Article Databases

Using smartphones and iPads: For access to some of our resources, you can use a device running either the Apple OS or Android. The various resources combine to bring you 19* databases and 36 online reference books. ARTstor's mobile site requires that you create an account using the standard service, accessible below. EBSCO provides an iPhone app and had a mobile site available for Android, on Blackberries, the Dell Axim, and the Palm 750. Gale's "Access My Library" app comes in both flavors mentioned above and requires you to login just once using your HCC student e-mail address. For Micromedex, download the app to your device, then in a web browser, select Micromedex from the list below and click on the "mobileMicromedex" link at the top left of the page to find the password to activate your mobile access account.
 

• Academic Search Premier *
  Social sciences, humanities, science, and education in over 7,962 journals
• ARTstor *
  Art, architectural, and archaeological images
• AtoZ Maps Online
  Very large collection of maps covering a wide range of topics including climate change and politics
• Business Source Premier *
  Business and industry information from over 3,300 journals, magazines and reports
• Chronicle of Higher Education
  News, opinions, blogs, statistics and job postings in higher education
• CINAHL *
  An index to over 1,200 journals and magazines in the nursing and allied health fields
• CQ Researcher
  In-depth reports on current and controversial issues
• Criminal Justice Periodicals
  Over 100 U.S. and international criminal justice journals
• Directory of Open Access Journals
  Full-text scientific and scholarly journal articles
• Education Journals
  Over 300 education journals
• ERIC *
  An index to research in education with full-text when available from other databases
• Ethnic NewsWatch
  Articles from over 200 sources reflecting opinions of ethnic and minority communities
• European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 *
  An index to over 32,000 records on the early history of the Americas.
• Global Road Warrior
  Find information on individual countries including culture, health care, transportation, and technology
• GreenFile *
  An index to research on all aspects of human impact on the environment
• Health Source: Consumer *
  Magzines and journals covering health issues, including 1,100 full-text pamphlets
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic *
  Close to 1,000 medical and allied health academic and scholarly journals
• Herald-Mail Newspaper Archives
  Hagerstown's newspaper without additional fees to HCC students, faculty, and staff
• Historic Newspaper Index Project
  Articles from seven newspapers of the Tri-State region dating from 1845 to 1849 and 1860 to 1865
• Journal of Chemical Education
  Full text of the journal from 1924 to present
• Journal of Dental Hygiene
  Full text of the journal from issue #3, volume #78, Summer 2004
• Learning Express Library
  Academic and licensing practice tests or tutorials for students and adult learners
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
  Over 4,000 completely full-text news, business, legal, and medical resources
• Literature Criticism Online *
  Full text of the Twentieth Century Literary Criticism and Short Story Criticism series beginning with 2011 volumes
  
• LION: Literature Online
  Over 350,000 works of literature, author biographical information, and literary criticism
• Literature Resource Center *
  Biographies, literary criticism, articles, work overviews, and a literary-historical timeline
• MEDLINE *
  National Library of Medicine database of abstracts with links to available full-text
• Micromedex 2.0
  Drug, disease, lab, toxicology, complementary and alternative medicine information
• Military & Government Collection *
  Over 1,000 journals, magazines, and pamphlets
• National Newspapers
  Full-text of N.Y. Times, Wall Street Jour., Wash. Post, Christian Sci. Mon., L.A. Times, and Balt. Sun
• Nursing & Allied Health Source
  Over 600 journals in the nursing and allied health fields
• Primary Search *
  Over 200 elementary school magazines with reading level indicators, & other resources
• Regional Business News *
  75 journals, newspapers, and newswires from all metro. and rural areas within the U.S.
• Science Journals
  Over 300 journals in the physical and life science fields
• Vault Online Career Library
  Information on industries, companies, careers, business conduct, cover letters, and resumes
• WHILBR
  Correspondence, images, land patents, tax records and more relating to Western Maryland from 1787 to 1924