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Subject List of Databases

General Databases

Gale Power Search: Journal, magazine, newspaper and book articles. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
EBSCO Full Database List: Journal, magazine and newspaper articles. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
Academic Search Premier: Journal, magazine and newspaper articles on a variety of different topics.
eBook Collection: Collection of over 120,000 full text books online.
SIRS: Articles from 2,500+ US and international magazines, newspapers, government publications and reference sources. Includes images, maps, country profiles and Supreme Court decisions.
Book Review Index Online Plus: A comprehensive online guide to book reviews that includes more than five million review citations from thousands of publications, with linking to more than 630,000 full-text reviews.

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Automotive

ALLDATA (Car Repair): The world's most comprehensive resource for automotive diagnostic and repair information.
Mitchell 1 OnDemand5: Automotive repair, technical service bulletins and supporting graphics on over 16,000 vehicles.
ONLY WORKS WITH INTERNET EXPLORER! NO CHROME. NO FIREFOX.

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Biography/History

Gale Biography in Context + The Complete Marquis Who’s Who (previously Biography Resource Center): Periodicals.
Gale U.S. History in Context (previously History Resource Center: US): Articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal.
Gale World History in Context (previously History Resource Center: World): Full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, primary sources, images, maps and charts.
Salem Press History: --Includes reference sets Decades: 30’s – 90’s; The Ancient World, The Middle Ages, The Renaissance, The 17th Century, The 18th Century, The 19th Century, The 20th Century, The Fifties, Seventies and Eighties in America, Notorious Lives, Inventors and Inventions, and Milestone Documents in American History.
eBook Collection: Collection of over 120,000 full text books online.

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Business Databases

Hoover’s: Comprehensive company database featuring over 43,000 companies. Executive profiles, detailed company fact sheets with financials and more.
Business Insights: Essentials: Company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
Business Source Premier: Scholarly business journals and other sources, including 1,125 peer-reviewed business publications.
Regional Business News: Business journals, newspapers and newswires.
Academic Search Premier: Journals, magazine and newspaper articles.
LegalTrac: Indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.
eBook Collection: Collection of over 120,000 full-text books online.

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Career Databases

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center: Provides detailed profiles of more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries.
LearningExpress Library: Looking to land a job? Practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses and information you need to achieve the results you want.
Vocations, Careers and Technical Education Collection: This collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.

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Controversial Issues Databases

Issues & Controversies: Features pro and con articles on more than 800 thought provoking topics in business, politics, government, education and popular culture. Updated weekly with links to a 12-year back file. Facts on File database.
Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context (previously Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center): Viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.
SIRS: Articles from 2,500+ US and international magazines, newspapers, government publications and reference sources. Includes images, maps, country profiles and Supreme Court decisions.

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Education Databases

ERIC: More than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC.
Educators Reference Complete: Full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources.
Teacher Reference Center: Indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines.
Chronicle of Higher Education: Source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.

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Health Databases

Health Reference Center Academic (Gale): Full text nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO): Scholarly full text journals. Abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Updated daily.
EBSCO Health Databases: Search ALL 4 of the EBSCO health databases at once! These include Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, CINAHL, MEDLINE, and Health Source: Consumer Edition.
CINAHL (EBSCO): Full text for nursing & allied health journals.
Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module (Gale): Health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos.
NOTE: 5th edition (not the newest) of Mosby's Medical Dictionary is available in this database (click 'dictionary').
eBook Collection: Collection of over 120,000 full-text books online.
Health Reference Center (Facts on File): Reference book articles. Information on conditions and diseases, health and wellness, mental health, and the human body.
Health Source - Consumer Edition (EBSCO): Full text, consumer health magazines.
Nursing and Allied Health Collection (GALE): Nearly 400 titles, this collection's current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
Nursing Resource Center (GALE): Disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts.
Salem Press Health: Magill's Medical Guide; Psychology and Mental Health Online.
Lab Training and Competency Assessment: Features OSHA testing modules utilized by Health & Human Services students.**Note - Requires setting up a personal account using the lab code provided by your instructor. Contact the SCC Library at 592-4764 if you have questions.

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International / Country Resources

CultureGrams: Maps, daily life, culture, history and customs of 181 nations.
CountryWatch: Publications include CountryReviews, and the CountryWireTM, which provides daily news coverage.
SIRS Knowledge Source: Articles from 2,500+ US and international magazines, newspapers, government publications and reference sources. Includes images, maps, country profiles and Supreme Court decisions.
Gale Power Search: Magazine and newspaper articles. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
eBook Collection: Collection of over 120,000 full-text books online.

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Literature Criticism

Literature Resource Center: Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Ebsco Literature Databases: Search 2 EBSCO literary databases at once: Literary Reference Center and Academic Search Premier.
Bloom's Literary Reference Online: Writings of Harold Bloom as well as other critics. Features author biographies, overviews, synopses, analyses and literary criticism of thousands of works from novels to poetry to plays, video segments, in-depth full-text entries on literary topics and themes and a literary timeline.
Gale Virtual Reference Library [Online Books]: Contains the Gale For Students Series Online, including Short Stories for Students, Drama For Students, Poetry For Students, Novels for Students, Epics for Students and Shakespeare for Students.
Literature Criticism Online [Online Books]: Contains the books Drama Criticism and Short Story Criticism Online.
eBook Collection [Online Books]: Collection of over 120,000 full-text books online.
Expanded Academic ASAP: Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images.
LitFinder: Litfinder is designed to connect users quickly to the poem, story, speech, play or essay that best suits their needs. Contains more than 10,000 subject headings. Includes hundreds of expert-written explanations, glossary entries and discussions.
Salem Press Literature: --Includes reference sets Critical Insights Authors: Gwendolyn Brooks, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams Critical Insights Works: Canterbury Tales, Death of a Salesman, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Poetry of Poe, Streetcar Named Desire, Tales of Poe, Things Fall Apart Critical Surveys: Long Fiction, American Poets, British, Irish & Commonwealth Poets, European Poets, World Poets, Poetry Cumulative Indexes, Poetry Topical Essays Masterplots.

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Online Books and Encyclopedias

eBook Collection: Collection of over 120,000 full-text books online.
Encyclopedia Britannica: Encyclopedia Britannica online. Over 122,000 articles, updated world atlas, thousand of images and videos, an online dictionary and thesaurus.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia: 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Contains the Gale For Students Series Online, including Short Stories for Students, Drama For Students, Poetry For Students, and Novels for Students.
Bloom's Literary Reference Online: Writings of Harold Bloom as well as other critics. Features author biographies, overviews, synopses, analyses and literary criticism of thousands of works from novels to poetry to plays, video segments, in-depth full-text entries on literary topics and themes and a literary timeline.

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Science Databases

Today’s Science: Today’s Science explains important developments in biology, chemistry, the environment, space, physics, and technology. Updated weekly and containing thousands of links to a 15-year back-file. Facts on File database.
Gale Science in Context (previously Science Resource Center): Articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites.
Salem Science: Contains Global Warming & Global Resources Online.
eBook Collection: Collection of over 120,000 full-text books online.

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Citation Database

NoodleBib: **NOTE - First time users must select "Create a Personal ID" from the Noodlebib login screen to access NoodleBib **
Online MLA and APA formatting.

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Videos - Online

Films on Demand: Educational videos available via streaming to anywhere (off-campus must login). Topics include AMT/IMT topics, customer service, and computer information. If you experience any problems, please call the library at 592-4654.
NBC Learn (Video Clips):: Thousands of videos, historic newsreels, and other materials available via streaming from NBC News archives.

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