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Mendocino College's most popular database. Full-text articles covering a wide range of topics. This is a great place to start!
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Alternate Name(s) AVON
Academic Video Online "delivers more than 62,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more."
Alternate Name(s) NewsBank
NewsBank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues. Database includes Access World News, Black Life in America, Hispanic Life in America and Ukiah Daily Journal.
Alternate Name(s) AJOL
***FREE ACCESS***
"African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is the world's largest and preeminent platform of African-published scholarly journals. AJOL is a Non-Profit Organisation that (since 1998) works to increase global & continental online access, awareness, quality & use of African-published, peer-reviewed research."
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AHFS Consumer Medication Information is a trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information.
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Research database covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Alternate Name(s) Reveal Digital
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"... American Prison Newspapers will bring together hundreds of these periodicals from across the country into one collection that will represent penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions."
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Alternate Name(s) Ebscohost APA PsycArticles; Ebscohost APA Pscy Articles

APA PsycArticles connects you to current full-text journal articles written by esteemed researchers from across psychology and the behavioral and social sciences.

Alternate Name(s) The Atlantic Monthly; The Atlantic Magazine; Atlantic Monthly Online
The Atlantic Magazine Archive, 1857-2014, is a complete archive which includes more than 1,800 issues from one of the oldest and most-respected magazines in the United States. It provides a broad view of 19th, 20th and early 21st-Century American thought, and offers extensive coverage and analysis in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, science and more.

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Alternate Name(s) Reveal Digital
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"Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements focuses on unearthing and digitizing the histories of civil rights activism by the everyday citizens of Black, Latine, Indigenous, and Asian American/Pacific Islander communities."
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The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media.

From the early days of slavery to modern times, people of African descent have had a profound
impact on American history. This primary source collection offers an expansive window into centuries of African American history, culture and daily life—as well as the ways the dominant culture has portrayed and perceived people of African descent.
Alternate Name(s) Reveal Digital
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"Black Periodicals: From The Great Migration through Black Power, the final collection for Diversity & Dissent, will include periodicals that depict the various political, literary, and cultural forms that Black Americans used to advance their vision in the ongoing struggle for liberation and dignity. Magazines and newsletters from women’s organizations, religious groups, labor organizations, and more reveal a diversity of ideological orientations, strategic methods, and aesthetic modes among Black voices throughout the mid-twentieth century."
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Alternate Name(s) Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Looking for background information? Instead of just using Google, try a search here. Encyclopedia Britannica provides journal articles, magazine articles, biographical portraits, primary sources, as well as news items from national and international newspapers.
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Alternate Name(s) Encyclopedia Britannica Spanish
Spanish language version of the Encyclopedia Britannica: vetted, quality research.
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Alternate Name(s) Encyclopedia Britannica in Spanish
Online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica in Spanish. Includes timelines, atlases, biographies, and videos on a wide range of subjects.
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This database provides full-text coverage of top business, management and economics journals and periodicals. These valuable publications cover topics such as accounting, banking, finance, This database provides full-text coverage of top business, management and economics journals and periodicals. Topics covered include accounting, banking, finance,international business, marketing, sales and more.

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This comprehensive research database provides full text for nursing and allied health journals indexed in CINAHL Plus. Additional materials include full-text evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons and continuing education modules.
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Database of digital college catalogs, institution profiles, transcript keys, and other critical resources.
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Alternate Name(s) Country Watch
Current news and background information on countries around the world. Political and economic data as well as maps and statistics are provided.
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Alternate Name(s) Congressional Quarterly Research Reports

Original, in-depth reporting and analysis on current issues in the news covering topics ranging from the environment, the economy, health, social trends, technology, criminal justice, international affairs and more.

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Drama Online is an award-winning digital library that has been created as a response to the need for a high-quality online research tool for drama and literature students, professors, and teachers. It combines exclusively available playtext content and scholarly publications with filmed live performances, film adaptations and audio plays.

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Large selection of multidisciplinary e-books representing a broad range of academic subjects, including titles from leading university presses such as Oxford University Press, MIT Press, State University of New York Press, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, McGill-Queen's University Press, Harvard University Press and many others.
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The collection covers key subject areas including humanities, social sciences, business, science, technology and literary criticism.
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Alternate Name(s) EBook Diversity and Ethnic Studies; EBSCOhost eBook Subscription Diversity & Ethnic Studies
This collection includes nearly 5,000 e-books on the topic of diversity, equity and inclusion. Subjects include Asian Studies, Gender Studies, Hispanic & Latin American Studies, Native American Studies, African American Studies, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, and Disability Studies.
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Searches across all the college's EBSCOHost databases at once.
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Alternate Name(s) Education Resources Information Center
Education Resources Information Center is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources.
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"This full-text database is a dedicated resource covering the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America. It provides full text from a growing list of sources including peer-reviewed journals, magazines, e-books, biographies and primary source documents." From EBSCO
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"Proprietary essays are written by a diverse group of writers representing the fields of academia, journalism, medicine, and other disciplines working to address issues related to race." Topics Include:
Affirmative Action
Black Lives Matter Movement
COVID-19 and Communities of Color
Digital Divide
Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice
Food Insecurity
Neighborhood Gentrification
Police Use of Force
School-to-Prison Pipeline
Sports Team Branding Changes
Voting Rights and Voter Suppression
Wealth Gap

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***Aimed at Faculty for discovering and purchasing Open Educational Resources (OER).***
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"This collection is designed not only to help nursing students excel in their studies and pass licensure exams, but also to prepare them for long-term job success in an increasingly complex health care system." From Infobase (vendor)
Digital magazine subscriptions. You'll need your college ID and password to access.

