Rachel Kramer
Research Librarian
she/her/hers
MCC Learning Commons
rkramer@mclennan.edu
254-299-8390
"What the heck is a database?"
A library database is a searchable collection of digital items (such as journal or newspaper articles). Database companies collect these items to fill their databases. Multiple database companies may collect the same item, which then appears in each database.
Database companies charge a fee for access to their databases. Don't worry, MCC Library Services pays this fee for MCC students, faculty, and staff (with the exception of continuing education students).
Gale Health and Wellness provides reliable health and wellness information for the general population and for students research basic health information. The database includes information from medical journals, magazines, reference sources, and multimedia.
Leaving soon! Access expires August 31, 2025
Gale OneFile: Communications and Mass Media brings together information from journals on the topics of the communications field, including advertising, public relations, linguistics, and literature.
Gale Power Search enables cross-searching of all Gale databases available to the MCC Library. Click "Select all" to deselect all databases and then click on the individual database to add them to the cross-search.
Health Research Premium Collection serves a wide range of users with a broad collection of journals, evidence-based resources, and full-text dissertations. Content comes from 7 different ProQuest health and medical databases. This database is recommended for students, researchers, medical professionals, hospital administrators, or even patients and their families.
JSTOR is a digital library of archived and current issues of academic, peer-reviewed journals. The MCC Library subscribes to 9 multidisciplinary arts and sciences collections and a life sciences journal collection.
Pronunciator is a fun and free way to learn any of 163 languages with Personalized Courses, movies, music, and more. Includes new COVID-19 language course in 101 languages.
This link provides access to an advanced search of all ProQuest platform databases. To select specific ProQuest resources, click on "Change Databases."
ScienceDirect College Edition provides online full text access back to 1995 for over 1000 journal titles in the Health and Life Sciences subject areas.
