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As a Napa Valley College student you have online access to indexed and full-text articles from reference books, journals, magazines, and newspapers. These databases are provided through subscriptions underwritten by the Solano, Napa, and Partners (SNAP) Library Consortium. If you have trouble accessing any of these databases and you have a personal firewall, set your personal firewall to allow referring urls. Apply for an e-card to gain immediate access to all SNAP databases.

DATABASES BY SUBJECT

GENERAL
Academic Search Complete Get more information about Ebsco-Host database
Lexis-Nexis Academic Get information on Lexis-Nexis Academic database on campus use only
MasterFile Premier information
Points of View information
ProQuest Newspapers (Library) (Remote) information
TopicSearch information

ARTS & HUMANITIES
ARTstor information
Literary Reference Center information
NoveList (Library) (Remote) information

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Associations Unlimited information
Business & Company Resource Center information
Business Source Complete information
General BusinessFile information
Regional Business News information
RAND California information
Reference USA information

EDUCATION
Eric information
Professional Development Collection information

ELECTRONIC BOOKS (E-BOOKS)
NetLibrary (Library) (Remote) information




ENCYCLOPEDIAS & BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Biography Genealogy Master Index information
Biography Resource Center information
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (Library) (Remote) information
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia information
Points of View information
Reference USA information

GENEALOGY RESEARCH
Heritage Quest Online (Library) (Remote)information

HEALTH & MEDICINE
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition information
Health Source-Consumer Edition information

HOMEWORK HELP
Student Research Center information

JOBS AND CAREERS
Learning Express (Library) (Remote) information

LIBRARY, INFORMATION SCIENCE
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts information

NEWS
Newspaper Source Plus information
ProQuest Newspapers (Library) (Remote) information

SCIENCE
Ebsco Animals information
GreenFILE information

VOCATIONAL
Auto Repair Reference Center information
Small Engine Repair Reference Center information
Home Improvement Reference information

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF DATABASES

Academic Search Complete
This is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 10,100 journals and a total of more than 10,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 journals.
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ARTstor
A rich digital library containing collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software toools to enable active use of the collections. ARTstor includes more than 500,000 iamges covering architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual and material culture.
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Associations Unlimited
Use this database to locate approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. The database is also used to monitor association trends; identify related associations; networking and making professional contacts; marketing to associations, their members and markets.
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Auto Repair Reference Center
A database for automotive repair and maintenance. Repair topics include repair procedures, service bulletins and recalls, wiring diagrams, labor, specifications, and maintenance intervals. Also includes care and repair tips and a troubleshooting guide.
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Biography Resource Center
Comprehensive biographical reference collection in the areas of literature, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, arts and newsmakers. Contains more than 422,000 biographies on more than 335,000 people from around the world and throughout history. Combines more than 135 frequently consulted biographical databases with nearly 300 full-text periodicals.
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Biography Genealogy Master Index
Biography and Genealogy Master Index enables users to locate biographical entries contained in more than 1,000 volumes and editions of important current and retrospective biographical reference sources. This index contains citations that point to over 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor.
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Business & Company Resource Center
Business and Company Resource Center brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
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Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete provides indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.Business Source Complete is a scholarly business database, providing a collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.
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Ebsco Animals
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
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Encyclopedia Britannica Online
This online encyclopedia covers over 500,000 topics. It includes a large library of images and videos as well as thousands of articles from more than 500 respected magazines and journals.
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ERIC
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,282,000 records and links to more than 314,000 full-text documents from ERIC. ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,282,000 records and links to more than 314,000 full-text documents from ERIC.
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
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General BusinessFile
Information on all business and management topics from 1980 through the present, as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries and directory listings for over 150,000 companies.
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GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
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Heritage Quest Online
A genealogical database with access to census data, family records and local histories.
Connect to: Heritage Quest Online (Remote)
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Home Improvement Reference
A full text database focusing on home improvement and home repair, including outdoor projects, electrical projects, remodeling projects, plumbing projects, wood projects, decorating projects and maintenance. This database includes instructions, tips, and suggestions for a variety of home improvement projects.
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Learning Express
LearningExpress Library provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass.
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Lexis-Nexis Academic
LexisNExis Academic provides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications, using a variety of flexible search options.  Access over 6,000 news, business and legal sources.  The outstanding news coverage includes deep backfiles and up-tothe-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, innternational news, and non-English language sources.
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
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Literary Reference Center
A comprehensive literary reference database which combines information from books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works.
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MasterFile Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and 164,424 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of 440,207 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. Click here for a complete title list. Click here for more info. Click here for a complete title list. Click here for more info.
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NetLibrary
Check out and read electronic books on your web browser.
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Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus includes 1,570 full-text newspapers, providing more than 27 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 583,100 television and radio news transcripts, videos & podcasts.
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NoveList
Your Guide to Fiction - An electronic readers’ advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles.
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Points of View
A full text database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications.
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Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
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ProQuest Newspapers
A collection of electronic resources containing articles originally published in newspapers.
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RAND California
A comprehensive online source of information on California business, economic, and public policy issues.
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Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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Reference USA
Information on businesses and people for researchers, students, job seekers and government agencies.
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Small Engine Repair Reference Center
A full text database derived from the full set of small engine repair manuals from Clymer. Clymer repair manuals provide step-by-step procedures based upon the complete disassembly of the machine. Photos and illustrations guide the reader through every job, making it easy to reduce repair costs and make it possible to safely and enjoyably service small engines.
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Student Research Center
A fabulous resource for high school and middle school students to locate magazine and newspaper articles, biographies, radio and television transcripts, country reports, etc. Search bar on the left allows students to search by topic.
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TopicSearch
TOPICsearch contains full text for over 60,000 articles from 399 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
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