Databases listed below are available through the Library homepage:
http://www.ucc.edu/Library/DatabaseArticles/default.htm
Most databases may be accessed from off campus. Click here for instructions.
A -E; F - K; L - P; Q - U; V - Z
ABI Inform - Business (VALE)
ABI Inform provides magazine and journal articles in business and management. Locate information on companies, industries, competitive intelligence, products and product development, case studies, and more. Coverage: 1971-present. Contains abstracts and full text articles.
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ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery)
ACM database, from the Association for Computing Machinery, contains more than a quarter-million works in computing (many in full text) from all ACM journals, magazines, proceedings, books, technical reports, as well as works from major publishers in the discipline.
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) (NJKI)
Academic Search Premier provides citations and full text of nearly 3,200 scholarly publications on topics in the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Coverage: 1990 – present.
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Alt-Health Watch (EBSCO)
Alt-HealthWatch focuses on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness, and contains nearly 50,000 articles from over 160 international, peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, and association and consumer newsletters, plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Coverage: 1990 to the present.
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Art Full Text
With coverage beginning in 1984, Art Full Text indexes and abstracts an international range of periodicals, with full text coverage of many titles starting in 1997. Coverage concentrates on fine, decorative and commercial art and includes such subjects as: archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, computers in art, crafts, fashion design, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, painting, sculpture, television, textiles, and video. It also indexes art reproductions.
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Banking Information Source (ABI Inform)
Covers Banking, Finance: journals, magazines, newsletters. Search essential banking industry publications providing information about the financial services industry, banking, and industry trends. Coverage: 1971- present.
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Biographies Plus Illustrated (VALE)
Biographies Plus includes more than 45,000 biographies from more than 100 biographical reference sources.
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Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive (NJKI)
Designed for doctors, research scientists, students, clinical specialists and managers, this database provides nearly 900 full text journals, including nearly 850 peer-reviewed publications, covering virtually all areas of medical study. Journals available in full text in Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive Edition are indexed in MEDLINE.
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Bloom's Literary Reference Online (Facts on File Encyclopedias)
Formerly called Literary Reference Online, Facts On File’s newly redesigned Bloom's Literary Reference Online has been revised and expanded to include the writings of renowned literary critic Harold Bloom. Contains an archive of more than 38,000 characters, as well as extensive entries on literary topics, themes, movements, and genres. Updated regularly.
No remote access.
Business Source Elite
This business database provides full text for nearly 1,100 business publications, including full text for nearly 500 peer-reviewed business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
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pre-CINAHL
A companion database to CINAHL, pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing. Use of pre-CINAHL is now through CINAHL with Full Text.
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CINAHL with Full Text
CINAHL with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 550 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, nearly 400 have cover-to-cover indexing in CINAHL. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1982, CINAHL with Full Text is the definitve research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature. Includes the companion database, pre-CINAHL.
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Contemporary Authors (VALE)
Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Remote access: enter your UCC computer account username and password.
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Corporate ResourceNet
Corporate ResourceNet is designed to meet the diverse information needs of today’s companies. This database contains full text articles from nearly 1,200 quality magazines and journals.
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CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher provides in-depth, coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published online 44 times a year by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc.
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Criminal Justice Periodicals (ProQuest)
The Criminal Justice Periodical (CJP) is the most comprehensive database of its kind for both students and professionals in any criminal justice field. CJP provides information on criminal justice topics such as corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law. Coverage: 1981-present.
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Curriculum Resource Center (Facts on File Encyclopedias)
For middle school, high school, and junior college teachers and students seeking material to supplement their coursework in core subject areas—including U.S. and world history, science, and geography. This electronic library of curriculum-related handouts provides access to a broad selection of visual content, including maps, science diagrams, science experiments, historical images, historical timelines, and other handouts, all of which can be saved in a password-protected folder, emailed, or printed and used for worksheets, overheads, and testing.
No remote access.
Discovering Collection (Gale)
The Discovering Collection provides information on US and World History, American Government and Politics, Business and Economics, Science, American Social History, Biographical resources, Literary themes and periods, and the Arts and Humanities.
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EBSCO Animals
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
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Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Encyclopedia Britannica online includes the complete encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Britannica Book of the Year, full text articles from roughly 70 periodicals, and more.
