A to Z Maps Online is a comprehensive collection of downloadable maps, with over 100,000 maps available including country and regional maps, historic maps, war maps, topographic maps, and map glossaries.
A to Z The World contains information about world history, cultures, languages, foods, and religions, with 174 Country Culture Guides featuring country specific information on education, business, history, holidays and festivals, languages, weather, security issues, and national symbols.
Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc..
This resource has over 65,000 video titles in subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, history, music, film, and more. Video types include documentaries, feature films, interviews, performances, and news programs among others.
Access Physiotherapy contains e-books and streaming videos devoted to the study, instruction, and practice of physical therapy. Integrates leading physical therapy textbooks, procedure and exercise videos, image galleries, self-assessment tools, cadaver dissection tool, and NPTE Review Prep. In addition, also includes access to the F.A. Davis physical therapy e-book collection.
An electronic version of the 9th edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. It also includes Research Updates to trends and developments in science and technology, biographies of scientists, late breaking news, links to evaluated web sites, images and learning resources and study guides by topic.
The ACLS Humanities E-Book Project is a collaboration of thirty-one learned societies, over 100 contributing publishers, and the Michigan Publishing division at the University of Michigan Library. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in history, recommended and reviewed by historians and featuring unlimited multi-user access. These titles are also accessible through RaptorSearch.
Featuring perspectives from African American scholars and historians, The African American Experience brings voice and context to the lived experiences of African Americans in U.S. history. Expertly curated primary and secondary sources illustrate diverse threads of African American social, political, and cultural history. Contains primary documents, peer-reviewed scholarly essays, images, including 1,500 photographs.
Features 173 periodicals spanning from 1816 through 1922. The periodicals in this collection include newspapers and magazines, in addition to reports and annuals from various African American organizations, including churches and educational and service institutions.
Alternative Press Index is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper and magazine articles from hundreds of international alternative, radical and left periodicals. Covering 1991 to the present, it provides access to emerging theories and practices of social change.
Collection of books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, periodicals, music, and graphic arts material printed through 1876. Common themes depicted include industrialization, western expansion, and regional political differences.
Includes 2,000 total hours of streaming video content and more than 5,000 titles. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
Anatomy.tv is a suite of 3D interactive models of human anatomy, including functional anatomy and clinical specialties. Use is limited to 5 concurrent users.
AP Images is one of the world's largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery. Browse AP's comprehensive archive with millions of images in entertainment, sports, news, archival and creative content.
A searchable and regularly updated version of the AP Stylebook, the standard guide for journalism and news writing. This resource includes an A-Z guide to usage, spelling, and punctuation, as well as topical and pronunciation guides. Use is limited to 25 concurrent users.
Collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. With material dating back to the sixteenth century, researchers can examine how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, and many other topical areas.
Presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents. Collections cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Particular strengths include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history.
Includes full-text coverage for hundreds of periodicals dating back to 1937 and full-text for hundreds of books. In addition, it offers a robust collection of images provided by Picture Desk and others.
Collection includes ProQuest's specialist indexes ARTbibliographies Modern (covering modern and contemporary art), Design & Applied Arts Index (for all aspects of design and crafts), and International Bibliography of Art (covering scholarship on western art history), together with a complementary collection of current full-text journals from ProQuest's Arts & Humanities Database.
Contains over 2 million images and documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures, embracing architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture.
Provides full-text journal articles, abstracts, and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.
Features thousands of biographical entries on individuals who have contributed to the history of modern thought and philosophy. Each entry includes a comprehensive overview of a subject’s life, work, and reception together with a bibliography and list of further reading.
Provides scholarly coverage of modern popular music worldwide, from the early 20th century to the present day. Contains the entire Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music, as well as the 33 1/3 series of books, each about a single music album.
Offers more than 1,500 films from artists and independent filmmakers and includes films covering visual and applied arts, film studies, media studies, music and dance, and history and philosophy. Also includes masterclasses, documentaries and interviews.
BoardVitals is a board review resource that allows you to create custom practice exams for the NCLEX-RN, NCLEX-PN, NBSTSA Surgical Technology, and ARRT Radiography board exams. Account creation requires a montgomerycollege.edu or personal email address.
