Databases By Title

Look in these databases for magazine and journal articles on your topic. Most databases provide full text articles; others have citations which you can use to find a paper copy in a library. If you are off-campus, you will need to login using your MyPCC account number. Also check the subject guides for additional information sources Please ask a librarian if you have questions. You can also see databases listed by subject.

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Academic OneFile
Gale. Academic OneFile is a great starting point for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Covering the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, it contains millions of articles available in full-text. Includes full-text New York Times content from 1995 to present.
Academic Search Premier
EBSCOhost. Full text for more than 4,500 scholarly social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. 3,700+ are peer-reviewed.
Access Science
An online version of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. In addition to 8,000+ articles there are biographies, research updates, and science news. The student center provides study guides and bibliographies.
Access World News
(Trial database: ends December 18, 2009) Research unique current and archived news content for information on topics, events, issues, people, businesses, and more through this in-depth resource. Easy online access to local, in-state, national and international news sources, including newspapers, broadcast transcripts, newswires, news blogs, news web-only content and video. Alerts and "my personal" functionality helps students and faculty track and manage their research projects.
AGRICOLA
EBSCOhost. AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is the catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library.
Agriculture Collection
Gale. With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the Agricola database, this collection of more than 400 titles is focused on agriculture and its related fields: from farming to scientific research in horticulture.
Alt HealthWatch
EBSCOhost. Full text for over 180 publications (many peer-reviewed) covering alternative and complementary medicine.
Alt-Press Watch
ProQuest. A full text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.
American History in Video
(Trial Database: ends November 15, 2009) Provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. This release now provides 1526 titles, with new videos from California Newsreel and PBS, equalling approximately 528 hours.
ArchiveGrid
ArchiveGrid provides detailed descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide.
ArticleFirst
FirstSearch. A general subject index with citations (not full text) from nearly 12,500 journals. Coverage is from 1990 to the present. Libraries that own the cited journals are listed.
ARTstor
Includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's software tools support viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline. You must register to save any images for future reference and to use ARTstor's sophisticated presentation tools. You also must register to access ARTstor from off-campus.

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Biography Reference Bank
Wilson. This database contains biographies of about half a million people, from antiquity to the present.
Biology Journals
ProQuest. Full text articles from 280 biology journals, many of them peer-reviewed.
BIOSIS Previews
Ovid. A comprehensive index to life sciences and biomedical research worldwide, including journals, meetings, patents, and books. Coverage is from 1990 to 2004 only.
Books in Print
Lists books that are in print, out of print, and forthcoming. Reviews are included for some books.
BuildingGreen.com
Information on a wide range of topics related to sustainable building, including energy efficiency, recycled-content materials, land-use planning and indoor air quality. Integrates online versions of GreenSpec, Environmental Building News (EBN), and a database of more than 100 high-performance building case studies.
Business & Company Resource Center
Gale. Brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Find detailed company and industry news and information.
Business Economics and Theory
Gale. This collection provides periodicals focusing on topics in economics. It has more than 450 full-text journals and regular feeds of videos from Forbes.com that contain business news coverage and interviews with CEO's.
Business Source Premier
EBSCOhost. Full text for over 3,000 journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting, and more.

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CAMIO
CAMIO—Catalog of Art Museum Images Online—contains works of art from around the world contributed and described by leading museums. Showcasing a wide range of fine and decorative art, CAMIO provides high-quality art images for education, research and enjoyment. All content is rights-cleared for educational use.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
EBSCOhost. Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health.The most comprehensive source for nursing and allied health journals, updated this year with full text from over 750 journals. 1981 to the present.
College Source
An online collection of college catalogs. Search by college name, geographic area, or specific criteria such as tuition, major, or enrollment. Includes selected non-U.S. schools as well.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
EBSCOhost. Full-text articles relating to all aspects of communication and mass media.
Communications & Mass Media Collection
Gale. Over 250 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects include advertising and public relations, linguistics, and literature.
Computer Database
Gale. Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.
Computer Source
EBSCOhost. Information and current trends in high technology. This database features over 300 full text periodicals covering topics such as programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.
CQ Researcher
Topical, full text reports on controversial issues. Each report features a summary, chronology, and bibliography. Updated weekly.
Credo Reference
Credo Reference is a full-text online reference service that is very useful for students beginning a research project, but don't know where to begin. Enter a search term, and view results from within the database, and then launch the same search from Credo Reference into PCC's library catalog and databases. OFF CAMPUS users: username = admin@pcc.edu, password = trial
 
Criminal Justice Collection
Gale. Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, forensic scientist or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection offers more than 700 journals.
Culinary Arts Collection
Gale. Includes 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines as well as reference content. Coverage includes searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.
DSM Library
(Trial database: ends November 20, 2009) Online access to: DSM-IV-TR® Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition; DSM-IV-TR® Handbook of Differential Diagnosis; Symptom Index (taken from DSM-IV-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis ); and Cases from DSM-IV-TR® Casebook and Its Treatment Companion.
Discovering Collection
Gale. The Discovering Collection is comprised of more than 28,000 biographies, 18,000 overview essays and 13,500 critical essays in core curriculum subjects. The information is pulled from Gale reference materials and explores literature, history, biography, science and social studies with easily accessible content.
Diversity Studies Collection
Gale. Useful for social science, history and liberal arts coursework, this collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. This set includes 250 journals.

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ebrary
Over 30,000 full-text books in all academic disciplines. Watch a demo now!
EBSCO Animals
EBSCOhost. Records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
EBSCOhost
Search from a wide range of research databases for magazine and journal articles. Updated daily.
ECO: Electronic Collections Online
FirstSearch. Citations and some full text articles from over 2000 scholarly journals. Coverage is from 1995 to the present.
Educator's Reference Complete
Gale. A collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports for any educator -- from the school teacher and administrator to those studying at the collegiate and graduate level. Educator's Reference Complete is the perfect complement for the ERIC database, because it provides full-text results for nearly half of the journal titles found in ERIC.
Environmental Studies and Policy Collection
Gale. Answers environmentally-related inquiries with coverage of more than 3.3 million articles from more than 700 journals and reference content from Delmar, Cengage Learning. Robust coverage of environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
ERIC
EBSCOhost. ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center from the U.S. Dept. of Education, lists journal articles and educational documents (lesson plans, studies, etc.). 1966 - present.
Ethnic NewsWatch
ProQuest. Full text newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic minority and native press. Provides a rich collection of articles, editorials, and reviews with a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints. Also a good source of ethnic recipes. Coverage is from 1980 to the present.
Fine Arts and Music Collection

Gale. Provides more than 150 full-text magazines and journals that are covered in indices such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide support for research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

Fuente Académica
EBSCOhost. A unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American, South American and Spanish publishers. Full text coverage for more than 150 scholarly Spanish language journals.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
EBSCOhost. 25,000 encyclopedic entries, searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library
GVRL is a database of 27 encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Look here for biology, chemistry, nursing and medicine, sociology, history, education, law, and more.
Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection

Gale. A collection of more than 100 journals focused on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture, with the addition of over 20 subject specific reference sources from Delmar, Cengage Learning, this collection provides information for gardening enthusiasts and professionals alike.

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Life and Issues Collection

Gale. This collection of nearly 40 journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more.

Gender Watch
ProQuest. Focuses on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With archival material dating back to 1970, GenderWatch is a repository of an important historical perspective on the evolution of both the women's movement and major changes in gender roles.
General Business File ASAP
Gale. Analyze company performance, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Includes broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings.
General OneFile
Gale. General OneFile is a periodical resource with over 6500 full text titles, many dating back as far as 1980. It contains popular, business and professional journals, NPR audio files complete with transcripts, and Fodor's travel guides.
General Science Collection
Gale. A collection of over 200 journals, providing researchers with the information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments -- including such topics as particle physics, advanced mathematics, and nanotechnology.
GPO
FirstSearch. The Government Printing Office Monthly Catalog contains citations for all types of U.S. government documents. Coverage begins in 1996; updated monthly.
GreenFILE
EBSCOhost. Scholarly, government and general-interest content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
GREENR
Gale. Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources. For students and faculty interested in an academic approach to environmental topics, GREENR is an authoritative, intuitive resource that combines news, unique commentary, audio, video, primary source documents, images, conference reports, statistics and more into a Weblike experience designed to attract attention and foster participation. (Trial ends December, 2009)
Grove's Dictionary of Art (Oxford Art Online)
Contains 45,000 full text articles on every aspect of the visual arts--painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography--from prehistory to the present day, and a wide variety of image files. Updated daily.
Health and Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health Module
Gale. Provides access to medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles.
Health Reference Center Academic
Gale. HRCA contains full text from nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
EBSCOhost. Information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
EBSCOhost. Scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. Also includes Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary.
Historical Statistics of the United States
This edition has many new topics plus options for customizing, charting and downloading the data. Some statistics go as far back as Colonial times. Each topic includes essays plus data tables.
Home Improvement Collection
Gale. This collection of more than 200 home-improvement focused titles covers such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more will meet the needs of hobbyists and professionals alike.
Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection
Gale. This collection of more than 800 journals and 29 subject specific Delmar, Cengage Learning reference titles and travel handbook's from Fodor's - provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism fields. A great resource for curious travelers and serious researchers.
Information Science and Technology Collection
Gale. Comprised of content from nearly 100 leading industry journals, this collection provides current and accurate information for the information professional. Coverage includes such topics as data processing techniques, metadata architectures, and more.
Informe
Gale. A collection of hispanic magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects.
InfoTrac Newsstand
Gale. Provides access to more than 1,000 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. Does not include The Oregonian.
Insurance and Liability Collection
Gale. This collection targeted towards individual property owners to multinational corporations, comprises nearly 40 journals that take a broad view of the insurance and liability industry, covering such topics as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues.
JSTOR
Full text of over 1000 scholarly journals in the arts and sciences, from their earliest issues up to 3-5 years ago. Does not include current issues of the journals. Video tutorials are available.

