GC Library: ENGL 1301: Articles/Databases

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Search GC Library's recommended databases and online journals to find college-level articles you need for your research. Log in with your GC account for off-campus access. If the article you are looking for is unavailable through Galveston College Library, place a request via Interlibrary Loan Request.

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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database. Academic Search Complete has more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
If you need help with basic database searching, watch the video tutorial to learn how to create a Basic Search.
Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary video subscription that supports the entire range of curriculum, from anthropology to zoology. It includes a variety of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, and demonstrations.
If you need help with basic database searching, watch the video tutorial to learn how to create a Basic Search.
College (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
Gale In Context: College offers interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Learners can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and more. Empower learning with hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast video, BBC News, New York Times video, and NPR.
eBook Collections This link opens in a new window
The eBook collections from EBSCO contain a wide selection of eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subjects, including arts and humanities, business, literature, social sciences, sciences, and technology. Within this search, you can access the Nursing eBook Collection, a curated collection that includes more than 720 e-books designed for use in hospitals, medical institutions, and academic institutions.
You can also access the Open Access collection created in collaboration with university presses and scholarly OA publishers such as the University of Michigan Press, Taylor & Francis, and Temple University Press. This highly curated collection provides libraries and end-users with choice and access to a large selection of discoverable, DRM-Free content, which will continue to grow by the thousands.

If you need help with basic database searching, watch the video tutorial to learn how to create a Basic Search.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
The Films on Demand Master Academic Collection encompasses a broad array of core academic collections, available for individual purchase as well. With a vast library comprising over 341,000 video clips, 45,000 full-length videos, and spanning more than 28,000 hours, this comprehensive package caters to diverse educational needs. Encompassing subjects such as English, World Languages, Engineering, Technology & Society, Education, Sociology, Earth Science, Criminal Justice & Law, Counseling & Social Work, Communication, and Business & Economics, it provides extensive coverage of essential academic disciplines. Additionally, this collection includes specialized areas like Art & Architecture, Psychology, Political Science, Physical Science, Philosophy & Religion, Music & Dance, Mathematics, History, Area Studies, Health & Medicine, Archival Films & Newsreels, Geography, Anthropology, and Environmental Science, ensuring a comprehensive resource for academic exploration.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other websites.
Literary Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Literary Reference Center features an expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries and work overviews, full-text essays from leading publishers, literary reference books and monographs, cover-to-cover full text for literary magazines and journals, book reviews from the most prestigious publications, poems from hundreds of sources, short stories, classic texts, author interviews, and much more.
•More than 36,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews
•Nearly 80,000 articles/essays of literary criticism
•More than 250,000 author biographies
•More than 460 literary journals
•Nearly 900,000 book reviews
•More than 98,000 classic and contemporary poems
•More than 26,000 classic and contemporary short stories
•More than 9,600 author interviews
•More than 7,400 classic novels

If you need help with basic database searching, watch the video tutorial to learn how to create a Basic Search.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Newspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires, and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
New York Times This link opens in a new window
Galveston College provides complimentary access to the New York Times to current students, faculty, and staff. A GC institutional email address is required to access New York Times. Use this link to access your very own year-long subscription to The New York Times, 1851-present. Once registered, you can sign on directly to NYT via the website or app. After a year, you will re-authenticate your NYT subscription.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is the premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular resource supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.
Opposing Viewpoints is a rich resource for debaters and includes viewpoints, reference articles, infographics, news, images, video, audio, and more. A category on the National Debate Topic provides quick and easy access to content on frequently studied and discussed issues. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more.
Opposing Viewpoints In Context is a rich resource for debaters and includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, infographics, and more. A category on the National Debate Topic provides quick and easy access to content on frequently studied and discussed issues. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more from sources such as The New York Times, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, American Scientist, and Education Week.
ProCon This link opens in a new window
ProCon.org is a non-biased information source for our users. ProCon present sourced pros and cons of debatable issues, as well as a host of reference information relevant to those issues, thoroughly researched and compiled by research staff and editors.
TOPICsearch This link opens in a new window
TOPICsearch helps teachers, librarians and student researchers can use this database to explore current events, social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics frequently discussed in the classroom.

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