ALPHABETICAL LIST OF DATABASES
Academic Search Complete This is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 10,100 journals and a total of more than 10,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 journals. Connect to: Academic Search Complete
ARTstor A rich digital library containing collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software toools to enable active use of the collections. ARTstor includes more than 500,000 iamges covering architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual and material culture. Connect to: ARTstor
AudioBooks Listen to your favorite books as you drive! Connect to: AudioBooks
Auto Repair Reference Center A database for automotive repair and maintenance. Repair topics include repair procedures, service bulletins and recalls, wiring diagrams, labor, specifications, and maintenance intervals. Also includes care and repair tips and a troubleshooting guide. Connect to: Auto Repair Reference Center
Biography Resource Center Comprehensive biographical reference collection in the areas of literature, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, arts and newsmakers. Contains more than 422,000 biographies on more than 335,000 people from around the world and throughout history. Combines more than 135 frequently consulted biographical databases with nearly 300 full-text periodicals. Connect to: Biography Resource Center
Biography Genealogy Master Index Biography and Genealogy Master Index enables users to locate biographical entries contained in more than 1,000 volumes and editions of important current and retrospective biographical reference sources. This index contains citations that point to over 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor. Connect to: Biography Genealogy Master Index
CountryWatch CountryWatch is an information provider for corporations, government agencies, universities, schools, libraries and individuals needing up-to-date news and information on each of the recognized countries of the world. Key publications produced by CountryWatch include the CountryReviews TM, an up-to-date series of publications for each country including demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information, and the CountryWireTM ,which provides daily news coverage for every country in the world and a significant news archive made up of the compendium of regional news carriers. Connect to: CountryWatch
E-Books (Ebsco) Check out and read electronic books on your web browser. Connect to: E-books
ERIC ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,282,000 records and links to more than 314,000 full-text documents from ERIC. ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,282,000 records and links to more than 314,000 full-text documents from ERIC. Connect to: ERIC
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 This new bibliographic database is a valuable index for libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. Connect to: European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
General BusinessFile Information on all business and management topics from 1980 through the present, as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries and directory listings for over 150,000 companies. Connect to: General Business File
GreenFILE 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 global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records. Connect to: GreenFILE
Heritage Quest Online A genealogical database with access to census data, family records and local histories. Connect to: Heritage Quest Online (Remote) Connect to: Heritage Quest Online (In Library)
Learning Express LearningExpress Library provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. Connect to: Learning Express (In Library) Connect to: Learning Express (Remote)
Learning Express Job & Career Accelerator Job & Career Accelerator is the most comprehensive and easy-to-use job search application on the market. It integrates everything a patron needs to conduct a successful job search. Interactive wizards guide patrons through each step of the search process in a personalized manner, from recommending occupations to fetching up-to-the-minute job postings that are based on each user's career preferences. In addition, users will have access to tools essential to getting hired such as the resume and cover letter builders, interview course and tips and expert advice to help make the job search more effective. Connect to: Learning Express Job & Career Accelerator
Lexis-Nexis Academic LexisNExis Academic provides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications, using a variety of flexible search options. Access over 6,000 news, business and legal sources. The outstanding news coverage includes deep backfiles and up-tothe-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, innternational news, and non-English language sources. Connect to: Lexis-Nexis Academic (In Library Only -- No Remote Access)
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 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. Connect to: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Literary Reference Center A comprehensive literary reference database which combines information from books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works. Connect to: Literary Reference Center
MasterFile Premier Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and 164,424 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of 440,207 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. Click here for a complete title list. Click here for more info. Click here for a complete title list. Click here for more info. Connect to: MasterFile Premier
Newspaper Source Plus Newspaper Source Plus includes 1,570 full-text newspapers, providing more than 27 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 583,100 television and radio news transcripts, videos & podcasts. Connect to: Newspaper Source Plus
NoveList Your Guide to Fiction - An electronic readers’ advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. Connect to: NoveList (In Library) Connect to: NoveList (Remote)
Oaister WorldCat recently purchased the Oaister database which contains records of digital resources from open-archive collections worldwide. This database contains more than 23 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,100 contributors. Records include digitized (scanned) books and journal articles, digital text, audiofiles (wav, mp3), video files (mp4, QuickTime), photographic images (jpeg, tiff, gif), data sets (downloadable statistical information) and theses and research papers. Connect to: Oaister
PILOTS Database The PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress) database is an electronic index to the worldwide literature on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. It is produced by the National Center for PTSD, and is electronically available to the public. There is no charge for using the database, and no account or password is required. Although it is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the PILOTS database is not limited to literature on PTSD among veterans. Connect to: PILOTS Database
Points of View A full text database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications. Connect to: Points of View
ProQuest Newspapers A collection of electronic resources containing articles originally published in newspapers. Connect to: ProQuest Newspapers (In Library) Connect to: ProQuest Newspapers (Remote)
Open Access: Articles and Databases
| Agricola |
