Highline College Library: Search databases: Databases A-Z

Databases A-Z

All of the databases are available off campus with myHighline (Canvas) username and password. Ask a librarian if you need assistance. These links will open in a new window.

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Trade, Industry-focused information - journal articles, market reports, industry reports and news
Academic OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Academic OneFile is an extensive database of peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines. Over 9,000 full-text periodicals.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
A scholarly, full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Covers virtually every academic subject.
AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window
Serves as the catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library including access to journal citations.
Agricola (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
From the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. the database covers dates back to 1970 and includes more than 4.8 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.
Alt HealthWatch (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Alt HealthWatch focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness including full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. This unique database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection This link opens in a new window
The AAS Historical Periodicals Collection contains more than 6,500 historical periodical titles dating from 1693 to 1877.
APA PsycArticles (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Full text articles from more than 100 APA (American Psychological Association) journals.
Associates Program Source (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
More than 970 full-text journals and 25 full-text books covering areas like Cosmetology, Culinary Arts, Fire Science, Law Enforcement, Veterinary Assisting, and more.
Biography Reference Center (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
More than 436,000 full-text biographies from sources like Biography Today, Salem Press, Oxford University Press, Biography, and Columbia University Press.
BioMed Central This link opens in a new window
Open access publisher of a number of medical and biological journals.
Biomedical Reference Center- Basic (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
More than 100 full-text journals covering a broad range of disciplines, including medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine and pre-clinical sciences.
Book Review Index (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Book Review Index contains over 630,000 full-text, book reviews from thousands of publications.
Business: Entrepreneurship (Gale) This link opens in a new window
"Business: Entrepreneurship is a comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. Business Plans Handbook includes over 1000 examples of business plans. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students."
Business Source Complete (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Business Source Complete is a comprehensive scholarly database covering all disciplines in business including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. It contains nearly 2,000 peer-reviewed journals, company profiles, case studies, industry reports, SWOT analyses, trade journals and more.
The Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new window
The Chronicle is the essential source for "news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators."
Chronicling America This link opens in a new window
Access to America's historic newspapers. Search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922.
CIA World Factbook This link opens in a new window
The Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
CINAHL Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
CINAHL® (Comprehensive nursing & allied health resource) Complete is the world’s most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. CINAHL Video Tutorial
College (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
Provides interdisciplinary and news context including audio and broadcast video.
Computer Source (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Computer Source covers current trends in high technology. It offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications. Also searches Academic Search Complete at the same time.
Consumer Health (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
"covers an enormous range of subjects from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry."
Consumer Health Complete (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Full-text from more than 500 journals & magazines, nearly 2,650 full-text evidence based health reports, about 500 images & diagrams, and more than 240 animations.
Contemporary Women's Issues (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI), a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries. Contemporary Women's Issues includes English-language titles from East and West Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe. Contemporary Women's Issues compiles into a single collection, often overlooked and hard-to-find newsletters and NGO research reports to which most libraries do not subscribe, plus ephemeral literature from leading research institutes and grass roots organizations that is rarely indexed or cataloged.
Coronavirus Research Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
"The Coronavirus Research Database brings together trusted content from journals, preprints, conference proceedings, dissertations and more related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. This database brings together not only content from open-access journals, but also pre-prints and additional content being made freely available by major publishers from around the world."
Culturegrams This link opens in a new window
Offers concise, reliable, and up-to-date reports over 200 countries of the world and the 50 States. Culture Grams go beyond mere facts and figures to deliver an insider's perspective on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people. It also offers a children's edition.
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
Diversity Studies (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Collection of journals that explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community.
Driving Tests This link opens in a new window
Free DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) practice driving tests for learner drivers. Read aloud toolbar (in the footer of every page) includes tools that will allow users to hear selections read aloud, make them into MP3s, translate pages into other languages, magnify text, and mask sections of the screen for greater visibility.
Ebook Academic Collection (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Ebook Academic provides access to over 200,000+ eBook titles that represent a broad range of academic subjects. For help using eBooks, see Ebsco eBooks guide with Video Tutorials
Ebsco databases This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive search of all Ebsco databases including Academic Search Complete as well as other general and subject databases on a wide range of topics.
Educator's Reference Complete (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Educator's Reference Complete provides access to academic journals, reports, and many premier reference sources in the field of education. The database includes content in key subject areas including administration, bilingual education, child development and psychology, funding, health education, technology, and testing. The majority of the 800 full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database.
