Quick Start: All Subjects
These are comprehensive databases that are a great place to start research in any discipline.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Central is the largest, multidisciplinary, full-text database available in the market today. This resource provides access to 47 of ProQuest's complete databases, with a variety of content types across over 175 subjects, making this the broadest single research resource in the world.
Academic Search Complete - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887.
MasterFILE Complete - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
MasterFILE Complete provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications dating back to 1922. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Complete also contains full text for more than 1,000 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as over 502,000 photos, maps, and flags.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Credo Reference provides "background information to start your research" with over 11,300 topics across subjects and disciplines. Credo provides articles and images from discipline-specific reference sources, including mind maps to help find related topics and keywords.
SIRS Issues Researcher - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
SIRS Issues Researcher provides authoritative insight into the most-studied social issues by delivering the pros and cons from relevant, credible documents and graphics selected by trained editors and curated from over 2,000 global sources.
Databases by Subject
Arts and Humanities
Arts & Humanities - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.
Applied Sciences
Computers and Applied Sciences Complete - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Computers and Applied Sciences Complete covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. CASC provides full text for more than 1,000 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection.
STEM Databases - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Business
Business - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
US and international business academic journal articles, newspapers, magazines, and more.
Business Source Elite - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Business Source Elite provides full text for over 1,000 business publications. The rich collection of titles provides information dating back to 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
Regional Business News - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
EDGAR This link opens in a new window bizfile Online This link opens in a new window SBVC Data Dashboards This link opens in a new window
Communications and Pro-Con
Communication and Mass Media Complete - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC) provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates numerous journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC includes full text for over 450 journals.
Humanities International Complete - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Humanities International Complete provides hundreds of full-text journals, books, and other published sources from around the world. It includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,300 journals and more than 2.9 million records) plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 1,200 journals.
Points of View Reference Center - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Points of View Reference Center is a full-text database that provides a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications.
SIRS Issues Researcher - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
SIRS Issues Researcher provides authoritative insight into the most-studied social issues by delivering the pros and cons from relevant, credible documents and graphics selected by trained editors and curated from over 2,000 global sources.
Computing
Computers and Applied Sciences Complete - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Computers and Applied Sciences Complete covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. CASC provides full text for more than 1,000 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection.
STEM Databases - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text contains more than 400,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline. Subject areas covered include criminology; criminal justice; criminal law and procedure; corrections and prisons; police and policing; criminal investigation; forensic sciences and investigation; history of crime; substance abuse and addiction; probation and parole.
Education
Education - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Education Database supports the study and application of education across all levels of education, including early childhood education, primary and secondary education, and higher education.
Education Research Complete - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides full text for more than 1,200 journals and includes full text for nearly 500 books and monographs.
ERIC - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and research, from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.
Educational: Elementary and Secondary
MAS Ultra -- School Edition - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
MAS Ultra -- School Edition is designed specifically for high school libraries and contains full text for nearly 500 popular high school magazines; more than 360 full-text reference books; 85,670 biographies; over 107,000 primary source documents; over 510,000 photos, maps and flags; color PDFs; and expanded full-text back files (back to 1975) for key magazines.
Primary Search - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research dating back to 1990. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
Encyclopedia
English and Literature
Arts & Humanities - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.
Humanities International Complete - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Humanities International Complete provides hundreds of full-text journals, books, and other published sources from around the world. It includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,300 journals and more than 2.9 million records) plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 1,200 journals.
Literary Reference Center Plus - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Literary Reference Center Plus is a full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals, and original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Center Plus contains synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals, author biographies, full-text classic novels, short stories, and poems, and more than 1,200 full-text literary reference books/works, 200 full-text literary journals and magazines, 35 volumes of new contemporary literature titles from Salem Press, 40 full-text literary study guides, and 72 literary videos.
Environmental Science
Environment Complete - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Environment Complete contains more than 2.4 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888 (including over 1,350 active core titles) as well as more than 190 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 920 journals.
