INSPIRE���Indiana’s Virtual Library

Presented by Christina Faulkner

About INSPIRE

l “Indiana’s Virtual Library” l Collection of databases l Funded with Indiana legislature funds l Service of Indiana State Library

Background info on INSPIRE

l Free to Indiana residents l Contains magazine and journal

articles, websites, pamplets, images, almanacs, library catalogs, and more

l Great for high school students conducting research or looking for reliable information

Academic Search Premier

l Contains full text articles from nearly 4500 journals

l Content in social sciences, humanities, general science, education, and multi-cultural studies

Biography Resource Center

l Contains more than 440,000 biographies

l More than 27,000 portraits

l Features contemporary and historical figures from around the world

Contemporary Authors Online

l Information on more than 120,000 modern authors

l Can search by author’s name, title of work, nationality, honors and awards

EBSCOhost

l Collection of databases

l Great resource to use when starting the research process

Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC)

l Contains 2,200 digests

l Indexes nearly 1000 education and education-related journals

Google Scholar

l Makes searching for scholarly literature easier

l Pulls from most relevant and reliable sources

Image Collection

l Over 100,000 images l Search by image

description or users can browse thumbnail images

IN.gov

l Official internet resource for Indiana state government resources and information

Lit Finder

l Covers all time periods and international work

l More than 126,500 full-text poems l 5,000 full-text short stories l 2,800 full-text essays l 1,800 full-text speeches l 1,000 full-text plays

Newspaper Source

l Full-text for 200 U.S. and 20 international newspaper

l Also included newswires, TV, and radio transcripts

Science Resource Center

l Thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations

l Content from over 200 magazines and academic journals

Topic Search

l Includes social, political and economic issues

l Over 78,000 full-text documents

l Information from more than 2,500 diverse sources

Additional Resources

l  Indiana link ¡ Biographies ¡ Environment & Nature ¡ Facts & Maps ¡ History

l  Other links ¡ Art ¡ Sports ¡ Entertainment ¡ Genealogy ¡ Media & News

Testing & Education Center

l Over 100 practice tests & courses l Information on more than 4,000

accredited schools

Test Prep

l SAT, ACT, &, AP l Military exams such as

ASVAB l Online study books l Question banks

Career Planning

l College search l Resume builder l Career search with

interest survey l Virtual Career Library

College

l Application tips l Find & Pay for

College Tab ¡ Recommends

colleges for certain areas of study

¡ Scholarship links

Option 4: State online resources

l  Locate and identify online resources your state, region and community/school provide for its patrons…

l  I was fortunate to attend an in-service last spring led by someone from the Indiana State Library. Much of what she presented I used in this presentation. Though the inservice was helpful, I never had a chance to play with INSPIRE once I got back to school and in the swing of things. While doing this project I had the chance to try some sample search terms and I was surprised to see how useful the databases were and how the results were so much more relevant to my search when I specified the database collection in which to search rather than doing a broad search in all INSPIRE’s databases.