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- Informe Academico This link opens in a new window Temas: Multidisciplinaria Descripción: Informe Académico proporciona acceso a periódicos y revistas especializadas de lengua española y portuguesa. La base de datos ofrece una amplia gama de contenidos sobre América Latina. Desde Gale OneFile. Tipos de Recursos: Articulos de Periódico Académico (Publicaciones Arbitradas) y Revistas Populares
- Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window Subjects: News & Curent Events; Journalism Description: Newspaper Source provides full text for 200+ national and international and 310+ regional newspapers. In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts from major networks. From Ebsco Resource Types: Full-text articles; Multimedia; Broadcast Transcripts & Videos
- 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
- Religion and Philosophy Collection (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window Subjects: Philosophy, Religion, & Classical Studies; World History; World Languages & Cultures Description: Full-text database for theology and philosophy research. 130+ full-text journals and magazines covering many religious and philosophical topics, including world religions, religious history, political philosophy and philosophy of language. From Ebsco Resource Types: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal Articles; Popular (Magazine/Newspaper Non-Scholarly) Articles
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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
- Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture Provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of Latin American history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. Covers cultural issues and includes numerous biographical profiles of important figures in politics, letters and the arts.
- Encyclopedia of World Cultures This reference set lists and describes more than 1,500 global cultures. Based on research of social scientists, it is the source for historical, social, political, economic, linguistic, religious, and other information on virtually every existing culture.
- 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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- Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window Subjects: Multidisciplinary Description: More than 70,000 videos spanning a wide range of formats from 1898 to present. From ProQuest. Resource Types: Demonstrations; Documentaries, Feature & Short Films; Speeches & Lectures; Performances
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Subjects: Multidisciplinary Description: Includes performing arts, academic and news coverage from the History Channel, Biography Channel, HBO, BBC, PBS, and other channels. Also includes films supporting career education, technical education and the skilled trades. There are more than 330,000 segments from 45,000 titles. From Infobase. Resource Types: Demonstrations; Documentaries, Feature & Short Films; Speeches & Lectures; Performances
- PBS Video Collection This link opens in a new window Subjects: Multidisciplinary; Film & Theater Arts Description: Contains 1,400+ titles from PBS, CNN, and Sony Picture Classics. Titles include NOVA, Nature, Ken Burns, American Experience, and Frontline. From ProQuest/Alexander Street Resource Types: Videos; Documentaries; Feature & Short Films; Speeches & Lectures; Performances
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- EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History Hosted by Brigham Young University's Harold B. Lee Library, this resource contains European primary historical documents--videos, sound files, maps, photographs, and other documentation--covering a broad range of historical happenings (political, economic, social and cultural).
- Europeana Collections Europeana works with thousands of European archives, libraries, and museums to share over 50 million digitized cultural items for enjoyment, education, and research.
- Google News Archives Google News Archive is an extension of Google News providing free access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web, both free and paid. Some of the news archives date back to 18th century.
- Wikimedia Commons A collection of more than 50 million freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
- British National Archives UK Government archival collection--one of the largest in the world--containing over 11 million historical government and public records. From Domesday Book to modern government papers and digital files, the collection includes paper and parchment, digital records and websites, photographs, posters, maps, drawings and paintings.
- Hanover Historical Texts The Hanover College Historical Texts Collection makes available digital versions of historical texts from Ancient Greece and Rome to 20th Century America for use in history and humanities courses.
- Perseus Digital Library Look through a massive collection of digitized primary sources including art objects, sites, and buildings. The flagship collection covers the history, literature, and culture of the Greco-Roman world.
- World Digital Archive Collection from the Library of Congress, explore 19,147 items about 193 countries between 8000 BCE and 2000.
- Artstor This link opens in a new window Subjects: Art Description: Artstor provides access to more than 2 million images. All rights-cleared for education and research. Part of the JSTOR platform. From ITHAKA. Resource Types: Images
- Image Quest This link opens in a new window Subjects: Art Description: Over three million images from 62 collections includes imagery and clip art materials (infographics, signs and symbols, graphic concepts and vector illustrations), all rights-cleared for educational, non-commercial use. From Britannica Digital Learning. Resource Types: Images
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