Extensive collection of journals, academic books, and academic encyclopedias in health/life sciences, physical sciences, and social/behavioral sciences.
Academic and industry articles in nursing and allied health disciplines.
Index of biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books from the National Library of Medicine. Use this link to activate a "Full Text from Olympic College Libraries" option in the upper right of the page.
Popular, trade, and academic content in almost all areas of study, e.g. Business, Science, Social Sciences, and Humanities. Some overlap with EbscoHost databases, but also offers unique content.
Popular, trade, and academic content in nearly every field of study.
Academic articles and reliable popular sources across all disciplines.
Digitized back issues of academic journals, academic books, museum and archive images, and primary sources. Useful for research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Typically, "scholarly" articles are written for other scholars. Scholarly articles are intended to make a contribution to knowledge in that field.
These journals use a peer-review process prior to publishing an article to ensure the reliability, validity, and methodology of an original research study. The review process ensures that the published article reflects solid scholarship.
Scholars critically assess a draft of the article before publication.
Scholarly articles often take a year or more to publish from the time of the study.
Peer-Reviewed journal articles almost always have: