Article databases by title

Look in these databases for magazine and journal articles on your topic. Most databases have full text articles online; others have citations which you can use to find a paper copy in the library. If you are off campus you will need to login using your MyPCC account number. Please ask a librarian if you have questions.

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Academic Search Premier via EBSCOhost
Full text for more than 3,834 scholarly social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. 2,788 are peer-reviewed.

Access Science
This is the online version of:

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms

In addition to the 8,000+ articles there are biographies, research updates, and science news. The student center provides study guides and bibliographies for further reading for students at the high school or college levels.

Agricola via EBSCOhost
Bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage dates back to 1979.

Alt HealthWatch via EBSCOhost
Full text for over 140 publications (many peer-reviewed) covering alternative and complementary medicine.

Alt-Press Watch
A full text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.

ArticleFirst
ArticleFirst is a general subject index with citations from nearly 12,500 journals. Coverage is from 1990 to the present. Libraries that own the cited journals are listed.

ARTstor (If you are loading an image and it gets stuck, click the plus sign (+)
The ARTstor Library includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's software tools support a wide range of uses including: 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.

Biographies Plus Illustrated (Wilson) Watch a demo
Produced by the H. W. Wilson Company, this database contains more than 46,000 biographies and obituaries, and more than 20,000 photographs of the subjects.

Biology journals (ProQuest) Watch a demo.
Full text articles from 189 biology journals. 136 of them are peer- reviewed.

BIOSIS Previews
BIOSIS Previews is the "world's most comprehensive reference database for life science research" and biology. It provides citations to research studies, abstracts of books and meeting presentations. Indexes nearly 5,500 serials. Coverage is from 1990 to 2004.

Books in Print
Books in Print is not a library catalog; it is used to identify the prices and publishers for titles, and to establish whether a title is available for purchase.

Books in Print online is a combined set of R.R. Bowker's Books in Print; Complete Video Directory; Publisher Authority Database; Forthcoming Books; Children's Books in Print; and Books Out-of-Print. 3.5 million title records; 500,000 text reviews. The Publisher Authority database has records for 165,000 publishers and distributors. Additional features are searches for Award Winning Titles and Media Sources.

BuildingGreen Suite
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 Source Premier via EBSCOhost
Full text for over 3,000 journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting, and much more.

CINAHL with Full Text via EBSCOhost
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health
Indexing for 1,835 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. Also contains searchable cited references for more than 930 journals and provides full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. Coverage is from 1982 to the present.

College Source (college catalogs)
College Source presents over 14,000 college catalogs in full page format. Search by college name, geographic area, or specific criteria such as tuition, major, enrollment. Includes selected non-U.S. schools as well.

Communication & Mass Media Complete via EBSCOhost
Full-text articles relating to all aspects of communication and mass media.

Computer Source via EBSCOhost
Information and current trends in high technology. This database features over 250 full text periodicals covering valuable market information in computers, telecommunications, electronics, and the Internet.

Contemporary Authors--Contemporary Criticism
Please use the new link to the Literature Resource Center (see below).

CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher provides topical, full text reports on controversial issues. Each report features a summary, chronology, and bibliography. Updated weekly.

ebrary
ebrary offers searchable access to over 13,000 full-text books in all academic disciplines. Here are some resources to help you use ebrary. Watch a demo now!

EBSCO Animals via EBSCOhost
Indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

EBSCOhost (Magazine Articles Online)
EBSCOhost's Magazine Articles Online is a general subject database that contains article citations from thousands of journals. A summary of each article is given, and often the complete article (full-text) is online as well. Updated daily.

Electronic Collections Online
ECO: Electronic Collections Online provides citations and some full text articles from over 2000 scholarly journals. Coverage is from 1995 to the present; updated daily.

ERIC via EBSCOhost
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.

ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center at the US Department of Education. You have to register, but it is free and fairly brief. A good place to look for many "ED" documents. (ED Stands for Educational Document- Lesson Plans, Studies, etc) If you have an EJ citation (Educational Journals), try EBSCO's Academic Search Premier and Professional Development Collection before putting in an interlibrary loan request.

Ethnic NewsWatch
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. Coverage is from 1980 to the present.

Europa World Online Watch a demo.
Europa World Online covers political and economic information for 250 countries and territories. Each country survey includes recent history; government; economic affairs; defense; education; social welfare; and economic and demographic statistics.

Fuente Academica via EBSCOhost
A unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American, South American and Spanish publishers. This database provides full text coverage (including PDF) for more than 150 scholarly Spanish language journals.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia via EBSCOhost
25,000 encyclopedic entries, searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.

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.

Gender Watch
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.

GPO
The Government Printing Office Monthly Catalog contains citations for all types of U.S. government documents. Coverage begins in 1996; updated monthly.

Greenfile
Scholarly, government and general-interest content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

Grove's Dictionary of Art Online
The Grove Dictionary of Art 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 Source: Consumer Edition via 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 via 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.

JSTOR
Full text of about 600 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.

Learning Express Library
Provides interactive online practice tests and tutorial course series 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 via EBSCOhost
Full text for more than 260 scholarly law journals.

LexisNexis Academic Universe
Full-text of newspapers, wire services, and magazines from around the world, including the New York Times . Also provides company profiles and financial reports, government transcripts, trade journals and academic and legal databases.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts via EBSCOhost
LISTA indexes 600+ periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings, on library science, online information retrieval, information management and more. Mid-1960s - present.