Elementary (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
Elementary database "delivers age-appropriate, reliable, curriculum-related content that covers a broad range of subjects, like animals, geography, health, influential people, literature, social studies, sports, and technology." It includes articles, magazines, eBooks, periodicals, reference materials, and more
eLibrary (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
A gateway to a wide variety of sources including TV and radio transcripts, magazine articles, reference books, newspapers, maps, pictures, audio and video clips. Contains more than 2,500 full-text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts
Encyclopedia of Social Work (Oxford) This link opens in a new window
The Encyclopedia of Social Work is a continuously updated online collaboration between the National Association of Social Workers (NASW Press) and Oxford University Press (OUP). Contains over 400 overview articles on key topics ranging from international issues to ethical standards.
Environmental Studies and Policy (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Environmental Studies & Policy (Gale OneFile:) is a digital resource that answers inquiries about environmental concerns with coverage of more than 5.4 million articles from more than 300 journals and book reference content from Delmar, including Soil, Science, and Management; Introduction to Agronomy; Food, Crops, & Environment; Fundamental Soil Science; and more.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is the major index for educational journals and documents. Interlibrary loan is available for journals and documents that HC library does not own. Ask a librarian for assistance.
ERIC (Ebscohost) This link opens in a new window
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. This link will search ERIC along with Academic Search Complete that has an extensive collection of full text articles. 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. Interlibrary loan is available for journals and documents that HC library does not own. Ask a librarian for assistance.
Ethnomed This link opens in a new window
Developed by Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center, Ethnomed provides culturally-responsive medical resources to support health care workers caring for patients from King County’s primary immigrant and refugee populations.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Choose from more than 26,000 educational streaming videos in dozens of subject areas.
Fuente Académica (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Fuente Académica offers more than 450 scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. All major subject areas are covered with particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion and sociology.
Gale Business: Insights This link opens in a new window
Gale Business: Insights is a source for international business intelligence offering case studies, in-depth statistical data coupled with deep research, and the ability to compare global economies, countries and industries.
Gale Encyclopedia of American Law This link opens in a new window
Covers today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, and important documents. Includes previous topics such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and more, plus new topics including cryptocurrency, transgender rights, and the 2020 elections.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale eBooks) This link opens in a new window
Access to a collection of over 60 electronic encyclopedias on a variety of topics including business, law, history, medicine, science and many other subjects. Find more electronic encyclopedias by accessing A-Z List .
Gender Studies (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family, and marital issues, LGBTQ community, and more. A sub-set of Academic OneFile.
General OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new window
General OneFile is Gale's largest general-interest database with more than 8,000 titles
Global Issues (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
A database designed to support global awareness. Authoritative content empowers learners to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world. Target audience are middle and high school students.
Google Books This link opens in a new window
Google Books is a tool for searching the full text of books. If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given us permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Only some of the articles are available in full text. Interlibrary loan is available for journals and documents that HC library does not own. Ask a librarian for assistance.
govinfo This link opens in a new window
govinfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch. govinfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.
GreenFILE (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
GreenFILE 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.
GREENR (Global Ref on the Environment) Gale This link opens in a new window
The Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues covering energy systems,health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development. Portals include authoritative analysis, academic journals, news, case studies, legislation, conference proceedings, primary source documents, statistics, and rich multimedia.
Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Health and Medicine provides access to medical and professional periodicals, health and fitness magazines, and reference books and pamphlets. The database is designed for both nursing and allied health students as well as consumer health researchers. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
Health and Wellness (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Health & Wellness Resource Center offers access to thousands of full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and more. Perfect for researchers at all levels, this comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices, and more.
Health Source: Consumer edition (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic edition (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Health Source: Nursing/Academic provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
High School (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
"Explore topics within business and economics, geography, government, history, literature, science and health, social issues, and more The database Integrates reference content, biographies, primary sources, multimedia, critical essays, news, academic journals and more,"
High School Edition (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
The database "is designed for middle- and high-school students and provides access to age-appropriate, authoritative digital content...Contains magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference books covering a wide range of subjects, from science, history, and literature to political science, sports, and environmental studies."
