Video Tutorial: Academic Search Complete (3 minutes)
This comprehensive scholarly and multi-disciplinary full-text database includes more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
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ProQuest Alternative Press Watch
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Alt-PressWatch includes full-text newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journal articles from alternative, independent presses, providing an unmatched, multidisciplinary resource for researchers seeking an alternative to mainstream media perspectives.
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EBSCOhost American History & Life
Video Tutorial: Searching for a time period in America: History & Life (1 minute) America History & Life Getting Started Guide(PDF)
America: History & Life with Full Text is the definitive database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1955 to present, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. America: History & Life with Full Text also provides full-text coverage of more than 200 journals and nearly 100 books.
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American Psychological Association PsycArticles
Video Tutorial: PsycArticles (3 minutes)
This database contains more than 202,000 full-text peer-reviewed articles across nearly 80 journals published by and affiliated with the American Psychological Association (APA). Complete article coverage for APA journals goes back in most cases to the very first volume and issue, and the first articles date back to 1894. The service is updated weekly.
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Alexander Street/ProQuest
Video Tutorial: Academic Video Online Platform Overview (3 minutes)
Academic Video Online (AVON) is a video streaming platform, which delivers over 80,000 titles spanning a wide range of subject areas, including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. These subject areas are represented by documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, demonstrations, and raw footage within the collection. Of these, thousands are award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners. Formerly known as Alexander Street Press Films.
Video Tutorial: ProQuest Basic Search (3 minutes) Video Tutorial: ProQuest Advanced Search (2 minutes) Video Tutorial: ProQuest Search Results (3 minutes)
This database includes the renowned Biological Sciences, MEDLINE, and TOXLINE databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. The database includes specialized, editorially-curated resources providing access to the extensive variety of biology’s cutting-edge research, with applications to medicine, technology, and the environment.
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Video Tutorial: Business Source Elite (3 minutes)
Business Source Elite provides full-text coverage of scholarly business, management and economics journals. This resource includes access to video content from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency. The collection also includes publications covering topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales and more.
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ChiltonLibrary Resource Guide (PDF)
This database provides diagnostics, repair procedures, wiring diagrams, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs), and recalls for automobiles and light trucks. Contains Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) technician test-prep quizzes to assess a user’s technical knowledge.
One-Year Trial to June 2025: This database has been funded through Career & Technical Education (CTE) Division Grants.
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EBSCOhost Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
Video Tutorial: CINAHL Basic Searching (3 minutes) Video Tutorial: CINAHL Advanced Searching (3 minutes)
The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) Plus® with Full Text is a robust collection of nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 770 journals. Coverage dates back to 1937. Additional materials include evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons, and continuing education modules.
**If required by your assignment, you may limit to "Source Types" and select "Academic Journals."
About This Database
Including coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, this database curates openly available content related to coronaviruses. It includes thousands of open-access articles from the world’s leading publishers as well as current research from pre-print repositories such as arXiv and will continue to grow and evolve as more is learned about the pandemic.
Video Tutorial: CountryWatch (3 minutes)
Find up-to-date and detailed information on all countries including government, culture, history, social, economy, and economic forecasts, business, environmental conditions, travel, and maps. Special links for elections, weekly political intelligence reports, and a daily newswire for every country in the world with a foreign news archive of regional news carriers.
Video Tutorial: CQ Researcher (2 minutes)
CQ Researcher provides award-winning in-depth coverage of the most important issues of the day. Reports are written by experienced journalists, footnoted and professionally fact-checked. Full-length articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, plus resources for additional research. Graphics, photos and short "sidebar" features round out the reports. Shorter "Hot Topics" articles provide a solid introduction to subjects most in demand by students.
Video Tutorial: ProQuest Basic Search (3 minutes) Video Tutorial: ProQuest Search Results (3 minutes)
ProQuest Criminal Justice is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes, and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. As well as U.S. and international scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, and related fields.
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Video Tutorial: Reading EBSCO eBooks (3 minutes)
Find books in full-text on a variety of subjects. eBooks may be accessed from off-campus and sections may be printed and/or saved.
Note: Most EBSCO eBooks may only be viewed one at a time. If unable to view an eBook, please try back in a few minutes.
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EBSCOhost Education Resource Information Center
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, is an online resource to education literature and research. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966. When provided by ERIC, there are links to the ERIC full text or links to other sources such as publisher websites or DOIs.
