Greenfield Community College

Databases (find articles)

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

Anthropology/Cultural Studies

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.

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.

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.

Issues: Understanding Controversies and Society (full text)
Offers information on controversial issues from multiple perspectives.

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.

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Art

Oxford Art Online * (full text)
Oxford Art Online provides web access tothe entire text of The Dictionary of Art, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encylopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, as well as links to over 45,000 images.

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Biography

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.

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.

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Business

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.

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.

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.

Lexis-Nexis Academic (full text)
Provides access to a wide range of business information including news, financial information, company comparisons, SEC filings, and industry information.

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.

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Careers

Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center (full text)
Includes information about careers and career preparation, including scholarships and academic and non-academic programs.

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Contemporary Issues

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.

Issues: Understanding Controversies and Society (full text)
Offers information on controversial issues from multiple perspectives.

NewsBank - America's Newspapers* (full text)
Provides access to the full text (excluding paid advertisments) of the Springfield Republican (1988-present), as well as special reports on current issues, and the full text of 28 popular news magazines.

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Databases For Children & Adolescents

EBSCO Animals (full text)
Provides full text information on the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

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.

Kids InfoBits (InfoTrac)* (full text)
Designed for grades K-5, this database provides easy access to magazine, reference book, and newspaper citations and articles.

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.

Primary Search (EBSCOhost) (full text)
Provides full text articles for elementary school research.

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.

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Education

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.

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.

Professional Development Collection (EBSCOhost)
Designed for professional educators. Provides abstracts and some full text of journal articles, as well as educational reports.

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General (covering multiple subject areas)

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.

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.

Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac)*
Covers all academic disciplines and provides abstracts and some full text of articles from scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers.

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 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.

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).

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.

NewsBank - America's Newspapers* (full text)
Provides access to the full text (excluding paid advertisments) of the Springfield Republican (1988-present), as well as special reports on current issues, and the full text of 28 popular news magazines.

Newspaper Source (EBSCOhost) (full text)
Provides full text for regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, news transcripts and more.

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Government

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.

Lexis-Nexis Academic (full text)
Provides access to a wide range of legal information including legal news, federal and state case law, U.S. Supreme Court cases, topical law, federal and state codes, tax law, patents, and legal directories.

Military & Government Collection (EBSCOhost)
Provides abstracts and some full text coverage for periodicals pertaining to all branches of the military and government.

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Health & Medicine

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.

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.

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.

Lexis-Nexis Academic (full text)
Provides access to medical news, journal articles, and Medline.

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.

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.

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History

American History Online (full text)
Includes dozens of books, plus images, maps, charts, and timelines related to American history.

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.

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Law

Lexis-Nexis Academic (full text)
Provides access to a wide range of legal information including legal news, federal and state case law, U.S. Supreme Court cases, topical law, federal and state codes, tax law, patents, and legal directories.

Military & Government Collection (EBSCOhost)
Provides abstracts and some full text coverage for periodicals pertaining to all branches of the military and government.


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Literature, Books, & Reading

Book Index With Reviews (full text)
Includes publishing information and reviews of books, including new releases and forthcoming titles.

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.

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.

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.

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Multicultural Studies

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Music

Fantasy Jazz Catalogue
A collection of jazz music recordings.

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Newspapers & Mass Media

Alt-PressWatch (ProQuest) (mostly full text)
Includes the full text of articles from newspapers, magazines and journals from alternative and independent presses.

Lexis-Nexis Academic (full text)
Provides access to a wide range of news including U.S. and the world, transcripts, arts & sports news, non-English language news. Also provides business news, legal news, medical news, and polls & surveys.

NewsBank - America's Newspapers* (full text)
Provides access to the full text (excluding paid advertisments) of the Springfield Republican (1988-present), as well as special reports on current issues, and the full text of 28 popular news magazines.

Newspaper Source (EBSCOhost) (full text)
Provides full text for regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, news transcripts and more.

ProQuest Newspapers (full text)
Includes the full text of articles from over ten Massachusetts newspapers.

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.

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Philosophy & Religion

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.

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Psychology & Sociology

Issues: Understanding Controversies and Society (full text)
Offers information on controversial issues from multiple perspectives.

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).

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Reference

Credo Reference (full text)
A collection of nearly 350 reference books in a range of subjects. Find the full title list here.

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. 

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.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCOhost) (full text)
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (InfoTrac)* (full text)
Includes encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Oxford English Dictionary/OED (full text)
An online version of the dictionary.

The Serials Directory (EBSCOhost)
Provides current information on thousands of serial publications.

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Science (general)

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.

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Women's & Gender Studies

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.

* 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.