GreenFILE - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government, and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
STEM Databases - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Film and Video
Kanopy This link opens in a new window Alexander Street (AVON) This link opens in a new window
Alexander Street's Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers over 70,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Health: Consumer Information
Health Source: Consumer Edition - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Health Source: Consumer Edition is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health, with access to nearly 80 full-text, consumer health magazines.
Omnigraphics Health Reference Series Online This link opens in a new windowUsername: valleycollege Password: sbvcomni!
Health, Behavioral Science, and Medicine
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
MEDLINE - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings, and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
STEM Databases - ProQuest This link opens in a new window Omnigraphics Health Reference Series Online This link opens in a new windowUsername: valleycollege Password: sbvcomni!
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. This is the world's largest full-text psychology database, offering full-text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
Salem Press Online This link opens in a new window
Salem Press includes Magill's Literary Annual (Masterplots), which is designed for the student approaching a subject for the first time, the reader trying to decide which book to read for pleasure, the teacher needing a quick reminder of a character's name in a book read many years ago, the graduate student reviewing for orals, the reference desk librarian needing to quickly answer a question for a patron. The database also includes books on history, criminal justice, social justice, and behavioral health.
History
America: History and Life with Full Text - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
America: History and Life with Full Text is the definitive database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. America: History and Life with Full Text provides full-text coverage of more than 200 journals and nearly 100 books.
Black Freedom Struggle This link opens in a new window
Open-access primary source documents, including historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence, and more from specific time periods in U.S. history marked by the opposition African Americans have faced on the road to freedom.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Historical Abstracts with Full Text is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and much more. With access to the full text of more than 349 journals and more than 120 books, Historical Abstracts with Full Text is unmatched in its scope and breadth of historical and related social science literature.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature. This important resource offers a wide range of researchers access to information about history, culture and seminal developments across nearly a century.
Salem Press Online This link opens in a new window
Salem Press includes Magill's Literary Annual (Masterplots), which is designed for the student approaching a subject for the first time, the reader trying to decide which book to read for pleasure, the teacher needing a quick reminder of a character's name in a book read many years ago, the graduate student reviewing for orals, the reference desk librarian needing to quickly answer a question for a patron. The database also includes books on history, criminal justice, social justice, and behavioral health.
Library Science
Library Science - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Library Science Database gives users full-text access to a selection of publications relevant to library and information science.
Nursing
Ovid Nursing Journals This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to AJN (American Journal of Nursing), Nursing, and Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
MEDLINE - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings, and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
STEM Databases - ProQuest This link opens in a new window Omnigraphics Health Reference Series Online This link opens in a new windowUsername: valleycollege Password: sbvcomni!
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. This is the world's largest full-text psychology database, offering full-text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
Points of View: Current Issues and Pro-Con
Points of View Reference Center - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Points of View Reference Center is a full-text database that provides a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications.
SIRS Issues Researcher - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
SIRS Issues Researcher provides authoritative insight into the most-studied social issues by delivering the pros and cons from relevant, credible documents and graphics selected by trained editors and curated from over 2,000 global sources.
Political Science
Political Science Complete - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Political Science Complete provides full text for more than 520 journals. The database also features over 340 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 36,000 full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association.
SIRS Issues Researcher - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
SIRS Issues Researcher provides authoritative insight into the most-studied social issues by delivering the pros and cons from relevant, credible documents and graphics selected by trained editors and curated from over 2,000 global sources.
Psychology
Psychology - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. This is the world's largest full-text psychology database, offering full-text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
Sociology and Social Issues
Social Science Database - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Social Science Database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908, more than 830 books and monographs, and over 16,800 conference papers.
Military and Government Collection - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Military and Government Collection offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, including a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other pertinent content. It provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals.
Points of View Reference Center - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Points of View Reference Center is a full-text database that provides a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications.
SIRS Issues Researcher - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
SIRS Issues Researcher provides authoritative insight into the most-studied social issues by delivering the pros and cons from relevant, credible documents and graphics selected by trained editors and curated from over 2,000 global sources.