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Learning Express Library
Interactive practice tests and tutorials to help you succeed on academic or licensing tests. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. You must sign in before taking a test.
Legal Collection
EBSCOhost. Full text for more than 260 scholarly law journals.
LegalTrac
Gale. Provides full-text coverage of major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.
LexisNexis Academic Universe
Full-text of newspapers, wire services, and magazines from around the world, including the New York Times and Oregonian . Also provides company profiles and financial reports, government transcripts, trade journals and academic and legal databases.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
EBSCOhost. 600+ periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings,on library science, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Literature Resource Center (LRC)
Gale. Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
MasterFILE Premier
EBSCOhost. Full text of general interest periodicals, reference and travel books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps, and flags.
MAS Ultra - School Edition
EBSCOhost. Full text for over 515 general interest and current events magazines.
MedicLatina
EBSCOhost. A Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. Full text for more than 130 peer-reviewed medical journals.
Medline
EBSCOhost. Covers the international literature on biomedicine, including allied health. Citations available from 1965 - present; some full text.
Military & Government Collection
EBSCOhost. Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and abstracts for about 400 titles.
Military and Intelligence Database
Gale. A collection of over 400 journals, covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. Key subjects include socioeconomic effects of war, governmental policies, the structure of armed forces, and many more.
MLA Bibliography
EBSCOhost. Produced by the Modern Language Association, this international bibliography of literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from journals, books and dissertations. .

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netLibrary
Full text electronic versions of over 2500 print books.
New York Times
This newspaper is available through Lexis-Nexis.
Newspaper Source
EBSCOhost. Full text for regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, news wires, newspaper columns as well as 24 TV and radio news transcripts. Also contains indexing and abstracts for national newspapers.
NFPA Codes Online
The National Fire Protection Association's codes and standards. This online edition provides access to the complete set of nearly 300 codes. You can also read the monthly newsletter, NFPA News.
Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism
Gale. Literary criticism for authors who lived during the 19th century. Includes scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals.
Nursing and Allied Health Collection
Gale. Offers researchers looking for answers to nursing or allied health questions millions of articles found in over 1,100 journals. Provides full-text coverage of many of the titles cited in CINAHL.
Nursing Books@Ovid
Ovid. Full text current editions of 22 important nursing books published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Nursing Resource Center
Gale. Designed for nursing students, the Nursing Resource Center brings together in an easy-to-use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts.
OAIster
FirstSearch. A union catalog of over 19 million digital resources. Includes items such as scanned books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files, images, movies and datasets.
Opposing Viewpoints
Gale. A one-stop source for information on current social issues. Includes viewpoint articles on both sides of an issue, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
Oregon Career Information System
Provides a system of occupational and educational information to help Oregonians learn about the world of work and education.
The Oregonian
Comprehensive full-text coverage of articles written by Oregonian staff from 1988 forward. Excludes classified ads, photos, and advertisements.
Oxford Art Online
This is the gateway to Grove Art Online, a scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art. It includes the full text of The Dictionary of Art, as well as The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, The Oxford Companion to Western Art and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.
Oxford Reference Online
A collection of dictionaries and other reference books from Oxford University Press. Coverage includes the arts, languages, literature, sciences and social sciences.

