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ABC-CLIO e-book Collection (more info)
Description: The Greenwood Digital Collection is a collection of e-books emphasizing history and literature. It is searchable by keyword, subject, author, title, or any Boolean search method. It includes the series Daily Life Through History, Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Authors, Historic Events of the 20th Century, Literature in Context, and American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography.
Vendor: ABC-CLIOABI/Inform Archive (more info)
Description: This retrospective companion to ABI/INFORM provides cover-to-cover full-images, including illustrations and advertisements. The database contains complete runs of key business and management journals, providing a unique historical perspective on hundreds of topics, including corporate strategies, management techniques, marketing, product development, and industry conditions worldwide.
Coverage: 1905 - 1985
Vendor: ProQuestABI/Inform Complete (more info)
Description: Search a comprehensive business database that includes full-text business periodicals and news sources. ABI/Inform Complete includes: ABI Inform Global - Scholarly business research from journals worldwide, ABI Inform Trade & Industry - Up to date industry news, marketing trends, and product information and market competition, ABI Inform Dateline - Local and regional business, ABI Inform Archive - Historical business journals and cover to cover full images of The Wall Street Journal.
Vendor: ProQuestAcademic Search Complete (more info)
Description: Academic Search Complete features thousands of full-text journals. This scholarly collection offers coverage of information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study including: anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology, and many other fields. (Source: vendor website)
Date Coverage: full-text, 1900's - date
Vendor: EBSCOhostAccess Science (more info)
Description: AccessScience provides online and fully searchable science reference materials. The database includes all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, the latest Science News headlines, biographies, and more.
Vendor: McGraw-HillACS Journals Search (more info)
Description: ACS is a searchable index of all American Chemical Society publications. Copies of articles not owned by the Meredith library may be ordered through Interlibrary Loan.
Click here to request an article.
Creator: The American Chemical SocietyAd*Access (more info)
Description: Presents images and database information for more than 7000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers from 1911-1955.
Website: Duke UniversityAfrican American Poetry (more info)
Description: African American Poetry contains nearly 3,000 poems by African American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It provides a comprehensive survey of the early history of African American poetry, from the earliest published African American poems to the works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, the first African American poet to achieve national success and recognition. Coverage includes writers from both North and South, from rural and urban backgrounds, and ranges from University-educated professionals to those for whom the very acts of reading and writing constituted a defiance of Southern slave laws. (Source: Vendor website)
Date Coverage 1760 - 1900
Vendor: Chadwyck-HealeyAGRICOLA (more info)
Description: Contains citations to agricultural literature from as early as the 15th century. Fields include animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extensions and education, food and human nutrition and earth and environmental sciences.
Date Coverage: 1970 - date
Website: USDA, The National Agricultural LibraryAmerica: History & Life (more info)
Description: America history and life is an index to journal articles, books, book chapters, media reviews, and dissertations covering the the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from as far back as 1910, this database is without question an important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. For articles on the history of the rest of the world see Historical Abstracts.
Vendor: EBSCOhostAmerican Chemical Society Publications - See ACS Journals Search
American Poetry (more info)
American Poetry contains over 40,000 poems by more than 200 poets, covering the Colonial period to the early twentieth century, and drawn from over 1,200 printed sources. The collection begins with early Colonial poems such as John Wilson's 'A Song of Thanksgiving for the Lasting Remembrance of God's Wonderful Works' (1603), William Morrell's 'New England' (1625) and the complete works of Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor, and continues through to early twentieth-century writers such as Adelaide Crapsey and Vachel Lindsay. (Source: Vendor website)
Date Coverage: 1600 - 1900
Vendor: Chadwyck-HealeyAmerican Slavery: A Composite Autobiography (more info)
Description: Life histories of former slaves complied from nearly 4000 interviews with ex-slaves.
Date Coverage: 1600 - 1900
Vendor: Greenwood PressArchiveGrid (more info)
Description: Online access to the descriptions of archival collections held around the world. ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching for historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives throughout the world.
Vendor: OCLC FirstSearchArtcyclopedia (more info)
Description: An internet site that includes links to hundreds of museum sites and image archives.
WebsiteArticleFirst (more info)
Description: The ArticleFirst database describes items listed on the table of contents pages of individual issues of nearly 13,000 journals in the areas of business, the humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social sciences and technology.
Date Coverage: 1990 - date
Vendor: OCLC FirstSearchArt & Architecture Complete (more info)
Description: Art & Architecture Complete provides full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and more than 220 books. In addition, Art & Architecture Complete offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 780 academic journals, magazines and trade publications, as well as for over 230 books. The database also provides selective coverage for 135 additional publications and an Image Collection of over 63,000 images. The database covers subjects such as: antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art and art history, costume design, decorative arts, graphic arts, interior and landscape design, painting, photography, print making, and sculpture. (Source: vendor website)
Date Coverage: 1920's - date
Vendor: EBSCOhostArts & Humanities Citation Index (more info)
Description: As part of the Web of Science, the Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. The database provides access to the bibliographic and citation information that researchers, students, and faculy need to find scholarly information, analyze trends and compile research. Researchers may discover a papers influence by linking to other papers that have cited it. (source: Vendor website) .
Date Coverage: 1988 - date
Note: For support, tips & tools access: Web of Science Recorded Training, Additional Training, or Help Files
Creator: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Vendor: Thomson ReutersASM Journals: American Society for Microbiologists (more info)
Description: ASM provides free access to full-text articles 6 months after the final version is published in an issue of one of the 9 primary research journals. For the review journals, Clinical Microbiology Reviews and Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews , access to full-text articles is made freely available 1 year after an issue's publication. Tables of contents, abstracts, and search features are freely available to all users.
WebsiteAuto Repair Reference Center (more info)
Description: Auto Repair Reference Center contains information on most manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles. Included are drawings, step-by-step photographs, wiring diagrams, technical service bulletins & recalls issued by the manufactures for thousands of vehicles.
Vendor: EBSCOhostBibliography of the History of Art (BHA) (more info)
Description: The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is the world's most comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of western art.
Website: The J. Paul Getty TrustBiography Reference Center (more info)
Description: Biography Reference Center offers a comprehensive collection of more than 461,000 full-text biographies, including the complete full-text run of Biography Today and Biography, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases. In addition, other content inculdes 9,000 Biographies from American National Biography (Oxford University Press), Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, Notable American Women (Harvard University Press), Congressional Biographies from the American Reference Library, Profiles of United States Presidents, and many more. (Source: vendor website)
Vendor: EBSCOhostBusiness Link North Carolina (more info)
Description: Information and resources for people starting a new business, managing a business or moving a business to North Carolina, provided by the NC Department of Commerce.
Creator: NC LIVEBusiness Source Complete (more info)
Description: Business Source Complete includes full-text coverage of nearly 3,000 business and trade journals. It also includes indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886. Business Source Complete includes coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals. Additional full text, non-journal content includes: financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT Analyses, and Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Video Series. (Source: vendor website)
Date Coverage: Full-text, 1886 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhostCCH Tax Research Network - See IntelliConnect
Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities: Business Set (more info)
Description: Cabell's Directories provide information on publishing guidelines of journals in accounting, economics and finance, management, and marketing. Includes information on the style and format of journals, review process, and type of articles published.