No remote access.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (Grove)
ELS, written and edited by leading scientists and scientific historians, is made up of articles from biological sciences fields such as biochemistry, cell biology, developmental biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, neuroscience, plant science, physiology, structural biology, virology and the history of life sciences.
No remote access.
ERIC (Education Resource Information Center)
ERIC is the US Department of Education database. It contains citations/abstracts from over 980 education and education oriented journals, as well as the full text of over 2,200 digests.
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Ethnic NewsWatch (VALE)
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full text database of newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from ethnic, minority, and native news sources. This rich collection of articles, editorials, columns, and reviews provides a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints missing from the "mainstream press."
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Facts on File Cross-searchable Databases
Provides access to multiple history, science, health, career, and education databases.
No remote access.
Ferguson’s Career Resource Center
Ferguson’s Career Resource Center offers more than just descriptions of different careers. It can be searched by industry or by skill set. Use Ferguson’s to find resume help, lists of 4-year college by state, career-oriented self-evaluation sites, and more. Career Opportunities News magazine contains short articles about occupational issues.name of the game.
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
This link allows the entire content of the three titles Union County College has access to in this electronic library to be searched at the same time. To see the subscribed titles, click on the Gale Virtual Reference Library Link, and then click on "Show All." Additional online access is provided for each individual title through the UCC Online catalog, which also shows the location of the corresponding print volumes.
GenderWatch (VALE)
GenderWatch is a full text database of articles on the subject of gender. Find information on subjects that are uniquely central to women's lives, such as aging, birth control, careers, class, disability, domestic abuse, education, family, health-care, race, sexual harassment, sexuality, and more.
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GreenFILE (EBSCO)
Free, interdisciplinary database that indexes scholarly and general interest tiles, and government documents and reports. Selected titles are available full text,, and some citations are searchable.
Health & Wellness (VALE)
Use Health & Wellness to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, prescription drugs, and others. There are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases.
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Health Reference Center Academic (VALE)
Health Reference Center Academic includes articles from professional journals and popular magazines, pamphlets from the US Government and non-profit health organizations, entries from current medical encyclopedias and dictionaries. Coverage: 1996 - present.
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Health Reference Center (Facts on File Encyclopedias)
Health Reference Center is an encyclopedic database containing more than 20,000 hyper-linked entries on today's most pressing health and social issues. It defines the causes, cures, key research, medical terms, symptoms, and treatments and trends of each field of study and explores the social impact of numerous health-related subjects. Entries are written in clear, non-technical language that is easy to comprehend, and area also clearly organized by topic and type: including biographies, encyclopedia entries, glossary terms, resources and organizations, social and cultural factors, tables and statistics, and tests and procedures.
No remote access.
Health Source – Consumer Education
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features more than 130 full text, consumer health magazines. This database is updated on a weekly basis.
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Health Source – Nursing/Academic Ed.
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated twice a week. This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated twice a week.
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History Reference Center (EBSCO)
History Reference Center offers full text from more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 120 history periodicals, more than 59,600 historical documents, 49,600 biographies of historical figures, more than 110,200 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
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History Search (Facts on File Encyclopedias)
The History Database Search automatically searches across multiple Facts On File history databases, thus providing access to Facts on File’s online collection of authoritative history reference materials, including the following six history databases: American History Online, Modern World History Online, Ancient & Medieval History Online, African American History Online, American Indian History Online, American Women’s History Online. No remote access.
Hoover’s (ABI Inform)
Find up to date proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover's, widely recognized as a leading provider of corporate data, delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more.
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JSTOR Arts and Sciences I, II, III; Math & Statistics
Back runs of 269 titles, with subject areas including: economics; history; political science; sociology; music; film studies; folklore; performing arts; religion; the history and study of art and architecture; ecology; mathematics; and statistics.
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LexisNexis Academic
Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options. Also includes New York Times articles from 1980 – present.
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO)
A freely available database, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
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LION – Literature Online
LION provides a library of 350,000 British and American poetry, drama, and prose works, criticisms, and reference resources.
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Literary Reference Center (EBSCO)
Literary Reference Center is a full text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. It contains overviews, book reviews, criticism and more.
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Literature Resource Center (VALE)
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. It covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.
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MAS Ultra – School Addition (EBSCO)
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. Remote access: enter your UCC computer account username and password.
