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Links to Best Websites for:
- Art
- Current Events
- Ethnic Relations
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History
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Literature
- Movie Information
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Nutrition
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Psychology
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Social Issues

Magazine & Journal Databases

Newspaper Databases

Business, Government & Statistics Databases

Science/Medical
Journal Databases

Reference Databases

Access to all databases from off-campus

 

 

Gale PowerSearch databases
START HERE on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Articles from academic journals, magazines, newspapers & other published sources in all subject areas.

Gale Biography Resource Center
on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Biographical articles on famous people.

History Resource Center
on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Articles & sources on U.S. & modern world history. info

JSTOR - Scholarly journals archives
on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Back issues of important scholarly journals, no current issues

CQ Historic Documents
on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Over 3200 documents covering the most significant events of each year from 1972 to the present. - info

ACLS History E-Book Project
on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Over 1,125 electronic books of major importance to historical studies and books that remain vital to advanced students.

History Cooperative
on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Full-text articles from 11 academic history journals- info

CountryWatch - on-campus
OR: off campus w/ library card
Political, economic, and business info on any country.
info

Lands & Peoples - on-campus
OR: off campus w/ library card
Encyclopedia of countries, cultures & current events

Country Studies
Historical, social, economic & political information on countries throughout the world, from the Library of Congress.

World Factbook
Basic statistical data on countries of the world, published annually by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

SFPL Article Databases
San Francisco Public Library ID number is required to access these databases.
Extensive set of databases covering all subject areas.
Recommended humanities & social science databases:
-- JSTOR: extensive archive of full text academic journals--especially in history & social sciences-- going back to1838
-- Art Full-Text: art periodical database
-- Grove Music: music encyclopedia
-- Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI): full text articles
-- GenderWatch: full text articles on gender-related issues

California History Quarterly Subject Index:
Look up articles in the California History Quarterly journal by subject so you can then find the print volumes in Skyline Library.


Movie/Film Information:

New York Times Movie Review Archive
all films reviewed by NY Times since 1960

Internet Movie Database
 
Movies, Race & Ethnicity
videographies providing a sampling of ethnic and racial representations in movies over the last century

List of movies set in Los Angeles

Ethnic Movies by Category
from Reel Movie Critic.com     

 

 

 

ProQuest Psychology Journals
on-campus or off-campus w/ library card
Full-text psychology & social science journal articles

Gale Literature Resource Center
on-campus or off-campus w/ library card
High quality full-text literary criticism & biographical info on authors. info

Ethnic Newswatch
on-campus or off-campus w/ library card
Full-text articles from about 200 newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press, in English and Spanish.
info

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
on-campus or off-campus w/ library card
full-text viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, and magazine and newspaper articles on a wide range of social issues

Alt-Press Watch
on campus or off campus w/ library card
Articles from about 175 magazines, newspapers & journals from alternative and independent presses.  info

SIRS Knowledge Source
on-campus or off-campus w/ library card
Full-text articles on social, scientific, political issues and on many humanities topics. info

ERIC (education documents)
Education journal article abstracts and non-journal education-related full-text documents. info

Gale Virtual Reference Library Sources:
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Early Civilizations in the Americas
- Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion
- Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
- Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
- Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
- U.S. Immigration and Migration Reference Library
- U*X*L American Decades

Oxford English Dictionary
on-campus or off-campus w/ library card
Definitions for most words in the English language, plus information on word origins

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

What Do I Read Next?
Searchable database of recommended book titles

Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences

National Criminal Justice Reference Center
Federal criminal justice publications. info

LISTA (Information Science abstracts)
Library, Information Science & Tech. Abstracts.  info


Links to Other Web Resources:

Literature Resources (IPL)
Links to Web literary criticism & author sites.

Social Science Information Gateway
Searchable and annotated directory of resources in the social sciences, in the UK.


 

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last revised: 9-16-08
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
These materials may be used for educational purposes.
To contact the author, or send comments or suggestions, email: Eric Brenner at brenner@smccd.edu.