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  • Academic Search Premier 
    Full text for nearly 4,500 academic journals, including 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. Backfiles to 1887 or further are available for some resources.
     
  • AccessScience
    Full-text of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates from The McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science and Technology, more than 12,000 illustrations, the latest Science News headlines, biographies, and more.
     
  • Alt HealthWatch
    Magazines and peer-reviewed journals with in-depth coverage on complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.

  • America: History and Life with Full Text
    Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1955 to present, this database provides full-text coverage of more than 200 journals and nearly 100 books.

  • America's Newspapers
    Full text U.S., regional and local news, including the Chico Enterprise Record and other Northern California papers.

  • Biography in Context
    Authoritative reference content, periodicals and multimedia: search for biographies based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.
     
  • BIR Entertainment
    Provides information on about 450,000 music titles and 200,000 DVD/video titles. Search music or videos featuring a favorite artist or performer, or a specific genre.

  • Book Index with Reviews
    Provides information on over 5 million book titles, in a wide range of formats. BIR also contains almost 800,000 full-text searchable book reviews from the sources that you trust: Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist and others.

  • Britannica Online
    Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Britannica Books of the Year from 1994 to the present, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, and a directory of selected links. Also, statistics for all countries in World Data Analyst, phrases from famous authors in Notable Quotations, and essays from great thinkers in Gateway to the Classics.

  • Business Source Elite
    Provides full text for over 1,000 business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included.
     
  • Business Source Premier
    Full text for more than 2,300 journals, many peer-reviewed, in business, marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.   

 

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  • California Policy Bulletins  
    Reports on key California state policy issues and developments from Sacramento.
     
  • Career & Technical Education (Proquest)
    Search vocational and technical periodicals covering all aspects of the Vo/Tech curriculum, including careers and education.
     
  • CINAHL Plus with Full Text, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature 
    750 full text nursing and allied health journals, plus indexing back to 1937 for 3,123 journals. Includes legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments, and clinical trials.
     
  • College Source Web
    Features over 10,500 College catalogs in original page format including 2-year, 4-year, graduate, and professional schools.
     
  • Congressional Quarterly Encyclopedia of American Government
    Reference on Congress, the Presidency, the Supreme Court, U.S. Election process, law, and U.S. history.
     
  • Consumer Health Complete
    Consumer-oriented health content designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. Includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs. 
     
  • Contemporary Authors
    Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
     
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
    Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC-Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.
     
  • Country Reviews
    A political and economic survey of 191 countries in 191 reports.
     
  • Country Wire
    Information on the latest political, economic, corporate, and environmental issues and events on a country by country basis as they occur.
     
  • CountryWatch 
    Country Reviews and Country Wire
     
  • CQ Press Electronic Reference Library
    CQ Weekly, The CQ Researcher, and CQ's Electronic Encyclopedia of American Government.
     
  • The CQ Researcher
    Covering the most current and controversial issues of the day.
     
  • CQ Weekly
    Nonpartisan information on Capitol Hill.
     
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography
    Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
     
  • Directory of Open Access Journals
    Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals online in many subjects and languages.
     
  • Discovering Collection
    In-depth reference content for Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.  

 

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  • eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary
    Access over 27,000 non-fiction eBooks on almost any subject! Full-text electronic versions of print books with links from the table of contents, an embedded dictionary, full-text searching, and the ability to add notes. You can read or search the full-text of any eBook.

  • EBSCOhost
    30 academic, general, multidisciplinary and specialized databases.

  • Economic Reports (RAND)
    California statistics and studies on employment, trade, and other regional activities.
     
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica
    Along with thousands of entries, includes Notable Quotations, essays from great thinkers in Gateway to the Classics, and World Data Analyst.

  • ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center
    Full text, citations, and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals plus more than 2,200 digests.

  • Ethnic NewsWatch
    An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses.

  • FACTS.com Reference Suite
    Includes the Facts On File World News Digest since 1980, Issues and Controversies On File, Today's Science On File, Reuters On-Line News Service, the World Almanac and Book of Facts, and the World Almanac Encyclopedia.
     
  • Federal Policy Bulletins
    Reporting on key federal public policy issues affecting the state of California.
     
  • Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
    Over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. 

