Ventura County Library Electronic Resources

Indexes, Abstracts, and Journal Articles

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Business Decision - a powerful new web-based service that allows small and medium-sized businesses to access the same level of sophisticated market data as the nation's top companies from any desktop computer through a library's website. BusinessDecision combines extensive consumer household, market segmentation, and demographic data with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping technology utilizing data, reports, and maps from ESRI Business Information Solutions (ESRI BIS), a division of the worlds leading supplier of GIS software.

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World Book Online
Atlas, Dictionary, Encyclopedia California, Lesson Plans, Spanish Eneyclopedia, WorldBook for Kids, History Pictures Magazine articles.

Proquest Newspapers 
Full text of over 300 U.S. and International news sources, including the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News, Orange County Register, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal/Constitution, and the Times of London.
 

Galenet Infotrac
Magazine and Journal Indexes which cover reference, health, biography, science, history, government. Includes Reference Center Gold, a Junior Edition and Student Edition.

America's Newspapers
More newspapers including Ventura County Star, La Opinion, San Jose Mercury News and the San Luis Obispo Tribune. News magazines including Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly and Popular Science.
ReferenceUSA
Over 12 million businesses and 120 million US households compiled from nationwide white pages, yellow pages and business sources, searchable by name, industry, SIC, geographic location and size.

LIBRARY CATALOGS

CHILDREN'S/HOMEWORK RESOURCES

California Library Catalog

Black Gold Libraries
(Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo County Libraries)

Oxnard Public Library Catalog

Thousand Oaks Library

Ventura County Law Library

Toucan Social Studies Fact Cards
a series of research resources for students in grades 4 through 8 on topics in the social studies curriculum in California.

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