DATABASES BY TOPIC
ARGUMENTS/DEBATES/CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES ● ART ● BUSINESS ● GENERAL USE ● NURSING ● PSYCHOLOGY ● SCIENCE/BIOLOGY ● STATISTICS ● STREAMING VIDEO
Subscription Resources Provide Access to MAGAZINES, JOURNALS, AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES These databases are available both on and off campus use.
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To log-in from off campus, use your StarID and password to log-in to our databases.
Do you want to know if we have a specific title of a magazine, newspaper, or journal?
Access to titles by alphabetical order can be found here.
General Use
EBSCO Academic Search Premier
A database that offers full-text and abstract-level access to more than 8,000 periodicals (magazines and scholarly journals).
EBSCO Ebooks
Offers a collection of electronic versions of current scholarly and academic press books, as well as trade books for academic libraries. Over 80, 000 full text books where you can open an account, read online, annotate and cite your book with just a few clicks.
This service feature full-text, aggregated content from hundreds of reference books covering every major subject.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
InfoTrac Professional Collection
Provides full-text access to more than 300 periodicals. Primarily useful in finding information on education and related topics.
JSTOR
JSTOR currently offers more than 12 million academic journal articles, 100,000 books, and millions of images, and it is an excellent resource for finding primary source materials in 75 disciplines. JSTOR also now includes the ARTstor database.
Star Tribune
Direct access to a free year of the digital version of Star Tribune. Available only to current NHCC students, faculty, and staff. *You will need to create a free account to gain access.
ProQuest Newspapers
An index to the articles appearing in more than 400 national and international newspapers, including the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
EBSCO MegaFILE
EBSCO MegaFILE is comprised of the complete content and functionality of the following databases: MasterFILE Premier, Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier and Regional Business News. When using the database, just remember many of your results will be business-oriented.
Psychology
PsychArticles
PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group.
Science/Biology
Elsevier Science Direct (Health and Life Sciences)
Provides full-text access to over 890 high-quality scientific and technical journals, in such areas as nursing, medicine, pharmacology, and the environmental and biological sciences.
EBSCO SPORTDiscus
Full-text database covering sports and sports medicine journals, including biomechanics, drugs, exercise, kinesiology, movement science, nutrition, occupational health and therapy, physical fitness, physical therapy, rehabilitation, sports and exercise psychology, coaching and education, and sports medicine.
Statistics
Statista -- The Portal for Statistics
Find statistics, consumer survey results, and industry studies from over 22500 sources on over 60000 topics on the Internet's leading statistics database. Immediate access to over one million statistics and facts. Every statistic you need, right at your fingertips.
Arguments/Debates/Controversial Issues
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center™ is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides more than 270 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide.
CQ Researcher
Provides in-depth, non-biased coverage of current political and social issues. A great resource for "controversial topics" assignments.
Art
ARTstor
ARTstor is now included in the JSTOR database (see above).
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online is the most comprehensive online reference source for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. Oxford Art Online features over 45,000 signed articles, 5,500 images, 40,000 image links, timelines of world art, MoMa lesson plans, as well as access to the full text of the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and the Oxford Companion to Western Art.
Business
EBSCO Business Source Premier/BSI
Provides access to articles in all areas of business from more than 8,000 publications. Also gives detailed company information for the world’s 10,000 largest corporations.
EBSCO Regional Business News
Incorporates 75 regional business publications covering the larger metropolitan areas in the United States.
Nursing
CINAHL Ultimate
CINAHL Ultimate is the new definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for more of the most-used journals in the CINAHL index than any other database. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules and research instruments.
American Journal of Nursing
The American Journal of Nursing is the oldest and most honored broad-based nursing journal in the world. Peer reviewed and evidence-based, it is considered the profession’s premier journal.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Premium
Developed in collaboration with an advisory board of faculty, researchers, and librarians, Nursing & Allied Health Premium delivers a mix of practical and theoretical content in an interface that helps students build the research and clinical skills they’ll need for success in their courses and healthcare careers.
Streaming Video
Films on Demand
Films Media Group is the leading source of high-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content.