History Reference Center (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
U.S. and world history from sources like History Today, Archaeology, Civil War Times, nearly 2,000 full-text reference and non-fiction books, over 56,000 historical documents, and 80+ hours of historical video
History Study Center (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
"History Study Center is an online resource providing a vast collection of digitized primary and secondary sources for the study of history. "
Hospitality & Tourism Index (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
The database covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. Sources are both domestic and international in range and scope. More than 1.17 million records dating back to 1938 covering more than 800 publications. This is a citation only database. Contact a librarian to find the full-text.
Hospitality and Tourism (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Access to scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications that cover topics including the cultural, and economic aspects of travel and tourism. Sub-set of Academic OneFile.
Informe Académico (Gale OneFile) Spanish & Portuguese This link opens in a new window
Informe Académico proporciona acceso a periódicos y revistas especializadas de lengua española y portuguesa. La base de datos ofrece una amplia gama de contenidos sobre América Latina. Informe Académico provides access to Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines. The database offers a wide range of content both from and about Latin America.
Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is a streaming video service, and some of the titles are available to Highline. It includes titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation, and more. If a title is not available, please fill out the online request form.
Legal Collection (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Access to full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals.
Legal Information Reference Center (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
More than 250 full-text publications and reference books from sources like NOLO Press and the American Bar Assn, state specific legal forms and a user-friendly interface.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
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.
Litfinder (Gale) This link opens in a new window
LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.
MasterFILE Premier (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Designed for public libraries, MasterFILE Premier provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals dating as far back as 1975. It also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
MAS Ultra - School Edition (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Designed specifically for high school libraries, MAS Ultra School Edition contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. It also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
Medical databases (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Search medical databases in Ebsco including MEDLINE (Pub Med). It 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, it uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
MedicLatina (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
MedicLatina is a unique collection of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This Spanish language database contains full text for 130 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish.
MEDLINE (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
From the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more.
MedlinePlus This link opens in a new window
An online health information resource from National Library of Medicine (NLM) with "high-quality, relevant health and wellness information that is trusted and easy to understand, in both English and Spanish." Sections include health topics, medical tests, genetics, medical encyclopedia, drugs & supplements, healthy recipes and special collections. Health information in multiple languages.
Merck Manual Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window
Merck Manual Consumer offers free access to thousands of articles on health care-related topics, written in language for non-medical professionals. A great resource to share with patients.
Merck Manual Professional Edition This link opens in a new window
Merck Manual offers free access to thousands of articles on health care-related topics, written by medical professionals and aimed at health care professionals, like nurses. Content includes authoritative information about diseases including symptoms and treatments. The manual also contains drug information, medical procedures, and case studies.
Middle School (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
Designed for middle school, the database provides newspapers, magazines, primary sources, reference, and multimedia. Covers most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, U.S. and world history, literature, and many more.
Middle Search Plus (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. It also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags
Military & Government Collection (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, the database provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.
Mi Proximo Paso This link opens in a new window
Offers career exploration for Spanish speakers from U.S. Department of Labor.
Newspaper Source (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 200 full-text U.S. and international newspapers including the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), Toronto Star and more. In addition, contains over 300 full-text regional newspapers. Provides complete television and radio news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR and more
O*NET Online This link opens in a new window
Published by U.S. Department of Labor, O*NET searches over 900 occupations. For each career, it provides a comprehensive description including work activities, required knowledge and training, abilities, educational programs, job openings, salary by state or zip code, and more. There is also a tool for Veterans to enter their MOS to find related civilian careers. In addition, it provides a number of tools to help you assess your career interests and find careers which match your current education and training.
Occupational Outlook Handbook This link opens in a new window
An annual government publication that provides information on a wide variety of careers
One Search This link opens in a new window
One Search searches across nearly all of the library's databases. Start your research here. It includes books, ebooks, journals, articles, videos, and more.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics and more.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Social Work see Encyclopedia of Social Work This link opens in a new window
The Encyclopedia of Social Work is a continuously updated online collaboration between the National Association of Social Workers (NASW Press) and Oxford University Press (OUP). Contains over 400 overview articles on key topics ranging from international issues to ethical standards.
Points of View Reference Center (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Coverage of 450 topics and growing with point/counterpoint essays and full-text from political magazines like The Nation, The New Republic, Congressional Digest, Human Events, National Review and more to cover the full spectrum of opinion. Also content from leading newspapers, radio & TV transcripts, primary source documents, and more.
