Articles & Databases
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CSM Library provides access to many search systems and research tools. Most are databases containing a variety of content including scholarly journal articles, news & magazine articles, streaming video, art images, ebooks, online encyclopedias, and more. Some specialize in providing one kind of content.
Much of the content provided is not available free online, so you will need to login using your Library card when searching from off campus.
Access Key:
= Open Access databases do not require Library card login, and feature freely available
content
= Databases with content for use by any Peninsula Library System member; visit your
local county/city library in San Mateo County to obtain a free card
= Databases with content only for use by students, faculty, and staff of any of the
SMCCD colleges
= Databases with content only for use by CSM students, faculty, and staff; use OneLogin
to access
The list below is organized alphabetically. Contact a Librarian if you need assistance.
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This database offers curated collections of primary sources, expert perspectives, and reference material on essential subjects related to American Indians, African Americans, and Latinx Americans as well as topics such as world religions, pop culture, and genocide.
This database includes extensive coverage in key subject areas such as, biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental science, history, marketing, political science, and psychology. It contains scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning, and a number of other sources.
This database offers an enormous collection of full-text journals, magazines, and news sources in many subject areas. In addition, it includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and much more.
An online encyclopedia of science and technology.
This news collection includes international, national, and local news sources from around the globe. Includes access to the San Francisco Chronicle (1984-present) and other Bay Area newspapers. This collection also includes magazines, broadcast transcripts, and newswires and covers topics on a wide variety of areas.
The African American Experience is an online database collection on African American history and culture. Perfect for finding background information and primary sources on a broad range of topics.
Provides a comprehensive view of current and authoritative periodical content that spans the agriculture industry--from practical aspects of farming to scientific research in horticulture.
Streaming videos, ebooks, and more. Our featured collections are Dance in Video, volume 1 and the Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers. However, it also includes selections for film studies, and other courses.
The leading interdisciplinary journal in Asian American and Pacific Islander studies.
This database contains literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
EBSCO partners with American Antiquarian Society (AAS), the premier library documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to provide digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.
The American Indian Experience is a digital resource that illuminates the histories and contemporary cultures of the Native peoples of North America.
A digital library of art images and descriptive information for students and instructors. Register for a personal account to access additional features or to login directly from the ARTstor home page.
The ultimate search tool for jobs, businesses, mailing lists, background and criminal checks.
55 fiction audiobooks published between 2002-2010--perfect for your commute.
This journal from UCLA presents original research that is relevant to or informed by the Chicano experience. An interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, Aztlán focuses on scholarly essays in the humanities, social sciences, and arts, supplemented by thematic pieces and more. It seeks ways to bring Chicano studies into critical dialogue with Latino, ethnic, American, and global studies.
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This database is searchable by name, year of birth, year of death, etc. Search results are presented as a list of citations for resources containing entries about the individual searched.
This database features contextual information on the world's most influential people. Biography contains reference content plus magazines, news, journals, and multimedia. Users may search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.
Abstracts and full-text articles from journals in the biological sciences.
This database features book and film reviews. It is searchable by keyword, title of work, author of work, author of review, review title, etc. Full text reviews are available.
An online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy through leading business and trade publications, updated daily.
This database features business content from around the world.
Provides full text for over 1,000 business publications dating back to 1985. Also includes thousands of company profiles. Updated daily.
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Auto repair manuals for thousands of makes and models are available digitally for routine maintenance or diagnostic information. ChiltonLibrary’s dynamic search engine helps users find specific procedures quickly and more.
Brings together information found in journals on all aspects of the communications field, including advertising, public relations, linguistics, and literature, to meet the needs of researchers.
Provides access to leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries covering everything from hardware to the cloud.
The database offers comprehensive coverage of issues that influence women’s lives across the globe, including access to current full text and pertinent backfile content covering topics including civil rights, health, education, professional development, and entrepreneurship.
Facts about foreign countries, published by the U.S. Department of State.
Up-to-date news and information on the countries of the world.
In-depth reports on current social issues and problems from Congressional Quarterly.
Informs the research process for those studying law, law enforcement, terrorism, homeland security, forensic science, and more.
This collection provides public access to research products produced by the Congressional Research Service (CRS). The documents are created for the purpose of supporting Congress in its legislative, oversight, and representational duties.
Offers articles from more than major cooking and nutrition magazines, as well as book reference content.
