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With extensive coverage of all academic disciplines, premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Millions of articles, including full-text coverage of the New York Times since 1995. Hide description

One-stop shopping for information about a person! Find links to full-text journal and magazine articles, web pages, and references to print books and about people from Cleopatra to Bill Gates. Hide description

Original Sources, a comprehensive compilation of more than 350,000 documents, complete books, and authentic images, is now available to you through EncyclopÃ¦dia Britannica. Hide description

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. Hide description

Online version of over 32,000 print pages of primary source materials relating to the one hundred most significant events of each year since 1972. Materials include presidential speeches, court decisions and governmental reports. Hide description

CQ Weekly reports on the worldâ€™s most powerful legislative body completely and accurately every week. The CQ news teamâ€”by far the largest on Capitol Hill, with more than 100 reporters, editors, and researchersâ€”covers virtually every act of Congress, delivering nonpartisan news and analysis unavailable anywhere else. Hide description

This database covers the detailed interconnections of everyday life throughout history, combining reference works, monographs, primary documents, maps and illustrations. Hide description

The complete archive of this publication of record back to 1940, which is updated every week and interconnected with related content from the other FACTS.com databases. It includes a live ReutersÂ® newsfeed, updated hourly. Special "Top Stories" timelines deliver, decade by decade, listings linked to original coverage of top news stories back to October 1940. Hide description

Gale Virtual Reference Library is taking eBooks to the next level by delivering a wealth of reference content in a database format. This valuable new product allows libraries of any size - based on user's needs and usage patterns - to develop collections at their own pace and within their own budget. Hide description

Analyzes and explains hundreds of controversial topics, in a language and format that students can understand, with the balance, accuracy, and regular updating that are synonymous with Facts On File News Services. Hide description

In-depth explorations of the great issues in American Historyâ€”issues such as religious freedom in the colonies, Civil War Reconstruction, and women's suffrage. This searchable and interlinked online subscription database delivers concise and balanced articles that provide the background, outcomes, and contemporary points of view for the major topics in the American History curriculum. Those articles are supplemented by primary source documents, biographies, timelines, images, statistical charts, and encyclopedia survey articles. Hide description

JSTOR provides full text access for over 200 journal titles in the arts and sciences. Current issues (usually the last 2 - 5 years) are NOT included by JSTOR and may be available for a fee directly from the publisher or through another source. HCC Library has access to the Arts & Sciences I Collection and the Arts & Sciences II Collection. Hide description

A great source for national and international newspaper and magazine articles about very current issues. Also great for business, legal, and medical topics. Hide description

Congressional Universe provides the best coverage youÂ’ll find about whatÂ’s happening in the legislative branch of our government. Here, you have access to, among other things: congressional publications, testimony from congressional hearings, bills passing through the House and Senate, and information about congressional members and committees. Hide description

Another face of LexisNexis. Get the numbers you need here. Nothing helps you persuade or argue better than the numbers that back you up! Hide description

Authoritative American history resources, available in three optional subject modules: Presidential Studies, African American Studies, and Women's Studies. Primary and secondary sources include scholarly and reference articles, contemporary accounts, manuscripts, laws, court cases, speeches, photographs, and political cartoons. Hide description

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Thomson Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources, including selections from Bioethics for Students. Hide description

Content includes: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History; Oxford Guide to Countries of the World; A Dictionary of Geography; The Oxford Companion to the Mind; A Dictionary of Political Biography; The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World; The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics; A Dictionary of Psychology ; Dictionary of the Social Sciences; A Dictionary of Sociology; The Oxford Guide to the United States Government Hide description