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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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Access approximately 165 ebooks in the areas of language and linguistics, literature and cultural studies, and social sciences. (Brill)
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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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This database provides access to thousands of open access ebooks.
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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)
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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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Large database covering journal articles, conference papers and some books on all aspects of education including multilingual education, health education, testing, curriculum, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. Full-text coverage: 1930-present (EBSCOhost)
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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)
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Scholarly journal articles from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. Covers most subjects, but particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion, sociology. Full-text coverage: 1922-present (EBSCOhost)
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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)
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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)
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[NO FULL-TEXT] Indexes the international literature (articles, books, dissertations) in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. It covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Abstract coverage: 1973-present (ProQuest)
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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)
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Peer-reviewed medical research and investigatory journals from Latin America and Spain, mostly in Spanish. A wide range of topics are covered including neuroscience, cardiology, nephrology, biomedicine, clinical research, pediatrics, human reproduction, clinical pathology, cancer research, and hematology. Full-text coverage: 1994-present (EBSCOhost)
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Access online encyclopedias, handbooks, and dictionaries published by Oxford on a wide variety of topics. (Oxford University Press)
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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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Search our library catalog to find ebooks, articles, physical books, etc. (Ex Libris)
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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)
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Provides full text coverage for French language business journals. Includes publications covering topics such as accounting & tax, administration, industry & manufacturing, marketing, logistics, technology and others. Full-text coverage: 1982-present (EBSCOhost)
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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)
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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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