National Geographic Virtual Library provides access to National Geographic Magazine from its founding in October 1888 through December 2020.

Multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Includes indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

Contains over 79,000 videos.  Subjects include social sciences, history, business, diversity, science, media studies, music and performing arts, political and social movements, health sciences, science and engineering, environmental studies, film, theatre, and more.  Videos include captions, transcripts; audio descriptions can be provided. Unlimited access and public performance rights included for most. Can be integrated into Canvas.

Research diverse perspectives, topics and trends that align with areas of study such as Business, Health, Criminal Justice, Science, Humanities, Political Science and more. Features reliable, credible information from a wide variety of international, national, and local news sources.

Contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage 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.

Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Includes full text articles for more than 180 journals and reports. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990.

Coverage of research and development within the applied sciences and computing disciplines. This resource offers full text for almost 1,200 journals, and citations to millions of articles.  

Providing over 600 full-text journals, more than 220 full-text books, and a collection of over 63,000 images.

Contains nearly 1,000 full-text journals as well as 11 full-text books. Designed specifically for the research needs of two-year colleges, providing comprehensive coverage of the most relevant associate program level content.

Authoritative and up-to-date service and repair information for thousands of domestic and imported vehicles. All content comes from the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and includes step-by-step repair information, diagrams, maintenance schedules, parts and labor estimates, service bulletins and recalls.

Offers a selection of biographical eBook titles.

Offers a comprehensive collection of more than 460,000 full-text biographies, including the complete full-text run of Biography Today and Biography, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases.

Using stringent criteria, only the top 1% of the more than 6,000 business books published each year in the United States is selected for inclusion in the database. Summaries and reviews are provided for more than 700 of the top business books from the last 20 years.

Provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Provides full text back to 1886 and searchable cited references back to 1998. Covers business, marketing, management, management information systems, production and operations management, accounting, finance and economics.

Over 730 Caribbean focused scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, reports and reference books. Updated weekly.

Provides full text (including PDF) coverage for scholarly journals published in central and eastern European countries.

Covers news, information, and job openings relating to colleges and universities. Students researching education topics will find this database useful. Accessible off campus with LMC credentials. Note that one can set up an account in the Chronicle as an optional way to log in, which is necessary for access to the newsletters.

Provides full text for more than 610 nursing and allied health journals. Full-text coverage dates back to 1981.

Offers abstracts and indexing as well as full-text content from publications worldwide pertaining to communication, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language pathology, media studies and other fields relevant to the discipline.

Supports the information needs of patients and fosters an overall understanding of health-related topics. Covers key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary and holistic medicine. More than 500 full-text journals and magazines.

Offers a selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general health topics, including diseases such as cancer and diabetes; weight management and exercise; allergies; senior care; social-emotional health; developmental disorders; and natural health.

Presents articles on health, public safety, marketplace economics and the judicial & regulatory actions that affect consumers. Includes product reviews.

Reports written on varied social issues by experienced journalists, thoroughly footnoted and sourced to experts to ensure quality and accuracy of the information. Pro/con arguments included.

Over 3,500,000 full-text entries from over 1,000 different sources. Use this resource to gather background information to start your research. Includes mind map.

Contains more than 400,000 records. Subjects covered include criminology, criminal justice, criminal law and procedure, corrections and prisons, police and policing, criminal investigation, forensic sciences and investigation, history of crime, substance abuse and addiction, and probation and parole.

Experience the thrill of live performances with unlimited access to thousands of full-length productions and educational resources.

Contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter.

This eBook collection will assist students and scholars with various business research, special project and entrepreneurial needs, and help students understand general business concepts.

Search titles purchased by library staff and access over 200,000 titles from numerous EBSCO eBook collections – all subjects.

For High School students across all academic subjects.

Designed for K-8 students across all academic subjects.

Designed specifically for public libraries. Featuring fiction and nonfiction titles for adults and juveniles.

Complete listing of EBSCOHost databases subscribed to by the William Hessel Library. 

Designed to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers. The collection provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,850 academic periodicals; and includes full text for more than 1,800 journals.

An OCLC collection of scholarly journals. 

Full text for more than 125 key periodicals, 135 reference books, case studies, thousands of company profiles and over 600 videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Series and Vator.TV.

Contains more than 2.4 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888 (including over 1,350 active core titles) as well as more than 190 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 920 journals.

ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals. 

Portal to all Facts on Files databases.

Contains the video, Our Families, Ourselves-Changing Families. Note: Search the database, Academic Video Online to view over 60,000 films.

Robust and highly-detailed demographic data. Ideal for gaining consumer and market insight as you consider opening a business, finding an untapped audience for your products, analyzing the shifts and needs of a given population, and more. Reporting capability allows you to rapidly produce a variety of compiled reports to help you make informed and accurate decisions.

Gale eBooks, formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library, contains over 200 reference and specialized sources on multiple subjects.

