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Academic OneFile [GALE]
Academic OneFile is a starting point for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources. Covering the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects, it contains millions of articles available in full- text. Includes full-text New York Times content from 1995 to the present.


Academic Search Premier [EBSCO]
(EBSCO) – a multi-disciplinary database that provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

Tutorials: Introduction to EBSCOHost


AGRICOLA [EBSCO]
Containing over 5 million bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library, AGRICOLA provides millions of citations relating to the field of agriculture.


Agriculture Collection [GALE]
With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the Agricola database, this collection of more than 400 titles is focused on agriculture and its related fields: from farming to scientific research in horticulture.


Alt HealthWatch [EBSCO]
A full-text alternative health research database focused on complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness, offering the latest information about the evolving practice of holistic medicine and therapies.


American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection [EBSCO]
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) provides digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.


Artstor Digital Library
Approximately 300 collections composed of over 2.5 million digital images covering wide-ranging material such as Native American art from the Smithsonian, treasures from the Louvre, and panoramic, 360-degree views of the Hagia Sophia in a single, easy-to-use interface. Register on campus for off-campus access.


Associates Program Source [EBSCO]
Contains nearly 1,000 full-text journals as well as 11 full-text books. This database is designed specifically for the research needs of two-year colleges, including material supporting such areas as auto repair, construction, computers, fire science, alcohol and drug counseling, social work, and more.


The Astoria Public Library Archive
This digital initiative provides access to Sanborn Maps, historic photographs, and items documenting Astoria’s early days. 


The Atlantic Archive [EBSCO]
This full-text archive from 1857-2014 covers events and political issues through literary and cultural commentary. It includes more than 1,800 issues providing a broad view of 19th, 20th, and early 21st-Century American thought.


Bates Visual Guide
Bates’ Visual Guide delivers head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the (Advanced) Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course. The site features more than 8 hours of video content.


Biography Reference Center [EBSCO]
Containing many of the top-ranked biographical reference collections and magazines, this database offers a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies and unique narrative biographies.


Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic [EBSCO]
This collection provides access to full-text, indexed, and abstracted biomedical research journals covering a broad range of disciplines, including medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and pre-clinical sciences. Coverage also extends to include structured research evaluating current and past healthcare systems.


Books & Authors [GALE] Explore possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres, and topics.


Business Collection [GALE]
A comprehensive and easy to navigate collection of over 4,000 leading business and trade publications. Incorporates coverage of all business disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management, and strategy, as well as business theory and practice.


Business Economics and Theory [GALE]
This collection provides periodicals focusing on topics in economics. It has more than 450 full-text journals and regular feeds of videos from Forbes.com that contain business news coverage and interviews with CEOs.


Business Insights: Global [GALE]
Brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. Find detailed company and industry news and information.


Business Source Premier [EBSCO]
Providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Includes coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.


Chronicle of Higher Education
News, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
Contact the library for login information.


Cinahl w/ Full Text [EBSCO]
Full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 520 journals.

Tutorial: Basic Searching

Tutorial: Advanced Searching


Civil Rights and Social Justice (HeinOnline)
Hearings and committee prints, legislative histories on landmark legislation, CRS and GAO reports, briefs from major Supreme Court cases and publications from the Commission on Civil Rights illuminate the storied (and still-unfinished) struggle for equality in the United States. 


Clatsop Community College Digital Archive
Houses publications created at the College since its founding in 1958, including student newspapers, and Rain Magazine, Clatsop Community College’s long-running literary arts publication. Newer copies of Rain Magazine are still available for sale at the College.


Clatsop Community College Historic Preservation & Restoration Digital Archive — The digital archive of Clatsop Community College’s Historic Preservation & Restoration program houses out-of-print books and publications including historic house plans, building details, and catalogs.


Communications and Mass Media Collection [GALE]
Over 250 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects include advertising and public relations, linguistics, and literature.


Computer Database [GALE]
Computer-related product introductions, news, and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications, and the application of technology.


Computer Source [EBSCO]
Full-text content from nearly 300 journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. 


Consumer Health Complete [EBSCO]
Consumer Health Complete is designed to support the information needs of patients and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. This resource provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine.


Consumer reports
Great for reviews and information on ratings and recommendations on thousands of products and services in categories including appliances, cars, electronics and computers, home and garden, health and fitness, babies and kids, food, personal finance, and travel.
Contact the library for login information.