Vendor: Cabell Publishing, Inc.CAMIO - Catalog of Art Museum Images Online (more info)
Description: Catalog of Art Images Online (CAMIO) provides rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources.
Vendor: OCLC FirstSearchChild Development & Adolescent Studies (more info)
Description: Child Development & Adolescent Studies is a source for references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. This database includes all of the issues of Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography from 1927 - 2001 previously published by the Society for Research in Child Development, plus new coverage on child rights and welfare issues. (Source: vendor website)
Date Coverage: 1927 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhostCINAHL with Fulltext (more info)
Description: CINAHL is a comprehensive resource for nursing and allied health literature. The topics include nursing, alternative medicine, biomedicine, radiology, speech pathology, consumer health, and 17 allied health disciplines. Publications indexed include journals, books, dissertations, and conference proceedings.
Date Coverage: 1981 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhostClase Periodica (more info)
Description: Clase Periodica is an index to journals published in Latin America. CLASE indexes documents that specialize in the social sciences and humanities. PERODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology and contains bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,6000 scholarly journals. Clase Periodica contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, and interviews in journals edited in 24 different countries.
Date Coverage: Clase, 1975 - date: Periodica, 1978 - date
Languages: Spanish, English, French, Portuguese
Vendor: OCLC FirstSearchClassical Music Library (more info)
Description: Classical Music Library is a multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers.
Date Coverage: Medieval to contemporary
Note: Alexander Street Press has launched mobile access to its complete line of streaming music collections.
Vendor: Alexander Street PressCommunication & Mass Media Complete (more info)
Description: Communication & Mass Media Complete provides access to a large collection of information in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State University) to provide a research resource in communication, mass media and other closely related fields of study. CMMC content includes cover to cover indexing and abstracts for more than 570 journals, selected coverage for 200 additional journals and full text for over 450 journals.
Vendor: EBSCOhostCompany Profiles (more info)
Description: Datamonitor company profiles, available within the EBSCO Business Source Premier database, provides information on 10,000 companies, including U.S., European, and Asian. Each 20 - 30 page profile includes a company overview, key facts about the company, a business description, a company history, and a list of key employees. Many of the reports also feature a SWOT analysis, revenue analysis, top competitors, and company subsidaries.
Vendor: EBSCOhostConsumer Health Complete (more info)
Description: Designed to support the information needs of patients, and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics, CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
Vendor: EBSCOhostCQ Researcher Online (more info)
Description: Full-text reports on current and controversial issues shaping our world, with in-depth coverage of political and social issues, such as health, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.
Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist. The consistent, reader-friendly organization provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources. (Source: Vendor: website)
Vendor: CQ PressCRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (more info)
Description: Annual compilation of physical constants, properties of common inorganic and organic compounds, and much more. Consult their help system for advice on browsing, searching, and using interactive tables.
Note: Print edition available (R541.9 H19 2004 - 2005).
Vendor: CRC PressCredo Reference (more info)
Description: Credo is an online reference service with access to over 500 titles. Credo includes subject-specific dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical data, statistics, quotations, and audio and image files from many different publishers.
Vendor: Credo PublishingCrime in North Carolina (Uniform Crime Reports) (more info)
Description: The Uniform Crime Reporting Program collects data on the age, race, and sex of persons arrested for all crimes except traffic violations.Digital Library on American Slavery (more info)
Description: The Digital Library on American Slavery offers data on race and slavery extracted from eighteenth and nineteenth-century documents and processed over a period of eighteen years. The Digital Library contains detailed information on about 150,000 individuals, including slaves, free people of color, and whites.
Website: UNCGDigitalNC (more info)
Description: The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is a statewide digitization and digital publishing program housed at UNCCH. Explore the history and culture of North Carolina through original materials from cultural heritage repositories across the state.Dissertations and Theses (more info)
Description: A database from OCLC that provides access to over 8 million records of dissertations, theses and published material based on theses cataloged by OCLC members in all subject areas.
Vendor: OCLC FirstSearchDoctoral Dissertations in Musicology (more info)
Description: An international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.
Creator: American Musicological SocietyDocumenting the American South (more info)
Description: Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
Website: UNC University LibraryeBook Collection (more info)
Description: eBook Collection from EBSCOhost provides access to full-text scholarly, reference and professional eBooks (electronic books) from leading university, academic and professional publishers. These eBooks are digital versions of print books from a broad range of subject areas and topics. In many cases, the eBook copy is the only copy of the book owned by the library although in some cases a local print copy is also available.
Note: When a user ends a session, or after 30 minutes of inactivity, the copy of the title will be available for others to use.
Vendor: EBSCOhostebrary (more info)
Description: Search a full text eBook collection that spans many academic subject areas.EBSCOhost (more info)
Description: Links to a list of all the EBSCOhost databases available.Economic Development Information System (EDIS) (more info)
Description: Statistical, analytical and maping tool designed to aid economic and community development decision making.
Website: N.C. Department of CommerceEncyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd Ed. (more info)
Description: Encyclopaedia Judaica includes more than 21,000 signed entries on Jewish life, culture, history and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists. It also includes more than 600 maps, charts, tables, photographs, illustrations and other visuals concisely illustrate key textual elements, and among other features making this scholarly work accessible, are entry-specific bibliographies to help guide further research.
Date Coverage: Biblical Times to date
Vendor: GaleEnglish Poetry (more info)
Description: The collection contains over 160,000 poems, essentially comprising the complete canon of English poetry of the British Isles from the 8th century to around 1900. Drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources, more than 1,250 poets are represented. Full details of the volumes included in English Poetry are given in the bibliography. (Source: Vendor website)
Date Coverage: 8th - 20th century
Vendor: Chadwyck-HealeyEnglish Short Title Catalogue (more info)
Description: Provides bibliographic records for all surviving letter press material in the British Isles and North America before 1801, held by the British Library and more than 2000 other institutions worldwide.
Creator: The British LibraryEntrepreneurial Studies Source (more info)
Description: This database provides the academic researcher as well as the student with the latest insight on topics relevant to entrepreneurship and small businesses. Entrepreneurial Studies Source offers users full text for more than 125 key periodicals, 135 reference books, numerous case studies, thousands of company profiles and over 600 videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series and Vator.TV. The data can be utilized by students for their entrepreneurial assignments or case studies ranging from solo projects to major entrepreneurial undertakings. Subjects covered in the database include: business planning, communications, innovations, management, marketing, organizational behavior, product development, raising capital, risk taking, and more. (Source: vendor website)
Vendor: EBSCOhostEnvironment Complete (more info)
Description: This resource offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains records from more than 2,300 domestic and international titles dating back to 1888 (including over 1,350 active core titles). The database contains full text for 950 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc. Additionally, Environment Complete provides full text for 190 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, etc. (Source: vendor website)
Date Coverage: 1888 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhostERIC (via EBSCOhost) (more info)
Description: This resource, funded by the U.S. Department of Education and produced by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), provides access to education literature and resources. It is the largest database of materials for education in the world. It contains more than 1.3 million records of journal articles and full text documents going back to 1966.
