A-Z Databases - Research Guides at Milwaukee Area Technical College

New / Trial Databases

The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.

Covers more than 500 years of the African-American experience and explores the full spectrum of African-American history and culture.

American Indian History

Offers fast access to more than 15,000 years of culture and history, covering more than 600 Native American Groups.

Book Connections (Badgerlink)

Public library interface focusing on enriching everyone's connections to children's and young adult books.

Docuseek

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Docuseek streams essential independent, social-issue and environmental films to colleges, universities and K-12 schools, providing exclusive access to content from renowned leaders in documentary film distribution.

EBSCO Español (Badgerlink)

Punto de acceso a bases de datos de EBSCOhost españolas. Para los hispanohablantes. Access point to EBSCOhost Spanish databases. For Spanish speakers.

JSTOR

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JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Explore a wide range of scholarly content through a powerful research platform.

Libby, by Overdrive

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Get the free Libby app to enjoy ebooks, digital audiobooks, and magazines. Stream titles with Wi-Fi or mobile data, or download them for offline use and read anytime, anywhere. Brought to you by the MATC Libraries and built with 💕 by OverDrive.

PBS Wisconsin Education (Badgerlink)

Educational videos, images, and animations spanning all curricular areas

Teacher Reference Center (Badgerlink)

Research database for teachers providing indexing and abstracts for more than 220 peer-reviewed journals.

Good Starting Point Databases

Don't know which database to choose? Try one of these multidisciplinary databases, which cover a variety of topics, as your starting point.

Academic OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new window Academic OneFile provides extensive coverage to full text articles from a variety of academic disciplines.
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Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window This combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
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Encyclopedia Britannica Online (BadgerLink) This link opens in a new window Complete online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Additional features include videos, magazine and journal articles, dictionary, thesaurus, notable quotations, and relevant Web links.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Films on Demand is a database that provides access to over 6,000 streaming videos appropriate for academic research.
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Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (BadgerLink) This link opens in a new window Encyclopedia for college-level and adult researchers.
Nexis UNI (formerly LexisNexis) This link opens in a new window Database of full text online news, business, financial, legal, medical, biographical, government and domestic and international newspaper resources.
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MasterFILE Complete (BadgerLink) This link opens in a new window Popular full-text magazines, reference books and other sources from the world's leading publishers.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Collection This link opens in a new window Explore Milwaukee history through local news, events and people with this collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online.
Newsbank (Access World News Research Collection) This link opens in a new window 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. Coverage from the 1980s to current, updated daily. Includes the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Hint: look at the categories under "suggested topics" and "hot topics" in the Quick Links box, for ideas on choosing a topic for research papers. 
Newspaper Source Plus (BadgerLink) This link opens in a new window Full-text coverage of today's major newspapers, for students and researchers. Includes 1570 full-text newspapers made up of US regional and national, international (mostly British Commonwealth) and campus papers; newswires; and TV/radio news transcripts (including ABC, CBS, NPR, CNN and others).
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window One-stop source for information on social issues. Provides current event topics and the facts as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors.
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Oxford English Dictionary (OED) This link opens in a new window The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world. Keywords: Language, Etymology

Help / Tutorials

See these guides and tutorials for help doing research and searching the databases for articles.

List of All Research Guides

Research: Getting Started
by Shelley Peschel Last Updated Feb 22, 2024 879 views this year
Choosing a Topic
by Shelley Peschel Last Updated Feb 22, 2024 121 views this year
Searching Tips
by Shelley Peschel Last Updated Jul 14, 2023 210 views this year
How to Find a Book
by Shelley Peschel Last Updated May 25, 2023 699 views this year
How to Find a Journal Article
by Shelley Peschel Last Updated Feb 7, 2024 1294 views this year
Article Source Types: Scholarly, Academic, Peer-reviewed & Other Sources
by Diane Kercheck Last Updated Feb 19, 2024 607 views this year
How to Find Newspapers
by Shelley Peschel Last Updated Dec 21, 2023 68 views this year
How to Evaluate Web Resources
by Shelley Peschel Last Updated Dec 8, 2023 77 views this year
Fake News / AI Deepfakes
by Shelley Peschel Last Updated Apr 9, 2024 328 views this year
How to Avoid Plagiarism
by Jeff Beder Last Updated Mar 14, 2023 555 views this year
How to Cite Your Resources
by Lisa Quintero Last Updated Feb 16, 2024 1865 views this year
Videos and Tutorials
by Shelley Peschel Last Updated Dec 8, 2023 83 views this year

Specific Database Video Tutorials:

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