Databases by Type of Resource
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Academic, Peer-Reviewed, and Scholarly Articles
(see also Database by Subject, in the blue menu, to find subject databases with academic articles)
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.
Newspapers and Magazines
ProQuest US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
US Newsstream enables users to search current and extensive backfiles of U.S. news content and features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format.
ProQuest US Major Dailies This link opens in a new window
U.S. Major Dailies provides access to the five most respected U.S. national and regional newspapers, including The New York Times and Washington Post, co-exclusive access to The Wall Street Journal, and exclusive access to Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune. The titles offer researchers thorough and timely coverage of local, regional, and world events with journalistic balance and perspective. The content is available by 8am each day and provides archives stretching as far back as 1985.
Ethnic NewsWatch - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Ethnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database also provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
Newspaper Source Plus - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
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.
Background Information, Reference, and Pro-Con
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.
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.
eBooks
All Subjects
eBook Academic Collection - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
The eBook Academic Collection contains a large selection of multidisciplinary titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter. The breadth of information available through this package ensures that users will have access to information relevant to their research needs.
eBook Community College Collection - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
The eBook Community College Collection focuses on the academic and trade information needs of community colleges. This multidisciplinary collection covers topics across programs and fields of study as well as key subject areas such as the Humanities and Social Sciences, Business, Science & Technology, and Literary Criticism. The complexity of the information available in this collection varies from introductory to higher-level content.
Ebook Central - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Ebook Central Academic Complete provides authoritative, full-text e-books in a wide range of subject areas along with powerful tools to find, use, and manage the information. To download, request an account with your Valley College email address.
Health and Medicine
Literature, History, and Science
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.
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.
Film and Video Streaming
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.