Database
Name
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Database
Description
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| ABC
- CLIO |
Educational
and reference products focusing on history and social studies
resources.
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| ABI/INFORM
Dateline |
Research
employment opportunities, compile data on benefits and compensation,
learn about corporate strategies, and other topics from a local
and regional perspective from major business tabloids, magazines,
daily newspapers, wire services, and area business publications.
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| ABI/INFORM
Dateline |
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| ABI/INFORM
- Global |
Offers
the latest business and financial information for researchers
at all levels.
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| Academic
Onefile |
Locate topics for Science, Technology, Medicine, Literature and the Arts from more than 12,000 journals. New York Times from 1985, and transcripts/audio of National Public Radio from 1990 are also available. Tools include dictionary, subject guide search and advanced search.
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| Academic
Search Premier |
More
than 4,600 scholarly publications on every area of academic
study.
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| Accounting
& Tax |
Comprehensive
coverage of accounting and tax topics appearing in key industry
publications and newspapers.
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Accounting
& Tax Newspapers |
As
subset database of the Accounting & Tax database, allows
searching of newspapers for latest accounting & tax news.
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| Accounting
& Tax Periodicals |
As
a subset of the Accounting & Tax database, it provides current
accounting, taxation, and financial management information.
National and international in scope, key publications focus
on accounting policies and standards, state and national tax
legislation, corporate and individual taxation, compensation
and pension plans, and corporate financial management, as well
as profiles of accounting firms, CPAs, and management consulting
firms.
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| AccessScience |
Full-text
access to McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science &
Technology, as well as biographies, illustrations,
and news.
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African American Song |
50,000
tracks of music including jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms
of African American musical expression. It is a resource to
document the history of African American music in the form of
an online music listening service. Users search using a powerful
interface, identify the music and performances they want to
hear, and click to listen through speakers or headphones.
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| Alt
Healthwatch |
Focuses
on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated
approaches to health care and wellness.
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| AP
Images (formerly AccuNet/AP) |
AP
Images Multimedia Archive provides a sensory journey of photographs,
audio sound bites, graphics and text spanning over 160 years
of history. From simple keyword searching to more complex
searches such as concept, color, and category, students may
enhance research projects with over two million news photographs
dating back to 1826 and as current as a few moments ago, tens
of thousands of graphics, audio files dating from the 1920's,
and news stories dating from 1997.
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| ARTstor |
Art
image database of nearly 1 million digital images contributed
from a range of sources covering many time periods and cultures,
and documenting architecture, painting, sculpture, photography,
decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women's
studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Includes
tools to view, present, and to manage images for research and
teaching purposes.
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| Banking
Information Source |
Banking
industry publications providing information about the financial
services industry, banking, and industry trends.
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| Biology
Journals (ProQuest) |
Full-text
journals in the life sciences.
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| Biography
Resource Center |
Biographical
information on people throughout history, across all disciplines.
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| Booklist
Online |
Book
Reviews from the American Library Association
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| Business
Source Premier |
Covers
over 8,500 business journals and sources.
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| Career
and Technical Education (ProQuest) |
Vocational
and technical periodicals covering all aspects of the Vo/Tech
curriculum, from ProQuest.
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| Choice
Reviews Online |
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. More than 35,000 librarians, faculty, and key decision makers rely on Choice magazine and ChoiceReviews.online for collection development and scholarly research. Choice reaches almost every undergraduate college and university library in the United States. Each year Choice publishes more than 7,000 reviews that are:
Timely - typically the first comment on scholarly publications
Authoritative - written by selected experts in the subject
Concise - brief but thorough, providing information and recommendations
Easy to Use - logical arrangement, including data needed to order the item reviewed
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| CINAHL
Plus |
Indexing
and abstracting for over 1,700 nursing and allied health journals
and publications dating back to 1982.
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| Classical
Music Library |
An
ever-growing, fully searchable classical music resource—a
comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings,
including tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users
can listen to on the Internet. The audio selections are cross-referenced
to a database of supplementary reference information. Users
browse, search, click, and then listen to the music over the
Internet through their headphones.
