Research Guides: WR121 & WR122 Zimmerly-Beck: Find resources: Library databases

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Academic OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Academic OneFile offers newspaper, magazine, trade journal, and peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as eBooks, videos and podcasts. Many articles are available in full-text. Subject coverage is comprehensive and includes the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature. It’s a great place to look for resources when you’re not sure where to start.
How to search Academic OneFile
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete provides magazine, trade journal, and peer-reviewed journal articles on a wide range of subjects and is good for research on almost every topic. Most articles are available in full-text. It’s a great place to look for scholarly resources when you’re not sure where to start.
How to search Academic Search Complete
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar is not a CCC Library database, but rather a scholarly search engine created by Google. Google Scholar allows you to find abstracts, articles, books, peer-reviewed papers, and theses from academic and scholarly organizations in nearly every area of academic research. If available, links to full text are included, but oftentimes you may hit a paywall. To get the free full text of Google Scholar articles emailed to you, submit an interlibrary loan request to CCC Library.
How to search Google Scholar
Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
Art Source includes full text articles from popular, trade, and peer-reviewed journals, and select eBooks. Subjects covered include advertising, architecture, art history, computers in art, fashion design, folk art, graphic design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, photography, and fine, decorative and commercial art.
How to search Art Source
Diversity Studies (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Gale's Diversity Studies collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. This set includes 150 full-text journals. Coverage begins in 1980. Full text available.
How to search Diversity Studies
Fine Arts (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Access over 350 full-texts titles to support research in all disciplines of fine arts. It includes multimedia content like audio, video, podcasts, and interview transcriptions. Coverage ranges from 1980 to the present and includes both citations and full-text.
How to search Fine Arts (Gale OneFile)
Gale eBooks / Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) This link opens in a new window
Gale eBooks contains full text online reference books on the subjects of art, business, education, environment, history, medicine, multicultural studies, religion, science, and social science. Gale eBooks is a great place to start your research - it is the academic version of Wikipedia!
How to search Gale eBooks
Gender Studies (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Gender Studies provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society. The database offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
How to search Gender Studies
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR contains 58 scholarly journals in the arts and sciences, from their earliest issues up to 3-5 years ago. Does not include current issues of the journals.
How to search JSTOR
Literature Resource Center (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Literature Resource Center includes up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 150,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
How to search Literature Resource Center (Gale)
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
Opposing Viewpoints is a great place to begin research on controversial current events. Opposing Viewpoints offers viewpoint articles that offer pro and/or con perspectives to issues, as well as magazines, academic journals, newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, and links to websites.
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Psychology (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Psychology (Gale OneFile) include newspapers, magazines, and peer-reviewed journals. Subject coverage includes all fields of psychology - abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social and all areas of applied psychology.
How to search Psychology (Gale OneFile)
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection includes more than 530 full-text academic journals. Topics include psychiatry, psychology, anthropology, emotional and behavioral characteristics, and experimental methods.
How to search Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
World History (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
World History Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.
How to search World History

Search eBooks

EBSCO eBooks Collection This link opens in a new window
EBSCO's ever-growing eBook collection includes eBooks on every topic, including business, health sciences, literary criticism, performing arts, religion, social sciences, and technology.
How to search EBSCO eBooks
ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Ebook Central has more than 134,000 titles geared toward an academic audience and contains titles related to the arts, business, education, health & medicine, history, literature, law, literature& language, religion & philosophy, science & technology,and the social sciences.
How to search ProQuest Ebook Central

Filter to the right topic/subject database

This tip will help you find an article in our topic-specific EBSCO and/or Gale databases. If we don't have your exact topic, choose the closest related subject, or use the databases Academic OneFile or Academic Search Complete.

Filter to the right topic/subject database

Go to CCC Library's A-Z Database list.
Select the dropdown menu All Subjects
Select your subject from the list
The resulting list of databases will be specialized to your subject. Look for those that say Best Bet.
- Bonus: Limit the databases to those that have professional, peer-reviewed journals by also using the All Database Types dropdown menu.