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Electronic
databases
The
following electronic databases are provided for use by students, faculty,
and staff of Los Medanos College. To use these databases from off campus
you will be asked to enter your last name and 7-digit student or employee
ID number. Your student ID number, e.g., 0012345, is included in your
class schedule or receipt. Your employee ID number is included on your
paycheck.
| Journal, Magazine & Newspaper Databases |
| CQ
Researcher |
Explores
a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics
range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education,
and science and technology. |
| Ethnic
News Watch |
Provides
full-text articles from newspapers, magazines,
and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. |
| Expanded Academic ASAP |
Provides
bibliographic citations, abstracts and full-text articles on Current
Events, Economics, History, Psychology, Humanities, Religion, Education,
Literature & Art, Science, Sociology, Political Science, and more.
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| NewsBank |
Provides
full-text articles from the Contra Costa Newspapers (21 titles), Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Chronicle and 26 news magazines. |
| ProQuest
Newspapers |
Provides
full-text articles from four national newspapers - Christian Science
Monitor, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. |
| SIRS
Researcher |
Provides
thousands of full-text articles on social, scientific, health, historic,
business, economic, political and global issues. Articles are from
around 1,500 newspapers, magazines, journals and government publications. |
| Specialized
Databases |
| Annals
of American
History |
Provides
a year-by-year documentary of American thought and action, including
primary sources, from 1493 through
today. |
| ARTstor |
ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities and social sciences, with tools to manage those images for presentation in a classroom setting. |
| Biography
Resource Center |
Combines
award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Use this database to research noted figures. |
| Books
in Print |
Access
to almost 2 million titles that are in print, forthcoming, or declared
out-of-print. Complete bibliographic information and is updated monthly. |
Britannica
Online
|
Includes
the complete encyclopedia, as well as more than 130,000 links to Web
sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. |
| College
Source |
Access
to 29,274 college catalogs in full cover-to-cover, original page format.
Includes 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international
schools. |
| Country
Watch |
Provides
up-to-date information and data on countries of the world. |
| ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) |
ERIC is one of the world's largest databases of education literature. It provides access to more than 1.2 million journal articles and other education-related materials, many in full-text. |
| FACTS.com |
Contains Facts On File News Digest and six other reference databases
(World
News Special Features, Reuters News, Issues &
Controversies,Today's Science, World Almanac Reference Database and World Almanac Encyclopedia). Provides detailed news coverage about events, issues, statistics and people of
the last 60+ years. |
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Contains
over 45,000 scholarly articles on world art, with over 40,000 Web
links to images and additional art-related information in museums,
galleries and art collections around the world. |
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Contains
29,000 articles written by over 6,000 international contributors on
every aspect of music and covering all time periods. |
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Provides
access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors
from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists,
poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.
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| National Library Alliance |
An online healthcare reference tool that contains the full text of 40 nursing reference titles, including several titles from Delmar. |
| Nursing Resource Center |
Designed for nursing students, but also useful for biology and psychology students. Contains disease and drug overviews, care plans, journal articles and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams. |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
PLoS publishes peer-reviewed, open-access scientific and medical research articles, focusing particularly on biology, medicine, computational biology, genetics, pathogens, tropical diseases and clinical trials. |
| PubMed |
One of the most complete medical databases in existence (more than 17 million articles, many in full text). |
RAND
California
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More
than 100 statistical databases covering California, with many at the
county, city, and zip code level. About 15 of the databases cover
all 50 U.S. states. |
| World
Data Analyst |
Offers
detailed statistical comparisons of countries across the world, using
both the most recent statistics and historical figures. Allows subscribers
to create tables, charts, and even export information to a spreadsheet
for printing and data crunching. |
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