A-Z Databases

Coverage in key subject areas such as, biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental science, history, marketing, political science, and psychology with full-text articles from periodicals covered in major bibliographic resources such as CINAHL, BIOSIS, MLA, PsycINFO, ERIC, EconLit, RILM, and others.

Full-text articles from leading journals. Coverage is multi-disciplinary and includes full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles; searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Updated daily.

Streaming video database featuring the PBS Video Collection

Access World News provides full-text information and perspectives from U.S. and international news sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues.

Patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish. Published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, AHFS includes more than a thousand drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers and has been a Top Ten Award Winner in the Department of Health and Human Services National Consumer Education Materials Contest. This content is updated monthly

Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. America: History & Life with Full Text also provides full-text coverage of more than 200 journals and nearly 100 books.

A digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

The American Society for Microbiology provides a free database of articles from its 10 journals (listed below), including full text from January 1998 to the present and abstracts only from January 1992 to December 1997.

The most complete and authoritative description of bacterial and archaeal diversity. This manual provides descriptions of the taxonomy, systematics, ecology, physiology and other biological properties of all described prokaryotic taxa.

Biographies and related full-text articles from hundreds of magazines and newspapers, as well as tens of thousands of images and links to websites. Search for people-- both current and historic from all eras and fields-- based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text.

Over 200 open access (free) journals covering all areas of Biology and Medicine. Registration required.

Collection of select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. This free website is meant to support a wide range of students, as well independent researchers and anyone interested in learning more about the foundation of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. – and the fights against it.

A small collection of audiobooks. Once virtually checked out, you can listen to your audiobook in your browser or on the Boundless Audiobooks App on your phone or tablet.

A unique source for international business intelligence offering the most comprehensive and convenient way to find case studies, in-depth statistical data coupled with deep research, and the ability to compare global economies, countries and industries.

This business database provides full text for over 1,000 business publications, dating back to 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included.

Ideal for business schools and entrepreneurs, Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship is updated daily and provides insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Users 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.

Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.

The United States Census Bureau is the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy. Its surveys and censuses provide periodic and comprehensive statistics about the United States.

ChiltonLibrary.com represents the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners. There are thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models. ChiltonLibrary.com gives you the confidence to service or repair virtually any system on your vehicle.

The SMC-Connect database contains information on health and human service agencies serving San Mateo County residents. Specifically, these are nonprofit and public (government) agencies that provide direct services to the public. Other organizations in the database include hobby clubs, political organizations, social, service, and fraternal groups, and environmental organizations serving San Mateo County.

Comprehensive coverage of issues that influence women’s lives across the globe. Users will find timely and historically relevant content on topics including civil rights, health, education, professional development, and entrepreneurship.

Including coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, this database curates openly available content related to coronaviruses. It includes thousands of open-access articles from the world’s leading publishers as well as current research from pre-print repositories such as arXiv and will continue to grow and evolve as more is learned about the pandemic.

Provides geographical, political, economic, corporate and environmental information for every country in the world.

Open access research (articles and book chapters) related to the current COVID-19 outbreak.

In-depth, authoritative reports on a full range of political and social-policy issues extending back to 1923.

US Business Database contains information about 62 million businesses

This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. All subjects and languages are covered. There are currently over 10000 journals in the directory. Currently over 6000 journals are searchable at article level.

This collection explores cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.

eBook in the areas of Asian Studies, Women's Studies, Black Studies, Hispanic/Latino Studies and much more. ProQuest’s DEI Ebook was developed to represent all voices – with a focus on gender, race, sexual orientation, physical ability and religious beliefs.

Full-text of more than 100,000 e-books.

Environmental Studies focuses on the physical and social aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, state and province portals form research centers around issues covering earth systems, global change, land and water use, populations, legislation, and more. Portal overviews provide essential information, supplemented by academic journals, news, case studies, conferences, statistics, and rich multimedia.

Provides access to education journal articles and resources. The database contains more than 1.3 million records and provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index, dating back to 1966.

Ethnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.

Streaming video database including over 28,000 documentary video titles

Skyline Library's digital magazine stand. Flip through pages of popular magazines like Bloomberg's Business, National Geographic, Art in America, Sports Illustrated, and many more.

Over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely
24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).

Access to full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more. This consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to coverage of alternative medical practices.