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This bibliographic database is a valuable index for libraries, scholars, and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. EBSCO Publishing, in cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, has created this resource from “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750,” the authoritative bibliography that is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
Video Tutorial: Films on Demand (2 minutes) Films on Demand - Master Academic Video Collection Description (PDF)
Films on Demand provides access to thousands of video titles in Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Health & Medicine, Science & Mathematics, and archival films & newsreels. This database contains a wide variety of films and documentaries in streaming format: from ABC News, American Experience, TED, BBC Films, Frontline, NOVA, PBS, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Ken Burns, The Open University, and California Newsreel, among others. Films may be viewed individually or used by faculty as instructional material for courses.
Includes newsreels and archival films divided into browseable eras including:
Pre-World War I (1888-1913), World War I (1914-1918), Jazz Age & Depression (1919-1938), World War II (1939-1945), Postwar (1946-1968), Late 20th Century (1969-2000), and 21st Century.
Each section is further subdivided into categories: Arts, Business & Economics, History & Politics, Science & Technology, and Social Sciences.
The Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. The database contains images and offers brief biographies. This database is updated annually.
Video Tutorial: GreenFILE (2 minutes)
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health, and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 880,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 13,000 records.
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Search here to find which of our many databases contain a specific journal, magazine, or newspaper TITLE or SOURCE (example: New York Times, The Atlantic, New England Journal of Medicine, etc.).
There may be several databases that contain the same source, but for different time periods. Read the description to see which dates or date ranges are covered.
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Textbooks and other course-related materials.
Quick link into the library catalog to locate textbooks and other course-related materials. In-Library Use Only for most items. GWC Student ID required for checkout. Location: LRC 2nd Floor, Public Services Desk
Health Source: Consumer Edition is a rich collection of consumer health information. This resource provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others. This database also includes searchable full text for more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets and more than 130 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society. Additionally, Health Source: Consumer Edition contains more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which includes Drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers; and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. Health Source: Consumer Edition covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc.
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Video Tutorial: EBSCOhost Basic Search (< 3 minutes)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, and many more.
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Gale Infotrac Educators Collection is a resource for educators and education students. Provides access to periodicals covering pre-school to college and most educational specialties.
Video Tutorial: JSTOR (7 minutes)
JSTOR is a digital library of academic content in many formats and disciplines. The collections include top peer-reviewed scholarly journals as well as respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and diverse primary sources. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports, and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
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LRC, literary criticism, literature
Video Tutorial: Literature Resource Center (2 minutes) Video Tutorial: Getting to Know Gale Literature Resource Center (11 minutes)
Find full-text authoritative sources in literary criticism and analysis, literary biography, and literary themes in books, scholarly journals and media sources. Advanced techniques allow you to search for persons or literary works in various categories. Research more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time-periods and from around the world.
**If scholarly sources are required by your assignment, click on "Advanced Search" and limit your results to "Peer Reviewed."
Look for sources that are identified as "Literature Criticism."
Full-text articles, from 2022 to current.
The Press-Telegram is a print and digital news media company serving the information needs of the Greater Long Beach area for more than 120 years.
To search the LB Press-Telegram and additional newspapers, search the database "Newspaper Source Plus."
This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects for high school students. Topics include biography, history, careers, language arts, literature, government, health, math, science, current events, and social-emotional health.
This comprehensive database contains full text for top high-school magazines including America's Civil War, American History, Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Civil War Times, CollegeXpress Magazine, Congressional Digest, Discover, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II, and much more.
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This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full-text information dating as far back as 1922. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Complete also contains full text for more than 1,000 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
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This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects. Topics include biography, history, careers, cooking, literature, genealogy, health, parenting, personal finance, politics, architecture, science, current events, social-emotional health, sports, and travel.
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
Video Tutorial: Military and Government Collection (3 minutes)
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.
Video Tutorial: Newspaper Source Plus (2 minutes)
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
EBSCO's Newswires provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire on a continuous basis. This content is monitored by EBSCO and relevant results are provided when users enter searches in EBSCOhost. This collection includes AP Financial News, AP Top News, AP WorldStream, AP U.S. Politics & Government, AP 50 State Reports, UPI Security Industry, UPI Emerging Threats, UPI Business, UPI Entertainment, UPI Sports, UPI Top News, Arabia 2000, and more.
Video Tutorial: Opposing Viewpoints (1:30 minutes)
Current and controversial (pro/con) social issues published in academic journals, magazines, newspapers, reference works, statistical sources, and primary documents, including the Opposing Viewpoints Series of books.
