Welcome to the Advanced Technology & Education Park's Virtual Library. Computers are available for student use in the Student Resource Center, located in the Administration building. Access is also available via wireless connectivity anywhere on campus.
NOTE: The use of campus computers or wireless services, require that you have read and comply with the District Computer Use Policy.
ATEP Virtual Library Links
Library Homepage | Reference Desk | Online Databases | Other Libraries| Find an eBook
- Saddleback Library Off-campus Online Research Databases Requires enrollment at Saddleback
- IVC Library Off-campus Online Research Databases Requires enrollment at IVC
The following links to Online Databases for Research Resources and Electronic Publications will ONLY work from with-in the ATEP Student Resource Center located in the ATEP Campus Administration building. If you are off-campus you must use the links listed above for the Main College websites, based on your college of record.
InfoTrac Resources
Expanded Academic ASAP
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images!
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Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography
Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select collects more than 35,000 critical essays on contemporary authors, with biographical, critical, principal works, and further study information. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
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Literature Resource Center - LRC
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Thomson Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.
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Proquest - Search Magazines, Journals and National Newspapers
One of the most comprehensive databases available through the ProQuest® online system, Research Library provides
access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology.
Along with access to the following National Newspapers;
- Christian Science Monitor
- Los Angeles Times
- New York Times
- Washington Post
- Wall Street Journal
CQ Electronic Library
The CQ Electronic Library is the award-winning choice of researchers seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Controversial topics addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner in the CQ tradition. Look for detailed analyses of current social issues, targeting controversial or "hot" topics.
NewsBank Newspapers
- New York Post
- Orange County Register
- Sacramento Bee
- San Diego Union Tribune
- 130 California Newspapers
MagillOnLiterature
MagillOnLiterature Plus is a literary database, combining MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors. This database includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors. In many ways, this is an electronic version of Masterplots and its related titles.
- Online Research Databases (Off-campus) MUST HAVE IVC AS YOUR COLLEGE OF RECORD
- Online Research Databases (Off-campus) MUST HAVE SADDLEBACK AS YOUR COLLEGE OF RECORD