Library Databases

Note: Off-campus access to library databases is available for students, faculty, and staff of the College. Please call the Library at 323-415-4134, or come by the Reference Desk for account names and passwords.

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Biography Resource Center contains biographies on more than 335,000 people from around the world and throughout history.  The biographies are taken from a variety of resources including magazines, Gale biographical databases and notable titles.

URL: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/Mont93762?db=BioRC (On-campus and Off-campus)

Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.

URL: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mont93762?db=CA (On-campus and Off-campus)

Contemporary Criticism Select collects more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors, with biographical, critical, principal works, and further study information.

CountryWatch provides country specific information on each of the 192 countries of the world.

URL: http://www.countrywatch.com/ip (On-campus)
URL: http://www.countrywatch.com (Off-campus)

CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the US economy.

URL: http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher (On-campus and Off-campus)

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.

URL: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mont93762?db=GLD (On-campus and Off-campus)

Ethnic Newswatch: Full text titles offer additional viewpoints focusing on minority or ethnic issues. Spanish language search interfaces are provided.

URL: http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTM4M2UmU01EPTQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=11604 (On-campus and Off-campus)

Gale Virtual Reference Library: A database of enyclopedias, almanacs and specialized reference sources.

URL: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/Mont93762?db=GVRL (On-campus and Off-campus)

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its 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 indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records. 

URL:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost (On-campus and Off-campus)

Historical L.A. Times (1881-1986) offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19th century.

URL: http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTM2ZmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=11604 (On-campus and Off-campus)

LexisNexis Academic provides full-text documents from more than 40,000 legal, news and business, medical and reference sources.

URL: http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic (On-campus access only)

LISTA indexes more than 690 periodicals, 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.

URL:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost (On-campus and Off-campus)

Literature Resource Center: Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.

URL: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/Mont93762?db=LitRC (On-campus and Off-campus)

NetLibrary: Find digital full-text version of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction - over 13,000 publicly-accessible titles. Sign-up for an account in the library .

URL: http://www.netlibrary.com (On-campus and Off-campus)

Opposing Viewpoints: Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to web sites, and full-text journal articles.

URL: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/Mont93762?db=OVRC (On-campus and Off-campus)

ProQuest Direct contains summaries of articles from over 4,000 publications (journal, magazine and newspaper articles) with many in full-text, full image format.

URL: http://proquest.umi.com/login (On-campus and Off-campus)

Salem Health: The Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.

URL: http://health.salempress.com (On-campus)
URL: http://health.salempress.com/action/remoteAccessActivation?redirectUri=%2F (Off-campus)

Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

URL:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost (On-campus and Off-campus)

World Trade Ref: A comprehensive international trade database.

URL: http://www.worldtraderef.com/wtr_nl/WTR_site/login_transport_ip.asp?l=wtr2008&p=elac&loc=main(On-campus)
URL: http://www.worldtraderef.com (Off-campus)

Learning Express: LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons—students and adult learners—succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. Click on a category to the right so that you can start on your path to success right now.

URL:
http://www.LearningExpressLibrary.com?HR=htpp://www.elac.edu/departments/library/library