Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) Get help

GCC’s largest database, this is a great place to find scholarly journal articles on a wide variety of subjects, and also indexes some secondary sources. Not all articles are available in full text.

Academic Video Online (Alexander Street)

80,000+ documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, demonstrations, and more spanning a wide range of subject areas.

Biography (Gale In Context) Get help

Biographies on interesting people from history, as well as contemporary figures.

Boston Globe (ProQuest)

Full-text access to the Boston Globe newspaper from 1980-present. Please note that this is a searchable index to the Globe and does not have the same interface as the Boston Globe's website.

Britannica Moderna (Spanish) Get help

A Spanish-language reference of 24,000 entries and 2.5 million words that covers all fields of knowledge, including arts, geography, philosophy, science, sports, and much more.

CINAHL Ultimate (EBSCOhost) Get help

CINAHL Ultimate (which stands for The Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is GCC's largest nursing database, with scholarly articles from journals in nursing and allied health fields that you won't find in Google or other search engines.

Contexts (Sage)

Contexts publishes accessible articles for the general public based on current sociological research. You won't find original research studies here, but it's a great place to look for ideas--and you can always check bibliographies for references to the original studies. Please note that this is a single publication, not a database.

Daily Hampshire Gazette

The Northampton, MA daily newspaper The Daily Hampshire Gazette, covering news and events in Hampshire County and beyond. For full access to gazettenet.com, please email library@gcc.mass.edu for the login information.

Encyclopedia Britannica

This is a digital version of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and contains entries on a wide range of subjects. These can be used as background research on a topic or a starting point when finding a research topic, but most professors will not accept encyclopedia articles as sources in a research paper.

Gale Power Search (GALE) Get help

Gale Power Search is a cross-search platform designed to allow you to search through multiple Gale resources all at once. Users can select where to search, including Gale OneFile, Gale In Context, Gale Literature, and Gale eBooks resources.

HeinOnline Get help

HeinOnline is a premier online database containing more than 178 million pages and 270,000 titles of historical and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. HeinOnline bridges an important research gap by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 2,700 law-related periodicals. In addition to its vast collection of academic journals, HeinOnline contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.

HeritageQuest Online

HeritageQuest provides access to more than 4.4 billion records. It delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources—with coverage dating back to the 1700s—that can help people find their ancestors and discover a place’s past. Records include the US census, wills and probates, obituaries, military records, immigration records, city directories, grave indexes, social security death indexes, US Indian Census Rolls, US Freedman records, photos, maps, and more.

JSTOR Get help

Index of scholarly articles, mainly from the social sciences and humanities. All content is available in full-text. Be sure to check the publication date, as some content is very old.

Kanopy Streaming Films

A patron-driven database of both feature and educational films, including many titles from the Media Education Foundation.

New York Times Online (nytimes.com)

Access to nytimes.com. Includes daily news and archives dating back to 1851. Log in with your GCC Library Card, then create a nytimes.com account.

Newsbank Get help

Access to current and historical articles from ten western Massachusetts newspapers, including The Recorder.

Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context) Get help

Includes a variety of resources including audio and video, organized in a pro-and-con format around controversial topics. Also includes a variety of genres, including reference sources, academic journals, magazines, newspapers, and opinion pieces.

Ovid Nursing Journals Get help

Full-text coverage of eight nursing journals including The American Journal of Nursing (AJN), Nursing, and Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!

Peterson’s Test Prep (Gale) Get help

An online tool library for standardized test preparation, researching and selecting colleges and graduate schools, finding tuition assistance, and exploring careers.

Picture Book Database

Information about picture books, searchable by artistic media and style, character education, literary devices, and literary tie-ins, categories, genres and formats, series and characters, original publisher/title/language (for titles published outside the U.S.), country of origin, and age ranges.

Prehospital Emergency Care

This peer-reviewed Journal, published bimonthly by Taylor and Francis, is the official Journal of National Association of EMS Physicians, National Association of State EMS Officials (NASEMSO), National Association of EMS Educators (NAEMSE), National EMS Management Association (NEMSMA), National Association of EMTs (NAEMT), and National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT). The Journal features original research, NAEMSP Position Papers, Case Conferences, Collective Reviews and Editorials.

Recorder 

The Greenfield, MA daily newspaper The Recorder, covering news and events in Franklin County and beyond. For full access to recorder.com, please email library@gcc.mass.edu for the login information.

Science Database (ProQuest) Get help

This database is a resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. With coverage dating back to 1986, ProQuest Science Journals features over 1030 titles, with more than 760 available in full text. These journals cover hundreds of topics relating to all major fields of study, including: physics, engineering, astronomy, biology, earth science, chemistry, and more.

Transparent Language for Libraries Get help

Learn over 110 languages, including English as a second language

Wall Street Journal Online

Access to wsj.com and associated apps. Includes daily news and access going back 4 years. First time users must create an account.

WorldCat: The World’s Largest Library Catalog

The WorldCat database searches the collections of libraries in the U.S. and around the world. It also contains article citations with links to their full text; authoritative research materials, such as documents and photos of local or historic significance; and digital versions of rare items that aren’t available to the public. Because WorldCat searches libraries in dozens of countries, resources are available in many languages. Once you find an item you are interested in, request it through interlibrary loan.