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EBSCOHost
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Databases covering general topics with full text coverage.

ProQuest
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Off Campus

Database containing full-text of national and international newspapers including the Wall Street Journal and New York Times . This database also includes Ethnic Newswatch Complete

The Gale Group
On Campus
Off Campus
General reference, legal, and business resources as well as a comprehensive literature resource center for biographies and literary criticism.
Biography Reference Bank
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Off Campus
Biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images.
SIRS
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Full text databases covering general references, news, U.S. government information, arts & humanities.
LitFinder
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Full text poems, short stories, essays, biographies, and criticism.
Oxford English Dictionary
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Off Campus
Guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
Oxford Reference Online Premium
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Off Campus
Dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works plus titles from the Oxford Companions Series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
Annals of American History
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Off Campus
U.S. history from 1493 to modern times in primary documents, pictures, hundreds of video clips and audio of famous speeches.
Ethnic News Watch
   
Newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press.  This database is accessed through ProQuest, see link above.
Britannica Online
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Off Campus
An encyclopedia, dictionary, world atlas, and internet guide.
Enciclopedia Universal en Espaņol
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Off Campus
New Spanish encyclopedia from Britannica
FirstSearch
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Comprehensive bibliographic information and union list of periodicals.
Serials Solutions
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Off Campus
A reference tool to determine which journals and magazines are available in full-text through the AVL databases.


These databases are licensed for Off Campus use by currently enrolled students and currently employed faculty and staff of Calhoun Community College. Off Campus access requires a Username and Password.

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* Off Campus (Remote) Access Requires a Username and Password.