New databases available
- StatRef
StatRef is a collection of full-text electronic books in the healthcare field. Access such titles as Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary and AHFS Drug Information.
- LexisNexis Academic LexisNexis Academic allows access to articles and information about News, Legal, Business and People.
- Proquest Curriculum
An online journal database. Includes special collections in the areas of science, psychology, social science and criminal justice.
Books
- CCSNH Library Catalog
This catalog contains all the holdings of the seven campuses of the Community College System of New Hampshire. Limit your search to River Valley CC for just our holdings. Also, see the User Guide for more detailed information on searching.
- New Hampshire Statewide Catalog
The NHU-PAC reflects the holdings of the 375 public, school, academic, and special libraries that make up the New Hampshire Automated Information System (NHAIS). To obtain an item listed in the NHUPAC, please submit an interlibrary loan request with library staff.
Worldcat.org
WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. WorldCat grows every day thanks to the efforts of librarians and other information professionals.
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
Net Library- *Must establish an account to access off campus. Please see library staff.
Net Library provides access to thousands of full text books online. You can search by author, title, and subject.
StatRef
A collection of electronic reference books in the healthcare field. Access the full text of key reference sources such as Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, AHFS Drug Information and the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy.
Novelist
NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
Free online version of these classic reference sources
Medline Plus
MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.
Vault Online Career Library
Access to online career information and guidance. Read firsthand information about specific occupations or career paths. You can also download the full-text of print guides that cover everything from interview techniques to writing cover letters. This resource is currently available on campus only.
Owl online writing laboratory
An excellent online writing resource. Provides writing and research tips as well as guides to citing resouces in APA and MLA formats.
Bartleby.com
A collection of free online reference sources inclduing a thesaurus, quotation guides and encyclopedias.
Ebsco Animals
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
Serials Directory
Provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. This invaluable resource is made available via EBSCOhost®. It contains nearly 212,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; data from nearly 108,235 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses; and Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications for every entry.
Newspapers
Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
New Hampshire Index
Index to articles from NH newspapers and periodicals pertaining to state issues, culture and history from 1984-present.
New Hampshire Newspapers Online
Links to online versions of New Hampshire newspapers
Journal Databases -
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An online resource containing thousands of full text periodicals. Articles can be viewed online and printed or downloaded. Try Academic Search Premier or one of the many subject specific databases (some are listed below.) This resource can be accessed from any computer on campus as well as from home. To use this resource off campus, please see library staff for the password.
Proquest
An online journal database. Includes special collections in the areas of science, psychology, social science and criminal justice.
General subject coverage
Academic Search Premier
The worlds largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
MasterFILE Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags.
TOPICsearch
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in todays classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 139,800 articles from more than 4,800 diverse sources.
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Health/Medicine
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CINAHL plus with full text
The world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, nearly 400 have cover-to-cover indexing in CINAHL. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
This database provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
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 features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals.
MEDLINE
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 allows users to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
Education
ERIC
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.
Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
MAS Ultra - School Edition
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 700 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags.
Middle Search Plus
Middle Search Plus provides full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high 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. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags.
Primary Search
Primary Search provides full text for nearly 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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Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier, is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
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This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Vocational and Career Collection
Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.
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