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Accessing
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General Databases ProQuest
Research Library Arts and Humanities ARTstor
Education ERIC
plus text Books Books
in Print |
Science and Health ProQuest
Health and Medical Complete Social and Behavioral Sciences ProQuest
Psychology Journals Business ABI/Inform
Computers and Technology ProQuest
Computing Careers |
Get access to magazine and journal articles on a wide variety of subjects. This database is a great place to start your research.
ProQuest National Newspapers Core
Full-text for five of the nation's leading newspapers: The New York
Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Christian Science
Monitor and The Los Angeles Times.
Proquest's Newspapers database provides indexing, abstracting and some full text for over 150 U.S. newspapers, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times as well as some international papers such as the Times of London.
The California North Newsstand has full text from northern California papers such as the Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Chronicle and Modesto Bee.
This database has in-depth, non-partisan coverage of the political and social issues of the day. Each article on an issue provides historical background, milestones, the current situation, all the pros and cons and two annotated bibliographies.
This database provides unbiased reports on important world issues.
Primary sources, including speeches, government reports, Supreme Court decisions and scientific findings, covering significant events since 1972.
Full text of the Facts on File World News Digest dating back 20 years plus headline news from Reuters.
Countrywatch has political and economic overviews of countries.
Online version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Also includes a world atlas and the "Year in Review." To use Britannica Online from off-campus, you need your 9-digit student ID number.
JSTOR is an archive of core scholarly journals, some dating back to the 1800s.
Search all available ProQuest databases.
ARTstor is a digital library of art images. It contains approximately 500,000 images from a wide range of cultures and time periods.
Literature Resource Center combines three popular Gale literary biography and criticism sources: Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography and Contemporary Literary Criticism Select.
Covers important journals in the field of religion.
ProQuest Health and Medical Complete
Over 600 full-text journals in the health and medical field. This database also includes MEDLINE.
This database includes over 160 publications in the field of biology.
This online version of the reference set covers medical diseases, disorders and treatments.
ProQuest Psychology Journals has information from over 400 publications in psychology and related fields.
PsycArticles contains the full text of 50 top psychology journals, including many published by the American Psychological Association.
A database that provides a comprehensive collection of journals, magazines and special reports that focus on women's and gender issues.
ERIC has citations and abstracts for more than a million journal articles and documents in education. Also included are 260 full text journals.
This database has information from over 400 education journals.
ABI/Inform is one of the premier sources for business information.
Find information such as history, sales and executives from over 40,000 companies.
All ProQuest Business Databases
A collection of business databases including ABI Inform, Hoovers Company Records, ProQuest Accounting and Tax Database, Asian Business, European Business, Banking Information Source and ProQuest Business module.
A database of computing magazines and journals.
Use this database to find information on jobs and careers.
ProQuest Career and Technical Education
Use this database to find information on jobs and careers.
Provides author, title, subjects, price, ISBN and publisher information for books in print. Also includes over 300,000 full text reviews from sources such as Choice, Library Journal and Publisher's Weekly.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
An online collection of encyclopedias and other reference works.
WebVoyage, Sierra College's online catalog, provides access to holdings information for books and videos at the Rocklin and Nevada County Campus libraries.
NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (e-books). The e-book collection can be accessed through the library catalog or directly through NetLibrary.