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General
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The databases listed under the "General" category contain articles from a variety of sources on a wide range of topics and are often a good place to begin a search for articles.
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Academic Search Premier  |
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| Description: This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. |
| CQ Researcher |
CQ Press |
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| Description: This full-text database provides detailed "reports" that include background, a chronology, current and future trends, related topics and a bibliography on current and controversial topics. This is an excellent place to start research on a controversial or "hot topic." |
| Ebsco (All Databases) |
Ebsco |
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| Description: Search all of the Ebsco databases simultaneously. |
| JSTOR |
JSTOR |
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| Description: The JSTOR Arts & Sciences I & II Collections include many of the core research and society published journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. |
| LexisNexis Academic |
LexisNexis |
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Description: (Ristricted to student and faculty/staff use only.) LexisNexis Academic provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic research needs, including:
- National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
- U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information
- Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789
- Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news
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| MasterFILE Premier |
Ebsco |
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| Description: Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, full text from 86,019 biographies, 105,787 full text primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 293,480 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. |
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Art
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| ARTstor |
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| Description: The ARTstor database contains a collection of nearly 500,000 images of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and other forms of visual and material culture. Note: Students and faculty who register within ARTstor gain access to tools for organizing images and creating presentations with an Offline Viewer similiar to PowerPoint. |
Basic Skills
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| MAS Ultra: School Edition |
Ebsco |
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| Description: Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,639 biographies, 104,481 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. |
| Primary Search |
Ebsco |
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| Description: Primary Search provides 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. In addition, Primary Search includes the Encyclopedia of Animals, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, American Heritage Children's Dictionary, providing students with easy-to-read entries written specifically for kids. |
| Student Research Center |
Ebsco |
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| Description: EBSCO has created a search interface designed specifically for secondary school students, according to their needs and search abilities. Through the Student Research Center, users can easily pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included with their search. They can also search their databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and even limit their search according to appropriate Lexile reading levels. |
Business and Economics
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| Business Source Premier |
Ebsco |
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| Description: Business Source Premier is a business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Business Source Premier provides full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. |
| LexisNexis Academic |
LexisNexis |
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Description: (Ristricted to student and faculty/staff use only.) LexisNexis Academic provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic research needs, including:
- National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
- U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information
- Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789
- Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news
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| Regional Business News |
Ebsco |
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| Description: 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. |
Controversial Topics
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| CQ Researcher |
CQ Press |
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| Description: This full-text database provides detailed "reports" that include background, a chronology, current and future trends, related topics and a bibliography on current and controversial topics. This is an excellent place to start research on a controversial or "hot topic." |
| Opposing Viewpoints |
Gale |
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| Description: With its content drawn from the social issues series from Greenhaven Press as well as content from other Gale sources, this database contains nearly 7,000 viewpoint articles presented in a pro-and-con format. |
E-Books
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| ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) |
ACLS |
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| Description: Browse or search over 1,200 high quality books in the fields of history and humanities. These are works of major importance and are frequently cited in the literature. Note: This database was previously named History E-Book Project. |
| NetLibrary |
OCLC |
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| Description: NetLibrary's growing collection of ebooks titles offers the latest information technology titles, reference essentials, business and economics resources, best-selling fiction, and more. |
| Oxford English Dictionary |
Oxford University Press |
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| Description: OED Online is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English-language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. |
| Oxford Reference Online Premium |
Oxford University Press |
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| Description: Contains numerous dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. A full spectrum of subjects are covered including language, literature, history, mythology and folklore, science-technology, medicine, health, accounting, finance, law, art & architecture, classics & the ancient world, performing arts, religion & philosophy and politics & social sciences. |
Education
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| ERIC |
Ebsco |
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| Description: ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC. |
| Professional Development Collection |
Ebsco |
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| Description: 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. |
Health
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| Alt HealthWatch |
Ebsco |
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| Description: This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990. |
| CINAHL Plus with Full Text |
Ebsco |
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| Description: CINAHL Plus with Full Text is a comprehensive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature, providing full text for more than 640 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index – with no embargo. |
| Health Source: Consumer Edition |
Ebsco |
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| Description: This database contains a collection of consumer health information, including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines. |
| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition |
Ebsco |
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| Description: This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It includes abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names. |
| MEDLINE |
Ebsco |
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| Description: 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. |
| Salem Health |
Salem Press |
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Description: Salem Health is an online database that includes the complete content of several health related printed reference sets from Salem Press.
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| ScienceDirect |
Elsevier |
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| Description: Through ScienceDirect you may acccess ebooks, reference works, handbooks, book series, and over 2,000 journal titles for the social and behavioral sciences, health and life sciences, and physical sciences.
