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Academic Video Online: Premium (AVON)
A collection of streaming, close-captioned academic video content. This collection includes more than 40,000 videos covering a wide range of academic disciplines. Users may browse the collection by discipline or collection, or you may search by entering keywords into the search box. Faculty may create clips and playlists of videos and embed content in online courses.
Academic Search Premier
Designed specifically for academic institutions, EBSCO Academic Search Premier is a scholarly, full text, multidisciplinary database, indexing more than 8,200 journals, with full text for nearly 4,500 of those titles, covering the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences.
Agricola
Bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 4.6 million citations. Includes journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.
Credo Reference
Contains over 3 million full text entries in 486 reference books, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, and measurement conversions.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. The Chronicle (online) is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe.
Fuente Academica
Fuente Académica provides a collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. This database covers all major subject areas with particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion and sociology.
Full Text Finder
Full Text Finder is a way for you to search for Peninsula College Library's online journal and magazine holdings by title or subject discipline. Begin typing your publication title or subject into the search, and the auto complete feature will present a list of suggestions. The Browse By Discipline list also connects you to all of the Library's journal and magazine titles within a wide variety of subject disciplines.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
EBSCOhost’s Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. The database contains various images, biographies, and subject entries on a variety of topics. Updated annually.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Search the Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) for useful background information such as definitions, biographies, concept descriptions, and research overviews.
JSTOR
The JSTOR database is an online archive of full-text scholarly content spanning the humanities and social sciences. Strong coverage in Art, Business, Education, History, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, and Sociology.
Legal Collection
Full-text, scholarly law journals covering criminal justice, ethics, federal law, international law, labor & human resource law, medical law, organized crime, environmental law, and more.
LexisNexis Academic
Contains full-text articles from newspapers & magazines; transcripts from media & government; case law, statutes, regulations, legal reviews and topic analysis for legal research; company financials, market research, industry reports, case studies, and filings for business & industry research.
MAS Ultra - School Edition
MAS Ultra: School Edition provides full-text access to popular magazines including America's Civil War, American Heritage, American History, Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times, Congressional Digest, Discover, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II, and much more. All full-text articles are assigned a Lexile reading level indicator.
MasterFILE Premier
MasterFILE Premier provides archival access to magazines such as Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, National Review, Saturday Evening Post and more.
Middle Search Plus
Full-text middle school content including popular magazines, primary documents, maps, flags, images, biographies, and encyclopedia entries. Includes Essential Documents in American History, Encyclopedia of Animals, and more.
Military & Government Collection
EBSCOhost’s Military & Government Collection contains current news related to the military and government from full-text periodicals including Air Force Comptroller, Defence Studies, Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and more.
Primary Search
Full-text access to elementary school magazines, encyclopedias, images, and more. Includes Lexile reading indicators.
Professional Development Collection
EBSCOhost’s Professional Development Collection provides full-text access to articles and reports from education magazines and journals including Education, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Educational Leadership, Education Week, Education Digest, and more.
ProQuest Research Library
Provides one-stop access to more than 4,000 periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 academic disciplines.
Religion and Philosophy Collection
This collection contains full-text scholarly articles on a wide range of topics, including biblical studies, epistemology, the history of philosophy, moral philosophy, philology, political philosophy, religious history, and world religions.
TOPICsearch
TOPICsearch contains full text for tens of thousands of articles from diverse sources, including international newspapers, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
Vocational and Career Collection
Designed to meet a wide variety of vocational and technical research needs, this collection provides full-text coverage for trade and industry-related periodicals including Modern Machine Shop, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Reeves Journal, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age and many more.
Art & Humanities
Literary Database
Includes literary biographies and literary criticism. Comprised of three databases: "Contemporary Authors," "Contemporary Literary Criticism Select," and the "Dictionary of Literary Biography."
Pronunciator
Pronunciator is an online language-learning resource teaching conversation skills in over 80 languages, including English for non-native English speakers.
Business
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
ABI/INFORM includes in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics for more than 1,210 publications, with over 1,160 in full-text allowing study and comparison of specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals, and many others.
Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier is a leading business research database. Subject coverage includes marketing, management, accounting, finance, and economics. Includes SWOT analyses, company profiles, industry reports, market research reports, and more. Full text coverage dates back to 1965, and searchable cited references date back to 1998.
Regional Business News
EBSCOhost’s Regional Business News provides full-text access to trade publications, magazine, and news articles including the New York Times, The Washington Post, PR Newswire US, and more.
E-Books
ebrary Academic Complete
ebrary Academic Complete is a full-text database of e-books covering all subject areas. The collection currently includes more than 30,000 titles from more than 220 of the world’s leading academic, STM (scientific, technical, medical), and professional publishers. Please note: Ebrary schedules monthly system maintenance on the first Tuesday of each month, from 8:00PM to 10:00PM US Pacific Time. During this period, the ebrary service may be unavailable.
