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Databases for Monty Tech:

Magazines & Newspapers Articles:

·       Gale Group:  A large suite of cross-searchable magazine and newspaper articles (including the New York Times) & 100 ebooks as part of the Virtual Reference Library.  Gale also provides a text-to-speech reader, a translator, and a mobile app.

·       JSTOR: Full-text articles from over a thousand scholarly journals. 

·       Proquest Newsstand:  Archived full-text articles from The Boston Globe.

Encyclopedia:

·       Encyclopedia Britannica: Authoritative background information as well as videos and primary source materials.

Biography:

·       Biography In Context from Gale: Biographical information on over 520,000 people.
Try also ABC-CLIO for famous people in history, Literary Reference Center and Literature Resources from Gale for authors.

Business:

·       General Business File ASAP from Gale: Company performance and activity.

·       Business Insight / Essentials: Company and brand information, rankings, reports, histories, and news.

Vocational:

·      Vocational Studies Complete from EBSCO: Full-text from 1,800 journals and 300 reference books designed for the research needs of vocational students.

·      Vocations and Careers Collection from Gale: Content from 400 journals for career exploration.

.   CINAHL Plus: Full text for nursing and allied health journals included in the CINAHL index –covers biomedicine, health sciences, alternative medicine, and more.*

.   Medline: Full-text for over a thousand journals indexed in MEDLINE. Cover-to-cover indexing. Medical literature, biomedicine, health policy development and more.*

.   Culinary Arts Collection from Gale: A collection of 150 cooking and nutrition magazines.

·      Nursing and Allied Health Collection from Gale: Covers all aspects of the nursing profession.

·      Nursing Resource Center from Gale: Disease and drug overviews, care plans, and diagrams from encyclopedias.

Social Studies:

·       ABC-CLIO: World and U.S. history, government, geography, issues, & pop culture by decade.

·       U.S. History in Context from Gale: Contextual information on U.S. people, events, and topics.

·       World History in Context from Gale: Contextual information on world people, events, and topics.

·       JSTOR: Full-text articles from over a thousand scholarly journals.

Issues:  See also magazine, newspaper, and book articles:

·       Global Issues in Context from Gale: Current social, political, economic, environmental, & health issues.

·       Opposing Viewpoints in Context from Gale: Information & opinion on today's social issues.

·       ABC-CLIO's Understanding Issues and Society:  Using historical and current data, explores how society shapes and is shaped by controversy.

Literature:

·       Literary Reference Center Plus from EBSCO: Plot summaries, reviews, criticism, biographies, over 99,000 poems, 23,000 short stories, 7,300 author interviews, and 8,200 classic texts in the ebook collection. 

·       Literature Resource Center from Gale: Biographies, criticism, reviews for over 130,000 writers plus "Lit Finder's" service of over 150,000 full-text poems, stories and plays.*

·       Contemporary Literacy Criticism from Gale: Criticism, biography, exploration of contemporary authors (who died after 1959).*

·       Books & Authors from Gale: Answers the question: What do I read next? Explore by author, title, genre.*

·       JSTOR: Full-text articles from over a thousand scholarly journals, as well as images, letters and primary sources.

Science & Health:

·       Science Reference Center from EBSCO: Science-specific, full-text articles for 23 encyclopedias, 182 periodicals, 725 reference books, 3,790 biographies, 61 animations, 519 videos, and 28,000+ images.*

·       Science in Context from Gale: Full-text magazines, journals, experiments, audio/visual.

.     Health Reference Center Academic: Journals, videos, books.

·       Health & Wellness Resource Center from Gale: Journals, videos, pamphlets, and reference.
 

Professional:

·       Educator’s Reference Complete from Gale: Full-text for 450 journals and other reference.

 

*Go to search.ebsco.com to view on a mobile device and type in remote username and password.

 

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