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PapersFirst
FirstSearch. An index of papers presented at conferences, symposia and workshops worldwide since October 1993.
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection
Gale. This collection includes over 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine, providing researchers with access to topics discussed in the field, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses, and many more.
Poetry Criticism
Gale. Search for a poet or a poem. Look for the list of relevant pages in each article.
Pop Culture Collection
Gale. This collection, focused on pop cultural issues, provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art or liberal arts course. This collection is made up of 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.
Popular Magazines
Gale. Features full-text coverage of 1,000 of the most searched magazines across Gale's InfoTrac product line, covering current events, sports, science, health and more. Includes more than 600 titles recommended by Bowker's "Magazines for Libraries".
ProceedingsFirst
FirstSearch. A companion database to PapersFirst. this provides tables of contents for papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at the conference.
Professional Development Collection
EBSCOhost. A highly specialized collection of over 515 full text journals, designed for professional educators.
PsycINFO
Ovid. Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and linguistics. Coverage: 1887 - present.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
EBSCOhost. Use this to supplement PsycINFO (above). Topics include emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Most full-text titles in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.
Psychology Collection
Gale. This subset of the larger Gale databases gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops and diminishes over time. Researchers will have access to nearly 500 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals - many cited in the PsycINFO index.

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RefWorks (login screen)
RefWorks is software that helps you keep track of the sources you use in your research, formatting citations and bibliographies automatically as you go. The first step is to sign up for an individual account. Find out more >>
Regional Business News
EBSCOhost. A full text news wire database that incorporates business wires from all over the world.
Religion and Philosophy Collection (EBSCOhost)
EBSCOhost. Full text coverage of topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Religion and Philosophy Collection (Gale)
Gale. This collection provides coverage of different religions, philosophies and how they impact our daily lives. 250 subject specific full-text periodicals are included.
Safari Tech Books Online
Over 1200 online books! Full text recent computer books dealing with networking, programming, web development, and more.
Science Direct
Full text for over 890 peer reviewed health and life sciences journals. For best results click on SEARCH to get started. Limit your search to SUBSCRIBED Journals,1995 to the present.
SIRS Knowledge Source
ProQuest. Full text information on social issues, science, health, history, government, business, and the arts and humanities.
Small Business Collection
Gale. Perfect for business schools and entrepreneurs, this compilation provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories. Users will find 250 subject appropriate full-text periodicals.
Small Business Resource Center
Gale. Offers content that covers starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax and more. Based on a combination of periodicals and reference content, Small Business Resource Center includes nearly 200 business journals and books useful for entrepreneurs and students.
Standard and Poor's
Full text of many S&P products, including the Stock Reports, Corporation Records, Industry Surveys, and more.
Summit
Summit is a library catalog that combines information from Pacific Northwest academic libraries into a single unified database.
TOPICsearch
EBSCOhost. Explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries, and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. Citations include Lexile reading levels.
Twayne Authors Series
Gale. Full text of Twayne Literary Masters books in three series - World, US, and English authors - for a total of 600 individual titles.
U.S. History Collection
Gale. This collection of over 40 journals provides balanced coverage of both current thought and events in U.S. History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field; useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher.
Vocational and Career Collection
EBSCOhost. Full text coverage for 400 trade and industry-related periodicals including American Machinist, Contemporary Longterm Care, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Video Business, Reeves Journal, Hotel and Motel Management, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age, and many more.
Vocations and Careers Collection
Gale. Providing content from nearly 400 journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
The Wall Street Journal
Full text newspaper articles from 1984 to the present. Does not include stock quotes or classified ads.
War and Terrorism Collection
Gale. A definitive collection of 100 subject specific full-text periodicals for students of history, social science and current events, that provides insight into conflicts and their multiple causes.
World Almanac
Includes Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia plus four almanacs. Coverage from 1998 to the present. Updated annually.
 
World Book Online Reference Center
The World Book Encyclopedia along with related newspaper and magazine articles, multimedia, special reports, a dictionary, and links to selected web sites. Includes a Spanish language encyclopedia.
World History Collection
Gale. This collection of nearly 40 journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field; useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher.
WorldCat
Search for books, magazines, videos and other materials published around the world -- and see which libraries have them.
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