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| CollegeSource
Online |
Search
over 28,000 college catalogs by college name, location, or major.
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| Communication
& Mass Media Complete |
Communication
& Mass Media Complete helps you find articles from magazines
and scholarly (peer reviewed) journals. Start or continue your
research here if you are interested in advertising, communication,
languages, motion pictures, public speaking, and rhetoric.
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| Computing
(ProQuest) |
Top
computing journals in full text for research on subjects such
as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs,
WANs, Intranets, and the Internet.
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| Contemporary
Authors |
Contemporary
Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information
on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
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Contemporary Literary Criticism |
Designed
to provide access for readers of all ages and skill levels.
Users enter an author or title or broaden or narrow their results
via cross-searches on names of critics, journal titles, topics
and more.
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| Country
Watch |
192
country reviews that include economic, historical, political
and social information.
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| Country
Watch - Country Wire |
Provides
daily news coverage for all countries and features up-to-date
articles from regional news wire services across the globe.
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| Country
Watch - Data |
Provides
macroeconomic, economic sector, health, demographic, human development,
and environmental data sets across a ten year span.
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| Country
Watch - Energy Forecast |
20
year (through 2025) forecast of trends in the six major energy
markets: Petroleum, Natural Gas , Coal, Nuclear Power, Hydroelectric,
Renewable Energy in addition to 20-year forward price curves
on crude oil, natural gas, and coal prices.
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| Country
Watch - Global Guide |
Discusses
the smallest & largest countries of the world, includes
discussions about current geopolitical themes, such as globalization,
nationalism and balkanization, detailed discussions about some
of the world's most contested issues in the section titled "International
Hot Spots," includes visual imagery in the form of a collection
of thematic maps.
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| Country
Watch - Intellegence Briefing |
Weekly
Political Intelligence Briefing and the associated Intelligence
Wire.
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| Country
Watch - Macroeconomic Forecast |
A
five year long-run forecast developing global economic scenarios
based on the information contained in the macroeconomic sub-models
for each of the 194 countries in the world.
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| Country
Watch - Map Gallery |
The
CountryWatch Map Gallery includes two different types of maps:
Thematic Maps and Political/Physical Maps.
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| Country
Watch - Special Reports |
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| CQ
Encyclopedia of American Government |
Articles
on U.S. government, politics, and elections.
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| CQ
Researcher |
Summaries
and analysis of issues, including chronologies and pros and
cons.
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| Credo
Reference |
Featuring
full text, aggregated content from hundreds of reference books,
with over 2.7 million entries covering every major subject.
With a focus on ready-reference content, Credo Reference includes
dictionaries, biographical data, statistics, quotations and
audio and image files from more than 50
publishers. |
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| Dictionary
of Literary Biography |
Provides
authoritative, signed essays on authors and their works, across
a broad range of time periods and genres.
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| EBSCO
Animals |
In-depth
information on a variety of topics relating to animals and describing
the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
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| EBSCO
Vocational Studies Premier |
This
full-text online resource covers subjects as wide-ranging as:
alcohol & drug abuse counseling, audiology, biotechnology,
computer & data processing, CAD, cosmetology, electrical
technology, fashion design, forensics, graphic arts, health
information technology, interior design, law enforcement &
criminal justice, paralegal studies, robotics, travel &
tourism, veterinary assisting and dozens more equally varied
areas of study.
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| E-Journal
Portal |
Learn
which periodicals are available in our full-text databases.
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| eLibrary |
Journals,
Magazines, Newspapers, Photographs, Radio and Television. Updated
within 24 hours.
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| Environment
Complete (EBSCO) |
Environment
Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture,
ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural
resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution
& waste management, environmental technology, environmental
law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
Environment Complete contains more than 1,957,000 records
from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going
back to the 1940s (including 1,125 active core titles) as well
as more than 120 monographs. The database also contains full
text for more than 680 journals, including many of the most
used journals in the discipline, such as Environment
(back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc.
