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Academic Search Premier
(EBSCOhost)
A multidiscipline full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. Includes full text articles from over 4,600 scholarly publications, along with 3,900 peer-reviewed journals and PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for over one hundred journals.
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Access Science Provides access to articles and illustrations, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, includes research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, and the latest Science News headlines, biographies, and more.
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Alt Healthwatch (EBSCOhost) This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated aproaches to health care and wellness and includes full-text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed, journals and reports.
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America: History and Life with Full Text (EBSCOhost) A database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With full-text coverage of more than 230 journals and nearly 100 books .
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Annals of American History Analyze American history through speeches, writings, and interviews from 1493 through today.
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ARTstor Includes nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, social sciences and other visual culture from around the globe. To access ARTstor from off campus, you must first create an ARTstor account from any computer on the Southwestern College campus.
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Auto Repair Reference Center (EBSCOhost) Contains the most comprehensive collection of automobile repair reference information in the market. This resource has information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles. Database content includes more than 37,000 vehicles covered from 1945 to present.
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Biography Resource Center A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals.
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Britannica Online Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as 130,000 links to web sites selected and reviewed by Britannica editors.
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Business Source Premier
(EBSCOhost)
Provides full text for nearly 2,300 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 1,110 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals.
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Chronicle Career Library of Occupational Briefs - On Campus

Chronicle Career Library of Occupational Briefs - Off Campus
Present information on more than 2,000 occupational titles, including 650 four-page comprehensive occupational descriptions, ranging from those that require a high school diploma or less, through professional careers;.
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CINAHL Plus (EBSCOhost) Full text material includes nearly 80 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. More than 3,800 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, indexed and abstracted, back to 1937.
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College Source Online Over 59,000 College Catalogs (US and International schools) in complete cover-to-cover, original page format. 
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Consumer Health Complete
(EBSCOhost)
A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. Includes full-text health reference books, evidence-based, health reports, medical images, videos, consumer health pamphlets and animations with audio narration
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CountryWatch - Access On Campus

CountryWatch - Access Off Campus

Includes publications for each country including demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information; the CountryWire, which provides daily news coverage for every country in the world.
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CQ Researcher Weekly (full-text) publication from CQ Press (Congressional Quarterly),providing original in-depth analysis of the most current major and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, pros and cons, bibliographies, and more. Archives date back to 1991.
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CQ Global Researcher Delivers indepth background and context on important world issues from a multitude of authoritative, international viewpoints.
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Credo Reference Electronic Books An online reference library that provides access to hundreds of full text titles covering everything from accounting to zoology.
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EBSCOhost / eBook Collection A shared collection of over 25,000 recently published electronic books on a wide range of subjects.
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Additional information is located on our eBook information page.
Electronic Journal Service EBSCOhost Is a gateway to nine e-journals from different publishers, all at one web site..
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Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States Includes the diverse historical and contemporary experiences in the United States of Latinos and Latinas from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.The encyclopedia contains entries on culture, language, media, politics, race, customs, arts, health, sports and more.
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ERIC (EBSCOhost) The Educational Resource Information Center contains citations and abstracts to over 980 education related journals and includes links to full text documents and journal articles.
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Ethnic Newswatch An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. This current database begins its coverage in 1990. .
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Facts On File A set of full-text reference databases that includes the World News Digest, Issues and Controversies, Today's Science, Issues & Controversies in American History and Films On Demand an online streaming video collection.
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Ferguson's Career Guidance Center Learn about a wide variety of jobs and industries; scholarships, internships, and professional programs; and invaluable advice on applying for a job, acing an interview, behaving professionally in the work environment, and more.
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Films on Demand Streaming Instruction Media Collection A collection of more than 3,000 full length instruction videos covering topics in Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Science & Mathematics, Health & Medicine and other subjects.
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Gale Virtual Reference: Literature Resource Center A comprehensive Literature reference database; includes full-text biographical, bibliographical, and critical content. Includes literary criticism, articles, and biographical information from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography.
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Gale Virtual Reference: Scribner Writers Online Provides access to more than 2,000 original, scholar-signed essays on the lives and works of more than 1,400 important authors from around the world and from all time periods. Content now includes additional resources like World Poets, British Writers Classics, American Writers Classics, Latino and Latina Writers, and more .
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Gale Virtual Reference: Twayne's Authors Online This database offers criticism by scholars on hundreds of years of literature--from Aristophanes to Bharati Mukherjee. It provides critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, and to the development of literary genres .
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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online A comprehensive searchable online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. It contains an overview of each region, a survey of its musical heritage, traditions and themes; and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances.
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GreenFILE (EBSCOhost) Covers all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCOhost) Focuses on the many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
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Health Source: Nuring /Academic Journals (EBSCOhost) Full text access to over 550 nursing journals covering all the major healthcare specialties, including nursing, pediatrics, neurology, pharmacology, cardiology, physical therapy, and others. Also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
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Historical Newspapers New York Times (Proquest) The New York Times from (1851-2008) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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In the First Person Plus

In the First Person Plus is an Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives with links to the Full-Text.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Searchable access to full-text information from over 5,600 sources. This database includes national, international and regional newspaper sources, federal and state court opinions, statutes as well as company financial information, industry reports and market news.
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Los Angeles Times (Proquest) 1985 to Current Date Full text access back to 1985.
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Magill's Medical Guide (Salem Press) This resource covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.
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Masterfile Premier (EBSCOhost) Contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text more than 500 reference books, over 81,900 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
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Medline (EBSCOhost) Created by the National Library of Medicine, provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more .
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Newsbank: American Historical Newspapers American newspapers published in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, offers fully searchable digital facsimiles of nearly 2,000 titles from all 50 states from 1690 - 2000 .
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Newspaper Source Plus:
(EBSCOhost)
Provides more than 1,000 full-text newspapers, providing more than 38 million full-text articles. It features nearly 913,000 television and radio news transcripts, including: ABC News (American Broadcasting Company), CBS News, CNBC, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, MSNBC, National Public Radio, PBS, and more. This database is updated daily ..
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center OVRC is a full-text social issues database, organizing current periodical articles, viewpoint essays, reference material, statistics, topic overviews, and select web sites into popular research topic headings.
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Oxford Art Online An online resource for art research that includes the resources from the Grove Art Online; the complete 34 volume Dictionary of Art, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. There are articles on the visual arts, world art, biographies and art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles.
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Oxford English Dictionary Provides the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. Over 2.5 million quotations from diverse sources to trace the usage of new and old vocabulary.
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Proquest National Newspapers Includes full-text access to:New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and the Christian Science Monitor.
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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (EBSCOhost) Provides nearly 550 full text journals and covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational methods. Passwords required to connect off-campus
Religion and Philosophy Collection (EBSCOhost) Provides coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. This collection offers nearly 300 full text journals,.
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Salem Health: Magill's Medical Guide (Salem)
This resource covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders..
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Salem History: The Sixties in America (Salem)
The electronic book covers issues, events, culture, and individuals of a momentous decade.
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Scientific & Medical ART Imagebase (EBSCOhost) This imagebase is a collection of 20,000+ high quality illustrations and animations depicting anatomy, physiology, surgery, diseases, conditions, trauma, embryology, histology, and other health science topics..
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SIRS Researcher A complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to Web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
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VAST - Academic Video Online A multidisciplinary collection of 10,000 streaming videos in 22 discipline areas.
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