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Research Databases - Alphabetical Listing
Below is an alphabetical listing of research databases that you can use to search for articles from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals. Click on the first letter of the name of the database you are interested in, or simply browse the listing.

Alternatively, you can also view research databases by subject.

Please note, you must be a member of the SCC community (student, faculty, or staff) and possess a shoreline.edu email address to access most of these research databases from off-campus. Don't have such an email? Visit this webpage to quickly sign up for one.



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A


ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry contains over 750 business periodical titles dealing with trade and industry.

Access Rights: Available to SCC Community Only
Location: Internet


This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier is updated on a daily basis.

Access Rights: Available to SCC Community Only
Location: Internet


Find parts, diagnostic, and repair information for hundreds of makes and models of automobiles in this easy to use database.

Access Rights: Available only from SCC Campus
Location: Internet


AltLaw.org provides searchable access to US Federal case law. Currently the contents of this datbase include Supreme Court cases from 1759 to the present (with a brief lag on the addition of new cases), and US Court of Appeals from the 1990's to the present (start date varies with circuit; a brief lag on the addition of new cases exists). New cases are being added daily.

Access Rights: Available to General Public
Location: Internet


Alt-Press Watch is a full-text database of articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternate and independent presses.

Access Rights: Available to SCC Community Only
Location: Internet


ARTstor's "Charter Collection" contains approximately 300,000 digital images of visual material from different cultures and disciplines, and it seeks to offer sufficient breadth and depth to support a wide range of non-commercial educational and scholarly activities.

Access Rights: Available to SCC Community Only
Location: Internet


arXive is an open access repository of scienctific literature sponsored by Cornell University.

Author: Various
Access Rights: Available to General Public
Location: Internet



C


CINAHL Full Text is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This Database contains indexing for more than 2,800 journals, as well as full-text articles.

Access Rights: Available to SCC Community Only
Location: Internet


CultureGrams provides general information about countries and cultures from around the globe, including maps, statistics, societal trends, and even recipes! Similar information can also be found on the 50 United States. CultureGrams also offers up a kids section, which provides information in a style younger folks will appreciate.

Access Rights: Available to SCC Community Only
Location: Internet



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The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a collection of publicly available, peer-reviewed and quality-controlled scholarly journals on a wide variety of topics.

Author: Various
Access Rights: Available to General Public
Location: Internet



E


An online service to access educational resources previously available through AskERIC. Get more than 2000 lesson plans, links to online education information and a search interface to the ERIC database, a national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education.

Access Rights: Available to General Public
Location: Internet


eLibrary provides information from such diverse areas as books, transcripts from TV news shows, newspapers, maps, and photograph collections. Full text articles from popular reference books. Newspapers and magazines from the United States, Africa, Asia, and Europe are also included.

Access Rights: Available to SCC Community Only
Location: Internet


ERIC Education Resources Information Resource Center provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

Access Rights: Available to General Public
Location: Internet


A comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Ethnic NewsWatch is now a collection of over 830,000 full-text articles from 240 publications.

Access Rights: Available to SCC Community Only
Location: Internet



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The Gale Science Resource Center contains nearly 2.5 million documents on a wide range of scientific fields including chemistry, physics, biology, astronomy, envrionmental studies, and much more!

Access Rights: Available to SCC Community Only
Location: Internet


The Gale Virtual Reference Library is a cross-searchable full-text reference books on a variety of subjects. Shoreline CC owns American Decades Primary Sources, American Inaugurals: The Speeches, The Presidents, and Their Times, Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America , Encyclopedia of Science and Religion , Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics , Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa , Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders , Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders , Terrorism Reference Library.

Access Rights: Available to SCC Community Only
Location: Internet



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JSTOR provides full-text articles from over 400 scholarly reviewed journals in a wide range of fields within the arts and sciences. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.

Access Rights: Available to SCC Community Only
Location: Internet



M


A service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

Access Rights: Available to General Public
Location: Internet



N


The New York Times Historical Index provides access to the New York Times published between 1851 and 2003. For more recent issues of the NYT, try the ProQuest Newspapers database.

Access Rights: Available to SCC Community Only
Location: Internet



O


The Oxford English Dictionary is thought by many to be the definitive source for information about words of the English language. In addition to authoritative definitions, you'll also learn the history of the words of English.

Access Rights: Available to SCC Community Only
Location: Internet



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ProQuest is a general purpose database with millions of newspaper and magazine articles on a wide range of topics.

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Location: Internet


ProQuest Newspapers provides access to important US newspapers such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and more.

Author: Various
Access Rights: Available to SCC Community Only
Location: Internet


ProQuest's Research Library includes basic coverage in a wide range of subjects including health, sciences, women's studies, the arts, the social sciences, and more.

Access Rights: Available to SCC Community Only
Location: Internet


PsycArticles contains more than 100,000 articles from peer-reviewed journals on the subject of Psychology. This tremendous resource is managed by the American Psychological Association (APA).

Access Rights: Available to SCC Community Only
Location: Internet


The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is an open access publisher of journals on the topics of medicine and biological sciences. These peer-reviewed articles are freely available to the public.

Author: Various
Access Rights: Available to General Public
Location: Internet



S


ScienceDirect's extensive and unique full-text collection covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature, including high-impact factor titles such as THE LANCET, Cell and Tetrahedron. More than 2,500 journals and almost nine million full-text articles are currently available online. Shoreline Community College Library has temporary access in order to decide whether we should buy this product.

Access Rights: Available to SCC Community Only
Location: Internet


SIRS Researcher is a general reference database containing full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political and global issues. SIRS Government Reporter is a database of full-text government documents and graphics concerning a wide variety of topics: health, science, economics, environment, politics, foreign affairs, business and industry. SIRS Renaissance Current Perspectives on the Arts & Humanities provides dynamic information on Architecture & Design, Culture, Literature, Multimedia, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy & Religion and Visual Arts.

Access Rights: Available to SCC Community Only
Location: Internet



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The Nation Digital Archive makes it possible for researchers to access 14 decades of America's best alternative journalism in ways never before possible.Call the reference desk to get the Shoreline Community College Library user/password.

Access Rights: Requires login or registration with the selected service
Location: Internet



U


The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) makes available several statistical databases containing information about the price of commodities around the world, foreign investment in other countries, and much more information related to international trade and development.

Access Rights: Available to General Public
Location: Internet



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VersusLaw offers online access to archive and current opinions from the following courts, (1) U.S. Supreme Court (2) U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals (3) Federal District Courts (current only) (4) State Appellate Court (5) Tribal Courts (6) Foreign Courts (7) archive and current Federal District Court opinions (8) Selected State Statutes and Regs, and other State Content.

Access Rights: Available to SCC Community Only
Location: Internet



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Full-text coverage of major Washington newspapers including the daily newspapers from Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane and Vancouver, plus selected coverage of other regional sources.

Access Rights: Available to SCC Community Only
Location: Internet


WOIS is a private, nonprofit organization that researches and distributes information about Washington careers, schools and training programs.

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Location: Internet


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