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Subject(s): All topics. Best for: Starting your research. Includes: scholarly journals, news, magazines, and videos.

Subject(s): All topics. Best for: Starting your research. Includes: scholarly journals, news, and magazines.

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Subject(s): All topics. Best for: Finding current events or primary sources. Includes: U.S. and global news.

Subject(s): African American history, key figures, and culture. Best for: Starting your research, choosing a topic, or finding sources from the time period. Includes: Broad overviews of eras in history, short entries on scholarly topics, and primary sources.

Subject(s): Historic and contemporary indigenous peoples of America. Best for: Starting your research, choosing a topic, or finding sources from the time period. Includes: Broad overviews of eras in history, short entries on scholarly topics, and primary sources.

Subject(s): Engineering, computer software, artificial intelligence, and space science. Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly sources or images. Includes: Scholarly journals, magazines, and images.

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Online descriptions of archival collections owned by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. No full-text access.

Subject(s): Architecture, art, design, and manufacturing. Includes: professional magazines, scholarly journals, conference papers, and news.

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Subject(s): English. Best for: Assignments on literature or authors. Includes: Literary criticisms, topic and work overviews, and author biographies.

Subject(s): Art, architecture, and humanities. Best for: Research or presentations that need images or primary sources. Includes: Images of art, architecture, and artists. Little to no research information is given for the images.

Best for: Assignments needing information on authors, scientists, politicians, artists, celebrities, historical figures, etc. Includes: Biographies, news, media, and some scholarly journals.

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The Books@Ovid database includes full text, references, updates, and graphics from some of the most respected book sources in medicine, nursing, and pharmacology.

Best for: Choosing your next book to read. Includes: Browsing by genre, subject, time period, authors, and more; however, the database does not include the text of the books themselves.

Subject(s): Economics, finance, and history. Best for: Researching major economic incidents in U.S. and world history, including the 21st Century global recession. Includes: Encyclopedia entries and essays.

Subject(s): Accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management, and general business. Best for: Current events in business or starting your research. Includes: News, magazines, and some scholarly journals.

Best for: Research on a specific company, industry, or brand. Includes: Industry reports, company profiles and histories, and company SWOT, financial, and investment reports.

Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research. Includes: Scholarly journals, professional magazines, and some news.

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Subject(s): History or humanities. Best for: Finding first-hand accounts or perspectives of the politics, society and events from 1849-1992. Includes: Archived issues.

Best for: Assignments about current issues facing colleges and universities. Includes: News

Subject(s): Nursing and allied health. Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research. Includes: Most comprehensive set of scholarly journals out of all the nursing databases.

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Subject(s): Computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries. Includes: trade magazines, news, and some scholarly journals.

Best for: Researching products for purchase. Includes: Product reviews and comparisons and consumer news.

Subject(s): Controversial topics. Best for: Starting your research. Includes: Easy to read Wikipedia type articles, pro/cons, and links to additional sources.

Includes: Online access to the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, often needed in courses at Seminole State.

Subject(s): Criminology, forensic pyschology, and some legal topics. Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research. Includes: Scholarly journals, gov. reports, magazines, and dissertations.

Subject(s): Business, sociology, and political science. Best for: Assignments that require statistical data, such as marketing plans or canvassing. Includes: Demographic data, such as race, income, spending, education, etc.

Subject(s): All topics. Best for: Assignments that require ebooks or book chapters. Includes: All ebooks from the publisher EBSCO.

Subject(s): All topics in education - Early childhood through university. Best for: Starting your research and easier to read introductions to topics. Includes: News, magazines, scholarly journals, and ebooks.

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Best for: Current events in the education profession and overviews of education topics. Includes: Professional magazines, news, and reports.

Best for: Starting your research. Includes: Easy to read wikipedia type articles on topics from the 1500's to the present.

Subject(s): All topics in education - Early childhood through university. Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research. Includes: Scholarly journals and research studies.

European Views of the Americas is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. Provides a unique perspective to your historical research.

Subject(s): All topics. Best for: Starting your research. Includes: scholarly journals, news, magazines, and videos.

Subject(s): All topics. Best for: Presentations needing visual aids or assignments that allow films as sources (create an optional personal account to save videos and create custom clips). Includes: Streaming educational videos.

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Best for: Local information and current news about Florida. Includes: 100 Florida-based news sources as well as television and radio broadcast transcripts.

Best for: Defining a term or concept. Includes: Short, easy to read reference entries.

Subject(s): Sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, and LGBTQ+ studies. Best for: Assignments that require scholarly, credible research. Includes: Scholarly journals, magazines, news, and dissertations.

Subject(s): All topics. Best for: Starting your research. Includes: scholarly journals, news, and magazines.

Subject(s): Environmental topics such as climate change, green building, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling. Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research. Includes: Scholarly journals and magazines.

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Subject(s): Environmental topics such as pollution, carbon markets, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling. Best for: Starting your research or choosing a topic. Includes: Wikipedia type articles, scholarly journals, magazines, news, statistics, primary sources, and podcasts.

Best for: Literature reviews or annotated bibliographies that require credible, scholarly research. Includes: Ability to search CINAHL, Health Source Consumer and Nursing, Medline, and PsycARTICLES in one place.

Best for: Easier to read introductions to diseases and treatments and assignments that require credible, scholarly research. Includes: Wikipedia-type articles, magazines, news, and scholarly journals.

Best for: Starting your research. Includes: Magazines, scholarly journals, news, and encyclopedia entries.