Criminal Justice Collection [GALE]
Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, forensic scientist, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection offers more than 700 journals.


Culinary Arts Collection [GALE]
Includes 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines as well as reference content. Coverage includes searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.


Daily Astorian
The Columbia – Pacific Region’s news source since 1873.
Contact the library for login information.


Democracy’s Library brings together more than 700 collections from over 50 government organizations, archived by the Internet Archive since 2006. Includes more than half a million documents (and counting) from local, regional, and national governments.


Diversity Studies Collection [GALE]
Useful for social science, history, and liberal arts coursework, this collection explores cultural differences, contributions, and influences in our global community. This set includes 250 journals


eBook Community College Collection [EBSCO]
This multidisciplinary collection covers topics across programs and fields of study as well as key subject areas such as the Humanities and Social Sciences, Business, Science & Technology, and Literary Criticism. The complexity of the information available in this collection varies from introductory to higher-level content.


eBook Nursing Collection [EBSCO]
eBook Nursing Collection features more than 600 hand-selected, quality e-books that focus on the needs of nursing professionals, including clinical guides, evidence-based practice manuals, practical handbooks, and professional growth titles.


Educators Reference Complete [GALE]
A collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports for any educator — from the school teacher and administrator to those studying at the collegiate and graduate level.


Environmental Studies and Policy Collection [GALE]
Answers environmentally-related inquiries with coverage of more than 3.3 million articles from more than 700 journals and reference content from Delmar, Cengage Learning. Robust coverage of environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policymakers, as well as corporate interests.


ERIC [EBSCO]
Full-text content from nearly 300 journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. 


FastCase – includes the United States Code, United States Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Cases; and cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, constitutions, attorney general opinions, and session laws for Oregon, Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Washington.

Users must register for an account to access this free resource.


Films on Demand
Thousands of high-resolution streaming videos organized by subject. For academic research as well as general interest, this collection includes archival and newsreel films as well as career and technical videos.


Fine Arts and Music Collection [GALE]
Provides more than 150 full-text magazines and journals that are covered in indices such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide support for research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.


Fuente Academica [EBSCO]
Fuente Académica incluye revistas a texto completo de América Latina, Portugal y España que cubren muchas disciplinas académicas.


Gale Databases
Find magazine and journal articles here. You can search all of the Gale databases at once or select just the ones you want.


Gale General OneFile (GALE)
General-interest periodical resource with millions of articles available from books, magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, and reports. Also includes video, audio, and image content.


Gale OneFile News (GALE)
This full-text newspaper resource provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts, and transcripts.


Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection [GALE]
A collection of more than 100 journals focused on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture, with the addition of over 20 subject-specific reference sources, this collection provides information for gardening enthusiasts and professionals alike.


Gender Studies Collection [GALE]
This collection of more than 30 journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more.


General Science Collection [GALE]
A collection of over 200 journals, providing researchers with the information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments — including such topics as particle physics, advanced mathematics, and nanotechnology.


GREENR–Gale In Context: Environmental Studies [GALE]
Videos, interactive maps, news sources, refereed case studies, and primary source articles are included. Browseable by issue or topic as well as by location.


Gun Regulation and Legislation in America [HeinOnline]
Brings together essential periodicals, compiled legislative histories, CRS reports, Congressional hearings, United States Supreme Court briefs, monographs, and other related materials on the difficult and controversial topic of regulating firearms in the United States. Available on-campus only; no off-campus access provided.


Health & Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health Module [GALE]
Provides access to medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles.


Health Reference Center Academic [GALE]
Contains full text from nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources.


Health Source Consumer Edition [EBSCO]
Provides full-text access to nearly 80 consumer health magazines and almost 100 health reference books, plus current, health-related pamphlets.


Health Source Nursing/Academic [EBSCO]
Gives researchers, allied health professionals, nurses, and medical educators access to full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines.


History Reference Center [EBSCO]
This database includes full-text content from 150 leading history journals, including American Historical Review, Archaeology, British Heritage, Canada’s History, Civil War Times, Military History, Teaching History, African Studies Quarterly, Ancient Egypt Magazine, Australian Historical Studies, Chinese Studies in History, Jewish History, Muslim World, Russian Studies in History and Women’s History Review.


Home Improvement Collection [GALE]
This collection of more than 200 home improvement titles covers topics such as architectural techniques, tool, and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more to meet the needs of hobbyists and professionals alike.


Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection [GALE]
This collection of more than 800 journals, 29 subject-specific Cengage Learning reference titles, and travel handbooks from Fodor’s provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism fields. A great resource for curious travelers and serious researchers.


Information Science and Library Issues Collection [GALE]
This collection provides current and accurate information for the information professional from nearly 100 leading industry journals. Coverage includes such topics as data processing techniques, metadata architectures, and more.


Informe [GALE]
A collection of Hispanic magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics, and other subjects.


Insurance and Liability Collection [GALE]
This collection targeted towards individual property owners to multinational corporations comprises nearly 40 journals that take a broad view of the insurance and liability industry, covering such topics as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues.


JSTOR
This powerful collection provides access to full-text academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in a broad variety of academic disciplines with special emphasis on American Studies, Architecture & Architectural History, Art & Art History, Business, Environmental Studies, Feminist & Women’s Studies, Health Policy, and History.


Learning Express Library
Interactive practice tests and tutorials to help you succeed on academic or licensing tests. Provides tests and preparation materials for entrance examinations, occupation examinations, military, civil, business, education, citizenship, and more, including GED, AT-SAT, NCLEX-RN®, CDL, Postal Worker Exams, Civil Service Exams, Police Officer Exams, EMT Certification, ASWB, TOEIC, Health Occupations Practice Entrance Tests, Nursing School Practice Entrance Tests, Real Estate Broker Exams, CBEST, Praxis, MTEL, AP, SAT, ACT, TOEFL, CLEP, ASVAB, PSAT and many more. You’ll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. You must sign in before taking a test.


Legal Collection (EBSCO)
A great full-text resource journal articles about law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, and the environment. 


Legal Information Resource Center (EBSCO)
This database provides online access to hundreds of NOLO legal reference books and various legal forms. To log in, users have to create a free user account with the State Law Library.


Legal Trac [GALE]
Provides full-text coverage of major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and international legal journals.


LGBTQ+ Rights (HeinOnline)
Dedicated to charting the gay rights movement in America, showing the civil rights codified into law in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as the inequalities that still exist today. Titles in this collection are grouped into subcollections focused on specific areas of society, examining issues from same-sex marriage to employment discrimination, military service, and more. 


LitFinder [GALE]
Provides access to literary works and secondary-source materials covering world literature and authors throughout history. Includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and over 800,000 poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. Biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary are also included.


MAS Ultra School Edition (EBSCO)
Provides access to top high-school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). It also includes full-text biographies, primary source documents, reference books, and an image collection of more than 2 million photos, maps, flags, and color PDFs.


MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)
Contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues, and much more. 


Micromedex
Full-text databases with unbiased, referenced information on drugs, toxicology, diseases, and alternative medicines. Includes CareNotes System, which contains patient information, in English and Spanish, for all aspects of care, medications, and health.


MLA Handbook Plus
This go-to resource for writers of research papers and anyone citing sources in MLA style includes the full text of the ninth edition of the handbook and additional material, such as other MLA guides and instructor resources.


MedicLatina (EBSCO)
A unique full-text collection of medical research and scientific journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers, MedicLatina contains a complete table of contents and PDF full text for peer-reviewed medical journals in the Spanish language.


MEDLINE (EBSCO)
Created by the United States National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is an authoritative bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts for biomedical and health journals used by healthcare professionals, nurses, clinicians, and researchers.


Military & Government Collection (EBSCO)
Includes news and scholarship related to all branches of the U.S. military and government. Accesses academic journals, popular magazines, trade publications, and military publications. All publications are abstracted and indexed, and many are available in full text. 


Newspaper Source (EBSCO)
Searchable full text to over 170 U.S. newspapers and 20 international newspapers. Accesses The Oregonian from 1997-2017. Also includes newswires and TV and radio news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, and more. 


Nursing and Allied Health Collection [GALE]
Offers researchers looking for answers to nursing or allied health questions millions of articles found in over 1,100 journals. Provides full-text coverage of many of the titles cited in CINAHL.


Nursing Made Incredibly Easy
A well-respected publication that presents complex nursing issues in easy-to-understand language. Only one user per session is allowed per licensing rules.


Open Society Justice Initiative (HeinOnline)
Reports, handbooks, briefing papers, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets exploring and advocating on issues of human rights and justice. 


