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All the World's Primates
This database contains information on the all the species and subspecies of living lorises,
galagos, lemurs, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes. The articles cover habitat, social behavior, diet,
physical measurements, risks of extinction, and other facts critical to understanding primate
lives. There are more than 3000 photographs as well as interactive maps for each species and
subspecies, video, audio, links, search tools, multilingual glossaries, review articles and other
resources pertinent to primate research. Searching can be done by image, common name or
scientific name. Information has been contributed by more than 300 scientists who have done
research on primates in their natural habitats.
Anthrosource
Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), this database provides citations
to journal articles in the field of anthropological research. The full text of articles in current issues
of such journals as American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and
Education Quarterly, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly are also included. In additional to
current publications, indexing includes archives of AAA journals. Searching is done by key
words/terms and author searching is also available.
ARTstor
This rich digital library includes more than 500,000 images from the areas of architecture,
painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, and other forms of visual culture.
Images are drawn world-wide from such sources as museums, archaeological teams, photo
archives, slide collections, and art reference publishers. Descriptive information is given for the
individual images. The mission of ARTstor is to assemble image collections across many time
periods and cultures and to create an organized resource that supports the noncommercial use
of images for research, teaching, and scholarship.
Britannica Online
An electronic version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica that includes more that 121,000 articles
along with maps and multimedia. Also available is the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
and Thesaurus.
Chronicle Career Library
A collection of information on more than 2000 occupational titles. Each article, called
Occupational Brief, gives an overview of the occupation, working conditions, salary, education or
training required, unions or professional organizations, and employment outlook. Designed to
help people make informed career choices. Arranged alphabetically.
CollegeSource
CollegeSource Online features over 18,083 college catalogs which are reproduced cover-tocover. The colleges and universities include 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools
throughout the United States and selected countries. Searches can be conducted using various
criteria such as tuition, enrollment, major or field of study, etc.

CountryWatch
Provides country specific geopolitical information on the 191 countries of the world. Includes a
collection of political and thematic maps as well as statistical data.
Credo Reference
A collection of more than 530 general and specialized full-text reference books searchable by
subject; search results include other ebook sources, free web materials, and articles available in
selected Moorpark College Library databases. Specialized Topic Pages provide a gateway to
research and include: a definition of the subject, related images, MC Library database
resources, articles from subject encyclopedias, Google book suggestions, news summaries, a
list of other relevant search topics, and links to additional MC Library electronic resources.
CQ Researcher
Especially useful in gathering in-depth information on topics of current social, economic,
environmental, and political interest, this database is a collection of the issues of the CQ
Researcher from 1991 to the present. The CQ Researcher is published each week and each
publication, usually some 20+ pages in length, provides an comprehensive and objective
overview of a single topic as well as a detailed analysis, a pro-con argument, and an annotated
bibliography suggesting further research.
Daily Life Through History
Examines numerous facets of societal life across cultures and time periods. Areas of life
explored include: domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, religious, and
geographic. Information gathered from reference works, books, and primary documents.
Searching can be by topic or by topic combined with other concepts such as time period and
area of the world. Information may be emailed or printed.
Daily Life Through History - eBook Collection
This database of electronic books examines aspects of daily life in various cultures throughout
the world and throughout history. Primarily covering the broad fields of culture and customs,
such as food and clothing, the collection also includes books analyzing the history of more than
48 countries.
Digital Theatre Plus
This database provides performances of award-winning theatrical productions from across the
United Kingdom; including plays as well as musicals and operas. Each performance is
accompanied by feature-length interviews with cast, production and creative teams, well-known
actors, directors, producers, and designers to enhance the study of drama production from
writer, performer, technician, to audience. Behind-the-scenes commentary offer insights on
current professional practice and theatrical aspects of making theatre. Includes study guides to
provide background on the playwrights and their works, as well as an understanding of plot,
characters, language, and historical context of particular dramas.
EBSCO
Academic Search Complete: 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. The
database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in
native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400
journals.
America: History and Life with Full Text: The best database to use to cover the history and
culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. This database indexes
over 1,700 journals from 1955 to the present with full text access to more than 200 journals and
almost 100 books.
Auto Repair Reference Center: Covers 37,000 vehicle models from 1945 to present with
drawings, service bulletins and repair procedures.
Book Index with Reviews: Use this extensive database when looking for trustworthy and reliable
book reviews. NOTE: Contains access to only limited scholarly, peer reviewed book reviews.
Business Source Elite: This database provides full text access to over 1,000 business
publications, with access to some journals going back as far as 1985. Also included within this
sources are more than 10,000 company profiles from Datamonitor are also included.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text: This database provides subject and keyword searching capabilities
to specialized articles from more than 620 nursing & allied health journals. Evidence-based
Care Sheets and health-related pamphlets are also included. Full text articles may be printed
from the computer screen or emailed.
Consumer Health Complete: This database is good to use when looking for easy to read and
understand health related topics and information. The database provides information from all
areas of health and wellness ranging from mainstream medicine to "complementary, holistic and
integrated medicine." Consumer Health Complete also includes "the Clinical Reference System
and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically
relevant" books about prescription drugs.
Ebook Collection: This electronic library is a searchable collection of more than 14,000 ebooks.
Sources include reference books, scholarly monographs, fiction, and non-fiction. Searches can
be done within a particular title or performed across hundreds of titles.
ERIC: Developed and maintained by the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC is the preeminent
database for any topic related to education. The EBSCO version of this database includes
access to 1.3 million records and full-text access to over 300,000 full-text reports and articles
contained within ERIC going back to 1966.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia: The online equivalent of the "funky" titled print
encyclopedia of the same name.
General Science Full Text: This database indexes and abstracts articles from English-language
periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain and provides the full text of selected
periodical articles. Subjects include: astronomy, atmospheric science, biology, botany,
chemistry, conservation, earth science, environment, food, genetics, health, mathematics,
medicine, microbiology, nutrition, oceanography, physics, physiology, and zoology. Periodical
coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals with indexing
beginning in 1984.

