Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the social issues
series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core
reference content from other series. Access viewpoint
articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary
documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and
newspaper articles.
CQ
Researcher provides expert, clearly written articles on
contemporary topics and controversial issues addressed
in a balanced and unbiased manner. A comprehensive
index, updated monthly, and available in PDF format for
easy downloading and searching, is available at
http://library.cqpress.com/researcher_index.pdf. The
index corresponds to both the online and print versions
of CQ Researcher. Tips on Using CQ
Researcher
Includes the following collections: Arts & Sciences (collections I, II, III, VII, Music, Language & Literature), Life Sciences, and Public Health Reports. Full-text backfiles (up to the latest three to five years) of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, environmental sciences, physical sciences, biological sciences, mathematics, and engineering. Tips on using JSTOR.
Google
Scholar searches the internet for peer-reviewed journal
articles and other publications (books, theses, etc.).
If Palomar College has the full-text in electronic
format, there will be a link to 'Full-text at Palomar.
If you are OFF-CAMPUS, you must first do the following
to see the Palomar College links:
1) At the Search Box, click 'Scholar Preferences'.
2) In the Library Links box, type 'Palomar College' (if it's
not already listed there as an option, and the box checked)
3) Click 'Save Preferences'.
This contains articles and other publications with a primary focus on disciplines of study within associate degrees and certification programs, including, accounting, child care services, culinary arts, food service management, graphic arts, hospitality management, interior design, journalism, library technology, plumbing, heating & air conditioning, welding, and much more.
INTELECOM is a hosted digital repository of academic video clips - streamed on demand, covering a variety of video collections including Biological Sciences, Oceanography, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Political Science, Sociology, Health, and Environmental Studies. Videos may be downloaded and embedded in course software such as Blackboard. Helpful Tip: How to Export a Clip List
Films On Demand offers over 6,000 current, education streaming videos covering a variety of disciplines and subjects. Users can create personal playlists incorporating full-length videos or segments, and embed segments into courseware such as Blackboard. (NOTE: embedded videos only work with flash technology at this time, and will not work with Windows Media or Quicktime.) Some videos include interactive transcripts. Additional technical specifications can be found at http://digital.films.com/Common/Documents/FOD_Technical_Requirements.pdf. Need help. Try the Films on Demand Help Center.
NBC Learn includes thousands of videos, historic newsreels, primary source documents, and photographs from the NBC Archives going back to the beginning of film and television, as well as original resources, in a variety of disciplines and subjects.
Primary Search provides full text for 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.
Provides
full text for over 500 popular general interest and
current events publications dating back to 1975.
Includes nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary
source documents, and an image collection of 116,000
photos, maps and flags.
This
multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly
1,950 general reference publications with full text
information dating as far back as 1975. Covering
virtually every subject area of general interest,
MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 350 full text
reference books, 91,600 biographies, 75,000 primary
source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135
photos, maps and flags.
This is
a collection of scholarly, government and
general-interest titles covering all aspects of human
impact to the environment, including content on global
warming, green building, pollution, sustainable
agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The
database provides indexing and abstracts for more than
384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for
more than 4,700 records.
Contains
information about countries, including news on the
latest political, economic, corporate, and environmental
events as they occur, and detailed geographical,
political, economic, corporate, and environmental
briefings.
This is
a collection of academic and professional online
journals. Indexing and abstracting is available for all
publications. Full-text articles to journals subscribed
to by Palomar College are also available for free; you
may purchase other articles from Ingenta directly for a
fee.
This
search engine provides access to full-text articles and
citations from various academic, industry and general
interest publications dating back to 1984. Publications
are organized by major categories: Arts & Entertainment,
Automotive, Business & Finance, Computers & Technology,
Health & Fitness, Home & Garden, News & Society,
Reference & Education, and Sports.
EBSCO eBooks is a collection of electronic books (ebooks)
selected for the Palomar College Library book
collection. Books can be searched either through the
EBSCO eBooks database, or through the library's
online catalog.
PalgraveCONNECT eBooks contains hundreds of current, scholarly ebooks written by academic authors and covering numerous subjects in the humanities, social sciences and busines
