Library Staff Training

Find the best databases (searchable collections of articles, ebooks, images, data, etc.) for your assignments and research.

Check out some of the tutorials for the major platforms: ProQuest, EBSCO, Gale, JSTOR.

Learn how to search within ProQuest Central to find news, magazine, and scholarly journal articles; also dissertations, reports and more across all major subject areas, including business, health & medical, social sciences, arts & humanities, education, science, technology, and religion.

Find and read eBooks in a wide variety of subjects - art, business, education, engineering, history, literature, mathematics, the social sciences and more.

Find biographical, overview, historical perspective and other articles and chapters from encyclopedias, handbooks, directories and other reference sources from a variety of disciplines -- Arts, Humanities, Medicine, Sciences and Social Sciences.

Analyze potential markets and competition to choose a business location. Find info and generate reports by city, state, county, zip code, neighborhood and map selection on types of businesses and non-profits; population by gender, age, ethnicity; consumer product expenditures compared to baseline, and more.

Research authors and their works; also literary movements and genres. Search across MCCC's Gale literature databases to find full text of journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews. Includes Gale Literature Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Something About the Author, and Twayne's Author Series

Find scholarly articles and books from many disciplines such as language & literature, history, art & art history, political science, sociology and more. Extensive coverage of all earlier years of publication but usually lacks the most recent 4 or 5 years of journal articles.