1. General BusinessFile ASAP 1995 - November 1998 with access to backfile (1980 -1994). Use this database to find articles on: Finance, Acquisitions & Mergers, International Trade, Money Management, New Technologies & Products, Local & Regional Business Trends, Investments and Banking.
2. General Reference Center (Magazine Index) 1994 - November 1998 with access to backfile (1980 - 1993). Use this general interest database to search magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, and sports.
3. Health Reference Center-Academic 1994 - November 1998. Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, and Prescription Drugs.
4. Expanded Academic ASAP 1995 - November 1998 with access to backfile (1980-1994). Use this database to find information on Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and the General Sciences.
5. Predicasts PROMT 1995 - November 1998. Predicasts Overview of Markets and Technology. Use this database to research companies, the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in which they compete. Includes summaries and full text from nearly 1,000 business and trade journals, industry newsletters, newspapers, market research studies, news releases, and investment and brokerage firm reports.
6. Books In Print Updated monthly. Use this database to search for books in and out of print. Over 1.9 million titles retrievable by title, author, subject, publisher, publication date, ISBN, and more.
7. National Newspaper Index 1995 - November 1998. Use this database to find information on Current Events, Lifestyle, Biographies, Sports, Economics, Consumer Products, World Affairs, Public Health, Business Trends, Entertainment and Travel. The newspapers indexed here are the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor. This is an index only, not full-text.
8. LegalTrac 1980 - November 1998. Use this database to research: Case Studies, Government Regulations, Practice of Law, Statutes, Taxation and International Law. Access all major law reviews, and specialty law and bar association journals. This is an index only, not full-text.

FirstSearch also provides access to a variety of databases you can search for journal articles and reports in education, abstracted articles from medical and business journals, newspaper abstracts from over 25 newspapers, and more. Please note that the articles found here will be citations and abstracts only. This database is not full-text.

One very useful resource available through FirstSearch is WorldCat.

WorldCat contains more than 35 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. You can submit an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) request for items (example: books or articles) described in records found through the WorldCat database directly to the Tulsa City-County Library ILL Department. Any materials (example: books, videos, CD's) published or released in the current year may not be requested through ILL. You can request copies of articles from current magazines and journals.

Any TCCL customer with a valid library card may use the ILL Service to request any material not owned by TCCL. Records in WorldCat include books, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, journals and magazines.

A Get/Display Item button appears in the full record when you can order an item. Choose the Method to get item of Interlibrary Loan. There is no charge for borrowing materials through Interlibrary Loan. Photocopy request charges will be 10 cents per page. The fields in the ILL form which you must fill in are: your full name, full street address, telephone number, your library ID (library card number), and department or branch indicating to which TCCL branch you'd like the materials sent. The comments field is a good place to send any notes or instructions to TCCL's ILL department.

For more information about ILL service at TCCL contact the department directly at 918-596-7963.

Access to all of the InfoTrac and FirstSearch databases is available to library customers through dial-access to the library catalog and via our Web page. To access the databases from our Web page on your home or office PC you need a valid TCCL library card. Call 918.596.7914 for the password.

TCCL's Web address is http://www.tulsalibrary.org. Click on Searchable Library Databases to access use InfoTrac and FirstSearch.

To access the library's catalog from your home or office computer via modem, dial 918-596-1806. Some of the basic communications settings are 7 data bits, even parity, and 1 stop bit. For any modem or connection problems or for additional information, call 918-596-7914 during regular library hours.

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