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Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Almanacs  

• AccessScience (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology)AccessScience: Full-text of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates from The McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science and Technology, more than 12,000 illustrations, the latest Science News headlines, biographies, and more
• American Heritage Children's Dictionary (K-8 lexile level)
• Biography in Context 
• Columbia Encyclopedia (K-8 lexile level)
• Congressional Quarterly Encyclopedia of American Government Congressional Quarterly Encyclopedia of American Government: Reference on Congress, the Presidency, the Supreme Court, U.S. Election process, law, and U.S. history.
• eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary) eBook Collection: Access over 28,000 non-fiction eBooks on almost any subject! Full-text electronic versions of print books with links from the table of contents, an embedded dictionary, full-text searching, and the ability to add notes. You can read or search the full-text of any eBook. 
• EBSCO Animals, now in Primary Source EBSCO Animals: Indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. 
• Encyclopaedia Britannica (Britannica Online) Encyclopaedia Britannica: Along with thousands of entries, includes Notable Quotations, essays from great thinkers in Gateway to the Classics, and World Data Analyst.
• Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
• Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library: 260 full text, multidisciplinary encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources on art, the environment, business, religion, multicultural studies, science, literature and more.
• Oxford Art Online Oxford Art Online: Full text of The Grove Dictionary of Art, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, plus over 45,000 articles and images on every aspect of the visual arts, including painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography from prehistory to the present day.
• Oxford Music Online Oxford Music Online: Full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition, The Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed., rev.
• The World Almanac and Book of Facts (FACTS.com)
• The World Almanac Encyclopedia (FACTS.com)

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News & Newspapers  

• America's Newspapers
• CountryWire Country Wire: information on the latest political, economic, corporate, and environmental issues and events on a country by country basis as they occur.
• Ethnic NewsWatch (In English & Spanish) Ethnic NewsWatch: An interdisciplinary and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses.
• Local News Stories Local news: Full text articles from Butte, Glenn, Yuba & Shasta county newspapers, including the Chico Enterprise Record, Paradise Post and Oroville Mercury-Register.
• Newspaper Source 
• Newspaper Source Plus Newspaper Source Plus: Includes more than 700 full-text newspapers, providing more than 31 million full-text articles.  In addition, the database features more than 699,000 television and radio news transcripts.
• Regional Business News Regional Business News: Full text coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all U.S. metropolitan and rural areas.
• World News Digest (Facts.com) World News Digest: USA & World news, 1940-present plus Reuters news feed with two-week archive

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Allied Health, Nursing & Medicine  

• Academic Search Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Academic Search Premier: Full text for nearly 4,500 academic journals, including 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. Backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some resources.
• AccessScience AccessScience: Full-text of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates from The McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science and Technology, more than 12,000 illustrations, the latest Science News headlines, biographies, and more
• Alt HealthWatch (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Alt Health Watch: Magazines and peer-reviewed journals with in-depth coverage on complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.
• CINAHL Plus with Full Text: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 750 full text nursing and allied health journals, plus indexing back to 1937 for 3,123 journals. Includes legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments, and clinical trials.
• Consumer Health Complete Consumer Health Complete: Consumer-oriented health content designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. Includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs
• eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary) eBook Collection: Access over 28,000 non-fiction eBooks on almost any subject! Full-text electronic versions of print books with links from the table of contents, an embedded dictionary, full-text searching, and the ability to add notes. You can read or search the full-text of any eBook.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library: 260 full text, multidisciplinary encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources on art, the environment, business, religion, multicultural studies, science, literature and more.
• Google Scholar (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Google Scholar: Search for scholarly literature online. Click on "Get Full text@Butte CC" from the results list to check local holdings. Includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
• Health and Wellness Resource Center Health and Wellness Resource Center: Magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, videos, & reference information on health including links to diet, cancer, health assessment sites & government databases. 700+ online videos in English & Spanish.
• Health Reference Center-Academic (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Health Reference Center Academic: Nursing, allied health, and medicine articles from consumer and professional health periodicals, plus dictionaries, directories, reference books, and pamphlets.
• Health Source: Consumer Edition Health Source Consumer Edition: More than 130 full text consumer health magazines on the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals)) Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition: 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines plus abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
• MasterFILE Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) MasterFILE Premier: A general interest database, it includes full text for more than 1,730 general reference materials including reference books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags.
• MEDLINE  MEDLINE: Authoritative abstracts & citations from the National Library of Medicine on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
• Proquest Direct (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Proquest Direct: Search over 4400 journals, magazines and newspapers for information on a broad range of general and specialized reference subjects.
• Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection: Nearly 575 full text publications, mostly peer-reviewed, covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO.

