The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) was founded in 1967. It is the world’s largest non-profit-making member who always insists on using the most advanced technology to maintain and manage electronic resource systems and provide computer library services. The purpose of establishing a cooperative and research organization is to develop applications for all kinds of information around the world for the majority of users and to reduce the cost of obtaining information. The FirstSearch basic group database package integrates the 13 most popular sub-databases in FirstSearch, covering various types of documents, including books, master and doctoral dissertations, academic journals, conference papers; covering all disciplines; all information comes from the world Well-known libraries and well-known information providers.
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Basic group database package (FirstSearch Base Package) (13 databases):
1. WorldCat Online Union Catalog Database
The WorldCat online union catalog database is the world's largest bibliographic records database, containing bibliographic records and collection information cataloged by nearly 20,000 member libraries of OCLC. Since the establishment of the database in 1971, there are a total of more than 390 million unique bibliographic records in 486 languages and more than 2.5 billion collection records in total. Each record also contains collection information, which basically reflects the beginning of the year. The books and other materials held by libraries around the world more than 4,800 years ago represent the crystallization of human knowledge over the past four thousand years. There are many types of documents, including books, manuscripts, maps, web sites and network resources, music scores, video materials, newspapers, periodicals and magazines, articles and archives, etc. The database is updated every ten seconds on average.
2.WorldCatDissertations* A database of all master's and doctoral theses in WorldCat
The WorldCat master and doctoral dissertation database collects all masters and doctoral dissertations in the WorldCat database and publications based on thesis cataloged by OCLC member libraries, covering all disciplines and covering all topics. The most prominent feature of the WorldCat master and doctoral dissertation database is that its resources come from the libraries of world-class universities, such as Harvard University, Yale University, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Duke University, Northwestern University and European libraries. University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Imperial College of Technology, European Business School, University of Paris, University of Berlin, etc., have more than 8 million records, of which nearly 20% have full-text links, which can be freely searched from the "Internet resources" of the database. Download is a very important reference material in academic research. Each paper contains the collection information of which OCLC member libraries the paper is collected.
3. ArticleFirst comprehensive academic journal index database
The ArticleFirst database includes more than 16,000 content on the page of the journal table of contents from the world’s major publishing houses since 1990. Each record describes an article, news story, letter and other content in the journal. And provide a list of libraries that store the periodical. The language of these journals is mostly English, while some of them are in other languages. Currently the database has more than 33 million records. Topics cover business, humanities, medicine, science, technology, social science, popular culture, etc. The database is updated daily.
4.ClasePeriodica Latin American Journal Abstracts Database
The ClasePeriodica database is composed of two parts: Clase and Periodica. Clase indexes the literature in Latin American journals that specifically publish social sciences and humanities; Periodica covers journals that specifically publish scientific and technical literature. The database provides searches for more than 710,000 bibliographic citations in more than 2,700 academic journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English. It not only includes information in journals focusing on Pan-American issues, but also articles, papers, pamphlets, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews, and brief notes published in 24 different Latin American and Caribbean regions. Topics include agricultural science, history, anthropology, law, art, library science and information science, biology, linguistics and literature, chemistry, management and accounting, communication science, medicine, demography, philosophy, economics, Physics, pedagogy, political science, engineering, psychology, precision science, religion, foreign affairs, sociology and earth sciences. The journals indexed by Clase have been since 1975, and the journals indexed by Periodica have been since 1978. The database is updated every quarter.
5. Ebooks e-book bibliographic database
Ebooks contains the bibliographic information of all e-books cataloged by OCLC member libraries. There are more than 20 million types, covering all topics and all disciplines. The collection date is from 1000 BC to the present. The data is updated daily.
6. ECO-Index academic journal index database
ECO-Index (Electronic Collection Online) is an index database of academic journals, containing more than 5,000 journals from more than 70 publishing houses in the world since 1995, with a total of more than 6.9 million records, covering almost all disciplines, mainly agriculture , Business, Science, Technology, Literature, Medicine, Religion, Philosophy, Language, Law, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Education, Geography, History, Anthropology, Fine Arts and Library Science, etc. The database is updated once a day.
7.ERIC Educational Abstracts Database
ERIC is a guide to published and unpublished educational literature compiled by the American Educational Resources Information Center. It covers thousands of educational topics and provides the most complete bibliographic information of educational books and periodicals, including information published in Resources in Education ( The non-journal information in the monthly RIE) and the annotated reference to the journal articles published in the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) each month cover almost all the information on education from 1966 to the present. Topics include adult education, vocational education, education evaluation, disability and genius education, elementary and early childhood education, higher education, urban education, education management, information and technology, linguistics and phonetics, reading and communication, teacher and teacher education, etc. ERIC contains more than 1,000 journals and other materials, with a total of more than 1.55 million records, including an ERIC thesaurus, and access to nearly 240,000 full-text articles for free. The database is updated monthly.
8. GPO U.S. Government Publications Bibliographic Database
The GPO US Government Printing Office (US Government Printing Office) was created by the US Government Publishing Office, covering a variety of US government documents since 1976, including US Congress reports, hearings, debates, records, judicial data, and Documents promulgated by the administrative department (Ministry of Defense, State Council, Office of the President, etc.), each record contains a bibliographic citation, and a total of more than 660,000 records. The database is updated monthly.
9. MEDLINE Medical Journal Abstract Database
Indexed 20,000 journals published internationally, which is equivalent to a printed index, such as Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature and International Nursing Index, including thousands of records with substantive abstracts. MEDLINE has collected nearly 23,000 journals from 1950 to the present, with a total of more than 19 million records. The topics cover all medical fields, including clinical medication, dentistry, education, experimentation, medicine, health service management, nursing, nutrition, and pathology , Psychiatry, toxicology and veterinary medicine. The database is updated daily.
10. OAIster Global Joint Institutional Knowledge Base
The OAIster Global Joint Institutional Repository is a data resource provided by more than 1,100 libraries and institutions in the world. It is the world's largest open archive database with nearly 33 million records. OAIster's resource types include: digital books and journal articles, native digital documents, audio files, images, film materials, data sets, papers, technical reports, research reports, etc. The database is updated every quarter.
11.PapersFirst conference paper index database
The database is an index of papers published at conferences, symposiums, expositions, seminars, professional meetings, and academic reports held worldwide. Covers all published seminars, conferences, expositions, research seminars and conferences from the British Library Documentation Supply Center since 1993. There are more than 9 million records in total, and the topics included are the ones reported. The full text of various topics discussed in the conference can be obtained through interlibrary loan. The database is updated every two weeks.
12. Proceedings First Conference Proceedings Index Database
Proceedings First is a related library of PapersFirst. It covers all published seminars, conferences, expositions, research seminars and conferences from the British Library Document Supply Center since 1993, and each record contains a copy The list of documents submitted at each conference provides an overview of each event, with a total of more than 480,000 records. The database is updated twice a week.
13. SCIPIO Art and Rare Book Auction Catalog Database
SCIPIO is the world's only online auction catalog database of art and rare books, covering the auction catalogs from the late 16th century to the current scheduled but not yet held auctions, with a total of more than 460,000 records. Each record contains the date and location of the sale, the title of the catalog, the auction house, the seller, and the library that owns the collection. SCIPIO provides major auction houses in North America and Europe as well as many privately sold auction catalogs. It is a valuable source of information for understanding artworks, rare books, collection history, and ancient and modern market trends. The topics involved are rare books, paintings, works of art, sculptures, drawings, furniture, jewelry, real estate, textiles and carpets. The database is updated daily.
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