Databases by Subject
- Multiple Subject Databases
- Art and Music
- Biographies
- Book Catalogs
- Controversial Topics
- Dictionaries
- Encyclopedias
- Law
- Literary Criticism
- News
- Nursing and Allied Health
- Science
- Social Science
- Helpful Hints
-> Off Campus Access Information
MULTIPLE SUBJECT DATABASES:
- ProQuest
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Thousands of journal, magazine, and newspaper articles covering all
disciplines.
Includes scholarly journal articles. - SIRS Knowledge Source
- Articles about Arts and Humanities, articles from popular magazines, newspapers and U.S. government publications.
- Project Muse
- Full text scholarly journal articles covering the humanities, and social sciences.
- JSTOR
- JSTOR Arts & Sciences III is a full text database focused on the arts and humanities. It includes titles from language, literature, music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture.
ART and MUSIC:
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- ARTstor
- More than 300,000 digital images covering many time periods and cultures. Documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design.
- Classical Music Library
- Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for libraries. It consists of over 50,000 tracks for listening and searching and is supplemented by extensive reference materials.
- Oxford Art Online
- Reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the 1990s.
- Oxford Music Online
- Reference resource for all aspects of music.
- JSTOR
- JSTOR Arts & Sciences III is a full text database focused on the arts and humanities. It includes titles from language, literature, music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture.
BIOGRAPHIES:
- Biography Resource Center
- Biographical information about prominent people throughout history.
BOOK CATALOGS:
- PCC Library Catalog
- Find books and media in the PCC Shatford Library
- WorldCat
- Search for books in other libraries. Worldcat is the world's largest database of library catalogs from thousands of member libraries.
- Books In Print
- Find out what books are currently in print. Includes reviews and out of print listings.
CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS: (pro vs. con)
- Opposing Viewpoints
- Articles about social issues. Includes opinion articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, and full-text periodical articles from magazines and newspapers.
- CQ Researcher
- Articles covering controversial issues with summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more. (coverage since 1991)
- SIRS Knowledge Source
- Articles from popular magazines, newspapers and U.S. government publications.
DICTIONARIES:
- Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online
- The OED is the accepted authority on the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS:
- Encyclopedia Britannica Online
- The complete Encyclopedia Britannica with related web links.
LAW:
- Westlaw
- Online legal research tool for paralegal students. Passwords are issued by the Paralegal Program Director.
LITERARY CRITICISM:
- Literature Resource Center
- Criticism and biographies of more than 120,000 authors.
NEWS:
- ProQuest
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Thousands of journal, magazine, and newspaper articles covering all
disciplines.
Includes scholarly journal articles.
NURSING and ALLIED HEALTH:
- ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
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More than 250 full-text articles from journals in nursing and allied health.
Includes scholarly journal articles. - Salem Health: Magill's Medical Guide
- Full text access to the’ award-winning health reference work Magill’s Medical Guide.
SCIENCE:
- Science Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson Database)
- Full text science database that covers approximately 320 journals in a broad range of science topics. Includes scholarly journal articles.
- GreenFILE
- A freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment. Provides approximately 295,000 citations from open access scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. Full text available for more than 4,600 records.
SOCIAL SCIENCES:
- Daily Life through History & World Cultures Today (Daily Life Online)
- Articles and reference sources covering the domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life of cultures all over the world and throughout time.
- Discovering Collection
- Reference resources covering Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.
- CountryWatch
- Political, business, and economic information and news about every country in the world. Includes periodical articles and statistics.
- Ethnic NewsWatch
- Bilingual (English and Spanish) full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals of ethnic, minority and native press.
Helpful Hints...
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