Subscription Databases
ARTstor
ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
Agricola (EBSCO)
Contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library dating back to 1970 and includes more than 2.5 million citations—many articles can be accessed through Academic Search Premier. Citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.
Animals (EBSCO)
EBSCO’s Encyclopedia of Animals 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. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic.
Auto Repair Reference Center (EBSCO)
The Auto Repair Reference Center (ARRC) contains the complete automotive repair manuals that were originally published in the Chilton Total Car Care Series. The content includes more than 150 easy-to-read, illustrated auto repair manuals on all auto repair procedures for about 26,000 vehicles identified in the AAIA table (a table of numerical ID codes for every car made); approximately 70,000 Technical Service Bulletins; 100,000 enhanced wiring diagrams; over 150,000 factory drawings and step-by-step photographs; and labor time guide and estimates. Text and many images will be available in PDF and GIF format.
Book Index with Review
A comprehensive database that provides information on over 3.8 million book titles in a wide range of formats, including large print, books on tape, etc. Fiction and non-fiction titles for juvenile and adult audiences are included in the database, in all genres. The product contains over 800,000 full-text searchable reviews from the sources that you trust: Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, CHOICE, and others.
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
Provides articles on virtually all subject areas related to business back to 1965. Searchable cited references back as far as 1998.
Regional Business News (EBSCO)
Provides articles from regional business publications, business journals, newspapers, and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Corporate ResourceNet (EBSCO)
Contains full text articles from more than 1,300 quality magazines and journals.
Business Searching Interface (EBSCO)
The Business Searching Interface (BSI) is EBSCO's highly focused user interface created especially for the business searcher. BSI provides an easy way to both browse and search for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research.
NetLibrary
A comprehensive collection of online books (eBooks) and resource materials accessible from any computer connected to the Internet. Preview eBooks in the View this eBook tab or electronically checkout an eBook for 24 hours to assure ongoing access—see the Details tab. You must create a personal account to checkout a book.
Greenwood Press
Web-based versions of print books. All searchable by keyword, subject, author or title. Requires only a web browser to view. A citation for each eBook page is available from the citation link. Create a personal account to create notes and add books to your list.
Professional Development Collection (EBSCO)
Designed for professional educators, provides a specialized collection of education journals, including some 350 peer-reviewed titles. Also contains more than 200 educational reports.
ERIC — Educational Resource Information Center (EBSCO)
Provides some 2,200 digests, along with references for additional information and citations & abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
Serials Solutions
Looking for a specific magazine? Use Serials Solutions to find out if the PPCC Library has the newspaper, magazine, journal or any other periodical publication in print (paper) format, or in electronic (internet) format or both formats. You may search by subject, title or ISSN (International Standard Serial Number). Links to the electronic version, if available.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Academic, multi-disciplinary database. Provides articles from about 4,650 journals including some 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. Articles dating back to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals. Searchable cited references are provided.
CQ Researcher
Published weekly. The single-themed reports offer in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Provides differing points of view on current social issues; including viewpoint articles, topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazine articles, as well as links to reviewed and subject-indexed web sites.
MAS Ultra (EBSCO)
Provides articles from general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975. Also provides pamphlets, reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection of photos, maps, and flags.
TOPICsearch (EBSCO)
Current events database—explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. Searches can be narrowed to book reviews, government, points of view, and Gallup opinion polls. Image collection of photos, maps, and flags.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO)
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
McClatchy-Tribune Collection (EBSCO)
The McClatchy-Tribune Collection includes a 90-day archive of approximately 100 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune wire service. The data is updated daily.
Newspaper Source (EBSCO)
Provides articles from some 30 national and international newspapers, as well as 200 regional newspapers. Also contains television & radio news transcripts.
FirstSearch
Consists of several databases, including WorldCat, World Almanac, ArticleFirst, ECO, ERIC, and Medline, which primarily provide abstracts to articles.
Son of Citation Machine
The primary goal of this tool is to make is so easy for high school, college, and university students and other researchers to credit information sources, there is virtually no reason not to -- because SOMEDAY THE INFORMATION THAT SOMEONE WANTS TO USE, WILL BE YOURS.
