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AAUP Journal of Academic FreedomAccess the AAUP-JAF
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The American Association of University Professors introduces a new online project-the AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom. "Scholarship on academic freedom...is typically scattered across a wide range of disciplines." There is now "...one place to track the developing international discussion about academic freedom and its collateral issues." |
Academic OneFile On-Campus | Remote Access
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Academic Search Premier
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"The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier contains indexing for over 8,000 publications, with full text for more than 4,450 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles." |
America: History and LifeOn-Campus | Remote Access
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America: History and Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. |
America's NewspapersOn-Campus | Remote Access
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ARTStorOn-Campus | Remote Access *ARTStor is best viewed in Internet Explorer
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"ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Our community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates."
For a more detailed description of ARTStor's Collection, click here. |
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Biography In Context On-Campus | Remote Access
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This database integrates award-winning biographies from respected Gale sources with related full-text articles from hundreds of magazines and newspapers, as well as tens of thousands of images and links to vetted websites. Search for people---both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavor---based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text. Or, combine search criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. |
Book Review Index Online Plus On-Campus | Remote Access
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Book Review Index Online Plus, like Book Review Index Online , includes more than 5 million review citations; it also includes more than 634,000 full-text reviews from General OneFile and Expanded Academic. Access to full-text reviews allows users to conduct research in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more. |
Books & Authors On-Campus | Remote Access
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For librarians, teachers and readers of all ages
Readers' advisory resource for fiction and nonfiction. |
Britannica OnlineOn-Campus | Remote Access | Mobile
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The online version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica includes not only the full text of the encyclopedia itself but multimedia content and definitions from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition) as well. |
Business & Company Resource Center On-Campus | Remote Access
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Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Predicast's PROMT and Newsletter databases are fully integrated in this database. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information. |
Business Source Premier On-Campus | Remote Access
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"Business Source Premier is the industry's most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost." |
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Career eBook CollectionOn-Campus | Not available remotely
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For high school students through adults
Customized collection of more than 250 electronic books for vocational needs
*This database is only available on the Columbia College campus. |
The Chronicle of Higher EducationOn-Campus | Not available remotely
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The Chronicle is a source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more. *This database is only available on the Columbia College campus. |
CINAHL Plus with Full-TextOn-Campus | Remote Access
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"CINAHL® Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 750 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, 426 are not found with full text in any version of Academic SearchT, Health Source® or Nursing & Allied Health CollectionT. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo." |
Communication & Mass Media CompleteOn-Campus | Remote Access
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"Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for over 390 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of 200 more, for a combined coverage of nearly 600 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for 285 journals." |
Computer Source On-Campus | Remote Access
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"This database contains more than 300 full text journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. Computer SourceT provides a balance of full text technical journals and full text consumer computer titles." |
Contemporary Authors On-Campus | Remote Access
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Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. |
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select On-Campus | Remote Access
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Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study. |
CQ ResearcherOn-Campus | Remote Access
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"CQ Researcher provides reporting and analysis of current issues in the news. Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist. Each provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources." |
CultureGrams On-Campus | Remote Access
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"The CultureGrams Online Database is a leading reference for concise, reliable, and up-to-date cultural information on countries across the globe. It includes four editions: the World Edition (for junior high school and up) and the Kids, States, and Canadian Provinces editions (for upper elementary school students)." |
Custom Newspapers On-Campus | Remote Access
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For all age groups
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Dictionary of Literary Biography On-Campus | Remote Access
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Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. |
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)Access DOAJ
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| "The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact." |
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Educator's Reference Complete On-Campus | Remote Access
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| Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. The database is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home. |
ERICOn-Campus | Remote Access
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"ERIC®, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals." |
Expanded Academic ASAP On-Campus | Remote Access
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college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students |
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
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"This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas." |
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Gale's Literary IndexOn-Campus | Not available remotely
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A master index for Gale Group's major literature series
containing authors' biographies and critical
essays on their writings. Included in the index are cross-references to more than
130,000 author names and more
than 140,000 titles.
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General BusinessFile ASAP On-Campus | Remote Access
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school students (1980 - present) |
General OneFile On-Campus | Remote Access
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For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school
students (1980 - present) |
General Reference Center (Magazine Index) On-Campus | Remote Access
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For high school students through adults (1980 - present) |
Google ScholarTake me to Google Scholar
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"Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research." |
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Health and Wellness Resource Center (HWRC) On-Campus | Remote Access
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| For advanced middle school students through adults (1980 - present) |
Health Reference Center-Academic On-Campus | Remote Access
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For college-level and other adult researchers (1980 - present) |
Health Source: Consumer Edition On-Campus | Remote Access
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Health Source Nursing Academic Edition On-Campus | Remote Access
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"This resource provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. 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, Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses, Nursing Diagnosis, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, and many more. In addition, this database includes the Clinical Pharmacology database, providing access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs." |
History CooperativeAccess History Cooperative
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A premier resource for historians on the Web that provides access to the full-text of current issues of the following journals: The American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, Law and History Review, The William and Mary Quarterly, The History Teacher, The Western Historical Quarterly, Common-place, and Labour/Le Travail. |
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JSTOR: Early Journal Content Access JSTOR: EJC
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JSTOR: Early Journal Content consists of "...journal content in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere" and is freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world. EJC includes discourse and scholarship in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and other sciences, as well as includes nearly 500,000 articles from more than 200 journals. JSTOR Homepage |
JSTOR: Register & Read
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COMING SOON! Register & Read Beta is a new, experimental program to offer free, read-online access to individual scholars and researchers who register for a [free] MyJSTOR account. It's simple! |
Junior Edition On-Campus | Remote Access
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middle school students, their teachers and parents (Latest four years) |
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Kids InfoBits On-Campus | Remote Access
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K-5 students, their teachers and parents (1990's to present) |
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Learning Express Library On-Campus | Remote Access
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Comprehensive collection of test-preparation tools, skill-building materials, and other career
and life skills resources.
