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Central Search Central Search points you to books and articles in many of BC's databases and provides links to the most productive databases for your search. Electronic Journals A-Z: This will tell you if a particular journal is available full text in our databases. Print titles also included. |
General Periodical Databases
EBSCOhost
EBSCOhost is a database of popular and scholarly publications, with many articles available in full text.
ProQuest
ProQuest electronic database contains newspapers, scholarly journals and other periodicals, many in full text.
Films
New! Films on Demand
Films on Demand provides online streaming videos from Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Subject-Specific Reference Resources
Gale Virtual Reference Library
This collection of electronic reference books contains titles in Law, Medicine, Science and Social Science.
New! Natural Standard (Alternative Therapies/Medicine)
"Natural Standard was founded by clinicians and researchers to provide high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. This international multidisciplinary collaboration now includes contributors from more than 100 eminent academic institutions."
OECD Health Data
OECD Health Data is a database of health related statistics, offering the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries.
Salem Press Health
Salem Press Health includes Magill's Medical Guide and the Psychology and Mental Health Resource. Both resources cover diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, and biology.
Salem Press History
We have access to the "Decades" collections: The 1970s, The 1980s and The 1990s in America. Also provided is access to "Milestone Documents" in World History and American History. These resources are companions to the print reference sets of the same titles.
Music Databases
Music Online
Music Online is the broadest and most comprehensive online music resource that cross-searches all of Bellevue College's Alexander Street Press music databases. Music online allows you to search by composer, genre, instrument, time period and many other elements.
Smithsonian Global Sound
"Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions." This database allows you to search by country, language, genre, cultural group, and more.
African American Music
"The [African American Song] collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others."
New! A-Z Maps Online
A-Z Maps Online contains over 145,000 world, continent, country, and state maps, as well as flags, geological data maps and much more. Check out the topic menu on the first page.
ARTstor
ARTstor contains thousands of digital images, primarily photographs of artwork found in galleries and museums from around the world. "The ARTstor Library's initial content includes approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology." The ARTstor database allows you to zoom in on images, save images for presentations and other features. Some specialized features of ARTstor require a username and password. For more information, please contact a reference librarian.
E-Anatomy (Imaging)
This digital atlas provides modules by anatomy or by imaging modality (CT or MRI). This resource allows you to view images layer by layer, provides label to the different parts of anatomy viewed in the images and has many other special features.
Specialized Periodical Databases
American City Business Journals (Business)
This database provides "the most comprehensive coverage of local business news and information from major metropolitan cities across the
country" including articles from the Puget Sound Business Journal
Art Index (Art/Interior Design)
This database offers indexing of an international array of peer-selected
publications covering art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews,
and feminist criticism. In addition to articles, this database indexes
reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Subjects
covered include Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Decorative
Arts, Fashion Design, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design,
Landscape Architecture, Non-Western Art, Photography, Textiles.
Directory of Open Access Journals
(Scientific & Scholarly Journals/Social Science)
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the most comprehensive directory
of open access journals, is produced by the University of Lund Libraries.
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and
scholarly journals. Many subjects are covered, but most articles are from
the social sciences.
PubMed
(Medicine)
PubMed is a database accessible free of charge on the Internet through
the National Library of Medicine. Citations and abstracts are available
for journals covering many medical fields, including nursing.
Ethnic NewsWatch (Diverse Viewpoints)
A full text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the
ethnic, minority and native press, which provides a broad diversity of
perspectives and viewpoints.
New!
S&P NetAdvantage (Business)
Published by Standard & Poors, this database provides Company Profiles,
Industry Surveys, Financial information as well as a wealth of other business
resources.
Science
Direct (Science)
ScienceDirect provides access to some books and periodicals published
by Elsevier.
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icon next to items that have full text availability to BC students, faculty
and staff.
Practice Tests
Learning Express
This database provides practice tests for Basic Math Skills, the TOEFL test and the GED Exam. It also provides access to many e-books on test preparation and study skills. The first time you use Learning Express, you will need to establish a username and password, which takes about 30 seconds to set up.
Newspaper Databases
ProQuest Newspapers
ProQuest Newspapers database contains hundreds of full text newspapers from around the country.
Washington State Newsstand
This database contains the full text of 19 Washington State Newspapers.
New York Times Historical Collection
This database contains the full text of New York Times articles from 1851 to 2006. The database allows you to search by date or by topic.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle is a source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
Controversial and Research Topics
CQ Researcher
Each electronic issue of CQ Researcher provides a history, overview, pro/con discussion and bibliography for the topic.
Opposing Viewpoints
Opposing Viewpoints provides articles, overviews, statistics, and websites on social issues currently in the news.
General Reference Resources
Facts on File
"Facts On File World News Digest presents the full text of Facts On File World News Digest since 1940, plus a live newsfeed from ReutersŪ and thousands of in-depth features, images, charts, and primary documents." The Facts on File search allows you to search for information by topic or date.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is the quintessential English language dictionary. "The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past."
CQ Historic Documents
CQ Historic Documents contains primary documents such as Presidential speeches, international agreements and Supreme Court decisions. Spanning 1972 to the present, there are approximately 100 documents per calendar year.
Oxford Reference Premium
The Oxford Reference database contains electronic versions of dictionaries, encyclopedias, subject-specific reference books, timelines and facts published by Oxford University Press.
eLibrary
eLibrary allows you to simultaneously search more than 2,000 full text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts.
Books and e-Books
Books 24x7
Books 24x7 is an online database of e-books. BC currently subscribes to the Information Technology Collection. For more information click here.
NetLibrary
NetLibrary is a collection of e-books. BC's collection primarily consists of e-books on health care, health care management, bioethics, and cultural studies.
OCLC FirstSearch
OCLC First Search is a database of books and articles located in libraries around the world. If you find an item that you would like to borrow from another library, please contact a reference librarian.
Copyright Notice: Materials from periodical databases may be covered by copyright laws. BC expects all students, faculty, and staff to comply with applicable federal laws governing copyrighted material. To learn more about copyright, click here to view Guidelines for Fair Use.
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