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Note: Off-campus access to the following subscription databases is limited to those with a current GCC student, faculty, or staff library card. Community members who have a library card from any Massachusetts library can access free databases provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Unable to find the full text of an article in a particular database? Search the eJournal Locator to see if we have it in any of our other databases.
Alphabetical List of Databases | Subject List of Databases
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
Academic
Search Premier (EBSCOhost) (some full
text)
Provides indexing and some full text for thousands of articles in a variety of academic areas of study
including the social sciences, humanities, education, computer
sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature,
medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Alt-PressWatch (ProQuest) (mostly full text)
Includes
the full text of articles from newspapers, magazines and journals
from alternative and independent presses.
American History Online (full
text)
Includes dozens of books, plus images, maps, charts, and timelines related to American history.
The American Mosaic (full
text)
Focuses on the history and culture of African and Latino Americans. Includes articles, interviews with former slaves, primary documents such as letters and speeches, photos, maps, charts, a timeline, and Spanish language folktales, recipes and primary documents.
B
Biography
Resource Center & Marquis Who's Who (InfoTrac)* (full
text)
Includes biographies from Gale sources, including
Contemporary Authors, and full-text articles from hundreds of
periodicals.
Biomedical
Reference Collection: Basic (EBSCOhost) (full text)
Provides access to full text journals that cover clinical medicine,
nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system
and the pre-clinical sciences.
Book
Index With Reviews (full
text)
Includes publishing information and reviews of books, including
new releases and forthcoming titles.
Business
Source Premier (EBSCOhost) (mostly full
text)
Provides full text articles back to 1965 and
searchable cited references back as far as 1998 in the fields
of management, economics, finance, accounting, international business
and more.
C
Chronicle of Higher Education (full
text)
The complete online version of the premier weekly source of higher education news, including archives and job ads. An RSS feed is available.
CINAHL with Full Text (EBSCOhost) (limited full
text)
The Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature
is the primary index for nursing and provides citations and abstracts
for nursing, allied health and health sciences journals. It includes the full text of more than 550 journals, some dating back to 1982. See also: Pre-CINAHL.
Columbia
Granger's World of Poetry (full
text)
A searchable online version of key Columbia poetry reference books,
including The Classic Hundred Poems, The Top 500 Poems, The Columbia
Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies, The Columbia Granger's
Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works, and The
Columbia Granger's Index to African-American Poetry.
Contemporary
Literary Criticism - Select (InfoTrac)* (full text)
Includes more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors.
Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction,
a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further
study.
CQ
Researcher (full text)
CQ Researcher offers nonpartisan, in-depth reports on important
contemporary issues. Each issue contains a chronology of the issue,
bibliographies and a pro and con section.
Credo Reference (full text)
A collection of about 250 reference books in a range of subjects. Find the full title list here.
D
Daily Life Online (full text)
Offers books, articles, images, maps, primary documents, and web links
related to daily life around the world throughout history and contemporary cultures around the world today.
E
EBSCOhost
A vendor offering 23 individual databases in a variety of subject areas.
EBSCO
Animals (full text)
Provides full text information on the nature and habitat of familiar
animals.
Encyclopedia Britannica (full text)
This is a search and directory site featuring selections from the Encyclopædia Britannica, news, and their editors' suggestions
for the Web's best sites. Recommended for locating quality
web sites.
ERIC (EBSCOhost)
This primary index for education from the U.S. Department of Education
Educational Resource Information Center contains citations and
abstracts for educational and education-related journals and full
text of ERIC digests.
Europa World (full text)
An online version of the Europa World Year Book, which includes political and economic information for over 250 countries and territories.
Expanded
Academic ASAP (InfoTrac)*
Covers all academic disciplines and provides
abstracts and some full text of articles from scholarly journals,
news magazines, and newspapers.
F
Fantasy Jazz Catalogue
A collection of jazz music recordings.
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center (full text)
Includes information about careers and career preparation, including scholarships and academic and non-academic programs.
Funk
& Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCOhost) (full
text)
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering
a variety of subject areas.
G
Gale Virtual Reference Library (InfoTrac)* (full text) Includes encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
GenderWatch (ProQuest) (mostly full text)
Includes
publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum
of subject areas. With its archival material, dating back to 1970
in some cases, GenderWatch is a repository of an important historical
perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes
in gender roles.
General
Business File ASAP (InfoTrac)* (mostly full
text)
Useful for analyzing company performance and
activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in
management, economics and politics.
General
OneFile (InfoTrac)*
One-stop source for news and periodical articles
on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events,
economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies,
humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social
sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.
General
Reference Center Gold (InfoTrac)*
A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources
(newspapers, reference books, and periodicals) in one interface.
Global Road Warrior Country Database (full text)
A guide for companies and individuals traveling to or doing business in foreign countries. Covering 175 countries, it addresses 22 categories of interest to travelers, including business culture, communications, demographics, money and banking, points of interest, security, society and culture, tips for businesswomen, transportation, and travel essentials. Also includes maps and photographs.
Grove Art* (full text)
Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The
Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art,
as well as links to image databases containing over 100,000 images.