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formerly Axis 360, formerly Audiobooks on EbscoHost
E-book and audiobook platform, including both fiction and non-fiction offerings. Sign in using your M# to access functionality such as placing holds, renewing titles, and adding titles to a wish list. Titles may also be accessed on mobile devices by downloading the free Boundless mobile app.
Curriculum-relevant imagery and clip art materials (infographics, signs and symbols, graphic concepts) from 60 leading collections, including the Bridgeman Art Gallery, Getty Images, Ingram Publishing, and the National Geographic Society. All images are rights-cleared for educational, non-commercial use.
Indexes more than 9,070 magazine and journal titles in all areas of business; approximately 8,197 of these are full text. Also includes country reports.
Search this database for reviews, records and other related information about children’s literature. CLCD contains reviews supplied by over 38 review media. Search by subject, age level, genre and curriculum tools.
This continually updated automotive technology resource provides step-by-step vehicle service and repair procedures; wiring diagrams; maintenance and specification tables; troubleshooting guides and diagnostic trouble codes; photos, illustrations, diagrams and multimedia (videos and animations); and ASE test prep.
Source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. Over 7,000 reviews published annually.
News & information covering all aspects of higher education. Faculty and students with personal Chronicle accounts, please be advised of the Chronicle's recent Data Breach
CINAHL Complete is a comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1300 journals indexed in CINAHL. Includes indexing for more than 5000 journals and searchable cited references for more than 1460 journals.
A collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Includes Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and others.
Columbia Gazetteer is an encyclopedia of geographical places and names, featuring descriptions and characteristics of over 170,000 places in the world.
Includes full text for over 450 journals, cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 570 journals, and selected coverage of nearly 200 more in communication and mass media.
Comprehensive source for coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, backroom maneuvering, and in-depth reports on issues on the congressional horizon.
Integrates many of CQ Press's reference titles on government and politics. Titles include Congress and the Nation, Historic Documents Series, Political Handbook of the World, Politics in America, Supreme Court Yearbook, Vital Statistics on American Politics, and the Washington Information Directory.
Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.
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Criminal Justice Database, National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database
This collection supports research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as law enforcement and security services. It includes the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database, with further index and full-text coverage of scholarly journals. It also includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other relevant material for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, and related fields.
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Scientific Style and Format Online
Part of the Chicago Manual of Style suite of citation guides, intended for authors, editors, publishers, students, and translators in all areas of science and related fields. Includes the most recent and previous version of the style and format rules.
Current Biography Illustrated offers the content of the printed monthly magazine Current Biography, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, in searchable, electronic format.
Cross-disciplinary resource that supports history, social studies, English, and language students, and moves from past to present, providing context for contemporary life and culture. Includes Daily Life in American and World Cultures Today.
A collection of major studio motion pictures, available for individual viewing or in-class use only (no public performances). Mac users, please note, access to movies via Safari is not supported. Please use the latest versions of Chrome or Firefox.
Digital Maryland is a collaborative, statewide digitization program of the Maryland State Library Resource Center, Enoch Pratt Free Library established to facilitate the digital exhibition of the historical documents, images, audio and video held by Maryland institutions. Digital Maryland hosts two digitized collections from Montgomery College's special collections.
Digital Theatre+ is the world’s leading educational platform for the performing arts with unlimited access to over 1,000 full-length productions and educational resources.
Access to the DSM-5, the newest revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This subscription also includes the DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, DSM-5 Clinical Cases, and Guia de consulta del DSM-5.
Features photographs from the early years of MC. These include photographs of the Bliss Electrical School, which became the first site for the Montgomery Junior College, images of the three campuses during different phases of construction, former graduating classes, various ground breaking ceremonies, and early faculty members.
Designed specifically to support clinical professionals, researchers and students of medical disciplines. Featured in the collection are over 2,000 recent titles covering general practice, various specialties, topics in nursing and allied health, and supporting sciences. Content is updated quarterly, and all titles are available with unlimited user access.
