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new The IVC Library research databases are now available off-campus! IVC Faculty, Staff, and Students can access selected research databases including LexisNexis, ProQuest, and many others from any computer with an internet connection!

Click the Databases (Off-campus) link to access these resources. Note you will need your IVC email username and password.

Lexis Nexis

Full Text of:

  • U.S. and International Newspapers
  • Court briefs and opinions
  • Laws
  • Business documents
  • Medical journals
  • General reference sources

Country Watch

  • Information on the countries of the world
  • Political, economic, and business
  • Daily news

Facts On File

  • Facts on File World News Digest back to 1940 in full text.
  • Issues and Controversies
  • Today's Science
  • World Almanac
  • World Almanac Encyclopedia

Nature Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

The Nature Encyclopedia of Life Sciences is the largest and most comprehensive reference work ever published in the biological sciences.

Oxford Reference Online

Includes 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books from Oxford University Press, plus an Encyclopedia, all in a single cross-searchable web database.

Project Muse

Full text of more than 200 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social science, and mathematics.

ProQuest
  • Summaries of articles from over 8,000 magazines and journals
  • Many in full text, full image format

Grove Art

The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day.

Access Science

Access Science is an online encyclopedia of science and technology based on the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.  It has in depth articles and allows for students to submit their own questions to be answered by experts.

Gale Literary Databases

Full text of:

  • Contemporary Authors
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography

American National Biography

American National Biography is a comprehensive biographical dictionary focused on American history with 17,500 historical figures from virtually all walks of life. It ranges from the time of the earliest recorded European explorations up to the very recent past.

netLibrary

This is IVC's collection of electronic books.  They can be accessed from off-campus once you have set up a netLibrary account.  Ask at the Reference desk.

Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  • The online version of the the 32-volume Encyclopædia Britannica
  • Britannica World Atlas
  • Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
  • Merriam-Webster Collegiate Thesaurus

Grove Music

Full text of:

  • The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  • The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
  • The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz

Gale Literary Index

Searchable citation index to all of Gale's literary material including:

  • Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction
  • Contemporary Poets
  • Shakespearean Criticism
  • And many others

Oxford English Dictionary

  • Authoritative definitions of over 500,000 words
  • Traces the usage of words from their first recorded occurrence to the modern period
  • Etymological analysis and detailed listings of variant spellings
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