Rappahannock Community College Library

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• MasterFILE Premier [EBSCO](VIVA)
  Index, abstracts, and full text covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more. Designed for a general (as opposed to academic) audience.
  

• CQ Researcher (RCC) Research reports on topics of current concern. Perfect for ENG111 research papers.

• Gale Literature Resource Center (VCCS)  a complete literature database rich in biographical, bibliographical, and critical content. The LRC includes: Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 120,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring entries on all authors appearing in CLC since vol. 95 of the print series and complete profiles of 266 most studied authors from editions prior to vol. 95; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars as well as other sources.

• Gale Virtual Reference Library (RCC) Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.  Great for background information.

• Factiva  offers quick access to current business news from the world's most respected sources, same day access to many of the world's top newspapers, in-depth research on a company, industry or marketplace, a searchable database of more than 8,000 publications, and is the exclusive archive for The Wall Street Journal.

• Newsbank  (RCC) Electronic editions of Virginia newspapers, Washington Post, New York Times and selected other papers from major cities around the US.

• Big Chalk / Electric Library (RCC) Access to full-text books, magazines, newspapers, photographs and radio transcripts. (on campus access only) 

More Databases

America History & Life and Historical Abstracts (VIVA) Indexes periodicals covering US and World  History.

Access-Science (VIVA)  Includes McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.

ACM Digital Library  (VIVA) Nearly 9,000 FULL-TEXT articles from ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) journals, magazines, and conference proceedings, from 1991 forward. Citations and abstracts from many more.

ACS Publications (VIVA) A comprehensive collection of over 30 magazines and peer-reviewed journals that advance the practice of the chemical and related sciences.  

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (VIVA) Database Service with coverage that includes the life sciences, environmental and aquatic sciences, computer sciences, materials science and engineering, aerospace, social sciences, and humanities.

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online (VIVA) (Columbia University) Comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.

Electronic Books and E-Texts

Facts On File (VCCS) A collection of interlinked databases with full-text including: World News Digest with authoritative news and facts ranging from October 1940 to the present day; Issues and Controversies; and Today's Science.

HarpWeek (VIVA) Full image of Harper's Weekly Magazine from the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras.

LexisNexis Contains full text for U.S. Congressional publications, bills, legislative histories, laws, etc.

MathSciNet  (VIVA) Provides FULL-TEXT access to over 55 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications from 1940 to the present.

MEDLINE (VIVA) (EBSCO) The National Library of Medicine's PubMed Project provides access to citations and abstracts from MEDLINE and related databases covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.

Opposing Viewpoints (VCCS) Database covering social issues, which brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, statistics, court cases, newspaper and magazines articles, as well as links to more than 1,400 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites.

OVID Databases (VIVA)  Health and Nursing

Project Muse (VIVA) (Johns Hopkins University Press) Provides FULL-TEXT articles from more than 40 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

STAT-USA (VIVA) Business, economic, and government statistics and information.

Facts on File (VIVA)  Issues & Controversies and an encyclopedia and almanac:

More Resources to find periodicals

Databases by Subject
 

Full-Text Periodical Journal Finder (vccs)