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Databases offer citations and full-text articles from magazines, journals, and newspapers, and other resources. Select a Database Group to search multiple databases at once or use the A-Z List to find single databases that best match your needs. Many of the A-Z database titles are also included in the groups; others are marked with an asterisk (*) and must be searched individually.
Database Groups
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A-Z List of Individual Databases
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Academic One File
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Coverage of many academic topics. A good choice for all research.
Academic Search Premier
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Coverage of most academic topics including biology, business, chemistry, education, engineering, law, mathematics, music, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, religion, theology, and more.
AccessScience*
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Searchable content from McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and other McGraw-Hill publications. Content is organized into browse-able categoriesincluding Agriculture, Forestry & Soils, Anthropology &Archaeology, Astronomy &Space Science, Biological &Biomedical Science, Chemistry, Computing &Information Technology, Earth Science, Engineering &Materials, Environmental Science, Food Science &Technology, General Science &Technology, Mathematics, Medicine, Military Science, Navigation, Paleontology, Physics, Psychiatry &Psychology, and Veterinary Medicine.
Agricola
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Information on agricultural resources from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agriculture Library. Search for resources pertaining to animals and livestock, plants and crops, food and nutrition, laws and regulations, education and outreach, research and technology, and more.
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Biography Resource Center & The Complete Marquis Who's Who
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Biographical information on over 1 million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
Books & Authors
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Books & Authors combines over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of preferred reading lists to help library usersfindbooks that they want to read. Includescontent for bothfiction andnon-fiction.
Britannica Online Reference Center
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Comprehensive research tool covering a wide array of topics for library users ranging from elementary students to college students, from business professionals to curious seniors. In addition to traditional encyclopedia articles, users will find multimedia content from current magazines, recommended Web sites, an atlas, the classics, biographies, news, and more.
Business & Company Resource Center
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Company profiles, histories, chronologies, and full-text articles from international trade and business journals and industry newsletters. Includes Predicasts' PROMT, Newsletters ASAP and Thomson Financial's Investext Plus databases.
Business Source Premier
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Full-text access toscholarly business journals and other sources; coversbusiness topics including management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business; offers country economic reports.
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Full-text articles from more than 620 nursing & allied health journals.
Computer Source
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Contains300+ full-text journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.
CultureGrams Online*
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Current information about the world's countries and people. The World Edition section offers historical, social and cultural information about people living in one of 182 countries or territories. In addition to country reports, users will also find maps, biographies, statistics and data tables, glossaries, photographs, and recipes. A Kid's Edition section features 66 country reports, and a States Edition features the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Custom Newspapers
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Full-textarticles from The New York Times and othernewspapers from around the U.S. and the world.For localand state access, Custom Newspapers indexes The State (Columbia, S.C.) and The Myrtle Beach Sun News (Myrtle Beach, S.C.).
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Educator's Reference Complete
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Full-text academic journals,reports, andreference sources; coverageincludes educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education.
ERIC
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The premier U.S. national bibliographic database of education literature. Sponsored by the US Department of Education, ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education, covering document literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education, covering published journal literature from over 775 periodicals. Also includes some full text of ERIC Digest records, written specifically for teachers, administrators, and other practitioners to provide topic overviews and references for more information.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Content includesresearch in all academic disciplinesincluding astronomy, communications, current events, history, humanities, law, psychology,social sciences, sociology, and the general sciences and technology.
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Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
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Provides information on nearly 3,400 jobs and 94 industries, broken into 16 Career Clusters created by the Department of Education. These profiles are presented through overview articles and videos. The database also features more than 55,000 entries on scholarships, internships, and more, divided into browsable categories with searchable records. Nearly 300 videos also introduce users to a wide variety of jobs, industries, and career development skills.
Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia*
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Encyclopedia offering 25,000+ entries on a variety of topics.
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Gale Literary Index*
All Access
Master index to the major literature series published by The Gale Group. It combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 140,000 titles into one source.
General Business File ASAP
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Includes 200,000 company profiles as well as 50,000 full text broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.
General OneFile
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
News and periodical articles on a wide range of topics with coverage of some titles dating back to 1980.
General Reference Center
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Full-text articles and citations from magazines, newspapers and reference books covering topics such as current events, popular culture,arts and sciences, and sports.
GreenFILE
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Indexing and full-text for scholarly, government and general-interest titles on the environment, including contenton global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, etc.
