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| The African American Experience | The African American Experience (AAE) is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora. Resources include a wealth of primary sources. |
| American Indian Experience | The American Indian Experience (AIE) is a full-text digital resource exploring the histories and contemporary cultures of the indigenous peoples of the United States. |
| The American Mosaic | The American Mosaic collection includes the African American Experience, American Indian Experience, and Latino American Experience |
| The American Civil War: Letters & Diaries | This primary source full-text database contains diaries, letters and memoirs from over 2000 authors. The writings of politicians, generals, slaves, landowners, farmers, seaman, wives, and even spies are included. This database is also included in Social & Cultural History: Letters & Diaries Online. |
| American History in Video | American History in Videoprovides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history. This release now provides 1479 titles, including new documentaries from PBS and archival footage, equaling approximately 462 hours. |
| Annals of American History | Year-by-year documentary of American thought and action. Original words of more than 1500 authors from 1493 through today. |
| ARTstor | Over 1 million digital images and related data of art, architecture, archaeology, and other visual culture from around the globe. Videos: Using ArtStor & Registering with ArtStor |
| Biography Resource Center | Over 380,000 individuals covered in over 450,000 full-text biographies. Extended trial access available courtesy of the publisher through Dec. 31, 2010. |
| Black Thought & Culture | This primary source full-text database is a landmark collection of writings by over 1100 major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history. This database is also included in Social & Cultural History: Letters & Diaries Online. |
| Britannica Online | Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, and the Britannica Book of the Year. Link to Spanish version of Encyclopedia Britannica Online. |
| British & Irish Women's Letters & Diaries | This primary source full-text database spans more than 400 years of personal writings, bringing together the voices of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. This database is also included in Social & Cultural History: Letters & Diaries Online. |
| Business & Company Resource Center | The Business & Company Resource Center provides business, company, and industry content, including articles from periodicals and news sources, press releases, and detailed information for domestic and international companies and associations. (Trial expires 6/30/11) |
| CountryWatch |
Includes publications for each country including demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information; the CountryWire, which provides daily news coverage for every country in the world. |
| CQ Researcher | Weekly (full-text) publication from CQ Press (Congressional Quarterly), providing original in-depth analysis of the most current major and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, pros and cons, bibliographies, and more. Archives date back to 1991. Video: Using CQ Researcher |
| Daily Life Through History | A social-history database focusing on the day-to-day lives of average Americans, past and present. This virtual library of the American experience includes thousands of diverse sources, including primary documents, illustrations, and maps. |
| Enciclopedia Universal en Español | The most comprehensive encyclopedia in the Spanish language, Enciclopedia Universal en Español contains over 47,000 articles plus 8,300 photos and images. It is the perfect resource for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish. |
| FACTS.com | Articles, opinions, statistics, and news, Facts.com is a full-text reference database covering over 30 years of Facts on File World News Digest, Issues and Controversies, Today's Science, and World Almanac. |
| Health & Wellness Resource Center | HWRC is a carefully compiled and trusted medical reference database with articles from over 400 health/medical journals, reference volumes, over 700 health videos from Healthology, pamphlets and articles from over 2200 sources. |
| Historical Statistics of the United States | Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition, is the standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. The reference source include over 37,000 data series. |
| History Resource Center: U.S. | History Resource Center: U.S. provides access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. |
| History Resource Center: World | History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive collection of reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronologic research materials for the study of world history. |
| Intelecom Online Resources Network (Video Clip Library) | *Please contact a librarian for log-in and password. Intelecom is a searchable video clip database covering a wide variety of disciplines. Topic-specific clips average 3 to 5 minutes in length and are closed-captioned. |
| JSTOR | Full-text access to archives for over 500 scholarly journals in thirty arts, humanities, and social sciences disciplines (Title Lists: Arts & Sciences I-IV & Complement). |
| The Latino American Experience | The Latino American Experience is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of U.S. Latinos. Its 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. |
| Letters & Diaries: North American Women | North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NWLD) includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters, from Colonial to 1950. This database is also included in Social & Cultural History: Letters & Diaries Online. |
| Letters, Diaries, & Oral Histories: North American Immigrants | North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories (IMLD) includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information, providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. This database is also included in Social & Cultural History: Letters & Diaries Online. |
| LexisNexis Academic Universe | LexisNexis is a leading database for researching news, business, and legal topics. It contains more than 6,000 sources from all over the world, drawn from print, broadcast, and online media. |
| Literature Criticism Online (Drama, Poetry, & Short Stories) | The Literature Criticism Online database is a supplement to Literature Resource Center (below), and contains full-text criticism of Drama, Poetry, and Short Stories. |
| Literature Resource Center | A comprehensive Literature reference database; includes full-text biographical, bibliographical, and critical content. Based on the Thomson Gale printed reference series, including Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography. |
| Magill OnLiterature Plus | The premier literary database, combining content of MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors (via EBSCOhost). |
| Music Online |
Music Online consists of the following collections:
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| NetLibrary / e-Books | The NetLibrary e-book collection totals over 25,000 titles in a broad range of reference, scholarly, and professional works from some of the world's top universities and commercial presses. Video: Using NetLibrary eBooks |
| New York Times-Historical (1851-2006) | The New York Times (1851-2006) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. For current NYT articles (2007-present), search PQ Newspapers. |
| Nursing Resource Center | Nursing Resource Center brings together respected medical titles from Gale and Macmillan with thorough nursing-specific texts from Thomson Delmar. (Trial expires 6/30/11) |
| Opposing Viewpoints In Context | OVIC is a full-text social issues database, organizing current periodical articles, viewpoint essays, reference material, statistics, topic overviews, and select web sites into popular research topic headings. |
| OVID Nursing: Journals & E-Books | Full-text issues of over 20 key titles in nursing and clinical medicine, including AJN: American Journal of Nursing (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins). Ten e-books are also available in a variety of nursing subjects. |
| Oxford Art Online | The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. Includes topical and biographical essays, images and illustrations |
| Oxford English Dictionary | The OED Online contains the history and meanings of over 600,000 English words. Over 2.5 million quotations from diverse sources to trace the usage of new and old vocabulary. |
| Oxford Music Online | An integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition). |
| Oxford Reference Online | Oxford Reference Online is a full-text Scholarly Reference Collection, providing coverage of the full subject spectrum, ready-reference, and the resources of the Oxford Companions. |
| Pop Culture Universe | Pop Culture Universe: Icons-Idols-Ideas is an authoritative digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present. |
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Full-text articles from thousands of periodicals. MiraCosta's ProQuest Collection contains over 20 databases. Users may search all databases or select individual resources. In addition to the interdisciplinary database with magazine, journal and newspaper articles, the PQ collection includes specialized resources in health and psychology, education, careers, and biology. Other resources include hundreds of newspapers (New York Times, LA Times), industry publications, and peer-reviewed journals in accounting, business, and technology. |
| PsycArticles (APA) | PsycArticles (APA) via EBSCOhost contains the full-text of 58 journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. |
| Reference Center / NetLibrary | The NetLibrary Reference Center includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, directories, thesauri, and more. Topics covered include science, history, business, technology, law, and medicine. |
| Science In Context | Full-text science database that provides a variety of information for all science-related research needs. Content includes reference, peer-reviewed and technical periodicals, news, and multimedia. |
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The Scientific American Archive Online provides cover to cover access of Scientific American in color PDF (full-text) from 1993 to the present (via Nature.com). |
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| Small Business Resource Center | Small Business Resource Center offers small business management resources via a combination of relevant periodicals and reference content. Includes resources for industry research, financial planning, marketing products, and franchising a business. (Trial expires 6/30/11) |
| Social & Cultural History: Letters & Diaries Online | Social & Cultural History is a collection of Letters & Diaries and other personal narratives. In addition to over two thousand publicly accessible collections from museum, archive, and historical society repositories, the following Alexander Street Press Collections are included: The American Civil War: Letters & Diaries; Black Thought & Culture; British & Irish Women's Letters & Diaries; Immigrant Letters, Diaries, & Oral Histories; Women's Letters & Diaries. |
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Theatre in Video represents hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. Included in this database are online streaming video of live performances, as well as film documentaries, covering the pre-eminent names in theatre. The BBC Shakespeare series (60 titles) is also included. |
| Trial Databases | Throughout the year, MiraCosta College previews a variety of online databases. Many trial databases require a password: please contact a Librarian for passwords. |
| Virtual Reference Library (Gale) | ThomsonGale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. VRL includes the complete electronic full text of over 250 reference titles. |
| Vocational Biographies | Career success stories of 1,001 real people from around the country. |
| Women & Social Movements in the US | Women and Social Movements in the United States (1600-2000) is an online documentation project with 25,000 full-text documents, including primary sources. |
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