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All Databases & LibGuides
Browse the Library's complete list of databases and libguides by title.

ABC-CLIO ebooks
55 volume collection covering current topics, culture and medicine.

Academic OneFile
Academic journals; podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and CBC; full-text New York Times back to 1995.

Academic Search Premier
Wide coverage scholarly database covering many academic areas. Full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles.

Agriculture
Broad agricultural coverage including spans practical farming and recent scientific research in horticulture.

All EBSCO
Search one or more EBSCO Databases at the same time.

All EBSCO Health
Search all of EBSCO's health databases at one time.

All Gale/Infotrac
List of all Gale/Infotrac databases available to NSCC.

Biography in Context
Over 600,000 biographies from reference content, periodicals and multimedia. Search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places.

Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic
Full text for over 100 medical journals.

Bloom's Literary Criticism
Thousands of critical articles published by noted scholars under the Bloom's Literary Criticism series; includes "Bloom's How to Write About:"with specific advice on how to write good essays on popularly assigned authors.

Books & Authors
Through the use of expertly written and arranged content and a dynamic online interface, Books & Authors makes exploration of genre fiction and essential non-fiction fun. Includes the entire "What Do I Read Next?" collection.

Britannica Online
Comprehensive encyclopedia.

Business & Company Resource Center
Company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.

Business Economics and Theory
Subject specific full text journals.

Business Source Premier
Scholarly business journals and publications.

Chronicle of Higher Education
Higher ed. news and issues. Access via Campus Pipeline under the "My Pipeline" tab.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Provides indexing for 3001 nursing and allied health journals, with indexing back to 1937. Full text for 750 journals.

Communication & Mass Media
From marketing professionals to students studying for advanced degrees in linguistic theory, this collection provides current and accurate information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field including advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and more.

Contemporary Literary Criticism
Critical essays on contemporary authors. Entries contain biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study.

CQ Researcher
Current affairs and controversial issues. Authoritative resources in American government, politics, history, public policy.

Credo Reference
Reference books; 66,000 art, science & medical images; 90,000 atlas pages. Create customized exportable data tables; visual concept maps of search results.

Criminal Justice
Law enforcement, paralegal, law resources.

Culinary Arts
Cooking and nutrition, including thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

Diversity Studies
Explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community.

Easybib
Automatic bibliography and citation maker for NSCC students, faculty and staff.

eBooks (EBSCOhost)
Over 6700 purchased and public domain eBooks published before 2004.

ebrary
Over 20,000 online books covering all NSCC academic disciplines including Nursing and Allied Health, Computer Technology, Business, Criminal Justice, College Success, Testing Guides and Career Information.

EBSCO Business Searching Interface
Easy interface to EBSCO business information.

Educator's Reference Complete
Academic journals, reports, and premier reference sources on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education.

Educators Collection
Customized subject specific journal content.

Environmental Issues & Policy Collection
Over 200 journals offering multiple viewpoints of this volatile field, including perspectives from the scientific community, government, and corporate interests.

ERIC
Educational Resource Information Center

Expanded Academic ASAP
Scholarly journals in literature and humanities.

Films on Demand
Over 6,200 full-length programs and 65,800 video segments streamed on demand from Films for the Humanities, BBC, CBC, PBS and others. Subjects include humanities, science, business, health, technical education, careers and counseling. Watch an entire episode, or just one indexed segment keyed to your search.

Fine Arts and Music
More than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, supporting research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and film making.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Gardening, Landscape & Horticulture
Journals and reference sources in horticulture, agriculture and related fields.

Gender Studies
Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues.

General Business File ASAP
Broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directories.

General OneFile
Wide ranging general resources including images.

General Reference Center Gold
Articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals.

General Science Collection
Over 200 journals providing the information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments, including such topics as particle physics, advanced mathematics, and nanotechnology.

Global Issues in Context
International viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues.

GreenFILE
Covers human impact to the environment, drawing on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

Health and Wellness Resource Center
Nearly 400 health/medical journals, numerous reference volumes, over 700 health videos from partner Healthology, pamphlets and health-related articles from 2,200 general interest publications and reference book content.

Health Reference Center Academic
Diseases, public health, nutrition, etc.

Health Source: Consumer Edition
Consumer health articles and information.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic
Scholarly medical journals and medical dictionary.

Home Improvement
For hobbyists and professional carpenters alike. Coverage includes architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more.

Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure
Coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field, including cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism, and more.

Information Science & Library Issues
Content from nearly 100 leading industry journals providing current and accurate information for the information professional, including such topics as data processing, metadata architectures, and more.

Informe
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos, 1994-corriente.

Infotrac Junior Edition
Magazines, newspapers and reference books for junior high and middle school students.

