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Academic Search Premier

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a robust multidisciplinary database that can be used to find information on research paper topics for any of your classes at EVC. This database includes newspaper, magazine and scholarly (peer review) journal articles.

African American Experience

African American Experience
The African American Exprience is an encyclopedia of information about African American life and experiences including history, biographies, literature, arts, music, pop culture, folklore, business, slavery, Civil Rights, politics, sports, education, science & technology, etc. In this database you will find reference articles and primary sources such as manuscripts, speeches, interviews.

America: History & Life

America History and Life
American History and Life is an excellent database for finding information on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.

Auto Repair Reference Center

Biography in Context

Book Index with Reviews

Business Source Elite

Business Source Elite
Business Source Elite provides full-text coverage of scholarly business, management and economics journals. This collection also includes publications covering topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales, etc. This database includes newspaper, magazine and scholarly (peer review) journal articles. Over 10,000 Company Profiles are also included.

CINAHL

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL Plus with Full Text is a health database with a heavy nursing perspective that covers a wide range of topics including nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. This database includes peer reviewed primary research articles, Evidence-Based Care Sheets, Quick Lessons, research instruments records and CEUs.

CountryWatch

Country Watch
CountryWatch provides up-to-date news and information on each of the recognized countries of the world.

CQ Researcher

CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher includes current, hot topic reports providing unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.

eBooks: Academic Collection (EBSCO)

EBSCO ebook Collection
EBSCO eBooks provides full text access to academic eBooks.

Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica
Britannica Online is a searchable online encyclopedia. This database is a great starting point for your research; get an overview of a topic and identify some keywords you can use to search for articles.

ERIC

ERIC
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, covers all aspects of research about education, including journal articles, research syntheses, conference papers, technical reports, and policy papers.

Gale Virtual Reference Library Database

Gale eBooks
Gale eBooks contains keyword searchable reference sources. This is a good starting point for your research project. Use this database to get an overview of a topic and identify keywords and topics to identify further research.

Artemis Literary Databases

An integrated resource allowing you to search for novelists, poems, short stories, literary themes, criticism, and more in one interface.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a search engine that provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

Unfortunately, you will not have access to all articles that you find through Google Scholar. Those articles that you can access will have the pdf links to the right of the result. Also the advanced search options are limited so be sure to evaluate your articles for the requirements of this project.

Health Source: Consumer Edition

Health Source: Consumer Edition
Health Source provides easy-to-read information on many health topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc. This resource provides access to consumer health magazines, current health-related pamphlets, health reference books, Clinical Reference Systems reports and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic

Health Source: Nursing/Academic
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides information on many health topics with a strong focus on nursing and allied health articles. This database includes newspaper, magazine and scholarly (peer review) journal articles.

Issues and Controversies

Issues and Controversies
Issues & Controversies provides reports that explore hundreds of hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture. This is a great database for the beginning of the research process since it provides foundational overviews for nearly 800 current topics that profoundly impact society.

Latino American Experience

Latino American Experience
The Latino American Experience (LAE) is a full-text database focusing on the history and culture of Latinos living in the United States. LAE’s content spans from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas, through the Spanish and Mexican settlement of much of what is now the United States, to the triumphs and challenges facing present-day U.S. Latinos.In this database you will find reference articles and primary sources such as manuscripts, speeches, interviews.

Lexis Nexis

NexisUni
NexisUni is a full-text news and information service that provides access to newspapers published throughout the United States. Use this database to find day-by-day accounts or local/regional perspectives of events that impact society. Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 newspaper, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.

Literature Resource Center

Masterfile Database

MasterFILE Complete
MasterFILE is a multidisciplinary database that covers a variety of areas including general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. In this database you will find magazine articles, reference entries, and primary source documents.

MEDLINE

MEDLINE
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, this resource is primarily a citation database with some fulltext scholarly peer-reviewed articles and government reports available.

Opposing Viewpoints

Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Opposing Viewpoints In Context provides information on controversial issues in society. In this database you will find viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, biographies, primary documents, academic journal articles newspaper and magazine articles. Use the viewpoint articles to help you form an argument for your controversial issue paper!

PubMed

PubMed is free to the public and comprises more than 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Click here to search citation and full text articles from Nursing journals in PubMed.

Newspaper Source Database

Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source includes more than 1,000 full-text newspapers, providing more than 38 million full-text articles.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. In this database you will find, primary research articles, magazine and scholarly peer-review journal articles.

Religion and Philosophy Collection

Science In Context

Science in Context
Science in Context features authoritative information for assignments and projects, and provides detailed coverage of popular subjects from earth science and life science, to space, technology, mathematics and science history and biography. This database includes topic overviews, encyclopedia entries, biographies, magazine, newspaper and academic journal articles.

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