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Alternate Name(s) Gender Watch
"This is a database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch is a repository of important historical perspectives on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgender community and the changes in gender roles over the years. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books and NGO, government and special reports.

Subjects Covered: Arts, History, Literature & Language, Social Sciences, Health Sciences, News"
Alternate Name(s) GoogleScholar
***FREE ACCESS*** Some articles may not be free so contact us if you are asked to pay for something, librarian@mendocino.edu. Also see our Google Scholar Libguide for more tips on searching
https://libguides.mendocino.edu/googlescholar
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Alternate Name(s) Green File
"GreenFILE is a free research database covering the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and governments and what can be done at each level to minimize negative impacts. It provides thousands of open access full-text records from scholarly, government and general interest sources." From EBSCO database description.

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Collection of consumer health information provides access to full-text consumer health magazines and reference books
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Full-text collection covering nursing and allied health topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more.
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From the earliest days of the colonial era through modern times, people of Spanishspeaking heritage have shaped the geography, arts, culture, and civil discourse of the United States in immeasurable ways. This primary source collection offers an expansive window into centuries of Hispanic American history, culture, and daily life– as well as the ways the dominant culture has portrayed and perceived people of Hispanic descent.
Alternate Name(s) Reveal Digital
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" ... HIV, AIDS & the Arts will aim to preserve approximately 75,000 pages and items of primary sources in all art forms whenever possible: Sheet music, manuscripts, playbills and production notes, and all manner of visual art, as well as the personal papers of lesser known artists of all types."

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Alternate Name(s) JSTOR
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"Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century."

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JSTOR is a digital library that provides access to an impressive collection of more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 different disciplines.

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Selected titles for Native American History courses. Other titles may be available through the Mendocino Public Library. See instructions below.

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Alternate Name(s) LISTA; Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts
LISTA includes 239 journals with searchable cited references covering topics such as online searching, censorship, publishing, copyright, rare books, book restoration, and more.

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Designed for high school students, this full-text database of popular magazines, reference books and primary sources covers many subjects, including history, science and health.
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Database provides full-text magazines, reference books and primary source documents. It also includes an extensive image collection containing photos, maps and flags.
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Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE provides full-text access to information in medicine, veterinary medicine, dentistry, nursing, pre-clinical sciences, and more.
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From EBSCO, this database features "full-text journals and periodicals pertaining to all branches of the military and government."

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This collection includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
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A full-text database that contains harvested news from the Associated Press newswires.

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Alternate Name(s) EBSCO Open Dissertations
"With EBSCO Open Dissertations, institutions and students are offered an innovative approach to driving additional traffic to ETDs in institutional repositories." From the website

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An essential tool for psychologists, counselors, researchers and students, providing extensive coverage for a broad range of subjects in the fields of psychology, behavioral sciences and related disciplines.
Alternate Name(s) PubMed
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PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). You can also search PubMed but some articles but not be freely available.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

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This collection provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Users can search newspapers, magazines and other resources from trusted news sources.

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SIRS provides relevant, credible information on social issues, science, history, government, and the arts and humanities. Good choice when looking for multiple perspectives on a current issue.
Alternate Name(s) The Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican-American Recordings
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"Over 125,000 songs celebrating North America’s Spanish-language musical heritage."
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"... This collection focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It brings together materials from various archives and libraries throughout the world documenting colonial rule, dispersion of exiles, international intervention, and the worldwide networks that supported successive generations of resistance within the region."
Alternate Name(s) Reveal Digital
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"The collection will capture the voices of students across the great range of protest, political actions, and equal-rights advocacy from the 20th and early 21st century United States. The primary sources intended for inclusion will be broad-based across time, geography, and political viewpoint — from the conservative to the anarchist."

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"A complimentary research database for teachers, Teacher Reference Center (TRC) provides indexing and abstracts for more than 230 peer-reviewed journals." From website
Alternate Name(s) UCLA's Contemporary Score Edition
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"... The collection includes the digital, open access scores from the Contemporary Score Edition series, the first open access edition of new music published by a library, and scores from the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library."

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Alternate Name(s) UDJ
Access to Ukiah Daily Journal.
Alternate Name(s) Umbra Search African American History
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umbrasearch.org brings together hundreds of thousands digitized materials dealing with African American history from over 1,000 libraries and archives across the country

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"A complimentary research database for teachers, Teacher Reference Center (TRC) provides indexing and abstracts for more than 230 peer-reviewed journals." From website
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