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Academic
Search Premier 
Scholarly.
Contains 8,250 indexed titles, 4,512 full text titles
Academic
OneFile 
Scholarly. Contains 11,000 indexed journals, 4,300 full
text.
General OneFile General. Contains 10,500 indexed titles, 6,300 full text.
All topics. All levels.
OmniFile
Full Text Mega Edition – Scholarly. Contains 4,251 indexed journals, 2,300
in full text.
Gale Power Search Choose from 18 Gales databases or cross search
across ten at the same time.
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Academic
OneFile (Ebsco)
Academic
Search Premier (Ebsco)
NEW! Britannica Online Academic Edition 
NEW! Britannica Online School Edition K-12
Directory of Open Access Journals
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required
Expanded
Academic ASAP (Gale)
Funk & Wagnalls New World Ency. (Gale)
Gale Virtual
Reference Library (eBooks)
General
OneFile (Gale)
General
Reference Center (Gale)
CANCELLED! Grolier Online
(containing)
Encyclopedia
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
New Book of Knowledge
Humanities
Full Text (
NetLibrary (eBooks)
Opposing
ViewPoints Resource Center (Gale)
OmniFile
Full Text Mega Edition (
Readers’
Guide Full Text (
Credo Reference – Art, Architecture,
Graphic Design
Credo Reference –
Bridgeman Art Library Archives
Humanities
Full Text (
Ad Critic Password required.
Ad Forum Password
required
Business and
Company Resource Center with PROMPT andsletters (Gale)
Business Full Text (
Business Source Premier (Ebsco).
Computer Source (Ebsco)
Credo Reference – Business and
Economics
General Business
File ASAP (Gale)
LegalTrac (Ebsco)
Regional Business News (Ebsco)
Small
Business Resource Center (Gale)
Social
Sciences Full Text (
Wall
Street Journal Online (1982-Present) (ProQuest)
Criminal Justice
Periodicals (ProQuest)
Military
and Government Collection (Ebsco)
NCJRS
– National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Social
Sciences Full Text (
Aera SIG Communication of Research
NEW! Britannica Online School Edition K-12
NEW! Britannica Spanish Encyclopedia,
Enciclopedia Juvenil
EBSCO Animals (Ebsco)
Education
Full Text (
Educator's
Reference Complete (Gale)
ERIC (Ebsco)
etvSteamlineSC Password
required
Funk & Wagnalls New World Ency. (Ebsco)
Grolier Online (containing)
Amazing Animals of the
World
Encyclopedia
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
New Book of Knowledge
Junior Edition (Gale)
Kids InfoBits (Gale)
LegalTrac (Ebsco)
MAS
Ultra – School Edition (Ebsco)
Milestone
Documents in American History
Opposing
ViewPoints Resource Center (Gale)
Physical
Education Index (CSA)
Primary
Search (Ebsco)
Professional
Development Collection (Ebsco)
Science
Reference Center (For Middle and
HS students)
Student Edition (Gale)
Biography Resource Center + The
Complete Marquis Who's Who (Gale)
NEW! Britannica
World Data Analyst
Decades in
America (60’s-90’s)
etvStreamlineSC Password
required
Historical New York
Times (1851-2004)
(ProQuest)
History Resource
Center: U.S. (Gale)
History Resource Center: World (Gale)
Humanities Full
Text (
In the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories and Personal Narratives
Making of
America Journals (Cornell)
Making of
American Journals (Michigan)
Milestone
Documents in American History
Military
and Government Collection (Ebsco)
Opposing
ViewPoints Resource Center (Gale)
South
Carolina Digital Collection’s Guide
South Carolina in the American Revolution
Credo
Reference – Philosophy and Psychology
Credo Reference – Social Sciences
Criminal Justice Periodicals (ProQuest)
Opposing ViewPoints Resource
Center
(Gale)
PsycARTICLES (Ebsco)
PsycINFO (Ebsco)
Psychology
and Behavioral Sciences Collection
(Ebsco)
Social
Sciences Full Text (
Credo Reference – Art,
Architecture, Graphic Design
