Unveiling the Resources: A Guide to the Cypress College Library
The Cypress College Library serves as a vital hub for students, faculty, and the community, providing access to a vast array of resources essential for academic success and lifelong learning. This article offers a comprehensive overview of the library's resources, encompassing databases, special collections, and services designed to support diverse research needs.
Accessing Information: Databases and Online Resources
The Cypress College Library provides access to a wide range of databases covering various disciplines. These databases offer full-text articles, journals, magazines, eBooks, and other resources. Here's a glimpse into some of the key databases available:
A-Z Database List: A comprehensive list of all databases subscribed to by the library, including trial access. This list serves as a starting point for exploring the available resources.
Academic OneFile: A general academic database covering subjects and topics relevant across all disciplines.
Gale OneFile: Search across more than 30 databases at one time. The largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and Humanities.
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ProQuest: Provides access to multiple databases covering a wide range of subjects, including academic journals, magazines, eBooks, and other resources.
Ebook Central: Offers a vast collection of eBooks across various subjects.
Films on Demand: Over 40,000 streaming videos on all subjects. Films provided by PBS, BBC, HBO, A&E, National Geographic and many more producers. Citations, closed captions and transcripts are available. Large collection of streaming video content including documentaries, independent cinema, TV series and feature films.
JSTOR: Core journals in the fields humanities, social sciences, sciences, and mathematics. Includes some primary sources and book reviews. A great place to find older, digitized and preserved journal issues.
Kanopy: Large collection of streaming video content including documentaries, independent cinema, TV series and feature films.
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Subject-Specific Resources
The library also provides access to specialized databases catering to specific academic disciplines:
Business Resources: Articles from scholarly journals, business magazines, and trade publications focused on starting and managing a business. Covers topics such as business planning, financing, marketing, innovation, and management.
Health and Medical Resources: Useful for finding evidence-based articles on nursing and other allied health topics. A broad collection of scholarly journals, magazines, and news sources covering key areas of study such as biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental science, history, marketing, political science, and psychology.
Literature Resources: Presents full-text literary criticism on writers and illustrators for children and young adults. Full-text literary criticism on the works of classical and medieval philosophers, poets, playwrights, political leaders, scientists, mathematicians, and writers from other genres. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, and scholarly papers. Presents full-text literary criticism on the works of dramatists of all nations, cultures, and time periods. Presents full-text literary criticism on the plays and poetry of Shakespeare. Includes commentary by Shakespeare's contemporaries as well as a full range of views from later centuries, with an emphasis on contemporary analysis. Contains centuries of literary analysis, from scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals. Up-to-date entries of biographical and bibliographical data on more than 164,500 modern authors. Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959.
Science and Technology Resources: Full-text journals in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology, and hundreds of other areas.
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Psychology Resources: Full text peer-reviewed articles in a wide range of psychology topics.
Primary Source Collections
For in-depth research and historical analysis, the Cypress College Library offers access to a wealth of primary source collections:
African American History: A collection of primary source archives devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of African Americans, covering the tumultuous period from 1900 to present day. Primary source collections dedicated to African Studies.
Archives Unbound: It goes straight to the source, giving you digitized, original historical documents to support your research in history, ethnic studies, politics, and sociology. Diplomatic history, global foreign affairs, activists and activism, war and conflict, and colonialism are just some of the topics featured in these primary source archive collections.
Gale Primary Sources: This collection of primary source archives provides opportunities for an interdisciplinary examination of historical events in the United Kingdom and Europe. Covers topics such as commerce and trade, Black economic empowerment, labor equality, finance, industrial history, and organized labor. A collection of primary source archives provides opportunities for an interdisciplinary examination of historical events related to gender and sexuality. A primary source collection where researchers can find documentation about health and environment. An interdisciplinary collection of primary sources of historical events related the Holocaust. This collection of primary source archives includes political, religious, legal, medical, commercial, and military perspectives of Native American history. A primary source archives of historical events related to religious studies.
Visual Resources
- Artstor: Artstor is a digital image library of over 2 million images in the areas of art, architecture, humanities, and social sciences.
News Resources
- Access to newspapers, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune, along with many regional papers. Includes archives dating back to the 1980s.
Tools for Research and Citation
- NoodleTools: An online platform that helps students manage research projects from start to finish. It supports organizing sources, creating accurate citations in MLA, APA, or Chicago style, and developing outlines and notes to build strong arguments. Students can collaborate in real time, get feedback from instructors, and track their progress throughout the research process.
Additional Resources and Services
Beyond databases and collections, the Cypress College Library offers a variety of services and resources to enhance the learning experience:
Cypress College Library Blog: Stay updated on library events, resources, and news through the library blog. Highlights books and resources the library offers in connection with Black History.
Reader's Advisory: A reader’s advisory database that provides search paths for read-alike books, and multiple booklists from award winners to community and expert picks to make finding a great read much less challenging.
Today's Library Hours: Information on the library's operating hours.
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