GreenFile: This database provides full-text access to a collection of almost 5,000 sources
"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."
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: This database is designed for nursing and allied
health students and provides access to almost "550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many
medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug
Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand
names."
MagillOnLiterature Plus: This database provides author biographies, plot summaries and
character overviews of famous works of literature. This resource is the online equivalent of the
print Masterplots series.
MEDLINE: Developed and maintained by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is the
most comprehensive and authoritative database for information on medicine, nursing, health,
"pre-clinical sciences, and much more." Contains links to selected full-text sources available with
the EBSCO family of databases.
Newspaper Source Plus: This database provides access to more than 860 full-text newspapers,
including the Ventura County Star. Also, this database includes almost 1 million television and
radio news transcripts.
PsycARTICLES: A database of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in
psychology from the American Psychological Association (APA). It contains more than 153,000
articles from nearly 80 journals published by the APA, its imprint the Educational Publishing
Foundation, and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association.
Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection: According to EBSCO, "this is the world's
largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals." This
resource provides access to journal articles on all "topics in emotional and behavioral
characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational &
experimental methods."
Religion and Philosophy Collection: This database is the one to use when researching topics
such as eschatology, "world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history,
epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of
philosophy." This resource contains access to over 300 full text journals.
Social Sciences Full Text: This database indexes more than 625 English-language journals
published in the U.S. and elsewhere; more than 400 of these journals are peer-reviewed. Full
text articles are available in 215 journals, some titles going back to 1995. Subject coverage
includes: Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Economics, Environmental Studies, Geography,
International Relations, Minority Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban
Studies.
eLibrary