Credo Reference–
Bridgeman Art Library Archives
Historical
New York Times (ProQuest)
Newsbank
(Greenville News and The State)
Wall Street
Journal (1982-Present) (ProQuest)
CINAHL (Ebsco)
General Science
Full Text (
Health and
Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module (Gale)
Health
Reference Center Academic (Gale)
Health Source: Consumer Edition (Ebsco)
Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (Ebsco)
MEDLINE
(Ebsco)
Nursing
Resource Center (Gale)
Physical
Education Index (CSA)
Pre-CINHAL (Ebsco)
Science
Resource Center (Gale)
MLA Directory of
Periodicals (Ebsco)
MLA International
Bibliography (Ebsco)
Book Review Index Online Plus (Gale)
NEW! Britannica Spanish Encyclopedia, Enciclopedia Juvenil
Credo Reference - Literature
Humanities Full
Text (
Literature
Resources from Gale
(Gale)
Literary Index (Gale)
MLA
Directory of Periodicals (Ebsco)
MLA
International Bibliography (Ebsco)
What Do I Read Next? (Gale)
(See Also Science and Psychology)
CINAHL (Ebsco)
Credo Reference - Medicine
Health and Wellness
Resource Center and Alternative Health Module (Gale)
Health Reference
Center Academic (Gale)
Health Source: Consumer Edition
(Ebsco)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Ed. (Ebsco)
MEDLINE (Ebsco)
Nursing Resource Center (Gale)
Pre-CINAHL (Ebsco)
MUSIC
Humanities Full Text (
Greenville News at Newsbank (From 1999 on)
Historical
New York Times (1851-2004) (ProQuest)
The State
(Columbia) at Newsbank (From
1987 on)
Wall
Street Journal Online (1982-Present) (ProQuest)
CINAHL (Ebsco)
Credo Reference – Philosophy and
Psychology
Health Source - Consumer Edition
(Ebsco)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Ed. (Ebsco)
MEDLINE (Ebsco)
Nursing Resource Center (Gale)
Pre-CINHAL (Ebsco)
PsycARTICLES (Ebsco)
PsycINFO
(Ebsco)
Psychology
and Behavioral Sciences Collection
(Ebsco)
Social
Sciences Full Text (
Humanities
Full Text (
(See also Medicine)
AccessScience (McGraw Hill)
Credo Reference – Conversions
Credo Reference - Science
General Science
Full Text (
Science
Reference Center (Ebsco)
Science
Resource Center (Gale)
Credo Reference – Social Sciences
Criminal Justice
Periodicals (ProQuest)
LegalTrac (Ebsco)
Opposing ViewPoints Resource Center (Gale)
Social
Sciences Full Text (
Humanities
Full Text (
LitFinder (Gale)
MLA
International Bibliography (Ebsco)
Academic
OneFile (1980 to present)
Includes indexing to 8,000
journals and full text access to 4,300 titles. It has a strong news component
with coverage of the New York Times
to 1995 as well as access to hundreds of podcasts, audio, video and transcripts
from sources such as NPR, CNN, and CBC
(Canadian Broadcast Corporation).
Academic
Search Premier (Ebsco)
Covers all topics. Indexes
over 9,000 titles with Full Text for nearly 5,400. Some titles go back to 1975.
The library’s largest database!
AccessScience (McGraw Hill)
8,500 authoritative articles
taken from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia
of Science & Technology 10th edition; 110,000+ definitions; 15,000
illustrations and graphics; bibliographies containing more than 28,000
literature citations; and 2,000 biographies. Content contributed by more than
5,000 researchers, including 36 Nobel Prize winners
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This site
delivers the best creative work in the industry, breaking news from the
advertising and commercials production industries, plus features and insights
from the editorial staff of Creativity.
Ask at the desk for the user name and password.
AdForum offers online search
services for (Advertising
Firms, Production
Companies & Directors, Creative Work,
and more).
Furthermore, to help you find and browse great creative work, we showcase award winners,
ads aired on TV during special
events in easily browsable lists.