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Dance in Video contains dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
Freely available (open access) dissertations and theses from ProQuest's UMI Dissertation Publishing.
Collection of journals that explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community.
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More than 140,000 scholarly books that are easy to access online and in full text. Browse by subjects – literature, social sciences, life sciences, engineering and technology – or use the search box.
Approximately 14,000 ebooks covering a variety of subjects including many scholarly and academic titles.
Provides access to full text articles or abstracts from some of EBSCO's education, professional development, and library databases. Searches three EBSCO databases at once: ERIC: Education Resource & Information Center, LISTA: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, and Teacher Reference Center.
Through a single interface, faculty can search and access quality open textbooks and Open Educational Resources (OER) from multiple OER repositories around the world. This database is restricted to CSM faculty.
Provides access to full text articles or links to health sources. Searches five EBSCO health databases at once: AHFS Consumer Medication Information, Health Source: Consumer & Academic editions, MEDLINE, and Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection.
Provides access to full text articles or abstracts from some of EBSCO's history databases. Searches eight EBSCO databases at once: Academic Search Complete, America: History & Life, European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750, and AAS Historical Periodical Collection: Series 1-5.
Provides access to full text articles or abstracts from some of EBSCO's most popular and versatile databases. Searches seven EBSCO databases at once: Academic Search Complete, America: History & Life, Business Source Elite, ERIC: Education Resource & Information Center, MasterFILE Complete, Military and Government Collection, and Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection.
Provides access to full text articles or links to news sources. Searches four EBSCO news databases at once: Newspaper Source Plus; Newswires; Regional Business News; and Web News.
This open access database contains historic and contemporary dissertations and theses written by graduate student researchers from the early 20th century to the present.
Access to full-text academic journals and magazines--with a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit bibliographic index.
Educator's Reference Complete (Gale OneFile) [Gale]
Provides articles on multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every
educational specialty—such as technology, bilingual education, health education, testing,
administration, and more.
Featuring 60,000 ebook titles, enki provides library subscribers with a collection of popular fiction and nonfiction genres including romance, mysteries, travel, technical, crafts, cooking and more. Requires a PLS card for access.
Entrepreneurship (Gale OneFile) [Gale]
Mapped to four key business stages—plan, fund, start and manage, this resource covers
all major areas of starting and operating a business, including financing, management,
marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting, and taxes. Business plans are
included from the Business Plans Handbook series, with new business plans added monthly.
An electronic resource that focuses on the study of sustainability and the environment, including energy and natural resources. Topics include global warming, food safety, access to health care, and the impact of economic development on international relations.
Addresses environmental concerns and research with coverage from journals and book reference content.
The largest source of education information, with almost 1.5 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.
Articles from the ethnic, minority and native press.
An online database of information on careers, colleges, and financial aid. Includes personality self-assessment tools. Students must create a user account; see librarian or career counselor for first-time registration.
A comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
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Through a single interface, faculty can search and access quality open textbooks, Open Educational Resources (OER), and request access to unrestricted library e-books from top academic publishers. This database is restricted to CSM faculty.
Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology provides access to the official statistical information produced by the Federal Government without having to know in advance which Federal agency produces which particular statistic. More than 100 federal agencies provide data and trend information on such topics as economic and population trends, crime, education, health care, aviation safety, energy use, farm production and more.
Online film collection with topics including Humanities and Social Sciences, Business and Economics, Science and Mathematics and Health and Medicine.
Fine Arts (Gale OneFile) [Gale]
Database for serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
A digital bookshelf filled with popular magazines that are on newsstands right now. Read from a computer, or download them to a smartphone or tablet using the Flipster mobile app for offline reading.
Easy to read articles for beginning readers on a wide range of topics.
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Gale Directory Library
International, national and local association directories containing financial information
for companies and non-profits, circulation figures for publications, and much more.
List of subjects included in this database:
| Arts | Multicultural Studies |
| Business | Nation and World |
| Environment | Religion |
| History | Science |
| Literature | Social Science |
| Medicine |
Gale General OneFile [Gale]
A one-stop source for popular, scholarly, and trade publications in all formats: newspaper,
magazine, journal, and newsletter, etc.
Gale Health & Wellness [Gale]
Gale Health and Wellness offers access to thousands of full-text medical journals,
magazines, reference works, multimedia, and more. Perfect for researchers at all levels,
this comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on
the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information
to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices, and more.
Gale in Context: Biography [Gale]
This database features contextual information on the world's most influential people.