This broad-based database is comprised of articles from hundreds of popular magazines and
scholarly journals, dozens of current newspapers and newswires, thousands of television and
radio transcripts, photographs and maps, and numerous reference books. The database can be
searched by subject and all articles may be printed from the computer screen or e-mailed.
InfoTrac
Academic OneFile: A database of peer-reviewed articles from nearly 13,000 academic journals
in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and
other subjects. Many of the articles are full-text and available in both PDF and HTML formats.
Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. All articles have been published
between 1980 and 2011.
Gale Virtual Reference Library: A collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference
volumes, in ebook format, for multidisciplinary research. The diverse subject areas from which
the volumes have been chosen include: Arts, Literature, Biography, Sciences, and Social
Sciences. These reference materials, originally published in print format, are now accessible
electronically and can be searched by keyword, article title, or subject. Articles may be printed or
e-mailed.
Health & Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module: For information on a wide
range of health topics, this database includes material from magazines, journals, pamphlets,
and selected reference books. The database covers material printed from 1997 to the present.
Full text articles may be printed from the computer screen or e-mailed.
Health Reference Center Academic: For information on topics in the health care area, this
database includes articles on: fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health,
occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, etc. The
database covers materials printed from 1980 to the present and may be searched by subject.
Full text articles may be printed from the computer screen or e-mailed.
Literature Resource Center: This database provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and
critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. The entries cover more than
120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of
2,500 of the most-studied authors. Articles may be printed from the computer screen or emailed.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context: This database draws on the acclaimed social issues series
published by Greenhaven Press, as well as other reference content. This resource examines
social issues and provides access to a large collection of viewpoint articles, topic overviews,
statistics, primary documents, full-text magazine and newspaper articles, biographies, courtcase overviews, links to websites, podcasts, and image galleries.
The Shakespeare Collection: This collection provides access to authoritative materials
supporting literary, textual, historical, and performance studies concerning Shakespeare.
Resources include the most recent Arden Shakespeare editions of the complete works, as well
as editions and adaptations of Shakespeare's works, other works published during
Shakespeare's time, prompt books, the Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diaries, criticism, reviews,
images, and reference.

Issues and Controversies

Current issues database that provides objective analysis of opposing points of view on topics of
current and historical interest. Articles are full text and searchable by keyword. More than 300
topics are included with coverage beginning in Sept. 1995. The database can be searched by
subject and all articles may be printed from the computer screen or e-mailed.
Issues and Controversies in American History
Examining a wide range of topics in American History, this database combines authoritative,
factual accounts with in-depth explanations of opposing viewpoints concerning contentious
issues in American history. Searchable by subject, this database provides quick access to
timelines, biographies, images, charts, historical texts, and interviews. Primary documents are
included which give the points of view on all sides of debates as they were articulated at the
time. Information may be printed or e-mailed.
JSTOR
This archive provides access to back issues of more than 500 scholarly journals spanning many
disciplines. This is not a current issues database; typically there is a gap from 1 to 5 years
between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.
Articles can be searched by key word. Retrieved articles appear as high-resolution, scanned
images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed and printed.
LexisNexis
This database provides access to information on topics in law and legal research, companies
and business, and health and medicine; coverage also includes subjects in the news. Indexes
more than 15,000 sources including: newspapers, academic journals, magazines, wire services
and media news transcripts from the major television and radio networks, federal and state court
opinions, and federal and state statutes. Many of the articles are in full text; some are in abstract
form. News information is updated daily and wire services are updated several times daily.
Los Angeles Times Digital Microfilm
A collection, beginning in 2008, of the microfilmed pages of the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
Proquest National Newspapers
This database, searchable by subject and author, provides full-text articles from five of the major
U.S. newspapers. The coverage of the papers is as follows: Christian Science Monitor, 1995+;
Los Angeles Times, 1986+; New York Times, 1999+; Wall Street Journal, 1986+; and
Washington Post, 1997+. Articles can be printed from the computer screen or emailed.
Science [online journal]
This database provides subject access to articles that have appeared, since 1996, in Science, a
leading journal of scientific research, global news, and commentary. Also included is access to
Science NOW, a daily news source for scientific briefs. A separate collection of scientific job
notices in industry, academia and government is also searchable.
Springer eBook Collection
An online electronic book collection of more than 7700 titles whose content reaches across the
fields of: biology, business, economics, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental
science, engineering, humanities, social sciences, law, math and statistics, medicine (including

nursing), physics, astronomy, and how-to computer software and programming. The subject
content is especially strong in scientific fields and the resources include textbooks and reference
works as well as some open source journal articles.
Vocational Biographies
With this database, you can career-shadow up to 1,001 persons from across America. Here
exploring careers is easy and fun. The information is both deep and sweeping. 1,170 persons
currently employed in 1,170 occupations tell it like it really is on the jobs and before they got
them.