Access to these databases is limited to WCC students, faculty, and staff.

Off-Campus Access

1.  Click this link to access the WCC EBSCOhost portal. 
2.  Sign in with your myVCCS username and password. This is the same login you use for Canvas, student Gmail, and the SIS (Student Information System).
3.  Type in your keywords.
4.  Keep “Linked Full Text” checked.

If you’re on campus, you can quickly search using all of our databases by going to the WCC EBSCO portal here. 

WCC Databases

• Academic Search Complete – Scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database
• Factiva – from Dow Jones & Reuters -- FULL-TEXT articles from many magazines, journals, newspapers, and newswires
• ALL our Databases – including CINAHL, Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source, MEDLINE, PsycARTICLES, and all other academic and general interest databases
• Gale's Literature Resource Center – Comprehensive literature resources
• FirstSearch – Citations and abstracts to journal articles
• OVID – Your Journals@OVID, FULL-TEXT articles in nursing and health sciences
• CQ Researcher – Comprehensive reports and analyses on issues in the news
• Facts on File – Articles, photographs, historic documents in Facts on File World News Digest plus a live news feed from Reuters. Other databases include Issues and Controversies, Today’s Science, The World Almanac, and The World Almanac Encyclopedia
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center – Access social issues viewpoint articles, primary documents, statistics, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection – over 100 dictionaries and reference works published by Oxford University Press covering virtually all subjects.
• Safari Technical & Business Books
• The Chronicle of Higher Education (Employees can access Premium content from computers and devices not on the WCC network by creating a Chronicle account using WCC email.)
• Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory
• VCCS Audiobooks (Overdrive)

To get a detailed description of our databases and what they offer, go here .

Open Access (whether you are on or off campus)

• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus
• The Chronicle Of Higher Education (from any computer or device on WCC network)
• Your Dictionary