Biography contains reference content plus magazines, news, journals, and multimedia.
Users may search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death
dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.
Gale in Context: Environmental Studies [Gale]
An electronic resource that focuses on the study of sustainability and the environment,
including energy and natural resources. Topics include global warming, food safety,
access to health care, and the impact of economic development on international relations.
Gale in Context: Global Issues [Gale]
A database designed to support global awareness. Authoritative content empowers learners
to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world.
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints [Gale]
Database designed to support science, social studies, current events, and language
arts presents each side of important issues and empowers learners to develop information
literacy and critical thinking skills.
Gale in Context: Science [Gale]
Science in Context provides detailed coverage of popular subjects from earth science
and life science, to space, technology, mathematics and science history. Database
designed to support science studies by providing contextual information on hundreds
of today's most significant science topics and showcase scientific disciplines that
relate to real-world issues.
Designed to support U.S. history studies and provides an overview of our nation's past, covering the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people. Provides access to historical (primary) documents, reference articles, and full-text journals on U.S. history.
Database designed to provide an overview of world history covering the most-studied events, cultures, civilizations, religions, people, and more.
Gale Literature: Book Review Index [Gale]
This database features book and film reviews. It is searchable by keyword, title of
work, author of work, author of review, review title, etc. Full text reviews are available.
Gale OneFile: Agriculture [Gale]
Provides a comprehensive view of current and authoritative periodical content that
spans the agriculture industry--from practical aspects of farming to scientific research
in horticulture.
Gale OneFile: Business [Gale]
Provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics,
finance, marketing, management and strategy through leading business and trade publications,
updated daily.
Gale OneFile: Communications & Mass Media [Gale]
Brings together information found in journals on all aspects of the communications
field, including advertising, public relations, linguistics, and literature, to meet
the needs of researchers.
Gale OneFile: Computer Science [Gale]
Provides access to leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications,
and electronics industries covering everything from hardware to the cloud.
Gale OneFile: Contemporary Women's Issues [Gale]
The database offers comprehensive coverage of issues that influence women’s lives
across the globe, including access to current full text and pertinent backfile content
covering topics including civil rights, health, education, professional development,
and entrepreneurship.
Informs the research process for those studying law, law enforcement, terrorism, homeland security, forensic science, and more.
Offers articles from more than major cooking and nutrition magazines, as well as book reference content.
Access to full-text academic journals and magazines--with a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit bibliographic index.
Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete [Gale]
Provides articles on multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every
educational specialty—such as technology, bilingual education, health education, testing,
administration, and more.
Addresses environmental concerns and research with coverage from journals and book reference content.
Database for serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
Serves horticultural enthusiasts of all levels with articles from journals, as well as reference titles.
Offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family, and marital issues, LGBTQ community, and more.
This database includes information created specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers, and health care professionals. This database is the perfect resource for up-to-date information on a complete range of healthcare topics.
Gale OneFile: Hospitality & Tourism [Gale]
Access to scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications that cover topics
including the cultural, and economic aspects of travel and tourism.
Provides access to content covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology, including usability, cataloging, circulation, business information, and more.
Provides access to a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America.
Provide legal researchers, students, and faculty access to a comprehensive selection of the most prestigious legal publications.
Library resource offering authoritative content covering past and present military affairs.
Gale OneFile: News [Gale]
Provides access to major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as
leading titles from around the world. It also includes images, radio, and TV broadcasts
and transcripts.
Provide access to authoritative content supporting nursing professionals already working in the field, as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
Gale OneFile: Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine [Gale]
Offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental
research, and more with access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields
of fitness and sports.
Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies [Gale]
Provide access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute
to popular culture.
Gale OneFile: Psychology [Gale]
Provides access to authoritative content supporting research in all fields of psychology.
Gale OneFile: Religion & Philosophy [Gale]
Provides access to a comprehensive collection of content covering topics across a
wide range of philosophies and religions.
Gale OneFile: U.S. History [Gale]
Library resource that provides content covering events in U.S. history as well as
scholarly work established in the field.
Gale OneFile: Vocations & Careers [Gale]
Library resource that provides current and applicable content to aid in career and
vocational research -- from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
Gale OneFile: War & Terrorism [Gale]
Library resource that provides authoritative content addressing both historic and
contemporary topics in the fields of war and terrorism.
