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As an SCC student, you have online access to indexed and full-text articles from reference books, journals, magazines, and newspapers through your Library's database subscriptions. These resources are available off-campus with your SCC library card, except where noted.

Off-campus? Access the databases here

You can browse the databases:

By Subject

Alphabetically

You may also browse an alphabetical list with additional information on each database and off-campus access links.

Looking for a specific periodical?

Use the Online Index to find the database for a particular magazine, journal, or newspaper.

Note:

For off-campus access to most of these databases, you will need your library card number or a special user-name and password. Please contact a reference librarian for assistance with off-campus access.

Why are databases are so important to your research?
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New & Frequently Used Databases

Online Index to Full-Text Electronic Journals (Serials Solutions)

Use the online index to find the database location for a specific magazine or journal.

Gale's
Expanded Academic ASAP

and

the NEW!
Virtual Reference Library

These cross-browsable and multi-disciplinary databases provide indexed and full-text access to reference books, scholarly journals, newspapers and magazines.

Newly available in the Gale Virtual Reference Library:
21st Century Psychology: A Reference Handbook
The Gale Encyclopedia of World History: War
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Quakers in America
Treaties & Alliances of the World

NEW!
Oxford English Dictionary

Also known as the OED. It is available from off campus, ask the reference librarian for the password (it is not your library card).

NEW!
GreenFILE

This database focuses "on the relationship between human beings and the environment" and contains nearly 300,000 scholarly, popular and governmental records, across various related disciplines including agriculture, education, law, health and technology¹.

PsycARTICLES & PsycINFO

Off-campus access

The APA journals; now from CSA Illumina. It is available from off campus, ask the reference librarian for the password (it is not your library card).

EBSCOhost

Includes Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, CINAHL Plus, Health Source-Consumer Edition & Nursing/Academic Edition, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, MasterFILE Premier, Newspaper Source, Regional Business News, MLA International Bibliography, and NoveList.

ProQuest

Research Library, Newspapers (including the Historical New York Times and Los Angeles Times) and much more.

LexisNexis Academic

Available on campus only. Business, legal, medical and news.

NEW!
Literary Reference Center

A full text database covering thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. Includes plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, book reviews, literary criticism, author biographies and interviews, and full text access to poems, short stories, classic texts and much more.

NEW!
Points of View Reference Center

A full text database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue..

CQ Electronic Library

Subscription includes CQ Researcher, CQ Weekly, the Supreme Court collection and the Encyclopedia of American government.
It is available from off campus, ask the reference librarian for the password (it is not your library card).

NEW!
Auto Repair Reference Center

A database for automotive repair and maintenance. Repair topics include repair procedures, service bulletins and recalls, wiring diagrams, labor, specifications, and maintenance intervals.

NEW!
The Merck Index

An encyclopedia that contains more than 10,000 monographs describing significant chemicals, drugs, and biological substances.

¹From EBSCOhost