Library Services

Library Services

Pinnacle Career Institute understands that students require library services to complete projects and study subjects in order to succeed in school. To help students achieve those goals PCI has partnered with LIRN (Library and Information Resources Network) to provide web access to a virtual library of materials that will help you finish your education. The advantage of LIRN is that it is always available to PCI students. The databases are open 24 hours per day, seven days a week so that you can work when it is convenient for you.

LIRN provides online access to InfoTrac’s following databases:

Academic OneFile – Contains 12,300 journals, including 2,500 peer-reviewed journals that are not found in Academic ASAP. Coverage for every field of study is included.

Business & Company Resource Center – Brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Predicast's PROMT and Newsletter databases are fully integrated in this database. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information. Business & Company Resource Center contains 5,569 periodicals and 25 reference titles.

Computer Database – Contains computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. There are 1,004 titles in this database.

Expanded Academic ASAP – From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. The database provides access to scholarly journals, news magazines and newspapers – the majority with full text and images. There are 4,856 journals in the database.

General Business File – Analyze company performance and activity, industry events, and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images is available. The general business file includes 5,400 titles.

Health & Wellness Resource Center – Provides access to magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions and directories, with information on: fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, prescription drugs, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer and health assessment sites as well as government databases. Health & Wellness Resource Center includes 1,305 journals, 700 videos, 102 reference titles and 334 pamphlets. It also includes an alternative health module which contains 64 journals and 6 reference titles.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection – Encompassing nearly 400 titles, this collection's current and authoritative content will be of useful to students pursuing an allied health-focused curriculum.

Proquest Psychology Journals – Complete information from over 647 top psychology and related publications. All the source publications are available in the ASCII full-text format. Nearly all of them also offer articles in full image and text and graphics in science and technology formats.