Articles and Information

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College Catalogs |  Countries |  |Education | Electronic Books | Encyclopedias | Environment  Ethnic Studies | Government  | Health  | History| Law | Library & Information Studies | Literature | Maps | Music | News | Philosophy|| Photographs  Pros and Cons / Reports | Psychology | Reference | Science & Technology |  Statistics 

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Magazine, Journal, Newspaper Articles

Academic OneFile (Infotrac) Source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.	Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Full-text newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from LEXIS-NEXIS, with coverage back to the 1970s.
Ethnic NewsWatch Current issues and events discussed from the viewpoints and perspectives of various ethnic groups and races. Includes magazines, newspapers, and research journals not in other databases.

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Biography

Biography Resource Center Biographical information on over 185,000 people throughout history and the world.

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Business / Economics

Countries 

CountryWatch News, information and maps about countries and regions of the world.

Education 

CollegeSource (College Catalogs) More than 15,000 cover-to-cover college catalogs from throughout the United States and the world.

Teacher Education Center (EbscoHost) Database for education professionals.  Abstracts and indexing for materials on teaching, SLOs, assessment and more.

Electronic Books

Encyclopedias

World Book Online Reference Center Full-text encyclopedia articles with pictures, tables and maps.  Includes World Book Dictionary.	Encyclopaedia Britannica The complete encyclopedia with Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
AccessScience Online encyclopedia of science and technology.

Environment

Green File Abstracts and indexing on environmental and sustainability issues. No full-text articles.

Ethnic Studies

African American Studies Center (Oxford) African American history resource, including articles, thematic timelines, primary source documents and commentaries.

Ethnic NewsWatch Current issues and events discussed from the viewpoints and perspectives of various ethnic groups and races. Includes magazines, newspapers, and research journals not in other databases.

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Government

CQ Library: CQ Researcher & CQ Weekly Analyses of current and controversial issues. Analyses and daily updates of U.S. Congress, President, and Supreme Court activities.

Health

Salem Health Up-to-date and easy-to-use compendium of medical information suitable for student research as well as use by general readers, including patients and caregivers.

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History

African American Studies Center (Oxford) African American history resource, including articles, thematic timelines, primary source documents and commentaries.

Salem History American history resource, including primary source documents.

Law

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Basic legal research resources.

CQ Library: CQ Rsearcher & CQ Weekly Analyses of current and controversial issues in Congress.

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Library and Information Studies 

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts Full-text articles from  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.

Literature 

Literature Resource Center In-depth resource for book reviews, criticism, and information on writers.	Literary Reference Center Editorially reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature. (Formerly Magill on Literature)
Books in Print Brief book reviews from twelve leading book-reviewing media.	Ethnic NewsWatch Current issues and events discussed from the viewpoints and perspectives of various ethnic groups and races. Includes book reviews.
Play Index Search over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present. Search for plays by title; author; subject (sisters, culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type; and more.	Short Story Index Locate more than 96,000 stories—plus the full text of more than 4,000 stories. The periodicals included are those indexed in Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature and Humanities Index.
Twayne's Authors Series  NEW Biography and literary criticism featuring U.S and international authors using more than six-hundred full-text titles.

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Maps

CountryWatch Includes maps of countries and regions.

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News

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Full-text newspaper articles from LEXIS-NEXIS, with coverage back to the 1970s.	Oakland Tribune Current and archival articles from the Oakland Tribune.
Ethnic NewsWatch Current issues and events discussed from the viewpoints and perspectives of various ethnic groups and races. Includes magazines, newspapers, and research journals not in other databases.	Berkeley Daily Planet Independent East Bay newspaper with regular coverage of Peralta Community College District.
	Laney Tower Newspaper Award-winning college newspaper with coverage of Laney College and beyond.
Today's Science Updated weekly and containing thousands of links to a 15-year back-file. Focus on important developments in biology, chemistry, the environment, space, physics, and technology.

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Photographs

AccuNet/AP Photo Archive Current and historical photographs on a variety of topics: people, places, nature, news, charts, etc. Photos date from 1844-present.

Pros and Cons / Reports

ABC Clio Issues : Understanding Controversy and Society Explore and research controversial issues.	Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center  Full-text database of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.
CQ Library: CQ Researcher & CQ Weekly Analyses of current and controversial issues.	Issues & Controversies Analyses of current and controversial issues.
Public Policy Institute of California Private, independent, non-partisan research on California's economic, social, and political issues.	Applied Research Center Public policy institute advancing racial justice through research, advocacy and journalism.

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Psychology

PsycARTICLES (EbscoHost) New, user-friendly  interface with full-text articles from American Psychological Association journals and selected Educational Publishing Foundation journals, most from 1988 to the present.

Academic OneFile Source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the journals and reference sources, including psychology journals.

 

Reference

Encyclopaedia Britannica The complete encyclopedia with Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.	OED Online (Oxford English Dictionary) Authoritative definitions of over 500,000 words.  Traces usage of words from first recorded occurrence to the modern period.  Etymological analysis and variant spellings. Pronunciation shown using International Phonetic Alphabet.
World Book Online Reference Center Full-text encyclopedia articles with pictures, tables and maps.  Includes World Book Dictionary.	Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe General reference sources.
AccessScience Online encyclopedia of science and technology.	Rand California A database on California and U.S. public policy issues with an emphasis on statistics.

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Science & Technology

AccessScience Online encyclopedia of science and technology.

Today's Science Updated weekly and containing thousands of links to a 15-year back-file. Focus on important developments in biology, chemistry, the environment, space, physics, and technology.

Statistics
 

Rand California A database on California and U.S. public policy issues with an emphasis on statistics.

 

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