LPC Library Databases: Magazines, Journals, Newspapers, and Reference Sources
The following databases are made available for LPC students, faculty, and staff.
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Alphabetical List of Databases and eReference Books
| Title/Link | Description of Contents | How to Search |
|---|---|---|
| Academic Search Premier | Provides full-text coverage of all academic subjects in over 4,600 journals, including peer-reviewed scholarly journals. | Search |
| African-American History Online | Provides information on the people, events, and topics important to the study of African-American history. | Search |
| Alt HealthWatch | Provides coverage across the spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary, holistic, alternative medicine, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Includes full text articles from appx. 180 international and peer-reviewed journals and reports. Also, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. | Search |
| American History in Video | Streaming Video – A collection of online video available for the study of American history, analysis of historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. Currently has 3,149 titles from Ken Burns and PBS, The History Channel, A&E Television, Bullfrog Films, etc. | Search |
| America’s Newspapers | Full-text newspapers including local, state, and national coverage. | Search |
| American Song | Streaming Music – Includes songs from America’s history such as songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys, the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, etc. | Search |
| ARTstor | A digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images available for research and academic purposes. Collections consist of contributions from museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists/artists' estates. | Search |
| Biography Resource Center | Biographical information on over 320,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines. | Search |
| Birds of North America | Comprehensive life histories of North American birds with image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and recordings of songs and calls. | Search |
| Bloom's Literary Reference Online | Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature. | Search |
| Business Searching Interface | Search the Business Source Premier databases using this business-specific interface, which allows limiting results to variety of sources, including Academic Journals, SWOT Analyses, Trade Publications, Industry Profiles, Company Profiles, Market Research Reports, and Product Reviews. | Search |
| Business Source Premier | Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Includes full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. | Search |
| Classical Music Library | Streaming Music – A collection of 50,000-plus tracks of classical recordings covering music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera. | Search |
| Columbia Granger’s Poetry | Contains 250,000 of the most widely-read classic and contemporary poems in the English language, as well as in Spanish, French, German, and Italian, etc. | Search |
| Communication & Mass Media Complete | Contains quality research published numerous journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields. This database includes full text for over 380 journals. | Search |
| Contemporary World Music | Streaming Music – Contains genres from all regions of the world such as reggae, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, etc. | Search |
| CountryWatch | Country reports on each of the 192 countries of the world. Reports include historical, political, economic, business, environmental, geographic, and demographic information. Also features an online newswire for current updates. | Search |
| CQ Researcher | Nonpartisan reporting and analysis of current controversial social, economic, political, and environmental issues. Each weekly issue is devoted to a single topic and features an overview, background, chronology, current situation, outlook, bibliography, and more. | Search |
| EBSCOhost (All Databases in Alpha Order) |
Search across all EBSCOhost databases. | Search |
| EBSCOhost (All Databases by Categories) |
Search across all EbscoHost databases. | Search |
| Encyclopedia of Cultures & Daily Life | Covers cultural groups in Asia, Europe, the Americas and Africa. Each volume is organized by continent, covering history, politics, customs, religion, education, human rights issues, teen life, and more. | Search |
| Encyclopedia of Diets | Covers topics such as dieting and popular diets, dietary concerns, nutritional basics, and the effects of a person's dietary choices on one's health. Topics are organized around the development and history of a diet, its basic principles, any key figures that influence the trend, and any public or regulatory concerns associated with the practice. Provides information across all age groups from infants to the elderly. | Search |
| Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior | Explores the social, medical, legal and political issues related to drugs and alcohol and associated behaviors. Includes emerging topics and developments in the many fields of addiction studies. | Search |
| Encyclopedia of Science | Covers all major areas of science, engineering, technology, as well as mathematics and the medical and health sciences, while providing a comprehensive overview of current scientific knowledge and technology. Entries typically describe scientific concepts, provide overviews of scientific areas and, in some cases, define terms. | Search |
| ERIC | The Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,300,000 records and links to more than 317,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966. | Search |
| Ethnic NewsWatch | Contains newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Includes categories for African American/Caribbean/African, Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian/Pacific Islander, European/Eastern European, Hispanic, Jewish, Multi-Ethnic, and Native People. | Search |
| Facts On File (portal page) | Search across all Facts on File subject databases. | Search |
| FMG Streaming Videos | Full-length films and documentaries on a variety of topics in the fields of humanities, sociology, administration of justice, psychology, health, etc. | Search |
| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia | This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. | Search |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | Search across all GVRL subject encyclopedias. |
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| GenderWatch | Journal, magazine, and newspaper articles focus on the impact of gender on culture and society, includes gender and women's studies, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) research on wide-ranging topics like sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, etc. | Search |
