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- Academic One File This link opens in a new window Subjects: Multidisciplinary Description: Used for general research. Contains full-text versions of over 19,000 publications. Materials cover dates from 1900 to present and updated daily. From Gale. Resource Types: Scholarly Journal (Peer Reviewed) Articles; Popular (Magazine, Newspaper) Articles; Newsletters; Multimedia
- Associates Programs Source Plus This link opens in a new window Subjects: Multidisciplinary Description: Provides a collection of wide-ranging materials specific to the needs of two-year college and vocational students. From Ebsco. Resource Types: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal Articles; Popular (Magazine/Newspaper Non-Scholarly) Articles; Country Reports; Market Research Reports
- Communications and Mass Media This link opens in a new window Subjects: Communication; Psychology; Sociology; Literature; Business Description: Full text from more than 400 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. From Gale OneFile. Resource Types: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal Articles; Popular (Magazine/Newspaper Non-Scholarly) Articles
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window Subjects: Multidisciplinary Description: JSTOR includes full text from over 2,400 academic journals and 45,000 eBooks across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. From ITHAKA. Resource Types: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal Articles
- Project Muse This link opens in a new window Subjects: Multidisciplinary; Social Sciences Description: Project MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from 700+ scholarly journals and 70,000+ books from major university presses on the humanities and social sciences. From John Hopkins University Press Resource Types: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal Articles; Full-Text Books; Encyclopedias & Reference Books
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- APA Style The APA Style Blog is the official companion to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition. It's run by a group of experts who work with APA Style every day and who publish weekly posts to talk about writing, publishing, and APA Style.
- COCC Writing Center Link to COCC's Writing Center webpage.
- Humanities Magazine The magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- MLA Style Official guidance on MLA style from the Modern Language Association.
- Purdue OWL Citations From The Writing Lab at Purdue University, this Online Writing Lab (OWL) site helps you cite your sources, format your papers correctly, and even answers common questions about in-text citations. Covers APA, MLA, and Chicago citation styles.
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center The Writing Center is an instructional service of the University of North Carolina that also provides a large collection of online resources to all writers and educators.
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- Northstar Digital Literacy This link opens in a new window Subjects: Multidisciplinary Description: Northstar Digital Literacy offers free self-guided online assessments for topics like Basic Computer Skills, Using Email, Windows, Essential Software Skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Docs), Social Media, Information Literacy, Career Search Skills, and Your Digital Footprint. More details Resource Types: Study Aids; Practice Tests
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- Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Subjects: Multidisciplinary Description: Credo Reference is an online reference collection made up of over 1,000 full-text books from expert authors. From Infobase. Resource Types: Encyclopedias & Reference Books
- Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window Subjects: Multidisciplinary Description: Gale eBooks is an online reference collection made up of over 13,000 full-text books from expert authors. Resource Types: Encyclopedias & Reference Books
- Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window Subjects: English & Literature, Writing Description: The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) provides guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words, etymological timelines, historical thesaurus, video guides and more. From Oxford University Press. Resource Types: Encyclopedias & Reference Books; Multimedia; Timelines; Text & Literature
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- Barber Library & Summit Catalog Find books, e-books, DVDs, streaming films, government documents and journals owned by the Barber Library and other libraries in the Pacific Northwest that belong to Summit. Items not owned by COCC can be delivered in 2-3 working days.
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- The New Yorker The New Yorker is a national weekly magazine that offers a signature mix of reporting and commentary on politics, foreign affairs, business, technology, popular culture and the arts, along with humor, fiction, poetry and cartoons. Founded in 1925, The New Yorker publishes the best writers of its time and has received more National Magazine Awards than any other magazine, for its groundbreaking reporting, authoritative analysis, and creative inspiration. The New Yorker takes readers beyond the weekly print magazine with the web, mobile, tablet, social media and signature events. The New Yorker is at once a classic and at the leading edge.
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