An academic, multidisciplinary database that contains indexing for nearly 8,200 publications, with full text for nearly 4,700 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.  Updated daily.

Provides access to over 7,000 topics from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more. This online encyclopedia is tailored to researchers and students looking for the relevant, readable, and trusted sources of information.

Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries an immediate resource of full text articles, from 180 international and often peer-reviewed journals, reports, proceedings and association & consumer newsletters. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Full text titles include American Journal of Chinese Medicine, American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine, California Journal of Oriental Medicine, European Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine, Journal of Asian Natural Products Research, Journal of the Australian Traditional-Medicine Society, Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association and many others. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.

Provides biographical portraits of over 18,000 no-longer-living individuals from all walks of American life, from the well known to the obscure, who have influenced and shaped American history and culture.  Published by the Oxford University Press, the ANB includes thousands of illustrations and over 80,000 hyperlink cross-references and links to other websites.

Includes 600+ full text newspapers, which are all the complete electronic record of edition as received from the publisher. Notable local holdings include The Redding Record Searchlight, The Red Bluff Daily News, and Chico Enterprise Record. The easy to use map-based interface allows flexible searching by paper, state, and region. This collection is updated daily and archives do not drop off as content is added. Each paper is clearly marked so students will know what the archived content is for each paper. America's Newspapers features a wide variety of local, national and international source types, including statistics, verbatim quotes, facts, analysis, historical perspectives, obituaries and more.
 

A collection of art images and descriptive information of over 700,000 items as well as software tools to search and store images from the collection for research and/or teaching. The images are drawn from art, architecture and archeology with contributions from museums, individual photographers, scholars, special collections, libraries and photo archives. (Please note: to make use of all tools of this database, disable popup blockers and enable cookies.)

Contains short and book-length articles on every subject in over 73,000 entries.  Provides links to thousands of web sites reviewed by Britannica editors for quality and appropriateness.  Also provides access to Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus with definitions, pronunciation guides, word histories, synonyms, and antonyms.
 

Provides full text for nearly 8,800 serials, some back to 1965 and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.  Updated daily.

A virtual library representing 34,673 college catalogs in full cover-to-cover, original page format.  Includes 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools. 

Online access to all Historic Documents volumes (1972 – 2003) in one searchable online resource providing important commentary on each year’s key events.

A weekly publication providing original in-depth analysis of the most current major and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, all the pros and cons, bibliographies and more. An excellent resource for teaching critical thinking and information literacy skills.

Reports on the world’s most powerful legislative body on a weekly basis. Covers virtually every act of Congress. Researchers can track legislation and floor action, major news events, committees and subcommittees and backroom maneuvering. Archives date from 1983 to present.

Offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Within some of the full text, image links are available for the Windows client.

ERIC®, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.

Easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for children.

A collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles that focus on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations, local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.  Multidisciplinary by nature, connections are drawn between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.  Topics in include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more. There is indexing and abstracts for approximately 384,000 records plus Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

A full text database covering topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children’s health, women’s health, sports medicine, etc.  Provides access to nearly 300 full text, consumer health periodicals, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts, Men’s Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others. This database also includes searchable full text for more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets and 136 health reference books, including books published by the People’s Medical Society. Additionally, Health Source: Consumer Edition contains more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to 1,100 drug monograph entries and 2,700 patient education fact sheets.  Updated daily.

Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, and many more. In addition, this database includes the Clinical Pharmacology database, providing access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs.  Updated daily.

An index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. Working with archives, repositories, publishers, and individuals, the indexers at Alexander Street Press have indexed first person narratives from hundreds of published volumes—those that are publicly available on the Web and those that are held by repositories and archives around the world. Includes access to the content in British and Irish women’s letters and diaries; North American women’s letters and diaries; American Civil War letters and diaries; and North American Immigrant Letters.

Includes over 6,000 titles covering general news, business, legal research, reference and medicine. The majority of the titles on LexisNexis Academic are available in full text, with a limited number available in abstract form. The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K’s, 10-Q’s and their exhibits. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily. Research areas in LexisNexis Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; non-English language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.

A complete literature reference database designed for both the undergraduate and graduate student providing information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more.  The foundation of the Literature Resource Center is built on three author databases: Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 130,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring entries on all authors appearing in CLC since vol. 95 of the print series and complete profiles of 266 most studied authors from editions prior to vol. 95; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 11,700 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars.  The Literature Resource Center also includes selected full text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from Gale's Literature Criticism and For Students series. The titles in these series include: Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Drama for Students, Literature from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature of Developing Nations for Students, Literature and Its Times, Novels for Students, Poetry Criticism, Poetry for Students, Shakespearean Criticism, Shakespeare for Students, Short Story Criticism, Short Stories for Students, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. In addition, users can access current, full-text critical essays on major authors via the Literature Resource Center's link to more than 260 prominent literary journals.

Designed specifically for high school libraries and contains full text for more than 700 popular high school magazines including America’s Civil War, American Heritage, American History, Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times, Congressional Digest, Discover, Economist, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II, etc. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for 84,774 biographies and 100,554 primary source documents. Also contains 518 pamphlets, more than 350 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts), an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. MAS Ultra (School Edition) also includes the Our States reference book series from Great Neck Publishing, a collection made up of 54 titles on each of the states, commonwealths and territories in the United States. This series has articles covering each state’s history, averaging 10 pages in length, and includes information on the economy, geography, natural resources, wildlife, state flags and landmarks. Biographies on each state’s governors, senators and representatives, as well as other leaders such as Rudolph Giuliani, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Bill Clinton, and Condoleezza Rice are also included.  Updated daily.

