Truckee Meadows Community College Libraries

Electronic Articles

Passwords

Please note that these databases require a password to use from outside of TMCC (e.g. home). Passwords are available to TMCC students through MyTMCC or by contacting the library reference desk.

Current/Controversial Issues
  • CQ Researcher - Excellent database to start with when searching for current/controversial topics.
  • Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - Use this collection of articles to find opinions on hundreds of subjects from abortion to women's rights. The articles in the collection are from magazines, journals, newspapers and other sources.
  • Issues and Controversies - Another excellent database to start with when searching for current/controversial topics.
  • SIRS - Broad collection of magazines, newspapers, and primary historical documents.
Magazine, Journal and Newspaper Collections
  • AnthroSource (on-campus only) - Full text journals from the American Anthropological Association.
  • EBSCO - Over 7,000 full-text journals and magazines covering all academic disciplines.
  • ERIC - Huge database of education articles, lesson plans and other materials for K-12 teachers and administrators.
  • JSTOR - "An interdisciplinary archive of over 600 journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences."
  • Medline Plus - contains a medical encyclopedia, a drug database, a medical dictionary, a disease database, and surgery vidoes.
  • ProQuest - More than 1,500 full text journals and magazines covering all academic disciplines.
  • Newsbank - Search thousands of newspapers and other sources for news and events.
  • Public Library of Science (PLoS) - PLoS is a Non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature freely accessible to scientists and to the public around the world...
  • PubMed - Indexes thousands of medical and dental journals.
Online Reference Collections and FMG Videos

See also: Library Research Guides

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