H
Health Reference Center Academic (InfoTrac)* (full text) Provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus personal health information sources.
Health
Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCOhost) (mostly
full text)
Provides consumer health information on
topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition,
childcare, sports medicine and general health. Includes full text
for nearly 150 journals.
Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)
Provides nearly
550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Also includes abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
I
InfoTrac*
A vendor offering 13 databases in a variety of subject areas.
Issues: Understanding Controversies and Society (full text)
Offers information on controversial issues from multiple perspectives.
J
Junior
Edition - K12 (InfoTrac)*
Designed for students in junior high
and middle school, this database provides citations and articles
from magazines, newspapers, and reference books.
K
Kids
InfoBits (InfoTrac)* (full text)
Designed for grades K-5, this database provides easy access to
magazine, reference book, and newspaper citations and articles.
L
Lexis-Nexis
Academic (full text)
Provides access to a wide range of information: news (U.S.
and the world, transcripts, arts & sports, non-English language);
business information (news, financial information, company comparisons,
SEC filings, industry information); legal information (news, federal
and state case law, U.S. Supreme Court cases, topical law, federal
and state codes, tax law, patents, legal directories); medical (news,
abstracts); and general reference information (biographies, country
profiles, polls & surveys, quotations, state profiles, world
almanac).
Literary Reference Center (EBSCOhost)* (full text)
Provides reference information on literature from antiquity to the present day, combining information from books, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, literary journals, and unique sources. Includes detailed information on the most studied authors and their works.
M
MAS
Ultra - School Edition (EBSCOhost) (full
text)
Designed for high school students, this database
provides full text for appropriate periodicals plus pamphlets,
articles from reference books, biographies, primary source documents
and an image collection including photos, maps, and flags.
MasterFILE
Premier (EBSCOhost) (mostly full text)
Provides full text as far back as 1975 for general reference
publications, and indexing with some full text for periodicals.
Also includes full text reference books, biographies, primary
source documents, and an Image Collection of photos, maps and
flags.
MEDLINE (EBSCOhost)
Created by the National Library of Medicine, this primary index
for medicine provides citations and abstracts from authoritative
medical journals in a variety of medical fields.
Military
& Government Collection (EBSCOhost)
Provides abstracts and some
full text coverage for periodicals pertaining to all branches
of the military and government.
N
NewsBank Comprehensive
Newspapers* (full text)
Provides access to full-text news articles, editorials, and
more from the Boston Globe (1980-present), Berkshire Eagle (2003-present),
and Springfield Union-News (1988-present).
Newspaper
Source (EBSCOhost) (full text)
Provides
full text for regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers,
news transcripts and more.
NoveList (full text)
An electronic readers' advisory resource that assists fiction
readers in finding new authors and titles. Includes book and
award lists, reviews, materials for all ages, and fiction-related
web sites.
O
Oxford English Dictionary/OED (full text)
An online version of the dictionary.
P
Pre-CINAHL (EBSCOhost)
A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide
current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating
file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching),
which are available to searchers only for the time when these
articles are being assigned additional indexing, in preparation
for inclusion in CINAHL. See also: CINAHL with Full Text.
Primary
Search (EBSCOhost) (full text)
Provides full text articles for elementary school research.
Professional
Development Collection (EBSCOhost)
Designed for professional educators.
Provides abstracts and some full text of journal articles, as
well as educational reports.
ProQuest
A vendor through which we subscribe to the following three databases: Alt-PressWatch, GenderWatch, and ProQuest Newspapers.
ProQuest Newspapers (full text)
Includes the full text of articles from over ten Massachusetts newspapers.
Psychology
and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCOhost)
Includes abstracts
and some full text of articles on topics such as emotional and
behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental
processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
PsycINFO (EBSCOhost)
Created by the American Psychological Association, this primary
database for psychology indexes and abstracts articles in the
field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines
(medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology,
physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law).
R
Regional
Business News (EBSCOhost) (full text)
Provides full text coverage of business journals, newspapers and
newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United
States.
Religion
and Philosophy Collection (EBSCOhost) (mostly
full text)
Provides full
text coverage of world religions, major denominations, biblical
studies, religious history, political and moral philosophy, and
other philosophy topics.
S
The
Serials Directory (EBSCOhost)
Provides current information on thousands
of serial publications.
Science
Online* (full text)
Contains 2,500 biographies on key scientists throughout history;
more than 6,000 essays on current issues in science, technology,
and society; more than 29,000 definitions; more than 3,300 printable
diagrams; more than 600 experiments covering key principles in science;
and more than 5,600 timelines, organized by time period or scientific
topic.
Student
Edition (InfoTrac)*
Designed for high school students, this database
provides access to a variety of indexed and full-text articles
from magazines, newspapers, and reference books.
W
World Folklore and Folklife (full text)
Includes the full text of references books related to folktales, myths, legends, rituals, celebrations, and traditions
from around the world.
* Funding for these resources is provided through the
joint efforts of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
and the six Massachusetts Regional Library Systems
Most annotations are taken directly from the database.
Last updated August 2007 by Ellen Carey, GCC Library Co-Coordinator.