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)
Searchable via JerseyClicks, MasterFILE Premier is a general, multidisciplinary, full text database covering topics such as general reference, business, health, and others.
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McClatchy-Tribune Collection (EBSCO)
The McClatchy-Tribune Collection includes a 90-day archive of approximately 290 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
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MEDLINE
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
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Middle Search Plus
Middle Search® Plus contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books including the Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia and American Heritage® Dictionary, 4th Edition from Houghton Mifflin, the Encyclopedia of Animals™, and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps and flags.
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New York Times (1980 - current)
Access through Nexis Lexis Academic database. Full-text coverage from 1980 – present.
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New York Times Historical (1851-2003)
Includes full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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Newspaper Source (EBSCO)
Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
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NoodleBib
Users create their own logins to access this MLA and APA bibliography composer with fully integrated note-taking.
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Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive
Designed for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers, this database provides full text for nearly 400 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines. Nearly all full text titles included in Nursing & Allied Health: Comprehensive Edition are indexed in CINAHL.
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Opposing ViewPoints
Opposing Viewpoints is a convenient way to begin researching a contemporary social issue. It contains the Opposing Viewpoints books, the Information Plus Series of books, and magazine, newspaper and journal articles presorted by topic. Students can choose from a list of topics or enter a search.
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The Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is the premier historical dictionary of the English language. It contains the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. The online version is searchable by definition, keyword, quotation, or quotation author.
No remote access.
Personal and Business Forms (Facts on File Encyclopedias)
Facts On File’s Personal & Business Forms is a collection of reproducible forms and checklists for a wide range of personal, business, and government situations—from applying for financial aid to submitting a tax form to negotiating a rental agreement. With more than 3,000 easy-to-access printable forms, this database is the most comprehensive and user-friendly resource of its kind. Tax forms are updated for each tax year and can be printed and saved using Adobe® Acrobat® Reader, which can be downloaded free of charge from the Internet. Updated regularly.
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Points of View
Points of View is a convenient way to begin researching a contemporary social issue. It contains opinion pieces, reference book articles, and magazine, journal, and newspaper articles presorted by topic. Students can choose from a list of topics or enter a search.
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Primary Search
Providing very easy reading levels, Primary Search contains full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
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Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
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Project Muse Scholarly Journals Online (Johns Hopkins University)
Citations for over 100 scholarly journals that cover topics in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Request full-text articles through inter-library loan.
Remote Access: Password not required. (No full text.)
Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
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Science Online (Facts on File Encyclopedias)
Science Online conveys the visual nature of science in a clear and easy-to-comprehend manner. All content in this comprehensive database is divided into sections based on the science curriculum established by the National Science Education Standards, enabling students and researchers to access printable experiments, diagrams, definitions, biographies, and essays in a specific subject area or discipline with a single click. Designed to be user-friendly, comprehensive science database for public school use.
No remote access.
Science Reference Center (EBSCO)
Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. Remote access: enter your UCC computer account username and password.
ScienceDirect
The world's largest electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. Includes full-text from 2001 on.
No remote access.
SBRnet (Sports Business Research)
This database contains the ultimate sports business resource, which you can do the market research, find the publications, reports and directories in one place.
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Star-Ledger Archive
An online full text version of the daily Star-Ledger and its archive (backfile to 1989) is available at each campus library. Speak to a Reference Librarian for username and password.
No remote access.
TopicSearch (EBSCO)
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 139,800 articles from more than 4,800 diverse sources.
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Wall Street Journal (1984 – current)
The financial newspaper of record that contains in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news.
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Wiley Interscience
Features over 1,000 journals, major reference works, online books, Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and databases as well as a suite of professional and management resources.
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World Atlas (Facts on File Encyclopedias)
The World Atlas combines more than 500 reproducible, full-color maps with superb statistical information on more than 200 nations, the 50 states, the 13 Canadian provinces and territories, regions, and continents. A wealth of supplemental information is linked to each state, province, and country map, including the location’s history, government, flag, vital statistics, and further resources.
No remote access.
World News Digest (Facts on File)
World News Digest delivers over 60 years of the authoritative Facts On File World News Digest, updated every week and including a live Reuters® news feed, interconnected with related content from the other FACTS.com reference databases.
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