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Search the BC3 Library Catalog

Use it to find books, ebooks, DVDs in the library's collection

or browse our e-book collections: Ebook Central (Proquest) and Ebook Collection (EBSCO)

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Reference databases are

A great place to start your research
Provide definitions, introductory information, facts, vocabulary/keywords, names
Preferred over Wikipedia by your instructors
Include citations for your bibliography!
Collection of encyclopedias, reference databases, issue topic databases

Reference Databases

Credo Reference
Credo Reference provides Topic Pages, which offer background information on a particular topic that can give you an easy starting point and pathways for further research; Access to hundreds of in-depth subject encyclopedias and handbooks covering every major subject from Accounting to Art History and Shakespeare to Einstein; and Mind Maps that visually show relationships between topics and keywords.
Salem Press
Provides full-text online access to a range of reference works published by Salem Press in the areas of health, history, literature, and science
Gale Virtual Reference Library
This is currently a collection of four online reference resources: Gale Encyclopedia of Fitness, Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Health, Posthumanism: The Future of Homo Sapiens, and the St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture.
Facts on File Today's Science
Bridges the gap between the science learned in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today. Updated weekly and containing thousands of links to a 15-year back-file, Today’s Science explains important developments in biology, chemistry, the environment, space, physics, and technology.

Issue Topic Databases

CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher provides award winning in-depth coverage of the most important issues of the day. The reports are written by experienced journalists, footnoted and professionally fact-checked. Full-length articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, plus resources for additional research. Graphics, photos and short "sidebar" features round out the reports. Shorter "Hot Topics" articles provide a solid introduction to subjects most in demand by students.
Facts on File Issues and Controversies
Explore current issues and events with in-depth articles made to inspire thought-provoking debates. Topic pages feature the latest related news coverage from Reuters® as well as a variety of helpful background information, from the key pro/con arguments to chronologies of related events to primary documents. Updated weekly.

Find articles in EBSCOhost's General Databases (Academic Premier and MasterFile Premier).

Or search the library's Subject Databases

Business Source Premier
CINAHL
CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 2,928 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981.
GreenFILE
Health Source - Consumer Edition
Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition
Literary Reference Center Plus
Collection of literary criticism and primary literary sources.
Military & Government Collection
Newsbank
Full text articles from over 800 U.S. newspapers including local newspapers like the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Butler Eagle.
OVID Nursing Collection
Professional Development Collection
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
PubMed
Database of medical journals.
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Vocational and Career Collection
Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for nearly 340 trade and industry-related periodicals.
Westlaw
Database of legal journals and primary sources that include statutes (laws) and court cases.

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes scholarly literature across an array of disciplines including peer-reviewed academic journals and books, conference papers, theses and dissertations. Some of the resources are freely available full-text, others you will need to request using the library's Article or Book Request Forms.

Open Resources during Covid 19 Pandemic

Resource freely available during COVID 19

Many publishers have opened up their online resources, making them freely available during the COVID 19 Pandemic. The following are sources that are temporarily available.

American Association of Publisher's compiled list of resources publishers have made available: https://publishers.org/aap-news/covid-19-response/

Ancestry expands collection with National Archives access: Start Exploring

Duke University Press

Course syllabi and free access to readings: https://www.dukeupress.edu/Explore-Subjects/Syllabi

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge Core reference and textbooks: https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/cambridge-histories

Project Muse

Free resources during COVID 19. https://about.muse.jhu.edu/resources/freeresourcescovid19/#covid19resources
Open Access content https://about.muse.jhu.edu/muse/open-access-overview/

JSTOR

Description of available resources: https://about.jstor.org/covid19/

Library Journal

Full online access go to LibraryJournal.com
Email: access@libraryjournal.com Password: LJfullaccess1
Digitized editions of magazine archive: click on "Access Digitized Edition" in the upper left-hand corner or click on Bookshelf in the upper left corner

Resources on COVID 19

Copyright Clearance Center links to freely available academic resources on COVID 19, useful for study and teaching in different subject areas including health, medicine and chemistry. https://www.copyright.com/coronavirus-covid-19/

STM compilation of COVID 19 related research articles and chapters https://www.stm-assoc.org/about-the-industry/coronavirus-2019-ncov/

Wiley articles and book chapters freely available on COVID 19 https://novel-coronavirus.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/