Online Databases
These subscription databases include full-text magazine and newspaper articles, literary criticism, social issues position articles, multimedia files and tools within the databases to help your research efforts.
The databases require a username and/or password for off-campus access. Please login to NetClassroom to find the login information under "Additional Links".
SIRS Researcher
This database is a general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring 300+ social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. Articles and graphics are selected from domestic and international publications.
SIRS Leading Issues (part of SIRS Researcher) are dynamically updated daily with new content. The Leading Issues feature provides Pro/Con Issues and essential questions provoking thought for both sides of the issue.
Bloom’s Literary Reference Online
This database contains the full texts of all the Bloom’s literature criticism books and contains an archive of more than 46,000 characters; extensive entries on literary topics, themes, movements, genres, and authors; almost 170 video segments; and more.
Additional features include strategies for writing essays in literature and in-depth, full-text entries on literary movements, literary groups, magazines and newspapers, and historical events that help place literature in context.
Gale Databases include the following:
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context This database includes contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues - useful to find pro/con arguments when researching social issues and controversial subjects. It features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.
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Global Issues in Context GIC offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Content also includes podcasts, video, and interactive graphs.
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Literature Resource Center: Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
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U.S. History in Context:This database provides a complete overview of U.S. history and covers the most-studied events, issues and current information. It also includes other Gale content such as country and era overview information, and full-text periodicals and journals.
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World History in Context: Access this for a comprehensive online collection that provides multicultural, global and research-based content. It includes reference content, academic and scholarly journals, thousands of primary source documents, images and maps integrated seamlessly into a cross-searchable database.
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Student Resources in Context: SRC presents contextual information on a broad range of topics, people, places, and events. In addition to the authoritative reference content (which includes full-text magazines, academic journals, primary source documents, images, videos, and audio files) this database features 15 million periodical and newspaper articles from the New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, and many others.
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Science in Context: Science in Context offers subject matter information in Biology, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental Science, Health & Medicine, Math & Technology, and Physics & Astronomy. This online collection delivers integrated content through 150+ comprehensive reference sets from Gale Encyclopedia of Science, Chemical Elements, Science in Dispute and Macmillan Science Library.
