The Brooklyn College Library is pleased to announce the CUNY-wide availability of  EBSCO's Academic Search Premier--the world's largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. The decision to switch from the familiar InfoTrack to the new product was based on three distinct reasons. First, EBSCO has licensed more full-text databases than Gale's Infotrack and has more exclusive agreements with more journal publishers. Second, EBSCO provides access to a variety of products that CUNY has been licensing from several other companies with a resulting proliferation of user interfaces. Through the umbrella of EBSCOHost CUNY will also be offering its students and faculty access to CINAHL, ERIC, Medline, PsycINFO and Sociological Abstracts through the same easy to use interface. Third, EBSCOhost has the ability to link to full-text in Academic and Business Search Premier from third party databases (i.e., CINAHL, ERIC, etc.) making these indexing and abstracting services partially full-text.

Academic Search Premier contains:

• full-text for nearly 3,180 scholarly publications 
• abstracts and indexing for nearly 4,150 scholarly journals with many dating back to 1984 
• full-page images, as well as color embedded images 
• a scholarly collection providing full-text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer science, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies

Business Source Premier : full-text for nearly 2,270 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business 

MasterFILE Premier : full-text for over 1,840 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, and health

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition : provides over 520 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 560 journals 

Primary Search : full-text for over 50 children's magazines and over 100 children's pamphlets designed for the elementary school student

Alt-HealthWatch : focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries an immediate resource of full-text articles from more than 170 international peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, association and consumer newsletters (most from 1990 to the present), plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts 

Business Wire News : full-text database incorporating business news wires from all over the world. Included in this database are A&G Information, Africa News Service, Inter Press Service, Resource News International, South American Business, M2 Communications, PR Newswire, Business News Wire, Canadian Corporate News, News Bytes News Network, and Phillips Business Information Highlights 

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia : over 25,000 encyclopedic entries that are searchable by subject or keywords within each entry

EBSCO Animals : in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full-text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals 

EconLit :  from the American Economics Association, EconLit indexes and abstracts more than 450 international economic journals. Its source material includes journal articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations, book reviews, and working papers. The database contains more than 350,00 records covering 1969-present

CINAHL w/ Headings : indexing for over 1200 nursing, allied health, and health sciences journals

MEDLINE : provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,000 current biomedical journals 

ERIC : the U.S. Department of Education's  Educational Resource Information Center database, contains citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals, as well as full-text of more than 2,200 digests 

PsycINFO 1887-Current : indexing and abstracts for over one million articles in 1,700 journals from over 50 countries. This database from the American Psychological Association also includes abstracts for dissertations, and books and book chapters ranging in date from 1887 to the present 

Sociological Abstracts : covers the latest research in the fields of sociology, social sciences and related disciplines. Abstracts and enhanced citations are available for over 1,640 journals,  monographs, conference papers and dissertations (1960 to present) 

USP DI Volume II, Advice for the Patient : patient-oriented drug information in lay language. Monographs are organized into the following sections: brand names commonly used in both the United States and Canada, description, before using this medicine, proper use of this medicine, precautions, and side effects

EBSCOhost is available from the Library's home page. Just click on EBSCOhost for access. Databases may be searched in combination or singly and may be used off-campus via the proxy server.

(Annotations adapted from the EBSCOhost home page)