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Agricola, prepared by the National Agriculture Library (NAL) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is an index to the international periodical literature of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal, plant, and veterinary sciences, entomology, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences. Users may search either the NAL catalogue or the index to journal literature.

Although Agricola records contain bibliographic data only (i.e., no full text articles), the database producer increasingly includes links out to full text versions (where these exist) of the materials indexed.

Agricola coverage begins in 1979, and the database is updated on a monthly basis. Use of the database is unrestricted.

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Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

CINAHL® Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 640 journals indexed in CINAHL.

Content includes: Full text for more than 640 journals, Full text for 220 books/monographs, Full text coverage dating back to 1937.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text also contains: Author Affiliations, Searchable Cited References, Research Instruments, Evidence-Based Care Sheets, Quick Lessons and Search Strategies

From the site: Combining three rich databases to provide a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary resource that supports history, social studies, English, and language students, Daily Life Online moves seamlessly from past to present, providing context for contemporary life and culture. There's more to history and contemporary events than just the names of rulers and the rise of economic systems; Daily Life Online shows how fascinating and fun it is to explore how others lived and live their lives, and how their lives shaped ours.

Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,840 journals, as well as full text for more than 950 journals, and includes full text for more than 81 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.

ERIC is an index to the worldwide literature of education. Coverage includes periodicals as well as books, pamphlets, ERIC Digests (2-3 page summaries of important topics), curriculum guides, bibliographies, and unpublished works such as conference papers or government reports. ERIC records date from 1966 to the present. The ERIC interface available to Holland College users originates with the database producer Ebscohost.

Since ERIC is a restricted (by subscription only) database, off-campus users must hold a valid library barcode to gain access. [Please note that an alternate, free version of ERIC is also available, but it does not feature links to licensed journal content.]

The Health Reference Center Academic database, produced by Gale InfoTrac, provides an integrated collection of over 1000 general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets.  Designed for nursing and allied health students, as well as consumer health researchers, it serves as a slightly more scholarly companion piece to Health and Wellness Resource Center(known for its emphasis on consumer health information).  This database emphasizes quality control through careful selection of materials and inclusion of a high percentage of peer-reviewed titles.

All Health Reference Center Academic records include a bibliographical citation (author, title, journal name, etc.) and approximately 75% of the indexed items are also available in full text format.

Since Health Reference Center Academic is a restricted (by subscription only) database, off-campus users must hold a valid library barcode to gain access. In addition, users should note that access to the Health Reference Center  Academic is limited to four concurrent sessions at a time; users who encounter a "turnaway message" when this limit has been reached should try again a few minutes later.

MedlinePLUS, hosted by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, seeks to provide consumers with authoritative, up-to-date health information. Users can browse through over 700 topic areas (reviewed and updated every six months), and links are provided to over 1250 expert organizations. MedlinePLUS also offers a medical dictionary and encyclopedia, drug information, tutorials, information about diagnostic tests, and daily news updates. See also Medline, the companion periodical index, above.

Access to MedlinePLUS is unrestricted.

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The Professional Development Collection, an EBSCOHOST database, provides indexing/partial full text access to over 700 journals and reports in all areas of education (K-12, higher education, special needs, etc.), child development, and counselling.

Each record in the database includes a bibliographic citation (author, title, name of publications, etc.) and a short abstract or summary of document content. Full text coverage is provided for over 550 of the 700 indexed publications, although some titles observe a short "embargo" period for full text access. While indexing in some cases extends back as far as 1965, coverage for most titles begins in the mid-1990\'s. The database is updated daily.

Since the Professional Development Collection is a restricted (by subscription only) database, off-campus users must hold a valid library barcode to gain access.

ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences Collection is compiled by the major science publisher Elsevier. While the larger ScienceDirect parent database and the related SCIRUS website index thousands of Elsevier books and journals, the collection licensed by Holland College, known as Health & Life Sciences (college edition), includes the index to all Elsevier titles plus the full text of over 900 journals in the health and life sciences sub-set. The subject range is quite far-reaching, including titles such as Biotechnology Advances, Environmental Pollution, the Journal of Adolescence, Dental Materials, Tissue and Cell, Trends in Food Science and Technology, and the Journal for Nature Conservation, to name but a few.

Each record in the database includes a bibliographic citation (author, title, name of publications, etc.) and a short abstract or summary of document content. While indexing in some cases extends back as far as 1965, full-text coverage for the titles included in the Health and Life Sciences Collection begins five years ago. The database is updated daily.

Users who wish to access ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences Collection from off-campus should contact library services.

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SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for 415 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the SPORTDiscus index - with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1985, SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports & sports medicine literature.