Additionally, Environment Complete provides full text
for 120 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental
History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment &
Environmental Management, etc.
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| ERIC
(EBSCO) |
980
journals and 2,200 digests from the Educational Resource Information
Center.
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| Expanded
Academic ASAP |
Articles
from 1,500 periodicals since 1980. Can limit to scholarly, peer
reviewed journals.
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| FACTS.com |
Answers
questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the
last 20 years.
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| Funk
& Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia |
Over
25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
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| Gale
Literary Databases |
Searches
Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism and Dictionary
of Literary Biography from one location.
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| Gale
Virtual Reference Library |
Complete
text of over 315 reference titles that cover all disciplines. |
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| Grove
Art Online |
Encyclopedia
of the arts and art history with web links.
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| Health
Source - Consumer Edition |
Nearly
300 journals on consumer health issues, such as childcare, health,
nutrition, and sportsmedicine.
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| Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition |
Medical
& allied health journals since 1990.
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| Historical
Statistics of the United States |
Compendium
of statistics from over 1000 sources-includes over 37,000 data
series and dozens of new topics, among them slavery, American
Indians, and poverty.
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| History
Reference Center |
History
Reference Center is a full text history reference database featuring
full text for more than 2,400 reference books, encyclopedias
and non-fiction books as well as full text for more than 130
leading history periodicals. Also included are more than 61,100
historical documents; more than 66,000 biographies of historical
figures; more than 110,200 historical photos and maps; and more
than 80 hours of historical video.
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| Hoover's
Company Records |
Up
to date proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000
public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives -
delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's
location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers,
and more.
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| Issues & Controversies |
Outlines,
chronologies, tables, and pros and cons on numerous topics.
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| Issues
and Controversies in American History
(Note: trial database) |
Builds
a deeper understanding of how historical events have shaped
our nation
by exploring the key players and the battles they fought.
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| International
Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text (EBSCO) |
International
Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text helps
you find articles from magazines and scholarly (peer reviewed)
journals and numerous book chapters. Try this database if you
need to research dancers or dancing; drama; motion pictures
or theater – including acting, directing, production,
and writing.
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| JSTOR |
A
trusted archive of important scholarly journals, spanning many
disciplines.
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| Library,
Information Science & Technology Abstracts |
Indexes
more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and
proceedings with coverage dating back to the mid-1960s.
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| Literature
Online (ProQuest) |
A
good starting point when searching for literary criticism. Includes
articles from scholarly (peer reviewed) journals, book chapters,
and tools like the Dictionary of Literary Terms and KnowledgeNotes.
Links to some articles also in JSTOR and Project
Muse (not 100% overlap, so you can try them too). Full-text
coverage is usually from the late 1980s to the present. To quickly
access literary criticism, click on "Criticism & Reference"
(left), then the "Criticism" tab (top/center), then
limit your search to "Records with full text only."
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| Literature
Resource Center |
Literary
criticism and biography on notable authors.
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| Los
Angeles Times |
Full
text coverage: Dec 4, 1996 - current.
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| Los
Angeles Times |
Full
text coverage: Jan 1, 1985 - Dec 3, 1996.
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| MagillOnLiterature
Plus (EBSCO) |
If
you are looking for background information, overviews, plot
summaries, and biographical information about authors this is
a good starting point. Sources included are reference materials
such as Masterplots and literature encyclopedias. Makes a good
study aid but does not include magazine and journal articles.
For literary criticism published in journals, try Literature
Online (LION), Project Muse, or JSTOR. The Library has many
more resources related to literary studies, so check with a
librarian to explore more.
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| MAS
Ultra - School Edition |
Useful
for popular general interest and current events publications.
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| MasterFILE
Premier |
Articles
from 1,860 periodicals since 1990. Can limit to scholarly, peer
reviewed journals.
