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African American Heritage This link opens in a new window
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This collection was created in partnership with leading African American genealogists and recognized leaders in genealogical information to develop a comprehensive mix of resources, records, and tools specifically pertaining to African Americans. Focuses exclusively on resources devoted to African American family history research.

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This collection provides a comprehensive, rich, and diverse collection of video and text for anyone studying or teaching in the area of mental health. Programs in counseling, social work, nursing, psychology and behavioral health will all benefit from the wide variety of content in this collection, which includes clinical mental health demonstrations, actual therapy sessions, compelling documentaries on the human condition, psychotherapy transcripts, as well client narratives and reference works. 

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Alternate Name(s) Gale Books & Authors
For many people, finding a book that interests them can be time-consuming. Match your reading interests with Gale Books and Authors, a reader’s advisory database that makes finding a great read much less challenging. With fun ways to browse, an intuitive design, read-alikes, reviews, award winners and themed book lists, and more this resource answers the age-old question, “What do I read next?”
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Alternate Name(s) Encyclopedia Britannica
To use this resource, you must create a Britannica account using your alamo.edu account.
Business: Entrepreneurship This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s) Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
A comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students. Experience an easy-to-browse interface mapped to four key stages—plan, fund, start, and manage—to fit your research needs at any point in your business's development.
Business: Insights Global This link opens in a new window
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Provides an extensive collection of business intelligence, combining Gale reference content with respected business sources and full-text periodicals to help researchers understand today’s global business environment. Users can access more than 430,000 detailed company profiles with company financial data, in-depth country overviews, and comprehensive industry profiles to stay current with the ever-evolving business landscape.
ChiltonLibrary This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to repair, maintenance, and service information on most cars, trucks, vans, and SUVs on the road today. This resource offers detailed content to simplify even the most complicated tasks.
College In Context This link opens in a new window
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Gale In Context: College offers interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Learners can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and more. Empower learning with hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast video, BBC News, New York Times video, and NPR.
Contemporary Women's Issues This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive coverage of issues that influence women's lives across the globe. Provides access to current content covering topics including civil rights, health, education, professional development, and entrepreneurship.
Diversity Studies This link opens in a new window
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For social science, history, and liberal arts coursework, the Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community. This collection is updated daily.
Educator's Reference Complete This link opens in a new window
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This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator—from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete seeks to provide full text for titles in the ERIC database and covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty—such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also provides insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy.

Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.
Elementary In Context This link opens in a new window
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ENCOURAGE STUDENT CURIOSITY
Rich visuals enhance learning and exploration. “I Wonder . . . ” questions, fun facts, and a visual topic tree encourage students to explore freely and select topics that appeal to them. The “I Wonder . . . ” question is updated daily and located on the home page to encourage inquisitiveness.

ACCESS TRUSTED, AGE-APPROPRIATE CONTENT
Students can learn at a comfortable pace as they move through periodicals, videos, and more to find information that draws them into any topic. The content matches to elementary-level curricula and comes from reliable publishers, like Encyclopædia Britannica, Blackbirch Press, Youngzine, and more.

INTRODUCE PROPER RESEARCH SKILLS
Teachers can use this dynamic resource to enhance instruction and encourage student engagement. Organized topic pages, citation tools, leveled content, and a simplified interface create the ideal environment to introduce young students to research with appropriate guidance.

FIND CONTENT ALL IN ONE PLACE
Children learn best when there are fewer barriers to learning. That’s why this database is designed to match how students naturally navigate online. To make cross-searching across Gale resources easier, we’ve included a Books tab on the home page that connects students directly to subscribed K–5 eBooks from Gale for uninterrupted access to elementary school content. eBooks are displayed in a simplified reader, which makes it easy for students to read and explore.
Environmental Studies and Policy This link opens in a new window
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The Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies & Policy is a digital resource that answers inquiries about environmental concerns with coverage of more than 5.4 million articles from more than 300 journals and book reference content from Delmar, including Soil, Science, and Management; Introduction to Agronomy; Food, Crops, & Environment; Fundamental Soil Science; and more.
Environmental Studies in Context This link opens in a new window
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OFFER A WIDE RANGE OF CONTENT
Users can access authoritative content from national and global publications in addition to award-winning Gale reference content, which gives a variety of informed perspectives.

ACCESS AN EXTENSIVE DATABASE
Hundreds of topic, event, and state portals bring together content from articles, case studies, statistics, images, and more. Users can search the information to learn about diverse subjects such as climate change, food security, soil ecology, and tourism.

NAVIGATE EASILY ACROSS TOPICS
A similar user experience for all Gale products allows users to spend more time with content and less time learning navigation tools.

FULFILL INTERDISCIPLINARY INSTRUCTION NEEDS
Content supports students and researchers interested in environmental and sustainability issues across science, social studies, and the humanities.
Fine Arts This link opens in a new window
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Gale OneFile: Fine Arts places millions of articles at the fingertips of serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. The database includes over 500 journals, with more than 400 available in full text. Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience. Periodical database for serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
Fold3 Library Edition This link opens in a new window
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Fold3 Library Edition by Ancestry provides convenient access to US military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served.  This continually-growing collection contains millions of records from world-class archives, many of which are exclusively available on Fold3.