EBSCO eBook Collection
Representing a broad spectrum of subject categories, users can choose from fixed subject-specific collections to pick-and-choose customization options; you'll find the most in-demand eBooks and e-reference works.
Oxford Scholarship Online
This collection provides access to the digital version of books published by the Oxford University Press in the fields of Economics/ Finance, Political Science, and Business/ Management.
Education & Library Science
ERIC
EBSCOhost presents ERIC content—well over one million records and hundreds of thousands of full-text education documents dating back to 1966—in EBSCO’s familiar and useful interface.
LISTA
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Teacher Reference Center (TRC)
Journal information for K-12 teachers & librarians that provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more.
History & Social Science
CQ Researcher
The single-themed CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
CultureGrams Online
Designed to foster understanding and appreciation of the world's countries and peoples.
U.S. History in Context
Provides access to over 1,000 historical (primary) documents, more than 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journal covering U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.
World History in Context
Provides extensive coverage of the 20th century in addition to the ancient Mediterranean, Near East, Asia, Middle East, Latin America, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in over 2,000 primary sources, 25 reference titles and 110 academic journals.
News
Newspaper Source
EBSCOhost’s Newspaper Source provides full-text access to more than 40 U.S. and international newspapers. This database also contains selected content from over 330 regional U.S. news sources and radio and television transcripts from CBS News, CNN, FOX News, NPR, and more.
U.S. Major Dailies
Full text access to national newspapers. Titles include: The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.
U.S. West Newsstream
Full text access to 19 newspapers and trade journals from Washington state. Titles include Peninsula Daily News, Seattle Post, Intelligencer, Seattle Times, and Spokesman Review.
Science & Technology
AHFS Consumer Medication Information
AHFS Consumer Medication Information contains the core medication information from the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM’s) Medline Plus and Medline Plus Connect. This database is also featured on the FDA’s website and on DailyMed.
ALT HealthWatch
EBSCOhost’s Alt HealthWatch contains full-text articles related to complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. In addition to its journal content, this database contains hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
CiteSeerX
CiteSeerX is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeerX aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge.
Computer Source
EBSCOhost’s Computer Source contains full-text scholarly and popular content on a wide range of topics related to computers and computing, including: electronics, the internet, telecommunications, computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.
GreenFile
Focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, this database contains abstracts and indexing for more than 600 journals (300,000 scholarly and general interest articles) on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources. Full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles. Includes comprehensive coverage (from to volume 1, issue 1 to present) for Bioscience (back to 1964), Conservation Biology (back to 1987), Journal of Ecology (back to 1913) and Journal of Environmental Planning & Management (back to 1948).
Health Source - Consumer Edition
Health Source: Consumer Edition contains nearly 80 full-text consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Harvard Health Letter, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times and many others. This database also provides access to many searchable, full-text health reference books.
This collection covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, women's health and more. Also contains Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish) and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary.
Disclaimer: Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic provides over 500 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, and many more.
MedicLatina
This Spanish language medical database includes content from leading publications including; Revista Medica del IMSS, Revista Mexicana de Patologia Clinica, Boletin Medico del Hospital Infantil de Mexico, Archivos de Neurociencias, Revista Biomedica, Veterinaria Mexico, Salud Publica de Mexico, ACIMED and more.
MEDLINE
Created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is an authoritative bibliographic database that contains citations and abstracts for biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers engaged in clinical care, public health and health policy development.
Medline Plus
Contains details about the latest treatments, information on a drug or supplement, terminologies and definitions, in addition to medical videos or illustrations. You can also get links to the latest medical research on your topic or find out about clinical trials on a disease or condition.
ProQuest Family Health
ProQuest Family Health covers an enormous range of subjects of value in the public library context - from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry. It includes important general medical journals such as The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine as well as a strong selection of consumer and news magazines.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection provides access to nearly 540 full-text journals, including Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, European Archives of Psychiatry & Clinical Neuroscience, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, European Journal of Neuroscience, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, International Review of Psychiatry, Journal of Clinical & Experimental Neuropsychology, Journal of Mental Health, Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology and many more.
PsycARTICLES
EBSCO PsycARTICLES is a great resource for research in Psychology, other social sciences, and Human Services. This database provides full-text access to journal articles, book reviews, and editorials published by the American Psychological Association (APA). Coverage is current and comprehensive.
PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 21 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.
Science
Search Science Online for scholarly science research (Science, Science Signaling, Science Translational Medicine) and daily science news (Science Magazine, ScienceNoW).