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Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
CINAHL Complete
CINAHL®Complete is the world’s most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL.
JSTOR
Digital library of more than 1,500 academic journals, books, and primary sources in all disciplines.

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eBook Community College Collection
This multidisciplinary collection covers topics across programs and fields of study, including the key subject areas of Humanities and Social Sciences, Business, Science and Technology, and Literary Criticism.
eBook Academic
Contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter.
eBook Central
eBook Central is a pilot project is supported by the CARLI consortium and is available to members of the CARLI consortium at no cost. Approximately 29,000 titles are available, primarily in the humanities and social sciences divisions.

KCC Primo Library Catalog
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I-Share Catalog
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