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Alphabetical Listing of Resources


  • ARTStor
    ARTstor has developed a rich digital library that offers coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content includes approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.


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  • Academic Search Premier
    Academic Search Premier contains indexing for nearly 8,200 publications, with full text for nearly 4,700 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. Academic Search Premier contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology.


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  • AccessScience
    AccessScience provides access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News headlines, biographies, and more. This online encyclopedia is tailored to researchers and students looking for the most relevant, readable, and trusted sources of information available.


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  • Alt HealthWatch
    Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database focuses on holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers full text articles, from 180 international, journals, reports, proceedings and association & consumer newsletters. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.


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  • Biography Resource Center
    This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.


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  • Business Source Premier
    This business research database, provides the full text for nearly 8,800 serials. Business Source Premier provides full text back to 1965 and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.


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  • CINAHL PLUS with Full text
    CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with coverage dating as far back as 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides full text for 337 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included.

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  • Credo reference
    The Credo reference (formerly xreferplus) database is an online reference library that provides you with access to a selection of reference books, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, as well as a range of subject-specific titles.

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  • CQ Researcher
    The CQ Researcher is a weekly publication providing original in-depth analysis of the most current major and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, all the pros and cons, bibliographies and more.



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  • CountryWatch
    CountryWatch provides up-to-date news and information on each of the recognized countries of the world. CountryWatch provides critical country-specific intelligence and data.


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  • ERIC
    ERIC: Education Resources Information Center; 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.


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  • Enciclopedia Universal en Espa�l
    Explore la Enciclopedia Universal en Espa�l, en su edicion en espa�l, una fuente de conocimiento autorizado y confiable con miles de articulos en un amplio rango de temas.


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  • Encyclopaedia Britannica
    With over 73,000 articles, Encyclop�ia Britannica is one of the most complete and accurate information sources in the world. It contains both short and book-length articles on every subject. In addition to encyclopedias, magazines, and Web sites, Britannica provides hundreds of video clips.


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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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  • Health Source Nursing/Academic
    Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. 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, hardto- find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs.


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  • Historical New York Times
    ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2003)


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  • JSTOR
    JSTOR's Arts & Sciences I and II collections include core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also contains titles in ecology, mathematics, archaeology, classics, and African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic studies, and statistics. Coverage begins from vol. 1 of every title and excludes the most recent 3 years.


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  • Literature Resource Center
    Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors


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  • MasterFILE Premier
    MasterFILE Premier contains full text for nearly 2,000 periodicals covering general f, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 188,323 photos, maps & flags.


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  • Medline
    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.


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  • Military & Government Collection
    Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this databaseoffers a collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content. The Military & Government Collection provides full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.


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  • NetLibrary E-Books
    Cabrillo College Library has 15,000 eBooks available. eBook users can access library resources anywhere and anytime, even when the library is closed. eBooks can be viewed online using an Internet browser and do not require the reader to come to the physical library building. And, finally, eBooks have advanced search capabilities that allow the reader to perform searches across hundreds of books or within a specific book to speed research and reference projects.


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  • Newspaper source
    Newspaper Source provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, The New York Daily News, The San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc.


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  • Oxford Art Online
    Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove Art Online) comprises the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, edited by Hugh Brigstocke (2001). Articles that have been added or updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen.

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  • Oxford English Dictionary
    The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. The OED offers etymological analysis and variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.

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  • Oxford Music Online
    Oxform Music Online (formerly Grove Music Online) comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002). Articles that have been updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen.


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  • Professional Development Collection
    The Professional Development Collection includes full text for more than 550 high quality education journals including: Booklist, Education, Education Digest, Education Week, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal, and many others. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.


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  • ProQuest Newspapers
    Fulltext articles for the following national newspapers: NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor.


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  • Psychology & Behavioral Sciences
    This is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection contains full text for more than 550 journals.


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  • RAND California
    RAND California is a subscription based service covering California and U.S. public policy issues with an emphasis on statistics.


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  • Religion & Philosophy Collection
    This database is a comprehensive database covering topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. With more than 300 full text journals and unparalleled coverage of the subject areas listed above, the Religion & Philosophy Collection is an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.


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  • Vocational and Career Collection
    This database is designed for meet a wide variety of vocational and technical research needs. The collection provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals including American Machinist, Modern Machine Shop, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Video Business,Reeves Journal, Hotel and Motel Management, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age and many more.

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