Date Coverage: 1966 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhostERIC (via OCLC FirstSearch) (more info)
Description: A search interface to search ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.
Date Coverage: 1966 - date
Vendor: OCLC FirstSearchERIC (via U.S. Department of Education) (more info)
Description: Freely available search interface to search ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.
Date Coverage: 1966 - date
Website: U.S. Department of EducationFaber Poetry Library (more info)
Description: The Faber Poetry Library contains the works of 50 poets comprising 140 volumes of poetry. A collection of some of the most influential poets of the 20th century the Faber list includes Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot, and Sylvia Plath. The full details of the volumes included in the collection are given in the bibliography.
Date Coverage: 20th century
Vendor: Chadwyck-HealeyFamily & Society Studies Worldwide (more info)
Description: A core resource providing the most comprehensive coverage of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development, and Social Welfare. FSSW covers popular issues and meets the requirements of professionals in all fields of Social Work, Social Science and Family Practice. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, statistical documents, theses & dissertations and other sources. (Source: vendor website)
Date Coverage: 1970 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhostFinancial Times (London) (more info)
Description: European financial newspaper known for its in-depth reporting on European company and economic news, as well as its European perspective on global business.
Vendor: ProQuestForeign Language Newspapers (more info)
Website: Internet Public LibraryFunk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (more info)
Description: General interest encyclopedia. Updated annually.
Vendor: EBSCOhostGale Virtual Reference Library (more info)
Description: Searchable collection of E-book reference titles that includes encyclopedias, almanacs, handbooks, dictionaries, directories, and and specialized reference sources.
Vendor: GaleGoogle Art Project (more info)
Description: Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.
Website: GoogleGoogle Book Search (more info)
Description: A growing collection for books scanned from the collections of major libraries. You may search the full-text of the books that Google scans and If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given permission, you will be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy.
Website: GoogleGoogle Scholar (more info)
Description: Google Scholar is a web resource that allows users to search for scholarly literature, including journal articles, peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, and abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. The sources are more academic than those you would find using a standard search engine.GPO: U.S. Government Printing Office (more info)
Description: The U.S. Government Printing Office disseminates official information from all three branches of the Federal Government. Includes the Congressional Record, Federal register, public papers of the President, agency reports and much more.
Website: U.S. Government Printing OfficeGPO Monthly Catalog (more info)
Description: Extensive catalog of U.S. government Judicial, Legislative and Executive branch information. The index contains more than 450,000 records to documents and covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records, judiciary materials, and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).
Vendor: OCLC FirstSearchGreenFILE (more info)
Description: GreenFILE provides access to materials on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more. Sources include scholarly, governmental and general interest books and magazines.
Vendor: EBSCOhostGrove Music Online - See Oxford Music Online
Health Source: Consumer Edition (more info)
Description: Health Source: Consumer Edition povides consumer oriented information on many health related topics including medical sciences, food science and nutrition, childcare, aging, fitness, sports medicine and general health. This database also includes searchable full text for current health related pamphlets and nearly 130 health reference books published by the People's Medical Society.
Vendor: EBSCOhostHealth Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (more info)
Description: Health Source: Nursing academic Edition provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of allied health and nursing is particularly strong. In addition, this database includes the USP Pharmacopeia D1: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.
Vendor: EBSCOhostHealth & Wellness Information Center (more info)
Description: The Health & Wellness Portal is designed for members of the general public who are looking to find trustworthy health information online. The health portal includes free access to to health information, news, journal articles, health related ebooks, popular health videos from PBS, health resources in Spanish, and more.
Website: via NCLIVE.org
Note: The portal was designed by Amanda Foster, a graduate student from UNC Chapel Hill's School of Information & Library Science and in parternership with Christie Silbajoris at NC Health Info.HeritageQuest (more info)
Description: Research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Contains original page images for all documents, more than 25,000 books, the entire U.S. Federal Census, PERSI, and other expanding collections.
Vendor: ProQuestHistorical Abstracts (more info)
Description: Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history and history of education. It covers all countries and regions, excluding the United States and Canada (for those countries see America History and Life). Includes key history journals from major countries, as well as relevant selected journals from the social sciences and humanities. Includes book reviews and dissertations.
Vendor: EBSCOhostHistorical New York Times (more info)
Description: New York Times Historical Newspaper provides access to full text and full image articles with digital reproduction of every page, every article and every issue starting from 1851 to 2 to 3 years ago. In addition to news stories and editiorials, researchers can also find letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, historical photos, and advertisements.
Full text coverage: 1851 - 2 to 3 years ago
Vendor: ProQuestHoovers (more info)
Description: Hoover’s allows you to search U.S. and international company listings by industry, size, & geography to create marketing plans, conduct competitive analysis, and raise funds.
Vendor: Dun & BradstreetHuman Kinetics Journals (more info)
Description: A search engine for journals from the journal publisher Human Kinetics.
Humanities International Complete (more info)
Description: A comprehensive database of humanities content, providing full text of hundreds of journals, books, and other published sources from around the world.
Date Coverage: 1975 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhostImage Search (more info)
Description: Search multiple EBSCO sources for images including charts, photos, maps and illustrations.
Vendor: EBSCOhostIn the First Person (more info)
Description: In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 62,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral histories. It also contains pointers to at least 2,500 audio and video files. Approximately 25% of the index points to materials that are in copyright and these materials may be available through Interlibrary Loan.
Website: Alexander Street PressIntellect (more info)
Description: Search U.S. and international company listings by industry, size, location, and other criteria to create marketing plans, conduct competitive analysis, and raise funds.
Vendor: Mergent Inc.IntelliConnect (more info)
Description: IntelliConnect, an online service from Commerce Clearing House, is a database of federal and state tax materials. It includes the Standard Federal Tax Reporter, Federal Estate/Gift Tax Reporter,the Federal Excise Tax Reporter, the Tax Treaties Reporter, the Federal Tax Service, tax citator, state tax reporters for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Vendor: Commerce Clearing House (CCH)Internet Library of Early English Journals (ILEJ) (more info)
Description: Browse a digitized collection of six major 18th and 19th century British journals: The Annual Register (1758-1778), The Builder (1843-1852), Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843-1863), Gentleman's Magazine (1731-1750), Notes and Queries (1849-1869), and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1757-1777). The latter four titles are also searchable.
Website: Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, and OxfordIter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (more info)
Description: Provides access to the complete runs of more than 300 scholarly published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).
Date Coverage: 400 - 1700
Vendor: University of Toronto LibrariesJob & Career Accelerator (more info)
Description: Job & Career Accelerator places everything needed for career selection and job searching in one easy-to-use Web application. Career Accelerator includes over 1,000 detailed occupational profiles, listings of jobs and internships, a section on the preparation of professional cover letters and resumes and a tracking system to manage the entire process.
Note: Users must sign in to use this resource
Vendor: Learning ExpressJSTOR (more info)
Description: JSTOR provides image and full text online access to important scholarly journal literature in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other humanities and social sciences disciplines. The collection provides the complete backfiles of many scholarly journals, starting with the first issues. JSTOR uses a "moving wall" of 3-5 years which represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal.
