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Reference - Off Campus Search

OFF CAMPUS USERS: For help with off campus access, follow the link for the particular database (following database name).

PLEASE NOTE: If you experience difficulty accessing EBSCO or Gale databases using Firefox (on a Macintosh computer), try switching to Safari or another browser.

Britannica Online Academic Edition Encyclopedia Britannica
Search Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, periodicals and many other research tools.

MAS Ultra EBSCO
Search over 500 popular magazines as well as full text biographies, primary source documents and more than 360 reference books. Full text available.

MasterFILE Premier  EBSCO
Search nearly 1,700 full text periodicals, more than 500  reference books, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags. Full text available.

Oxford Art Online  Oxford University Press
Search Grove Dictionary of Art, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Full text available.

Student Resources in Context  Gale
Search thousands of periodicals, newsapapers, primary documents, creative works, and multimedia, including video, audio clips and podcasts. Full text available.

World Almanac/Book of Facts  OCLC
Search the Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs.

EBSCO databases - Type in your 7-digit CVA Library barcode number in the authentication box after clicking on link, click on EBSCOhost and then select the database to search.

Gale databases - Type in your 7-digit CVA Library barcode number in the authentication box after clicking on link and then select the database to search.

Britannica or ProQuest - Type in your 7-digit CVA Library barcode number in the authentication box after clicking on link.

Oxford Art Online - Type in your 7-digit CVA Library barcode number in the box on left side labelled "Library barcode login" after clicking link.

OCLC databases - Access is via the Electronic Library of Minnesota and may not work for all off campus computers. Click here for more information.

ARTstor - Access is available to registered users. Click here for more information.

If you have trouble getting into any database, please let the library staff know. Email library@cva.edu.