Aera
SIG Communication of Research
Contains full text of dozens
of scholarly, peer reviewed journals on education. Search on the appropriate
journal, and then the desired publication date. Some journals allow searching within
the title and/or subject outlines. Sponsored by the American Education Research
Association Special Interest Group.
Amazing Animals of the World– See Grolier Online
Huge selection of videos for free online viewing
covering the Arts, Education, Foreign Language, Literature and Language Arts,
Mathematics, Social Studies and History, and Science.
A repository of more than
600,000+ digital images and related data along with the tools to store,
organize, and use those images. Contains, painting, sculpture, photographs,
buildings, decorative arts, fashion, landscape, graphic design, architectural
drawings, manuscripts, performance art, and floor plans, and more. Images are
licensed for use within an educational context and can be included in classroom
power point presentations.
ATLAS Religion Database (Ebsco)
Contains Full Text to 80
religion periodicals as well as over a million citations to religion books,
essays, and articles. Also provides links to an additional 282 Full Text titles
in Academic Search Premier.
Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis
Who's Who (Gale)
This database combines
award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography
Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of
periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as
birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine
criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. With the Complete
Marquis Who's Who(R), find quick reference information on an additional
900,000 people. Also includes 27,000 images and links to 19,000 web sites.
Contains dozens of full text
bio-science journals from all over the world. Major topics include
biotechnology, biodiversity, environmental, and ecological sciences. The web site allows searching by topic.
Book
Review Index Online Plus (Gale)
Containing the entire
backfile of Book Review Index print
content from 1965 to the present, Book
Review Index Online is unparalleled in scope, with more than 4 million
reviews on more than 2 million titles. And, because the content is in database
form, it’s easily searchable by:
In addition to multiple
search options, Book Review Index Online
connects users directly to relevant full-text articles in the library’s
databases, such as General OneFile or
Expanded Academic ASAP.
NEW! Britannica Online
Academic Edition
The award winning Britannica
Online delivers fast and easy access to high quality and comprehensive
information. The rich combination of Encyclopaedia Britannica, plus
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines, and periodicals, and
many other research tools provides the variety of reliable sources that
students need to consult when conducting in-depth research- all from one
database.
NEW! Britannica Online
School Edition K-12
An edition of Britannica
online aimed at elementary through high school aged students. Offers
encyclopedias and related materials for students of all levels. Users can
also take advantage of the Learning Materials, a collection of educational
exercises, activities and study guides.
NEW! Britannica
Spanish Encyclopedia, Enciclopedia Juvenil
Enciclopedia Juvenil provides a Spanish elementary encyclopedia,
images, videos, and Spanish language learning materials specifically designed
for younger learners.
NEW! Britannica World Data Analyst
Resource for retrieving,
comparing, ranking and customizing data on the world’s nations
•
Country Snapshots feature provides statistics that include maps, area,
population, demographics, gross national product and more
•
Country Comparisons offers tools for creating comparison tables and graphs
using either recent or historical statistics
Business and
Company Resource Center with PROMT and Newsletters (Gale)
Business and Company Resource
Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand
information, rankings, one million investment and other reports, company
histories, chronologies and 400 full text periodicals from 1980 on. Predicast's PROMT and Newsletter databases are fully integrated in this database.
Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and
information.
Business
Full Text (
Indexing for 650 titles from
1982 with “Full Text for 410 titles from 1995 on. Covers Accounting •
Acquisitions & Mergers • Advertising • Banking • Building &
Construction • Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals • Communications • Computers •
Cosmetics Industry • Economics • Electronics • Entertainment Industry • Finance
• Financial Services • Government Regulations • Health Care • Hospitality &
Tourism • Human Resources • Industrial Relations • Insurance • International
Business • Investments • Management • Marketing • Mass Media • Occupational
Health & Safety • Oil & Gas • Paper & Pulp Industries • Public
Utilities • Publishing • Purchasing • Real Estate • Retail Trade • Small
Business • Taxation • Technology • Transportation
Business
Source Premier (Ebsco)
Contains full text to over
2,300 business and trade journals, 144 books, country economic reports,
industry reports, yearbooks, company profiles, SWOT analyses, and market
research reports. Many journals go back to the first issue.