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Architecture, Art, Design & Music  

• Academic Search Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Academic Search Premier: Full text for nearly 4,500 academic journals, including 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. Backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some resources.
• BIR Entertainment BIR Entertainment provides information on about 450,000 music titles and 200,000 DVD/video titles. Search music or videos featuring a favorite artist or performer, or a specific genre.
• eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary) eBook Collection: Access over 28,000 non-fiction eBooks on almost any subject! Full-text electronic versions of print books with links from the table of contents, an embedded dictionary, full-text searching, and the ability to add notes. You can read or search the full-text of any eBook.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library: 260 full text, multidisciplinary encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources on art, the environment, business, religion, multicultural studies, science, literature and more.
• Google Scholar (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Google Scholar: Search for scholarly literature online. Click on "Get Full text@Butte CC" from the results list to check local holdings. Includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
• JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, III (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) JSTOR: 397 scholarly journal title archives in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, including archaeology, religion, classics & folklore; African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, & Slavic studies; art & architecture; economics, history, political science, sociology, ecology, mathematics, & statistics.
• MasterFILE Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) MasterFILE Premier: A general interest database, it includes full text for more than 1,730 general reference materials including reference books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags.
• Omni File Full Text Select (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Wilson Omni File: Indexed full text articles in Education; General Science; Humanities; Readers' Guide; Social Sciences; Business; Applied Science & Technology; Art Full Text; Biological & Agricultural Index Plus; Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text; Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Full text of articles from nearly 2,300 publications, many of them peer-reviewed, 1994-present.
• Oxford Art Online Oxford Art Online: Full text of The Grove Dictionary of Art, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, plus over 45,000 articles and images on every aspect of the visual arts, including painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography from prehistory to the present day.
• Oxford Music Online Oxford Music Online: Full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition, The Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed., rev.
• Proquest Direct (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Proquest Direct: Search over 4400 journals, magazines and newspapers for information on a broad range of general and specialized reference subjects.
• SIRS Renaissance (5-university lexile level) SIRS Renaissance: Current Perspectives on the Arts and Humanities

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Business & Statistics  

• Academic Search Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Academic Search Premier: Full text for nearly 4,500 academic journals, including 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. Backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some resources.
• Business Source Elite Business Source Elite provides full text for over 1,000 business publications dating back to 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included.
• Business Source Premier Business Source Premier: Full text for more than 2,300 journals, many peer-reviewed, in business, marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
• eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary) eBook Collection: Access over 28,000 non-fiction eBooks on almost any subject! Full-text electronic versions of print books with links from the table of contents, an embedded dictionary, full-text searching, and the ability to add notes. You can read or search the full-text of any eBook.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library: 260 full text, multidisciplinary encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources on art, the environment, business, religion, multicultural studies, science, literature and more.
• Google Scholar (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Google Scholar: Search for scholarly literature online. Click on "Get Full text@Butte CC" from the results list to check local holdings. Includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
• JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, III (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) JSTOR: 397 scholarly journal title archives in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, including archaeology, religion, classics & folklore; African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, & Slavic studies; art & architecture; economics, history, political science, sociology, ecology, mathematics, & statistics.
• MasterFILE Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) MasterFILE Premier: A general interest database, it includes full text for more than 1,730 general reference materials including reference books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags.
• Omni File Full Text Select (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Wilson Omni File: Indexed full text articles in Education; General Science; Humanities; Readers' Guide; Social Sciences; Business; Applied Science & Technology; Art Full Text; Biological & Agricultural Index Plus; Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text; Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Full text of articles from nearly 2,300 publications, many of them peer-reviewed, 1994-present.
• Proquest Direct (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Proquest Direct: Search over 4400 journals, magazines and newspapers for information on a broad range of general and specialized reference subjects.
• RAND California RAND California: Statistical data from national, California state, county, city, and zip code levels; Includes Online Library, Economic Reports, Federal Policy Bulletins, and California Policy Bulletins.
• Regional Business News (EBSCO) Regional Business News: Full text coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all U.S. metropolitan and rural areas.
• SIRS Knowledge Source (5-university lexile level) SIRS Knowledge Source: SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Renaissance, SIRS NetSelect, Today's News, World Almanac excerpts, and Maps of the World.
• The World Almanac and Book of Facts (FACTS.com)
• World Data Analyst (Britannica)

