Online Resources

ARTstor

A repository of over 1 million digital images with limited rights for academic usage. All disciplines, but especially for arts, humanities and social science students.

Country Watch

Economic, political and cultural information for every nation-state in the world.

CQ Researcher

In-depth analysis reporting on the most current and controversial issues of the day.

EBSCO

Academic Search Premier (ASP): A comprehensive multi-disciplinary library database (compare to ProQuest). ASP contains access to 4,600+ periodicals, including 3,900 peer-reviewed journals.

America: History and Life with Full Text: Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. This database indexes 1,700+ journals from 1955 to the present with full text access to 200+ journals and 100 electronic books.

Auto Repair Reference Center: Covers 37,000 vehicle models from 1945 to present with drawings, service bulletins and repair procedures.

Book Index with Reviews: Book reviews from scholarly/ peer reviewed journals.

Business Source Elite: Full text access to over 1,000 business publications. Also included: 10,000 company profiles from Datamonitor.

Consumer Health Complete: Consumer-level medical information (compare to Health Reference Center). Includes the “Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant" books about prescription drugs.

EBSCOHost eBook Collection: Searchable full text of 19,000+ electronic books (formerly NetLibrary).

ERIC (Educational Resource Info. Ctr.): Developed and maintained by the U.S. Department of Education. EBSCO's version of this database includes access to 1.3 million records and full-text access to 300,000 full-text reports and articles.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia: The online equivalent of F & W's print encyclopedia.

GreenFile: This database provides full-text access to a collection of almost 5,000 sources "covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.”

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: This database is designed for allied health students and provides access to almost "550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.” Includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide.

MEDLINE: Developed and maintained by the National Library of Medicine. Contains links to selected full-text sources available within EBSCO databases.

Military & Government Collection: Covers all branches of US government and military endeavors.

Newspaper Source Plus: 860+ full-text newspapers (including the Ventura County Star), plus 1 million television and radio news transcripts.

Professional Development Collection (Education): For educators, education students and researchers. 250+ professional journals.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection: Contains full text coverage for nearly 400 journals in psychology, psychiatry and anthropology.

Regional Business News: Full text from 100 US and Canadian regional business sources.

Religion and Philosophy Collection: Access to 300+ full text journals in philosophy, religion and religious history.

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center

Online/interactive edition of the Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance from Facts on File.

Health Reference Center

Consumer-level medical information from Facts on File electronic books.

InfoTrac

Biography in Context: Biographical entries for 380,000 individuals throughout history and the world.

Gale Virtual Reference Library: an electronic book collection focused on the physical and biological sciences. GVRL also includes the resources of Gale's Information Plus series focused on social and policy issues.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context: Pro/con points of view on current controversial issues.

JADA

Journal of the American Dental Assn. Searchable full-text articles from 1966-present.

JSTOR

Journal Storage. Contains historic academic articles going back to the early 1900s. Highly recommended for social science research.

ProQuest

General-purpose database of articles from 3000+ magazines, newspapers and academic journals on all subjects.

PsychiatryOnline

Full-text of DSM-IV-TR and journals from American Psychiatric Association. Especially for Psychology and Addictive Disorders Studies students.

Salem Health

Medical encyclopedia content. Print versions of these e-books are available in the Library.

Salem History

History encyclopedia content. Print versions of these e-books are available in the Library.

World Book Online Reference Center

Interactive encyclopedia articles and primary source documents for research on all topics.