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ABI/INFORM Dateline (ProQuest) 
Focuses on hard-to-find local and regional business news about large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executives, marketing, finance, and industries. 
Coverage: 1985-current

ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) 
Search nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more.

Coverage:
1971 - current

AccessScience 
Full-text articles from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology featuring biographies of scientists, definitions of scientific and technical terms, late-breaking science and technology news.

Accounting & Tax (ProQuest) 
Based on the Accountants' Index, this quintessential tool for professionals provides current accounting, taxation, and financial management information.

Coverage:
1971 - current

ARTStor 
A digital library of approximately 400,000 images from a wide range of culture and time periods.

Asian Business (ProQuest) 
Covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications including Far Eastern Economic Review, Asiaweek, and many more.
Coverage:
1971 - present

Banking Information Source (ProQuest) 
Essential banking industry publications provide information about banking, the financial services industry, and industry trends.
Coverage: 1971- current

Biology Journals (ProQuest) 
Search over 200 leading journals in the field of biology.
Coverage: 1988- present

Business & Company Resource Center (Gale) 
Provides access to periodical articles in the following areas: domestic and international companies; company financials and earning estimates; investment reports; and industry and company rankings

Career and Technical Education (ProQuest)
Access to 440 journal titles with full-text articles covering the vocational and technical disciplines commonly taught in two-year and technical college.
Coverage: 1991 - present

College Source 
A virtual library representing over 30,000 college catalogs in full cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools.

Computing (ProQuest) 
Search top computing journals in full text for research on subjects such as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, and the Internet.
Coverage: 1998 - present

CountryWatch 
Access to profiles of 192 countries with demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information. Also provides daily news coverage and a five-year macroeconomic forecast for each country.

CQ Researcher 
Each weekly report in this database offers in-depth, non-biased coverage on a single "hot" issue. Issues covered include political and social topics, regular reports on international affairs, education, health, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
Coverage: 1991 - present

Education Journals (ProQuest) 
Search the leading full-text journals in education and related fields.
Coverage: 1988 - present

Encyclopedia Britannica 
A comprehensive reference database which includes the complete Encyclopedia Britannica (with more than 8,000 articles not found in the print edition), the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year.

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Features more than 3,900 authoritative and comprehensive articles in the life sciences. Coverage includes Biochemistry, Ecology, Genetics, Immunology, Plant Science and other related fields.

ERIC: Education Resources Information Center
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information.

Ethnic NewsWatch 
A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. A rich collection of articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. provide a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints.
Coverage: varies

European Business (ProQuest) 
Find the latest European business and financial information. Includes quality resources such as The Economist, Fortune, European Business Journal, and many more.
Coverage: 1971 - present

Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac)  
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images!

Health & Medical Complete (ProQuest) 
Designed to serve a wide range of people who need health information, this database provides coverage from leading health journals and essential medical journals in key medical specialties.
Coverage: varies

Health Reference Center- Academic (Gale) 
Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc.

Health & Wellness Resource Center (Gale)
Use this Resource Center to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, etc.

Hoover's Company Records (ProQuest) 
Find up to date information for over 40,000 public and non-public companies. Includes in-depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more.
Coverage: varies

LISTA: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Provides indexing to over 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. Subjects covered include librarianship, classification, cataloging, online information retrieval and many more. NOTE: This database does not provide access to full-text articles.  Contact a Reference Librarian (925- 685-1230 ext. 2246) for more information.

Literature Resource Center 
Provides access to biographies and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, and journalists. Includes The Twayne Author Series which provides biographical information and literary criticism for approximately 200 authors.

NetLibrary
Search and read over 5,000 books---all in digital format.  Books cover a wide array of subjects: history, social sciences, computers and technology and many more. Adobe Acrobat reader required.

Pharmaceutical News Index (ProQuest)
Search the definitive database of pharmacological news, research, and regulatory information. Covers the most important specialized publications in the pharmaceutical, health care, biotechnology, and medical device industries.
Coverage: varies

ProQuest National Newspapers
Coverage of 4 major newspapers, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor.
Coverage: varies

ProQuest Newspapers
Search the full collection of ProQuest's English Language newspapers.
Coverage: varies

ProQuest Northern California Newsstand
Search the full text of major Northern California newspapers including the San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, and the Oakland Tribune, plus selected coverage of other regional sources.
Coverage: varies

ProQuest Research Library
Provides access to full-text journals covering a broad range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology.
Coverage: 1971 - present.

ProQuest ALL databases
Allows you to search all ProQuests databases simultaneously.
Coverage: varies

Psychology Journals (ProQuest)
With complete full-text coverage from top psychology and related publications, this database meets the needs of both students and mental-health professionals.
Coverage: varies

PubMed
PubMed is a service of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 15 million citations from MEDLINE and other life sciences journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Religion (ProQuest)
Search a comprehensive collection of journals covering religious issues from the perspective of a particular religion, and formal theological studies.
Coverage: 1986 - present

Telecommunications (ProQuest)
Search the full text of top telecommunications industry publications. Includes magazines, journals, and newsletters for the latest in this fast changing industry.
Coverage: 1995 - present

World Data Analyst
World Data Analyst offers statistical portraits of the countries of the world and tools for making comparative charts and tables.


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