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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.
Biography Resource Center
Biographical information about prominent people throughout history.
Books In Print
Find out what books are currently in print. Includes reviews and out of print listings.
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.
CountryWatch
Political, business, and economic information and news about every country in the world. Includes periodical articles and statistics.
CQ Researcher
Articles covering controversial issues with summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more. (coverage since 1991)
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.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
The complete Encyclopedia Britannica with related web links.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Bilingual (English and Spanish) full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals of ethnic, minority and native press.
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.
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.
Literature Resource Center
Criticism and biographies of more than 120,000 authors.
Opposing Viewpoints
Articles about social issues. Includes opinion articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, and full-text periodical articles from magazines and newspapers.
Oxford Art Online
Reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the 1990s.
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.
Oxford Music Online
Reference resource for all aspects of music.
PCC Library Catalog
Find books and media in the PCC Shatford Library.
Project Muse
Full text scholarly journal articles covering the humanities, and social sciences.
ProQuest
Thousands of journal, magazine, and newspaper articles covering all disciplines.
Includes scholarly journal articles.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
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 Salem Press’ award-winning health reference work Magill’s Medical Guide.
Science Full Text Select (WilsonWeb)
Full text science database that covers approximately 320 journals in a broad range of science topics. Includes scholarly journal articles.
SIRS Knowledge Source
Articles from popular magazines, newspapers and U.S. government publications.
Westlaw
Online legal research tool for paralegal students. Passwords are issued by the Paralegal Program Director.
WorldCat
Search for books in other libraries. Worldcat is the world's largest database of library catalogs from thousands of member libraries.

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