Awesome Stories
Uses the Internet to link its story content to thousands of on-line primary sources. An interactive site that shows maps, pictures, artifacts, manuscripts, and documents in context within each story. Explore this database to discover information behind historic events, famous people, heroic exploits, legends, disasters, movies, plus topics of current and general interest. Sign in under Academic Members on the lower right—username ppcc & password ppcc.
History Reference Center (EBSCO)
History Reference Center® is the world's most comprehensive full text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. The database features full text for more than 2,400 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers.
The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
The Avalon Project makes available a comprehensive collection of original source documents ranging in time from antiquity to the present day in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.
The Digital Book Index: A Union Catalog of Electronic Books, Texts and Documents
Digital Book Index provides links to more than 142,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 100,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost.
Animals (EBSCO)
EBSCO’s Encyclopedia of Animals 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. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic.
Kids Search-Middle & Elementary School (EBSCO)
Kids Search makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type - -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.
Middle Search Plus (EBSCO)
Provides popular magazine articles for middle and jr. high school research. Articles are assigned reading level indicators (Lexiles). Information dates as far back as 1990. Also contains 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps, and flags.
Points of View (EBSCO)
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is the premier full-text resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center brings together all the information that’s needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more!
Primary Search (EBSCO)
Provides articles from magazines for elementary school research. Articles are assigned reading level indicators (Lexiles). Information dates as far back as 1990.
Searchasaurus (EBSCO)
Place for the beginning searcher to find magazine articles, newspaper articles, encyclopedia entries and more on a variety of topics ranging from animals to history to stories. Lexile (reading) levels of the information found go up to Grade 5.
Student Research Center (EBSCO)
A place to find general information on a variety of topics (business, current events, math, technology, etc.) from a variety of sources (newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias, primary source documents and more). For the more advanced student searcher (middle - high school).
Literary Reference Center (EBSCO)
Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
Gale's Literary Index
Gale's Literary Index provides quick and easy access to author and title listings from over 130 literature products from Gale and the imprints Charles Scribner's Sons, St. James Press, and Twayne Publishers. The referenced products themselves will contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings. Indexes PPCC Reference collection of literary criticism like Literature Criticism fron 1400-1800, Classical & Medieval Literature Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Poetry Criticism and Short Story Criticism.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL® Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 640 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, 325 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search™, Health Source® or Nursing & Allied Health Collection™.
Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete™ (CHC) is the single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO)
Provides journals and reference books focusing on many medical disciplines including pharmacology.
Health Source - Consumer Edition (EBSCO)
Provides journals and reference books on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health including pharmacology.
Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Basic (EBSCO)
Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Basic Edition is a valuable resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database contains 100 full text journals, including more than 80 peer-reviewed titles covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.
Nursing Reference Center (EBSCO)
Nursing Reference Center™ is a comprehensive reference tool designed to provide relevant clinical resources to nurses and other health care professionals, directly at the point-of-care. This database offers staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty and hospital librarians the best available and most recent clinical evidence from thousands of full-text documents.
Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic (EBSCO)
Biomedical Reference Collection™: Basic Edition This database provides access to more than 100 full text journals covering such disciplines as clinical medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pre-clinical sciences and the health care system.
Science Reference Center (EBSCO)
Science Reference Center™ is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content.
Fuente Academica (EBSCO)
Spanish language collection of academic journals from Latin American and Spanish publishers. Provides articles for some 200 scholarly Spanish language journals.
MedicLatina (EBSCO)
Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. Provides access to some 100 peer-reviewed medical journals
Vocational Career Collection (EBSCO)
Designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions, and the general public. Provides more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals
Search all EBSCO databases
Search all the EBSCO databases with one quick search. Let the searcher beware—results CAN be very irrelevant.
Help Sheets & Guides
Serials Solutions
Title Searching
(http://www.serialssolutions.com/azsearch.asp)
Subject Browsing
(http://www.serialssolutions.com/sb_home.asp)
NetLibrary
Tip Sheet 
Greenwood Press
eBook Searching Help
(http://ebooks.greenwood.com/help/help1.jsp)
ARTstor
ARTstor Help
(http://www.artstor.org/info/feature_tour/tour/)
EBSCO 2.0 training link:
Flash demo tutorials—watch and learn!
(http://support.ebscohost.com/training/tutorials.php)
CQ Researcher
Reference Guide
(http://cqpress.com/docs/CQR_Reference.pdf)
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