Organic compounds & chemical reactions used to collect fingerprints.
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Other Databases
- Alexander Street 360VR Video
VR (virtual reality) videos to support the HCC curriculum. These 360 - degree immersive or spherical videos were shot using omni-directional camera technology. During playback on flat displays, such as tablets and laptops, the viewer can pan and control the viewing direction like a panorama. Stereoscope-style viewers for smartphones (such as Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear VR) can be used to view these videos in an immersive format.
- Alexander Street Video
Streaming videos representing a wide range of disciplines and topics, fully searchable. Users can create retrievable clips and playlists. Most videos come with a complete transcript. See the Academic Video Online LibGuide for help with the interface, embedding, and playlists.
- Ambrose VideoEducational videos in the collection including timely science and history topics. New releases include: Career Decisions: Physical Therapy, The Neuroscience of Addiction Extended Interviews, Behavioral Science, AP Human Geography, Great Directors, Great Authors of the British Isles and Great Irish Authors. Ambrose Video has BBC Classics, such as BBC Shakespeare Plays, James Burkes' Connections, Ascent of Man and more. Educational video content designed with clips that target the needs of educators using new digital delivery in the classroom!
- American National Biography OnlineReference biographies of men and women from all eras and walks of life whose lives have shaped the United States, with illustrations, hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and search and browse capabilities. (Full text)
- Gale OneFile: Health and MedicineFind up-to-date information on a range of health care topics. Best for students, researchers, and health care professionals. Articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health & safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, etc. (Some full-text)
- Medline
Covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. (Bibliographic; some links to full-text)
- PubMed
PubMed comprises millions of citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Featured Databases for Chemistry
- Academic Search Complete
This scholarly collection offers full text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including: animal science, anthropology, astronomy, chemistry, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, science, geography, law, mathematics, music, health sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and many other fields.
- BioMed Central
Open access to content is available immediately upon publication from over 300 peer-reviewed journals, sharing discoveries from research communities in science, technology, engineering and medicine.
- Gale In Context: ScienceUnderstand context for hundreds of science topics through overviews, journals, news, interactive experiments, and more.
- Gale OneFile: ScienceAccess information on the latest developments across a range of scientific disciplines. Updated daily.
- Journal of Chemical Education
Launched in 1924, the Journal of Chemical Education (JCE) is the world’s premier chemical education journal. The journal typically addresses chemical content, laboratory experiments, instructional methods, and pedagogies. JCE serves as a means of communication among people across the world who are interested in the teaching and learning of chemistry. The global audience includes instructors of chemistry from middle school through graduate school, professional staff who support these teaching activities, as well as some scientists in commerce, industry, and government. Full-text access includes archival content available from 1924 (Vol. 1) to the present.
Hint - Off-campus access is available once a personal account is set-up at any HCC campus. Once on the page, just click "Log-In" at upper right and then "Create one today." You do not need to enter a customer/member number. - National Science Digital Library
The National Science Digital Library provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines both formal and informal, institutional and individual, in local, state, national, and international educational settings.
- PubChemPubChem is organized as three linked databases within the NCBI's Entrez information retrieval system. These are PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay. PubChem also provides a fast chemical structure similarity search tool. More information about using each component database may be found using the links in the homepage.
- Science & Technology Collection
Provides full-text access to over 800 journals covering aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science; as well as indexing and abstracts for more than 1,700 publications. (Some full-text)
- Science Online
Online access to Science Magazine. Our subscription includes Science from 1997-present. Over one-dozen open access partner journals are included as well. Table of contents information is available for the other AAAS journals.
- SpringerLink & Springer Nature eBooks
Hundreds of thousands of ebooks, ejournals, and other materials on every scientific discipline with some arts and humanities. (Some full-text)