Shatford Library
Databases by Subject
Quicklinks:
MULTIPLE SUBJECT
DATABASES:
- ProQuest
- 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.
BOOKS and E-BOOKS:
- Books In Print
- Find out what books are currently in print. Includes reviews and out of print
listings.
- CalCat
- The holdings of books, videos, audio, maps, and other materials held by libraries in California.
- Choice Reviews Online
- Reviews of books, electronic media, and Internet resources in fields of higher education.
- Learning Express Library
- Practice tests and tutorials designed to help you succeed on academic or licensing tests.
- NetLibrary
- E-books from a broad range of subject areas and topics.
- PCC Library Catalog
- Find books and media in the PCC Shatford Library
- Safari Tech Books
- E-books for Information Technology.
- WorldCat
- Search for books in other libraries. Worldcat is the world's largest database
of library catalogs from thousands of member libraries.
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.
- World Book Web
- Includes the full encyclopedia plus reference resources, special reports and articles from World Book Student, World Book Advanced, World Book Discover and Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos.
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:
- Ethnic NewsWatch
- Bilingual (English and Spanish) full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals of ethnic, minority and native press.
- ProQuest
- Thousands of journal, magazine, and newspaper articles covering all
disciplines.
Includes scholarly journal articles.
NURSING and ALLIED HEALTH:
- 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 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.
- PubMed Central
- The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCES:
- CountryWatch
- Political, business, and economic information and news about every country in
the world. Includes periodical articles and statistics.
- 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.
- Ethnic NewsWatch
- Bilingual (English and Spanish) full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals of ethnic, minority and native press.
- History Resource Center: U.S. New!
- Covers themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. Includes historical (primary) documents, reference articles, journal citations and full-text journal articles.
- PsycArticles
- Full text articles on current issues in psychology. The database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology.
Helpful Hints...
- Not sure which database to use?
- Ask the Reference Librarian for assistance.
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- Take a look our Citing Sources page.
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