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/ Media
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books / media at Northwest Vista College and other ACCD colleges.
You can check out books, CDs and videos / DVDs.They are all located
in the west wing of the library.
You will need your student ID or a valid picture ID in order to
check out materials. Library
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WorldCat
Search the collections of libraries world-wide -- about 52,000,000
books. Ask a librarian for help in ordering materials.
Online
Databases - Find Articles
The online databases
give you access to thousands of scholarly journals, magazines,
newspapers and materials from books. Use your original
PALS username and password to log in to the databases
from off campus.
[
Off-Campus Access Tutorial ]
Academic
Search Complete - contains full text for nearly
4,650 serials, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications.
In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing
and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals in the collection.
This scholarly collection offers information in computer sciences,
engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts
& literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many
more.
ERIC
- The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored
by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department
of Education, produces the world’s premier database of
journal and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online
system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site
for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1
million citations going back to 1966. More than
107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004),
previously available through fee-based services only, are now
available for free. ERIC is moving forward with
its modernization program, and has begun acquiring materials
for addition to the database.
Professional
Development Collection - Designed for professional
educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection
of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more
than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more
than 200 educational reports.Professional Development Collection
is the most comprehensive collection of full text education
journals in the world. For search
tips, click on the Help link in the right corner.
Web
Sites
Adventures
in Education (AIE)
Center for Science Education
Center
on Reinventing Public Education
Education Arcade
Educator's Reference Desk
National
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