Shatford Library
Databases
by Name
- 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.
- Choice Reviews Online
- Reviews of books, electronic media, and Internet resources in fields of higher education.
- CalCat
- The holdings of books, videos, audio, maps, and other materials held by libraries in California.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Learning Express Library
- Practice tests and tutorials designed to help you succeed on academic or licensing tests.
- Literature Resource Center
- Criticism and biographies of more than 120,000 authors.
- NetLibrary
- E-books from a broad range of subject areas and topics.
- 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.
- PsycArticles
- Full text articles on current issues in psychology. The database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology.
- PubMed Central
- The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
- Safari Tech Books
- E-books for Information Technology.
- 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.
- 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.
- WorldCat
- Search for books in other libraries. Worldcat is the world's largest database
of library catalogs from thousands of member libraries.
Helpful Hints...
- Not sure which database to use?
- Ask the Reference Librarian for assistance.
- Need help citing your sources?
- Take a look our Citing Sources page.
- Want to find a particular magazine, newspaper, or journal?
- Search the Periodical Title
List to find out if the library has a particular magazine, newspaper,
or journal title.
