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  • ABI Inform: Trade & Industry (Proquest)


    Search more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Includes periodicals related to the field of energy and power plant operations. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)


    Academic Search Premier contains full-text articles for approximately 4,600 periodicals. Covers topics including: literature, controversial issues, business, health & medicine, psychology, sociology, law, religion, philosophy, media studies, and many more. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • Alt Press Watch (Proquest)


    A full text database containing articles from a variety of alternative press publications including newspapers, magazines, and journals. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • American National Biography


    Offers biographical portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -from all eras and walks of life- whose lives have shaped the United States.(Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • Centralia College Digital Archive


    The CC Digital Archive documents the College's history. Five collections comprise The Archive: "From Capitol to Campus: Mason and Spafford Murals Research Center," "Centralia College Photograph Archive," "Centralia College Documents Archive," "Centralia College Clippings Archive," and the "Centralia College Yearbooks Collection." Users may search each collection separately or across all five at the same time. Covers 1925 to present. (Accessible to everyone.)

  • CINAHL (Ebsco)


    CINAHL with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing journals and books. CINAHL, the cumulative index to nursing and allied health literature, is the definitive index for nursing research. The database contains full text for more than 600 journals. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • Classical Music Library


    Offers tens of thousands of classical music recordings that users can listen to over the internet. Includes operatic, symphonic, choral and avante-garde works, medieval through contemporary. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • Contemporary Authors (Gale)


    Contemporary Authors offers continuous access to current biographical and bibliographical data on more than 120,000 modern authors. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • Contemporary Literary Criticism (Gale)


    Contemporary Literary Criticism is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • CQ Researcher


    Provides background information and analysis of social issues and controversial topics.(Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • Credo Reference


    Credo Reference is a full-text online reference database. The collection includes over three million entries from over 400 well-regarded titles from more than 60 of world’s best reference publishers. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • CultureGrams (Proquest)


    Reports on population, government, statistics, economics, culture, and many other aspects of over 182 countries. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • Daily Life Online (Greenwood)


    Provides a historical glimpse of daily life and culture. Content includes primary documents, maps, books, articles, and more. Browse by time period, subject, or geographic region. Geographic scope: entire world. Chronological coverage: ancient history through the present era.

  • eLibrary (Proquest)


    eLibrary provides access to selected magazine and newspaper articles, pictures, maps, and TV/Radio transcripts, and reference sources. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • ERIC (Ebsco)


    ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,243,000 records and links to more than 224,000 full-text documents from ERIC. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • Ethnic Newswatch (Proquest)


    Contains articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • Global Road Warrior


    Contains information about 175 countries around the world for travelers and researchers. Besides the general country profile, find out about the society and culture, business culture, money and banking, points of interest, health and medical, transportation, communications and telecommunications, electrical, travel essentials, and more.

  • GreenFILE (Ebsco)


    The resources contained in GreenFILE offer perspectives on environmental issues as they pertain to disciplines including law, natural sciences, engineering, urban planning, agriculture, sociology, and political science. GreenFILE offers citations (and some full-text versions) for publications in a wide variety of formats. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • Health Reference Center: Academic (Gale)


    This collection of medical journals and magazines is designed for nursing and allied health students as well as consumer health researchers. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • History Resource Center: U.S. (Gale)


    Provides a complete overview of U.S. history covering the most-studied events, issues and current information. Selected by expert history advisors for its relevance in the undergraduate curriculum, this database contains background information from history encyclopedias, magazine and journal articles, primary and secondary sources in a variety of formats, and much more. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • National Newspapers & WA Newsstand (Proquest)


    National Newspapers offers full-text articles from the following newspapers: Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
    Washington Newsstand provides access to full-text articles from the Puget Sound Business Journal and several major daily Washington newspapers from cities including Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, and Vancouver. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • Opposing Viewpoints (Gale)


    Provides "viewpoint essays" written by experts that examine controversial social issues from a variety perspectives. Also contains magazines and journal articles, statistics, and multimedia. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • Oxford Music Online


    Search subject articles, biographies, and multimedia content from Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music simultaneously. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • Proquest: search all databases


    Search all Proquest databases simultanously: Research Library, Teacher Journals, National Newspapers & Washington Newsstand, Alt-Press Watch, Ethnic Newswatch, and ABI/ Inform. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • Research Library (Proquest)


    Provides access to full-text articles from approximatley 1,500 periodicals offering coverage of a broad range of subjects including: art, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • Science Direct (Elsevier)


    Centralia College subscribes to two collections via Science Direct: Health and Life Sciences and Physical Sciences. These two powerful databases may be searched simultaneously and provide access to full text articles from over 1900 periodicals, including peer-reviewed journals. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • Teacher Journals (Proquest)


    Provides access to articles from selected professional educators' journals focusing primarily on current issues in education. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)

  • World Conflicts Today (Proquest)


    Provides detailed information about current military conflicts throughout the world. Includes timeline, origin, key groups, implications, statistics, and more. (Available to CC students, staff, and faculty.)