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| MEDLINE |
Over
4,600 biomedical journals, including medicine, nursing, dentistry,
veterinary medicine, health care system, and more.
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| Military
& Government Collection |
Full
text of nearly 400 journals pertaining to all branches of the
military and government.
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| NetLibrary
(eBooks) |
Over
10,000 electronic books that you can browse for about 20 minutes
at a time each.
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| Newspaper
Source (EBSCO) |
National,
international, and regional newspapers. Also contains television
and radio news transcripts.
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| Online
Career Library |
The
world's leading source of career information, provides in-depth
resources about careers, companies, and industries, including
general career advice- from Vault.
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| OriginalSources.com |
Historical
and original source documents in all disciplines.
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| Oxford
English Dictionary (OED) Online |
The
Entire Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, available online.
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| Oxford
Language Dictionaries Online |
Unabridged
bilingual dictionaries in Chinese, French, German, Italian,
Russian, and Spanish. This resource includes quick translations,
example sentences, audio pronunciations, and additional tools
for language learning and cultural exploration.
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| Pharmaceutical
News Index (ProQuest) |
Database
of pharmacological news, research, and regulatory information,
covering important specialized publications in the pharmaceutical,
health care, biotechnology, and medical device industries.
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| Primary
Search |
Full
text for nearly 70 popular magazines with full text information
dates as far back as 1990, updated daily.
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| Professional
Development Collection |
Professional
Development Collection provides a highly specialized collection
of electronic information especially for professional educators,
professional librarians and education researchers. This collection
offers information on everything from children's health and
development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice.
Professional Development Collection includes full text
for Chronicle of Higher Education, Educational Leadership,
Journal of Education, Journal of Higher Education, Journal of
Learning Disabilities, Theory Into Practice, and nearly
520 high quality education journals. This database also contains
more than 200 educational reports.
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| Project
Muse® |
The
Project MUSE® complete collection offers a comprehensive
selection of prestigious humanities, arts, and social sciences
journals to support a core liberal arts curriculum at any academic
institution. Every journal is heavily indexed and peer-reviewed,
with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars
in their fields. MUSE is also the sole source of complete, full-text
versions of titles from many of the world's leading university
presses and scholarly societies.
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| ProQuest
- All ProQuest Databases to which Mt. SAC Subscribes |
This
option allows you to search across all databases and all subjects
at once. This is NOT the name to use when you cite the database,
as this is merely a link to help you search across the entire
ProQuest set of databases we subscribe to here at Mt.SAC.
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| ProQuest
Arts Database |
Search
periodicals on subjects such as arts, dance, theater, cinema,
and more.
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| ProQuest
Asian Business and Reference |
Latest
business and financial news from the Eastern Hemisphere including
Asian business and financial information from key international
publications including Far Eastern Economic Review, Asiaweek,
and many more.
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| ProQuest
Biology Journals |
Full-text
journals in the life sciences.
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| ProQuest
Computing |
Top
computing journals in full text for research on subjects such
as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs,
WANs, Intranets, and the Internet.
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ProQuest
Education Journals |
The
leading full-text journals in education and related field.
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| ProQuest
European Business |
The
latest European business and financial information, including
The Economist, Fortune, European Business Journal, and many
more.
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| ProQuest
Health & Medical Complete |
Provides
coverage from leading health journals and essential medical
journals in key medical specialties.
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| ProQuest
National Newspaper Core |
National
Newspapers Core is a single source for coverage of the nation's
leading newspapers including abstracting, indexing, and comprehensive
full text for The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles
Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The
Washington Post.
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| ProQuest
Newspapers |
Full
text of 300+ U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage
of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers,
plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires INCLUDES
PARTS OF THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY TRIBUNE.
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| ProQuest
Nursing & Allied Health Source |
Contains
over 620 nursing & allied health profession journal articles,
e-books, and 10,000 full-text dissertations since 1986.
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| ProQuest
Psychology Journals |
Articles
from nearly 400 academic journals.