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History
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Databases listed under General above often include useful periodicals.
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| ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) |
ACLS |
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| Description: Browse or search over 1,200 high quality books in the fields of history and humanities. These are works of major importance and are frequently cited in the literature. Note: This database was previously named History E-Book Project. |
| History Reference Center |
Ebsco |
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| Description: History Reference Center offers full text from more than 2,300 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 130 leading history periodicals, more than 61,100 historical documents, 66,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 110,200 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video. |
| Salem History |
Salem Press |
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Description: Salem History is an online database that includes the complete content of several history related printed reference sets from Salem Press.
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Law
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| LexisNexis Academic |
LexisNexis |
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Description: (Ristricted to student and faculty/staff use only.) LexisNexis Academic provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic research needs, including:
- National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
- U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information
- Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789
- Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news
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Library Science
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Literature
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| Literary Reference Center |
Ebsco |
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Description: Literary Reference Center provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. 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. Literary Reference Center contains:
- 27,500 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews
- Nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism
- 140,500 author biographies
- 420 literary journals
- 569,000 book reviews
- 57,000 classic and contemporary poems
- 14,500 classic and contemporary short stories
- 4,700 author interviews
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Mass Communication
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| Communication & Mass Media Complete |
Ebsco |
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| Description: Communication & Mass Media Complete provides quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for more than 440 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 640 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for 326 journals. |
Military & Government
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| Military & Government Collection |
Ebsco |
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| Description: Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles. |
Music
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Newspapers
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| LexisNexis Academic |
LexisNexis |
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Description: (Ristricted to student and faculty/staff use only.) LexisNexis Academic provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic research needs, including:
- National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
- U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information
- Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789
- Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news
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| Newspaper Source |
Ebsco |
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| Description: Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 25 national & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for more than 335 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided. |
| Sacramento Bee |
Ebsco |
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| Description: Daily newspaper from Sacramento, California. Includes full text of articles published since 1997. |
Periodical Finder
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| A-to-Z Service |
Ebsco |
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| Description: EBSCO's A-to-Z Service provides a single, comprehensive online list of periodical titles available online through the subscription Research Databases and in hardcopy within the Los Rios Libraries. Users can search for journals by keyword or browse an alphabetical list by title or subject. |
Psychology
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| Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection |
Ebsco |
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| Description: This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. |
Reference and Statistics
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| CountryWatch |
CountryWatch.com |
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| Description: This database offers a variety of information on specific countries including an overview of the country, political and economic conditions, and environmental issues. It also includes wire service stories for each country. This is the best place to start researching a country. |
| Encyclopædia Britannica Online |
Encyclopædia Britannica |
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| Description: This database provides online access to the full-text of the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, and a subject directory of websites that have been "selected, rated and reviewed by Britannica editors." |
| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia |
Ebsco |
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| Description: This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. |
| Oxford English Dictionary |
Oxford University Press |
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| Description: OED Online is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English-language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. |
| Oxford Reference Online Premium |
Oxford University Press |
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| Description: Contains numerous dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. A full spectrum of subjects are covered including language, literature, history, mythology and folklore, science-technology, medicine, health, accounting, finance, law, art & architecture, classics & the ancient world, performing arts, religion & philosophy and politics & social sciences. |
| Reference Universe |
Paratext |
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| Description: Reference Universe shows you what is inside of the print reference books within your library by allowing you to search the indexes of more than 20,000 electronic and print reference works. |
| Salem Health |
Salem Press |
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Description: Salem Health is an online database that includes the complete content of several health related printed reference sets from Salem Press.
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| Salem History |
Salem Press |
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Description: Salem History is an online database that includes the complete content of several history related printed reference sets from Salem Press.
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Religion & Philosophy
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| Religion & Philosophy Collection |
Ebsco |
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| Description: Religion & Philosophy Collection provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers nearly 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. |
Science
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| GreenFILE |
Ebsco |
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| Description: GreenFILE offers 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. |
| LISTA (Library, Information Sciences & Technology Abstracts) |
Ebsco |
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| Description: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts,(LISTA) indexes more than 600 publications on librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. |
| ScienceDirect |
Elsevier |
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| Description: Through ScienceDirect you may acccess ebooks, reference works, handbooks, book series, and over 2,000 journal titles for the social and behavioral sciences, health and life sciences, and physical sciences.
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Trial Databases
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Vocational Trades
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| Vocational & Career Collection |
Ebsco |
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| Description: Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals. |
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