Gale OneFile: World History [Gale]
Provides balanced coverage of events in world history with relevant articles updated
daily - both current thinking and established scholarly work
Search many of our most popular Gale databases at once.
Serves horticultural enthusiasts of all levels with articles from journals, as well as reference titles.
Offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family, and marital issues, LGBTQ community, and more.
A one-stop source for popular, scholarly, and trade publications in all formats: newspaper, magazine, journal, and newsletter, etc.
A database designed to support global awareness. Authoritative content empowers learners to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world.
Purpose of database: "To provide free access to information about hundreds of cases of nonviolent action for learning and for citizen action. The cases are drawn from all continents and most countries. People are shown struggling for human rights, economic justice, democracy, national and ethnic identity, environmental sustainability, and peace. To learn more about searching by the issues people are struggling about, go to Issue Clusters."
Google Scholar searches specifically for scholarly literature - peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, etc. Some of the search results are available freely in full-text but many display only links to pay-for-document delivery services. In many cases you can access the complete documents through the CSM Library. When using Google Scholar on your own computer, make sure that "Library Links" in Scholar Preferences are set to "College of San Mateo - Full-Text @ CSM".
Links to federal and state government documents, including books and serials. CSM is a partial government depository library.
Information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment such as global warming, green building, sustainable agriculture, and more. Includes academic, government and general-interest articles.
This database brings together essential periodicals, compiled legislative histories, Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports, Congressional hearings, United States Supreme Court briefs, books, and other related materials on the difficult and controversial topic of regulating firearms in the United States.
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This database includes information created specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers, and health care professionals. This database is the perfect resource for up-to-date information on a complete range of healthcare topics.
Gale Health and Wellness offers access to thousands of full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and more. Perfect for researchers at all levels, this comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices, and more.
Provides access to full text articles or links to health sources. Searches five EBSCO health databases at once: AHFS Consumer Medication Information, Health Source: Consumer & Academic editions, MEDLINE, and Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection.
Current, full text articles from health magazines, newsletters, and health reference books.
Full text articles from hundreds of academic journals in nursing and allied health. Includes drug information sheets.
This database brings together essential periodicals, compiled legislative histories, Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports, Congressional hearings, United States Supreme Court briefs, books, and other related materials. Two special collections separately focus on gun regulation and slavery in the Americas.
A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts a large repository of peer-reviewed content, much of it available for free. Content is browseable, and free content is clearly marked. A list of free HighWire articles is available.
EBSCO partners with American Antiquarian Society (AAS), the premier library documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to provide digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.
Provides access to full text articles or abstracts from some of EBSCO's history databases. Searches eight EBSCO databases at once: Academic Search Complete, America: History & Life, European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750, and AAS Historical Periodical Collection: Series 1-5.
Hospitality & Tourism (Gale OneFile) [Gale]
Access to scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications that cover topics
including the cultural, and economic aspects of travel and tourism.
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Provides access to content covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology, including usability, cataloging, circulation, business information, and more.
Provides access to a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America.
A platform for subscription and open access scholarly publications.
- Anyone can browse IngentaCONNECT by publication, then "Show: Free content"
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JSTOR provides a full text archive of articles from scholarly journals in many disciplines (Art, Business, Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences and more).
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Kanopy
Select streaming film titles that appear on syllabi of film studies and other courses.
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A rich collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean; academic journals and news feeds covering the region; reference articles and commentary; maps and statistics; audio and video; and more.
The Latino American Experience is an online resource dedicated to the history and culture of Latinos in the United States. Perfect for background information, history, and primary sources for a broad range of topics.
Provide legal researchers, students, and faculty access to a comprehensive selection of the most prestigious legal publications.
An index of articles on librarianship, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Includes biographical information on authors and critical reviews of works. Encyclopedia and journal articles.
LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes full-text poems and poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.
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Designed specifically for students aged 15-20, this database contains full text for popular high school magazines covering a wide-range of subject areas including history, science, careers and more. It also includes full-text biographies, primary source documents, reference books, an image collection containing photos, maps, flags and color PDFs and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1921) for key magazines. Recommended for ESL students.
This database offers the largest collection of popular full-text magazines, reference books and other highly-regarded sources from the world's leading publishers. Covering virtually every general interest subject area, it also includes an extensive collection of photos, maps and flags.
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, the health care system, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine.
Information from the National Institutes of Health and other sources on over 600 diseases and conditions.
