Alternate Name(s)
News, General Reference, Newspaper
Our subscription offers you complimentary access to the NYT award-winning website and the NYT apps. You can read articles either on your smartphone or tablet — or both.
Once you create your account you get your pass which lasts for a year. You need to visit the campus to udate your pass once it's expired, so that you continue having uninterrupted access to NYT.
Access Instructions can be found at:
http://act.beta.libguides.com/bissell/periodicals#s-lg-box-wrapper-16922830
NewsBank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues, such as UN, agriculture, business, criminal justice, diversity, education, environmental studies, health, international affairs, people, performing arts, political science, religion, science, social issues, sports, STEM, technology.
TumbleBooks is collection of (animated, talking picture books) with fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles, Math Stories, Read-Alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no animation), Videos (from National Geographics), TumbleTV which consists of pre-set playlists of a sequence of books, Tumble Puzzles & Games, and TumbleResources for teachers and students. TumbleBooks are created from existing picture books which we have licensed from children's book publishers and converted to the TumbleBook format.
Reading audience K-6
New / Trial Databases
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The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) is a robust communication studies database. It provides full-text, indexing and abstracts for many top communication journals covering all related disciplines, including media studies, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse.
A curated collection of scholarly e-books across disciplines including business, history, law, philosophy, technology, and more. Continuously updated, it supports learning and research with high-quality content selected by experts.
Humanities Source is a valuable full-text database covering literary, scholarly, and creative thought. It provides access to 971 active full-text journals as well as indexing and abstracts for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities.
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Oxford Handbooks Online, Very Short Introductions
On Campus Access Only
Oxford Academic provides access to high-quality academic content from Oxford University Press, including subscribed Handbooks and Very Short Introductions, as well as open access books and journals across a wide range of disciplines.
Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects - from Public Health to Buddhist Ethics, Soft Matter to Classics, and Art History to Globalization. Each volume provides an authoritative and engaging assessment of a concept, field, or body of work, drawing out the central ideas, themes, and approaches.
The collection includes over 700 titles on various subjects: Arts & Humanities, Science and Mathematics, Social Sciences, Law, Medicine & Health.
ResearchRocket is a new online resource designed to make research more engaging and fun for young students. This onlne digital research tool, delivers diverse, vetted information for elementary and middle school students. Fueled by sources from around the world, students gain multiple perspectives
Science & Technology Collection is a foundational full-text science database. It provides scholarly journals covering an array of science subjects, including chemistry, biology, computer technology, physics, aeronautics, aviation, geology, materials science and marine sciences.