What are databases?
Video explaining what databases are and how they can be helpful.
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Databases
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Academic Search Ultimate - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Provides a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with around 10,000 full-text periodicals - of which more than 9,000 are peer-reviewed journals.
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
Database of contemporary social issues with content structured to promote critical-thinking skills. It contains reference book titles, pro and con viewpoint articles, and a variety of periodicals, podcasts, reviewed Web links, images, statistical tables, charts, and graphs.
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CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Each issue examines a single "hot" topic with comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue. Includes charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts.
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Newspaper Source Plus - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for over 1,000 national and international newspapers - including Star Tribune, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Times (U.K.), Toronto Star, Bangkok Post, The Jordan Times, and many more - in a searchable archive.
More Databases
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Oakton Library Catalog This link opens in a new windowO.W.L. (Oakton's Whole Library) is Oakton's library catalog and discovery service. Use it to search for books, articles, journals, and multimedia.
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SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new windowProvides full-text access to select Oakton-purchased SAGE Journal titles and to high quality open access journals in many areas of the social sciences: education, anthropology, criminal justice, political science, psychology, public policy, and sociology.
If you find a journal or article you want to read but it has a "lock"/no access icon, you can search for the title in the OWL catalog or submit an interlibrary loan request to library staff. -
Humanities Source Ultimate - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Includes more 1,200 journals in full-text. Provides articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.
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New York Times All-Access This link opens in a new window
Unlimited digital access to all offerings from The New York Times, on any device. Includes full site access to news and sports coverage, podcasts, games (Spelling Bee, Wordle, The Crossword, and more!), recipes and cooking advice, and Wirecutter reviews. Also includes access to TheTimesMachine.
New users:- Create an account using your preferred login credentials.
- Select whether you are a student or staff/faculty user.
- Choose the NYT resources you're interested in receiving updates for, or choose none at all.
Existing users:
Use the “log in” link next to “Already have an account?”