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EBSCO Academic Search Complete - offers full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,500 peer-reviewed titles.

EBSCO - Select from all EBSCO products that LTCC subscribes to.

EBSCO MasterFILE Premier- Popular general reference information. Includes Vital Speeches of the Day dating as far back as 1934.

 

Global Business and Economics

CountryWatch - offers up-to-date news and information on each of the recognized countries of the world.

Opposing Viewpoints - gives both sides of the argument, pro and con, on hot topics  using multimedia, statistics, and news and primary sources.

 

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Dictionary.com

Encyclopedia.com - Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

 

Health and Medicine

CINAHL Plus - provides indexing for 3,123 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health.

MEDLINE - A Leading Source of Full-Text for Medical Journals

PLoS Biology - is a peer-reviewed open-access journal featuring research articles of exceptional significance in all areas of biological science, from molecules to ecosystems.

PLoS Genetics - is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that reflects the full breadth and interdisciplinary nature of genetics and genomics research by publishing outstanding original contributions in all areas of biology.

PLoS Medicine - is a peer-reviewed, international, open-access journal publishing important original research and analysis relevant to human health.

PLoS ONE - is an interactive open-access journal for the communication of all peer-reviewed scientific and medical research.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases - is an open-access journal devoted to the world's most neglected tropical diseases.

PsycARTICLES - contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals , 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. 

PubMed.gov -  U.S. National Library of Medicine

 

Humanities

All Music.Com

ArtStor - is a digital library of more than a million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.

Google Art Project

Europeana - Search through the cultural collections of Europe.

Films Media Group- Films on demand / digital educational videos.

Google Books

JSTOR - Early content journal . Content published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere. 500,000 articles from more that 200 journals.

Open Library of the Humanities - aims to provide a platform for Open Access publishing

World Images

News

The New York Times - Online edition of the newspaper's news and commentary. [Registration required]

 

Science and Technology

Directory of Open Access Journals - covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in many languages.

GreenFILE - covers all aspects of human impact to the environment, spanning a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

ScienceStage.com - Biggest science-related video database.

TED - a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. TEDTalks began as a simple attempt to share what happens at TED with the world. Under the moniker "ideas worth spreading," talks were released online”

 

Social Sciences

ERIC - stands for the "Education Resources Information Center", which provides access to books, conference papers, and journal articles on the subject of education.

Opposing Viewpoints - gives both sides of the argument, pro and con, on hot topics  using multimedia, statistics, and news and primary sources.

ProCon.Org - Pros and cons of controversial subjects.

PsycARTICLES - contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals , 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. 

 

Statistics

RAND California - is an online source for California and US statistics.

Worldometers - world statistics updated in real time.