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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.
This scholarly collection offers information in computer sciences,
engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts
& literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many
more. For search tips, click on the Help
link in the right corner.
Daily
Life through History & World Cultures
Today - Combining two rich databases
to provide a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary
resource that supports history, social studies,
English, and language students, Daily Life
Online gives life to history and context to
current events. The full text of books and
articles from Greenwood Press includes material
on world cultures and history. For
search tips, click on the Help link in the
right corner.
Historical
New York Times - A
deep backfile of the New York Times through 2002. Here you can search for articles,
obituaries, letters and see the full image
of page. This database does NOT include the
most current years. Click on search tips link for help.
History
Resource Center (World) - Full-text
articles from more than 100 academic journals,
and maps and images. Full-text and facsimile
images for over 1,400 primary source documents
from Primary Source Microfilm collections
are also included in the collection. Click
on the search tips link for help.
History
Resource Center (U.S.) - Integrated
collection of primary documents, secondary
reference sources, and journal articles covering
all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial
times to the present day. It combines more
than 1,000 primary documents with the broad
background and overview coverage found in
more than a dozen reference sources from the
Gale Group. Click
on the search tips link for help.
JSTOR - Search the full text of many scholarly journals
in the arts, literature,
botany, ecology and the social sciences.
This database has the complete run of each
journal title and results will be shown in
their original image. Acrobat Reader must
be installed to view these articles. The most
recent 3-5 years of each journal title are
NOT available here. For recent articles, please
use another database or ask the Reference
Librarian on duty to help you.
Student
Research Center - A search interface
designed specifically for secondary school
students according to their needs and search
abilities. Users can easily pre-determine
which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers,
Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video)
will be included with their search or search
databases through topic headings. For search tips, click on the Help link in
the right corner.
Web
Sites
American
Memory
Digital
History
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