Primary Search (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Primary Search, designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children’s rooms, contains full text for more than 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
ProCon.org This link opens in a new window
ProCon.org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity that has no government affiliations of any kind. Our purpose is to provide resources for critical thinking and to educate without bias. Free website.
Professional Development Collection (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a comprehensive collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
ProQuest contains full-text articles from over 5,000 magazines, journals, and newspapers. It is a collection of databases including Research Library, Consumer Health, ABI/Inform Trade & Industry, and U.S. Newsstream (newspapers).
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
"Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals."
PTSDpubs (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
PTSD pubs is "a freely available, bibliographic database providing access to the worldwide literature on PTSD and other mental health consequences of traumatic events...The database offers a custom PTSD and trauma focused thesaurus to help you create a precise search. "
Public Library of Science This link opens in a new window
The Public Library of Science is a collection of open-access peer-reviewed journals covering specific areas within science and medicine.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
National Library of Medicine's free database provides abstracts to articles in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health, and more. Interlibrary loan is available for journals that HC library does not own. Ask a librarian for assistance. PubMed Video Tutorial
Regional Business News (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Search along with Business Source Complete.
Religion & Philosophy Collection (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Religion & Philosophy Collection™ provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. It includes more than 300 full text journals.
Science.gov This link opens in a new window
A gateway to government science information and research results including PubMed and other government databases. Searches over 55 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 15 federal agencies.
Science Direct (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
Search for articles from 1200 Health & Life Sciences journals, 500 Physical Sciences journals, and 750 Social & Behavioral Science journals. Multidisciplinary database.
Science Reference Center (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
More than 200 full-text science periodicals including Aviation Week, Discover, New Scientist, and Astronomy along with more than 800 reference books. Also includes more than 270,000 high quality images from National Geographic, UPI, Getty, NASA, Nature Picture Library and more
SIRS Discoverer (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
"Articles and graphics from more than 1,400 U.S. and international magazines, newspapers and U.S. government documents are carefully selected for their educational content, interest and level of readability." Designed for elementary and middle school students.
Small Business Reference Center (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 400 full-text journals, 600 business videos, over 450 full-text reference books, state specific resources, start-up business plans, and more.
Smart history This link opens in a new window
Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook.
Social Work Reference Center (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Content includes evidence-based quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, practices & skills, practice guidelines, clinical assessment tools, drug information, and full-text from top social work & psychology journals.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista provides statistics, consumer survey results, and industry studies on over 60,000 topics. To learn more, watch the Statista video tutorial
Swank Digital Campus Motion Pictures This link opens in a new window
A collection of 50 full-length, streaming, motion pictures (movies) including both classic and contemporary films.
Thunderword This link opens in a new window
(T-word) is Highline's student newspaper and is proudly written, edited, and designed by Highline students. The T-word has won numerous state and national awards and has maintained a tradition of excellence for over 40-years. As of April 2020, due to the global pandemic of COVID-19, the newspaper has been moved to an online blog format. For earlier issues 1962-2019, see Thunderword Archive.
Thunderword Archive This link opens in a new window
Highline's student newspaper 1962 - 2019 arranged by date. As of April 2020, due to the global pandemic of COVID-19, the Thunderword newspaper has been moved to an online blog format. This can be found at the newspaper's website
TOPICsearch (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
TOPICsearch is a current events database with articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers,
U.S. Newsstream (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
US Newsstream contains the most recent U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. It offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal.
U.S. West Newsstream (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
US West Newsstream contains recent regional news content, as well as archives which stretch back to the 1980s featuring newspapers, and newswires in full-text. West Newsstream covers news sources from Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.
Vocational & Career Collection (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for nearly 340 trade and industry-related periodicals.
Vocations and Careers (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
The resource provides "current and applicable periodical content to aid in career and vocational research -- from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals."
Washington Career Bridge This link opens in a new window
"Washington's one-stop source for career and education planning." Created by Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board.
Westlaw (Thomson Reuters) This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to cases from the courts of all 50 states and federal courts, statutes from all 50 states and federal statutes published in the United States Code Annotated, American Jurisprudence 2d legal encyclopedia, federal regulations, law reviews and legal periodicals.
Wolfram Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine This link opens in a new window
Free calculating engine that performs "dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods.
World Bank Open Data This link opens in a new window
Free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe.