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Academic Search Premier
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.
Expanded Academic ASAP
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!
Custom Newspapers
Full text for over 100 U.S. and international newspapers. New York Times coverage from 1/2000 to present.
The State Newspaper (Columbia)/Greenville News
Selective full-text archive of the State newspaper (1987-present) & the Greenville News (1999-present) via NewsBank database.
Gale PowerSearch
Full-text articles, abstracts, and citations covering a wide variety of disciplines. Sources range from scholarly journals to popular magazines and newspapers.
LexisNexis
Full-text articles and documents from news, legal, and business resources.
Academic
Onefile
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
Academic Search Premier
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.
Animals by Ebsco
Provides in-depth information on the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
Art Index Retrospective
More than 55 years of art journalism from over 600 publications.
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Biography Resource Center
Integrates biographies with full-text magazine articles, images, and website links. Search for
current or historic people by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and
places, or gender, or by keyword and full text.
Book Review Index
Comprehensive reference database for locating reviews of books, periodicals, books-on-tape and electronic media.
Books and Authors
Helps when
choosing books for leisure reading. Provides information on the lives, influences and
criticism of current writers.
Business and Company Resource Center with PROMT and Newsletters
Brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
Business Source Premier
Provides full text for more than 8,800 serials, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Also includes company profiles with SWOT analysis for each.
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text
The world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 620 journals as well as over 200 books/monographs. With full text coverage dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
Clinical Pharmacology
Provides access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.
Communications of the Association for Information Systems
Electronic access to the journal.
Computer Source
Provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. Offers full text for more than 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.
Custom Newspapers
Full text for over 100 U.S. and international newspapers. New York Times coverage from 1/2000 to present.
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Education Research Complete
Indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals and full text for more than 750 journals,
more than 100 books and monographs, and numerous education-related conference papers.
Educator's
Reference Complete
Covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty -- such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing.
The Educator's Reference Desk
Links to resource guides, lesson plans, ERIC database, etc.
ERIC(Educational Resources Information Center)
Provides citations, abstracts, and links to full-text articles in the field of education. Includes linked full-text for some articles.
Expanded Academic ASAP
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!
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General Business File
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 available.
General Reference Center
A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources. Find articles from magazines, reference books, and newspapers, many with full-text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, etc.
GreenFILE
Indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. This resource serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet.
Grolier Online Encyclopedias
Includes Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and the New Book of Knowledge.
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Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
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 links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Full-text collection for nearly 300 journals providing consumer health information including the areas of medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
More than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on a variety of medical disciplines, and features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
History Resource Center: US
Provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U. S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.
History Resource Center: World
Offers 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.
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InfoTrac
Full-text articles, abstracts, and citations covering a wide variety of disciplines. Sources range from scholarly journals to popular magazines and newspapers.
InfoTrac OneFile
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 sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles. Updated daily.
Institute of Physics
Archival collection of full-text journal articles in physics and related fields. The years of coverage include 1874-today.
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Journal of the Association for Information Systems
Electronic access to the journal.
JSTOR:
Language and Literature Collection
The fifty-eight titles span the literary cultures of many different countries, and contain articles in several languages. This collection also includes PMLA.
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LegalTrac
Provides indexing for approximately 875 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers,
bar association journals and international legal journals. Contains law-related articles from
over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.
LexisNexis
Full-text articles and documents from news, legal, and business resources.
Liebert
Online
An online collection of journals including titles from the disciplines of biomedical
research/life science, biotechnology, clinical medicine/surgery, complementary/alternative
medicine, engineering/informatics, law, nursing, psychology, and public health/policy.
LISTA(Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts)
Indexing and abstracts for more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports and proceedings.
Literature Resource Center
Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world, supplemented by of the Scribner Writers Series and Twayne’s World, U.S., and English Authors Series.
Litfinder
Offers nearly one million full-text, excerpted and indexed pieces of literature including poems, stories speeches, plays or essays.
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Mary Ann Liebert
For the Mary Ann Liebert E-Journal collection, go here.
Medline
National Library of Medicine database covering a wide variety of health and medical related publications. Includes linked full-text for some articles.
Military & Government Collection
Provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
MLA International Bibliography
A bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.6 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Includes some linked full-text articles.
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Nature
Full-text access to content from Nature from 1997-present.
Nursing Resource Center
Collection of core content from recognized reference, textbook and journal publications in the nursing field.
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Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center
Covers today’s hottest social issues, from Terrorism to
Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control.
Ovid
Nursing Collection II: Lippincott Premier Nursing Journals
Full-text access to a selection of Nursing Journals.
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Pre-CINAHL
A companion database to CINAHL. Provides current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available only until the articles are assigned additional indexing.
Proquest Nursing & Allied Health Source
Nursing database with significant full-text access to articles as well as dissertations.
PsycARTICLES
Full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 40,000 articles from 53 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 8 from allied organizations. Includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1985 to present.
PsycINFO
From the American Psychological Association (APA), contains more than 2 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO.
PUBMED CENTRAL
Full-text database. PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature. Access to the full text of articles in PMC is free, except where a journal requires a subscription for access to recent articles.
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Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis. An EBSCO database provided through PASCAL (Partnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries).
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Science
Full-text access, including PDFs, to content from Science Magazine from 1997-present.
Science Resource Center
Comprehensive
curriculum-oriented database of reference and periodical content covering Life Science, Physical
Science, Earth and Space Science.
Scribner Writers Series
Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600
authors and literary genres drawn from the acclaimed Scribner print series.
SIRS
Selected full-text articles on a wide variety of topics.
SocIndex with FullText
The world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. SocINDEX with Full Text offers coverage from all sub disciplines of sociology, including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 242 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.
Small Business Resource Center
Resources for prospective and current entrepreneurs and business students.
The State
Newspaper (Columbia)/Greenville News
Selective full-text archive of the State newspaper (1987-present) & the Greenville News (1999-present) via NewsBank database.
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What Do I Read Next?
Contains over 117,000 recommended titles, more than 63,700 plot summaries, and awards information from 561 awards, all to help users uncover new reading adventures, find long-remembered favorites, and discover award-winning titles. Search by genre, subject, author, title, series, and more. A monthly highlights page allows the user to see selections of award winners, upcoming titles, and titles that revolve around different subjects each month.
K-12 Resources Provided by PASCAL/Collegiate DISCUS
Junior Edition - K12
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.
Kids InfoBits
Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in
Kindergarten through Grade 5. 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.
MAS Ultra - School Edition
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text nearly 600 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, 268 full text reference books, 82,968 biographies, 90,915 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
Primary
Search
Provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
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