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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."
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Biography In Context On-Campus | Remote Access
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For all age groups 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. |
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. |
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." |
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. |
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
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"This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas." |
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.
*This database is only available on the Columbia College campus. |
Health and Wellness Resource Center (HWRC) On-Campus | Remote Access
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| For advanced middle school students through adults (1980 - present) |
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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LexisNexis AcademicOn-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. |
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." |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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." |
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. |