John Spellman Library and Media Center

Databases

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ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry Search hundreds of trade and industry journals covering all major industries including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, marketing, and manufacturing. Find articles (many full-text and peer-reviewed) on a range of topics and access information about companies, industries, and business trends.

Academic Search Premier Find newspaper, magazine, and journal articles (many full-text and peer-reviewed) from most areas of academic study, including arts, business, education, health, humanities, law, multicultural issues, psychology, sciences, and social sciences.

Alt-Press Watch Access full-text newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from alternative and independent presses designed to present the "other side of the story" and offer additional viewpoints to those put forth by the mainstream media.

America's Newspapers Search 1500 regional and national U.S. newspapers and a variety of other news sources. Find full-text news articles as well as blogs, video clips, and web sources covering social, economic, environmental, government, sports, the arts, people, health and science issues and current events.

ARTstor Search nearly one million digitized images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. Images include descriptive information and database tools enable you to organize and share images, save citation information, download select images, and more.

Auto Repair Reference Center Automotive repair information dating back to 1945.

BigChalk's eLibrary Find full-text articles from a variety of newspapers, magazines, and reference books (including dictionaries, encyclopedias, and almanacs). Access images (including maps), audio/video clips, TV and radio transcripts, websites, e-Books, and more.

Contemporary Authors Find complete biographical and bibliographical information and references for more than 120,000 20th and 21st century novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists, and scriptwriters from the U.S. and abroad.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Search an extensive collection of criticism by author, title, subject, and more. Find critical essays on contemporary novelists, poets, short story writers, playwrights, and other creative writers.

Credo Reference Search over 500 full-text subject reference books (including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and books of quotations) covering art, business, literature, psychology, science, social science, technology, and more.

Criminal Justice Periodicals Search U.S. and international criminal justice journals and corrections and law enforcement trade publications. Find reports, news, crime statistics, crime blogs, and articles (many full-text and peer-reviewed) on law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.

CultureGrams Find concise, reliable, and up-to-date cultural, historical, and societal information about 200 countries, each U.S. state, and all the Canadian provinces and territories. You can also access statistical data, photos, videos, and slideshows.

E-BOOKS from Ebrary Access over 20,000 full-text electronic books that you can read on your computer – there’s nothing to download! E-books are fully searchable and available on a range of topics. By signing in you can highlight text, make notes, save books, connect to dictionaries, and more.

ERIC - ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - Access more than one million descriptive records of journal articles and other education-related materials. Links to full-text are provided when available. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education.

Ethnic NewsWatch Access full-text newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from nearly 300 ethnic, minority, and Native publishers designed to present the "other side of the story" and offer additional viewpoints to those put forth by the mainstream media.

Gale Virtual Reference Access a hand-picked collection of full-text subject reference books (including encyclopedias and handbooks) covering business, environment, history, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, national and global issues, science, and social science. Search the entire collection by keyword or topic or search within individual works.

Granger's World of Poetry Find poems (many full-text), poet biographies, poem commentaries, and the complete works of a number of major poets, including Shelley, Blake, Burns, Keats, Marvell, and Poe. Search by poet, title, first line, last line, subject, keyword, and more. Listen to audio files of poetry readings or compare poems side-by-side.

Library Catalog Find the books, e-Books, and media (DVDs, videos, CDs) owned by the GHC library.

LitFinder Access poems, stories, novels, essays, plays, and speeches (many full-text) as well as explanations, biographies, criticism, and other resources. Search by author, title, keyword, publication date, type of work, and more.

Nursing and Allied Health Source Nursing & Allied Health Source provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This database provides abstracting and indexing for more than 850 titles, with over 715 titles in full-text, plus more than 12,000 full text dissertations representing the most rigorous scholarship in nursing and related fields.

Poetry and Short Story Criticism Search an extensive collection of criticism by author, title, and keyword or browse lists of authors, works, and topics. Find biographical information about authors and excerpts from criticism about the works of the most significant and widely studied poets and short story authors of world literature.

ProQuest National Newspapers Access news articles (many full-text) from premier national newspapers (including the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post) covering social, economic, environmental, government, sports, the arts, people, health & science and current events.

ProQuest Research Library Find newspaper, magazine, and journal articles (many full-text and peer-reviewed) from most areas of academic study, including arts, business, education, health, humanities, law, multicultural issues, psychology, sciences, and social sciences.

PubMed Access over 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.. PubMed is developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Links to full-text are provided when available.

ScienceDirect: Health, Life, Social & Behavioral Sciences Access an extensive collection of journal articles (many full-text and all peer-reviewed) in science, technology, psychology, sociology and medicine.

SIRS Knowledge Source Find full-text newspaper and magazine articles, government and primary source documents, select websites, graphics, media, and more on a wide variety of social issues and current events. Access Pro vs. Con essays for hundreds of controversial topics.

Testing & Education Reference Center Find practice tests and study materials for many major tests, including GED, NCLEX, ASVAB and TOEFL, as well as information on colleges, scholarships, and awards.

WOIS/The Career Information System Access detailed information (job descriptions, wages and benefits, job outlook, training required, and more) about hundreds of careers in Washington State.

World Conflicts Today (Legacy Platform) Find concise, reliable, and up-to-date information about the history, obstacles, and implications of world conflicts like those in Afghanistan, Darfur, Iraq, Northern Ireland, and the Palestinian Territories.