CINAHL(Ebsco)
Indexes over 1,700 journals
form the fields of nursing and health going back to 1982. Also provides links
to an additional 441 Full Text titles in Academic
Search Premier.
This source provides full
text of college catalogs as well as comparative statistical data.
Computer
Source (Ebsco)
This database contains more than 300 full
text journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science,
programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics,
and software. Computer Source™ provides a balance of full
text technical journals and full text consumer computer titles.
Formerly xReferPlus, Credo
Reference searches 270 encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and handbooks
on all topics. You may search titles individually, all at once, by major
subject categories, or in any combination. Tens of thousands of graphic images.
Provides citation examples for AP, MLA and Chicago style at the bottom of every
record.
Criminal
Justice Periodicals (ProQuest)
CJPI can provide information
on virtually any criminal justice topic, including corrections administration,
law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and
criminal and family law. The database offers ASCII text, image, and
Text+Graphics coverage for about 80 of the titles most frequently accessed by
criminal justice researchers. CJPI also include complete indexing and abstracts
for another 150 relevant
Custom
Newspapers (Gale)
Full-text articles from over 150
A
full list with coverage dates available at: http://www.gale.com/tlist/sb5100.html
Decades
in America (60’s-90’s)
Comprehensive history reference for United
States and Canada from 1960-1999. This online version of the four volume book
set covers events, movements, people and
trends in popular culture, literature, art, sports, science, technology,
economics and politics in the United States and Canada.
Directory of Open
Access Journals
This database contains the
full text of almost 2,000 “open access” scientific and scholarly journals on
all topics. Browse by title or subject area – Biology, Life Sciences, Ecology,
Oceanography, etc. – then search individual titles by date. Some titles provide
additional search paths such as Table of Contents or Subject Area searching.
EBSCO
Animals (Ebsco)
EBSCO
Animals (for elementary school students) provides thousands of easy-to-read
entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and
prehistoric animals. Each entry begins with a simple category breakdown of the
animal including Kingdom, Class, Order, Genus & Species, and Geographical
Locale as well as a detailed description. Entries marked with include colorful
images.
EBSCOHost (Ebsco)
EBSCOHost refers to the
collected EBSCO databases. The following may be searched independently or in
any combination:
Academic Search Premier
ATLAS Religion Database
Business Source Premier
CINAHL
Computer Source
EBSCO Animals
ERIC
Funk & Wagnalls
Health Source - Consumer Edition
Health Source Nursing Academic Edition
Library, Information Science & Technology
Abstracts
MAS Ultra
MEDLINE
Military and Government Collection
MLA Directory of Periodicals
MLA International Bibliography
Pre-CINAHL
Primary Search
Professional Development Collection
PsycARTICLES
PsycINFO
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Regional Business News
Educator's
Reference Complete (Gale)
This powerful database covers
multiple levels of education from preschool to college and includes every
educational specialty, such as bilingual studies, health, technology and
testing. Also included are resources on issues related to administration,
funding and policy in education. More than 1,100 periodicals are covered
including nearly half of the journal titles found in ERIC as well as 200 reports from the United States Department of
Education.
Education
Full Text (
This source on education provides indexing to more than 600 periodicals and yearbooks, full text for 250 journals – 79 of which are not covered in ERIC. Indexing goes back to 1983 and abstracts to 1994. Articles from books relating to education, which were published after 1995, are also included. Covers Adult Education • Arts • Athletics • Comparative Education • Competency-Based Education • Computers in Education • Continuing Education • Distance Education • Educational Technology • Elementary Education • Government Funding • Higher Education • Instructional Media • Language Arts • Library Science • Literacy Standards • Multicultural/Ethnic Education • Parent-Teacher Relations • Prayer in Public Schools • Preschool Education • Religious Education • School Administration • Science & Mathematics • Secondary Education • Social Studies • Special Education • Student Counseling • Teacher Education • Teacher Evaluation • Teaching Methods • Vocational Education
Encyclopedia
ERIC (Educational
Provides indexing to over 1,000 titles and Full Text
to 2,200 digests. Also provides links
to an additional 804 Full Text titles in Academic
Search Premier.
etvStreamlineSC
Password
required
This site provides 40,000+ downloadable
video clips and 16,000 pictures correlated to
Expanded
Academic ASAP (1980 to present) (Gale)
From arts and the humanities to social
sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all
academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers
- many with full text and images!
