SMC Library Databases

Library Services

General Subjects
Art/Architecture
Business
Health & Science
Literature
Social Sciences/Social Issues

General Subjects

CollegeSource Online
Features over 11,300 college catalogs in complete cover-to-cover original page format including 2-year, 4-year, graduate, and professional schools.

EbscoHost MasterFile Premier
MasterFile provides abstracts and indexing for over 2,700 periodicals, plus searchable full text for nearly 1,800 active periodicals. Subjects covered include general reference, business, health, multi-cultural and more.

National Newspapers Index
Searchable index for recent issues of the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor. Full-text for newer issues and citations for older materials. More information on coverage

NetLibrary
Over 6,000 electronic books (e-books) from leading university, trade and professional publishers. Titles across all subject areas. Includes an extensive collection of e-books in the public domain, featuring classics in literature and history.

Encyclopedia Americana
Includes 45,000 articles, plus thousands of hypertext links to web sites featuring additional data. It is updated quarterly.

Art/Architecture

Grove Dictionary of Art
Contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts – painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography – from prehistory to the present day.

Encyclopedia Americana
Includes 45,000 articles, plus thousands of hypertext links to web sites featuring additional data. It is updated quarterly.

Business

ABI/INFORM Select
Indexing for over 350 core business periodicals, most with full text. Provides information on advertising, economics, human resources, finance, marketing, computers, business conditions, trends, management techniques, competitive and product information, and more.

FIS Online
Fully searchable data on more than 10,000 corporations, including all SEC (EDGAR) filings.

RAND California
An extensive database on California and its cities and counties. Includes information on California public policy issues, statistics on business, employment, population, real estate, and crime rates, school test scores and monthly reports on the California economy.

CountryWatch
Country Reviews provide geographical, political, economic, corporate and environmental information for every country in the world. Country Wire is compiled from the wire services on the latest political, economic, corporate, and environmental events on a country by country basis.

Health & Science

General Science Full-Text
Coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. Also covers The New York Times Science Section. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.

CINAHL
Provides complete coverage of the professional literature in nursing, 14 allied health disciplines and health sciences librarianship. CINAHL incorporates over 500 journals. In addition, there are selected journals represented in full text.

Encyclopedia Americana
Includes 45,000 articles, plus thousands of hypertext links to web sites featuring additional data. It is updated quarterly.

Literature

Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
Biographical and bibliographical details on more than 90,000 authors in the U.S. and around the world along with an extensive collection of critical essays.

Magill On Literature (Masterplots)
Source for editorially reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature. Includes information from 20 Masterplots and Masterplots II titles, the Cyclopedia of World Authors, the Cyclopedia of Literacy Characters, as well as 10 years of Magill's Literary Annuals and Magill Book Reviews.

Scribner Writers Series
Includes 1,600 articles on writers and literary genres drawn from thirteen acclaimed print sets. Each signed article was written by a noted scholar and concludes with a bibliography of primary and secondary sources for further study. Searchable by name, gender, genre, language, time period and nationality.

Social Sciences/Social Issues

The Philosopher's Index
Author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in philosophy, published in journals and books since 1940. Please logout from this database when you are done.

Encyclopedia Americana
Includes 45,000 articles, plus thousands of hypertext links to web sites featuring additional data. It is updated quarterly.