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Criminal Justice, Law, Government & Politics  

• Academic Search Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Academic Search Premier: Full text for nearly 4,500 academic journals, including 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. Backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some resources.
• America: History and Life with Full Text America: History and Life with Full Text covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1955 to present, this database provides full-text coverage of more than 200 journals and nearly 100 books.
• CountryWatch Includes: Country Reviews, a political and economic survey of 191 countries in 191 reports and Country Wire, information on the latest political, economic, corporate, and environmental issues and events on a country by country basis as they occur.
• CQ Press Electronic Reference Library Congressional Quarterly Press: Includes CQ Weekly, The CQ Researcher, and CQ's Electronic Encyclopedia of American Government.
• CQ Researcher The CQ Researcher: Covering the most current and controversial issues of the day.
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary) eBook Collection: Access over 28,000 non-fiction eBooks on almost any subject! Full-text electronic versions of print books with links from the table of contents, an embedded dictionary, full-text searching, and the ability to add notes. You can read or search the full-text of any eBook.
• Ethnic NewsWatch (In English & Spanish) Ethnic NewsWatch: An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses.
• FACTS.com Reference Suite FACTS.com Reference Suite: Includes the Facts On File World News Digest since 1980, Issues and Controversies On File, Issues & Controversies in American History, Today's Science On File, Reuters On-Line News Service, the World Almanac and Book of Facts, and the World Almanac Encyclopedia.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library: 260 full text, multidisciplinary encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources on art, the environment, business, religion, multicultural studies, science, literature and more.
• Google Scholar (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Google Scholar: Search for scholarly literature online. Click on "Get Full text@Butte CC" from the results list to check local holdings. Includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
• Issues & Controversies on File
• Issues & Controversies in American History
• JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, III (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) JSTOR: 397 scholarly journal title archives in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, including archaeology, religion, classics & folklore; African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, & Slavic studies; art & architecture; economics, history, political science, sociology, ecology, mathematics, and statistics.
• MasterFILE Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) MasterFILE Premier: A general interest database, it includes full text for more than 1,730 general reference materials including reference books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags.
• Military & Government Collection Military & Government Collection: Full text & abstracts for nearly 400 titles of current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. (EBSCO)
• Omni File Full Text Select (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals)  Wilson Omni File: Indexed full text articles in Education; General Science; Humanities; Readers' Guide; Social Sciences; Business; Applied Science & Technology; Art Full Text; Biological & Agricultural Index Plus; Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text; Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Full text of articles from nearly 2,300 publications, many of them peer-reviewed, 1994-present.
• Proquest Direct (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Proquest Direct: Search over 4400 journals, magazines and newspapers for information on a broad range of general and specialized reference subjects.
• RAND California RAND California: Statistical data from national, California state, county, city, and zip code levels; Includes Online Library, Economic Reports, Federal Policy Bulletins, and California Policy Bulletins.
• SIRS Government Reporter (Grade 5-university lexile level) Historic and Government Documents, Directories and Almanacs 
• World Data Analyst (Britannica)

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Education  

• Academic Search Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Academic Search Premier: Full text for nearly 4,500 academic journals, including 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. Backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some resources.
• College Source Web College Source Web: Features over 10,500 College catalogs in original page format including 2-year, 4-year, graduate, and professional schools.
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary) eBook Collection: Access over 28,000 non-fiction eBooks on almost any subject! Full-text electronic versions of print books with links from the table of contents, an embedded dictionary, full-text searching, and the ability to add notes. You can read or search the full-text of any eBook.
• ERIC, The Educational Resource Information Center ERIC: Full text, citations, and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals plus more than 2,200 digests.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library: 260 full text, multidisciplinary encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources on art, the environment, business, religion, multicultural studies, science, literature and more.
• Google Scholar (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Google Scholar: Search for scholarly literature online. Click on "Get Full text@Butte CC" from the results list to check local holdings. Includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
• JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, III (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) JSTOR: 397 scholarly journal title archives in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, including archaeology, religion, classics & folklore; African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, & Slavic studies; art & architecture; economics, history, political science, sociology, ecology, mathematics, & statistics. 
• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA): Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings on librarianship,online information retrieval, information management and more, back to the mid-1960s.
• MasterFILE Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) MasterFILE Premier: A general interest database, it includes full text for more than 1,730 general reference materials including reference books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags.
• Omni File Full Text Select (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Wilson Omni File: Indexed full text articles in Education; General Science; Humanities; Readers' Guide; Social Sciences; Business; Applied Science & Technology; Art Full Text; Biological & Agricultural Index Plus; Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text; Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Full text of articles from nearly 2,300 publications, many of them peer-reviewed, 1994-present.
• Professional Development Collection (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Professional Development Collection: Designed for professional educators, a specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals (many peer-reviewed), and over 200 educational reports.
• Proquest Direct (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Proquest Direct: Search over 4400 journals, magazines and newspapers for information on a broad range of general and specialized reference subjects.
• Teacher Reference Center Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators. 

