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A-Z Maps Online Over 4,000 proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps, including political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month.     ABI/Inform Trade & Industry Thousands of journals that help researchers track business and economic conditions, trends, corporate strategies, management techniques worldwide.     AccessScience Access to authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology, including data, tables, images, illustrations, news, features, and research tips. Search by content type, collection, topic or sub-topic, with semantic search, corrective spelling, and results filtering.     ALLDATA Provides electronic automotive diagnostic and repair information, including diagnostic and repair information, factory technical service bulletin pages and illustrations, and original equipment wiring diagrams.  Please click on the word "ALLDATA" in the left hand column. ALLDATA  access is only available from computers in Raymond Library and the Automotive Department.  Alt-PressWatch Full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals from alternative and independent presses that provide v viewpoints and perspectives to complement and challenge mainstream media coverage.     ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. The ARTstor Digital Library Charter Collection is: A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data; The tools to actively use those images; and A restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content users ARTstor provides curated collections of art images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use. Instructor access Off-campus access is available to currently enrolled students and employees of Yakima Valley Community College   ATSDR Toxicological Profiles Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) produces "toxicological profiles" for hazardous substances found at National Priorities List (NPL) sites. These hazardous substances are ranked based on frequency of occurrence at NPL sites, toxicity, and potential for human exposure. Toxicological profiles are developed from a priority list of 275 substances. ATSDR also prepares toxicological profiles for the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Energy (DOE) on substances related to federal sites   Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database (University of Minnesota) Microbial biocatalytic reactions and biodegradation pathways primarily for xenobiotic, chemical compounds. Biochemical Pathways database (BioPath)   Contains data derived from the Roche Applied Science "Biochemical Pathways" wall chart. BioPath provides access to biological transformations and regulations   BIOLOGY WORKBENCH A web-based tool for biologists, the WorkBench allows biologists to search many popular protein and nucleic acid sequence databases. Database searching is integrated with access to a wide variety of analysis and modeling tools, all within a point and click interface that eliminates file format compatibility problems.  Requires free registration.    CENSTATS   Numerous statistics from the U.S. federal government, including Building Permits, Consolidated Federal Funds Report, County Business Patterns, Detailed Occupation by Race, Hispanic Origin and Sex data, USA Counties data, ZIP Code Business Patterns, and the Annual survey of manufacturers.   COLUMBIA GRANGER'S WORLD POETRY Over 250,000 poems in full text that are the most widely-read in the English language, as well as in Spanish, French, German, and Italian and 450,000 citations.  Includes poetry in Portuguese, Polish, Yiddish, Welsh, Gaelic, and other Celtic languages, as well as poems in the ancient languages: Anglo-Saxon, Provencal and Latin. It also offers complete coverage of the works of several individual great poets, including the complete poems of Shelley, Blake, Burns, Keats, Marvell, Poe, Unamuno, Heine, Baudelaire, and other major poets.     A reference tool for students offering over 575 titles from over 70 publishers covering most major subjects.      culturegrams Includes different "editions" and features related to world cultures: World edition - Experience the cultures of over 180 countries and territories in reports that include maps, statistics, a glossary, and in depth information. STATES EDITION - Tour the 50 U. S. states and the District of Columbia in reports filled with facts, symbols, and time lines. PHOTO GALLERY - More than 600 images representing over 50 countries. FAMOUS PEOPLE - Short biographies on countries' best-known individuals. RECIPE COLLECTION - Native recipes from every country included in Culture Grams     Search more than one EBSCO database in one search  primary Ebsco databases -  Search more than one EBSCO database in one search ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE - Comprehensive 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. ERIC - 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. Secondary Ebsco databases Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia - Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.  GREENFILE - Collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records. Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) - Indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. MAS Ultra - School Edition  - Provides full text for over 460 general interest and current events magazines. Military AND GOVERNMENT COLLECTION  Provides full text for over 320 military related periodicals and general interest magazines.  Primary Search -  Provides full text for 50 children's magazines and over 100 children's pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.   Off-campus access is available to currently enrolled students and employees of Yakima Valley Community College   AUDIOBOOKS   Downloadable audio books!  Listen to a book anytime, anyplace or anywhere!       Off-campus access is available to currently enrolled students and employees of Yakima Valley Community College     EBOOOKS   Collection of eBook titles on EBSCOhost.  