Explore issues within government, law, health, science and technology, society and culture, and more. Includes global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more.  Cross-searchable with Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints database. 

A resource for debaters and includes viewpoints, reference articles, infographics, news, images, video, audio, and more on hot social issues. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more. Cross-searchable with Gale In Context: Global Issues database.

Limits results to scholarly literature. Book title searches may link you to holdings in the Hessel Library. Includes citations to peer reviewed documents.

Covers all types of U.S. government documents from the Government Printing Office, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive department. 

Covers 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.

Ready to revolutionize how news is consumed on your campus? A 30-day complimentary trial to Ground News is now accessible directly from your campus network. 

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Provides consumer health information on many health topics, including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Includes access to nearly 80 full-text consumer health magazines.

Provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

Local news from 1999 through today with images.

Full-text Herald-Palladium articles. Current issues, plus articles from the past 20 years. These are locally written HP articles, not newswire articles from national news sources. Content from selected news magazines and special reports are also included.

Offers a selection of historical eBook titles covering global topics from the ancient world through today.

Full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.

Full text for more than 500 magazines and books, as well as access to 333 videos and 144 hobby reports.

Full text database designed for use in public and school libraries. 

This collection contains more than 828,000 records, with coverage dating as far back as 1965. There is full text for more than 490 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books.

The collection includes full text for more than 1,400 journals, with citations to over 3.5 million articles, including book reviews.

Search the full-text to these titles, Governing America and Nuclear Power, both multi-volume sets.

Complete listing of all Thompson Gale Databases powered by InfoTrac. 

Explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture. Contains very specific research questions for each topic.

Contains over 400 full-text titles. Includes full-text for leading academic journals within the discipline, monographs, related articles from major periodicals and newspapers, and over 1600 biographies of leading historical and contemporary Jews.

The collection includes more than 2,800 top scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Journal issues start from the first issue and extend up to a publication date usually set in the past three to five years. Millions of primary sources from four individual collections are also included, featuring pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, oral histories, government documents, images, 3D models, spatial data, type specimens, drawings, paintings, and more.

A database containing 24,000+ streaming videos, including classic, independent, and documentary short and full-length films. The library is using a mediated model and requesters will see a request form for any film in the collection that the library does not already license. Films are licensed for one year and will appear on the Kanopy site for instantaneous viewing.

Includes a resume builder you can save, edit, and print. Over 700 courses, practice tests, tutorials, eBooks, and flashcards. Practice tests include ACT, SAT, PSAT and TOEFL, as well as trade certification, civil service, math and reading tests, and U.S. citizenship. Create a free account to access tools to help you do well on your college admissions tests and essay.

Contains more than 225 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms.

Resource for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, and others involved with the law. The collection includes over 1,200 full-text journals.

Find coverage from news, business, and legal sources. (This is now called Nexis Uni).

Content includes full text for more than 460 publications and indexing for hundreds of high-quality journals, as well as books, research reports and proceedings.

Full-text collection of literary reference works & journals.

Covers a broad range of literary-related subjects. Selections include literary criticism, study guides, and classics such as Emma, Dracula and Frankenstein.

Find which database to use for a particular journal title or subject. Enter the journal title and see which database has that title.

Mango Languages includes conversation-based lessons in over 70 languages, along with 20 ESL courses for web, iOS, and Android. You will need to create an account on the Mango Languages homepage for individualized instruction using your LMC email and can download the app to access Mango Languages from anywhere. Features include phrases taught by native speakers, voice comparison audio, and movies.

Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 540 popular, high school magazines.

Covers a broad range of general reference subjects for high school students. Topics include biography, history, careers, language arts, literature, government, health, math, science, current events, and social-emotional health.

Provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1922. Also includes full text for more than 1,000 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags.

Covers general reference subjects. Topics include biography, history, careers, cooking, literature, genealogy, health, parenting, personal finance, politics, architecture, science, current events, social-emotional health, sports, and travel.

Search for authors and illustrators from Michigan. 

Full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines.

Covers a broad range of general reference subjects for middle school students. Topics include social studies, math, history, language arts, technology, geography, culture, and science.

Covers every aspect of classical and popular music. In addition to 170 full-text journals, it includes reviews of performances as well as reviews of sound recordings and videos. Also find selective coverage for more than 200 additional journals.

Access to billions of historical documents, millions of historical photos and other resources in thousands of databases that span the past five centuries. Includes birth, death and marriage records from 48 countries, the complete U.S. and U.K. censuses, immigration, military and tombstone records and more than 2 billion family tree profiles. Due to the ongoing content contributions by individual users, the database grows at an average pace of more than 1 million records each day.

NML is the world´s largest online classical music library. It offers streaming access to 170,000 disks with more than 2,600,000 tracks of both standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month. This subscription is limited to eight simultaneous users. Please log out when finished.