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History & Biography  

• Academic Search Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Academic Search Premier: Full text for nearly 4,500 academic journals, including 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. Backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some resources.
• America: History and Life with Full Text America: History and Life with Full Text covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1955 to present, this database provides full-text coverage of more than 200 journals and nearly 100 books.
• Biography in Context 
• Contemporary Authors Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
• CountryWatch CountryWatch includes: Country Reviews, a political and economic survey of 191 countries in 191 reports and Country Wire, information on the latest political, economic, corporate, and environmental issues and events on a country by country basis as they occur.
• CQ Press Electronic Reference Library Congressional Quarterly Press: Includes CQ Weekly, The CQ Researcher, and CQ's Electronic Encyclopedia of American Government.
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Dictionary of Literary Biography Dictionary of Literary Biography provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
• eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary) eBook Collection: Access over 28,000 non-fiction eBooks on almost any subject! Full-text electronic versions of print books with links from the table of contents, an embedded dictionary, full-text searching, and the ability to add notes. You can read or search the full-text of any eBook. 
• Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library: 260 full text, multidisciplinary encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources on art, the environment, business, religion, multicultural studies, science, literature and more.
• Google Scholar (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Google Scholar: Search for scholarly literature online. Click on "Get Full text@Butte CC" from the results list to check local holdings. Includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
• Issues & Controversies in American History
• JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, III (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) JSTOR: 397 scholarly journal title archives in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, including archaeology, religion, classics & folklore; African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, & Slavic studies; art & architecture; economics, history, political science, sociology, ecology, mathematics, and statistics.
• MasterFILE Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) MasterFILE Premier: A general interest database, it includes full text for more than 1,730 general reference materials including reference books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags.
• Omni File Full Text Select (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Wilson Omni File: Indexed full text articles in Education; General Science; Humanities; Readers' Guide; Social Sciences; Business; Applied Science & Technology; Art Full Text; Biological & Agricultural Index Plus; Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text; Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Full text of articles from nearly 2,300 publications, many of them peer-reviewed, 1994-present.
• Proquest Direct (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Proquest Direct: Search over 4400 journals, magazines and newspapers for information on a broad range of general and specialized reference subjects.

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Language & Literature  

• Academic Search Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Academic Search Premier: Full text for nearly 4,500 academic journals, including 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. Backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some resources.
• Book Index with Reviews Book Index with Reviews: 4,000,000 popular and classic book titles; 450,000 music titles, 200,000 DVD/video titles, over 90,000 First Chapters, over 800,000 full text searchable reviews 
• Contemporary Authors Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
• Contemporary Literary Criticism Select Contemporary Literary Criticism Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Dictionary of Literary Biography Dictionary of Literary Biography provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
• eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary) eBook Collection: Access over 28,000 non-fiction eBooks on almost any subject! Full-text electronic versions of print books with links from the table of contents, an embedded dictionary, full-text searching, and the ability to add notes. You can read or search the full-text of any eBook.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library: 260 full text, multidisciplinary encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources on art, the environment, business, religion, multicultural studies, science, literature and more.
• Gale Literary Databases Gale Literary Databases: includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography in a cross-searchable interface.
• Google Scholar (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Google Scholar: Search for scholarly literature online. Click on "Get Full text@Butte CC" from the results list to check local holdings. Includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
• JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, III (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) JSTOR: 397 scholarly journal title archives in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, including archaeology, religion, classics & folklore; African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, & Slavic studies; art & architecture; economics, history, political science, sociology, ecology, mathematics, & statistics.
• Literature Resource Center Literature Resource Center: Includes Twayne's Authors Series and Scribner Writer's Series. Access biographies, bibliographies, reviews, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.
• MasterFILE Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) MasterFILE Premier: A general interest database, it includes full text for more than 1,730 general reference materials including reference books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags. 
• Omni File Full Text Select (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Wilson Omni File: Indexed full text articles in Education; General Science; Humanities; Readers' Guide; Social Sciences; Business; Applied Science & Technology; Art Full Text; Biological & Agricultural Index Plus; Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text; Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Full text of articles from nearly 2,300 publications, many of them peer-reviewed, 1994-present.
• Proquest Direct (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Proquest Direct: Search over 4400 journals, magazines and newspapers for information on a broad range of general and specialized reference subjects.

