ABI/Inform Dateline (ProQuest) - Over 240 journals, with more than 190 available in full text. It includes hard-to-find local and regional business publications with news about local companies, analysis, information on local markets, and more.

ABI/Inform Global (ProQuest) - Over 3,380 publications, with more than 2,380 available in full text. ABI/INFORM Global offers the latest business and financial information for researchers at all levels.

Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost) - Academic Search Elite contains full text for more than 2,100 journals, including more than 1,700 peer-reviewed, scholarly titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.

Accounting and Tax (ProQuest) - Top journals, reference reports, proceedings, dissertations, including over 2,300 publications several hundred in full-text.

Biography in Context (Gale) -Over 600,000 biographies covering more than 525,000 individuals .  50,000 new or updated bios added annually .  Integrated reference material, periodical information and multimedia content

CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCOhost) - CINAHL Plus with Full Text is a comprehensive source of full text information from over 750 nursing and allied health journals. It is very useful for nursing and allied health students.

Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography (Gale) - Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select collects more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors, with biographical, critical, and principal works.  Dictionary of Literary Biography provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

CountryWatch - CountryWatch provides up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world.  The Country Reviews section provides a political and economic survey for each of the countries of the world.  Coverage of every country in the world is updated continuously.  The Country Wire section is an on-line information update from ten respected international news organizations.

CQ Researcher - This is a weekly publication from CQ Press (Congressional Quarterly). It provides summaries, as well as in-depth, unbiased analysis of current major and controversial issues, such as health issues, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - (Only available from on-campus) Welcome to the Handbook of Chemistry & Physics Online! The content of the 91 st Edition, 2010-2011, of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is now available online.

ERIC - Education Resources Information Center (ProQuest) - The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a large online digital library of education research and information.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCOhost) - This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

GreenFILE (EBSCOhost) - GreenFILE is a collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides full text for more than 4,700 records.

Health Source - Consumer Edition (EBSCOhost) - This database contains consumer health information, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. It provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.

Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost) - This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

Hoover's Company Records (ProQuest) - Features profiles of more than 40,000 companies, 600 industries, and 225,000 key executives.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCOhost) - Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Literature Resource Center (Gale) - The Literature Resource Center is a good source of literary criticism and biographical information on authours. It bundles print sources from the Contemporary Literary Criticism series with articles and web links. More than 90,000 writers are covered.

MAS Ultra - (High) School Edition (EBSCOhost) - Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost) - This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. It also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection.

Merriam-Webster’s Third New International Dictionary Unabridged - With more than 470,000 entries, the Webster's Third New International Dictionary is the largest and most comprehensive American dictionary available.

Military & Government Collection (EBSCOhost) - This database offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. There is full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals, and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection (Gale) - Nearly 4.2 million articles, Nursing and Allied Health Collection for nursing students, physician's assistant students, and researchers in allied health fields who are looking for answers related to the specialized care, treatment and management of all sorts of patients.

Nursing Resource Center (Gale) - This resource offers reference material geared to the education and research needs of nursing students, providing relevant, easy-to-understand information.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale) - Opposing Viewpoints is a one-stop source on hot topic issues, including viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, podcasts, and links to websites.

Primary (School) Search (EBSCOhost) - Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.

ProQuest (Main Search Page) - ProQuest is an excellent general subject database, similar to EBSCOhost, with articles from thousands of magazines and newspapers.  ProQuest also has specialized subject databases:  Accounting and Tax; ABI/INFORM; Asian and European Business; Hoover's Company Records; Career and Technical Education, Education Journals and ERIC, Psychology Journals, Religion, Pharmaceutical, Biology Journals, Health and Medicine, Computing, and Telecommunications.

Psychology Journals (ProQuest) - More than 700 titles, with over 575 titles available in full text.  Access to charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements essential to psychological research.

Rand California - The Rand database is a great source of local and state statistics. It is possible to search for Imperial County statistics in selected categories dealing with health, demographics, census, education, business, and public opinion polls.

Science Online - (Only available from on-campus) The American Association for the Advancement of Science, "Triple A-S" (AAAS), is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. In addition to organizing membership activities, AAAS publishes the journal Science, as well as many scientific newsletters, books and reports, and spearheads programs that raise the bar of understanding for science worldwide.

SIRS - The SIRS database is divided into SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, and SIRS Renaissance sections. It provides the full-text of articles and selected government docunents covering social issues, the sciences, and global events. The SIRS Renaaissance section provides articles on various arts and humanities topics.

VAST - VAST is designed to bring the highest-quality video content to the broadest range of subject areas. Faculty and students will find content in VAST to meet their learning, teaching, and research interest in the following areas and more: art, architecture, business, counseling and therapy, dance, economics, education, ethnic studies, ethnography, gay and lesbian studies, health, history, humanities, law and public safety, literature, opera, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, science, theatre, and women’s studies.

Virtual Reference Library (Gale) - Includes the ten-volume American Decades, The Gale Enyclopedia of Mental Health, Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, and Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender.

To provide the best possible tools to insure success in our student’s scholastic endeavours, these subscription databases are paid for by Imperial Valley College.