Creator: JSTORK-12 Resources (more info)
Description: A list of carefully selected databases and websites appropriate for use by K-12 educators, students, and parents.Knovel Critical Tables (more info)
Description: This edition has over 40 new interactive tables which include new tables covering 503 Heat Capacity and Thermal Conductivity, 3,133 Reaction Thermodynamics and Equilibrium Constants, 854 Density and Compressibility, 13,332 Vaporization and Vapor Pressure, 185 Thermal Expansion, 377 Transport and Flow, and 1902 Electrical Properties data.
Website: Knovel CorporationLearning Express Library (more info)
Description: Learning Express Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform 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. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
Note: Users must sign in to use this resourceLegal Information Reference Center (more info)
Description: Legal Information Reference Center contains hundreds of full-text publications and thousands of legal forms. The full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation's oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses. (Source: vendor website)
Vendor: EBSCOhostLexisNexis Academic (more info)
Description: LexisNexis provides full-text for an extensive list of newspapers, magazines, trade journals, scholarly journals and selected reference books. It also includes detailed information on companies. Separate database modules cover news, business, law and legal affairs and biographical information. It is a good source of federal, state, and international legal information, and provides full-text legal news, case law, codes & regulations, etc.
Note: Introduction to Lexis Nexis Academic tutorial on utube uploaded by LexisNexis
Vendor: Lexis NexisLISTA with Full Text (more info)
Description: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) 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. (Source: vendor website)
Date Coverage: mid 1960's - date
Vendor: EBSCOhostLiterary Reference Center Plus (more info)
Description: Literary Reference Center Plus is a comprehensive full text database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. LRC Plus includes: articles of literary criticism, full text of literary journals, plot summaries, critical essays, author biographies, literary journals, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems, classic and contemporary short stories, author interviews, study guides and literary videos. (Source: vendor website)
Includes: Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus and much more.
Vendor: EBSCOhostLiterature Criticism Online (more info)
Description: An online collection of literary criticism, bringing together hundreds of curated volumes representing a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.
Vendor: GaleLiterature Resources from Gale (more info)
Description: Literature Resources from Gale is a searchable online collection offering access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors and their works from every age and literary discipline. Covering more than 124,000 authors from the Classical period to the present, it provides several hundred thousand full text journal articles and critical essays, thousands of plot summaries and links to authoritative Web sites, over 100,000 author biographies, and several thousand author portraits.
Includes: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Scribner Writers Online
Vendor: GaleMAS Complete (more info)
Description: Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 550 popular high school magazines. MAS Complete also provides more than 440 full-text reference books; tens of thousands of biographies; over 107,000 primary source documents; an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags, and color PDFs; and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. Also includes Documents in American History, Magill's Book Reviews and searchable full text for 145 MacMillan books. (Source: vendor website)
Date Coverage: 1975 - date
Age Level: Grades 9-12, Junior College
Vendor: EBSCOhostMasterFILE Complete (more info)
Description: Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full-text information dating as far back as 1922. This database also contains full text more than 100 reference books, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 590,000 photos, maps and flags. (Source: vendor website)
Date Coverage: 1922 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhostMedical and Health Resources (more info)
Description: Trusted websites selected by NC LIVE providing a selection of web resources for all aspects of health information.
Creator: NC LIVEMedline - See PubMed
MedlinePlus (more info)
Description: MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs and supplements, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, the latest health news, and surgery videos. It also includes a list of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish, health information from the media, and links to clinical trials.
Publisher: U.S. National Library of MedicineMental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (more info)
Description: The Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 20000 contemporary testing instruments. It includes descriptions and reviews of testing instruments in psychology, education, business, and leadership. Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive listing of all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. Each entry includes the test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). Tests in Print is directly linked to the test reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) series.
Date Coverage: 1938 -
Note: Earlier volumes are available in the Library R 016.15 B93
Creator: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements
Vendor: EBSCOhostMiddle Search Plus (more info)
Description: Designed to assist middle and junior high school students in learning how to research current events and information on a wide range of general topics. Includes Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia of Animals, Essential Documents in American History, and CIA World Fact Book.
Age Level: Grades 6-9
Vendor: EBSCOhostMilitary & Government Collection (more info)
Description: Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. ilitary & Government Collection provides cover to cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals. The database also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 400 journals. Some publications covered in this database include Air Force Comptroller, Defence Studies, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more. Additionally, many full-text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
Date Coverage: 1990's - date
Vendor: EBSCOhostMLA Directory of Periodicals (more info)
Description: The MLA Directory of Periodicals contains information on over 6,000 journals and book series in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that fall within the scope of the MLA International Bibliography. The entries list editorial addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of scope, advertising information, links to online content, peer review, and submission guidelines.
Note: Most recent editionMLA International Bibliography (more info)
Description: The MLA International Bibliography, published by the Modern Language Associaltion, is the leading scholarly bibliography for research on modern languages, literatures, folklore, linguistics and film. It offers access to more than 2 million bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, print and electronic books, book chapters, websites and dissertations from 1926 to the present.
Date Coverage: 1926 - date
Creator: Modern Language Association (MLA)
Vendor: EBSCOhostMorningstar Investment Research Center (more info)
Description: Morningstar Investment Research Center is an all-inclusive investment research database that features data and analysis on international and domestic stocks, mutual funds, and exchange traded funds. Screeners allow you to create short lists of stocks, funds and ETF's for further research based on yor own criteria. Users can view index, sector, industry, and fund category returns over a variety of time periods with returns updated daily.Music Index (more info)
Description: A comprehensive annual subject-author guide to music literature. Contains surveyed data from more than 725 international music periodicals from over 40 countries in 23 languages. Cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.
Date Coverage: 1970 - date
Creator: Harmonie Park Press
Vendor: EBSCOhostMyiLibrary e-books (more info)
Description: MyiLibrary contains over 350 books that can be read online. Books are available on a variety of topics, including language learning, medical, health, history, project management, classic literature, art, criminology and many others.
Vendor: IngramNC Health Info (more info)
Description: NC Health Info is an online guide to web sites of quality health and medical information and local health services throughout North Carolina that is designed to meet the needs and interests of North Carolinians. This database of local links was the first resource of its kind to link local health services with corresponding information from MedlinePlus, the consumer health site maintained by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.NC LIVE (more info)
Description: NC LIVE is a state wide consortium that provides database access to citizens of North Carolina.
Vendor: North Carolina State LibraryNCLIVE Video Collection (more info)
Description: The NC LIVE Video Collection is a collection of high quality documentary and educational video programs produced for the Public Broadcasting Corporation. Chosen by North Carolina librarians for use in supporting education and for general interest, the collection includes programming covering the sciences, US and world history, biography, current events, and the arts, as well as a variety of other subjects. In addition, several educational series for children are included.
Note: More than 100 new PBS videos have been recently added to the NC LIVE Video Collection website, including the complete 14-part award-winning Civil Rights Era documentary, Eyes on the Prize. The new videos also include the popular Ken Burns’ series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, and Masterpiece Theater titles including Wuthering Heights, Turn of the Screw, Wind in the Willows, Anna Karenina, and many more.
Video Questions: Click here for FAQ
Alternate Title: PBS Video CollectionNCpedia (more info)
Description: An online encyclopdeia of North Carolina history and culture. The encyclopedia includes sections on biography and people, business and industry, culture, educationn, geography and environment, government, history and quick facts.
Creator: The State Library of North CarolinaNetAdvantage (more info)
Description: A comprehensive source of business and investment information covering corporate research, investment information, and industry analysis. Full text publications include the Bond Guide; Corporation Records;Dividend Record; Earnings Guide; Industry Surveys; Mutual Fund Reports; The Outlook; Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives; Security Dealers of North America; Stock Guide; and Stock Reports. Descriptions of these publications are available through NetAdvantage's help pages.
Date Coverage: The Outlook (2002 forward), company financials (latest 6 years), Industry Surveys (1998 forward), Trends & Projections (1999 forward).
Vendor: Standard & Poor'sNew York Times (more info)
Description: Provides full text access to New York Times (1980-current), New York Times Magazine (1997-current), and New York Times Book Review (1997-current).
Date Coverage: Varies by title
Vendor: ProQuest
Searcb Hint: To search for articles from the NYT, Select Publications, then select the New York Times from the alphabetic list and enter your search terms.New York Times, Historical Archive (more info)
Description: New York Times Historical Newspaper provides access to full text and full image articles with digital reproduction of every page, every article and every issue starting from 1851 to 2 to 3 years ago. In addition to news stories and editiorials, researchers can also find letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, historical photos, and advertisements.
Full text coverage: 1851 - 2 to 3 years ago
Vendor: ProQuestNewspaper Source Plus (more info)
Description: Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 1,000 full text newspapers. The database contains comprehensive full text for major newspapers such as New York Times (from January 1985 to present), Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The Times (UK), Toronto Star, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times (DC) and others. In addition, full text television and radio news transcripts are available from ABC News (American Broadcasting Company), ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), CBS News, CNBC, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, MSNBC, National Public Radio, PBS and more.
Date Coverage: Varies by title
Vendor: EBSCOhostNineteenth Century MasterFile - Series 1 (more info)
Description: Nineteenth Century Masterfile (formerly Poole's Plus ) is a comprehensive resource for finding primary nineteenth century printed material. The original component was an online version of Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906. The database is now enhanced with indices to other periodicals, books, newspapers, and government documents of the 19th century.
Date Coverage: 1774 - 1930
Vendor: ParatextNorth American Women's Letters and Diaries (more info)
Description: North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.
Date Coverage: Colonial - 1950
Vendor: Alexander Street PressNorth Carolina Community Newspapers (more info)
Description: Over 100 North Carolina community newspapers containing current or latest issue coverage. Archived article coverage varies. List compiled by Duke University Libraries.North Carolina Information Resources (more info)
Description: A portal to information on everything North Carolina that provides users with a list of trusted websites selected by NC LIVE. A wealth of free information on the World Wide Web about our state, its culture, business, education, history, and ongoing programs for citizens.North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project (more info)
Description: These materials include papers dating from 1751-1890's from cities like Edenton (1787-1801), Fayetteville (1798-1795), Hillsboro (1786), New Bern (1751-1804), Salisbury (1799-1898), and Wilmington (1765-1816) - a total of 23,483 digital images that are keyword searchable. There are also three lesson plans derived from these newspapers: For What A Mother Is Responsible? Idealized Motherhood vs. The Realities of Motherhood in Antebellum North Carolina; Teaching About Slavery Through Newspaper Advertisements; and "A Female Raid " in 1863: Using Newspaper Coverage to Learn More About North Carolina's Civil War home front.
Creator: N.C. State ArchivesNorth Carolina Periodicals Index (more info)
Description: An index to articles in the arts, social sciences, and sciences appearing in North Carolina periodicals, most of which are not indexed in standard reference sources.
Date Coverage: 1922 - date
Vendor: East Carolina UniversityNorth Carolina Standard Course of Study (more info)
Description: The Standard Course of Study includes the curriculum that should be made available to every child in North Carolina's public schools.
Website: N.C. Department of Public InstructionNorth Carolina State Government Publications Collection (more info)
Description: "A digital collection of current and historical North Carolina state publications. The types of publications include informational brochures and pamphlets, various types of reports (annual, biennial, technical, statistical, etc.), serial publications (newsletters, checklists, magazines, etc.), handbooks, studies and a variety of other information resources produced by the government. The focus of the collection is on state government publications from 2002 to current, but will also feature historical North Carolina publications of enduring value that have been scanned from their original print format. Because new publications will be added to this digital collection, the database will be updated monthly." (Source: State LIbrary)North Carolina State-Adopted Textbooks (more info)
Description: This catalog lists the textbooks adopted by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction for use in the public schools. Textbooks are evaluated using criteria that is based on the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. Adopted textbooks are placed on contract for five years.
Website: N.C. Department of Public InstructionNoticiasFinancerias (more info)
Description: Noticias Financieras is a financial news service covering the Latin America region. The service delivers content from 28 leading Latin American news sources and covers 10 countries, including Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Mexico and Peru. Key sources include O Globo (Brazil), El Mercurio (Chile), Expansion (Mexico) and El Pais (Uruguay).
Language: English and Spanish
Vendor: ProQuestNoveList K-8 Plus (more info)
Description: NoveList K-8 Plus focuses on reading materials that support the school curriculum, as well as the recreational reading interests of children and students from preschool through middle school. In NoveList K-8 Plus you'll find: fiction and nonfiction titles for children and teens, expert reading recommendations from librarians and school media specialists, connections to curriculum requirements for reading, listening, and writing, read-alikes for every title, author, and series, and a simple and easy to use interface for younger readers.
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Vendor: EBSCOhostNoveList Plus (more info)
Description: Readers' advisory service searchable by author, title, series name, and plot. Includes author read-alikes and lists of award-winners.
Vendor: EBSCOhostOAIster (more info)
Description: OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources from open archive collections. This database contains over 19 million resources including: digitized books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files, images, and movies.
Date Coverage: Varies
Vendor: OCLC FirstSearch & Univ. of MichiganOneClickdigital Audiobook Collection (more info)
Description: The One Click Digital Audiobook Collection offers patron access to high-quality downloadable Recorded Books titles. This program includes titles for adults, children and young adults and includes a variety of fiction and non-fiction titles.
Note: Users must create an account to use this resource. When you set up your account, you have the option of selecting Apple devices (iTunes) or "other" for all other types portable mp3 players supporting wma (Windows Media Audio). See the FAQ section and video tutorials at OneClickdigital for more information on types of devices and how to install OneClickdigital Media Manager.
Vendor: Recorded BooksOpen Library ebook Lending Collection (more info)
Description: A downloadable eBook collection with books contributed from libraries across the country. Borrow up to five books at a time! Open Library account holders can borrow an eBook from the growing collection of mainly 20th Century titles. Each title can be borrowed by one patron at once, and you can read it in a web browser. For more information click: About Open Library
Note: Users must create an account to use this resource.