Includes reference works, scholarly monographs, literature, and other fiction. You can search for ebooks by title, keyword, author, or full text and can browse the book online or "check it out" after creating a free online account. Checking out a book allows you to view the book anywhere, anytime for the specified check out period. These titles are also accessible through RaptorSearch. For information on how to use e-books on EBSCOhost, please see this helpful guide.
This collection provides access to ERIC, the leading index for education research, in combination with the full-text Education Database. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more, including full- text from hundreds of leading education journals.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year.
Published by Johns Hopkins University Press for the American Studies Association (ASA), the Encyclopedia of American Studies covers the history, philosophy, arts, and cultures of the United States in relation to the world, from pre-colonial days to the present, from various perspectives and the global American Studies movement.
Engineering Source offers full-text coverage for nearly 2,000 publications, including journals, magazines, and trade publications, all directly dealing with engineering-related issues.
Environment Complete offers coverage in areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,957,000 records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,125 active core titles). The database also contains full text for more than 680 journals and 120 monographs.
This database indexes and abstracts approximately 1,000 educational and education-related journals from the CIJE (Current Index of Journals in Education) and documents from RIE (Resources in Education Index). Includes full-text from more than 2,200 Eric Digests.
Database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Contains over 830,000 full-text articles from 240 publications. Covers 1990 to present.
Contains full directory details for 36,000 entries including over 14,000 universities and colleges, 4,000 libraries and archives, 5,000 learned societies, 6,500 research institutes, and 4,900 museums and art galleries. There is coverage for more than 225 countries and territories throughout the world, and for 600 international organizations.
Database contains over 60 Interior Design e-books covering key subject areas including Interior Construction and Building Systems, Representing Space, Principles and Approaches, Professional and Business Practices, Elements of Interior Design and History, Theory and Criticism of Interior Design.
The selective list presented in this collection features classic and contemporary works of fiction recommended for a general adult audience, written in or translated into English.
Provides full text for hundreds of journals and books and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts and selected coverage for hundreds of publications. Variety movie reviews from 1914 to present and a vast image collection from the MPTV Image Archive are also included.
Includes thousands of streaming video titles in the Academic Master collection from a variety of publishers including Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, Film Board of Canada, and many more. New titles added monthly. These titles are also accessible through RaptorSearch.
Includes a curated collection of personal finance lessons designed by industry experts on a wide range of topics, including paying for college, assessing financial needs, and understanding taxes.
Online access to popular magazines via the web or your mobile device. To download issues to your iOS or Android device, access Flipster via your mobile browser and then choose "Open in App" from the Options menu. Issues can be downloaded directly from the app by choosing "MONTGOMERY COLLEGE ROCKVILLE LIBRARY" through the "Find My Library" search tool.
Fuente Académica provides full text for a collection of scholarly Spanish language journals. This multi-disciplinary database offers full text content to many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology.
Academic OneFile is a source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. Includes extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Academic OneFile includes Expanded Academic ASAP.
The Intersectional LGBTQ Issues Digital Archive is a selection primary source centered Case Studies curated by scholars that features a closer look into the history of LGBTQ people and activism into the twenty-first century, including: ACT UP’s demonstration at St. Patrick’s Cathedral; the Comptom Cafeteria Riots; Stonewall; FBI Surveillance of LGBTQ Organizations; activism at the local level; and anti-violence efforts to protect LGBTQ people.
A selected collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. For a current title list of our offerings, see the List of Sources once you are in the collection. These titles are also accessible through RaptorSearch. For information on how to use e-books on Gale, please see this helpful video.
Provides access to full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and other formats. Appropriate for researchers at all levels, this consumer health resource provides information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.
Biography in Context is a comprehensive database of biographical information on over 340,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 435,000 biographies from over 1,000 volumes of more than 135 respected Gale sources.
Interdisciplinary content, chosen for college students, that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation.
Explore topics and events within Earth systems, global change, pollution, populations, and more. Integrates case studies, news, reference materials, academic journals, videos, and more. The resource offers nearly 400 topic, state, and province pages across the science, social studies, and humanities curriculum, including water privatization, ecotourism, and air pollution, green economy.
Offers global perspectives on issues of international importance and current world events and topics in the news related to these issues. Global Issues in Context ties together a variety of sources to present analysis of issues - social, political, military, economic, environmental, science related, health related, cultural - and headlines in world hot spots.
A complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
Includes thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures, illustrations, and the latest scientific developments covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites.
Covers U.S. history, including some full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, primary sources, images, maps & charts for the study of world history.
Covers world history, including some full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, primary sources, images, maps & charts for the study of world history.
Comprised of essays and other writings from literary criticism series such as Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism, etc. that represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.
Comprised of information found in Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 120,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring entries on all authors appearing in CLC since vol. 95 of the print series and complete profiles of 266 most studied authors from editions prior to vol. 95; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars. It also includes selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from Gale's Literature Criticism and For Students Series.
Contains more than five million articles from more than 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines, as well as book reference content from Delmar such as About Wine, Introduction to Catering, Advanced Bread and Pastry, and Eat Fit Be Fit.
Provides access to full-text academic journals and magazines—with a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit bibliographic index. Content is useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, constructing economic models, investing for the future, and researching rates.
Provides full text for titles in the ERIC database and covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty—such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also provides insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy.
Provides insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Users find more than 500 subject-appropriate, active, full-text periodicals, including: Beverage Industry, Black Enterprise, Economist, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, HR Magazine, Real Estate Weekly, Restaurant Business, Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, and more.
Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications that cover topics including the cultural and economic aspects of travel and tourism. Offers current content with coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries. Travelers will also find a wealth of information, from contents on state parks and information on planning a vacation to full-text travel guides from Fodor's.
Indexes and provides some full text articles from major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers. Included are articles on Federal and State Cases, Laws and Regulations, Legal Practice, and Taxation. Also included are: British Commonwealth, European Union, and International Law.
Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and present military affairs. Updated annually, this resource contains content supporting key subject areas such as, governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.
Periodical content covering topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions. Updated daily, this library resource supports a broad range of topics from theological approaches to social issues.
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. Updated daily, this resource offers coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work established in the field.
Provides access to journals and magazines that aid users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career. The database offers hundreds of periodicals, from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
Provides access to academic journals and magazines of interest to analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science. The database offers balanced coverage of both historic and contemporary topics in the fields of war and terrorism.
Gartner is a global leader in providing accurate and current research for the IT industry. Gartner employs 1,200 research analysts and consultants who advise executives in 80 countries every day. They publish tens of thousands of pages of original research annually. Requires MyMC username and password to log in.
GenderWatch indexes over 200 scholarly journals, magazines, newsletters, newspapers, and ebooks on the evolution of gender roles as they affect men and women. Includes some full-text.
This comprehensive resource draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more.
Comprehensive one-volume reference tool for chemistry and physics, and science more generally. It can be searched or browsed through the table of contents links on the left.
Provides access to more than 80 full-text consumer health magazines. Also includes searchable full text for current health-related pamphlets and 110 full-text health reference books.
Full-text database covering an array of Nursing-related topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and many more.
Includes full text from the New York Daily Times (1851-1857) and the New York Times from 1857 to 2020. For current New York Times articles, use the ProQuest Newspapers database.
Articles from the Washington Post and the Times Herald from 1877 to 2007. For current articles from the Washington Post, use the ProQuest Newspapers database.
Advanced news source curation resource for educational institutions. It contains dynamic reliability and bias data on over 1700 news and “news-like” sources. Ratings are established by professional media analysts with diverse political perspectives. The IMBC Campus Pro Portal also includes media literacy content analysis training materials.
The Innovation Stream (iStream) provided by the League for Innovation in the Community College is now available to our institution. This tool is an online resource bank and learning community. As a subscriber, you can use iStream as a professional development tool, listen to League Radio, or access publications and presentations. Anyone at the College, including students, may use this online resource. The only requirement is that you set up your own personal account with a montgomerycollege.edu e-mail account.
JSTOR includes archives of nearly three thousand academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. Journals are included from volume 1, issue 1 and include previous and related titles; the most recently published issues (past 3-5 years) are not available.
TIP: Use Chrome or Firefox when accessing videos for best viewing experience. Collection of streaming videos in all genres - from documentaries to movies to training videos.