Opposing Viewpoints in Context [GALE]
A one-stop source for information on current social issues. Includes viewpoint articles on both sides of an issue, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

Tongue Point student? Use this link: Opposing ViewPoints in Context [GALE]
Password: clatsop

Tutorial: Opposing ViewPoints Basics


Oregon Career Information System
Provides a system of occupational and educational information to help Oregonians learn about the world of work and education.

Username: clatsop
Password: success1


Oregon Index
Index to Oregon newspapers.


Oregon State Library Digital Collections
The Oregon State Library is responsible for gathering state publications from Oregon and ensuring that they are available to all citizens. Alongside those government publications, the State Library has also begun to digitize other materials in our library.


Oregonian
Oregon’s newspaper of record, based in Portland since 1950. 
Contact the library for login information. 


Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection [GALE]
Over 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine, providing researchers with access to topics discussed in the field. Includes proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses, and many more.


Points of View [EBSCO]
Points of View Reference Center contains more than 380 core topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), and counterpoint (opposing argument). Each topic features a Guide to Critical Analysis which helps the reader evaluate the controversy and enhances students’ ability to read critically, develop their own perspective on the issues, and write or debate an effective argument on the topic.

Tutorial: Points of View


Pop Culture Collection [GALE]
Focused on issues in popular culture. Provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art, or liberal arts course. A collection of more than 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.


Popular Magazines [GALE]
Features full-text coverage of the top 1,000 most searched magazines across Gale’s InfoTrac. Current events, sports, science, health, and more.


Professional Development Collection (EBSCO)
A highly specialized database of full-text electronic information especially for educators, professional librarians, and education researchers. 


Psychology & Behavioral Science Collection (EBSCO)
An essential full-text database for psychologists, counselors, researchers, and students. It provides hundreds of full-text psychology journals, including many indexed in APA PsycInfo. It offers particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and counseling.


Psychology Collection [GALE]
Search a subset of Gale with a focus on basic understandings of the study of the mind, emotions, and how the human mind develops and diminishes over time. Researchers will have access to nearly 500 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.


PubMedCentral
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).


Religion & Philosophy Collection (EBSCO)
An essential full-text database for theology and philosophy research. It includes hundreds of full-text journals and magazines covering many religious and philosophical topics, including world religions, religious history, political philosophy, and philosophy of language.


Research in Context [GALE]
A cross-disciplinary approach to research including literature, biography, history, science, culture, and over 300 topic pages and overviews on a variety of social issues. Includes books, images, bibliographies, audio, video, newspapers, and more.


Science Reference Center [EBSCO]
This comprehensive research database provides easy access to a wealth of full-text, science-oriented content. Designed to meet every student researcher’s needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other reliable sources.


Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law [HeinOnline]
This collection brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. Also includes hundreds of nineteenth-century pamphlets and books on slavery from the Buffalo Public Library’s rare book collection. Available on-campus only; no off-campus access provided.


Small Business Collection [GALE]
For business students and entrepreneurs, this compilation provides insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Users will find 250 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.


Small Business Reference Center [EBSCO]
Small Business Reference Center offers readers a collection of state-specific resources supported by demographic data and other local information. Completing the database are business videos that provide critical information for business owners including interviews, “lessons learned” features, lectures, and “how-to” videos to help foster success in all aspects of managing a business.


Small Business School Online
Contact the library for login information.


Social Work Reference Center [EBSCO]
Social Work Reference Center is a turnkey information resource for social workers and mental health professionals. It covers a wide array of topics such as adolescent health, aging, end-of-life care, clinical social work, and diversity.


TopicSearch (EBSCO)
Teachers, librarians, and student researchers can use this database to explore current events, social, political, and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics frequently discussed in the classroom.


U.S. History Collection [GALE]
This collection of over 40 journals provides balanced coverage of both current thought and events in U.S. History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field. Useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher.


U.S. History in Context [GALE]
A collection of full-text periodicals, reference works, and primary sources as well as scholarly analyses. Images, videos, and audio recordings bring additional perspectives to United States history from pre-colonial times to the present.


University of Oregon Historic Oregon Newspapers — Fabulous collection of digitized newspapers from across the state including many from the north coast.


UpToDate
Clinicians around the world trust UpToDate as their go-to, must-have evidence-based clinical decision support resource to help them make smart, safe patient care decisions. Great for finding lab interpretations, patient education information, and drug interactions.


