Online Databases
Online databases are electronic collections of resources including reference books, journals, reports, and other forms of authoritative information. In many cases, this should be your starting point for research.
These resources are available on the web from any computer on the Cleveland Community College. You will need passwords to access the databases if you aren't on-campus. If you need help, online tutorials are available.
All of our databases are listed alphabetically below; you may also view them sorted by subject.
Alphabetical Listing
- AccessScience provides access to information on science and technology.
- The African American Experience, from Greenwood's American Mosaic initiative, is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture.
- Anatomy.tv is an interactive 3D learning tool for students taking anatomy and phisiology courses in college.
- Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles in all disciplines of business.
- Career & Technical Education by ProQuest is a full-text database containing business and career publications.
- The Chadwyck-Healey Individual Literature Collections contain archives of full-text poetry, including African American Poetry (1750-1998), American Poetry (1600-2000), English Poetry (600-1900), and the Faber Poetry Library (20th Century).
- Columbia International Affairs Online, or CIAO, contains scholarship in its field from 1991 to the present.
- Countrywatch provides information on each of the recognized countries of the world.
- The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals in many subjects.
- Encyclopedia Americana Online is a useful general interest encyclopedia and a great place for users to begin researching a topic.
- The Gale Virtual Reference Library is a searchable collection of online reference books.
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia includes seven encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia America, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, and The New Book of Popular Science.
- History Reference Center offers full-text from books, encyclopedias, history-related periodicals, historical documents, and biographies. Multimedia—including photos, maps, and video—is also featured.
- Liebert Medical and Health Sciences Journals Online delivers electronic access to peer-reviewed journals with content exceeding 41,000 papers from more than sixty authoritative journals, all full-text searchable and linked to external bibliographic databases.
- Literary Reference Center is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources.
- Morningstar Library Edition covers mutual funds and stocks.
- NC LIVE serves North Carolina's citizens as a gateway to a rich array of electronic information on a variety of subjects.
- NetLibrary contains over 47,000 fiction and non-fiction full-text eBooks.
- The Oxford Premium Reference Collection is an index to dictionaries, language references, and subject references from Oxford University Press. Available only on campus.
- The Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center covers current events and social issues from various angles.
- The Oxford English Dictionary is the authoritative dictionary of English. Available only on campus.
- Points of View Reference Center is designed to help students understand controversial subjects. Students can use it to guide debate, to develop arguments, to write position papers, and for the development of critical thinking skills.
- R2Library features health science books from leading publishers. You must set up an account on campus in order to use these full-text books from your home computer.
- RN Database is a nursing database that links to 14 different nursing resources.
- StatRef Medical e-Books is an electronic medical textbook database resource for healthcare professionals from the National Library Alliance.
- Westlaw Campus Pro is an extensive database of legal information. Available only on campus.
- World Book Encyclopedia Online includes World Book Discover with practical applications of life skills and many videos (World Book Explains) and translations of content into 14 languages. This database resource includes an Online Research Guide, a Spanish Language Encyclopedia, and World Book Kids. World Book Advanced allows the researcher to search for Primary source documents, eBooks, Encyclopedia articles, Images, and much more in a single, integrated interface. Users can also setup their own personal "My Research" account to save their searches and information found with the ability to access it 24/7 from campus or anywhere they have Internet access.
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