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Lists organized by category/topic may be accessed at the Distance & Distributed Learning Library Resources page, the Subject List of Online Resources in the Library Student Handbook or on the VCCS Database List

The following is a partial alphabetical listing of the electronic resources VIVA and VCCS provides to Virginia’s students and faculty.  Faculty, staff, and students at SWCC can access these resources from their home and office computers.  See remote access instructions. 

There is a cross-database search engine called MetaLib.  Basically, this service will allow you to search several of our electronic databases simultaneously.   It will also provide a searchable database of our collection of electronic resources and provide subject groupings of this collection.  Access requires a directory id and password loginTry it!   For those patrons without a directory id try the guest version.

Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,990 full-text
  periodicals, including more than 5,030 peer-reviewed journals.
Access Science, Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
ACM Digital Library (Assoc. for Computing Machinery), FULL TEXT access to professional journals and Special
  Interest Group proceedings
African-American Poetry, a collection of over 2,500 poems
Agricola 
AIDS & Cancer Research Abstracts
Alternative Press Index, indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change
Alt HealthWatch focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care
  and wellness.
Aluminum Industry Abstracts
America: History and Life (EBSCO), historical coverage of the United States and Canada. Coverage:  prehistory to
  the present day

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American Chemical Society, online FULL TEXT access to article from  30 journals
American Mathematical Society
American Poetry includes 1,288 works by 209 poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry.
Annual Reviews, FULL TEXT journals in the biological and medical sciences, the physical sciences, and the social
  sciences; Coverage: 1996 to the present
ArticleFirst, OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals
Arts and Humanities Search
ASFA: Aquatic Science & Fisheries
Associates Program Source is designed specifically for junior & community colleges with a primary focus on disciplines of
  study within associate degrees and certification programs.
Biological Sciences
Biology Digest
BioOne, high-impact bioscience research journals
Biotechnology & Bioengineering Abstracts
Blackwell Journals Wiley InterScience incorporated the online content formerly hosted on Blackwell Synergy to provide
  access to over 3 million articles across 1400 journals.
Bowker's Books in Print includes publisher address information and links to book reviews.
Business Source Complete, scholarly business database

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Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, citations and abstracts in scientific and technical databases, including MEDLINE
  and AGRICOLA
Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts
CINAHL (EBSCO), resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers
CIAO Columbia International Affairs Online, source for theory and research in international affairs
ClasePeriodica (FirstSearch), index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), FULL TEXT theory and research in international affairs; Includes
  FULL TEXT working papers, proceedings, and books.  Coverage: 1991 to the present
Computer and Information Systems Abstracts
Computers and Applied Sciences Complete covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and
  applied sciences disciplines.
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to
  communication and mass media.
Conference Papers Index
Consumer Health Complete is designed for the everyday consumer of health care information.
Congressional Universe, indexing and abstracting to publications for the U.S. Congress.  Coverage: 1970 to the present
Contemporary Women's Issues
Copper Data Center Database
Corrosion Abstracts
CQResearcher, research reports on today's issues in the news
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
CRCnetBase (Engineering Electronic Library)
Criminal Justice E-Book Collection
Dictionary, Merriam Webster's Collegiate
Directory of Open Access Journals is a search engine for scientific, scholarly journals that do not charge readers
  or their institutions for access.
Dissertation Abstracts

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Early American Fiction Collection, several hundred volumes of early American fiction dating from 1789-1875
EBSCOhost Research Databases
EconLit
Economia Y Negocios provides coverage for over 300 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals published in
  Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States and elsewhere.  
Education Research Complete, early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual
  education, health education, and testing
Electronics & Communications Abstracts
Engineered Materials Abstracts
English Poetry contains poems in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the end of the nineteenth century by writers from
  the British Isles.
English Verse Drama aims to encompass the complete published corpus of verse dramas of writers listed in NCBEL who
  were active before 1900.
Environment Complete offers coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources,
  marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law,
  public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
ERIC (EBSCO) The Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to
  more than 100,000 full-text documents.
ERIC (CSA)
Factiva, FULL TEXT access to 8,000 business publications, Reuters and Dow Jones newswires, and the Wall Street
  Journal (Replaces Dow Jones Interactive)
FedStats, statistics from more than 100 agencies available to citizens
FirstSearch provides citations to journal articles in over 20 databases and fundamental research support in broad-based
  academic disciplines, including World Cat.
Fuente Academica provides full text (including PDF) for a rapidly growing collection of scholarly Spanish language journals.
Gale Virtual Reference Library, access to electronic reference titles in topics such as corporate crime, intelligence,
  genocide, law, terrorism, national security, science, and crime and punishment
GEOBASE
GPO Monthly Catalog
GreenFile (EBSCO)