Additional ebooks are available in the CATALOG.  To locate the entire collection, use the initials ACLS in the search dialog box. Off-campus access is available to currently enrolled students and employees of Yakima Valley Community College     eLibrary   A comprehensive, general reference collection of full-text versions of magazines, newspapers, reference books and TV, radio and government transcripts, maps and audio/video resources. It's collection covers reading levels through college and can be searched by keyword, topic, subject, publication or natural language question.   Encyclopedia Britannica Online Academic Edition   Encyclopædia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, in addition to other research tools. Environmental Fate Data Base (EFDB) DATALOG is a bibliographic file containing 18 types of environmental fate data. BIOLOG, or the Microbial Degradation/Toxicity File, provides sources of microbial toxicity and biodegradation data. CHEMFATE is a data value file containing 25 categories of environmental fate and physical/chemical property information on commercially important chemical compounds. BIODEG contains experimental values relating to biodegradation subjects. BIODEG SUMMARY provides summary evaluation and reliability codes for different test methods, as well as summaries for biodegradability under aerobic and anaerobic conditions.   ERIC Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.      Ethnic NewsWatch Interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish), and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story."     Current information in core databases maintained by Facts On File:  News Service, Reuters News (last two weeks): Issues and Controversies Issues and Controversies in American History  today's science World Almanac - Incorporated into the Facts on File World News Digest WORLD ALMANAC ENCYCLOPEDIA - Incorporated into the Facts on File World News Digest World News Digest Off-campus access is available to currently enrolled students and employees of Yakima Valley Community College   FedStats Provides access to statistical data from over 70 federal agencies.  Includes popular items, such as Statistical Abstract of the United States, the State and Metropolitan Area Data Book, as well as Press Releases for the latest data.   FIRSTSEARCH Access several databases, including WorldCat (the world's largest database of information about books and other library materials), ERIC, GPO and MEDLINE.  Search several databases with a single, easy-to-use interface. Off-campus access is available to currently enrolled students and employees of Yakima Valley Community College   GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress. Often called the "congressional watchdog," GAO investigates how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars.       GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) provides publishing and dissemination services for the official and authentic government publications to Congress, Federal agencies, Federal depository libraries, and the American public.  Includes access to the Federal Digital System (FDsys) and the GPO Bookstore.       Health and Wellness Resource Center Health & Wellness Resource Center  is a comprehensive resource for libraries, schools, and hospitals that provides integrated access to medical, health, and wellness information. Off-campus access is available to currently enrolled students and employees of Yakima Valley Community College IN THE FIRST PERSON English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. (Primary documents)   INFORMATION BRIDGE   Provides an open source to full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.     Jstor Register & Read (limited access) Register & Read is an experimental program to offer free, read-online access to individual scholars and researchers who register for a MyJSTOR account.  It includes approximately 75 journals from more than 40 publishers, a subset of the content in JSTOR. This includes content from the first volume and issue published for these journals through a recent year (generally 3-5 years ago).     LITERARY CRITICISM ONLINE (Gale publications) Provides access to centuries to tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays of analysis of the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals with the exact look and feel of the print originals.  The database includes: Contemporary Literary Criticism Drama Criticism Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism Poetry Criticism Short Story Criticism Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism On-line index to all Gale literary publications   MACROMOLECULAR STRUCTURE DATABASE European project for the collection, management and distribution of data about macromolecular structures, derived in part from the Protein Data Bank (PDB).   Metalloprotein site Database and Browser (MDB) Contains quantitative information on all the metal-containing sites available from structures in the PDB distribution. This database contains geometrical and molecular information that allows the classification and search of particular combinations of site characteristics. Provides automotive repair information, auto repair data and diagnostics, auto repair manuals, auto maintenance, labor estimating, integrated repair, estimating, shop management software solutions. Click on the "Mitchell 1 Logo" in the left hand column and click "member log-in" on the Mitchell 1 homepage. Mitchell 1 access is only available from computers in Raymond Library and the Automotive Department.      NASA's GLOBAL CHANGE MASTER DIRECTORY (GCMD) Provides descriptions of Earth science data sets and services relevant to global change research. The GCMD database includes descriptions of data sets covering agriculture, the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and oceans, snow and ice, geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, and human dimensions of global change.       NTIS (National Technical Information Service) The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) is the largest central resource for U.S. government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information. 