Includes primary law, secondary sources, and practical guidance. In addition, it contains a Shepard's citator, a Practice Advisor, Litigation Profile Suite, and public records.
Full-text coverage for important literature regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. Offering a variety of scholarly, popular and regional resources, it includes journals, books, magazines and more.
This collection combines Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), the leading index for library science, with full-text for many titles. Subject coverage includes all aspects of librarianship, library users, information retrieval, and more. It covers titles from many different countries and in more than 20 languages.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage from the mid-1960s to the present.
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Linguistics Database, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
This collection combines Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA), the leading index for linguistics, with full-text for many titles. It covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.
The LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com) online video training library offers over 5,000 video tutorials on a wide range of computer, business, and personal skills for beginner, intermediate, and advanced users.
Virtual library of Greek and Latin literature. Over 500 volumes available, including epic and lyric poetry, philosophy, mathematics, medicine, and many others.
Language learning software for over 70 languages, including Spanish, French, Pashto, Urdu, Hindi, Mandarin, and Cantonese, as well as 15 ESL courses taught in native languages.
Full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals 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 over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
Hosted on the Kanopy streaming video platform, the Media Education Foundation's collection of over 100 streaming documentary films focusing on the social, political, and cultural impact of mass media on American society.
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to thousands of contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. Tests in Print provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication dates, and test authors.
An encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals that contains more than 10,000 monographs. Each monograph in this authoritative reference source is a concise description of a single substance or a small group of closely related compounds.
Access to global company database available with information such as U.S. Company Data, International Company Data, U.S. Company Archives, International Company Archives, U.S. Annual Reports, International Annual Reports, U.S. Earnings Estimates, Industry Reports, Competitor Reports and much, much more. Also includes Experian National Business Private Company Database.
Offers detailed information on over 5,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
Online access to the most up-to-date MLA Handbook. Includes guidance on how to avoid plagiarism, a how-to-use section, and a comparison of what's new in the most current edition.
The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.6 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers.
Features MC student newspapers including Excalibur, published on the Takoma Park Campus, The Spur published on the Rockville Campus, and The Globe published on the Germantown Campus. The time period covered includes newspapers from the 1940's through the 1990's.
Cross-searchable interface for Alexander Street Press music and performance databases. Includes Classical Music in Video, Classical Scores Library, Dance Online, Film Scripts Online, Music Reference Collection, Opera in Video, and Theatre in Video. Also includes Garland Encyclopedia of World Music.
A comprehensive guide to music periodicals and literature featuring digitized content from 1970 to present. Cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts of articles about music, musicians, and the music industry for more than 475 periodicals, as well as book reviews, obituaries, news, and selective coverage for more than 230 periodicals.
Full text for the complete archive of The Nation, 1865 to present. The Nation is America’s oldest weekly magazine and one if its premier journals of opinion; it has long been regarded as one of the country’s definitive journalistic voices of writing on politics, culture, books, and the arts.
Published by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service, an information clearinghouse for people around the U.S. and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control. Contains summaries of over 174,000 U.S. and international publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research.
This collection brings together a complete archive of National Geographic magazines along with a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images and videos. This Virtual Library includes: National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994; National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1995-Current; National Geographic: People, Animals, and the World; and National Geographic Kids.
Full text coverage for all issues of the journal back to the first issue in 1955 through to the present. The publication consistently provides insightful and unique coverage of political, economic, social, and cultural issues and trends.
A comprehensive collection of classical music available online providing streaming access to both standard and rare repertoires. Included are classical, world, jazz, and pop/rock music. Additional resources include libretti, pronunciation guide, and glossary. 5 simultaneous users.
New Play Exchange (NPX) is a database of the living play writers. Access play scripts, information on theaters, and play writers. The National New Play Network (NNPN) is an alliance of theaters that support play writers and extend the life of plays.
NoodleTools is a citation creation, web-based software program. Each user must create a "personal folder" (i.e., select a personal ID and password) by clicking the "Create a Personal ID" button on the login screen.
Access includes peer-reviewed, full-text titles cited in CINAHL supporting specialized care, treatment, and patient management. Functionality features a topic finder, highlighting, and note-taking tools.
