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Biography
Biography Resource Center & Marquis Who's Who - Contemporary and historical biographies

Business
Business Economics and Theory (Infotrac) - 150 full-text academic journals.
Business Source Premier - Scholarly business journals and publications
Communication & Media (Infotrac) - General coverage of communications, advertising and public relations, literature, writing, and linguistics.
EBSCO Business Searching Interface - Easy interface to EBSCO business information
General Business File ASAP - Broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directories
Insurance & Liability (Infotrac) - Includes topics such as labor relations, mortgage banking, and legal issues.
Lexis-Nexis - Regional, national and international business news sources; New York Times (1980-)
Regional Business News - From metropolitan and rural areas in the U.S.
Small Business (Infotrac) - For business classes and entrepreneurs, provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories.

Diversity
Diversity Studies (Infotrac) - Explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community
GLBT Life and Issues (Infotrac) - Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues
Informe - En espanol - full text and images from the most popular Hispanic magazines; includes pamphlets on a variety of topics, such as health care

Education
Chronicle of Higher Education - Higher ed. news and issues. Available in Campus Pipeline under the "My Pipeline" tab
Communication & Media (Infotrac) - General coverage of communications, advertising and public relations, literature, writing, and linguistics.
Educator's Reference Complete - Academic journals, reports, and premier reference sources on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education.
ERIC - (Educational Resource Information Center)
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts - Librarianship, information science, cataloging, online information retrieval, information management and more. Indexes nearly 600 periodicals, books, research reports, and proceedings back to the 1960's.
Professional Development Collection - Comprehensive specialized collection of scholarly education journals and reports
Teacher Reference Center - Coverage of education topics such as Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedogogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Math, and Teacher Education.
Vocation & Careers (Infotrac) - Content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.

Encyclopedias
Britannica Online - Includes dictionary and thesaurus
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia - This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Serials Directory - Information on, and pricing for, nearly 212,000 popular serials.
Virtual Reference Library - Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multi-disciplinary research.

Environment
Environmental Issues & Policy Collection (Infotrac) - Over 200 journals offering multiple viewpoints of this volatile field, including perspectives from the scientific community, government, and corporate interests.
GreenFILE - Covers human impact to the environment, drawing on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

For Kids & Teens
EBSCO Animals - Encyclopedia of animals; basic information; many images
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and New Book of Knowledge - For students in middle school and up
Infotrac Kids Edition - Periodical database for elementary school students
Infotrac Student Edition - Periodical database for elementary school students
Junior Edition K-12 - Magazines, newspapers and reference books for junior high and middle school students
Kids Infobits - Research topics for students Kindergarten through Grade 5
MAS Ultra - School Edition - periodical database for high school students; selected content back to 1975
Middle Search Plus - Magazines, newspapers and reference books for junior high and middle school students
Primary Search - Topics for elementary school research

General
Academic OneFile - Academic journals; podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and CBC; full-text New York Times back to 1995.
All EBSCO - Search one or more EBSCO Databases at the same time.
All Gale/Infotrac - List of all Gale/Infotrac databases available to NSCC
Credo Reference - Reference books; 66,000 art, science & medical images; 90,000 atlas pages. Create customized exportable data tables; visual concept maps of search results.
General OneFile - Wide ranging general resources including images
General Reference Center Gold - Articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals
MasterFILE Premier - General interest publications, reference books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags
NetLibrary - Electronic books
Pop Culture (Infotrac) - Appropriate for social science, history, art or liberal arts courses
WorldCat - Search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.

Health & Medicine
All EBSCO Health - Search all of EBSCO's health databases at one time
Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic - Full text for over 100 medical journals
CINAHL Plus with Full Text - Provides indexing for 3001 nursing and allied health journals, with indexing back to 1937. Full text for 336 journals.
Health Reference Center Academic - Diseases, public health, nutrition, etc.
Health Source: Consumer Edition - Consumer health articles and information
Health Source: Nursing/Academic - Scholarly medical journals and medical dictionary
Magill's Medical Guide - Concise coverage of diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and medical issues.
Medline - National Library of Medicine's authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine and the health care system
Sports Medicine and Physical Therapy (Infotrac) - Includes treatment techniques & experimental research theses.

History
Issues and Controversies in American History - Information on the great debates of American History. It captures the passions and arguments of the Americans who decided the crucial questions in our nation's history.
JSTOR - 183 scholarly titles in arts & sciences (JSTOR A&S II), and Language & Literature.
Massachusetts History Online - Full-text articles from almost 50 sources directly relating to Mass. history.
Military & Government Collection - current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government
New York Times Historical - Full page and article images from 1851-2003
War & Terrorism (Infotrac) - History, social science and current events.
World News Digest - Events, people, issues, facts and figures since 1940; Includes maps, photographs and historic documents

Horticulture
Agriculture (Infotrac) - Broad agricultural coverage including spans practical farming and recent scientific research in horticulture.
Garden, Landscape & Horticulture (Infortrac) - Horticulture, agriculture and their related fields

Hospitality & Tourism
Hospitality & Tourism (Infotrac) - Coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field, including cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism, and more.

Law
Criminal Justice (Infotrac) - Law enforcement, paralegal, law resources.
Lexis-Nexis - Regional, national and international business news sources; New York Times (1980-)

Literature
Academic OneFile - Academic journals; podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and CBC; full-text New York Times back to 1995.
Academic Search Premier - Scholarly database covering many academic areas
Contemporary Literary Criticism - Critical essays on contemporary authors
Expanded Academic ASAP - Scholarly journals in literature and humanities
Johns Hopkins Online Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism - A comprehensive historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements, compiled by 275 specialists from around the world.
JSTOR - 183 scholarly titles in arts & sciences (JSTOR A&S II), and Language & Literature.
Literary Reference Center - Literary criticism; plot summaries; biographies & interviews; reviews & literary journals; full text of poems, short stories & novels; images.
NoodleBib 6 - Generate, edit, and publish an MLA Works Cited list or APA References list that complies with the rules of the current MLA Handbook and APA Manual. NoodleBib takes care of punctuation, alphabetization and formatting, producing a polished source list for import into Word. To access NoodleBib off campus, login in to your Pipeline account and choose NoodleBib under the Library heading on the right side of the page.
OCLC WorldCat - OCLC WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) offers more than 46 million bibliographic records--representing 400 languages--and holdings information.

Newspapers
E-Library - Magazines, newspapers, books, radio and TV transcripts, photos and maps
Lexis-Nexis - Regional, national and international business news sources; New York Times (1980-)
Massachusetts Newsstand - Boston Globe (1980-), Boston Herald (1991-) and other Mass. newspapers.
New York Times Historical - Full page and article images from 1851-2003
Newspaper Source - Regional, national and international newspapers; television & radio news transcripts.
World News Digest - Events, people, issues, facts and figures since 1940; Includes maps, photographs and historic documents

Pro/Con Issues
CQ Researcher - Current affairs and controversial issues
Facts on File Issues and Controversies - Information on the most prominent issues of the day
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - Access pro/con articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles

Psychology
Pyschology and Behavioral Sciences Collection - Psychology & psychiatry

Religion
Religion & Philosophy Collection - World religions, biblical studies, religious history and philosophy

Science
EBSCO Animals - Encyclopedia of animals; basic information; many images
Facts on File Today's Science - Contemporary science issues

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