Library Database Remote Access

Two ways to find the CBC library database page:

1. Direct link:  http://columbiabasin.edu/library/resources, or 
2. From the CBC home page, hover over "Current Students", look under "Academic Resources" to find the link "library". Click on the link to go to the library homepage, then click on "All Resources (A-Z List)” to see our database list.

Login to library databases:

1. Click on one of the databases such as EBSCOhost, CQ Researcher, etc.
2. If you are off-campus, you will see the following page. Click on "I am a CBC student" or "I am a CBC faculty/staff member".   (Note: This is new starting September 2012.)

3. Log in with your student or employee ID/PIN. The same ones you use to log into MyCBC.
4. Start searching the database!

For more information,  see our troubleshooting page at
 http://www.columbiabasin.edu/index.aspx?page=681


Contacts:
Research Help: 509-542-4890
Library Information: 509-542-4887
Renewals/Fines:509-542-4458

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New CBC Homepage

At midnight on July 31st, 2012 Columbia Basin College switched to a redesigned website.  Our library homepage and resources page have new addresses; in case it is more convenient here are direct links to our most popular databases:

Books

• CBC Library Catalog - provides information about our collection of books, periodicals, audio-visual materials, and other resources. 
• Ebrary - over 26,800 ebook titles

Articles

• EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier - more than 4,600 full-text periodicals, including nearly 3,500 peer-reviewed scholarly journals.
• ProQuest - more than 2,000 full-text periodicals, including several major national and Washington state newspapers, magazines, and nearly 1,000 scholarly journals.

Reference

• Oxford Reference Online - more than 130 general and specialized dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other references covering most academic disciplines and seven foreign languages.
• Gale Virtual Reference - over 70 encyclopedias and handbooks in business, law, history and the social sciences, and medicine.

Should you have any difficulty locating needed library information on the redesigned site please contact CBC Library Reference at 509-542-4890 or library@columbiabasin.edu.

New - Encyclopedia of Adolescence (Online)

The Encyclopedia of Adolescence
Edited by B. Bradford Brown and Mitchell Prinstein. Elsevier, 2011.
Table of Contents | Search

This encyclopedia, 3 volumes in print form, is available online to unlimited numbers of authorized CBC users on or off-campus.  Essays are cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed and substantial. The volumes have scholarly titles that are not entirely suggestive of the articles within. Volume 1, Normative processes in development, does include articles on brain development and executive function but also adolescent driving, music listening, sleep, nutrition, self-esteem and sexual orientation. Volume 2, Interpersonal and sociocultural factors, has articles on family relationships and social support but also bullying, discrimination, homelessness, media influence, sports, vocational training and youth gangs. Volume 3, Psychopathology and non-normative processes, includes addiction, gambling, learning disabilities, mental and physical diseases, risk-taking, stress, tobacco use, and much more.
Note - while the 'further reading' section in each article includes links you will need to search our catalog or Journal Finder to determine whether or not we have access to the suggested sources - or contact a librarian for help.

Student Art Show in the Library

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New - Encyclopedia of War (Online)

The Encyclopedia of War
Search | Browse Topics
Edited by Gordon Martel. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

This encyclopedia, 5 volumes in print form, is available online to unlimited numbers of authorized CBC users on or off-campus.  It is "the most recent and comprehensive published source on all topics related to armed conflict [and] displays a worldwide scope from ancient times to the onset of the 21st century." (CHOICE, June 2012)  Articles are varied, substantial and scholarly, such as Women and war, which runs 17 pages in pdf including a page and a half of references and suggestions for further reading.

Library Catalog Upgrade Monday 6/11/2012

The catalog system will be upgraded starting at 7:30 PM Monday the 11th. While this will also mean our circulation system is down, we'll be closed so it shouldn't impact those services. Our online library catalog http://libcat.columbiabasin.edu/ will be entirely down for no longer than 1 hour. This will be followed by an extended period where the catalog may be slow or produce inaccurate search results. This should be resolved before 7:30 AM on Tuesday the 12th. This is necessary to provide enhanced functionality and to improve search results afterwards. If you have any questions please contact us library@columbiabasin.edu | 509-542-4890.

New in ebrary - single user titles

• Art of Storytelling : Telling Truths Through Telling Stories
• Critical Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien
• Encyclopedia of School Crime and Violence
• Ethics and Animals : An Introduction
• Europe Today (4th Edition)
• Human Trafficking
• Law of Life and Death
• New Wars and New Soldiers : Military Ethics in the Contemporary World
• Practical Ethics (3rd Edition)
• US Land and National Resource Policy (2nd Edition)

These are single user titles so please ‘release’ them when you are done (use the gray 'Release This Title' button just to the right of the blue ebrary reader button).