Funk
& Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (Gale)
An online encyclopedia
containing over 25,000 records.
Gale Databases use this link to reach a page containing each
of the following Gale InfoTrac databases. (Cross-Searchable)
titles can be searched all at once or in any combination with other
cross-searchable Gale titles.
Academic
OneFile (Cross-Searchable)
Biography
Resources Center + Marquis Who’s Who
Business
and
Custom
Newspapers (Cross-Searchable)
Expanded
Academic ASAP (Cross-Searchable)
Gale Virtual
Reference Library (Cross-Searchable)
General
Business File ASAP (Cross-Searchable)
General
OneFile (Cross-Searchable)
Health
and
Junior
Edition
Kids
InfoBits
Legal
Track (Cross-Searchable)
Literature
Resource Center – LRC, Scribner Writers Series Online, Twayne’s Authors Online
Scribner
Writers Series
Student
Edition (Cross-Searchable)
What Do
I Read Next
Coming Soon –
Book
Review Index Online Plus
LitFinder
Opposing
Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale)
Contains 27 encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research including:
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Arts |
Contemporary Fashion 2nd ed. |
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International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers 4th ed |
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Biography |
Business Leader Profiles for Students |
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Business |
Encyclopedia of Small Business 2nd ed |
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Environment |
Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of |
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U*X*L Encyclopedia of Landforms and Other Geologic Features |
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History |
Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security |
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Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the |
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Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the World |
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Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages |
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Gale Encyclopedia of |
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Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students |
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St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture |
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Literature |
Contemporary Novelists 7th ed |
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Contemporary Poets 7th ed |
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Medicine |
Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine 2nd ed., |
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Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer 2nd ed., |
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Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer 2v |
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Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders |
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Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders |
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Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine |
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Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine |
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Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health |
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Multicultural Studies |
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural |
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Science |
Biology |
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World of Earth Science |
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Social Science |
Encyclopedia of Population |
General
Business File ASAP (1980 to present) (Gale)
Analyze company performance and
activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management,
economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports,
trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with
full text and images.
General OneFile (1980 to present) (Gale)
A one-stop source for news and
periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current
events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies,
humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports,
technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles,
many with images. Provides indexing to 10,000 titles and full text to 6,000
titles. Updated daily.
General Reference Center (1980 to present) (Gale)
A general interest database that
integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface.
General
Science Full Text (
Indexing
for 300 titles from 1984 with “Full Text for 100 titles from 1995 on. Excellent
for all areas of science – life, earth, and physical. Covers Astronomy • Atmospheric
Science • Biology • Botany • Chemistry • Conservation • Earth Science •
Environment • Food & Nutrition • Genetics • Health & Medicine •
Mathematics • Microbiology • Oceanography • Physics • Physiology • Zoology
Grolier Multimedia
Encyclopedia – See Grolier Online
Grolier Online (Containing
3 Encyclopedias and 1 Animal Database)
Amazing
Animals of the World - Seven animal categories with 1,200 entries. Photos, locator maps, links
to animal sounds. Glossary, games and prescreened Web site links. 2nd
grade and up.
Encyclopedia
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia - This High School Level Encyclopedia features include Brian
Jam, News, Research Starters, and an adult Dictionary.
New Book of Knowledge - This Elementary and Middle School Level Encyclopedia
includes a Children’s Dictionary and Thesaurus, a Teacher’s Guide giving
detailed information on using the site and developing lesson plans and
activities, and excellent maps. Articles have hyperlinks within the
encyclopedia and sometimes to the Internet, to statistics, to experiments, and
to maps, flags, and pictures.