Gale Power Search This link opens in a new window
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Search all Gale databases at once!
Gardening and Horticulture This link opens in a new window
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Gale OneFile: Gardening and Horticulture serves horticultural enthusiasts of all levels with more than 3.6 million articles from more than 100 journals, as well as more than 20 reference titles from Delmar, including Handbook of Flowers; Foliage and Creative Design; Computer Graphics for Landscape Architects; and more.
Gender Studies OneFile This link opens in a new window
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Gale OneFile: Gender Studies provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society. The database offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
Health and Wellness This link opens in a new window
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Gale Health and Wellness offers 24/7 access to full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more. Perfect for researchers at all levels, this comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.
Health Research Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
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The collection includes content for learning and researching medicine and related subject areas. The collection is comprised of training content, scholarly literature, and clinical reference suited for research needs.

High School Edition OneFile This link opens in a new window
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Gale OneFile: High School Edition is designed for middle- and high-school students and provides access to age-appropriate, authoritative digital content for classroom assignments. Learners can research magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference books covering a wide range of subjects, from science, history, and literature to political science, sports, and environmental studies.

High School Edition's solid content features include full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources; careful editorial curation; a low-to-no embargo rate; and detailed manual indexing.
High School In Context This link opens in a new window
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LEVERAGE ONE RESOURCE FOR AUTHORITATIVE CONTENT
Access hundreds of thousands of topic overviews, primary sources, biographies, and critical essays on core subjects ranging from the Great Depression to Malala Yousafzai. Periodical coverage includes full-text newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from reputable sources like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, and Smithsonian.

SUPPORT DIFFERENT LEARNING STYLES
Empower learning with rich multimedia in diverse formats including images, maps, charts, graphs, videos, and audio selections that include podcasts, archival film clips, and broadcast video from BBC News, NYTimes.com Video Collection, NPR, and more.

NAVIGATE EASILY ACROSS TOPICS
A similar user experience for all Gale products allows users to spend more time with content and less time learning navigation tools.

ALIGN WITH TEACHING STANDARDS
All of the content housed within Gale In Context: High School is aligned to national standards and Common Core State Standards.
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This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time, covering 1871 - 1980.

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This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage spans 1881 - current.

Home Improvement OneFile This link opens in a new window
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The Gale OneFile: Home Improvement puts the research of hobbyists and professionals alike on a solid foundation with more than 4.5 million articles from more than 200 home improvement-focused titles, covering topics including architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and others.
Hospitality and Tourism This link opens in a new window
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Gale OneFile: Hospitality and Tourism provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications that cover topics including the cultural and economic aspects of travel and tourism. The database offers current and relevant content that provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries. The curious traveler will also find a wealth of information, from contents on state parks and information on planning a vacation to full-text travel guides from Fodor's.
Information Science This link opens in a new window
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Library science students, information science and technology professionals, and others will value the Gale OneFile: Information Science. It is updated daily with articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology, including usability, cataloging, circulation, business information, and more.
Informe Académico This link opens in a new window
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Gale OneFile: Informe Académico meets the research needs of Spanish-speaking users with a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. Informe Académico provides quality reference material—not simply translations of English-language materials—on a powerful, easy-to-use interface configured for Spanish-speaking users, allowing researchers to analyze topics and conduct research in Spanish. Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.
Insurance and Liability This link opens in a new window
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Protection of assets—physical or intellectual—is a concern for those ranging from the individual property owner to multinational corporations. The Gale OneFile: Insurance and Liability connects researchers to hundreds of thousands of updated articles from leading journals, including: Business Insurance, Claims, Employee Benefit News, National Underwriter Life & Health, Pensions & Investments, Risk Management, and more.
Interactive Science This link opens in a new window
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Leadership and Management This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to authoritative periodical content covering topics such as 21st-century skills, organizational dynamics and leadership, adult learning and continuing education, and more. Updated daily, this library resource is useful for researchers or any professional interested in career development.

Middle School In Context This link opens in a new window
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ALIGN WITH TEACHING STANDARDS
Over 300 topic pages provide content that supports national and state curriculum standards for grades 6 to 8 in English language arts, social studies, and science.

COVER A WIDE RANGE OF TOPICS
Content is written explicitly for middle school students on a variety of topics, including government, U.S. and world history, geography, literature, science, and social issues.

ACCOMMODATE DIFFERENT LEARNING STYLES
Features a variety of nonfiction, informational text, and formats, including books, images, audio, video, newspapers, primary sources, and more to support learning.