1990-Present.       NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Access to NIST scientific and technical data. These data cover a broad range of substances and properties from many different scientific disciplines.     PROQUEST DIRECT (search all Proquest databases with this link) Proquest Databases:  This link defaults to searching of all the databases to which we subscribe, unless you select specific databases.  Proquest includes citations, abstracts, and select full text articles  YVCC subscribes to the following Proquest products: ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry  - Search more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Provides the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more. Alt-Press Watch (APW) - A full text database comprised of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. ETHNIC NEWSWATCH (ENW) - An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. This current database begins its coverage in 1990. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR - major daily newspaper covering national and international news and noted for unbiased, concise, and comprehensive coverage. CRIMINAL JUSTICE PERIODICAL INDEX - A comprehensive collection of U.S. and international criminal justice journals including information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. Los Angeles Times - Major daily newspaper from Los Angeles. With the nation's largest editorial department, it offers extensive coverage of national, international, and local news. NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS (3 Abstracts) -  New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal. National Newspaper Core - Detailed indexing helps you find news information.  Access to top news stories and the information contained in the various sections of the papers. The indexing covers not only complete bibliographic information but also companies, people, products, etc New York Times - Full-text coverage of the US newspaper of record. Offers superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts. NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH SOURCE - Abstracting and indexing for more than 650 leading nursing, allied health, and related publications titles, with over 580 titles in full-text. PROQUEST GOLD - Comprehensive collection of over 800 magazines, newspapers, and reference works from around the world.  It provides the depth and breadth required for in-depth study with search options including keyword, Boolean, subject, topic, natural language, or publication. PROQUEST PLATINUM - Comprehensive collection of  more than 2,000 titles that meet a wide range of research demands, ranging from general reference to advanced subject matters. Research Library - Search for coverage of a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. U. S. NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS - Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. WALL STREET JOURNAL - financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news. WASHINGTON POST - Coverage of national, international, and local news. The Washington Post is renowned for its political reporting, editorials and columnists. Washington State Newsstand - Full-text coverage of major Washington newspapers including the daily newspapers from Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane and Vancouver, plus selected coverage of other regional sources Off-campus access is available to currently enrolled students and employees of Yakima Valley Community College Proquest is provided jointly by the Washington State Library and YVCC and is paid for in part with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA)  funds.   PROQUEST NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH SOURCE Abstracting and indexing for more than 650 leading nursing, allied health, and related publications titles, with over 580 titles in full-text.        PUBMED   National Library of Medicine's free periodical index to medical journals.  Interlibrary loan is available for journals that YVCC library does not own.  Ask a librarian for assistance.   Portal for SIRS® Issues Researcher, SIRS® Government Reporter, SIRS® Renaissance and SIRS® WebSelect. Updated daily, it provides valuable information on current social issues, economics, business, politics, global issues, scientific developments, health, history, government, culture, the arts and humanities. Full-text articles, primary source documents, multimedia and Internet resources are selected from thousands of reputable domestic and international publications and respected organizations.   TOXNET Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.   VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE "Structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media."     U.S. HISTORY IN CONTEXT Provides integrated access to over 1,000 historical (primary) documents, more then 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes access to the citations for over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Off-campus access is available to currently enrolled students and employees of Yakima Valley Community College   WORLD CONFLICTS TODAY Created and is maintained by Culture Grams, part of ProQuest provides digital content from primary and secondary sources spanning thousands of titles and multiple media types  related to current world conflicts.  Although geared for K-12, some of the information and sources may be beneficial to college level students.        WORLD HISTORY IN CONTEXT Features extensive coverage of the 20th century, both geographically and chronologically.  It also includes ancient Mediterranean, Near East, Asia, Middle East, Latin America, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. From antiquity to the present, world history curricula is reflected by content from over 2,000 primary sources, 25 reference titles and from 110 academic journals.  Off-campus access is available to currently enrolled students and employees of Yakima Valley Community College