Subject(s): General health. Includes: Magazines, news, and some scholarly journals.

Best for: Starting your research. Includes: Reference entries, magazines, biographies, and images.

Subject(s): Business and marketing. Best for: Researching a particular company or industry or conducting a market analysis. Includes: Company and industry profiles and financial reports.

Subject(s): History, literature, political science, philosophy, language, and religion. Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research. Includes: Scholarly journals, magazines, news.

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Best for: Learning or reading in Spanish. Includes: Articles and images from Spanish magazines.

Subject(s): Education. Best for: Lesson planning for middle school learners. Includes: Sources and topics appropriate for middle school level.

Aimed at reaching young students learning styles and needs, this database only provides very basic information on the topics it contains.

Subject(s): All topics. Best for: Dual Enrollment students, starting your research. Includes: Magazines, journals, news, and some images.

Subject(s): Persuasive or controversial issues. Best for: Argument essays or speeches. Includes: Easy to read background and pro/con articles, primary sources, visual aids, and statistics.

Subject(s): Evidence based medicine. Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research and care plans. Includes: Brief, peer-reviewed evidence summaries.

Subject(s): Humanitites, social sciences, and sciences. Includes: Scholarly journals, book chapters, and primary sources.

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Subject(s): Latino American history, key figures, and culture. Best for: Starting your research, choosing a topic, or finding sources from the time period. Includes: Broad overviews of eras in history, short entries on scholarly topics, and primary sources.

Best for: Librarians researching in their field. Includes: Scholarly journals, book chapters, and book reviews.

Best for: Librarians researching in their field. Includes: Scholarly journals, book chapters, and book reviews.

Subject(s): English. Best for: Assignments on literature or authors. Includes: Literary criticisms, topic and work overviews, and author biographies.

Subject(s): Business, health, education, general science, and multicultural issues. Best for: Starting your research. Includes: Magazines, news, scholarly journals, and primary sources.

Subject(s): All topics. Best for: High school assignments. Includes: Magazines and news.

Subject(s): Clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and more. Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research. Includes: Scholarly journals and treatment guidelines.

Includes: Magazines, scholarly journals, trade publications, and some news.

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Includes: magazines, news, images, and some scholarly journals.

Includes: National and international news, opinion and commentary from 1985-present.

Subject(s): History or humanities. Best for: Finding first-hand accounts or perspectives of the politics, society and events from 1851-2014. Includes: Archived issues.

Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research or for additional review of concepts outside of class materials. Includes: Scholarly journals and ebooks, such as the Made Incredibly Easy series.

Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research. Includes: Scholarly journals.

Subject(s): Nursing and Allied Health. Includes: ebooks.

Subject(s): Persuasive or controversial issues. Best for: Argument essays or speeches and current events. Includes: Wikipedia type articles, pro/con articles, magazines, scholarly journals, and statistics.

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Subject(s): Art, architecture, and history. Includes: Art images, artist biographies, and short articles on art terms, archeaological sites, and works.

Includes: Definitions and origins of words and common phrases.

Includes: Three-dimensional images and animations that illustrate different anatomical concepts and functions, and surgical principles.

Subject(s): Childhood education. Best for: Education assignments with lesson planning or readers new to the English language. Includes: Elementary school level magazines and reference articles.

Online access to all of the publications that Seminole State students can use. Topics include the arts, business, health/medicine, history, literature, news, and social sciences.

Subject(s): Psychology and mental health. Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research. Includes: Scholarly journals.

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Best for: Current events in business.

Subject(s): Humanities, engineering, and the social sciences, life sciences, materials sciences, and health sciences. Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research. Includes: Scholarly journals

Subject(s): History, health, and literature. Best for: Defining terms or starting your research. Includes: Literary criticisms and easy to read wikipedia type articles.

Subject(s): Persuasive or controversial issues. Best for: Argument essays or speeches. Includes: Pro/con articles, news, and magazines.

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Best for: Assignments involving starting, operating, marketing, or maintaining a business. Includes: Example business plans, magazines, and scholarly journals.

Best for: Finding sources from the time period. Includes: Letters, speeches, laws, and other primary documents as well as short wikipedia type articles.

Subject(s): All topics but strongest in technical and scientific research. Best for: Assignments that require credible, scholarly research. Includes: Scholarly journals.

Subject(s): Classroom application of educational topics in all levels of education. Includes: Scholarly journals and professional magazines.

Subject(s): Nursing education. Best for: Staying up to date on current trends in nursing education. Includes: Articles from the journal, Teaching & Learning in Nursing.

Best for: Studying for exams such as the ASVAB, TEAS, GED, GRE, or NCLEX. Includes: Practice tests and test prep for high school, college, and career exams. Please note: once you enter the database, create a personal account to take practice tests and track your progress.

Subject(s): Literature, humanities, medicine, and history. Best for: In-depth overviews of a topic and starting your research. Includes: Book chapters, reference essays, and literary criticisms on short stories, poems, plays, and novels.

Subject(s): Business, history, or humanities. Best for: Finding first-hand accounts or perspectives of the politics, society and events from 1889-1998. Includes: Archived issues.

Subject(s): All topics. Best for: Search for items not found in Seminole State collections or Uborrow, then submit requests with our Interlibrary Loan Form

Best for: Easier to read overviews of historical perdiods. Includes: Short articles, biographies, primary sources, and videos.

Best for: Easier to read introductions to belief systems and key religious figures. Includes: Wikipedia type articles, biographies, and primary sources.