YVCC LIBRARY/MEDIA-DATABASES

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	Thousands of journals that help researchers track business and economic conditions, trends, corporate strategies, management techniques worldwide.
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, Grandview 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 ARTstore access is limited 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.
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 - The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. 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. MAGILL ON LITERATURE PLUS - An online source for editorially reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature. It is also a comprehensive reference database comprising information on over 1,500 notable authors, including over 10 Critical Surveys and three Magill's Choice series, as well as World Philosophers and Their Works. This database is compiled by Salem Press. 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. EBSCO Host databases access is limited 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.
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): Facts on File The World News Digest 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 Facts On File access is limited 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. Firstsearch access is limited to currently enrolled students and employees of Yakima Valley Community College
GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE	Publicly available GAO reports since October 1, 1994.
GPO ACCESS	U.S. Government Printing Office free online service of over 1,500 databases of Federal information.
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 through an intuitive Web interface. Health & Wellness Resource Center access is limited to currently enrolled students and employees of Yakima Valley Community College
HISTORY RESOURCE CENTER - U.S.	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. History Resource Center - U.S. access is limited to currently enrolled students and employees of Yakima Valley Community College
HISTORY RESOURCE CENTER - WORLD	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. History Resource Center - World. access is limited 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.
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
Liquid Crystal Database	Bibliographic database which contains references (Title, Author, Journal, Abstract, etc) to over 700 specialized records.
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).
Magill on Literature	Combines MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors and includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors.
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. Academic 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 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 - Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. 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. 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 WORLD Newspapers - Coverage of major world-wide newspapers. PROQUEST access is limited 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. Nursing and Allied Health Source portion of Proquest is paid by the YVCC Perkins Grant.
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.
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."
WORLD CONFLICTS TODAY	Created and is maintained by CultureGrams, 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.

Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database (University of Minnesota)