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**Create a personal user account to save your progress in the 'My Center Dashboard.' You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects for primary school students. Topics include social studies, history, language arts, geography, culture, math, and science.
Video Tutorial: Project Muse (5 minutes)
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Find full-text scholarly academic research articles (from both journals and university press books) in music, art, theater, cinema, literature, deaf studies, sociology, psychology, education, history, geography, and philosophy.
**For full-text results: In the 'Filter Results' section --> under 'Access' --> Select 'Only content I have access to.'
Video Tutorial: Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (3 minutes)
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full-text psychology database offering full-text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
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Video Tutorial: Regional Business News (3 minutes)
Content for Regional Business News is provided by leading publishers in business news including The Washington Post, PR Newswire US and more. Key resources include newspapers, radio and television news transcripts, trade publications, magazines and newswires with full-text content coverage spanning more than 20 years.
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The Reference Shelf
eBook Collection of select reference titles from Salem Press and Grey House Publishing, notably Critical Insights (literature) and the Great Lives From History series.
Each eBook title has **Unlimited** Access.
eBook Collection of select history titles from Salem Press and Grey House Publishing, notably the Great Lives From History series.
Each eBook title has **Unlimited** Access.
eBook Collection of select titles from Salem Press and Grey House Publishing, notably the Critical Insights (literature) series.
Each eBook title has **Unlimited** Access.
*Excellent for literature criticism if your author/title/theme is included here.
Science Full-Text Select™ provides full text for more than 400 journals dating as far back as 1994. Subject coverage includes agriculture & agricultural research, atmospheric science, biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, botany, chemistry, environmental science, geology, marine biology microbiology, physics and much more.
**If required by your assignment, you may limit your results to "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals."
Video Tutorial: SIRS Knowledge Source (2 minutes)
SIRS Issues Researcher is an editorially curated pro/con database. Leading Issues pages provide a framework for understanding and analyzing over 360 complex social issues with overviews, essential questions, viewpoints, and editorially selected primary and secondary sources. All content is 100% full-text and selected from authoritative magazines, newspapers, photographs, books, statistics, infographics, websites, and more.
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EBSCOhost Sociology Index
Video Tutorial: EBSCOhost Advanced Searching (< 3 minutes)
SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest-quality sociology research database. The database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 830 books and monographs and full text for over 16,800 conference papers.
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ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States
Now published by ProQuest, this database is a comprehensive collection of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. Editions from the year 2013 to current are included.
This resource had been published annually by the Federal Government from 1878 to 2012. To view all historical editions available, see "Statistical Abstract Series" on the U.S. Census Bureau website.
This streaming video database has a small collection of feature films and documentaries, must be used for direct instruction and individual viewing only.
Video Tutorial: ProQuest Search Results (3 minutes)
U.S. Hispanic Newsstream offers access to the largest collection of leading Hispanic newspapers, news wires, websites, and blogs in full text from U.S. publishers in both Spanish and English, including El Diario/La Prensa (New York City), La Opinión (Los Angeles), La Prensa (San Antonio) and Extra (Chicago).
Video Tutorial: ProQuest Search Results (3 minutes) Best for: Finding current information in daily newspapers.
This database enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. Exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Times and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. U.S. Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers.
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Power Search
Video Tutorial: Introduction to EBSCOhost (4 minutes)
Select multiple EBSCO databases at once, including Academic Search Complete, MasterFILE Complete, and more. Best bet: choose related databases for the best results. Not sure what those are? Ask a Librarian!
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Power Search
Video Tutorial: Introduction to EBSCOhost (4 minutes)
Select multiple EBSCO databases at once, including Academic Search Complete, MasterFILE Complete, and more. Best bet: choose related databases for the best results. Not sure what those are? Ask a Librarian!
Video Tutorial: Academic Search Complete (3 minutes)
This comprehensive scholarly and multi-disciplinary full-text database includes more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
**If required by your assignment, you may limit your results to "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals."
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Textbooks and other course-related materials.
Quick link into the library catalog to locate textbooks and other course-related materials. In-Library Use Only for most items. GWC Student ID required for checkout. Location: LRC 2nd Floor, Public Services Desk
Video Tutorial: Opposing Viewpoints (1:30 minutes)
Current and controversial (pro/con) social issues published in academic journals, magazines, newspapers, reference works, statistical sources, and primary documents, including the Opposing Viewpoints Series of books.
**If required by your assignment, you may limit your results to "Academic Journals."
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