Indexes journal papers and other publications on all aspects of agriculture including animal science, aquaculture, horticulture, entomology, forestry, land management, nutrition, pesticides and soil science. |
1970 to present
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| ASTIS -Arctic Science and Technology Information system |
Database of 46,000 records describing publications and research projects about all aspects of northern Canada including earth and life sciences, engineering, technology, and resources, renewable and non-renewable resources, co-management, politics and government, economic and social conditions, land use, indigenous peoples, archaeology, history, art and literature. |
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| Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) |
The best source of scholarship about European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present; articles in over 4300 periodicals. Also includes conference papers, dissertations, books, exhibition and dealers catalogs. Can limit to English. |
1973 to present |
| Calisphere |
Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to more than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — concerning the history and culture of California and its role in national and world history. Calisphere's content has been selected from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses, and from a variety of cultural heritage organizations. |
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| Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers |
Search and view newspaper pages from 1880 - 1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690 - present. |
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| Film Literature Index |
Contains popular and some scholarly film reviews, book reviews, and articles published between 1976 and 2001, indexing 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. There are several search options, including keyword, production title, and personal or corporate name. You may filter by language. |
1976 to 2001 |
| FindArticles. com |
Locate articles on a variety of topics. |
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| FS INFO Database |
Indexes forest and range research of interest to researchers and managers in the US Forest Service, with links to full-text if available. |
1904 to present |
| Google Books |
Use this free database as a way to identify useful books on your topic. You can read a page or two online, and use the "about this books" link or the connect to SNAP (Solano Napa and Partners) to check if the book is available locally. |
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| Google News & Archives |
Use this free database as a way to identify useful articles on your topic. You can pay the charge or utilize the SNAP Database Newspaper Source Plus to locate the article. |
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| Google Scholar |
Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles. Google Scholar sorts articles by weighting the full text of each article, the author, the publication in which the article appears, and how often the piece has been cited in other scholarly literature. The most relevant results appear on the first page. |
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| Medline Plus |
MEDLINEplus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other sources on over 500 disease and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. |
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| National Academies Press |
Offering over 3,000 freely accessible online books issued by the National Academies Press for the U.S. National Academies on a wide range of topics, from natural resources to social policy. |
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| National Criminial Justice Reference System (NCJRS) |
Documents in the NCJRS Abstract Database represent the entire field of law enforcement and criminal justice, except for most legal decisions, opinions, and statutes. The collection has been developed to meet the needs of criminal justice professionals, researchers, policymakers, and technical and legal experts. Subject areas include corrections, courts, crime prevention, criminology, drugs, juveniles, law enforcement, statistics, technology, and victims. Agency produced documents and final grant reports of Office of Justice Programs sponsored research are unique parts of the collection. Many documents are from State and local government or international sources as well as from the book and journal literature. Documents must either be written in English or have an English-language summary. |
1970 to present |
| New York Times |
Current and archival content back to 1986 as well as 1851-1922 now is available free with personal registration. The 1923-1986 archives are searchable for free but cost $3.95 per item or $15.95 for access to any 10 articles downloaded within a 30-day period. For-fee articles are marked with a dollar sign ( ). |
1851-1922, 1987 to present |
| Oaister |
WorldCat recently purchased the Oaister database which contains records of digital resources from open-archive collections worldwide. This database contains more than 23 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,100 contributors. Records include digitized (scanned) books and journal articles, digital text, audiofiles (wav, mp3), video files (mp4, QuickTime), photographic images (jpeg, tiff, gif), data sets (downloadable statistical information) and theses and research papers. |
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| Online Archive of California (OAC) |
The OAC brings together historical materials from a variety of California institutions, including museums, historical societies, and archives. HSU Humboldt County Collection is represented. Over 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents, letters, and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to collections are available online. Search within the desired category to retrieve desired materials. |
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| Policy Archive |
Offered by the non-profit Center for Governmental Studies, PolicyArchive is a digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research. Included are summaries and full texts, videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material of think tank, university, government, and foundation-funded policy research. It offers a subject index, an internal search engine, useful abstracts, and email notifications of newly added research. |
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| Pub Med (Medline) |
Comprehensive index to medical research, including nursing and public health, in over 5,000 journals from 1947 to the present. |
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| Scitation |
Indexes 80 physics and astronomy journals published by the American Institute of Physics as well as selected articles from other scientific journals from 1929 to the present. |
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| Smoking and Health Resource Library |
Contains abstracts of articles from medical and professional journals; books and book chapters; dissertations; reports; conference proceedings and conference papers; government documents from federal, state, local, and foreign entities; fact sheets and policy documents from U.S. and international nonprofit organizations; and other documents. |
Vary for each publication; the earliest begin in the early 1900s |
Copyright (C) 2011 Napa Valley College By: Napa Valley College Library Last updated: June 29, 2010 Questions & Comments: Nancy McEnery
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