Vocational & Career Collection (EBSCO)
Designed to meet a wide variety of vocational and technical research needs, this database provides full-text coverage for trade and industry-related periodicals for high schools, community colleges, trade institutions, and the general public.


War and Terrorism Collection [GALE]
A definitive collection of 100 subject-specific full-text periodicals for students of history, social sciences, and current events that provides insight into conflicts and their multiple causes.


World History Collection [GALE]
This collection of nearly 40 journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field. Useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher.


WorldCat
Search for books, magazines, videos, and other materials published around the world — and see which libraries have them.

Academic OneFile [GALE]
Academic OneFile is a starting point for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources. Covering the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects, it contains millions of articles available in full- text. Includes full-text New York Times content from 1995 to present.


Academic Search Premier [EBSCO]
(EBSCO) – a multi-disciplinary database that provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

Tutorials: Introduction to EBSCOHost


AGRICOLA [EBSCO]
Containing over 5 million bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library, AGRICOLA provides millions of citations relating to the field of agriculture.


Agriculture Collection [GALE]
With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the Agricola database, this collection of more than 400 titles is focused on agriculture and its related fields: from farming to scientific research in horticulture.


Alt HealthWatch [EBSCO]
A full-text alternative health research database focused on complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness, offering the latest information about the evolving practice of holistic medicine and therapies.


American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection [EBSCO]
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) provides digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.


Artstor Digital Library
Approximately 300 collections composed of over 2.5 million digital images covering wide-ranging material such as Native American art from the Smithsonian, treasures from the Louvre, and panoramic, 360-degree views of the Hagia Sophia in a single, easy-to-use interface. Register on campus for off-campus access.


Associates Program Source [EBSCO]
Contains nearly 1,000 full-text journals as well as 11 full-text books. This database is designed specifically for the research needs of two-year colleges, including material supporting such areas as auto repair, construction, computers, fire science, alcohol and drug counseling, social work, and more.

The Astoria Public Library Archive
This digital initiative provides access to Sanborn Maps, historic photographs, and items documenting Astoria’s early days. 


The Atlantic Archive [EBSCO]
This full-text archive from 1857-2014 covers events and political issues through literary and cultural commentary. It includes more than 1,800 issues providing a broad view of 19th, 20th, and early 21st-Century American thought.


Bates Visual Guide
Bates’ Visual Guide delivers head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the (Advanced) Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course. The site features more than 8 hours of video content.


Biography Reference Center [EBSCO]
Containing many of the top-ranked biographical reference collections and magazines, this database offers a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies and unique narrative biographies.


Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic [EBSCO]
This collection provides access to full-text, indexed and abstracted biomedical research journals covering a broad range of disciplines, including medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine and pre-clinical sciences. Coverage also extends to include structured research evaluating current and past healthcare systems.


Books & Authors [GALE] Explore possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres, and topics.


Business Collection [GALE]
A comprehensive and easy to navigate collection of over 4,000 leading business and trade publications. Incorporates coverage of all business disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management, and strategy, as well as business theory and practice.


Business Economics and Theory [GALE]
This collection provides periodicals focusing on topics in economics. It has more than 450 full-text journals and regular feeds of videos from Forbes.com that contain business news coverage and interviews with CEOs.


Business Insights: Global [GALE]
Brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. Find detailed company and industry news and information.


Business Source Premier [EBSCO]
Providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Includes coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Chronicle of Higher Education
News, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
Contact the library for login information.


Cinahl w/ Full Text [EBSCO]
Full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 520 journals.

Tutorial: Basic Searching

Tutorial: Advanced Searching


Clatsop Community College Digital Archive
Houses publications created at the College since its founding in 1958, including student newspapers, and Rain Magazine, Clatsop Community College’s long-running literary arts publication. Newer copies of Rain Magazine are still available for sale at the College.


Communications and Mass Media Collection [GALE]
Over 250 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects include advertising and public relations, linguistics, and literature.


Computer Database [GALE]
Computer-related product introductions, news, and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications, and the application of technology.


Computer Source [EBSCO]
Full-text content from nearly 300 journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. 


Consumer Health Complete [EBSCO]
Consumer Health Complete is designed to support the information needs of patients and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. This resource provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine.


Consumer reports
Great for reviews and information on ratings and recommendations on thousands of products and services in categories including appliances, cars, electronics and computers, home and garden, health and fitness, babies and kids, food, personal finance, and travel.
Contact the library for login information.


