You can find journal, magazine and newspaper articles using the databases below. You don't even have to be in the library to use them. If you're a Lane student, you have access to thousands of magazines and newspapers from any computer when you bring up this page.

If you are a student or staff member of Lane Community College and cannot access these databases, please contact the Library at 463-5273.

If you are looking for a specific journal or magazine, use the Magazine Journal Locator to view all the journals the LCC Library subscribes to and locate them either online or in print.

General Databases

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) — Full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. For more searching choices, see our complete list of EBSCO databases.

SIRS Knowledge Source — Full text articles and internet resources on social issues, science, history, government, the arts and humanities.

CQ Researcher — Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.

• For more resources on controversial issues, law and legislation, statistics, and public opinion, see our web guide to Current Events.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center — One-stop source for information on social issues . Includes articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

MasterFILE Premier — Provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full-text information dating as far back as 1975.

Alt-Press Watch —A 100% full-text database of over 170 newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.

Subject Specific Databases

Arts and Humanities

ARTstor — A rich digital library of art images and descriptive information, as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. Content includes images from the fields of art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's software tools support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

Literary Reference Center — A comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

Business
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Business Source Premier — Full text for more than 7,400 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for nearly 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.

Regional Business News — Comprehensive full-text coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Careers & Colleges

Occupational Outlook Handbook
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Published by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.

Oregon Career Information System (CIS)
Oregon CIS provides a comprehensive and state-based resource to help Oregonians of all ages become aware of work and educational options, connect education and work, and make successful career decisions and transitions throughout their lifetime. Use Oregon CIS to research careers, explore programs and majors, and find schools. password required

Easy Reading
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Primary Search — Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines at an elementary school reading level. Users may limit searches to articles within a certain range of Lexile Reading Levels. Full text information dates as far back as 1990.

Middle Search Plus — Middle Search Plus provides full text for 140 popular magazines at a middle school reading level. Users may limit searches to articles within a certain range of Lexile Reading Levels. Full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.

MAS Ultra - School Edition — Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 700 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra - School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, 542 full text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.

Education

LearningExpress Library — a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help students and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.

Professional Development Collection — Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized and comprehensive collection of over 500 full-text journals, including more than 300 peer-reviewed titles.

ERIC — Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.

Chronicle of Higher Education

TeacherReference — Provides indexing and abstracts for over 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional educators. Please check the Library's Magazine Journal Locator to see if the full text of the article is available.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, (LISTA) — Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online — With over 73,000 articles, Encyclopedia Britannica is a powerful tool to have at your disposal. It contains both short and book-length articles on every subject.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia — This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Merriam Webster Online Dictionary — Merriam-Webster provides a free online dictionary, thesaurus, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and other English language resources.

Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection — Combines rich and scholarly resources with authoritative quick-reference coverage of a broad range of topics. Includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, and companion guides to such disciplines as history, literature, philosophy, religion, arts and humanities, and science.

Health
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AltHealthWatch — This alternative health database provides full text for more than 140 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.

Health Source: Consumer Edition — Full-text for nearly 300 journals on many health topics, including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition — Provides 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, as well as abstracts and indexing for more than 850 journals.

CINAHL with Full Text — Provides indexing for 2717 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, and full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments, case studies, evidence based nursing and clinical trials.

MEDLINE — Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals. This database includes links to full-text articles.

MedlinePlus — A goldmine of authoritative and current health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine. Includes a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, surgery videos, and links to thousands of clinical trials. MedlinePlus is updated daily.

Health Information on the Internet — An excellent starting point for the best health Web sites.

Newspapers

EBSCO’s Newspaper Source — Provides selected full text for over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers.

Ethnic NewsWatch — Designed to provide the "other side of the story", Ethnic NewsWatch full-text titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. Both English and Spanish language search interfaces are provided.

Lexis-Nexis Academic — Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications.

New York Times Online — Full-text coverage of the US newspaper of record. Offers superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts. Coverage: 1999-current

Oregon Index — The Web-accessible Oregon Index is a selective index to Oregon newspapers, and to Oregon items in selected other publications. The Oregon Index database coverage is 1985-2004.

The Oregonian — Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded. Coverage 1988 – current.

Register-Guard Full-Text — Online full-text coverage beginning late 1990's. Back issues from 1970 to the present are available on microfilm at the Lane Library's circulation counter. Microfilm of the RG prior to 1970 is available at the University of Oregon and the Eugene Public Library. The Index to the Register Guard and Eugene Weekly backfiles is currently only available at the Eugene Public Library Reference Desk.

Eugene Weekly — Full-text access to the Eugene Weekly. Coverage 2000 - current.

Science Databases

Science Resource Center — Features full-text articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals, as well as encyclopedias and newspapers. Includes topic overviews, experiments, biographies, and links to quality web sites.

AccessScience — Provides access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News ® headlines, biographies, and more.

Social Science Databases

American National Biography Online — The “premiere biographical work on people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture.” Included are profiles of more than 18,000 men and women from all walks of American life.

PsycARTICLES — From the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 69 journals.

Spanish-Language Databases

Fuente Academica — A unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American, South American and Spanish publishers. This database provides full-text coverage (including PDF) for more than 200 scholarly Spanish language journals. Content is provided in Spanish from respected publishers worldwide.

MedicLatina — A Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for more than 140 peer-reviewed medical journals.

Special Interest Databases

Auto Repair Reference Center — Contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1954. Database content includes approximately 23,000 vehicles covered from 1954 to present; over 100,000 factory drawings and step-by-step photographs; over 60,000 technical service bulletins & recalls issued by the original equipment vehicle manufacturer; wiring diagrams for easy viewing and printing; specifications & maintenance schedules; Labor Time Guide & Estimator; Quick Tips.

Scientific & Technical Information Network (STN Easy) — Current and archival information from over 200 scientific, technical, business, and patent databases covering a broad range of scientific fields, including chemistry, engineering, life sciences, pharmaceutics, biotechnology, regulatory compliance, patents, business, and more. (This database is only available Monday through Thursday 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. ; Friday 5 p.m. to Saturday 7 p.m. ; Saturday 11 p.m. to Monday 5 a.m. - password required)

Trial Databases

Nursing Reference Center a user-friendly point-of-care resource delivering clinical evidence and knowledge on conditions and diseases.

Associates Program Source - a collection developed specifically for community colleges

Environment Complete offers coverage in agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. The database contains full text for more than 650 journals and more than 100 monographs.

Current Issues: Health focuses on a wide range of health topics through articles which offer a thorough and balanced overview of such issues as eating disorders, food safety, alternative medicine, cloning, euthanasia, and travel and health.