Gale Cengage Databases at TCRVTSD
There are more than 50 unique databases in the Gale Cengage collection that are provided through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and Massachusetts Library System with state funds and federal Institute of Museum and Library Services funds.
Working with the right database will lead you to the most useful articles to provide you helpful information to your research. Gale offers a very helpful tool you should use called "Topic Finder" . It will save you time and get you to articles that are focus on your key words. It is my recommendation that you become familiar with each of the databases below in order that you can "go fish" in the best source group. |
Academic OneFileThe premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals It covers the physical and social sciences, technology, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and many other subjects. You have access to millions of articles in both PDF and HTML full-text format. It allows enables you to find accurate, timely information quickly.
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Agricultural Collection
Provides information on journal articles and reports covering agricultural sciences beginning from 1980. Includes coverage on pesticides, soil conservation, mammal physiology, agricultural economics, poultry science, health foods, horticulture and much more.
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Gale Literary SourcesUnlock information in primary sources, critical articles, literary and cultural analysis, and biographies. Search across centuries to see the broader continuum of the story you choose to tell.
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Biography In Context
Biography In Context offers authoritative reference content alongside magazine and journal articles, primary sources, videos, audio podcasts, and images. Covering a vast array of people from historically significant figures to present-day newsmakers, it’s continuously updated to ensure that you have access to the very latest information.
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Books & Authors
Books & Authors offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. The ideal convergence of science and serendipity, this resource leverages the Internet’s capacity to create, build, communicate and sustain communities of readers.
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Business Collection
This collection provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. You will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications, updated daily.
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Business Economics &
Theory Collection Content is useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, constructing economic models, investing for the future, researching rates, and more. Check out exclusive video feeds from forbes.com highlighting current business news and interviews with CEOs and entrepreneurs.
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Business Insights: Essentials
Get in-depth information on U.S. businesses, industries, and products such as: brokerage, market research, industry research & SWOT reports, company histories, associations, company profiles and much more
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Communication &
Mass Media Collection This collection brings together information found in more than 400 journals. Nearly 3 million articles on all aspects of the communications field, including advertising, public relations, linguistics, and literature can be explored.
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Criminal Justice Collection
Resource for law, law enforcement, terrorism, training for paralegal service, preparing for a career in homeland security, delving into forensic science, investigating crime scenes, developing policy, going to court, writing sociological reports, and much more. You will find information from more than 250 journals.
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Culinary Arts Collection
This resource offers a smorgasbord of information-more than five million articles from more than 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines, as well as book reference content from Delmar such as About Wine, Introduction to Catering, Advanced Bread and Pastry, and Eat Fit Be Fit.
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Diversity Studies Collection
This resource explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community. This collection includes more than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals.
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Educator's Reference Complete
Educator’s Reference Complete provides full text for titles in the Eric database and covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty--such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also provides insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy. The collection has more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports.
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Environmental Studies and Policy Collection
This resource answers inquiries about environmental concerns with coverage of more than 5.4 million articles from more than 300 journals and book reference content, including Soil, Science, and Management; Introduction to Agronomy; Food, Crops, & Environment; Fundamental Soil Science; and more.
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Expanded Academic ASAP
A resource for research across academic disciplines, offering in-depth coverage of virtually any concentration — from advertising, psychology and history to microbiology, the humanities and women’s studies. A balanced coverage on a variety of subjects is available through: Social science, Humanities, and Science and technology journals, General interest magazines, and National and global news sources.
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Fine Arts & Music Collection
From Hip Hop to Handel, The feminist film movement to machismo in movies, Elementary music education to advanced music theory, Art therapy to the new Urbanist movement in architecture, Ballet to belly dancing and more. Information from over 5 million articles is at the finger tips.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. (Limited collection due to vast resources of Commonwealth Ebook Project, Axis360 and EBL. Make sure you access those non fiction resources which are available to you as well in a different section.
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Gardening, Landscape & Horticultural Collection
Gardening hobbyists and biotechnologists alike will find practical applications next to scientific theories of horticulture studies in one source of 3.6 million articles from 100 journals, and reference titles such as Handbook of Flowers; Foliage and Creative Design; Computer Graphics for Landscape Architects; etc.
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Gender Studies Collection
Gender Studies Collection provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society. The database offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
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General OneFile
This is a general-interest resource with full text access to articles from 3600 periodicals and news information sources. Search over 500 travel guides; a full collection of National Public Radio programs (with transcripts) from 1990 to the present; links to over 5,000 video files including shows like the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and more.
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General Science Collection
Remain current with the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology, and hundreds of other areas. Access over three million articles from 200 periodical such as American Scientist, BioScience, Geographical Review, Information Week, Mineralogical Record, Nature, School Science and Mathematics etc.
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Global Issues in Context
This resource 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 these issues. Multimedia such as; podcast, video and interactive graphs for you. Browse by Issues and Topics, Country or go directly to advance search.
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Health Reference Center
The resource provides access to medical and professional periodicals, health and fitness magazines, and reference books and pamphlets. This database is for both nursing and allied health students as well as complete range of consumer health care topics.
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Health & Wellness Resource Center
Find alternative medicine focused magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, videos & reference information on: Medicine, Nutrition, Pregnancy, Herbal remedies, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, health assessment sites & government databases. Easily access 700+ videos from Healthology, consumer health video library.
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Home Improvement Collection
This collection holds more than 4.5 million articles from more than 200 home improvement-focused titles, covering topics including architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and others.