Oxford English Dictionary Online (more info)
Description: A comprehensive dictionary of the English Language that stresses the historical origins of words. The Oxford English Dictionary is the world's leading authority on the history and development of the English language since 1150. The OED Online offers quick and easy searching of the text of all 23 volumes. It allows users to find terms when the meaning is known, but the word is forgotten; find words that have come into English via a particular language; search for quotation from a specific year, author or work; and turn pronunciation, etymologies, variant spellings and quotation on and off. (Source: the SOLINET description of the OED Online)
Vendor: Oxford University PressOxford Music Online (more info)
Description: Oxford Music Online is the new gateway offering users the ability to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location. Oxford Music Online is the access point for Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music (2002), and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition (revised 2006), which supplements Grove's more extensive articles with content geared toward undergraduates and general users. (Source: Vendor website)
Vendor: Oxford University PressPBS Video Collection (more info)
Description: The NC LIVE Video Collection is a collection of high quality documentary and educational video programs produced for the Public Broadcasting Corporation. Chosen by North Carolina librarians for use in supporting education and for general interest, the collection includes programming covering the sciences, US and world history, biography, current events, and the arts, as well as a variety of other subjects. In addition, several educational series for children are included.
Note: More than 100 new PBS videos have been recently added to the NC LIVE Video Collection website, including the complete 14-part award-winning Civil Rights Era documentary, Eyes on the Prize. The new videos also include the popular Ken Burns’ series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, and Masterpiece Theater titles including Wuthering Heights, Turn of the Screw, Wind in the Willows, Anna Karenina, and many more.
Video Questions: Click here for FAQ
Alternate Title: NC LIVE Video CollectionPhilosopher's Index (more info)
Description: This is the major index of scholarly journals, books, and book reviews in the many fields of philosophy, including aesthetics, axiology, philosophy of education, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, metaphilosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of science, and the philosophy of religion. (Source: vendor website.)
Date Coverage: English-language journals and books: 1940 - date; Philosophy journals in other languages: 1967 - date
Languages: English, French, German, Spanish
Vendor: EBSCOhostPoints of View Reference Center (more info)
Description: Points of View Reference Center is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides more than 280 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. Topics covered include: affirmative action, cloning, DNA profiling, HIV/AIDS status disclosure, immigration, Iraq, Israel & the Palestinians, Katrina and FEMA response, nuclear proliferation, separation of church and state, standardized testing, stem cell research, tax cuts, voting machines, and many more. (Source: vendor website)
Vendor: EBSCOhostPolitical Contact Suite (more info)
Description: An integrated, cross-searchable database of authoritative reference sources from CQ Press. Use this resource to locate contacts, profiles and biographies of the members of and staff of Congress, the federal government, the judiciary, as well as world wide governments and non governmental organizations. It includes members voting behavior on individual issues and all the latest Congressional news and floor votes. There is a search box to locate your U.S. Representative by Zip Code and a search box to search for a specific person.
Note: Includes the online version of the Washington Information Directory
Vendor: CQ PressPolitical Reference Suite (more info)
Description: An integrated, cross-searchable database of authoritative reference sources from CQ Press - an invaluable tool for navigating inside the Washington, DC beltway. Contains the online versions of many of CQ Press's reference resources for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs.
Date Coverage: Varies
Titles included: Congress and the Nation, 1945-2008; Historic Documents Series, 1972-date; Political Handbook of the World, Politics in America, Supreme Court Yearbook, 1989-2010; Vital Statistics on American Politics, and Washington Information Directory.
Vendor: CQ PressPrimary Search (more info)
Description: Full text of more than 80 popular children's magazines designed specifically for elementary school libraries for young readers. Includes Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, World Almanac for Kids, World Almanac of the USA, American Heritage Children's Dictionary, and Essential Documents of American History.
Date Coverage: Indexing, 1984 - date; Full-text, 1990 - date
Age Level: Grades 1-6
Vendor: EBSCOhostProceedings First (more info)
Description: An index of worldwide conference proceedings. Includes citations to every published congress, symposium, conference, exhibition, workshop and meeting received by the British Library Document Supply Center.
Vendor: OCLC FirstSearchProQuest Asian Business and Reference (more info)
Description: This database offers detailed information from key international publications on companies, economies, markets, and overall business conditions throughout the Eastern Hemisphere.
Date Coverage: 1972 - date
Vendor: ProQuestProQuest Business (more info)
Description: ProQuest Business allows you to search ABI/INFORM Archive, ABI/INFORM Complete, ProQuest Asian Business & Reference, and ProQuest Research Library: Business together or separately.
Vendor: ProQuestProQuest Research Databases (more info)
Description: Access a collection of databases that supports a wide range of general and academic subjects. Many articles are peer reviewed and available in full text. You can search multiple Proquest databases simultaneously, select a specific subject collection, or select an individual database title. By default your search will search multiple databases.
Databases included: ABI INFORM Archive, ABI INFORM Complete, Financial Times, National Newspaper Abstracts, NoticiasFinancieras, ProQuest Asian Business & Reference, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851 - 2006), ProQuest Research Library, Sociological Abstracts (includes Social Services Abstracts), and The Wall Street Journal.
Date Coverage: Indexing: 1971 - date, full-text: 1991 - date, image: 1987 - date
Note: Proquest Historical Databases cannot be searched in combination with the multiple dataases option.
Vendor: ProQuestProQuest Social Sciences (more info)
Description: ProQuest Social Sciences allows you to search Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, and ProQuest Research Library: Social Sciences together or separately.
Vendor: ProQuestPsycARTICLES (more info)
Description: PsycARTICLES is a database of full text peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe and Huber. Topics include general psychology as well as specialized, applied, clinical, and theoretical research. The database includes all materials from the print journals and contains over 150,000 articles from nearly 80 journals published by the APA. To see a list of the journals included, select "Publications" from the database toolbar.
Date Coverage: 1894 - date
Notes: Includes all journal articles, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Many of the journals included in PsycARTICLES from the APA go back to volume 1, issue 1.
Creator: American Psychological Association (APA)
Vendor: EBSCOhostPsycINFO (more info)
Description: This database is the most comprehensive international database devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains more than 3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports. This database also contains information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, sociology, education, technology, pharmacology, anthropology, business, law, and others. Journal coverage includes international material selected from around 2,500 journals in dozens of languages.
Date Coverage: 1887 - date
Creator: American Psychological Association (APA)
Vendor: EBSCOhostPsycTESTS (more info)
Description: PsycTESTS is a repository for ready-to-use tests and measures. Most are available for immediate download and use in teaching and research. Tests are relevant to psychology and related fields, such as psychiatry, education, medicine, business, and social work. PsycTESTS is focused on contemporary instances of test use, but has coverage that spans more than a century. Validity and reliability information is also included for the tests.
Date Coverage: 1910 - date
Creator: American Psychological Association (APA)
Vendor: EBSCOhostPubChem (more info)
Description: PubChem is organized as 3 linked databases: PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem Assay. PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. PubChem also provides a fast chemical structure similarity search tool.
