Journal Information


AccessScience: From the publisher: " AccessScience provides the finest collection of science reference materials—online and fully searchable. We offer easy accessibility to the information you need to make research easy—with access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News^® headlines, biographies, and more. This online encyclopedia is tailored to researchers and students looking for the most relevant, readable, and trusted sources of information available. We maintain content of the highest standards, and readers may be assured that our authors are the top experts in the field, including a number of Nobel Prize and Fields Medals winners." (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Academic Search Premier: Academic Search Premier contains extensive full-text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology and other academic disciplines. Includes indexing for over 8,000 publications, with full text for more than 4,450 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Ageline: Free database; includes resources and articles about life for people over 50.
AGRICOLA: AGRICOLA is a full-text database containing bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 2.5 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Alt HealthWatch: This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. This database offers a number of full text articles, from more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals, reports, proceedings and association & consumer newsletters. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Full text titles include American Journal of Chinese Medicine, American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine, California Journal of Oriental Medicine, European Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine, Journal of Asian Natural Products Research, Journal of the Australian Traditional-Medicine Society, Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association and many others. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Alternative Press Watch: From the database description: "A full text database comprised of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press." Includes access to Willamette Week and other local small press papers. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
ArticleFirst: 1990 - Present
Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed in the Table of Contents pages of more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, humanities and popular culture. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
ARTStor: Database of hundreds of thousands of digital images and the tools to use them. The purpose of ARTStor is to contribute to the educational work of schools and the educational community.

BIOSIS Previews.: Current 4 years.
Contains citations and abstracts to the world's biological and biomedical research literature. Indexes 7000 periodicals as well as books and conference proceedings. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Books in Print: Search to find or verify titles and publication information of books, audio tapes and videos. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Business Source Premier: This database provides full-text articles for more than 8,800 serials. It offers full text articles back to 1965 (or the first issue published for that journal) and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. It provides full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Chronicle of Higher Education: Description

CINAHL (Cumulative Indexing to Nursing and Allied Health Literature): 1982 - Present. Database
English language journal literature in the nursing and allied health disciplines. Indexing to 900 journals, with full-text links to 578 journal titles. Index covers nursing, cardiopulmonary technology, emergency services, health education, medical and laboratory technology, medical assistants, medical records. Also includes access to Nursing Consumer Health Database. The CINAHL print index, available in Cannell Library, covers 1978-1995. Earlier information in the Cumulative Index to Nursing Literature, 1958-1967. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Computer Source: This database contains nearly 300 full text journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. Computer Source™ provides a balance of full text technical journals and full text consumer computer titles. (Off campus: Clark ID required)

CQ Researcher: 1991 - Present. Database
Explores a single "hot topic" issue in depth each week. Topics include social, environmental, health, education, science and technology issues. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
CultureGrams: From "About Us": "Since its beginnings in 1974, the aim of CultureGrams has been to foster understanding and appreciation of the world's countries and peoples by creating and publishing excellent content. Today the CultureGrams series is one of the most trusted and widely used cultural reference and curriculum products in the education, government, and non-profit arenas." This database includes maps, statistics, data as well as cultural information such as famous people, recipes and photographs. Covers world countries as well as U.S. states (influding state symbols and audio files for state birds). (Off campus: Clark ID required)

Drug Information (Clinical Pharmacology): Provides access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. Patient education sheets are available in both English and Spanish. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Electronic Collections Online: 1995 - Present. Indexing to 700+ academic titles. (Off campus: Clark ID required)