Health and Wellness Resource Center and
Alternative Health Module (1980 to present) (Gale)
Find magazines, journals,
newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy,
Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety,
Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, etc. Included are web links to
diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases.
Provides the indexing to 900 health related journals (with full text to 75%) as
well as health related articles from an additional 2,200 general interest
publications.
Health Reference
Center Academic (1980 to
present) (Gale)
Use this database to find
articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health,
Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription
Drugs, etc. Provides indexing to 989 titles and full text to 769 titles. Also
includes more than 2,500 topical overviews from Clinical Reference Systems.
Health Source: Consumer Edition (Ebsco)
This database
provides full text to 130 journals and 130 full text reference books. It is the
richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries
worldwide and provides information on many health topics including the medical
sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general
health.
Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (Ebsco)
This resource provides indexing to 822
titles and full text to almost 550 scholarly full text journals. Coverage of
nursing and allied health is particularly strong. In addition, this database
includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide
which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700
brand names.
Contains the full text to 880 journals on all
topics. This site offers a huge
repository of free full text peer reviewed materials on topics of biological,
medical, physical, and social sciences, comprising almost 900 journals. Sponsored by
History
Resource Center: U.S. (Gale)
History Resource Center: U.S. provides
integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from
more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes,
events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the
present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history
journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities
Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online"
series.
History
Resource Center: World (Gale)
A
comprehensive online collection offering students and researchers unparalleled
access to award-winning reference content, academic and scholarly journals,
thousands of primary source documents, images and maps integrated seamlessly
into a cross-searchable database.
Historical
New York Times (1851-2004)
(ProQuest)
This full text database provides access to the
complete content of the New York Times
from 1851 to 2004. Use General OneFile for
New York Times after that date.
Provides extensive information
on companies and industries including stocks, company history, officers, chief
competitors, and links to articles and video clips.
Humanities
Full Text (
Indexing for 600 titles from 1984 with “Full Text for
250 titles from 1995 on. The database indexes, abstracts and delivers the full
text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original
works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets,
dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television
programs, and more. Covers Archaeology • Area Studies • Art • Classical Studies
• Communications • Dance • Film • Folklore • Gender Studies • History • Journalism
• Linguistics • Literary & Social Criticism • Literature • Music •
Performing Arts • Philosophy • Religion & Theology
H.W. Wilson
(See
In
the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories and Personal
Narratives - In-depth indexing of more than
4,000 full text collections of personal narratives in English from around the
world as well as many audio and video files.
InfoTrac
(See Gale Databases)
This journal site contains the full text
to the Journal of Physics as well as 60 other scientific titles.
Junior Edition (Gale)
This periodical database is designed
for students in middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference
books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts,
science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Provides indexing to 215 titles and full text to 196 titles. More than 300
maps.
Kids InfoBits (Gale)
Kids InfoBits meets the research
needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a
developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface with 25,000 images, a
subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, 100 full text
curriculum-related magazines, newspaper and reference content for information
on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history,
sports and more.
LegalTrac (1980 to present) (Gale)
Use this database to find
articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar
association journals and legal newspapers. Provides indexing to 1,300 titles and
full text to 109 titles. Included are articles on Federal / State Cases, Laws
and Regulations, Legal Practice, and Taxation. Also included are
Fifty-five authoritative journals, all full-text searchable and linked to external bibliographic databases. Topics include: Medicine, Engineering/Informatics, Law, Psychology, and Public Health/Policy.
This source provides full text
business articles. This flagship service provides full-text documents from over
6,000 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety
of flexible search options. Source include:
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National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts,
international news, and non-English language sources
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U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews,
and international legal information
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Shepard's® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789
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Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports,
and industry and market news
Library, Information Science &
Technology Abstracts (Ebsco)
(LISTA) indexes more than 600
periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Topics includes
librarianship, classification, cataloging, online information retrieval, information
management and more. Coverage extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Literary Index (Gale)
Type in the author (example: Mark Twain) or title (example: Huckleberry Finn) and the database will identify multiple reference books in the Thrift Library Collection that address your needs. In most cases you are directed to each book’s title, volume number, and page number.