Component of: NIH's Molecular Libraries InitiativePublic Administration Abstracts (more info)
Description: Public Administration Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to public administration, including public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 93,600 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline, such as: Journal of Public Economics, Public Administration, Public Administration Review, etc. EBSCO has digitized the full archive of this index, bringing coverage back to 1974. (Source: vendor website)
Date Coverage: 1974 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhostPubMed (more info)
Description: Provides access to over 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE and additional life science journals and books. Citations include the fields of medicine, nursing, chemical sciences, nutrition, dentistry, the health care system, behavioral sciences, and other related disciplines. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant Web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources. Coverage is world-wide but most records are from English language sources.
Alternate Name: Medline
Date Coverage 1950 - date
Note: Use the Pubmed Overview Sheet or the PubMed Tutorial for more information.
Developed by: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)PubMed Central (more info)
Description: PubMed Central (PMC) is a digital archive for peer reviewed primary research reports in the life sciences. The PMC Open Access subset includes articles from a number of publishers' programs, each of which deposits selected articles from a range of journals. A complete list of the publisher programs, with links to the articles can be found on the Special Collections tab of the PMC Journals List.
Date Coverage: Early 1900's - date Developed by: NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)Readers' Guide Retrospective (more info)
Description: RGR is a database containing comprehensive indexing of over 500 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 - 1982 and reflects the history of 20th-century America. RGR is an excellent source for locating primary materials in 20th-century American history and culture. Subjects covered include news accounts; biographies; social trends; novels, plays, art, film, television, and music; and popular culture and fashion.
Date Coverage: 1890 - 1982
Vendor: EBSCOhost & H.W. WilsonRegional Business News (more info)
Description: Regional Business News provides full text for nearly 100 regional U.S. and Canadian business publications. The database includes Business: North Carolina.
Vendor: EBSCOhostResearch Library - See ProQuest Research Databases
Sanborn Maps North Carolina (more info)
Description: Sanborn Maps for the state of North Carolina provide digital access to 11,173 large scale maps of 158 North Carolina towns and cities from 1867 - 1970. Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections.
Date Coverage: 1867 - 1970
Vendor: ProQuestScience Reference Center (more info)
Description: This database includes science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources for students. Science Reference Center also provides teachers and librarians with articles correlated to state and national curriculum standards. Topics covered include biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.
Age Level: Grades: 6-12
Vendor: EBSCOhostSearchasaurus (more info)
Description: Searchasaurus is a colorful and fun search interface intended for elementary and middle school students. Search American Heritage Children's Dictionary, Encyclopedia of Animals, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Image Collections, Middle Search Plus, and Primary Search.
Age Level: Grades 1-8
Vendor: EBSCOhostSerials Directory (more info)
Description: This database provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. It contains nearly 250,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; data from more than 108,000 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses; and Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications for every entry. Source: Vendor
Vendor: EBSCOhostSharpe Online Reference (more info)
Description: A cross-searchable collection of online reference books that offer a unique, interdisciplinary approach to U.S. and global history and culture.
Vendor: ME Sharpe, Inc.SimplyMap® (more info)
Description: A web-based mapping application that enables non-technical users to quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using extensive demographic, business, and marketing data. SimplyMap turns complex data into valuable information that is easily accessed through an innivative and user-friendly interface. The data is from EASI Analytics, Mediamark Research, Inc., Dun & Bradstreet, the Nielson Company, Experian, and Simmons Study of Media Markets and is derived form government and other sources. (Souce: Vendor website)
Note: To begin you must create an account
Publisher: Geographic Research, Inc.Small Business Reference Center (more info)
Description: This resource offers a wide variety of information on small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, a help and advice section, and provides information on how to create business plans that lead to successful funding. Content includes nearly 400 full-text periodicals, over 450 full-text reference books, hundreds of business videos, and state specific resources. (Source: vendor website)
Vendor: EBSCOhostSmall Engine Repair Reference Center (more info)
Description: Through a collection of comprehensive full-text content, Small Engine Repair Reference Center provides users with detailed, yet user-friendly repair guides for all manner of small engines. (Source: vendor website)
Vendor: EBSCOhostSmithsonian Physical Tables (more info)
Description: This database comprises 901 tables of general interest to scientists and engineers and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense. Knovel undertook the conversion of this publication into full-text searchable electronic format that makes the data easily accessible. (Source: Vendor website)
Publisher: Knoval Corp.Social Sciences Citation Index (more info)
Description: Social Sciences Citation Index, accessed via Web of Science, is a multidisciplinary database that covers the journal literature from 2,474 of the world's leading social science journals across 50 disciplines. The database provides access to the bibliographic and citation information that researchers, students, and faculy need to find scholarly information, analyze trends and compile research. Researchers may discover a papers influence by linking to other papers that have cited it.
Some of the disciplines covered include: anthropology, political science, history, public health, industrial relations, social issues, information science, social work, law, sociology, linguistics, substance abuse, philosophy, urban studies, psychology, women's studies, and psychiatry. (source: Vendor website)
Date Coverage: 1988 - date
Note: For support, tips & tools access: Web of Science Recorded Training, Additional Training, or Help Files.
Creator: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Vendor: Thomson ReutersSocial Services Abstracts (more info)
Dexcription: Social Services Abstracts indexes and abstracts over 1,300 current journals and other periodicals, covering articles, dissertations, and book reviews in the disciplines of social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development.
Date Coverage 1979 - date
Vendor: ProQuestSociological Abstracts (more info)
Description: This databases abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews and also includes abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers.
Date Coverage: 1952 - date
Vendor: ProQuestSomething About the Author (more info)
Description: Something About the Author examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults. It includes not only well-known writers and artists but also less prominent individuals whose works are just coming to be recognized and is often the only readily available source on emerging authors and illustrators.
Note: V1-199 (print format, R 928 So5); v200, 2009 - v222, 2011 (electronic format)
Vendor: GaleSouthern Historical Collection (more info)
Description: The Southern Historical Collection is an archival collection comprised of primary source documents about the history and culture if the American South. Types of primary source documents include: diaries, journals, letters, correspondence, photographs, maps, drawings, ledgers, oral histories, moving images, albums, scrapbooks, and literary manuscripts.
Website: UNC LibrariesSPORTDiscus (more info)
Description: SPORTDiscus is a bibliographic database covering sports and sports medicine journals. Subjects include: sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training,disabled persons, health education, faqcility design & management, and much more. Includes more than 1.7 million records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800 and more than 22,000 dissertations and theses.
Date Coverage: Indexing, 1800 -
Vendor: EBSCOhostSpringerLink (more info)
Description: SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database for journals, books and eReferences published by Springer. Subject collections include:Architecture & Design,Behaviora lScience, Biomedical & Life Science, Business & Economics, Chemistry & Materials Science, Computer Science, Earth & Environmental Science, Engineering, Humanities, Social Science & Law, Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine, Physics & Astronomy, and Professional & Applied Computing.
Vendor & Publisher: SpringerStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (more info)
Description: The SEP is a dynamic web reference work with over 825 authors writing in more than 35 subject aresa. Topics include philosophy of science, aesthetics, history of ideas, feminism, ethics, (theoretical and applied), social and political philosophy, logic and more. The SEP was designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public.
Website: Stanford UniversityStatistical Abstract of the United States (more info)
Description: The online edition of the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.
