eBooks and Databases
Welcome to our online databases. Simply click on any of the links below to begin your research. If you are having connectivity issues to the databases, please contact the College Librarian.
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You've come to the right place! The eBooks & Database page is your door to thousands of articles and eBooks as a Coastline student. Check out this short video to see how we set up resources so you can "help yourself". Please contact the library with any questions as we are happy to help!
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General Research
The following databases are a good starting point for your research due to their multidisciplinary nature. For in-depth, discipline-specific research, we recommend conducting searches in our subject-specific databases.
- Academic Search Complete
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Video Quick Start: Academic search Complete in 3 Minutes
This comprehensive scholarly and multi-disciplinary full-text database includes 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. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887.
- ProQuest Research Library
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Video Quick Start: ProQuest Research Library
From business and political science to literature and psychology, this database provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 5,060 titles and over 3,600 in full text from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
- JSTOR
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Video Quick Start: How to Search JSTOR
JSTOR (Scholarly Journal Archive) is an online archive of core scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines. It provides full-text articles in back issues of journals from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts. New issues of existing titles and new titles are added on an ongoing basis. Please note that the current volume of a journal is NOT available on JSTOR; the latest volume available on JSTOR is usually 3-5 years old.
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Arts & Entertainment
Video Quick Start: Art Museum Image Gallery
Art Museum Image Gallery offers unparalleled access to thousands of high-quality art images and related multimedia. Drawing on the collections of distinguished museums, there are over 165,000 superior quality images covering time periods ranging from 3000 B.C. to the present day. The collection represents art from the cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, including Native American and Meso-American peoples.
SIRS Knowledge SourceVideo Quick Start: SIRS Knowledge Source
The School Improvement Research Series (SIRS) Knowledge Source contains three databases for academic use: SIRS Issues Researcher - topical pro/con coverage of current and enduring issues, including more than 300 Leading Issues, SIRS Government Reporter - resources by and about the U.S. government, and SIRS Renaissance-current perspectives on the arts and humanities.
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Books & eBooks
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Video Quick Start: Reading EBSCO eBooks
More than 125,000 academic ebooks in a wide variety of subjects from leading university presses.
- eBook Collection (NetLibrary)
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Video Quick Start: Reading EBSCO eBooks
Access to over 70,0000 ebooks in all subjects
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Business
The industry's most widely used business research database, Business Source Premier features full text and searchable cited references for top journals covering a variety of business disciplines.
Regional Business NewsVideo Quick Start: Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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Controversial Topics
Controversial Topics: Politics, Government, Social Issues
Video Quick Start: CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher provides award winning in-depth coverage of the most important issues of the day. Our reports are written by experienced journalists, footnoted and professionally fact-checked. Full-length articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, plus resources for additional research. Graphics, photos and short "sidebar" features round out the reports. Shorter "Hot Topics" articles provide a solid introduction to subjects most in demand by students.
SIRS Knowledge SourceVideo Quick Start: SIRS Knowledge Source with Issue Researcher and Government Reporter
The School Improvement Research Series (SIRS) Knowledge Source contains three databases for academic use: SIRS Issues Researcher - topical pro/con coverage of current and enduring issues, including more than 300 Leading Issues, SIRS Government Reporter - resources by and about the U.S. government, and SIRS Renaissance - current perspectives on the arts and humanities.
Military & Government CollectionVideo Quick Start: Military & Government Collection
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those institutions. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.
RAND State StatisticsState statistics from Social Science data. Nearly 200 databases covering all 50 states. Data at national, state, and local levels. Additional detailed databases on CA, TX, and NY.
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Countries, Cultures, Language
Video Quick Start: CountryWatch, my favorite article database
CountryWatch provides reliable, up-to-date news and information on 193 countries of the world, including maps and statistics. The Country Reviews are consistently formatted which makes it easy to navigate and also to cross-reference and do a comparative analysis between more than one country.
Additionally, CountryWatch provides over 75-pages worth of information on each country.
DuolingoDuolingo is the free science-based language education platform that has organically become the most popular way to learn languages online.
English Language Learner Reference CenterVideo Quick Start: English Language Learner Reference Center
Customized content and practice tests in ELL Reference Center are designed to support English-language proficiency and comprehension in topics including literacy, researching, note-taking, and academic writing. The intuitive, easy-to-use interface, as well as reference materials that are created specifically for ELL students and the educators that work with them, makes it simple for users to find the content they are looking for.
Mango LanguagesVIDEO Quick Start: How to Use Mango Languages
Coastline is excited to announce the availability of Mango Languages, a leading language and culture learning resource, available online from anywhere, 24/7. Mango Languages enriches lives with language and culture through self-guided courses that go beyond grammar and vocabulary, introducing language learners to a whole new world.
Religion and Philosophy CollectionVIDEO Quick Start: Religion and Philosophy Collection
With hundreds of full-text, scholarly journals, Religion & Philosophy Collection provides an in-depth collection of resources covering topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection provides coverage of key theological and philosophical resources spanning over 100 years.
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Education
ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center)
Video Quick Start: ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center)
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database contains more than 1.3 million records and provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
Library Information Science & Technology AbstractsVideo Quick Start: Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
MAS Ultra - School EditionVideo Quick Start: MAS Ultra - School Edition
This database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school level magazines. MAS Ultra - School Edition also provides more than 360 full-text reference books, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
MasterFILE CompleteVideo Quick Start: MasterFILE Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides 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, it 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. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Primary SearchVideo Quick Start: Primary Search
Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full-text information dates as far back as 1990.
