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Electronic
databases
The
following electronic databases are provided for use by students, faculty,
and staff of Los Medanos College. To use these databases from off campus
you will be asked to enter your last name and 7-digit student or employee
ID number. Your student ID number, e.g., 0012345, is included in your
class schedule or receipt. Your employee ID number is included on your
paycheck.
| Journal
& Newspaper Databases |
| CQ
Researcher |
Explores
a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics
range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education,
and science and technology. |
| Ethnic
News Watch |
Provides
full-text articles from newspapers, magazines,
and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. |
| Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac) |
Provides
bibliographic references, abstracts and full-text articles on Current
Events, Economics, History, Psychology, Humanities, Religion, Education,
Literature & Art, Science, Sociology, Political Science, and more.
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| Health
& Wellness Resource Center (Gale) |
Provides
access to a wide variety of consumer-oriented health and wellness
information from journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, pamphlets,
health-related web sites, and medical reference books. |
| Health Reference Center Academic (Gale) |
Provides
bibliographic references, abstracts and full-text articles on Fitness,
Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational
Health & Safety, Alcohol & Drug Abuse, HMOs, Prescription
Drugs, and more. Material contained is intended for informational
purposes only. |
| NewsBank |
Provides
full-text articles from the Contra Costa Newspapers (21 titles), Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Chronicle and 26 news magazines. |
| ProQuest
Newspapers |
Provides
full-text articles from five national newspapers - Christian Science
Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. |
| SIRS
Researcher |
Provides
thousands of full-text articles on social, scientific, health, historic,
business, economic, political and global issues. Articles are from
around 1,500 newspapers, magazines, journals and government publications. |
| Specialized
Databases |
| Annals
of American
History |
Provides
a year-by-year documentary of American thought and action, including
the original words of more than 1,500 authors, from 1493 through
today. |
| Biography
Resource Center |
Combines
award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Also
includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for
people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death
year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria
to create a highly-targeted custom search. |
| Books
in Print |
Access
to almost 2 million titles that are in print, forthcoming, or declared
out-of-print. Complete bibliographic information and is updated monthly. |
Britannica
Online
|
Includes
the complete encyclopedia, as well as more than 130,000 links to Web
sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. |
| College
Source |
Access
to 29,274 college catalogs in full cover-to-cover, original page format.
Includes 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international
schools. |
| Country
Watch |
Provides
up-to-date information and data on countries of the world. |
| ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) |
ERIC is one of the world's largest databases of education literature. It provides access to more than 1.2 million journal articles and other education-related materials, many in full-text. |
| FACTS.com |
Brings
together complete content from Facts On File News Digest since 1940 and selected content from six other reference databases
(World
News Special Features, Reuters News, Issues &
Controversies,Today's Science, World Almanac Reference Database and World Almanac Encyclopedia) to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of
the last 60+ years. |
| Grove
Art Online |
Contains
over 45,000 scholarly articles on world art, with over 40,000 Web
links to images and additional art-related information in museums,
galleries and art collections around the world. |
| Grove
Music Online |
Contains
29,000 articles written by over 6,000 international contributors on
every aspect of music and covering all time periods. |
Literature
Resource Center-LRC
|
Provides
access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors
from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists,
poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage
of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
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| National Library Alliance |
An online healthcare reference tool that contains the full text of 40 nursing reference titles, including several titles from Delmar. |
| Nursing Resource Center |
Designed for nursing students. Contains disease and drug overviews, care plans, journal articles and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams. The information is organized in tabs which correspond to steps in the nursing process, and can be automatically translated into other languages. Also useful for psychology and biology students. |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
PLoS publishes peer-reviewed, open-access scientific and medical research articles, focusing particularly on biology, medicine, computational biology, genetics, pathogens, tropical diseases and clinical trials. |
RAND
California
|
More
than 100 statistical databases covering California, with many at the
county, city, and zip code level. About 15 of the databases cover
all 50 U.S. states. |
| World
Data Analyst |
Offers
detailed statistical comparisons of countries across the world, using
both the most recent statistics and historical figures. Allows subscribers
to create tables, charts, and even export information to a spreadsheet
for printing and data crunching. |
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