Vendor: ProQuestTeacher Reference Center (more info)
Description: TRC provides indexing and abstracts for 280 periodicals. In addition, 96% of journals indexed in TRC are peer-reviewed. This index covers the most popular teacher and adminstrator trade journals, periodicals, and books, provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.
Vendor: EBSCOhostTests in Print - See Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet (more info)
Description: Thomas provides free web access to current and recent Congressional information, including the fulll text of the Congressional Record and bills for the 101st (1989) to the present Congress, a directory of congressional committees and members of Congress, the weekly floor schedle for the House and a schedule of daily committee hearings. Committee information includes the full text of House and Senate committee reports and links to the home pages of committees. I also Thomas also provides information on Public Laws, Treaties and selected historical documents such as the U.S. Constitution, and provides links to other government websites.
Website: Sponsored by The Library of Congress, (www.thomas.loc.gov)Times (London) Digital Archive (more info)
Description: The Times Digital Archive is an online full-text archive of every page of 200 years of The Times (London). The database enables users to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. Results are displayed at the article level, and users may view the article or the full page on which the article appears. The entire newspaper is captured--with all articles, advertisements, and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
Date Coverage: 1785 - 1985
Vendor: GaleTopic Search (more info)
Description: A current events database that allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints.
Age Level: Grades 6-12
Vendor: EBSCOhostTwentieth Century African-American Poetry (more info)
Description: Twentienth Century African American Poetry is a collection of poetry written by influential and important African American poets of the twentieth century. The collection provides access to the full text of almost 9000 poems by more than 75 poets.
Coverage begins with the key writers of the early decades (James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay), continues with major figures of the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Arna Bontemps) and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960's (Imamu Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez), and concludes with a body of writing of the 1980's and 1990's (Ai, RIta Dove and Yusef Komunyakaa). (Source: Vendor website)
Date Coverage: 1901 - 1999
Vendor: ProQuest / Chadwyck- HealeyTwentieth Century American Poetry (more info)
Description: A database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early 20th century to the present. The database includes the works of most major twentieth-century American poets, beginning with the traditionalists; continuing through the modernists, represented by such poets as Wallace Stevens; and moving on to the contemporary works of the 1990s.
The broad coverage of Twentieth-Century American Poetry includes collected works and individual volumes of poetry from all the major movements and schools, including the New School, the Chicago School, the Southern School, the Confessionals, the Beats, and the Black Mountain poets.
Among the poets included are: Michael Anania, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, James Dickey, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Michael S. Harper, Edwin Honig, David Ignatow, Robinson Jeffers, Denise Levertov, Audre Lorde, Philip Levine, Josephine Miles, Charles Olson, Theodore Roethke, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sylvia Plath, Carl Sandburg, Karl Shapiro, Sara Teasdale, James Wright, and Adrienne Rich. (Source: Vendor website)
Date Coverage: 1900 - date
Vendor: ProQuest / Chadyck-HealeyTwentieth Century English Poetry (more info)
Description: Twentieth-Century English Poetry contains the poetry of over 280 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, A.E. Housman, John Betjeman, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah, Isaac Rosenberg, D.H. Lawrence and Carol Ann Duffy and many others from the lists of Carcanet, Enitharmon, Anvil Press, Bloodaxe Books and other poetry publishers. It also incorporates works by poets such as Sylvia Plath, T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Louis MacNeice and Siegfried Sassoon from The Faber Poetry Library.
In addition, the collection includes a major body of contemporary writing, from established figures such as Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Les Murray, Carol Ann Duffy, Fred D'Aguiar and Fleur Adcock to a younger generation of emerging writers. (Source: Vendor website)
Date Coverage: 1900 - date
Vendor: ProQuest / Chadyck-HealeyWall Street Journal (more info)
Description: The Wall Street Journal: Eastern Edition provides information on national and international finance as well as other news and is an indispensable source for business professionals.
Date Coverage: 1984 - date
Vendor: ProQuestWeb of Knowledge (more info)
Description: This collection of databases offers a cross-searchable platform for research in the sciences, social sciences and humanities. Web of Science can be cross searched on the ISI Web of Knowledge interface with Medlilne (1950 - date), the (US) National Library of Medicine’s premier database of biomedical records and abstracts, which includes content from approximately 4,900 worldwide journals in 30 languages, plus a small number of relevant items from newspapers, magazines, and newsletters.
Note: For support, tips & tools access: Web of Science Recorded Training, Additional Training, or Help Files.
Alternate Name: ISI Web of Knowledge, WOK
Creator: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Vendor: Thomson Reuters
Date Coverage: 1988 - dateWeb of Science (more info)
Description: The Web of Science provides access to the three major citation indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Index. It enables users to search current and retrospective multidiscciplinary information from approximately 8,500 high impact research journals. These multidisciplinary databases may be searched independently or in any combination. Web of Science also provides cited reference searching. With cited reference searching users can follow a particular author or cited reference forward in time to find more current articles. Web of Science can be cross searched on the ISI Web of Knowledge interface with Medlilne (1950 - date).
Date Coverage: 1988 - date
Alternate Name: ISI Web of Science, Web of Knowledge, WOS
Note: For support, tips & tools access: Web of Science Recorded Training, Additional Training, or Help Files.
Creator: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Vendor: Thomson ReutersWildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide (more info)
Description: This is the world's largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. Coverage includes more than 1.6 million bibliographic records many of which include abstracts. Most of the records in this database are from Wildlife Review Abstracts, formerly Wildlife Review, which until 1996 was a print publication produced by the U.S. National Biological Service. Major topic areas include studies of individual species, habitat types, hunting, economics, wildlife behavior, management techniques, diseases, ecotourism, zoology, taxonomy and much more. (Source: vendor website)
Date Coverage: 1935 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhostWiley Online Library (more info)
Description: Wiley Online Library provides full text access to a multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities published by Wiley Blackwell. A quality collection of peer reviewed journals; Wiley Online Library hosts many of the core journal titles in their respective fields. Use the Subject List to access a list of subject areas and titles.
Note: We do not have access to all content in Wiley Online Library.
Vendor: Wiley BlackwellWorldCat (OCLC) (more info)
Description: WorldCat is a catalog of the collections of thousands of libraries worldwide and includes over a billion records. The database includes bibiographic records for books, dissertations, manuscripts, videos, serial publications, articles, recorded books, music, digital objects, websites and more. WorldCat can serve as an invaluable research tool to facilitate comprehensive searches for resources on a particular subject or by a particular author, allowing you to identify relevant works beyond your local library. Resources not available at your library can be ordered through Interlibrary Loan. Contact the Reference Department if you have any questions about using WorldCat.
Date Coverage: 1200 - date
Vendor: OCLC FirstSearchWorldCat Local (more info)
Description: WorldCat Local delivers single-search-box access to more than 810 million items from your library and the world's library collections. Search results include multiple formats of materials such as electronic materials, digital items, databases, music, video, maps, journals, theses and print. Items available at Carlyle Campbell Library will display first.
Vendor: OCLCWorld Shakespeare Bibliography (more info)
Description: Annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced from 1964-present.
Vendor: Johns Hopkins University Press