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  • Provides access to whole articles, in addition to citations and abstracts.
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Large general database of articles from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers on many topics. Covers science, social sciences, mathematics, engineering, and many other subjects. Full-text coverage: 1887-present (EBSCOhost)
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Find over 70,000 online video titles in a broad range of subjects from publishers like PBS, BBC, National Geographic, BroadwayHD, A&E Networks, and more. (ProQuest)
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African Books Collective (ABC) is an African-owned mission-based distribution outlet for books published independently in Africa. Full text access will display when users are logged in. Please choose “Guest Access” or create an account to see full text options. (African Books Collective)
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Provides access to millions of images from the fine arts, architecture, humanities and social sciences. Most of these images are of artwork and sculptures that are held in museums around the world. (ARTstor)
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Articles on topics often taught in community colleges, including accounting, agriculture, child care, cosmetology, cooking, food service, forestry, graphic arts, hospitality management, interior design, plumbing, heating & air conditioning, welding. Full-text coverage: 1985-present (EBSCOhost)
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Access thousands of ebooks from Cambridge University Press on a variety of topics. (Cambridge)
  • Provides access to whole articles, in addition to citations and abstracts.
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Cambridge University Press currently publishes more than 420 peer-reviewed academic journals covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine. (Cambridge)
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Digital Theatre+ is the world’s leading educational platform for the study of performing arts and dramatic texts. Digital Theatre+ guides the learning experience with access to an ever-growing library of productions, workshops, interviews and analysis. (Digital Theatre+)
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  • Available for free via open access
This database provides access to thousands of open access ebooks.
  • Provides access to whole articles, in addition to citations and abstracts.
  • Available for free via open access
This database covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
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Search hundreds of documentary videos on a variety of subjects and watch them online. (Docuseek)
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Electronic books by university presses and other scholarly publishers, as well as a collection of older titles by major authors. Formerly NetLibrary. (EBSCOhost)
  • Provides access to whole articles, in addition to citations and abstracts.
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  • Accessible only to current PVCC students, faculty and staff.
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Choose from multiple databases within the EBSCO platform. These databases cover a wide range of subjects, including history, communications, sociology, religion, biology etc.
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Watch streaming videos from such publishers as the BBC, History Education, HBO, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Frontline, National Geographic and more. Topics range from health and medicine to history to biology and many more. (Infobase)
  • Provides access to whole articles, in addition to citations and abstracts.
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A set of electronic encyclopedias and reference books covering a wide variety of subjects and disciplines, such as health and medicine, history, and criminal justice. (Gale)
  • Provides access to whole articles, in addition to citations and abstracts.
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Provides access to Harper's Weekly published during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Full-text coverage: 1857-1877 (Alexander Street Press)
  • eBooks and eAudioBooks
  • Available for free via open access
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Most of the ebooks available in full-text through this database are in the public domain.
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Contains video oral history interviews of many important African Americans from all walks of life. Rather than focusing on a single subject, such as their career or participation in the civil rights movement, the interviews cover their entire span of memories. The archive continues to grow with new videos added daily and memories stretching from 1890s to the present. (HistoryMakers)
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[NO FULL-TEXT] Index to thousands of articles in the area of humanities. Abstract coverage: 1907-1984. (EBSCOhost)
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  • Available for free via open access
Contains a wide range of sources from books to video to website history. It started in 1996 by archiving the internet itself, and today it has 20+ years of web history in the Wayback Machine. They later expanded to digitizing books, and those in the public domain are available freely for download on this site. They also began archiving select television programs in their TV News Archive, such as news of the events surrounding 9/11. (Internet Archive)
  • Provides access to whole articles, in addition to citations and abstracts.
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Includes thousands of articles and ebooks, mostly in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. PVCC subscribes to Arts & Sciences Collections I-III, VII, & XI, as well as select titles through the current journals collection. Full-text coverage: 1769-present (JSTOR)
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Stream a broad selection of thousands of documentaries, feature films, and training videos on all topics from thousands of producers, including Criterion Collection, PBS, HBO, The Great Courses, California Newsreel, Kino Lorber, BBC, and many more. (Kanopy)
  • Provides access to whole articles, in addition to citations and abstracts.
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Large database covering many topics, such as general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues, and more. Includes full-text of many reference books, primary source documents, as well as a vast image collection. Full-text coverage: 1921-present (EBSCOhost)
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Covers a broad range of topics, including biography, history, careers, cooking, literature, genealogy, health, parenting, personal finance, politics, architecture, science, current events, social-emotional health, sports, and travel. (EBSCO)
  • Provides access to whole articles, in addition to citations and abstracts.
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Read the New York Times articles as published on their website. You must register for a free account first. Full-text coverage: 1851-present (New York Times Company)
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Access online encyclopedias, handbooks, and dictionaries published by Oxford on a wide variety of topics. (Oxford University Press)
  • Provides access to whole articles, in addition to citations and abstracts.
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Provides online access to hundreds of journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Full-text coverage: 1906-present (Johns Hopkins University Press)
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Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Full-text coverage: 1743-present (ProQuest)
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Access thousands of ebooks on a wide variety of topics. (ProQuest)
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  • eBooks and eAudioBooks
Access thousands of ebooks on a wide variety of topics. (ProQuest)
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Search our library catalog to find ebooks, articles, physical books, etc. (Ex Libris)
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Access the largest online video archive of design, animation, and VFX projects. Stash gives you streaming access to thousands of outstanding films plus behind-the-scenes extras and exclusive interviews with the creators. (Stash Media)
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[LIMITED FULL-TEXT] Access thousands of scholarly ebooks on a wide range of subject areas. Please note we only have access to a select number of ebooks through this database. (Taylor & Francis)
  • Provides access to whole articles, in addition to citations and abstracts.
  • VCCS-wide subscription
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Journals and ebooks cover a variety of disciplines, including the fields of arts and humanities, business and economics, engineering, law, medicine, social sciences, sciences, and technology. Full-text coverage: 1977-present (Wiley)
  • Available for free via open access
Online catalog to thousands of the world's libraries. If it's held in a library somewhere around the world, a record of it is in this database. Items include books, films, journals, magazines, manuscripts, musical scores, newspapers, slides, sound recordings, and videos/DVDs. (OCLC)
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