Online Resources
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Use the links below to access full-text journal articles, electronic books, and much more. A brief description is given for each resource. Many articles are available in PDF format. This requires free Adobe Reader. For general internet searching of the world wide web, including web sites by subject, and evaluating web sites, go to our internet tips page. |
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The majority of these resources are available only to the BCCC community. Any student, faculty, or staff member has access from both on and off campus. Information about accessing databases from off-campus. Some of the sources listed here are free to anyone, denoted with "ALL" in the access column. |
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Access |
Resource |
Description |
BCCC on-campus only |
Access Newspaper Archive | Full-text newspaper articles from the 18th through the 21st centuries. |
| ALL | Access Pennsylvania | An online catalog for 1,400 Pennsylvania libraries. |
| BCCC | ARTstor | A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data. |
| BCCC | Biographies Plus Illustrated | Part of Wilson Web. Contains biographical profiles with images and links. |
| BCCC | Contemporary Authors | A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. |
| BCCC | CQ Researcher | Contains original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. |
| BCCC | Credo Reference | Information from nearly 300 reference sources covering all major subjects. |
| ALL | DOAJ | Directory of Open Access Journals - covers free full-text journals for many subjects. This is a free web based resource. |
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EBSCOhost (for mobile devices) |
Full-text journal articles and indexes. This is a good place to start. Includes Academic Search Elite, Business Source Elite, CINAHL, MasterFILE Premier, Newspaper Source, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, MLA, and more. |
| BCCC | Education Full Text | Part of Wilson Web. Full-text journal articles and indexes on education |
| BCCC | JSTOR | A full-text collection of scholarly journals in the arts and humanities. |
| BCCC | LexisNexis Academic | Citations and full-text information in five research categories: news, business, legal research, medicine, and general reference |
BCCC on-campus only |
Literature Criticism Online | Searchable database of articles from Gale's series of literary criticism reference books. |
| BCCC | Literature Online Reference Edition (LION) | Full-text collection of English and American literature featuring criticism, leading reference titles and biographies. |
| BCCC | MLA International Bibliography by Modern Language Association of America | Literature, languages, linguistics, folklore and more. Available through EBSCOhost. See also MLA Directory of Periodicals. |
| ALL | National Center for Biotechnology Information | Entrez - cross-database search page. Includes PubMed, PubMed Central, and many more resources from the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health |
| BCCC | netLibrary | Search for thousands of electronic books online |
| BCCC | NoveList Plus | General information about fiction and nonfiction books. |
| BCCC | NoveList Plus K-8 | General information about books for young readers. |
| BCCC | Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center | Provides information on social issues from diverging points of view. |
| BCCC | Oxford Art Online | All aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the present |
| BCCC | Oxford English Dictionary | OED Online |
| BCCC | Oxford Music Online | Reference works for musicians |
| BCCC | Oxford Reference | Huge general reference database. |
| BCCC | PsycARTICLES | Full-text database of psychology articles from the APA |
| BCCC | Safari Tech Books Online | Computer and Information Technology books online |
| BCCC | ScienceDirect | Searchable full-text collection of science journals. |
Access: All of the above are available using any of the College computers. From home, access to many of these resources is restricted to BCCC students, faculty and staff. Those with a current student/staff number can access databases from home through our EZ-Proxy Server. See off campus access or call 215-968-8013 for more information. |
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What if it isn't FULL TEXT?!?! Look up the journal title in the Electronic Journals A-Z List to see if full text is available in another database. OR Look up the journal title in the Library Catalog to see if it is available in print. |
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