Copyright Permissions for OCC Library Databases



Electronic documents from databases purchased by OCC may often be liberally incorporated into Blackboard courses or into Webpages under "fair use," but it is important to verify the Terms & Conditions that apply to each database you wish to use.

Gale and InfoTrac Databases:

  • Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac)
  • General Reference Center Gold (InfoTrac)
  • General Business File ASAP (InfoTrac)
  • Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale)
  • Health Reference Center Academic (InfoTrac)
  • General OneFile
  • Computer Database
  • LegalTrac
  • InfoTrac Custom 150 Full Newspapers
  • New York Times
  • Biography Resource Center
  • Biography and Genealogy Master Index
  • Discovering Collection
  • Gale Literary Databases: Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, & Dictionary of Literary Biography
  • Gale Literary Index
  • Gale's Ready Reference Shelf

EBSCOHost Databases:

  • EBSCOHost: Main Menu  (Multiple databases)
  • Academic Search Elite
  • Business Source Elite
  • Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition
  • Newspaper Source  

ProQuest Databases:

  • ProQuest Nursing Journals
  • Wall Street Journal

FirstSearch Databases:

  • First Search: Main Menu  (Multiple databases)
  • CINAHL
  • MEDLINE
  • WilsonSelectPlus
  • World Almanac

bigChalk eLibrary

OED Online: Oxford English Dictionary

Newsbank Databases: (restrictive; contact newspaper publisher)

  • Newsbank Newspapers
  • Detroit Free Press
  • Detroit News

JSTOR: the Scholarly Journal Archive (restrictive; contact journal publisher)

StatUSA Databases: (contact database)

  • Stat-USA: Globus & National Trade Data Bank
  • Stat-USA: State of the Nation

netLibrary (restrictive; contact book publisher)

CollegeSource Online (restrictive)

Valueline Investment Survey Online (restrictive)