South Puget Sound Community College
Library-Media Center
Online Databases
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| Magazines and Journals | Ebsco |
Ebsco: A searchable collection of full text articles from over 6,000 journals, magazines and other sources going back about ten years. This database has a special segment (Business Source Elite) focusing on business, computing and technology |
| Proquest | Proquest: A searchable collection of full text articles from over 1200 journals, magazines, and newspapers. A good source for newspaper articles, editorials and commentaries. The database includes about 50 newspapers from Washington State | |
| Geriatric Nursing | Geriatric Nursing: A searchable collection of peer-reviewed articles from the journal Geriatric Nursing offering clinical information and management advice about the care of older adults. Written for nurses and nurse managers | |
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Current Issues |
CQ Researcher: A searchable collection of original, comprehensive and unbiased reports written by journalists and political analysts on current political and social issues | |
| Opposing Viewpoints: Information on current social issues, including viewpoint articles, statistics, websites, overviews, primary documents, and full-text articles from magazines and newspapers |
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Books & Media |
SPSCC Library-Media Catalog: Searchable access to the library’s 50,000 print and 6.000 media holdings, including books, magazines, journals and media materials such as video and DVD recordings | |
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Encyclopedias |
Encyclopedia Americana: A college level encyclopedia containing short, general articles on topics in the areas of history, art, science, society, geography, sports, religion, and technology. Articles include web links | |
| Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, a middle school level encyclopedia for use by English As A Foreign Language, English As A Second Language and Adult Basic Education students containing short, general articles on a wide variety of topics. Features include timelines, games, "research starters," and a selective guide to anniversaries and other observances | ||
| Access Science: Your online gateway to a library of science and technology information containing over 8,000 articles written by leading figures in their field | ||
| Dictionaries | OED | Oxford English Dictionary |
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Careers |
Washington Occupational Information System: A private, nonprofit, Olympia, Washington based organization that gathers and distributes information about Washington careers, schools and training programs. Includes job listings by profession | |
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Cultural and Social Life |
The eHRAF World Cultures: A cross-cultural database containing over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing database is unique in that the information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level | |
| Country Watch | CountryWatch: Includes the CountryReviewsTM, an up-to-date series of publications for each country including demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information |
| Library Homepage (telephone: 360.596.5271) |  |
SPSCC Homepage (telephone: 360.754.7711) |