Remote Access to Databases
(Available for Students & Faculty of the College)
Phone: 323-265-8758
You will be asked for verification of enrollment.
Please call the Library, or come by the Reference Desk
for the account names and passwords of the following databases:

Biography Reference Bank contains biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images.

Biography Resource Center contains biographies on more than 335,000 people from around the world and throughout history.  The biographies are taken from a variety of resources including magazines, Gale biographical databases and notable Thomson Gale titles.

CountryWatch provides country specific information on each of the 192 countries of the world

CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the US economy.

Ethnic Newswatch: Full text titles offer additional viewpoints focusing on minority or ethnic issues. Spanish language search interfaces are provided.

Historical L.A. Times (1881-1986) offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 18th century.

LexisNexis Academic provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. (AVAILABLE ON-CAMPUS ONLY)

Literature Resource Center: Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.

NetLibrary: Find digital full-text version of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction - over 10,000 publicly-accessible titles. REGISTER ON-CAMPUS TO GAIN ACCESS REMOTELY.

Opposing Viewpoints: Access viewpoint articles topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to web sites, and full-text journal articles. (Note: Up to 5 users at a time)

ProQuest Direct contains summaries of articles from over 4,000 publications (journal, magazine and newspaper articles) with many in full-text, full image format.

Virtual Reference Library: A database of enyclopedias, almanacs and specialized reference sources.