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Learning & Literacy  

• American Heritage Children's Dictionary (K-8 lexile level)
• Columbia Encyclopedia (K-8 lexile level)
• Discovering Collection (Basic, intermediate, and advanced content levels) Discovering Collection: In-depth reference content for Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.
• EBSCO Animals, Now in Primary Search EBSCO Animals: Indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. 
• FACTS.com Reference Suite FACTS.com Reference Suite: Includes the Facts On File World News Digest since 1980, Issues and Controversies On File, Issues & Controversies in American History, Today's Science On File, Reuters On-Line News Service, the World Almanac and Book of Facts, and the World Almanac Encyclopedia.
• Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
• MAS ultra (High school lexile level) MAS ultra School Edition: Full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines, plus pamphlets, reference books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags.
• Primary Search (K-8 lexile level) Primary Search: Full text back to 1990 for nearly 70 popular magazines for elementary school research, with assigned reading levels (Lexiles). 
• SIRS Knowledge Source (5-university lexile level) SIRS Knowledge Source: SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Renaissance, SIRS NetSelect, Today's News, World Almanac excerpts, and Maps of the World.
• Today's Science Today's Science: Presents the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them in easy-to-understand language & format.
• The World Almanac Encyclopedia (FACTS.com)

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Philosophy & Religion  

• Academic Search Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Academic Search Premier: Full text for nearly 4,500 academic journals, including 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. Backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some resources.
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary) eBook Collection: Access over 28,000 non-fiction eBooks on almost any subject! Full-text electronic versions of print books with links from the table of contents, an embedded dictionary, full-text searching, and the ability to add notes. You can read or search the full-text of any eBook.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library: 260 full text, multidisciplinary encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources on art, the environment, business, religion, multicultural studies, science, literature and more.
• Google Scholar (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Google Scholar: Search for scholarly literature online. Click on "Get Full text@Butte CC" from the results list to check local holdings. Includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
• JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, III (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) JSTOR: 397 scholarly journal title archives in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, including archaeology, religion, classics & folklore; African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, & Slavic studies; art & architecture; economics, history, political science, sociology, ecology, mathematics, & statistics.
• MasterFILE Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) MasterFILE Premier: A general interest database, it includes full text for more than 1,730 general reference materials including reference books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags.
• Proquest Direct (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Proquest Direct: Search over 4400 journals, magazines and newspapers for information on a broad range of general and specialized reference subjects.
• Religion & Philosophy Collection (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Religion & Philosophy Collection: Over 300 full text journals, mostly peer-reviewed, provide extensive coverage of world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
• SIRS Renaissance (5-university lexile level) SIRS Renaissance: Current Perspectives on the Arts and Humanities

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Science & Technology  

• Academic Search Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Academic Search Premier: Full text for nearly 4,500 academic journals, including 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. Backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some resources.
• AccessScience AccessScience: Full-text of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates from The McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science and Technology, more than 12,000 illustrations, the latest Science News headlines, biographies, and more
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary) eBook Collection: Access over 28,000 non-fiction eBooks on almost any subject! Full-text electronic versions of print books with links from the table of contents, an embedded dictionary, full-text searching, and the ability to add notes. You can read or search the full-text of any eBook.
• EBSCO Animals, now in Primary Search EBSCO Animals: Indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. 
• Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library: 260 full text, multidisciplinary encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources on art, the environment, business, religion, multicultural studies, science, literature and more.
• General Science Full Text (Wilson Web)
• Google Scholar (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Google Scholar: Search for scholarly literature online. Click on "Get Full text@Butte CC" from the results list to check local holdings. Includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
• JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, III (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) JSTOR: 397 scholarly journal title archives in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, including archaeology, religion, classics & folklore; African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, & Slavic studies; art & architecture; economics, history, political science, sociology, ecology, mathematics, & statistics.
• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA): Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings on librarianship,online information retrieval, information management and more, back to the mid-1960s.
• MasterFILE Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) MasterFILE Premier: A general interest database, it includes full text for more than 1,730 general reference materials including reference books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags.
• MEDLINE  MEDLINE: Authoritative abstracts & citations from the National Library of Medicine on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
• Omni File Full Text Select (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Wilson Omni File: Indexed full text articles in Education; General Science; Humanities; Readers' Guide; Social Sciences; Business; Applied Science & Technology; Art Full Text; Biological & Agricultural Index Plus; Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text; Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Full text of articles from nearly 2,300 publications, many of them peer-reviewed, 1994-present.
• Proquest Direct (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Proquest Direct: Search over 4400 journals, magazines and newspapers for information on a broad range of general and specialized reference subjects.
• SIRS Researcher (5-university lexile level) SIRS Researcher: Student Reference, Social Issues, Health, Science, and Business
• Today's Science Today's Science: Presents the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them in easy-to-understand language & format.