Encyclopedia Britannica: Current. Database and Print Format
Search the full text of the print Encyclopedia, plus find links to other resources. Also available in print in the reference collection, call number: Ref AE 5 .E363 1997. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
ERIC (EBSCOhost interface): ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
ERIC (OCLC): 1966 - Present
A national database covering journal and research literature in the field of education. ERIC includes two files: Research in Education (RIE), which indexes and abstracts unpublished and non-journal literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE), which includes indexing and abstracts to about 800 periodicals. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
ERIC (Open Web Access): Search ERIC Home Page. Web access to a variety of other ERIC databases.
Ethnic News Watch: 1990-Present. Database
From the database description: "An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses." (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Europa World Year Book: Provides detailed country surveys containing recent history and the latest analytical, statistical and directory data available for over 250 countries and territories. Listing of some 1,900 international organizations such as the United Nations, the European Union, the International Organization for Migration and the World Trade Organization. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
GVRL (Gale Virtual Reference Library): Full-text, electronic versions of over 90 reference books. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
GPO (U.S. Government Printing Office): July 1976 - Present. Database
Records published by the GPO since July 1976. Includes references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Health Source(Consumer): Provides consumer information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Features searchable full text for nearly 300 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Health Source Nursing/Academic: Updated daily, this database focuses on many medical disciplines and provides full text for nearly 550 scholarly journals, and abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. (Off campus: Clark ID required).
Historical Statistics of the United States: This thoroughly revised (in 2006) five-volume reference work, available both in print and electronic editions, reflects thirty years of new data and scholarship. Dozens of new topics, among them slavery, American Indians, and poverty, are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. This fully searchable and downloadable electronic edition permits users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest. (Call # of 5-volume set in Cannell Library's Reference collection = Ref HA202 .H57 2006) (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Humanities International Complete: Full text coverage to hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. This database includes all data from Humanities International Index (over 1.6 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. Provides coverage for all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
IT Pro Collection: The IT Pro Library Collection from Books24/7 is a technical reference library for information technology with full-text electronic versions of over 700 technical books and journals. A wide range of IT subjects are covered including programming, graphic design and Web development from publishers such as MIT Press, O'Reilly, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Que, Sams, Sybex and Wiley. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
K-12 Resources: This database provides resources for students from elementary through high school. It provides full-text articles about current events and other general interest magazines including health, science, biographies and reference. It has an image library including photos, maps and flags. It also includes magazines of interest to middle school and elementary school students. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Legal Collection: This database contains full text articles for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals and is a source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world. It offers information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment and much more. Full text contained in this database includes: American Journal of Criminal Law, California Law Review and many more. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
LexisNexis: LexisNexis Academicis a robust database that provides access to a wide range of authoritative sources, including world-wide news, business and financial, legal research tools (Shepards Citations, Law reviews, Codes for all 50 states, and more). For a full description or to learn how to use it, visit About LexisNexis
LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts): mid-1960s - present
From the database provider: "This world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Delivered via the EBSCOhost platform, LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science." (http://www.epnet.com/thisTopic.php?topicID=205&marketID=20) (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Literature Resource Center (InfoTrac): Electronic Version of the popular Gale literature series of reference books. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
MasterFILE Premier: This database provides full-text for more than 2,050 general publications with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
MEDLINE (EBSCOhost interface): Indexes and abstracts a vast wealth of information dealing with the biomedical sciences, including dental literature. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
MEDLINE (OCLC): 1966 - Present. Database
Indexes and abstracts a vast wealth of information dealing with the biomedical sciences, including dental literature. Easiest interface. Best for new users. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
MEDLINE (PubMed): 1966 - Present. Database
Another version of Medline, available from the National Library of Medicine. Indexes and abstracts a vast wealth of information dealing with the biomedical sciences, including dental literature. Available on- or off-campus. No password needed.
Military and Government Collection: This database provides full-text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals covering all branches of the military and government. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Multnomah County Library: Multnomah County library offers library cards, free of charge, to residents of Clark County. An active library card provides acccess to the vast collection of online databases available through the MCL website. To get a library card you must visit a branch of MCL and show either a Clark College ID or proof of Clark County residence.
NetLibrary e-book collection: This collection of nearly 3,500 full text books is designed to meet the needs of college students. Clark ID required to access the database. Need to create a user account in Netlibrary to be able to fully interact with the electronic books.
New York Times Historical: 1851-1999. Full text and full-image of every page of the New York Times, cover to cover, in downloadable PDF format. Includes articles on national and international affairs, businesses, sports, New York regional news, regular columns, biographical stories and reports on science, medicine, the arts and more. Includes supplements such as the Book Review and Magazine. Also includes the complete text of all Presidential press conferences and other important speeches. Current issues indexed in ProQuest. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Newspaper Source: Newspaper Source™ provides cover-to-cover full text for 20 national (U.S.) & international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selected full text for more than 230 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, Daily News (New York), San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Oxford English Dictionary: Full-text access to the print edition of the OED. Print edition is located in the reference collection, call number: Ref PE 1625.87 1989. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
PapersFirst: October 1993 - Present. Database
Indexing to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide. (Off campus: Clark ID required)

Polling the Nations: 1986 - Present. Database
Polling the Nations is a compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by over 1000 polling organizations in the United States and 100 other countries from 1986 to the present time.The pollsters included in the database are:
* US polling organizations e.g., Harris International, The Pew Center

