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ESL (English as a Second Language) Research Guide

ESL Online Databases:

The Online Databases are available to current EPCC students, faculty and staff from computers located on campus or off-campus by selecting the "Off-campus access" link.

For more instructions on how access databases off campus please go to: Instructions for Off-campus access to Databases

 

eLibrary  Formerly called Electric Library. Full text of television and radio transcripts, magazines, journals and newspapers. Also includes maps, pictures and excerpts from books. Off-campus access

 

EBSCO Middle Search Plus Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 150 popular magazines as far back as 1990. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Also contains biographies and an Image Collection of photos, maps and flags.  Off-campus access

EBSCO Searchasaurus  Primary Search Lexiles 200 – 1030. Includes dictionary, encyclopedia, pictures and magazines.  Off-campus access

Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia  Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.  Off-campus access

Galenet - Discovering Collection Includes Discovering Authors, biography, Multicultural America, Science, U.S. and World History; EXPLORING Novels, Poetry, Shakespeare, Short Stories, Newsmakers; and various Worldmark Encyclopedias. Off-campus access

Galenet - Student Resource Center - Gold Contains thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, timelines, maps, graphics and full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines and newspapers. Off-campus access

Newsbank Databases  America's Newspapers (Texas newspapers), Newsbank Newsfile (2000-) and Noticias en Español (1992-). Americas's newspapers includes the El Paso Times (1999-). Newsbank Newsfile contains articles from over 500 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada, all with full-text. Noticias en Español is totally in Spanish. Off-campus access

 

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