Research Guides: Staff Resources: Best Bets: Databases for Staff

Do you love to read? Then you will LOVE NoveList Plus!

Looking for a good book to read over break? Need recommendations for your students or for your kids or even the grandparents? Looking for a new author in your favorite genre? Want to read something that fits the particular mood you are in?

Meet NoveList Plus.

NoveList Plus is a powerful database with robust and deep search functionality that helps readers of all ages match books, fiction and nonfiction, perfectly to their preferences. Search or browse by moods, themes, genres and Lexile reading levels. NoveList Plus stands out for its author, series and audiobook recommendations. Excellent for teachers looking to recommend books to their students that fit their reading level; for parents looking for books for their children; for students and bibliophiles looking for their next best read.

Find a match for every reader in NoveList Plus. Look for it under N in our A to Z Database list.

NoveList Plus Tutorial
Here is a brief tutorial to learn more about using NoveList Plus.

Staff Databases

A-Z Maps This link opens in a new window
Includes 4,000+ historical, political, physical, climate, and other thematic maps. Geography quizzes, lesson plans, and videos.
Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Academic streaming videos
Access World News This link opens in a new window
Regional, US, and international newspapers
Alt-PressWatch This link opens in a new window
Newspapers, magazines, and journals from alternative and independent presses
America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
American newspapers from 1690 to the near present
BrowZine This link opens in a new window
A visual tool to browse scholarly literature in areas of interest
Access BrowZine from your smartphone or tablet by downloading the BrowZine app and selecting Saint Mary's College Library from the list of institutions. Log in using your SMC id and password, and gain access to thousands e-journals wherever you are.
Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new window
"Access to chronicle.com

See instructions on signing up for your account: https://stmarys-ca.libanswers.com/faq/268986"
East Bay Times This link opens in a new window
East Bay Times newspaper from 2016 to the present. Search Access World News to find archived Contra Costa Times articles
Financial Times This link opens in a new window
Access to FT.com
To use FT.com, you must first set up an account. See **FAQ link** for instructions
https://stmarys-ca.libanswers.com/faq/268986
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Streaming feature films and academic videos, including independent film, world cinema, Criterion Collection, A24 productions, and more.

*Titles that are not already licensed need to be requested in advance. Requests will be approved or denied based on the amount of funds available for Kanopy licenses. Please allow three business days for requests to be addressed.

(Connecting to Kanopy: Scroll down until you see a bright red button saying Login to STMARYS. Select that, and you'll be asked to do that one more time. You may then be asked to authenticate using your SMC login and password)"
National Geographic Magazine This link opens in a new window
Full-text and page-image archive of National Geographic from 1888 to the present
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Listen to more than 126,000 CDs and 1,800,000 tracks of music, with new releases every month
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 U.S. & international newspapers. Also contains selective full text for 389 regional U.S. newspapers
New York Times (NYTimes.com) This link opens in a new window
Access to nytimes.com

To use nytimes.com, you must first set up an account. See **FAQ link** for instructions
https://stmarys-ca.libanswers.com/faq/268986"
Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
eBook access to the OED, including historical usage and etymologies of words in the English language
San Francisco Chronicle This link opens in a new window
Browse and search the complete run of the San Francisco Chronicle from its start in 1865 to the present day
SPORTDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Literature on sports and fitness related topics
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statistical data and visual analysis on a broad range of topics
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
You need to set up an account for full access. Please see instructions for WSJ
in our Digital Subscriptions FAQ.