Criminal Justice Collection [GALE]
Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, forensic scientist, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection offers more than 700 journals.


Culinary Arts Collection [GALE]
Includes 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines as well as reference content. Coverage includes searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.


Daily Astorian
The Columbia – Pacific Region’s news source since 1873.
Contact the library for login information.


Diversity Studies Collection [GALE]
Useful for social science, history, and liberal arts coursework, this collection explores cultural differences, contributions, and influences in our global community. This set includes 250 journals

eBook Community College Collection [EBSCO]
This multidisciplinary collection covers topics across programs and fields of study as well as key subject areas such as the Humanities and Social Sciences, Business, Science & Technology, and Literary Criticism. The complexity of the information available in this collection varies from introductory to higher-level content.


eBook Nursing Collection [EBSCO]
eBook Nursing Collection features more than 600 hand-selected, quality e-books that focus on the needs of nursing professionals, including clinical guides, evidence-based practice manuals, practical handbooks, and professional growth titles.


Educators Reference Complete [GALE]
A collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports for any educator — from the school teacher and administrator to those studying at the collegiate and graduate level.


Environmental Studies and Policy Collection [GALE]
Answers environmentally-related inquiries with coverage of more than 3.3 million articles from more than 700 journals and reference content from Delmar, Cengage Learning. Robust coverage of environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policymakers, as well as corporate interests.


ERIC [EBSCO]
Full-text content from nearly 300 journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. 


FastCase – includes the United States Code, United States Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Cases; and cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, constitutions, attorney general opinions, and session laws for Oregon, Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Washington.

Users must register for an account to access this free resource.


Films on Demand
Thousands of high-resolution streaming videos organized by subject. For academic research as well as general interest, this collection includes archival and newsreel films as well as career and technical videos.


Fine Arts and Music Collection [GALE]
Provides more than 150 full-text magazines and journals that are covered in indices such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide support for research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.


Fuente Academica [EBSCO]
Fuente Académica incluye revistas a texto completo de América Latina, Portugal y España que cubren muchas disciplinas académicas.

Gale Databases
Find magazine and journal articles here. You can search all of the Gale databases at once or select just the ones you want.


Gale General OneFile (GALE)
General-interest periodical resource with millions of articles available from books, magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, and reports. Also includes video, audio, and image content.


Gale OneFile News (GALE)
This full-text newspaper resource provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts, and transcripts.


Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
GVRL has over 200 encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Look here for biology, chemistry, nursing and medicine, sociology, history, education, law, and more.


Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection [GALE]
A collection of more than 100 journals focused on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture, with the addition of over 20 subject-specific reference sources, this collection provides information for gardening enthusiasts and professionals alike.


Gender Studies Collection [GALE]
This collection of more than 30 journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more.


General Science Collection [GALE]
A collection of over 200 journals, providing researchers with the information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments — including such topics as particle physics, advanced mathematics, and nanotechnology.


GREENR [GALE]
Videos, interactive maps, news sources, refereed case studies, and primary source articles are included. Browseable by issue or topic as well as by location.


Gun Regulation and Legislation in America [HeinOnline]
Brings together essential periodicals, compiled legislative histories, CRS reports, Congressional hearings, United States Supreme Court briefs, monographs, and other related materials on the difficult and controversial topic of regulating firearms in the United States. Available on-campus only; no off-campus access provided.


Health & Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health Module [GALE]
Provides access to medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles.


Health Reference Center Academic [GALE]
Contains full text from nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources.


Health Source Consumer Edition [EBSCO]
Provides full-text access to nearly 80 consumer health magazines and almost 100 health reference books, plus current, health-related pamphlets.


Health Source Nursing/Academic [EBSCO]
Gives researchers, allied health professionals, nurses, and medical educators access to full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines.


History Reference Center [EBSCO]
This database includes full-text content from 150 leading history journals, including American Historical Review, Archaeology, British Heritage, Canada’s History, Civil War Times, Military History, Teaching History, African Studies Quarterly, Ancient Egypt Magazine, Australian Historical Studies, Chinese Studies in History, Jewish History, Muslim World, Russian Studies in History and Women’s History Review.


Home Improvement Collection [GALE]
This collection of more than 200 home improvement titles covers such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more to meet the needs of hobbyists and professionals alike.


Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection [GALE]
This collection of more than 800 journals, 29 subject-specific Cengage Learning reference titles, and travel handbooks from Fodor’s provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism fields. A great resource for curious travelers and serious researchers.


Information Science and Library Issues Collection [GALE]
This collection provides current and accurate information for the information professional from nearly 100 leading industry journals. Coverage includes such topics as data processing techniques, metadata architectures, and more.


Informe [GALE]
A collection of Hispanic magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics, and other subjects.


Insurance and Liability Collection [GALE]
This collection targeted towards individual property owners to multinational corporations comprises nearly 40 journals that take a broad view of the insurance and liability industry, covering such topics as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues.


JSTOR
This powerful collection provides access to full-text academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in a broad variety of academic disciplines with special emphasis on American Studies, Architecture & Architectural History, Art & Art History, Business, Environmental Studies, Feminist & Women’s Studies, Health Policy, and History

Learning Express Library
Interactive practice tests and tutorials to help you succeed on academic or licensing tests. Provides tests and preparation materials for entrance examinations, occupation examinations, military, civil, business, education, citizenship, and more, including GED, AT-SAT, NCLEX-RN®, CDL, Postal Worker Exams, Civil Service Exams, Police Officer Exams, EMT Certification, ASWB, TOEIC, Health Occupations Practice Entrance Tests, Nursing School Practice Entrance Tests, Real Estate Broker Exams, CBEST, Praxis, MTEL, AP, SAT, ACT, TOEFL, CLEP, ASVAB, PSAT and many more. You’ll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. You must sign in before taking a test.


Legal Collection (EBSCO)
A great full-text resource journal articles about law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, and the environment. 


Legal Information Resource Center (EBSCO)
This database provides online access to hundreds of NOLO legal reference books and various legal forms. To log in, users have to create a free user account with the State Law Library.


Legal Trac [GALE]
Provides full-text coverage of major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and international legal journals.


LitFinder [GALE]
Provides access to literary works and secondary-source materials covering world literature and authors throughout history. Includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and over 800,000 poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. Biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary are also included.


MAS Ultra School Edition (EBSCO)
Provides access to top high-school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). It also includes full-text biographies, primary source documents, reference books, and an image collection of more than 2 million photos, maps, flags, and color PDFs.


MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)
Contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues, and much more. 


MedicLatina (EBSCO)
A unique full-text collection of medical research and scientific journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers, MedicLatina contains a complete table of contents and PDF full text for peer-reviewed medical journals in the Spanish language.


MEDLINE (EBSCO)
Created by the United States National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is an authoritative bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts for biomedical and health journals used by healthcare professionals, nurses, clinicians, and researchers.


Micromedex
Full-text databases with unbiased, referenced information on drugs, toxicology, diseases and alternative medicines. Includes CareNotes System, which contains patient information, in English and Spanish, for all aspects of care, medications, and health.


Military & Government Collection (EBSCO)
Includes news and scholarship related to all branches of the U.S. military and government. Accesses academic journals, popular magazines, trade publications, and military publications. All publications are abstracted and indexed, and many are available in full text. 


MLA Handbook Plus
This go-to resource for writers of research papers and anyone citing sources in MLA style includes the full text of the ninth edition of the handbook and additional material, such as other MLA guides and instructor resources.


Newspaper Source (EBSCO)
Searchable full text to over 170 U.S. newspapers and 20 international newspapers. Accesses The Oregonian from 1997-2017. Also includes newswires and TV and radio news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, and more. 


Nursing and Allied Health Collection [GALE]
Offers researchers looking for answers to nursing or allied health questions millions of articles found in over 1,100 journals. Provides full-text coverage of many of the titles cited in CINAHL.


Nursing Made Incredibly Easy
A well-respected publication that presents complex nursing issues in easy to understand language. Only one user per session allowed per licensing rules.


Opposing ViewPoints in Context [GALE]
A one-stop source for information on current social issues. Includes viewpoint articles on both sides of an issue, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

Tongue Point student? Use this link: Opposing ViewPoints in Context [GALE]
Password: clatsop

Tutorial: Opposing ViewPoints Basics


Oregon Career Information System
Provides a system of occupational and educational information to help Oregonians learn about the world of work and education.

Username: clatsop
Password: success1


Oregon Index
Index to Oregon newspapers.