 

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  • Gale   
    Includes Biography Resource Center; Discovering Collection; Literature Resource Center; Health Reference Center Academic; Health and Wellness Resource Center; Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
     
  • Gale Literary Databases
    Includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography in a cross-searchable interface.
     
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library
    260 full text, multidisciplinary encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources on art, the environment, business, religion, multicultural studies, science, literature and more.

  • Google Scholar (Power Search!)
    Search the scholarly literature index online. Click on "Get Full-text@Butte CC" from the results list to check local holdings. Includes indexing for peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

  • GreenFILE
    Well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

  • Health and Wellness Resource Center
    Magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, videos, & reference information on health including links to diet, cancer, health assessment sites & government databases. 700+ online videos in English & Spanish.
     
  • Health Reference Center: Academic
    Nursing, allied health, and medicine articles from consumer and professional health periodicals, plus dictionaries, directories, reference books, and pamphlets.
     
  • Health Source: Consumer Edition
    More than 130 full text consumer health magazines on the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
     
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
    550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines plus abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
     
  • Issues and Controversies On File (Facts on File)
     
  • Issues and Controversies in American History (Facts on File)
     
  • JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, & III
    397 scholarly journal title archives in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, including archaeology, religion, classics & folklore; African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, & Slavic studies; art & architecture; economics, history, political science, sociology, ecology, mathematics, and statistics.

  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
    Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings on librarianship,online information retrieval, information management and more, back to the mid-1960s.

  • Literature Resource Center
    Includes Twayne's Authors Series and Scribner Writer's Series. Access biographies, bibliographies, reviews, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.

  • Local News Stories
    Full text articles from Butte, Glenn, Yuba & Shasta county newspapers, including the Chico Enterprise Record, Paradise Post and Oroville Mercury-Register. 

 

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  • MAS Ultra School Edition  
    Full text for nearly 500 popular high school magazines, plus pamphlets, reference books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags.
     
  • MasterFILE Premier
    A general interest database, it includes full text for more than 1,730 general reference materials including reference books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags.
     
  • MEDLINE
    Authoritative abstracts & citations from the National Library of Medicine on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.

  • Military & Government Collection (EBSCO)
    Full text & abstracts for nearly 400 titles of current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.

  • NetLibrary see eBook Collection in EBSCOHost

  • Newspaper Source
    Provides selected full text for 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers plus full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers.

  • Newspaper Source Plus
    Includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.  

 

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  • OmniFile Full Text Select 
    Full-text articles across the disciplines are available from approximately 2,700 publications, many of which are peer-reviewed.

  • Online Library (RAND)  
    Information from leading California public policy and research institutions.
     
  • Oxford Art Online 
    Over 45,000 articles and images on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day. Includes The Grove Dictionary of Art,  the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and the Oxford Companion to Western Art.
     
  • Oxford Music Online
    The full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The Oxford Companion to Music ,The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
     
  • Primary Search
    Full text back to 1990 for nearly 70 popular magazines for elementary school research, with assigned reading levels (Lexiles). Now includes EBSCO Animals: indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
     
  • Professional Development Collection
    Designed for professional educators, a specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals (many peer-reviewed), and over 200 educational reports.
     
  • Proquest Direct
    Search journals, magazines and newspapers for information on a broad range of general reference subjects.
     
  • Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
    Nearly 400 full text publications, mostly peer-reviewed, covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. 
     
  • RAND California
    Statistical data from national, California state, county, city, and zip code levels; Includes Online Library, Economic Reports, Federal Policy Bulletins, and California Policy Bulletins.
     
  • Regional Business News
    Full text coverage of 80 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all U.S. metropolitan and rural areas.

  • Religion & Philosophy Collection
    Over 300 full text journals, mostly peer-reviewed, provide extensive coverage of world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. 

 

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  • SIRS Knowledge Source   
    SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Renaissance, SIRS NetSelect, Today's News, World Almanac excerpts, and Maps of the World.
     
     
  • Teacher Reference Center
    Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

  • Today's Science
    Presents the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them in easy-to-understand language & format.

 

 

  • Wilson Web Omnifile Full Text Select -- see Omnifile in EBSCOHost

 

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