Literature Resource Center (LRC)
Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the LRC covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

Magazine Articles Online (EBSCOhost)
Magazine Articles Online is a general subject database that contains article citations from thousands of journals. A summary of each article is given, and often the complete article (full-text) is online as well. Updated daily.

MasterFILE Premier (via EBSCOhost)
MasterFILE Premier provides full text for more than 1,900 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,510 periodicals. For some titles, full text archives are available back to 1975. The database also contains full text for nearly 200 reference and travel books; 88,000 biographies; 60,000 primary source documents; and 91,000 photos, maps, and flags. Updated daily.

MAS Ultra - School Edition via EBSCOhost
Full text for over 515 general interest and current events magazines.

MedicLatina via EBSCOhost
A Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This database provides access to full text for more than 130 peer-reviewed medical journals.

Medline via EBSCOhost; Medline via OCLC FirstSearch
MEDLINE covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Citations available from 1965 - present. Updated weekly.

Middle Search Plus via EBSCOhost
Full text for magazines covering general topics appropriate for middle and junior high school students.

Military & Government Collection via EBSCOhost
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

MLA Bibliography via EBSCOhost
Produced by the Modern Language Association, this bibliography of literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from journals, books and dissertations. Coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR's language and literature collection as well as links to full text.

National Fire Codes
The National Fire Protection Association's codes and standards influence every building, process, service, design, and installation in the United States, as well as many of those used in other countries The online edition of the National Fire Codes provides access to the most current version of the complete set of nearly 300 codes. You can also access the monthly newsletter, NFPA News .

netLibrary
Check out our ebooks - electronic versions of print books. You may want to learn more about netLibrary.

New York Times (newspaper)
Please use Lexis Nexis for New York Times articles.

Newspaper Source via 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.

Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism
Literary criticism for authors who lived during the 19th century.

Nursing Books@Ovid
Full text of 22 important nursing books published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Opposing Viewpoints
Based on the Opposing Viewpoints books, this database provides a one-stop source for information on current social issues. Access viewpoint articles on both sides of an issue, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to web sites, 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 via Newsbank
Comprehensive coverage of articles written by Oregonian staff from 1988 forward. Excludes classified ads, photos, and advertisements. Full-text articles available; print or email search results. Updated daily.

The Oregonian via Lexis Nexis

Oxford Art Online
This is the new 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
An online collection of dictionaries and other reference books from Oxford University Press. Coverage includes the arts, languages, literature, sciences and social sciences.

PapersFirst
PapersFirst provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide. A major research and covering every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop, and meeting added to The British Library Document Supply Centre's vast proceedings collection since October 1993. Updated daily.

Poetry Criticism
Search for a poet or a poem. Look for the list of relevant pages in each article.

Primary Search via EBSCOhost
Full text for 57 children's magazines and over 100 children's pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.

ProceedingsFirst
ProceedingsFirst provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at each conference. Is a companion database to PapersFirst. Updated monthly.

Professional Development Collection via EBSCOhost
A highly specialized collection of over 515 full text journals, designed for professional educators.

Project Muse
Citations and some full text from recent scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. PCC no longer subscribes; you can still search the database but not retrieve full text.

PsycArticles
When searching the PsycINFO database (see below) you can limit your search to "PsycARTICLES Journals" and retrieve articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Coverage includes general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.

PsycINFO (Psychology and Psychiatry)
PsycINFO 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 via EBSCOhost
Use this to supplement PsycINFO (above). Topics include emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Most full text titles in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.

RefWorks
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.

Regional Business News via EBSCOhost
A full text news wire database that incorporates business wires from all over the world.

Religion and Philosophy Collection via 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.

Safari Tech Books Online - 1200+ books!
Full text recent computer books dealing with networking, programming, web development, and more. Over 1200 books are included.

Science Direct Health and Life Sciences Journals Collection
Full text for over 890 peer reviewed journals. For best results click on SEARCH to get started. Limit your search to SUBSCRIBED Journals,1995 to the present.

SIRS Knowledge Source Watch a demo
Full text information on social issues, science, health, history, government, business, and the arts and humanities.

Standard and Poor's
Full text of many S&P products, including the Stock Reports, Corporation Records, Industry Surveys, and more.

TOPICsearch via EBSCOhost
Explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries, and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. Topics covered include: Aging, AIDS, Alcohol, Computers, Crime, Drugs, Education, Energy, Ethics, Family, Health, Human Rights, Multiculturalism, National Debate, People, Religion, Sports, Women, Work, World Affairs, etc.

Twayne Authors Series
Full text of Twayne Literary Masters books in 3 series - World, US, and English authors - for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.

Value Line Investment Survey
A comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy.

Vocational and Career Collection via EBSCOhost
This collection provides 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.

The Wall Street Journal
Full text newspaper articles from 1984 to the present. Does not include stock quotes or classified ads.

World Almanac
The World Almanac database includes the contents of: The World Almanac and Book of Facts; The World Almanac of the U.S.A.; The World Almanac of U.S. Politics; The World Almanac for Kids. Coverage from 1998 to the present. Updated annually.

World Book Online Reference Center
The World Book Encyclopedia along with related newspaper and magazine articles, graphics and multimedia, special reports, a dictionary, and links to selected web sites. Includes a Spanish language encyclopedia.

WorldCat.org
Search for books, magazines, videos and other materials published around the world -- and see which libraries have them. For Advanced Searching, try WorldCat Advanced Search .