RCC Research Guides: Wedding and Marriage Customs and Rites: Library Databases

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Library Databases

Academic Search Complete
Includes access to over 2,700 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.
American History Online
Offers primary source documents, biographies on historical figures, and images.
Psychology OneFile
Supports research in all fields of psychology – abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social, and all areas of applied psychology.
Science in Context
Uses periodical articles from the fields of astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth and environmental sciences, health, math, and physics to help students relate to real-world issues.

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