- ProQuest Direct** (contains citations, abstracts and in many cases full-text articles and graphics from more than 10,000 magazines, journals and newspapers)
- Academic Search Premier
- America: History & Life with Full Text
- ARTstor (provides curated collections of approximately 300,000 digital art images and associated catalog data; initiated by the Mellon Foundation)
- Auto Repair Reference Center
- Biography in Context** (formerly Biography Resource Center, features biographical information on more than 165,000 individuals, covering broad historical periods and subject areas)
- Book Index with Reviews
- Business Source Elite
- CollegeSource (over 12,400 college catalogs including 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools; free off-campus access but no link to PDF catalogs)
- Consumer Health Complete
- Contemporary Authors** (provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors)
- CountryWatch** (contains up-to-date economic, political and social data about every country on the globe)
- Daily Life Through History** (a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary resource that supports history, social studies, English, and language students; gives life to history and context to current events)
- Ebsco Host eBook Collection** (COC's collection of eBooks, from Ebsco Host; currently 7944 titles) (formerly NetLibrary)
- Encyclopedia Britannica** (the famed encyclopedia with additional full-length articles on many topics and links to relevant Web sites)
- ERIC
- Health Source - Consumer Edition
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
- INTELECOM online** (a repository of video clips, mostly less than 10 minutes in duration, on a wide range of academic topics featuring subject experts)
- Issues & Controversies** (includes articles, editorials, historical documents, graphics and statistics on controversial issues; covers over 250 topics)
- Literature Resource Center** (current and comprehensive online literature criticism, biographical information, reviews and reference)
- MEDLINE
- Military & Government Collection
- NetLibrary - please see Ebsco Host eBook Collection, five entries above
- Nursing Resource Center** (designed for nursing students, this database brings together disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts.)
- Newspaper Source Plus
- Professional Development Collection
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
- RAND California (contains more than 80 statistical databases on California, from employment to social security payment to SAT scores)
- Regional Business News
- Religion and Philosophy Collection
- Science Online (access content from a premier science journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science)
- Scribner Writers Online** (includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 Scribner print series)
- Twayne's Authors Series** (contains full-text of 200 Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US or English authors, for a total of 600 full-text titles)
These databases are accessible free of charge from any networked computers on campus.
**Databases with asterisks (**) are also accessible from off-campus by students, faculty and staff of College of the Canyons but require passwords. Contact the reference desk at 661-362-3358 or 661-362-3362 for off-campus access to these databases.