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Social & Political Sciences  

• Academic Search Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Academic Search Premier: Full text for nearly 4,500 academic journals, including 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. Backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some resources.
• America: History and Life with Full Text America: History and Life with Full Text covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1955 to present, this database provides full-text coverage of more than 200 journals and nearly 100 books.
• CountryWatch Includes: Country Reviews, a political and economic survey of 191 countries in 191 reports and Country Wire, information on the latest political, economic, corporate, and environmental issues and events on a country by country basis as they occur.
• CQ Researcher The CQ Researcher: Covering the most current and controversial issues of the day.
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary) eBook Collection: Access over 28,000 non-fiction eBooks on almost any subject! Full-text electronic versions of print books with links from the table of contents, an embedded dictionary, full-text searching, and the ability to add notes. You can read or search the full-text of any eBook.
• Ethnic NewsWatch (In English & Spanish) Ethnic NewsWatch: An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library: 260 full text, multidisciplinary encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources on art, the environment, business, religion, multicultural studies, science, literature and more.
• Google Scholar (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Google Scholar: Search for scholarly literature online. Click on "Get Full text@Butte CC" from the results list to check local holdings. Includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
• Issues & Controversies on File
• Issues & Controversies in American History
• JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, III (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) JSTOR: 397 scholarly journal title archives in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, including archaeology, religion, classics & folklore; African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, & Slavic studies; art & architecture; economics, history, political science, sociology, ecology, mathematics, and statistics.
• MasterFILE Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) MasterFILE Premier: A general interest database, it includes full text for more than 1,730 general reference materials including reference books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags.
• Proquest Direct (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Proquest Direct: Search over 4400 journals, magazines and newspapers for information on a broad range of general and specialized reference subjects.
• RAND California RAND California: Statistical data from national, California state, county, city, and zip code levels; Includes Online Library, Economic Reports, Federal Policy Bulletins, and California Policy Bulletins.
• SIRS Knowledge Source (5-university lexile level) SIRS Knowledge Source: SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Renaissance, SIRS NetSelect, Today's News, World Almanac excerpts, and Maps of the World.
• World Data Analyst (Britannica)

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Vocational & Technical Education  

• Career & Technical Education (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Career & Tech Ed: Search vocational and technical periodicals covering all aspects of the Vo/Tech curriculum, including careers and education. 
• CINAHL Plus with Full Text: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 750 full text nursing and allied health journals, plus indexing back to 1937 for 3,123 journals. Includes legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments, and clinical trials. 
• eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary) eBook Collection: Access over 28,000 non-fiction eBooks on almost any subject, including certification exams! Full-text electronic versions of print books with links from the table of contents, an embedded dictionary, full-text searching, and the ability to add notes. You can read or search the full-text of any eBook.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library: 260 full text, multidisciplinary encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources on art, the environment, business, religion, multicultural studies, science, literature and more.
• Google Scholar (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Google Scholar: Search for scholarly literature online. Click on "Get Full text@Butte CC" from the results list to check local holdings. Includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
• Health Reference Center-Academic (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Health Reference Center Academic: Nursing, allied health, and medicine articles from consumer and professional health periodicals, plus dictionaries, directories, reference books, and pamphlets.
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition: 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines plus abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA): Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings on librarianship,online information retrieval, information management and more, back to the mid-1960s.
• Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (Wilson)
• MasterFILE Premier (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) MasterFILE Premier: A general interest database, it includes full text for more than 1,730 general reference materials including reference books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags. 
• Proquest Direct (Includes scholarly & peer-reviewed journals) Proquest Direct: Search over 4400 journals, magazines and newspapers for information on a broad range of general and specialized reference subjects.
• Vocational & Career Collection (EBSCO) Vocational & Career Collection: Provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.

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