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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE DATABASES:
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)-- full-text articles and/or indexing for over 3,500 scholarly journals spanning 20 years and covering all subject areas.
Books in Print (R.R. Bowker LLC) -- publication and purchasing information for books (currently in print), audiobooks and videos. Also includes some biographical information on authors and brief book reviews.
CQ Researcher (CQ Press) -- in depth reports on single "hot" issues in the news ranging from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. For each topic the report includes an overview of the topic, pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies, charts, graphs and sidebar articles.
CollegeSource (Career Guidance Foundation) -- Access to 10,700 college catalogs, web sites, and descriptions of 2-year, year, graduate, and professional schools
CountryWatch (CountryWatch Inc.) -- includes political, economic, social, and environmental information and data for 192 countries as well as country news and maps.
Contemporary Authors (Infotrac) -- Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (Infotrac) -- critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.
Dictionary of Literary Biography (Infotrac) -- Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
Discovering Collection (Gale) -- full-text articles providing an overview of topics in addition to biographies, literary criticisms, timelines, primary sources, images, and videos.
Ethnic NewsWatch (Proquest) -- full-text articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
Expanded Academic ASAP (Infotrac) -- full-text articles and/or indexing for over 3,500 magazines and journals spanning the last twenty years and covering all subject areas.
Oxford Art Online (Oxford University Press) -- online encyclopedia for the visual arts covering from prehistory to present day. Includes artist biographies, overview of art forms, time periods, styles, cultures and geography. Includes the full-text of The Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art.
Oxford Music Online (Oxford University Press) -- Comprehensive online resource acknowledged as the unsurprassed authority on all aspects of music, including Western, Non-western, & Popular, by the academic and professional community.
LexisNexis Academic (LexisNexis) -- full-text local, national and international newspaper articles (1970 - present); federal, state, & international laws & code; business news and financial information; medical and health Information; biographies; country and state profiles; polls & surveys; and quotations. Includes newspapers such as the San Francisco Chronicle (1989+), New York Times (1980+) and Christian Science Monitor (1980+).
Library, Info. Science and Tech. Abstracts (EBSCOhost) -- articles in professional periodicals covering topics related to librarianship (1960+).
Student Research Center (EBSCOhost) -- beginning level articles from popular magazines (1975+), reference books, biographies, primary sources, and images. Designed for an audience at high school level.
Military and Government Collection (EBSCOhost) -- full-text magazine articles, journal articles and pamphlets on topics related to the military and government.
SIRS Knowledge Source (Proquest) -- full-text magazine, journal and newspaper articles covering all subject areas; U.S. Government documents; maps; biographies of artists, writers, musicians, U.S. Presidents, judges and other government officials; country profiles; recommended websites organized by topic; and Pro/Con Leading Issues reports on "hot topics".
You need a username and password to access the databases from off-campus. Bring a current COA student ID card to the Library Reference Desk to receive a username and password. Usernames and passwords cannot be given out over the phone. Once you have a username and password, click on the database that you want to use. You will be prompted to enter your username and password. When you switch between databases you may be asked to re-enter your username and password.
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