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African-American
Writers |
REF PS153.N5A344 2001 (2 vols.) |
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American Writers |
REF PS129.A55 (4 vols.) |
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American
Writers: The Classics |
REF PS129.A56 (2 vols.) |
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American Writers
Retrospective Supplement |
REF PS129.A55 Ret. Supp. (2 vols.) |
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American Writers
Supplement |
REF PS129.A55 Supp. (17 vols.) |
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Ancient Writers |
REF PA3002.A5 1982 (2 vols.) |
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British Writers |
REF PR85.B688 (8 vols.) |
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British
Writers: The Classics |
REF PR85.B69 (2 vols.) |
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British Writers
Retrospective Supplement |
REF PR85.B688 Ret. Supp. (2 vols.) |
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British Writers
Supplement |
REF PR85.B688 Supp. (13 vols.) |
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Contemporary
Authors |
REF Z1224.C6 (150 vols.) |
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Contemporary
Authors Permanent Series |
REF Z1010.C67 |
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Contemporary
Dramatists |
REF PR737.C57 1988 |
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Contemporary
Literary Criticism |
REF PN771.C59 (41 vols.) |
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Contemporary
Novelists |
REF PR883.C64 1991 |
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Contemporary Poets |
REF PR603.C6 1991 |
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Encyclopedia of
World Literature in the 20th Century |
REF PN774.L433 (4 vols.) |
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European Writers |
REF PN501.E9 1983 (14 vols.) |
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Guide to French
Literature |
REF PQ226.L48 1992 |
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Hispanic Writers |
REF PQ7081.3.H58 1991 |
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Latin American
Writers |
REF PQ7081.A1L37 1989 (3 vols.) |
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Latino and |
REF PS153.H56L39 2004 (2 vols.) |
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Modern American
Women Writers |
REF PS151.M54 1991 |
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Nineteenth-Century
Literature Criticism |
REF PN761.N5 (15 vols.) |
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Poetry Criticism |
REF PN1010.P6 (All vols.) |
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Shakespeare for
Students |
REF PR2987.S47 1992 |
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Twayne’s English
Authors |
Individual Call Numbers |
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Twayne’s Unites
States Authors |
Individual Call Numbers |
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Twayne’s World
Authors |
Individual Call Numbers |
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Twentieth Century
Literary Criticism |
REF PN771.G27 (22 vols.) |
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William Shakespeare |
REF PR2976.W5354 1985 (3 vols.) |
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Writers for
Children |
REF PN1009.A1W73 1988 |
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Writers for Young
Adults |
REF PS490.W75 1997 (3 vols.) supp. 1 |
Literature
Resources from Gale (Gale)
Contains scholarly articles from more than 300
journals, as well as book reviews, biographical essays on more than 130,000
authors, full text of thousands of poems and short stories, overview essays on thousands
of books and literary topics, and links to editorially selected websites on
authors and their works.
Making of America Journals (Cornell)
“A digital library of
primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through
reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of
education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and
technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000
journal articles with 19th century imprints.” Content varies significantly from
the
Making of American Journals (Michigan)
“A digital library of primary sources in American
social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The
collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education,
psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal
articles with 19th century imprints.” Content
varies significantly from the Cornell site.
MAS
Ultra – School Edition (Ebsco)
This site provides full text
from over 490 periodicals on all topics with additional indexing and abstracts
to 554 magazines. This database also includes over 3,000 charts, tables and
graphs converted to ASCII text; 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews; full text
of 149 Macmillan books; over 540 health and science-related pamphlets in full
text; coverage of the CIA World Factbook; and Essential Documents in American History.
Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and
abstract backfiles go as far back as January of 1984.
MEDLINE (Ebsco)
Provides authoritative medical information on
medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine the health care system,
per-clinical sciences and much more. Indexes over 4,800 titles. Also provides links to an additional 1,773
Full Text titles in Academic Search
Premier.
Milestone Documents in
American History
Contains 133 primary source documents from
U.S. and world history with in-depth, analytical essays.