| GreenFILE | A collection of well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Includes scholarly, government and general-interest titles covering global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. | Search |
| Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia | A completely revised and updated version of the original work published in Germany in 1960, this edition incorporates recent developments in the animal world as noted by prominent advisors and contributors from the scientific community. | Search |
| Health Source - Consumer Edition | Approximately 300 consumer health magazines and journals. Also includes health-related pamphlets, reference books, reports, and Stedman’s Medical Dictionary. | Search |
| Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition | Over 550 magazines and journals in nursing, medicine, and allied health disciplines. | Search |
| History Reference Center | Offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, full text for more than 150 history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 77,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video. | Search |
| Jazz Music Library | Streaming Music –A comprehensive collection of jazz covering a variety of artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. | Search |
| Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts | LISTA indexes more than 500 journals plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. | Search |
| LitFinder | A collection of full-text literature, this database contains 150,000 poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays representing the work of more than 80,000 authors. | Search |
| Literature Resource Center | Includes literary criticism, explication, biographies, bibliographies, work overviews, Web sites, and reading lists. Information about 100,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers. | Search |
| MAS Ultra - School Edition | Designed for high school libraries, this database covers all subject areas and is a good choice for ESL students looking for information written at a basic level. Contains full text for magazines, reference books, biographies, primary sources, and a collection of images, photos, maps. | Search |
| MasterFILE Premier | Covers all subject areas of general interest, MasterFILE Premier contains full text magazines, reference books, primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of photos, maps & flags. | Search |
| 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. | Search |
| Merck Index | Online reference book that contains 10,955 monographs describing significant chemicals, drugs, & biological substances. | Search |
| Military & Government Collection | Offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. | Search |
| Music Online: Listening (Includes: American, Classical, Contemporary, and Jazz) |
Streaming Music – Music Online combines the following databases to allow cross searching of all of the music databases published by Alexander Street Press: African American Song, American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, and Jazz Music Library. | Search |
| Newspaper Source | Provides cover-to-cover full text for 47 national (U.S.) & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 390 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided. | Search |
| NoodleBib | Online bibliography software to help create MLA and APA style formatted citations and references. | Help |
| Opposing Viewpoints | Covers current controversial issues in pro/con viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to Web sites, and magazine and newspaper articles. | Search |
| Primary Search | Includes popular, magazines on all subjects written at a basic level appropriate for ESL students. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). | Search |
| Professional Development Collection | Provides full-text education journals, including more than peer-reviewed titles and educational reports. | Search |
| PsycARTICLES | A source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 60 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA). | Search |
| Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection | Covers information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This full text psychology database offers full text coverage for appx. 560 journals. | Search |
| Regional Business News | Provides full text coverage for 80 regional business publications, covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. | Search |
| Religion and Philosophy Collection | Provides coverage journal articles on such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. | Search |
| Salem Health Online | Online access to the 5-volume reference book, Magill's Medical Guide. (Expires 12/31/10) | Search |
| Science Online | Presents a broad range of science topics through definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments. | Search |
| Serials Solution | Search by magazine or journal title to find which LPC Library database has it in full-text. | Search |
| Shakespeare for Students | Collection of essays by Shakespeare scholars that have been selected for students at the high school or undergraduate college level. Each entry includes an introduction; a plot synopsis; a character list; a discussion of the work's principal themes; information about the style and literary devices used; a conversation about the work's historical context; and a critical overview. | Search |
| Smithsonian Global Sound | Streaming Music – Contains international/world music audio archives including recordings from Smithsonian Folkways. | Search |
| Student Research Center | A basic search interface useful for ESL users. It is simple to pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included searches. Searches can be limited by appropriate Lexile reading levels. Databases covered include Columbia Encyclopedia, The American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition, Columbia Granger's Poetry Database, Health Source: Consumer Edition, History Reference Center, Image Collection, MAS Ultra - School Edition, Newspaper Source, and Vocational & Career Collection. | Search |
| Teacher Reference Center | Over 280 teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional educators includes topics such as Assessment, Best Practices, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education. | Search |
| Vocational and Career Collection | Provides articles from 340 trade and industry related periodicals such as American Machinist, Modern Machine Shop, Pediatric Nursing, Hotel & Motel Management, Advertising Age, etc. | Search |
