Description]}

WolrdAlmanac: Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs ^{[Description]}

WorldCat: OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide ^{[Description]}

To access the databases, please follow the below steps:

§ Visit CITY's web site at: www.city.academic.gr
§ Click on the Library link to open the Library Web pages.
§ Finally, click on the Online Services option.

The online services may be accessed outside the college network, as well. Access is password protected, and therefore, allowed only to staff and students of the college.

User guides are available in PDF format, at the Library Guides Web pages.

When only abstracts are available, full-text copies of the documents required, may be ordered through Interlibrary loan and sent by e-mail, fax or post. 

If you experience diffulties in using the online services, you may contact the Information Sesrvices Desk. For technical problems contact a member of the support staff.

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