The Library & Resource Center (LRC) on the main campus maintains a collection of textbooks, reference materials, periodicals, journals, and other media. Computers with online access are available for student’s academic use. Students have free access to all materials as well as borrowing privileges.

 Library and Resource Center

Resource Center Hours

Mon – Sat 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Sunday Closed

Resource Center Staff

Briana Ochoa, MLIS
Librarian
librarian@pacific-college.edu

Research assistance is available by appointment.
To make an appointment, please email librarian@pacific-college.edu


Online Library Databases

Academic Search Elite provides full text for more than 2,200 journals, including more than 1,700 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for over 18,372 journals. This database offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and more.

Academic Search Elite offers access to video content from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency with footage from 1930 to the present and updated monthly, this collection of more than 75,000 videos covers a wide variety of topics.

Current students may access Academic Search Elite by using the “Online Library” shortcut in the Success Platform.


CINAHL® with Full Text is one of the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 603 journals indexed in CINAHL. With full-text coverage dating back to 1981, CINAHL® with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.

This database also provides indexing for more than 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 2.9 million records dating back to 1981. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL® with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters.

Current students may access CINAHL® with Full Text by using the “Online Library” shortcut in the Success Platform.