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Health & Wellness Resource Center
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Subscription-only access to medical, health, and wellness information. Includes the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine and delivers currentreference material as well as full-text periodicals and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritativesources.
Health Reference Center Academic
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from 220+ publications, covering fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health & safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, health and wellness research, etc. Medical and consumer periodicals, health newsletters, reference books, referral information, topical overviews, and pamphlets.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Full text access to 550+ scholarly journals; contains abstracts for 800+ titles. Topics focus on many medical disciplines with strong coverage of nursing and allied health.
History Resource Center: U.S.
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Designed forundergraduate history students,this multimedia resource offers primary documents in monographs, pamphlet, and first-person account formats. Access to multimedia clips, periodical articles, and encyclopedia entries are also available.
History Resource Center:World
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Collection of reference, full-text articles from scholarly publications, primary sources, images, maps and charts relating to the study of world history.
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Junior Edition (Grade Level: K-12)
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Now with over 330 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
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Kids InfoBits (Grade Level: K-5)
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Developed especially for young, beginning researchers. Featuresa developmentally appropriate, visual interface, the most popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
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Learning Express Library
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
An collection of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons-students and adult learners-succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. Users will get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of results.
LegalTrac
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Locate articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and legal newspapers on Federal and State Cases, Laws and Government Regulations, Legal Practice, and legal subjects such as Taxation and International Law. British Commonwealth and European Union cases and law areincluded.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Liebert Online*
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Delivers electronic access to peer-reviewed journals in the fields of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, and law. Content exceeds 28,000 papers from more than 55 authoritative journals, all full-text searchable and linked to external bibliographic databases.
Literature Resource Center
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Over 120,000 authors from a wide range of literary periods and disciplines are addressed through biographies, bibliographies and criticisms.
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MAS Ultra (Grade Level : K-12)
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Designedfor high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines and over350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.
Medline
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Citations and abstracts to global biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services. Includes reference to articles from 4,600 current journals published in the U.S. and 70 other countries.
Military & Government Collection
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Current articles on topics pertaining to all branches of government and the military from almost 400 periodicals; offers 245+ pamphlets.
MLA Directory of Periodicals
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Detailed entries for 7,100+ journals that include contact information, frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
MLA International Bibliography
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Index of international scholarly materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore.
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Nature*
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
A weekly, international, peer-reviewedjournal featuringresearch inscience and technology, including news and trends that wouldinterestboth scientists and the general public.
Nursing Resource Center
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Designed for nursing students, this database offers disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams.
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Opposing Viewpoints
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Resource for viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Web sites.
Ovid's Nursing Journals
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Access full-text articles from respected nursing journals.
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Primary Search (Grade Level: K-12)
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Information datesback to1990.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source*
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and more. Providing abstracting and indexing for 700+ titles (over 580 titles in full-text), this is designed to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities as well as college nursing and allied health programs.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Full text access to 550+ journals including 500+ peer-reviewed journals. Covers anthropology, behavior, emotion, mental health, psychiatry & psychology, as well as observational & experimental methods.
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Regional Business News
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Full-text coverage for regional business publications, incorporating coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all U.S. metropolitan and rural areas. Updated daily.
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Science Online*
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Science is a leading international journal that features original scientific research, news, and commentary. In addition to the ability to search full-text issues and articles, the Science Online gateway also offers features such as videos, slide shows, career resources, and more.
Science Resource Center
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Articles, topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrationsdrawn from 200+ magazines, academic journals, and links to quality Web sites.
Scribner Writer's Series
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Includesbiographical essays on authors of all nationalities and time periods.
SIRS Discoverer*
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Designed for elementary and middle school researchers, SIRS Discoverer offers content from more than 1,600 U.S. and international magazines, newspapers and government documents.
SIRS Knowledge Source*
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Formerlyknown asSocial Issues Resource Series, SIRS Knowledge Source provides full-text access to articles, documents, graphics, and suggested Web sites. Search by topic or browsecategories.
Small Business Resource Center
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Includessample business plans, how to guides, articles and Web sites pertaining to small business start-up, operation, finance, and management.
Student Edition (Grade Level: K-12)
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Designed for high-school students with access toindexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books coveringcurrent events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, and sports.
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Teacher Reference Center
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Indexing and abstracts for resources relating to teaching and education.
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What Do I Read Next?
Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Resource for readers who seek more information about a favorite author, title, or book genre. This tool also helps readers find books that are similar to other books that they have read.
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