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HarpWeek, index and FULL TEXT of Harper’s Weekly. Coverage: 1857 to 1912
Health Source: Consumer Edition provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food
  sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition focuses on many medical disciplines and also features the Lexi-PAL
  Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
HighWire (Stanford University), FULL TEXT access to journals in the health and science fields, includes the journal,
  Science; Coverage: Current year and back issues when available online
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO), historical coverage of the world (excluding U.S. and Canada, which are covered in
  America: History and Life);  Coverage: 1450 to the present
History Journals
Hospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality
  and tourism.
Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources.
IEEE Xplore (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), full text access to technical literature in electrical
  engineering, computer science, and electronics;  Note : See details.
Institute of Physics
LearningExpressLibrary (practice tests)
Legal Collection, an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification,
  cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
Literature Resource Center
MasterFILE Premier provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications.
Materials Business File

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MathSciNet, Mathematical Reviews;  Coverage: 1940 to the present
Mechanical Engineering Abstracts
MedicLatina, collection of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish
  publishers
MEDLINE (CSA)
MEDLINE (EBSCO)
Mergent Horizon maps companies to their key competitors, suppliers, customers and strategic partners and includes
  capabilities for finding, filtering and organizing information about companies and industries.
Mergent Online delivers a comprehensive suite of financial information.  Find U.S. and international company
  histories, annual reports, fact sheets, financial and industry reports, 30 years of stock data, and more.
Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
METADEX, comprehensive source for information on metallurgical science and technology; Records are indexed and
  abstracted from over 2,000 journals and other worldwide technical literature. Begun in 1966, METADEX contains
over 950,000 references from the print database of Metals Abstracts. (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
 
Military & Government Collection offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
MLA International Bibliography indexes critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. 
  Coverage: 1963 to the present
Nature
netLibrary
Newspaper Source Plus provides cover-to-cover full text for 149 national & international newspapers and selective full
  text for more than 410 U.S. newspapers.
New York Times Topics, topic pages that collect all the news, reference and archival information, photos, graphics,
  audio and video files published on topics ranging from Madonna to Myanmar; available without charge on articles
  going back to 1981
Oceanic Abstracts
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, information on social issues with access topic overviews, statistics, primary
  documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles

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OverDrive Audio Books Browse, check out, and download hundreds of best-selling audio book titles.
OVID, Your Journals at, approximately 280 full text medical, nursing, psychological, and scientific journals, including
  Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Total Access Collection
OVID Nursing eBook Collectionfull-text collection of 15 nursing, pharmacology, and clinical medicine books published by
  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (OVID)
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford University Press Journals, online access to 130 FULL TEXT journals
PAIS International provides an index to the literature of public affairs/public policy­issues and actions that affect the world
  communities, countries, and governments.
PapersFirst
Plant Science
ProceedingsFirst
Project Muse, FULL TEXT access to journals published electronically by Johns Hopkins University Press
PsycARTICLES (EBSCO), from the American Psychological Association (APA), a definitive source of full-text,
  peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology
PsycINFO (EBSCO), from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains citations and summaries of scholarly
   journal articles in psychology and related disciplines
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics,
  psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
Questia Ebooks, online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine
  and newspaper articles
Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications.
Religion & Philosophy Collections provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations,
  biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and
  the history of philosophy.
Safari's business & Information Technology  eBook collection

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Safety Science & Risk Abstracts
Salud en Español (EBSCO) provides comprehensive evidence-based reports and fact sheets in Spanish on all aspects of
  consumer health and wellness.
Science
Science Resource Center contains topic overviews, experiments, biographies, articles, links to quality Web sites,
  pictures, and illustrations in all areas of science, including biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, math, environmental science, life science, medicine, space science, computer science, technology, history of science, science and society, science as inquiry, science-related biographies, and more. (Gale)
SIRS Researcher, online access to full-text articles and Internet resources from SIRS reference databases - SIRS
  ResearcherŽ, SIRS Government ReporterŽ, SIRS RenaissanceŽ, SIRS WebSelect™ and SIRS
  Interactive Citizenship™
Social Services Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts
Sociology journals, sociology journals owned by SWCC library, online and in print
Solid State & Superconductivity Abstracts
Times Topics--New York Times
Today's Science (Facts on File)
TOXLINE
Union List of Periodicals, information on ownership in libraries
Vente et Gestion provides full text coverage for French language business journals serving both the academic and
  the professional researcher.
Virginia General Assembly (Legislative Information System)
VIVA
Water Resources Abstracts
WELDASEARCH
Wiley InterScience, content promoting discovery across the spectrum of scientific, technical, medical and
  professional endeavors
Women's Studies International, covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in
  feminist research

World Almanac Database includes the contents of: The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac

  of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids. The database covers arts and entertainment, people in the news, information about U.S. cities and states, nations of the world, vital statistics, science and technology, the environment, taxes, national defense, historical anniversaries and more. It is updated annually. (OCLC)
WorldCat
Worldscope GLOBAL

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