* Universities e.g., Rice University, University of Maryland

* Newspapers e.g., New York Times, Los Angeles Times

* Television news organizations e.g., CBS, NBS, Fox, CNN

* International polling organizations e.g., Eurobarometer

* Special interest groups e.g., Boy Scouts, AFL-CIO

Each of the 500,000 records reports a question asked and the responses given. Also included in each record is the polling organization that conducted the work, the date the interviews were conducted, the release date of the information, the sample size and the universe.All the surveys reported were conducted using scientifically selected random samples. Callers to 900 numbers, readers who clip surveys from newspapers or magazines to send in, or other self-selected respondents are not included in the database.. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
ProceedingsFirst: October 1993 - Present. Database
Provides Tables of Contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each record contains a list of papers presented at each conference. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Professional Development Collection: Professional Development Collection™ provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers. This collection offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice. Professional Development Collection includes full text for Chronicle of Higher Education, Educational Leadership, Journal of Education, Journal of Higher Education, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Theory Into Practice, and nearly 550 high-quality education journals. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
ProQuest Direct: 1980 - Present. Database
Indexes academic journals, popular magazines, and newspapers. Abstracts, full-text and graphics available. Use this database to find full-text Columbian, Oregonian and New York Times articles. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
PsycARTICLES: PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology as well as specialized, applied, clinical and theoretical research. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present, and most APA journals are available from Volume 1, Issue 1. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection: Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection can be searched independently, but also allows users to conveniently link to full text from citations within PsycINFO®. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
PsycINFO: 1887 - Present. Database
PsycINFO covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Indexes and abstracts 1,300 journals in over 20 languages. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Regional Business News: Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). This database has full text for more than 50 sources. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Religion and Philosophy Center: This database is a comprehensive database covering topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Science Online: Full-text, 1997-present, of Science, a peer-reviewed journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary. Earlier years, July 1880 to December 1996, are searchable, though only tables of contents and abstracts are provided. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Spanish Language Academic and Medical Journals: Combined searching for Fuente Academica and MedicaLatina. Includes full-text of more than 185 scholarly publications as well as medical research and investigatory journals from Latin American and Spanish Publishers. Also includes the table of contents for 95 peer-reviewed medical journals. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
STAT!ref Health & Medicine e-Books: Electronic resource for healthcare professionals. Includes full-text access to 24 up-to-date electronic medical books. Titles are updated automatically; as of Spring 2007, titles included AAFP CONDITIONS A TO Z (2007), AHFS DRUG INFORMATION® (2007), BURKET'S ORAL MEDICINE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT - 10th Ed. (2003), CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES MANUAL - 18th Ed. (2004), CRITICAL DECISIONS IN PERIODONTOLOGY - 4th Ed. (2003), CURRENT SURGICAL DIAGNOSIS & TREATMENT - 12th Ed. (2006), DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL - TEXT REVISION (DSM-IV-TR™, 2000), DIAGNOSTIC THORACIC IMAGING (2006), DISEASES AND DISORDERS: A NURSING THERAPEUTICS MANUAL - 3rd Ed. (2007), DRUGPOINTS® SYSTEM, ESSENTIALS OF ORAL MEDICINE (2002), ESTHETICS IN DENTISTRY: VOLUME 1 - 2nd Ed. (1998), ESTHETICS IN DENTISTRY: VOLUME 2 - 2nd Ed. (2002), GERIATRIC MEDICINE: AN EVIDENCE BASED APPROACH - 4th Ed. (2003), GUIDE TO CULTURALLY COMPETENT HEALTH CARE, ICD-9-CM - VOLUMES 1, 2 & 3 (2007), MANUAL OF CANCER NURSING - 2nd Ed. (2004), MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING CARE - 2nd Ed. (2007), MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING: CRITICAL THINKING IN CLIENT CARE - 4th Ed. (2008), ORAL CANCER - 5th Ed. (2003), PEDIATRIC NURSING: CARING FOR CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES - 2nd Ed. (2007), PRIMARY PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY - 6th Ed. (2004), TABER'S® CYCLOPEDIC MEDICAL DICTIONARY - 20th Ed. (2005), USP DI® ADVICE FOR THE PATIENT® (2007)
Summit (Orbis Cascade Alliance): Summit is the web-based unified library catalog of more than 31 member colleges and universities in Washington and Oregon. Through Summit you have access to more than 26 million books, DVDs, videotapes, sound recordings, and government documents. With a single search you can view items from all institutions, and eligible patrons may select and borrow materials directly through the Summit catalog. Move easily between the Clark College Library catalog and the Summit catalog with a single mouse click. More about Summit.
Teacher Reference Center: Teacher Reference Center provides coverage on topics such as assessment, best practices, continuing education, current pedagogical research, curriculum development, elementary education, higher education, instructional media, language arts, literacy standards, school administration, science & mathematics, teacher education, and much more. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
TOPICsearch: This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 102,800 articles from more than 2,500 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full text periodicals. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Vocational and Career Collection: This database is designed to meet a wide variety of vocational and technical research needs. The collection provides full text coverage for nearly 350 trade and industry-related periodicals including American Machinist, Modern Machine Shop, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Video Business, Reeves Journal, Hotel and Motel Management, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age and many more. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
Washington/Oregon Newspapers (ProQuest Newspapers): Full-text access to the Columbian; News Tribune (Tacoma), Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Oregonian and several other Washington and Oregon newspapers. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
World Almanac (OCLC): A general full-text, reference source. Includes Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia; The World Almanac and Book of Facts; The World Almanac U.S.A.; The World Almanac of U.S. Politics and The World Almanac for Kids. (Off campus: Clark ID required)
WorldCat: Combined database for searching the collections of thousands of libraries books and other printed material and media. (Off campus: Clark ID required)