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VETERINARY & ANIMAL SCIENCE


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MEDLINE

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

Science Direct

A database of over nine hundred high-quality, peer-reviewed journal articles covering Health and Life Sciences.

View the tutorial on Advanced Searching.

Science Database

Science Database contains over 7.3 million full text articles from over 1,600 sources and includes charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements in the literature.

JSTOR Biological Sciences

This includes 138 titles offering depth in fields such as biodiversity, botany, conservation, ecology, paleontology, plant science, and zoology.

Google Scholar

Search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.  If you are using this from off-campus, be sure to enable links to HCC resources (instructions)

Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic

Designed for doctors, research scientists, students, and clinical specialists, this database provides full text for over 100 journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study. All titles included in the Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic Edition are indexed in MEDLINE.

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Academic Search Complete

Provides full-text access to thousands of journals, including peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

View an online tutorial.

Academic OneFile

Academic OneFile is a source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's English language journals and reference sources. It has extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects, and millions of full-text articles available in both PDF and HTML.

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Films on Demand

Films on Demand is a comprehensive collection of high-quality educational videos licensed from a long established educational media distributor (Films for the Humanities and Sciences).  Other content providers for Films on Demand include BBC Shakespeare, HBO, Davidson Films, California Newsreel, PBS and many more.  Over 50,000 videos cover a wide range of topics organized into broad subjects. Individual segments subdivide each video into discrete shorter units.

Kanopy Streaming

Kanopy is a leading distributor of educational videos. Major subjects covered include the arts, business and training, health sciences, media and communication, natural sciences, social sciences, and teacher education. Users can search, browse and stream videos. Login Instructions

Online Books

Ebook Central

This is a collection of over 50,000 books online.

HCC Online Catalog

Most of HCC's online books are linked from the online catalog. The catalog also includes physical items in the library: reference books, circulating books, music, dvds, audio books, and other media. You may also use the online catalog to search for items in your public library.

eBook Academic Collection

This growing subscription package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter, and is a strong complement for any academic collection. The breadth of information available through this package ensures that users will have access to information relevant to their research needs.

We also have access to this Collection of EBSCO e-books.

A collection of thousands of e-books that can be read online or with the EBSCO eBooks App. 

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Simultaneously search through more than 200 encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Selected Journals

Search the databases or see the full journal list to find other journals

ZoteroBib

ZoteroBib ZoteroBib helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device, without creating an account or installing any software. If you need a citation tool with more features, consider Zotero.

MyBib Citation Generator

MyBib is a free online citation bibliography creation tool. It can create citations and bibliographies in many styles including MLA and APA. MyBib allows you to paste in a website URL or even search for a book, article, or other source by title, and will pull most of the information you need to create a citation (though you may need to double check that the information is correct and complete).

Once you've created your citations, MyBib allows you to copy paste your citations, download them as a Word document, save them to your Google Drive, print them, or email them to yourself.

You can also contact us at the library. We are here to help!

HCC has a Writing Center that can help with citations and examples can be seen in the MLA Guide and APA Guide from Purdue.

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