A multidisciplinary database covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, and multicultural issues with full text information dating as far back as 1975.  This database also contains full text for nearly 1700 reference publications, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps & flags. Offers PDF backfiles (as far back as 1975) for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post, etc.  Science News is available in HTML back to 1975.  Updated daily.

Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE®, AIDSLINE®, BIOETHICSLINE®, and HealthSTAR®.

Consumer health database that directs users to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and the latest health news.
 

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of these sites. The Military & Government Collection™ provides full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles. Publications covered in this database include Air Force Comptroller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defence Studies, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, National Review, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more. Additionally, many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.

Full text collection of over 15,000 (and growing) volumes of reference books, scholarly monographs, how-to manuals, fiction, and nonfiction books. The full content of each text as originally issued in the print edition is included.  Library users are encouraged to open NetLibrary account (free of charge to the Shasta College community) to fully maximize the search and display features of this database from their home computers.
 

Complete newspaper cover-to-cover with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.  Covers The New York Times from its first issue in 1851 through 2003. Users can search and view article images and full-page images, page through issues, and search via a variety of methods. Please refer to Proquest National Newspapers (below) for New York Times coverage from 2004 to present.

Provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selected full text for more than 335 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, The New York Daily News, The San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc.  Updated daily.

Provides information on on-going controversies and today’s hot topics. This database is the online counterpart of the Opposing Viewpoints social issues series published by Greenhaven Press (nearly 200 volumes of which are currently held in the Shasta College Library’s bricks and mortar collection).  Presents facts as well as the arguments and professional affiliations of each topic's proponents and detractors. An excellent resource for teaching critical thinking and information literacy skills.

A full text collection of twenty key nursing journals including: American Journal of Nursing, Nursing, Nursing Made Incredibly Easy and 17 other titles.

A gateway to the full text of the 34 volume print edition of The Dictionary of Art (formerly Grove Art Online), plus The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. There are 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links, and 5,000 images.  An authoritative source on fine arts, decorative arts, and architecture linking museums, and galleries from around the world.

The online version of the authoritative and comprehensive Oxford English Dictionary, OED Online is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It is the definitive record of English language development, tracing the evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last 1,500 years.  Provides authoritative definitions, traces the usage of words from their first recorded occurrence to the modern period through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international language sources, offers etymological analysis and detailed listings of variant spellings, and uses the International Phonetic Alphabet to show pronunciation.
 

Designed specifically for elementary school libraries, this database contains full text for 70 popular elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. Additionally, Primary Search includes the Encyclopedia of Animals™, and features Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, providing students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for children. This database also provides the American Heritage® Children’s Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection. Updated daily.

Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including: Booklist, Education, Education Digest, Education Week, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal, and many others. Also contains more than 200 educational reports.

Full text coverage of the following major newspapers:  New York Times full text from 1980, Wall Street Journal full text from 1984,Christian Science Monitor full text from 1988, Washington Post full text from 1987 and Los Angeles Times full text from 1985.

Covers topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection™ contains full text for more than 575 journals, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Updated daily.

Search engine for the National Library of Medicine’s vast Medline database. Medline provides abstracts or summaries of the articles that it indexes. PubMed is not a full text database. It focuses on biomedical research articles, but also covers journals in nursing and other allied health disciplines. PubMed also provides full coverage of the related biomedical sciences, such as biochemistry and cell biology.
 

Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.  Updated daily.

A comprehensive database of more than 300 full text journals covering topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.

Provides more than 1,800 original bio-critical essays on authors of all nationalities and time periods. Each essay includes a concise introductory preface and a biography placing the author’s work within a personal and historical framework. Many authors are seen from multiple perspectives in two, three, or even four essays, providing a broad biographical/critical overview as well as specialized treatments. Each essay averages 15-20 pages in length.

A database of literary criticism by scholars on hundreds of years of literature from Aristophanes to Bharati Mukherjee. It provides critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, and the development of literary genres. Primarily devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's works, these studies take account of major literary trends and important contributions to scholarship and criticism, and provide new critical insights and original points of view. The Twayne’s Authors Series comprises 600 Twayne’s monographs: 200 from Twayne’s US Authors, 200 from Twayne’s English authors, and 200 from Twayne’s World Authors.

Designed to meet a wide variety of vocational and technical research needs, this collection provides full text coverage for more than 2,000 trade and industry-related periodicals including American Machinist, Modern Machine Shop, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Video Business, Reeves Journal, Hotel and Motel Management, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age and many more. In addition 400 full-text books are indexed with coverage unique to this database.  Subjects include alcohol and drug abuse counseling, biotechnology, computers, cosmetology, fashion design, forensics, graphic arts, health information technology, interior design, law enforcement and criminal justice, robotics, travel and tourism, veterinary assisting and others.

Collection of over 1,100 Career Biographies that include: education, training, and licensing requirements, job outlook, working conditions, and a job-shadow of a typical work day.  Each Career Biography is comprised of a four to six page narrative by a practitioner of the featured career. The database may be searched by keyword or browsed through a list of career pathways and career clusters assigned by the database.
 

Encyclopedia Britannica’s World Data Analyst offers statistical portraits of the countries of the world and tools for making comparative charts and tables.  Country Snapshots are concise, two page reports that feature key economic, social, and political indicators. Current Comparisons permits cross-country analysis of key economic and social indicators.