PROVIDE AUTHORITATIVE INFORMATION
Content is provided from proprietary Gale, UXL, and Lucent Books® titles and from leading sources, such as National Geographic, NPR, NASA, AP Video news, and more.
Military and Intelligence This link opens in a new window
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Provide military personnel with access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and present military affairs. Updated annually, this library resource contains hand-selected content supporting key subject areas such as, governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.
Miss Humblebee's Academy This link opens in a new window
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Miss Humblebee’s Academy is an online preschool learning program that’s as challenging as it is fun. It offers a comprehensive, standards-based academic and social and emotional learning curriculum. Plus, it includes plenty of offline lessons and activities to reinforce and expand on learning concepts while limiting screen time.
National Geographic Kids This link opens in a new window
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Engage kids and young students to broaden their educational horizons with reputable, special, authoritative, and age-appropriate digital content that brings them the world in a way they have never seen before. Gale Presents: National Geographic Kids will take them on amazing adventures in science, nature, wildlife, culture, geography, archaeology, and space.

Gale Presents: National Geographic Kids (also known as Nat Geo Kids) collection includes all magazine issues from 2009 to the present, as well as books, videos including Amazing Animals, images, and colorful photos. High-quality informational texts, fun features, and weird and wacky facts are available for primary, upper elementary, and middle school English Language Arts, social studies, and science classrooms.
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As the official journal of the nonprofit National Geographic Society (NGS), National Geographic magazine built its reputation delivering the highest-quality photojournalism and cartography in the world.

As generations of researchers and fans will attest, the iconic monthly publication provides unparalleled, in-depth coverage of society, cultures, nature, science, technology, travel, geography, and more -- making it an essential resource for educators and students as well as general readers. Thanks to advanced digital technology, your library can now offer complete, unlimited access to the magazine main content through 2015 -- every article from every issue, each fully searchable through an intuitive interface.
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This innovative full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section, or other fields. Gale OneFile: News provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts. Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.
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The Newsweek Archive offers digital access the full run of the US edition of Newsweek, from its launch in 1933 to 2012 (when the print edition originally ceased). Renowned for its high-quality reporting and commentary, the archive charts the key US and global events and issues across eight decades. It is known for its investigative reporting and its extensive coverage of issues relating to racism and civil rights from the 1960s forward. It also includes features and reviews in broader lifestyle, culture, and society topics.

Nursing and Allied Health OneFile This link opens in a new window
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Provide access to authoritative content including full-text titles cited in CINAHL supporting specialized care, treatment, and patient management. This essential resource is versatile and features highlighting and note-taking tools as well as an intuitive interface, providing multiple pathways to key information. Updated daily, this resource will help nursing professionals already working in the field, as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.

Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine This link opens in a new window
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Gale OneFile: Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine provides access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine. The database offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.
Pop Culture Studies This link opens in a new window
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Gale OneFile: Popular Culture Studies provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.
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Gale OneFile: Popular Magazines provides access to the most searched magazines across the OneFile products. All of the titles are selected based on actual publication searches performed by library patrons and the database includes many titles recommended by Bowker's "Magazines for Libraries."
Psychology This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology— abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social and all areas of applied psychology. Researchers, psychologists, counselors, and behavioral scientists will discover relevant information from the thoughts, views, discoveries, and reports found in this comprehensive collection.
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Discover a comprehensive collection of periodical content covering topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions. Researchers will gain valuable insight about the impact religion has had on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. Updated daily, this library resource supports a broad range of topics from theological approaches to social issues.
Science OneFile This link opens in a new window
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With the Gale OneFile: Science, researchers can remain current with the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology, and hundreds of other areas. More than 350 full-text, non-embargoed journals are covered; updated daily, this collection includes more than 1.6 million articles to satisfy almost every scientific inquiry. Key subjects covered include the biological sciences, computing, engineering, and technology.
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TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books.
To explore additional content, student and educators can create an account for free.

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Alternate Name(s) Newsletter containing articles, evidence-based insights, and more aimed to help faculty improve their teaching, share best practices, and stay current on the latest pedagogical research.
There are two ways to access the latest content or browse the archives:

1. On-campus, or when connecting via IP: go to www.magnapubs.com to view our group subscription content. If connected from an IP from your institution, you should see an option "Group Access" in the blue bar at the top of the page. Click Group Access to view the subscriptions currently available. It is not necessary to create an account or log in to access the subscription on-campus.
2. To access the group subscription from an off-campus computer follow the steps below.

To register and log in to access the group subscription:
1. Go to https://www.magnapubs.com/register/. Enter information in the required fields > Submit. NOTE: if you get an error that your password does not match, skip down to the EXISTING USERS Section below
2. Once successfully registered, you will see a screen "Thank you for completing your registration"
3. Go to https://www.magnapubs.com/profile/join-sitelicense/18158c0e45156638be26529f70530d0b
4. On the right side of the page, in the "Username or email address" box, enter the email address that you submitted in Step 1.
5. Enter your password > Login
6. On the My Account page > Join Team
7. On the My Online Access page click the appropriate orange "Go to..." box for access
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U.S. History OneFile This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. Updated daily, this library resource offers balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work established in the field.
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San Antonio College Library
Located in the Moody Learning Center (MLC), floors 2-4
1819 North Main Avenue., San Antonio, TX 78212
Call us: (210) 486-0570 | Send Email
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