Military
and Government Collection (Ebsco)
Covers
all branches of the military and the FBI. This database provides cover-to-cover
full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals. The database also includes
full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 400
titles.
MLA
Directory of Periodicals (Ebsco)
This directory lists
periodicals indexed in the MLA
International Bibliography. Periodicals relating to the areas of
literature, language, linguistics, culture, and folklore are included. It does
not contain full text.
MLA
International Bibliography (Ebsco)
This source on language and literature provides indexing
to 4,400 journals going back to 1920 and countless books. Coverage includes
many languages. Also provides links to
an additional 565 Full Text titles in Academic
Search Premier.
(NCJRS) National
Criminal Justice Reference Service
This government website pulls
together a wide assortment of statistics, articles, and databases on criminal
justice.
This site provides access to
Nature Magazine from 1997 to the present. Indexing back to volume one is also
provided, though article prior to 1997 require a credit card.
Provides streaming classical
music to over 5,000 cds.
On and Off Campus
Almost 30,000 full text
eBooks available. Must register from on campus. Available afterwards off campus
as well.
New Book of Knowledge - Grolier Online
Containing the Greenville News from 1999 to the present
and The State (
NUMDAM is a
collection of a dozen mathematics periodicals in full image format, many going
back to vol. 1. New volumes are added five years after publication. Although
the collection consists entirely of French journals, NUMDAM is in the process of translating them into English beginning
with the latest issues.
Nursing
Resource Center (Gale)
Provides the wide array of
content needed for research papers and basic nursing theory overviews,
including access to sample care plans, multimedia content, full text reference
books, citations to journals in the field and more. Students can search through
millions of pages of content from the top reference and textbook publications
in the field, as well as animated depictions of human anatomy.
OmniFile
Full Text Mega Edition (
Scholarly. Contains 4,251
indexed journals from 1984 on, 2,300 in full text from 1994 on. OmniFile is made up of six smaller
databases:
Opposing
ViewPoints Resource Center (Gale)
This database covers today’s hottest social issues,
from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control.
- More than 8,700 pro and con viewpoint articles
- More than 4,700 topic overviews
- More than 375 primary source documents
Provides pictures and prices hundreds of thousands of auctioned antiques. Updated daily. Search by category as well as year and place of origination.
Physical Education Index
(CSA)
This index provides
citations to 418 titles on PE and Kinesiology from 1970 on. Although it has no
full text of its own, it will link the reader to articles found in the
library’s other databases.
Pre-CINHAL (Ebsco)
Pre-CINAHL
is a companion database to CINAHL,
allowing users to gain access to citations to very recent articles before CINAHL indexing is complete. Once the
bibliographic records are complete, they are added to the CINAHL database and removed from Pre-CINAHL.
Primary
Search (Ebsco)
This site is designed for elementary school-age children.
It includes full-text of 60 popular elementary magazines, with reading level
indicated. Abstracts from 100 more sources. Extensive image collection. Encyclopedia of Animals and General Encyclopedia included.
Professional
Development Collection (Ebsco)
PDC provides
access to 518 full text education magazines and journals as well as indexing to
an additional 200 titles. It is aimed at teachers, administrators, education
students, librarians and researchers and includes such titles as the Chronicle
of Higher Education, Educational Leadership, Journal of Education, Journal of
Higher Education, Journal of Learning Disabilities, and Theory Into Practice. This database also contains
more than 200 educational reports.
ProQuest
Nursing & Allied Health Source (ProQuest)
Provides users with reliable health
care information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary
medicine, and much more. ProQuest Nursing
& Allied Health Source provides more than 550 full-text publications,
numerous evidence-based resources from more than 70 health fields
PsycARTICLES
(Ebsco)
PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive
source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in
psychology. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 60 journals -
49 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied
organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and
errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.
PsycINFO (Ebsco)
This index provides citations to more than 2 million
psychology articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations going back to 1840
in over two dozen languages. PsycINFO
indexes 2,300 periodicals and provides
links to 925 full text titles in Academic
Search Premier.
Psychology
and Behavioral Sciences Collection (Ebsco)
Covers topics in emotional and