A - Z | Find Courses | Find People | Search Site | NSCC Home
North Shore Community College Library
Databases by Subject
To select the most appropriate database for your research, read the description below the database name or Ask a Librarian for assistance in selecting the best databases for your topic.
<< Return to Subject List

General

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

General OneFile
Wide ranging general resources including images.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.