Current news related to all branches of the military and government.
Library resource offering authoritative content covering past and present military affairs.
Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences is an invaluable online resource that presents comprehensive information and unique insights into modern genocide, focusing on the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. Perfect for background information, history, and primary sources for a broad range of genocide related topics.
Some of the images and video included in the database may be too graphic for some students. In those cases, ABC-CLIO has included a warning in the summary that appears when those images and videos appear in search results.
Provides access to full text articles or abstracts from some of EBSCO's most popular and versatile databases. Searches seven EBSCO databases at once: Academic Search Complete, America: History & Life, Business Source Elite, ERIC: Education Resource & Information Center, MasterFILE Complete, Military and Government Collection, and Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection.
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NGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images. More than 45,000 open access digital images up to 4000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use.
Provides evidence based information about dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary, alternative, and integrative therapies. Includes up to date information about natural ingredients, drug and/or supplement interactions, effectiveness of treatment options, nutrition depletion, consumer education, pregnancy & lactation, sports medicine, and health & wellness topics. Good for personal use or professional use by athletes, physical therapists, nutritionists, and other health professionals who want to get trusted information on these topics.
Online access to one of the most respected names in journalism. Limited free content. Visit our News Sources page to create a free NYTimes.com account.
News (Gale OneFile) [Gale]
Provides access to major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as
leading titles from around the world. It also includes images, radio, and TV broadcasts
and transcripts.
Provides access to full text articles or links to news sources. Searches four EBSCO news databases at once: Newspaper Source Plus; Newswires; Regional Business News; and Web News.
Includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
Provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire on a continuous basis. This content is monitored by EBSCO and relevant results are provided when users enter searches in EBSCOhost. This collection includes AP Financial News, AP Top News, AP WorldStream, AP U.S. Politics & Government, AP 50 State Reports, UPI Security Industry, UPI Emerging Threats, UPI Business, UPI Entertainment, UPI Sports, UPI Top News, Arabia 2000, and more. End users can immediately access the full text of the web content, by following the link in the record. The index to the full text content in EBSCO Newswires is held for a rolling 30-day archive by EBSCO, so users can enjoy the previous 30 days of news relating to their search interests.
Generate and save a bibliography in MLA or APA format.
Provide access to authoritative content supporting nursing professionals already working in the field, as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
Scholarly journal articles from medical disciplines, with an emphasis on nursing and allied health.
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This open access database contains historic and contemporary dissertations and theses written by graduate student researchers from the early 20th century to the present.
Opposing Viewpoints In Context (Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints) [Gale]
Database designed to support science, social studies, current events, and language
arts presents each side of important issues and empowers learners to develop information
literacy and critical thinking skills.
O'Reilly Online Learning (formerly Safari Books Online)
This collection includes thousands of hours of video, exclusive books, learning experiences,
case studies, and certification prep for a wide variety of tech-, business-related
topics including programming, web and mobile design, hardware, security, and more.
This database also includes books on cooking, travel, and other personal enrichment
topics.
OverDrive
This collection includes fiction and nonfiction downloadable eBooks and audiobooks.
These audiobooks and eBooks can be used on a variety of devices such as PCs, laptops, and supported mobile phones and eReaders. For additional help
using OverDrive, explore the OverDrive Help site.
The most authoritative source on the English language, with a focus on etymology and historical usage.
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Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine (Gale OneFile) [Gale]
Offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental
research, and more with access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields
of fitness and sports.
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. It provides citations and abstracts to the international literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health impacts of traumatic events.
Provide access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture.
Pop Culture Universe is an irresistible yet authoritative digital database on popular culture in America, both past and present. Featuring background information, history, and primary sources related to pop culture icons, idols, and ideas.
Search many of our most popular Gale Databases at once, using PowerSearch.
Designed for elementary school students, Primary Search is a full-text database providing popular children’s magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedic entries and a vast image collection. Students can learn about a variety of topics, including endangered species, famous musicians, fitness and space exploration. In addition, the database includes full-text popular magazines including those from Cricket Media, such as Ladybug and Spider. Other magazines include Highlights, Junior Scholastic and dozens more. Recommended for ESL students.
Pronunciator New!
Learn a vast number of languages with peerless amount of instructional content available — an average of 10,000 instructional
phrases per language. Register to create an account and track your prograss, or use
Instant Access to jump right in.
Freely available (open access) dissertations and theses from ProQuest's UMI Dissertation Publishing.