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Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure
With over 500 periodicals, this collection focuses on the hospitality industry, including the cultural aspects of travel and leisure activities, the economic impact of tourism and more. Search information from state parks to planning a vacation. Find full-text travel guides from Fodor’s and others. Get detailed information on places near and far; including luxurious resorts, popular tourist attractions, geographic facts, great restaurants and more.
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Information Science & Library Issues Collection
This daily updated collection contains articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology, including usability, cataloging, circulation, business information, and more. Topics covered include: Information infrastructure, metadata architecture, publishing and more.
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Insurance & Liability Collection
Protection of assets--physical or intellectual--is a concern for those ranging from the individual property owner to multinational corporations. This collection connects you to hundreds of thousands of updated articles from leading journals, including: Business Insurance, Claims, Employee Benefit News, National Underwriter Life & Health, Pensions & Investments, Risk Management, and more.
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Kids InfoBits (ECE Only)
Kids InfoBits might be used by Early Childhood Education students and those who need access to information geared to students in grades K-5. You will find information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
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Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center offers up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. Its materials support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills.
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Massachusetts History Online
Over 50 sources bring you full text articles directly related to the history of our Commonwealth.
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Military and Intelligence Database Collection
This collection provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. The database offers content in key subject areas including governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.
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Nursing Resource Center
This database is designed to match the "nursing process" workflow. It facilitates connections between the content and clinical practice. It reinforces the nursing process and the practical know-how to perform procedure. The information will help you prepare for clinical experiences as you learn how to care for and treat patients.
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Nursing & Allied Health Collection
More than 6 million articles may help when you are looking for answers related to the specialized care, treatment and management of all sorts of patients. Details concerning nearly every kind of nursing application can be found, including: Caring for AIDS patients, Dealing with accident and trauma victims, Supporting cardiovascular surgery, Giving emergency care, Developing policy, Providing neonatal care, Relieving pain, Serving the elderly, Administering CPR, Delivering babies, Operating specialized equipment, Keeping records and much more.
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context
This resource will provide you contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today’s hottest social issues such as capital punishment, immigration or marijuana. Access updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full text, magazines, academic journals, new articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites and more. Its informed, differing views present each side of an issue and help you develop information literacy, critical thinking skills, and the confidence to draw your own valid conclusions.
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Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine Collection
Access academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine. Information on proven treatment techniques, experimental research, unique applications for specific sports (from baseball and bowling to tennis and yachting)and more.
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Pop Culture Collection
This collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.
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Popular Magazines
Over 600 titles provide a strong focus on current events, sports, science, health and everything you might be curious about.
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Power Search
Search all resources at the same time. Currently (9/2016) over 171 million articles.
Note of caution: The greater amount of resources, the more you will most likely resort to advance search techniques. |
Psychology Collection
Access over 3 million articles from academic journals and magazines that cover the study of emotions, personality, and the human mind. Nearly all topics related to psychology are covered, including: Academic skills disorder to actualization, Basic trust to British Psychological Society, Cluster suicides to community health, Withdrawal distress to William James, Young adults to Yerkes-Dodson law, Z-score to zeitgeist etc.
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Religion and Philosophy Collection
Uncover theological approaches to social issues, and the impact that religion has had on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language with the aid of 200 magazines and academic journals--everything from Anglican Journal to Zygon--covering religion and the related areas of philosophy and anthropology. More than 1.1 million daily updated articles will help you in your search.
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Research in Context (2nd Option)
Although this is a great reference resource and tool, it does not provide the in-depth details you should be striving for when completing work at the high school level. Please consider this as a secondary source
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Science in Context
This resource provides contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics by integrating authoritative reference content with full text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites. It shows how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues, from weather patterns to obesity.
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Small Business Collection
This collection is updated daily and provides insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. You will find more than 500 subject-appropriate, active, full-text periodicals, including: Beverage Industry, Black Enterprise, Economist, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, HR Magazine, Real Estate Weekly, Restaurant Business, Tea & Coffee Trade Journal and more.
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Info Trac Student Edition
Access screened content from magazines, journals, newspapers and reference books. Rather than to random Web searching, this resource covers a wide range of subjects, from science, history and literature to political science, sports and environmental studies, offering reliable, authoritative content for most of your assignments and general reference research.
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U. S. History Collection
The U.S. History Collection provides full-text, balanced coverage of both current thoughts on events in U.S. history as well as scholarly work established in the field
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U. S. History in Context
Find a complete overview of our nation’s past covering the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and significant people. Comprehensive, contextual, media-rich information is provided on topics ranging from the arrival of Vikings in North America, to the stirrings of the revolution, through to the Civil Rights movement, 9/11, and the War on Terror. Dive in to develop your critical thinking and information literacy skills.
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Vocations & Careers Collection
Learning the skills in your shop is the first step. Choosing the right career, searching for a job, in later years advancing in your career through continuing education — these are high stakes tasks. This resource makes it easier for you by providing content that is updated daily from nearly 400 journals — from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
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War & Terrorism Collection
Gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale by accessing over 1.7 million articles. This collection of military science, history, and social science is comprised of more than 200 subject-appropriate, full-text periodicals that are updated daily including: Airport Security Report, Arab Studies Quarterly, International Peace Update, Israel Studies, Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin, Naval Aviation News, Social Justice, Terrorism in the United States,and World
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World History Collection
This resource provides access to scholarly journals and magazines and offers balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.
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