The LMC community may register for an account using their LMC email address. Registration includes all articles, features, interviews, obituaries, columns, and still image, audio, video, and data, text and multimedia published on the site since 1996. Some coverage goes back to 1851. Includes mobile access to The New York Times via the NYTimes smartphone and tablet apps. Users with an iOS device also have access to the NTY Audio app. Features include audio journalism, podcasts, and storytelling on everything from world events and daily headlines.

Full-text national & international newspaper coverage. Includes more than 860 full-text newspapers.

Provides near real-time access to news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire on a continuous basis.

Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.

This tool will help you format citations in a variety of styles, take notes for research and more. Print your Reference List or Works Cited page in perfect format. Create your own username and password for access to all your writing projects. 

Created especially for children and the adults who work with them, NoveList K-8 Plus is an online database of reading recommendations which encourages reader success. Featuring an easy-to-use interface, kids can use NoveList K-8 Plus to find just the right books for their reading levels and interests, while parents, teachers and librarians can use it to find valuable teaching resources that will engage young readers.

Created especially for people who love books, NoveList Plus is the premier online database for reading recommendations, available through libraries around the world. Helping readers of all ages find just the right book to read, this comprehensive source of popular and professional book information includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more.

A library guide for nursing students, staff, and faculty at Lake Michigan College.

William Hessel Library holdings of books, DVDs, eBooks and streaming video. Items can be requested to send to the South Haven and Niles campuses. You must log in to the Online Catalog to do so.

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Access OVID’s Diversity & Culture Healthcare eBook Collection. Look for “Books” in the blue tab to locate these ten titles. 

The definitive record of the English language. The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. 

The full-text content is available in these eBooks owned by the library: 
• Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to Present 
• Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895 
• Encyclopedia of Global Change 
• Grove Dictionary of American Music 
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature

This full-text database provides a historically rich collection of hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniques — including contemporary content from the finest publishers. More than 2,400 audio recordings of poets reading their own works.

Covers four hundred topics. Contains resources that present multiple sides of an issue, and provides rich content that can help students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.

Provides full text for more than 520 journals, and indexing and abstracts for over 2,900 titles, (including top-ranked scholarly journals), many of which are unique to the product. The database also features over 340 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 36,000 full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association.

Provides full text for more than 70 magazines for elementary school research.

Covers a broad range of general reference subjects for primary school students. Topics include social studies, history, language arts, geography, culture, math, and science.

Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.

Over 500 full-text journals. This database covers information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.

A comprehensive Spanish-language resource offering 49,000 encyclopedia entries, 50,000 images, 2,500 health reports, a Spanish-English dictionary and the full text of over 100 hundred reference books and dozens of general interest magazines. 

Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business.  

Includes Principles of Business in accounting, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, globalization, leadership, management, and marketing.

Check out various careers such as health, criminal justice, sports, equipment repair, and much more.

Find digitized books on alternative medicine, infectious diseases, behavioral health, community and family health, cancer, and nutrition, along with a comprehensive medical guide.

Find digitized books on different U.S. historical periods, countries, immigration, privacy, innovators, world religions, and racial and ethnic relations.

Includes themes such as censored and banned literature, conspiracies, and feminism. Coverage on Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. Includes works by Shakespeare and critical surveys of graphic novels, mythology, and poetry

Find digitized books on applied science, mathematics, natural disasters, environment issues, climate change, and principles of chemistry, physical science, and physics.

A selection of eBook titles covering science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

 Art and rare books sales catalog.  

A resource for small business owners and those interested in starting a business, offering full-text periodicals and reports, sample business plans, U.S. tax forms, videos and reference books. 

Content contained in the database from the full set of small engine repair manuals from Clymer (http://www.clymer.com/).

Contains full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full text for over 16,800 conference papers.

Need statistics for your paper or speech? This database provides a comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. It contains 1400 statistical tables.  Includes monthly updates to the tables, image and spreadsheet versions of all current and historical tables, along with links to provider sites. 

Specifically designed to support research in two-year colleges, and offers content geared to academic institutions offering associates degrees and vocational programs.

Search top news stories and information contained on the various sections of the paper such as companies, people, products, etc. For current day's news, click on Advanced Search, filter by date, and click search. 
Content also includes publicly available (open access) journal articles, pre-prints, dissertations, conference papers and reports.

Provides near real-time access to thousands of top news feeds from around the globe. This collection includes over 14,000 feeds covering a range of business and general news topics.  End users can immediately access the full text of the web content, by following the link in the record.

This series by Oxford University Press offers over 100 volumes written by leading experts in their fields. Content covered includes current issues in the arts & humanities, medicine & heath, law, science & mathematics, and social sciences.

Original reports of experimental research involving applications of the experimental analysis of behavior to problems of social importance. 1997 to present.

Original experiments relevant to the behavior of individual organisms; review articles and theoretical papers considered. 1997 to present.

Use to request items from other libraries not available in the LMC library. Over 1.9 billion resources held in libraries around the world. Holdings of the Hessel Library are also searchable.

A database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat (index only).