Popular Databases
Available to current students, faculty and staff.
FAQs for accessing Collin databases
Academic Search Complete 
Includes Full-text
Links to cited references
1865-present, many full-text.
Academic and peer reviewed journals,
magazines
Use for: General information on a wide variety
of subjects
InfoTrac Newspapers
Includes Full-text
Mid 1980s-present
Newspaper articles from American and
international
Use for: Newspaper articles on any topic
Issues and Controversies
Includes Full-text
1995-present
Includes primary sources, newspaper editorials,
and editorial cartoons
Use for: Argumentative or issue papers in
English, Health Sciences, Speech,
Social Sciences
JSTOR
Includes Full-text
Dates covered: 1600s up to 3-5 years ago.
All issues of included journals.
Scholarly and peer reviewed journals
Use for: All topics, especially scholarly and
historical information about any topic
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Includes Full-text
Updated regularly
Includes viewpoint articles, full-text magazine
and newspaper articles, primary source
documents, statistics, images and podcasts
Use for: Argumentative or issue papers in
English, Health Sciences, Speech,
Social Sciences
RAND Texas
1969-present
Texas Statistics
Use for: Business, Census, Health and
Socioeconomic, Demographics, Education
Science Direct
Full-Text for subscribed journals from 2001-
present, Citations and Abstracts for all
journals 1823 to present
Academic and peer-reviewed journals,
magazines
Use for: Science, technology, medicine
Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
Full-Text
Coverage: 1600 – 2000
Documents, pictures, web sites
Use for: History, Sociology
Find a Specific Journal Title
See if a particular journal, magazine
or newspaper is available
Finding Books and Video
Find Sociology books and videos in the library catalog.
Electronic books can be found in the
library catalog or on the library's eBooks page.
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