Oregon State Library Digital Collections
The Oregon State Library is responsible for gathering state publications from Oregon and ensuring they are available to all citizens. Alongside those government publications, the State Library has also begun to digitize other materials in our library.


Oregonian
Oregon’s newspaper of record, based in Portland since 1950. 
Contact the library for login information. 

Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection [GALE]
Over 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine, providing researchers with access to topics discussed in the field. Includes proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses, and many more.


Points of View [EBSCO]
Points of View Reference Center contains more than 380 core topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), and counterpoint (opposing argument). Each topic features a Guide to Critical Analysis which helps the reader evaluate the controversy and enhances students’ ability to read critically, develop their own perspective on the issues, and write or debate an effective argument on the topic.

Tutorial: Points of View


Pop Culture Collection [GALE]
Focused on issues in popular culture. Provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art, or liberal arts course. A collection of more than 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.


Popular Magazines [GALE]
Features full-text coverage of the top 1,000 most searched magazines across Gale’s InfoTrac. Current events, sports, science, health, and more.


Professional Development Collection (EBSCO)
A highly specialized database of full-text electronic information especially for educators, professional librarians, and education researchers. 


Psychology & Behavioral Science Collection (EBSCO)
An essential full-text database for psychologists, counselors, researchers, and students. It provides hundreds of full-text psychology journals, including many indexed in APA PsycInfo. It offers particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and counseling.


Psychology Collection [GALE]
Search a subset of Gale with a focus on basic understandings of the study of the mind, emotions, and how the human mind develops and diminishes over time. Researchers will have access to nearly 500 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.


PubMedCentral
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).


Religion & Philosophy Collection (EBSCO)
An essential full-text database for theology and philosophy research. It includes hundreds of full-text journals and magazines covering many religious and philosophical topics, including world religions, religious history, political philosophy, and philosophy of language.


Research in Context [GALE]
A cross-disciplinary approach to research including literature, biography, history, science, culture, and over 300 topic pages and overviews on a variety of social issues. Includes books, images, bibliographies, audio, video, newspapers, and more.


Science Reference Center [EBSCO]
This comprehensive research database provides easy access to a wealth of full-text, science-oriented content. Designed to meet every student researcher’s needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other reliable sources.


Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law [HeinOnline]
This collection brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. Also includes hundreds of nineteenth-century pamphlets and books on slavery from the Buffalo Public Library’s rare book collection. Available on-campus only; no off-campus access provided.


Small Business Collection [GALE]
For business students and entrepreneurs, this compilation provides insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Users will find 250 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.


Small Business Reference Center [EBSCO]
Small Business Reference Center offers readers a collection of state-specific resources supported by demographic data and other local information. Completing the database are business videos that provide critical information for business owners including interviews, “lessons learned” features, lectures, and “how-to” videos to help foster success in all aspects of managing a business.


Small Business School Online
Contact the library for login information.


Social Work Reference Center [EBSCO]
Social Work Reference Center is a turnkey information resource for social workers and mental health professionals. It covers a wide array of topics such as adolescent health, aging, end-of-life care, clinical social work, and diversity.


TopicSearch (EBSCO)
Teachers, librarians, and student researchers can use this database to explore current events, social, political, and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics frequently discussed in the classroom.


U.S. History Collection [GALE]
This collection of over 40 journals provides balanced coverage of both current thought and events in U.S. History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field. Useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher.


U.S. History in Context [GALE]
A collection of full-text periodicals, reference works, and primary sources as well as scholarly analyses. Images, videos, and audio recordings bring additional perspectives to United States history from pre-colonial times to the present.


University of Oregon Historic Oregon Newspapers — Fabulous collection of digitized newspapers from across the state including many from the north coast.


UpToDate
Clinicians around the world trust UpToDate as their go-to, must-have evidence-based clinical decision support resource to help them make smart, safe patient care decisions. Great for finding lab interpretations, patient education information, and drug interactions.


Vocational & Career Collection (EBSCO)
Designed to meet a wide variety of vocational and technical research needs, this database provides full-text coverage for trade and industry-related periodicals for high schools, community colleges, trade institutions, and the general public.


War and Terrorism Collection [GALE]
A definitive collection of 100 subject-specific full-text periodicals for students of history, social sciences, and current events that provides insight into conflicts and their multiple causes.


World History Collection [GALE]
This collection of nearly 40 journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field. Useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher.


WorldCat
Search for books, magazines, videos, and other materials published around the world — and see which libraries have them.

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