Off-campus access to these resources may require a password for our library.

Database Provider List

Database Name List

Databases organized by Type, and then Subject. Page is divided into four sections:

• Full-text Periodical: General - News - Business - Allied Health - Education
• Citation-Only
• Full-text Reference: General - Literature - Arts - Politics/Society
• Other: Trial databases, Free Periodicals, Public library databases

Full Text Periodical Databases  

General Purpose

• Academic Search Premier - Has a little bit of everything. Full text for over 4,500 periodical titles. [EBSCO]
• Research Library - Full text for over 2,600 general and academic journals plus abstracts and indexing for over 3,900 additional periodicals. [ProQuest]
• History Resource Center: World - For world history. 130 full text journals, plus primary sources and some monographs. NB: For Gale off-campus use, the user name may already be set, so only password is needed. [Gale]
• Ethnic Newswatch - An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. [ProQuest]
• OAIster - The pearls of the web. An aggregator database to find the best free web content. Includes links to articles, books, images, video, audio, datasets, and more. [FirstSearch]  

Newspapers and News Magazines

• ProQuest Newsstand - Full text of 300+ U.S. and international news sources. [ProQuest]
• National Newspapers Core - The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. [ProQuest]
• Washington State Newsstand - 18 newspapers from Washington State. [ProQuest]
• Bellingham Herald - Local content full text from 1999 to the present. [Newsbank]
• America's News Magazines - 28 news and culture magazines. [Newsbank]
• Regional Business News - Full text coverage for regional business journals, newspapers, and newswires. [EBSCO]
• Ethnic Newswatch - An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. [ProQuest]

Business

• Business Source Elite - Full text for nearly 1,100 business publications. [EBSCO]
• ABI/Inform Trade & Industry - More than 1200 business periodicals with a trade or industry focus. [ProQuest]
• Regional Business News - Full text coverage for regional business journals, newspapers, and newswires. [EBSCO]

Nursing and Allied Health

• CINAHL Plus - The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature database has more than 750 full text periodicals. [EBSCO]
• HealthSource - Nursing / Academic Edition. Has nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names. [EBSCO]

Education

• Teacher Journals - 21 education and library periodicals. [ProQuest]

Citation-Only Periodical Databases

• A to Z - The periodical databases WCC subscribes to are listed, and you can find out which periodical titles are available, as well as which database has them. Some titles are available in multiple databases. This is for publications as a whole, not articles.
• ArchiveGrid - Search a combined index of the archives of more than 2,500 museums, historical societies, archives, and libraries. On-campus use only - contact the library for log-on information.
• GreenFILE - Information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. [EBSCO]
• ECO (Electronic Collections Online) - [FirstSearch]
• ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) - [FirstSearch]
• MedLine - [FirstSearch] [NLM Gateway]
• GPO (US Government Printing Office Monthly Report) - [FirstSearch] [GPO Access]
• ArticleFirst - [FirstSearch]
• PapersFirst - [FirstSearch]
• Proceedings - [FirstSearch]

Full Text Reference Databases

General-purpose Academic

• Encyclopedia Britannica - Access to the online academic version. We also have this encyclopedia in print at AE5.E363 in Reference.
• NetLibrary - Full text electronic books -- search for key terms or browse the table of contents and read the book online. For off-campus access, first create an account while on campus. (www.netlibrary.org)
• Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - [FirstSearch: World Almanac]
• The World Almanac and Book of Facts - [FirstSearch: World Almanac]
• The World Almanac of the U.S.A. - [FirstSearch: World Almanac]
• The World Almanac for Kids - [FirstSearch: World Almanac]

Literature

• Contemporary Authors - [Gale]
• Contemporary Literary Criticism - [Gale]
• Dictionary of Literary Biography - [Gale]
• NB: For Gale off-campus use, the user name may already be set, so only password is needed.

Arts

• ARTstor - Image database, with over 500,000 images of art objects, paintings, photographs, and more. For off-campus access, first create an account while on campus.
• CAMIO - Catalog of Art Museum Images Online. 95,000+ images that are rights-cleared for academic use. On-campus access only.
• Naxos Music Library - Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive collection of classical music for streaming over the internet. It also has some jazz, folk, and world music. Streaming only - the music is not in a format suitable for downloading. If there are too many users accessing Naxos at once and you are denied access, please try at another time.
• Naxos Off-campus access

Politics and Society

• CQ Researcher - An electronic library of issues in the news. Statistics, opinions, essays and more on both sides of current controversial issues. Also available in PRINT in the library Reference section: H35.C672.
• CultureGrams - Online version of a popular print resource that explores culture, demographics, and more for countries around the world. See GT150.C85 in both Reference and Stacks for print versions.
• World Conflicts Today - created and maintained by CultureGrams. Has reports and slideshows, and provides background, statistics, and analysis.
• The World Almanac of U.S. Politics - [FirstSearch: World Almanac]
• The Ethnic Cultures of America - [ProQuest: Reference]
• Occupational Outlook Handbook - [ProQuest: Reference] [Bureau of Labor Statistics]

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Trial Databases

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Free Periodical Resources

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Online Resources available with a valid public library card from the Bellingham Public Library and the Whatcom County Library System.

Each has slightly different offerings (eg BPL has a Virtual Reference product, and WCLS has Biographical and Business databases that BPL doesn't)