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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
This is an online collection of over 950 titles with particular emphasis on subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks as well as short reference videos, art images, and additional images across all subject areas. As subject coverage is diverse, this is a good place to begin a topic search before formal research.
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Gale In Context: College This link opens in a new window
A Gale online resource that presents material on topics such as history, science, political and social issues and popular culture in support of students for papers, projects and presentations.
It is designed to reinforce critical thinking and problem solving skills. This database provides access to full-text newspapers and periodicals such as The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, and Smithsonian. This site places an emphasis on images, video and audio selections with archival film clips and broadcast video from sources such as BBC News, New York Times and NPR.

Academic or Scholarly sources

What are scholarly sources? Learn more by visiting the library's scholarly articles website.

RVOneSearch This link opens in a new window
RVOneSearch provides access to most of the information contained in many of the library's databases plus the RVCC library catalog.
It is a great place to begin your research with select key words to obtain a list of articles available throughout multiple databases as well as books, ebooks and websites accessible through RVCC’s library. Many limiters are available to modify your search such as full-text only, peer reviewed (scholarly), specific date ranges, or a specific database or source type.
Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary Gale database with the majority of content from full-text, scholarly journals.
Academic OneFile has indexing of over 13,000 journals covering multiple research subjects including the physical sciences, business, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature. The majority of the journals are peer reviewed and many articles are available in full-text. This database includes full-text for many cited articles in CINAHL and ERIC plus includes podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN and CBC. It also includes key, scholarly journals published in Spanish and other languages.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary, scholarly database containing digitized back issues of academic journals, books, primary sources, and current issues of journals.
It provides full-text searches of almost 2,000 journals on a variety of subjects including history, science, literature, music, philosophy, world culture and business.

Popular (News & Magazine) sources

Biography In Context This link opens in a new window
A Gale database that covers historically significant figures to present-day newsmakers by offering authoritative reference content alongside magazine and journal articles, primary sources, videos, audio podcasts, and images.
It contains more than 650,000 biographical entries covering more than 400,000 international figures from all time periods and areas of study The database is continuously updated with full-text articles are drawn from hundreds of periodicals and newspapers, including The New York Times, USA Today, Daily Mail (London), and Globe and Mail (Canada).
New York Times Digital This link opens in a new window
Access the New York Times online for 24/7 individual mobile access to nytimes.com, including the historical archives back to 1851. Individual accounts are available for all faculty, students, and staff at Raritan Valley College.
Instructional Resources for Faculty- In addition to campus-wide access to nytimes.com,RVCC has campus-wide access to the value-added InEducation academic resources available at www.nytimesineducation.com Please create your account and log in to access the features available from NYTimes In Education.

Library catalog

Use the Library Catalog (Books & Media tab) to search for books, eBooks, video (streaming & DVDs), and print magazines and newspapers.

RVCC Catalog
A catalog of the books and media on campus, plus eBooks and streaming video.

Web sources

Limit your search to a specific website or domain by using the site: technique. Type site: then the name of your website or domain, with no space after the colon. Then put a space and type your search term(s).

Search within a single website = site:nba.com Lebron James
Search within a domain = site:.edu "standardized testing"