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CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window Online edition of the magazine, covering current social and political issues.
Global Issues (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window International viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events.
Issues & Controversies This link opens in a new window Covers hundreds of hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window Argumentative essays, periodical articles, and web resources for social and political issues.
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Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a search engine for scholarly information available online. You will find a combination of full text articles made openly available and article citations that require payment for the full text. Scottsdale Community College students can link Google Scholar to the Library's databases in order to show which articles are available full-text through the SCC Library.

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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window General database covering all subject areas.
College in Context This link opens in a new window College in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a wide array of subjects. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window A large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window Online version of reference works in every major subject area.
Gale Power Search (Academic and General OneFile) This link opens in a new window General database covering all subject areas.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Indexes academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
OmniFile Full Text This link opens in a new window General database covering all subject areas.
Readers' Guide Full Text This link opens in a new window Popular and general interest periodicals.

Arts

Biography

Business

Careers

Communication

Computer Science

Computer Science (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window Provides access to leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries. The database includes computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications, and the application of technology.

Criminal Justice

Culinary Arts

Culture

Dance and Theatre

Education

Chronicle of Higher Education

Instructions for creating a personal account are located at https://library.scottsdalecc.edu/chronicle_domain
Education Full Text
Educator's Reference Complete (Gale OneFile)
ERIC
Professional Development Collection

Government

Health, Medical & Nursing

CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window Nursing and allied health journals (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
Films on Demand: Nursing Collection This link opens in a new window This collection is designed not only to help nursing students excel in their studies and pass licensure exams, but also to prepare them for long-term job success in an increasingly complex health care system. The collection includes nursing skills, patient care and interventions, nursing foundations, diseases, disorders, and disabilities, and special topics in nursing.
Gale Interactive: Human Anatomy This link opens in a new window Gale Interactive: Human Anatomy is an innovative learning aid that allows students to examine virtual 3D dissections, perform cause-and-effect simulations, and immerse themselves in virtual research.
Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window Provides access to medical and professional periodicals, health and fitness magazines, and reference books and pamphlets. The database is designed for both nursing and allied health students as well as consumer health researchers. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
Health and Wellness (Gale) This link opens in a new window Find alternative medicine-focused magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, videos, & reference information on: Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Pregnancy, Herbal remedies, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, health assessment sites & government databases. Easily access 700+ videos from Healthology, Inc.'s consumer health video library. Spanish-language videos are available. The material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
HealthSource: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window Consumer health magazines
Healthsource: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window Journals from many medical disciplines
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) This link opens in a new window JAMA, published continuously since 1883, is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal. JAMA is a member of The JAMA Network family of journals, which includes 10 specialty journals.
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window Medical, nursing, dentistry, veterinary information from the National Library of Medicine
New England Journal of Medicine This link opens in a new window From the NEJM website - The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is recognized as the world’s leading medical journal and website. Published continuously for over 200 years, NEJM delivers high-quality, peer-reviewed research and interactive clinical content to physicians, educators, researchers, and the global medical community.
Nursing and Allied Health (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window Including nearly 400 titles, this collections current and authoritative content will be of use to both nursing professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window Custom collection including over 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine, providing researchers with access to many topics in the field, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses, and many more.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine. Mostly abstracts of articles in the biomedical fields but also includes some access to full-text medical-related articles. **Use OneSearch (library.scottsdalecc.edu) to determine if SCC Library has the full-text of the article.**
Salem Press: Health This link opens in a new window A collection of health reference eBooks.
ScienceDirect College Edition: Health & Life Sciences This link opens in a new window Provides access to a wide range of trusted, high-quality interdisciplinary research and scholarly literature, in physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window Source of literature for sports and sports medicine studies, providing full-text content from many respected journals. It is an essential tool for health professionals, researchers and students, providing extensive coverage in the areas of fitness, health and sport studies.

History

Hospitality

Humanities

Images

Language and Literature

Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new window Unlimited access to over 1000+ full-length productions and educational resources through collaborations with over 50 world-class theatre companies, industry associations, practitioners, teachers, examination boards and scholars. Includes live performance recordings and behind the scenes insights.
Gale Literature This link opens in a new window Literary works, including full-text poems and poetry citations, short stories, speeches, and plays. Biographical information, literary criticism, and reviews on writers in all disciplines, time periods, and countries.
Informe Académico (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window Informe Académico proporciona acceso a periódicos y revistas especializadas de lengua española y portuguesa. La base de datos ofrece una amplia gama de contenidos sobre América Latina. Informe Académico provides access to Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines. The database offers a wide range of content both from and about Latin America.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.
LitFinder This link opens in a new window LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) This link opens in a new window Widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language, the OED is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
Salem Press: Literature This link opens in a new window Reference, literary criticism, reviews, interviews, bibliographies of authors and their works. Includes titles such as Magill's, Critical Insights and Critical Surveys. Citations provided.

Law

Music

Grove Music Online This link opens in a new window Covers music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship, with 51,000 articles, including 33,000 biographies and over 5,000 images.

Newspapers

AP Newsroom This link opens in a new window The AP Newsroom database, provided by Ebsco, contains breaking news, feature stories, photographs, graphics and audio clips produced by the AP's network of award-winning journalists, who operate in more than 250 locations worldwide.
Arizona Historical Digital Newspapers This link opens in a new window Contains Arizona newspapers from 1850-1929
Arizona Republic This link opens in a new window ProQuest News and Newspapers database includes the Arizona Republic
Christian Science Monitor (via EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Coverage from 1/3/1995 to present
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window Ethnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
Films on Demand: Archival Films & Newsreels This link opens in a new window A collection of archival and historical films from multiple sources, including National Archives and Records Administration, the United Newsreel collection, the Universal Newsreel collection, and the WPA Film Library.
Los Angeles Times This link opens in a new window Coverage: 1985-present
New York Times (June 1980 to current) This link opens in a new window The ProQuest National Newspapers Core database indexes The New York Times from 1980 to present.
News (Gale OneFile - formerly Infotrac Newstand) This link opens in a new window Provides access to full-text newspapers and allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other fields. The database offers a one-stop source for current news and searchable archives.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window Business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas of the U.S.
SCC Campus News (Student Newspaper Archive) This link opens in a new window
Available by semester from 1970 to 2012.
US Major Dailies This link opens in a new window This database provides access to the five most respected U.S. national and regional newspapers, including New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and the Wall Street Journal.
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window Coverage: 1984-present.
Washington Post This link opens in a new window Coverage: 1987-present.

Psychology

Reference Sources

Britannica Spanish Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Encyclopedia Britannica Online This link opens in a new window
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences This link opens in a new window
Merck Manuals: Professional and Consumer This link opens in a new window
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) This link opens in a new window
Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas (Academic) This link opens in a new window
Salem Press This link opens in a new window
Statista This link opens in a new window
WorldCat This link opens in a new window

Religion & Philosophy

Religion and Philosophy
Religion and Philosophy (Gale OneFile)
Religion and the Law (HeinOnline)
The database includes Christian Legal Society publications, an assortment of Canon Law, and rare historical bibles.

Science

Social Sciences

Video

Licensed Kanopy Films