Nursing Current Concepts and Practices collection from Films on Demand is a curated collection to help nursing students excel in their studies, pass licensure exams, and prepare for long-term success in the health care system. Titles are current, within the past five years, from trusted sources such as Classroom Productions, Medcom-Trainex, and Elsevier.
Full-text E-Books and videos on a broad range of subjects in the computer applications, computer sciences, and business fields. A valid MC email address is required to access these e-books:At login, please select "Institution not listed?" and then enter your MC email (MCusername@montgomerycollege.edu). You are not required to create an account on the O'Reilly platform, but if you do, you will need to use that email address and password for subsequent access. Community users please check at the library service desk for login information for in-library use.
OntheBoards.tv is a website that offers high-quality videos of full-length performances by some of today's most provocative artists working in dance, theater, music and other forms that defy categorization.
Provides full text for 60 core nursing journals such as AJN, the American Journal of Nursing, and more. Users can also switch over to the larger Journals@Ovid database by clicking on the Change link to access and search the index and abstracts.
Provides more than 8,000 articles by top scholars in the field. The core content includes Africana; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present; Black Women in America, Second Edition; and African American National Biography. In addition to the full-text of these works, the Center draws on other key resources from Oxford's reference program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, the Oxford Companion to Black British History, and selected articles from other major reference titles.
Oxford Art Online provides access to Grove Art Online, the foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, updated regularly and covering global art and architecture from prehistory to present day. Grove Art Online includes peer-reviewed articles contributed by nearly 7,000 scholars from around the world, accompanied by images, bibliographies, and links to additional resources.
Offers searchable, comprehensive bilingual dictionaries and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages. Languages covered include: Arabic, English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
Brings together language and subject reference works into a single cross-searchable resource. Offers over 300 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press and a selection of partner publishers' scholarly works. Includes detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the Oxford Companions Series.
Provides over 100 practice tests ranging from ASVAB to CLEP to SAT to NCLEX to PRAXIS and includes tests for graduate school, TOEFL, and US citizenship. It also includes information on over 4,000 accredited schools. Users will need to create a free account to access test prep materials.
Indexes classic and historical plays, along with the works of contemporary playwrights. Play Index covers new editions and translations, and includes descriptive annotations to summarize the plot and indicate musical requirements.
Selected works of major and minor American and English poets, along with international poetry with representation from each continent (accompanied by English translations, when available). Includes Critical Survey of Poetry and Critical Survey of Short Fiction, over 712,000 full-text poems, both classic and contemporary, over 53,000 full-text short stories, both classic and contemporary, and 11,000 dramatic works.
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Political Science Database, PAIS Index, Policy File Index, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
This collection provides access to renowned databases such as PAIS and WPSA, covering the international literature in political science and public administration/policy, along with related fields. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, country reports, dissertations, think-tank reports, working papers, government documents and more, including full-text from many leading political science and international relations journals.
Public opinion polls containing the full text of 700,000+ questions and responses, from 18,000+ surveys and 1,700+ polling organizations, conducted from 1986 through the present in the United States and more than 100 other countries around the world.
Digital library of information on American and world popular culture. This database can be searched or browsed by decade starting with the 1920's and moving up to the 2000's.
PrepSTEP is an online learning platform that provides a selection of academic and career-related resources, including core math and English skills, placement test preparation, career and workplace preparation, college success skills. Users will need to create a free account to access content.
Online collection of academic ebooks that can be read on- or offline. These titles are also accessible through RaptorSearch. For information on how to use e-books on ProQuest, please see this helpful guide.
A full-text, cross-searchable database of the newspaper collections of the Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. See also: Historical New York Times, Historical Washington Post, and Historical Wall Street Journal.
A multimedia online resource that synthesizes some of the most important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries. The collection pairs 75 hours of audio and video recordings of the original experiments (when existent) with 40,000 pages of primary-source documents.
Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Includes more than 3.7 million records.
Provides openly-available, peer-reviewed scientific research in biomedical and life sciences at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. PubMed is developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information in the National Library of Medicine.
R2 aggregates health sciences book content from leading publishers in a single platform. For information on how to use e-books on R2, please see this helpful guide.