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Emergency Management
- International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
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The International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR) publishes fundamental and applied research, critical reviews, policy papers and case studies focusing on multidisciplinary research aiming to reduce the impact of natural and technological disasters. IJDRR stimulates an exchange of ideas and knowledge transfer on disaster research, mitigation, adaptation, prevention and risk reduction at all geographical scales: local, national and international.
- Journal of Emergency Management
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The Journal of Emergency Management is edited, written and peer-reviewed by a nationally recognized team of the country's foremost, hands-on EM experts. They include top professionals from the public and private sectors who offer real-world experience and practical solutions and leading academics who provide perspective and analysis on the latest research and studies. Together, they bring you the most thorough, relevant and useful source of information on emergency management.
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Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Video Quick Start: Encyclopedia Britannica
The premiere encyclopedia, founded in the eighteenth century, is now online and updated daily. Over 75,000 articles, 23,000 biographies, 27,000 images and maps covering math, science, history, and social studies. The Encyclopedia Britannica is for the 2nd-grader learning math, the teacher explaining the laws of gravity, and the lifelong learner trying to understand the latest political crisis.
Funk & Wagnalls New World EncyclopediaThis database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Oxford English Dictionary OnlineVideo Quick Start: Oxford English Dictionary Online
600,000 words _ 3 million quotations _ over 1000 years of English. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words- past and present-from across the English-speaking world.
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Health, Nursing, Medicine
AHFS Consumer Medication Information
AHFS Consumer Medication Information is a trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish. Published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, AHFS includes more than a thousand drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers and has been a Top Ten Award Winner in the Department of Health and Human Services National Consumer Education Materials Contest. This content is updated monthly.
Health Source - Consumer EditionVideo Quick Start: Health Source - Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
Health Source - Nursing / Academic EditionVideo Quick Start: Health Source - Nursing / Academic Edition
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
MEDLINEVideo Quick Start: MEDLINE Complete
MEDLINE 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
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HistoryAmerica: History and Life with full text
Video Quick Start: America: History and Life with full text
America: History & Life with Full Text is the definitive database of literature covering 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 is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. America: History & Life with Full Text also provides full-text coverage of more than 200 journals and nearly 100 books.
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750This new bibliographic database is a valuable index for libraries, scholars, and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. EBSCO Publishing, in cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, has created this resource from "European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750," the authoritative bibliography that is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
History Reference CenterVideo Quick Start: History Reference Center
History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
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Media and Video Resources
Video Quick Start: Art Museum Image Gallery
Art Museum Image Gallery offers unparalleled access to thousands of high-quality art images and related multimedia. Drawing on the collections of distinguished museums, there are over 165,000 superior quality images covering time periods ranging from 3000 B.C. to the present day. The collection represents art from the cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, including Native American and Meso-American peoples.
IntelecomThe INTELECOM Online Resources Network® represents a best-in-class electronic resource for enhancing teaching and learning with professionally-produced academic and career video.
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Newspapers & News
National Newspapers Core / US Newsstream
Video Quick Start: National Newspapers Core
Full text online access to the following national newspapers: The New York Times, including The New York Times Book Review, and The New York Times Magazine; Wall Street Journal and Wall Street Journal Online; Washington Post; Los Angeles Times; The Christian Science Monitor.
Newspaper Source PlusVideo Quick Start: Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
NewswiresEBSCO's Newswires provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire on a continuous basis. This content is monitored by EBSCO and relevant results are provided when users enter searches in EBSCOhost. This collection includes AP Financial News, AP Top News, AP WorldStream, AP U.S. Politics & Government, AP 50 State Reports, UPI Security Industry, UPI Emerging Threats, UPI Business, UPI Entertainment, UPI Sports, UPI Top News, Arabia 2000, and more. End users can immediately access the full text of the web content, by following the link in the record. The index to the full text content in EBSCO Newswires is held for a rolling 30-day archive by EBSCO, so users can enjoy the previous 30 days of news relating to their search interests.
Web NewsEBSCO's Web News provides near real-time access to thousands of top news feeds from around the globe. This collection includes over 14,000 feeds covering a range of business and general news topics. End users can immediately access the full text of the web content, by following the link in the record.
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Psychology
Video Quick Start: PsycARTICLES
Delve into the science of psychology and behavior with PsycARTICLES, the database of full-text peer-reviewed articles published by the American Psychological Association and affiliated journals.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences CollectionVideo Quick Start: Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full-text psychology database offering full-text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
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Religion & PhilosophyReligion and Philosophy Collection
VIDEO Quick Start: Religion and Philosophy Collection
With hundreds of full-text, scholarly journals, Religion & Philosophy Collection provides an in-depth collection of resources covering topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection provides coverage of key theological and philosophical resources spanning over 100 years.
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Science & Environment
Video Quick Start: Access Science
AccessScience is an authoritative and dynamic online resource that contains incisively written, high-quality reference material that covers all major scientific disciplines. An award-winning gateway to scientific knowledge, it offers links to primary research material, videos and exclusive animations, plus specially designed curriculum maps for teachers.
GreenFILEGreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
Science Reference CenterVideo Quick Start: Science Reference Center
Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.
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Technical & Career EducationBusiness Source Elite - Company Profiles
Review profiles on thousands of companies across the United States and internationally.
Occupational Outlook HandbookVideo Quick Start: Occupational Outlook Handbook
The Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) is a government resource run by the United States Department of Labor that can help you find career information on duties, education, and training, pay, and outlook for hundreds of occupations
Read It - Life Skills at WorkLog in and select "Life Skills" > "At Work" to review the basics of job interviews, resumes, writing cover letters, filling out job applications and more. The Life Skills > At Work section of Read It covers the basics of finding and applying for jobs.
Accessibility
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