Access major U.S. and international newspapers online to search articles by title, headline, date, or other fields.

Search the Gale database by clicking cross search on the Gale Power Search page. Need help using this resource? Ask a librarian.

Gale Virtual Reference Library; General OneFile; Information Science and Technology Collection; InfoTrac Full Text Newspaper Database; Opposing Viewpoints in Context; Science in Context; Student Resources In Context; U.S. History in Context; World History in Context.

Provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society. This database includes topics related to gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.

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 science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

Gale In Context: Global Issues 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, relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature available on the web. Full text is not always freely available on the web so sometimes you'll have to link to your library's database to find full text

Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. In addition, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs. The database is updated on a weekly basis.

Providing nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

Wide range of full-text Spanish and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America.

Digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. It contains 625 billion web pages, 38 million books and texts, 14 million audio recordings (including 240,000 live concerts), 7 million videos (including 2 million Television News programs), 4 million images, and 790,000 software programs.

Journal of the American Medical Association (full-text through Skyline College Library subscription)

Back issues of important academic journals, including many historical journals (no current issues) going back to 1838. Excellent for in-depth academic journal articles on all historical topics except: recent history and articles published within the last 3 – 5 years. The complete JSTOR database is made up of numerous "collections".

Kanopy is a video streaming service. Skyling College subscribes to selected titles to support specific classes. We are currently supporting FILM 440, ENGL 105, and ART 130.

Learning Express Library's Learning Centers offer the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, eBooks, and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work, or in life. Looking to land a job? You'll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that's right for you.

Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Access to literary works and authors throughout history. Includes more than 130,000 full-text poems and 650,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.

Containing full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines, more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 460,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

Multidisciplinary database providing full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications, 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 460,000 photos, maps & flags. 1975-

Providing authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more.

Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government; offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content.

Complete archive of National Geographic magazine — every page of every issue from 1888 to the present — along with a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images and videos.

The complete backfile of The New York Times can now be searched from NYTimes.com, over 13 million articles in all. Articles in the public domain are free.

Current and archived information from thousands of newspaper titles, as well as newswires, web editions, blogs, videos, broadcast transcripts, business journals, periodicals, government documents and other publications.

860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.

Skyline College students, faculty and staff have full complimentary access to NYTimes.com and NYT mobile apps. Your access to NYTimes.com is available from any location, on or off campus. For more information visit: Instructions on how to claim your NY Times Pass at https://guides.skylinecollege.edu/newyorktimes

access to 50K+ titles (including O’Reilly books in early release), 30K+ hours of video, case studies from top companies and more—with nearly 1,000 topics to explore in technology and business.

OneSearch provides simple, one-stop searching for books and e-books, videos, articles, digital media, and more. It also helps you manage your research. Sign-in in order to: Renew books and videos; Create favorites lists; View full search results. (Some databases, only show results when you're signed in.)

Features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.

Contains music reference resources from Grove Music Online, plus The Oxford Companion to Music (revised 2011), The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th edition (2006)

Full text for more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. Articles are assigned a reading level (Lexile) indicator. 1990-

Preparing you for U.S. Citizenship.

Learn a vast number of languages with peerless amount of instructional content available — an average of 10,000 instructional phrases per language. The ProLibrary page offers helpful tools such as videos, drills, quizzes, etc.

Providing information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods; offering full text coverage for nearly 560 journals.

The most extensive medical journal database available, including mostly abstracts (summaries) of medical journal articles from 1966 to the present. Publicly accessible from the US National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health.

Archive of free full-text biomedical and life sciences journal articles at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Full text coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

San Francisco Chronicle Collection with Historical Archives

One of the leading journals of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.

Contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics, merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

San Francisco Chronicle staff-written articles. Full text. 1995+

Retrieve detailed information about the services available in San Mateo County.

Contains "information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History."

Skyline College students, faculty, and staff have full complimentary access to The Wall Street Journal. Please click on the link to create an account.
WSJ is an American business and economic-focused international daily newspaper based in New York City. The Journal is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp.

Contains "information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History."

Provides access to reference, periodicals, multimedia, reports, studies, journals, newspapers, and statistical data. An archive of digitized primary documents focus on the history of Latin America and the Caribbean back to the early 1800s through the contemporary period sourced from collections in the U.S. and abroad.