RaptorSearch allows you to find items located physically at the library along with most content that MC Library subscribes to online. Results may include articles from scholarly journals, books, e-books; videos and other media, newspaper articles, and more.
An online research management, writing and collaboration tool, Refworks is designed to help researchers gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.All users will have to create a free, individual account in order to generate bibliographies and the like.
The online version of Resources for College Libraries, identifying 85,000 titles in 117 curriculum-specific subject areas. RCL covers the entire two-year and four-year college curriculum and provides a list of core titles that are essential for undergraduate study.
Full text journals in the areas of Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine, often from volume 1, issue 1 to the present.
Online access to Elsevier journal subscriptions in the physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.
Full text access to Scientific American, the oldest continuously published magazine in the US and a leading publication for science in the general media, from 1910 to the present.
General reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. Articles and graphics are selected from 2,000 domestic and international publications according to strict criteria with regard to content and age appropriateness.
Includes access to the Air & Space and Smithsonian Magazine Archive (including current issues), as well as digitized primary source materials from the Smithsonian Institution in two collections -- Trade Literature and the Merchandizing of Industry & World's Fairs and Expositions: Visions of Tomorrow.
Multidisciplinary resource covering social justice issues including civil rights, LGBTQ+ rights, gun regulation and legislation, and the history of slavery in the U.S. and English-speaking world.
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Social Science Database, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
Provides access to databases covering international literature in social sciences, including politics, public policy, sociology, social work, anthropology, criminology, linguistics, library science, and education. Featured databases include International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), Sociological Abstracts and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
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Sociology Database, Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA), Sociology Abstracts
This collection provides access to Sociological Abstracts in combination with other databases covering the international literature in sociology and social services, along with related fields. Together, it provides abstracts, indexing and full-text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, and more, including full-text from hundreds of leading sociology journals.
Stat!Ref is a cross-searchable database of medical, nursing and allied health reference works. Includes access to BoardVitals NCLEX-RN test bank and Anatomy.tv.
Statista provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on more than 600 industries. In addition to tables and charts, Statista also provides infographics and studies on selected industries and topics.
Online version of the Statistical Abstract of the United States; provides a comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
Online mental health education and training film library. The library contains over 200 contemporary films guided by the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Standard Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10).
Provides access to two authoritative resources for Judeo-Christian Biblical studies, the Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries and Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary. These two resources can be cross-searched on the platform or navigated to separately for browsing via the "Browse Collections" link.
The TLS (Times Literary Supplement) Historical Archive includes over 300,000 reviews, poems, letters, and other articles - The complete run from 1902 to five years ago.
Access to Human Anatomy Atlas and Skeleton Premium. Comprehensive 3D atlas of the human body. Includes: 3D models of anatomical structures and systems, physiology animations, pathology visualizations, illustrations, cadaver images paired with CTI or MRI scans, definitions, pronunciations, learning presentations that use this visual content, and more.
This full text legal database includes encyclopedia and law reviews; federal, state and Supreme Court cases; federal (USCA) and state statutes and administrative materials; and legal news. You can search a document by citation if known or search a case by title. You can also search by keyword, natural language or West "Terms and Connectors."
Intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history, organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. The database contains 75,000 pages of additional primary source materials related to the women's movement in the United States.
Archival collections concerning women’s history from across the globe. Content includes evolution of feminism, women’s political activism, and female-authored literature and writings.
Bibliographic database covering the core disciplines in women's studies and feminist research. It supports many fields of study, including sociology, history, international relations, humanities and more.
Interdisciplinary resource of the world's folklore and folklife, touching on topics of literature, social and religious practices, history, art, music, and languages.
Covers matters of belief, practice, celebrations, and holidays; important individuals and events; significant and sacred places; and more for over 50 world religions. Contains both reference and primary source materials.
Writer’s Reference Center provides tools necessary to write and research effectively, including grammar, style, fundamentals of writing, dictionaries, and a step by step guide to writing a good essay.
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Provides scholarly coverage of modern popular music worldwide, from the early 20th century to the present day. Contains the entire Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music, as well as the 33 1/3 series of books, each about a single music album.