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| ProQuest
Religion |
A
comprehensive collection of journals covering religious issues
and perspectives, including religious news and information,
commentary on topics of general interest from the perspective
of a particular religion, and formal theological studies.
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| ProQuest
Research Library |
Basic
coverage of a broad range of subject areas including: arts,
business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities,
international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences,
social sciences, and women's interests.
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| ProQuest
Telecommunications |
The
full text of top telecommunications industry publications. Includes
magazines, journals, and newsletters for the latest in this
fast changing industry.
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| Psychology
and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
More
than 550 titles cover psychology, psychiatry, anthropology,
experimental methods, etc.
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| Reference
Universe |
A
cumulative index to print and electronic reference works which
allows you to search the article titles and complete book indexes
of specialized encyclopedias, compendia, handbooks at our library.
It covers all disciplines, and includes works from 1985 to present.
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| Regional
Business News |
Coverage
of regional business journals, newspapers, and newswires.
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| Religion
and Philosophy Collection |
Coverage
of world religions, biblical studies, moral philosophy, political
philosophy, and the history of these topics.
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| Safari
Books Online |
Safari
Books Online, a joint venture between O'Reilly Media, Inc. and
Pearson Technology Group, is an e-reference library containing
collections of emerging technology books, manuscripts, papers
and instructional video.
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| Smithsonian
Global Sound® for Libraries |
A
virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions
-providing educators, students, and interested listeners with
an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the
creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.
The database includes an extraordinary array of more than 35,000
individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made
sounds.
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| SPORTDiscus
with Full Text (Ebsco) |
SPORTDiscus
with Full Text helps you find articles from magazines and scholarly
(peer reviewed) journals. Try your research here if you are
interested in coaching, officiating, physical education, physical
fitness, sports, and training.
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| Telecommunications
(ProQuest) |
The
full text of top telecommunications industry publications. Includes
magazines, journals, and newsletters for the latest in this
fast changing industry.
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| Today's Science |
Articles
on many areas of study: health, the environment, technology,
life science, physical science, earth and space science, and
science and society.
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| Vault
Online Career Library |
The
world's leading source of career information, provides in-depth
resources about careers, companies, and industries, including
general career advice.
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| Vocational
and Career Collection (EBSCO) |
Nearly
400 trade and industry-related publications.
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| Vocational
Studies Premier (EBSCO) |
Vocational
Studies Premier was made for you. This database is specifically
designed to support research in associates degrees and vocational
programs at two-year colleges. This full-text online resource
covers subjects as wide-ranging as: alcohol & drug abuse
counseling, audiology, biotechnology, computer & data processing,
CAD, cosmetology, electrical technology, fashion design, forensics,
graphic arts, health information technology, interior design,
law enforcement & criminal justice, paralegal studies, robotics,
travel & tourism, veterinary assisting and dozens more equally
varied areas of study.
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| Westlaw
Campus Research |
A
Web-based legal research tool for undergraduate and graduate
students who need to research law-related issues.
NOTE: You MUST agree
to the disclaimer BEFORE you can search this database.
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| WilsonWeb
Business Full Text (OmniFile) |
Business
magazines and journals since 1994.
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| WilsonWeb
Education Full Text (OmniFile) |
Education
magazines and journals since 1994.
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| WilsonWeb
General Science Full Text (OmniFile) |
General
and applied science and technology magazines and journals since
1994.
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| WilsonWeb
Humanities (OmniFile) |
Feature
articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works
of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of
ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas,
plays,radio and television programs, and more.
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| WilsonWeb
OmniFile Mega |
Articles
from 1,700 periodicals since 1994. Can limit to scholarly, peer
reviewed journals.
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| WilsonWeb
Readers' Guide (OmniFile) |
Readers
Guide to Periodical Literature covers current events, curriculum
support, and quality periodicals research.
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| WilsonWeb
Social Science Full Text (OmniFile) |
Social
science magazines and journals since 1994.
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| World
News Digest/World News Special Features |
Answers
questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the
last 20 years.
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