ProQuest Research Library's 3500 full text periodicals - scholarly, trade and popular – cover subjects from business and political science to literature and psychology.
Access to the full text of nearly 80 APA journals in behavioral science and related fields ranging from education, to nursing, to business, to neuroscience.
Psychology (Gale OneFile) [Gale]
Provides access to authoritative content supporting research in all fields of psychology.
Full text, psychology database with nearly 400 journals. Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and much more.
PubMed comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
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Statistical information on California. Includes population & demographics; health & health care; business & economics; crimes, prisons, & courts; labor force, employment & earnings; energy; environment, resources & weather; K-12 & higher education; income, expenditure, wealth, & poverty; social insurance & human services; transportation & travel; and federal, state, & local government information.
Covers 80+ regional business publications from metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Religion & Philosophy (Gale OneFile) [Gale]
Provides access to a comprehensive collection of content covering topics across a
wide range of philosophies and religions.
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O'Reilly Learning (formerly Safari Books Online) includes thousands of hours of video, exclusive books, learning experiences, case studies, and certification prep for a wide variety of tech-, business-related topics including programming, web and mobile design, hardware, security, and more. This database also includes books on cooking, travel, and other personal enrichment topics.
New Content!Access to online titles from Salem Press. These ebooks feature encyclopedia entries and primary sources. Recommended for health, science, sociology, ethnic studies, history, math, career resources, and more. Search all titles at once using the "Salem Online" link above. Explore some of our new titles by searching the individual ebook links below:
- Defining Documents Series ebooks: Native Americans (1451-2017); Women's Rights (1429-2017); Supreme Court Decisions (1803-2017); 17th century (1601-1700) & 18th century (1701-1800); The 1910s (1910-1919)
- Magill's Medical Guide, 8th edition
- Great Events from LGBTQ History, 2nd edition
- Principles of Sustainability
Science (Gale in Context) [Gale]
Science in Context provides detailed coverage of popular subjects from earth science
and life science, to space, technology, mathematics and science history. Database
designed to support science studies by providing contextual information on hundreds
of today's most significant science topics and showcase scientific disciplines that
relate to real-world issues.
Full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues.
This collection brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.
Summary of US social, political and economic statistics taken from Federal agencies and private organizations.
Summary of US social, political and economic statistics taken from Federal agencies and private organizations.
Streaming video service with select streaming film titles that appear on syllabi of film studies and other courses.
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- Amerasia Journal
- Search Taylor & Francis Online , then "Refine your search" by selecting "Only show content I have full access to"
Indexing and abstracts for articles in teaching and administrator journals.
TRIP: Turning Research Into Practice
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find
and use high-quality research evidence to support their medical practice and/or care.
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Facts about foreign countries, published by the U.S. Department of State.
Population, housing, economic, and geographic data from the U.S. Census.
Provides access to historical (primary) documents, reference articles, and full-text journals on U.S. history.
U.S. History (Gale OneFile) [Gale]
Library resource that provides content covering events in U.S. history as well as
scholarly work established in the field.
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Vocations & Careers (Gale OneFile) [Gale]
Library resource that provides current and applicable content to aid in career and
vocational research -- from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
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A business focused US news source, published by Dow Jones & Company. Limited free content. Account sign in required for full access. Visit our News Sources page to create a free account.
War & Terrorism (Gale OneFile) [Gale]
Library resource that provides authoritative content addressing both historic and
contemporary topics in the fields of war and terrorism.
A free online database of documentary watercolors primarily painted before 1900, though later works are included.
Provides near real-time access to top news feeds from around the globe. This collection includes over 14,000 feeds covering a range of business and general news topics. End users can immediately access the full text of the web content, by following the link in the record.
Facts about the countries of the world, published by the CIA.
Database designed to provide an overview of world history covering the most-studied events, cultures, civilizations, religions, people, and more.
World History (Gale OneFile) [Gale]
Provides balanced coverage of events in world history with relevant articles updated
daily - both current thinking and established scholarly work
World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy covers religion around the globe, from prehistory to the present.
A rich collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean; academic journals and news feeds covering the region; reference articles and commentary; maps and statistics; audio and video; and more.
The world's largest library catalog, WorldCat, is combined with database holdings
at CSM for one powerful search. Search the contents of local, regional, national and
international libraries.
This tool will update to WorldCat Discovery beginning January 2016. Watch for updates
to links.
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