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Interdisciplinary
Academic Search Premier
Designed specifically for academic institutions, EBSCO Academic Search Premier is a scholarly, full text, multidisciplinary database, indexing more than 8,200 journals, with full text for nearly 4,500 of those titles, covering the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences.
Credo Reference
Contains over 3 million full text entries in 486 reference books, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, and measurement conversions.
A to Z Index of Electronic Periodicals
View a list of over 12,000 full-text electronic journals contained within Peninsula College Library subscription databases.
eLibrary
eLibrary includes popular magazines, scholarly journals, current newspapers and newswires, television and radio transcripts, audio and video clips, hundreds of reference and historical books and documents, and thousands of educator-reviewed editor’s choice websites.
ProQuest Research Library
Provides one-stop access to more than 4,000 periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 academic disciplines.
E-Books
ebrary Academic Complete
ebrary Academic Complete is a full-text database of e-books covering all subject areas. The collection currently includes more than 30,000 titles from more than 220 of the world’s leading academic, STM (scientific, technical, medical), and professional publishers. Please note: Ebrary schedules monthly system maintenance on the first Tuesday of each month, from 8:00PM to 10:00PM US Pacific Time. During this period, the ebrary service may be unavailable.
EBSCO eBook Collection
Representing a broad spectrum of subject categories, user can chose from fixed subject-specific collections to pick-and-choose customization options, you’ll find the most in-demand eBooks and e-reference works.
Oxford Scholarship Online
This collection provides access to the digital version of books published by the Oxford University Press in the fields of Economics/ Finance, Political Science, and Business/ Management.
Newspapers
National Newspaper Core
Full text access to national newspapers. Titles include: The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.
Washington State Newsstand
Full text access to 19 newspapers and trade journals from Washington state. Titles include Peninsula Daily News, Seattle Post, Intelligencer, Seattle Times, and Spokesman Review.
Art & Humanities
Literary Database
Includes literary biographies and literary criticism. Comprised of three databases: "Contemporary Authors," "Contemporary Literary Criticism Select," and the "Dictionary of Literary Biography."
Literary Index
Indexes over 90 literary reference resources, 135,000 authors, and 165,000 literary works. International in scope.
Mango Languages
Mango Languages is an online language-learning system teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages, including: Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Japanese, French, German, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, and ESL for Spanish speakers.
Magill On Literature
Provides critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works of literature. This database provides access to the complete contents of 31 sets of reference books, including "Masterplots" and "Masterplots II."
Business
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
ABI/INFORM includes in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics for more than 1,210 publications, with over 1,160 in full-text allowing study and comparison of specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals, and many others.
History & Social Science
CQ Researcher
The single-themed CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
CultureGrams Online
The aim of CultureGrams has been to foster understanding and appreciation of the world's countries and peoples, it is the most trusted and widely used cultural reference collection.
US History in Context
Provides access to over 1,000 historical (primary) documents, more than 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journal covering U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.
World Conflicts Today
World Conflicts Today explores seven protracted, unresolved world conflicts that have regional and global implications. Regions include Chechnya, Colombia, Darfur and Sudan, Jammu and Kashmir, Korean Peninsula, Northern Ireland, and Palestinian Territories, with four additions to be added in 2006 including Iraq.
World History in Context
Provides extensive coverage of the 20th century in addition to the ancient Mediterranean, Near East, Asia, Middle East, Latin America, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in over 2,000 primary sources, 25 reference titles and 110 academic journals.
Education & Library Science
ERIC
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) provides unlimited access to more than 1.4 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new records added multiple times per week. If available, links to full text are included.
LISTA
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, 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.
Teacher Reference Center (TRC)
Journal information for K-12 teachers & librarians that provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more.
Science & Technology
CiteSeerX
CiteSeerX is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeerX aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge.
GreenFile
Focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, this database contains abstracts and indexing for more than 600 journals (300,000 scholarly and general interest articles) on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources. Full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles. Includes comprehensive coverage (from to volume 1, issue 1 to present) for Bioscience (back to 1964), Conservation Biology (back to 1987), Journal of Ecology (back to 1913) and Journal of Environmental Planning & Management (back to 1948).
Medline Plus
Contains details about the latest treatments, information on a drug or supplement, terminologies and definitions, in addition to medical videos or illustrations. You can also get links to the latest medical research on your topic or find out about clinical trials on a disease or condition.
ProQuest Family Health
ProQuest Family Health covers an enormous range of subjects of value in the public library context - from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry. It includes important general medical journals such as The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine as well as a strong selection of consumer and news magazines.
PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.