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MasterFILE Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags.
General OneFile
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles.
CQ Researcher
The CQ Researcher is an excellent source on the most critical events and controversial subjects of the day. Each of the 44 weekly issues offers a balanced, in-depth analysis of a contemporary topic by a veteran journalist, pro and con arguments by experts, a chronology, and annotated bibliographies to guide additional research. The CQ Researcher reports on important issues in a wide range of areas including social, economic, political, and environmental policy.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
This database provides contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues including the Death Penalty, Gun Control, Genetic Engineering, Censorship, Endangered Species, and Terrorism.
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Global Issues in Context
Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.
Massachusetts News Sources
Search through ten local newspapers simultaneously: Advocate (North Adams), Amherst Bulletin, Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield), Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton), North Adams Transcript, Recorder (Greenfield), Republican (Springfield), Springfield Advocate, Springfield Examiner, and the Valley Advocate.
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Pop Culture Studies
This collection provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art or liberal arts course. This collection is made up of 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals, complemented by eight eBook titles.
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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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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.
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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
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 Central
This is a collection of over 50,000 books online.
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.
Food Justice (Compiled by Elizabeth Trobaugh)
People
1. $15 Wage In Fast Food Stirs Debate On Effects.
2. A Day's Strike Seeks to Raise Fast-Food Pay. (cover story)
3. A New Kind of Poverty.
4. America's Food Crisis and How to Fix It. (cover story)
5. Better Pay Now
6. Competitive Foods, Discrimination, and Participation in the National School Lunch Program.
7. DIET DESERTS
8. Fast Food
9. Fields of Poison.
10. Food Deserts Suffer Persistent Socioeconomic Disadvantage.
11. FOOD ENVIRONMENT, FOOD STORE ACCESS, CONSUMER BEHAVIOR, AND DIET.
12. In the Strawberry Fields.
13. Labor Rights for Farm Workers
14. Lunch Lessons
15. McDonald's helpline to employee: Go on food stamps
16. Michelle's Moves
17. On Eating Animals
18. Taxing Junk Food to Counter Obesity
19. The Flip Side of Food Studies
20. THE HIDDEN LINK BETWEEN FACTORY FARMS AND HUMAN ILLNESS
Animals
1. America's Food Crisis and How to Fix It. (cover story)
2. Animal welfare.
3. EPA Gives away the Farm.
4. Hogging the table.
5. NEW GUIDANCE FOR CAFOS
6. On Eating Animals
7. THE HIDDEN LINK BETWEEN FACTORY FARMS AND HUMAN ILLNESS
Land
1. America's Food Crisis and How to Fix It. (cover story)
2. EPA Gives away the Farm.
3. Hogging the table.
4. Fields of Poison.
5. In the Strawberry Fields.
6. NEW GUIDANCE FOR CAFOS
7. PHOSPHORUS FIELDS
Water
1. America's Food Crisis and How to Fix It. (cover story)
2. EPA Gives away the Farm.
3. Fields of Poison.
4. Hogging the table.
5. Home, Home on the Latrine
6. In the Strawberry Fields.
7. NEW GUIDANCE FOR CAFOS
8. PHOSPHORUS FIELDS
Online Literature
Links to freely available literature and literature found in the public domain to support courses.
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.
