Solano Community College Library: SCC's Digital Library: Specialty Databases

Specialty Databases

Academic Search Complete
A leading resource for scholarly research across multiple disciplines; contains journals, periodicals, reports, books, videos, and more.
ProQuest
Includes access to the following seven databases: Coronavirus Research, Criminal Justice Database, e-book Central, Ethnic Newswatch, Gender Newswatch, Los Angeles Times (1881-current)
Biography Reference Center
A comprehensive collection of over 430,000 full-text biographies and unique narrative biographies.
EBSCOhost - All databases
EBSCOhost offers multiple sub-databases (specific formats, subjects, etc); this link searches all of them at once but allows you to de-select specific databases to create a custom search scenario.
CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher provides in-depth coverage of important issues, written by experienced journalists, footnoted and professionally fact-checked. Full-length articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, and resources for additional research.

e-book central
A digital collection of ebooks in a super-wide range of subject areas. This one is a librarian go-to for fast access to a great collection.
EBSCOhost ebooks
A full-text ebook collection with over 150,000 titles from leading university presses and general interest publishers, in a broad array of subject coverage.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) / Gale e-books
A great place to begin your research process: to narrow your topic, get background information and to gather keywords. Encyclopedias and reference books are not generally used as cited sources in college-level research papers (usually you'll need to take what you find in an encyclopedia and head out to the databases for more advanced sources).
Subject coverage includes: art, biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation and world, religion, science, social science, and technology.
Library Catalog
Use the library catalog to find printed books, including course reserves aka textbooks, at Solano College and our partner libraries (Napa Public libraries and Napa Valley College).
Link+
gives you access to materials throughout California and Nevada libraries (academic, public, and special libraries).
See the Link+ FAQ info at: https://libguides.solano.edu/faq-policies
You may request items from any of these libraries, provided it is listed as "available" in the Link+ catalog, and it will be delivered to you at SCC for checkout.

Hoopla Digital
Free streaming and downloadable movies, ebooks, audiobooks, television shows, and more. When you sign up, select "Napa Public Library" as your sign up institution. Thank you to our partner libraries in Napa for this service.

Discover & Go
Free or low-cost tickets to museums, science centers, zoos, theatres and other fun local cultural venues.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch™ (ENW) is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The complete collection also includes the module Ethnic NewsWatch: A History™, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
Newsbank: Access World News
Find current and archived articles on issues, events, people, government and more with the world's largest collection of full-text news sources. Includes local news, editorials, announcements and other sections from more than 10,000 sources.
Newspaper Source Plus
Full-text digital collection of the world's major news content: includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines plus it offers television and radio transcripts.
ProQuest news
Journals, magazines, and (mostly) newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites
from these three databases: Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, and Los Angeles Times (1985-current)
Newswires (Associated Press)
Full-text database that contains harvested news from the Associated Press.
Regional Business News
Full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces from 1990-today: includes newspapers, magazines and other resources.
New York Times
Register an account first at http://www.accessnyt.com or on the app. You will need your MySolano username and password credentials to complete this step. Once you have a NYT account, you can visit http://www.nytimes.com directly.

You also have access to the historic New York Times (1851-1980) and its archives (1981-present).

For articles 1851-1922: free, no limits
For articles 1923-1980: free, limited to 5 articles daily
For articles 1981-present: free, no limits

Films on Demand
A streaming video database that covers nearly every academic discipline; among the producers included are National Geographic, HBO, TED, Frontline, PBS, BBC, and more.
ARTstor
An image database full of images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) / Gale e-books
A great place to begin your research process: to narrow your topic, get background information and to gather keywords. Encyclopedias and reference books are not generally used as cited sources in college-level research papers (usually you'll need to take what you find in an encyclopedia and head out to the databases for more advanced sources).
Subject coverage includes: art, biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation and world, religion, science, social science, and technology.
Business Plans Handbook (GVRL)
Dozens of actual business plans by entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses in the manufacturing, retail and service industries. The plans are great examples of how to approach, structure and compose business plans.
Biography Reference Center
A comprehensive collection of over 430,000 full-text biographies and unique narrative biographies.
Literary Reference Center
An expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries and full-text essays from leading publishers. Includes literary reference books and monographs, full text for literary magazines and book reviews, poems from hundreds of sources, short stories, classic texts, author interviews and much more.

Civil War
This digital archive covers multiple aspects of the Civil War' and includes a variety of primary source documents -- personal narratives and memoirs, pamphlets and political speeches, sermons and songs, regimental histories and photograph albums, legal treatises, and children's books.
Slavery in America
Documents key aspects of the history of slavery in the United States, from its origins in Africa to its abolition, including materials on the slave trade, plantation life, emancipation, pro-slavery and anti-slavery arguments, religious views on slavery, and other related topics.
Gun Regulation & Legislation in America
A collection of documents, reports and periodicals related to the topic of regulating firearms in the United States.
Literary Reference Center
An expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries and full-text essays from leading publishers. Includes literary reference books and monographs, full text for literary magazines and book reviews, poems from hundreds of sources, short stories, classic texts, author interviews and much more.
American Revolution
A digital archive documenting the revolution and war that created the United States of America, from the Paris peace treaty in 1763 through the early protests in 1785 to the Paris peace treaty of 1783.

SCC's Digital Library

Specialty Databases

All the SCC Databases, A through Z