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LegalTrac On-Campus | Remote Access
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students (1980 - present) |
LexisNexis AcademicOn-Campus | Remote Access
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts On-Campus | Remote Access
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Literature Resource Center On-Campus | Remote Access
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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. |
LitFinder On-Campus | Remote Access
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Covering world literature and authors throughout history, LitFinder contains a wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. For students or patrons seeking a deeper view into literature, LitFinder also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more! From Shakespeare's sonnets to poems by Donald Hall or short stories from Edgar Allan Poe to works by Annie Proulx, LitFinder has you covered. |
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MAS Ultra (School Edition)
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"Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra - School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost." |
MEDLINE On-Campus | Remote Access
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| "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 numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE®, AIDSLINE®, BIOETHICSLINE®, and HealthSTAR®. Users of MEDLINE will be excited to learn that this is now a 'full text database'." |
Military & Government Collection On-Campus | Remote Access
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"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 nearly 400 titles." |
MLA International Bibliography On-Campus | Remote Access
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"MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers." |
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NatureOn-Campus | Remote Access
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Full-Text: 1997 - present "Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public." |
New York Times Full-Text (1851-2007)On-Campus | Remote Access
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Nursing Resource Center On-Campus | Remote Access
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| Designed for nursing students, the Nursing Resource Center brings together in an easy-to-use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts. The information is written in accessible language for students completing class assignments and preparing for clinicals as they learn how to care for and treat patients. Search results are returned in tabs that correspond to steps in the nursing process. |
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Open Humanities PressAccess the OHP
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"Open Humanities Press (OHP) is an international open access publishing collective in critical
and cultural theory.
OHP journals are fully peer reviewed, scholarly publications that have been chosen by OHP's editorial advisory board for their outstanding contribution to contemporary theory. OHP's journals are independent, published under open access licences and free of charge to readers and authors alike." |
Opposing Viewpoints In Context On-Campus | Remote Access
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Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the new solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. |
Oxford English Dictionary OnlineOn-Campus | Remote Access
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"The OED is...a historical dictionary, the most complete record of the English language ever assembled. It traces a word from its beginnings...to the present, showing the varied and changing ways in which it has been used and illustrating the changes with quotations which add to the historical and linguistic record. This can mean that the first sense shown is long obsolete, and that the modern use falls much later in the entry." |
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"PLOS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource." Open access to 7 online peer-reviewed journals in the fields of Biology, Medicine, Computational Biology, Genetics, Pathogens and Neglected Tropical Diseases. |
Primary SearchOn-Campus | Remote Access
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"Primary Search, designed specifically for elementary school libraries, contains full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. Additionally, Primary Search includes the Encyclopedia of AnimalsT, and features Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, providing students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. The database also provides the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection." |
Project MuseOn-Campus | Remote Access
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"Provides online, worldwide institutional subscription access to the full text of over 200 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics." |
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection On-Campus | Remote Access
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"This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost." |
PubMedAccess PubMed
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"PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources." |
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Regional Business News On-Campus | Remote Access
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| "This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis." |
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Science In Context On-Campus | Remote Access
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Gale Science in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. |
Science OnlineOn-Campus | Remote Access
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Full-Text: 1997 - present "The flagship Science Magazine site provides the full text of the journal's news stories, research reports, and commentary articles in a searchable database, enhanced by additional information, links, multimedia, and user services, as well as a database of scientific-product information." |
Scribner Writers On-Campus | Remote Access
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Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series, including African American Writers, African Writers, American Nature Writers, American Writers, Ancient Writers, The Books of the Bible, British Writers, European Writers, Latin American Writers, Modern American Women Writers, Science Fiction Writers, Supernatural Writers, and Writers for Children. |
Shakespeare Survey OnlineOn-Campus | Remote Access
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Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs. Shakespeare Survey Online makes all issues of the Survey, including over 90% of the original images, available online for the first time. |
SIRS DiscovererOn-Campus | Remote Access
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SIRS Knowledge Source On-Campus | Not available remotely
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For advanced middle school students through adults *This database is only available on the Columbia College campus. |
Small Business Resource Center On-Campus | Remote Access
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Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites. |
SocINDEX (with full-text)On-Campus | Remote Access
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"SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,910,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 397 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 150 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 720 books and monographs, and full text for 6,743 conference papers." |
The State NewspaperOn-Campus | Remote Access
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Student Edition On-Campus | Remote Access
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For high school students, their teachers and parents |
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Twayne's Authors Series On-Campus | Remote Access
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| The acclaimed Twayne's Authors Series of literary criticism offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. This online series features the content of nearly 600 books that comprise three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors -- each of which were carefully coordinated with input from librarians and educators to include authors universally studied in high schools and colleges. |
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U.S. History In Context On-Campus | Remote Access
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Gale U.S. History in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. |
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Vocations, Careers and Technical Education Collection On-Campus | Remote Access
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"Finding the right career, enrolling in an appropriate institution of learning or training, searching for a job, advancing in your career through continuing education — these are high stakes tasks in today’s world. Vocations and Careers Collection makes it easier for researchers by providing content that is updated daily from nearly 400 journals — from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals." |
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World History In Context On-Campus | Remote Access
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Gale World History in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. |