Infotrac Student Edition
Periodical database for elementary school students

Insurance & Liability
Includes topics such as labor relations, mortgage banking, and legal issues.

Issues and Controversies
In-depth investigations of today's top issues.

Issues and Controversies in American History
Information on the great debates of American History. It captures the passions and arguments of the Americans who decided the crucial questions in our nation's history.

Journal of the American Medical Association
Full text 1998-current. Citations and abstracts 1883-1997

JSTOR
497 scholarly titles in arts & sciences (JSTOR A&S II + III), and Language & Literature.

Kids Infobits
Research topics for students Kindergarten through Grade 5.

Lexis-Nexis
Regional, national and international business news sources; New York Times (1980-); legal resources.

Libguides
Research assistance, subject guides, and useful resources compiled by your friendly librarians. Know what we know - find it in LibGuides!

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Librarianship, information science, cataloging, online information retrieval, information management and more. Indexes nearly 600 periodicals, books, research reports, and proceedings back to the 1960's.

Literary Reference Center
Literary criticism; plot summaries; biographies & interviews; reviews & literary journals; full text of poems, short stories & novels; images.

Literature Resource Center
Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Literature Resources from Gale
Searches across Gale Literature Resource Center LitFinder and Gale Virtual Reference Library.

LitFinder
A wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. Also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.

Magill's Medical Guide
Concise coverage of diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and medical issues.

MAS Ultra
School Edition - periodical database for high school students; selected content back to 1975.

Massachusetts History Online
Full-text articles from almost 50 sources directly relating to Mass. history.

Massachusetts Newsstand
Boston Globe (1980-), Boston Herald (1991-) and other Massachusetts newspapers.

MasterFILE Premier
General interest publications, reference books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags.

Medline
National Library of Medicine's authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine and the health care system.

Middle Search Plus
Magazines, newspapers and reference books for junior high and middle school students.

Military & Government Collection
current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.

Military and Intelligence Collection
Over 400 journals covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs.

NAXOS Music Library
Over 67000 CD length recordings of classical, jazz, world, and other music.

New England Journal of Medicine
Full text access 1990-current. Citations and abstracts 1812-1989.

New York Times
1980-current.

Newspaper Source
Regional, national and international newspapers; television & radio news transcripts.

NoodleBib 6
Generate, edit, and publish an MLA Works Cited list or APA References list that complies with the rules of the current MLA Handbook and APA Manual. NoodleBib takes care of punctuation, alphabetization and formatting, producing a polished source list for import into Word. To access NoodleBib off campus, login in to your Pipeline account and choose NoodleBib under the Library heading on the right side of the page.

Nursing and Allied Health
Covers all aspects of the Nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Access pro/con articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

Overdrive Audio Books
Growing collection of over 100 audio and ebooks for download to your computer or portable audio device.

Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine
Includes treatment techniques & experimental research theses.

Pop Culture
Appropriate for social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.

Popular Magazines
One thousand of the most searched magazines as supplied by Gale. Consumer Reports, Time, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, US News and World Report, Vogue, Fortune, Business Week, National Review, Cosmopolitan, NPR, and even Oprah.

Primary Search
Topics for elementary school research.

Professional Development Collection
Comprehensive specialized collection of scholarly education journals and reports.

Psychology Collection
200 subject appropriate journals and 16 ebook titles.

Pyschology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Psychology & psychiatry.

RDS Business Suite
A compilation of three business related databases, RDS Business Suite useful when searching for broad profiling information about companies or industries.

Regional Business News
From metropolitan and rural areas in the U.S.

Religion & Philosophy Collection (from EBSCO)
World religions, biblical studies, religious history and philosophy.

Religion & Philosophy Collection (from Gale)
Over 250 subject appropriate journals.

Science in Context
Contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics.

Serials Directory
Information on, and pricing for, nearly 212,000 popular serials.

Serials Solutions Full Text Magazine/Journal Index
Index to titles of full text holdings of NSCC library electronic and print journal collections

Small Business
For business classes and entrepreneurs, provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories.

Student Resources in Context
General information with emphasis on high school level materials.

Teacher Reference Center
Coverage of education topics such as Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedogogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Math, and Teacher Education.

Today's Science
Contemporary science issues, written especially for students.

U.S. History Collection
Over 400,000 articles on U.S. History

U.S. History in Context
Contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History.

Virtual Reference Library
92 volume database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multi-disciplinary research.

Vocation & Careers
Content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.

War & Terrorism
History, social science and current events.

World History Collection
Articles on world history, as well as scholarly work being established in the field.

World History in Context
Merges reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.

WorldCat (OCLC)
Search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world, offering more than 46 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages with holdings information.