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Electronic resources by title

Below is listing of the Library's electronic resources, including free online resources, which are accessible both on campus and remotely. A subject listing is also available.

When accessing databases remotely, you will be prompted to identify yourself by entering your last or first name, your University ID number (which is your BANNER ID Number: 84xxxxxxx), and a PIN. If you need assistance, ask the librarian at the Reference Desk, email Ask a Librarian, or call the Reference Desk at 910.521.6656.

 

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  • Academic OneFile About

    Database: Academic OneFile

    Description: Academic OneFile is a collection of more than 8,000 journals with full manual indexing, a robust backfile and coverage of a variety of academic disciplines — from science, technology and medicine to the humanities. The majority of the content is peer-reviewed and available in full-text (both HTML and PDF).

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Academic Search Complete About

    Database: Academic Search Complete

    Description: A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,400 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,500 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,850 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The PDF content goes back to 1865.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Accessible Archives About

    • Database: Accessible Archives

    Description: Provides full-text searchable databases for primary source material from 18th and 19th century periodicals. Includes Godey`s Lady`s Book 1830-1880, The Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800, The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, African American Newspapers, The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue, and American County Histories to 1900.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • American Chemical Society Journals About

    • Database: ACS Legacy Archive

    Description: American Chemical Society Journals provides full-text searching and instant access to all titles, volumes, issues, and articles published by the American Chemical Society from 1879 to the present4.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • African-American Experience About

    • Database: African-American Experience

    Description: The African American Experience (AAE) is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • African-American Poetry About

    • Database: African-American Poetry via Literature Online (LION)

    Description: Contains nearly 3,000 poems by African-American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • America: History and Life About

    • Database: America: History & Life

    Description: Indexes articles, reviews, and dissertations for U.S. and Canadian history.

    Full text: no; some links to other fulltext resources

    Access: on campus and remote

  • American Indian Experience About

    • Database: American Indian Experience

    Description: The American Indian Experience (AIE) is a full-text digital resource exploring the histories and contemporary cultures of the indigenous peoples of the United States.

    Full text: Yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography About

    • Database: American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography

    Description: A collection of the life histories of former slaves in the United States compiled through nearly 4,000 interviews with ex-slaves.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • America's Historical Newspapers: 1690-1922 (via NewsBank) About

    • Database: America's Historical Newspapers: 1690-1922

    Description: Early American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 present states

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • America's Newspapers (via NewsBank) About

    • Database: America's Newspapers

    Description: Full-text content of 779 U.S. newspapers, each the complete electronic edition of record. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote access

  • America's Newspapers: North Carolina (via NewsBank) About

    • Database: America's Newspapers: North Carolina

    Description: Several North Carolina newspapers with unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded. Includes titles such as the Charlotte Observer, Durham Herald Sun, The Fayetteville Observer, and Wilmington's Star News.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Ancestry - Library Edition [on campus access only] About

    • Database: Ancestry - Library Edition

    Description: Provides coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas. This collection contains more than 4,000 databases and two billion names.

    Full text: n/a

    Access: on campus access only

  • Applied Science and Technology with Retrospecitve (via OmniFile) About

    • Database: Applied Science & Technology with Retrosepctive

    Description: Indexes articles of at least one column in length, including trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, as well as special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings. For fast, convenient access to the most important sources in applied science and technology, much of it from peer-reviewed journals and featuring full text, graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations, try OmniFile Full Text.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Art Full Text (via OmniFile) About

    • Database: Art Full Text

    Description: Provides full text access and more to an international array of peer-reviewed publications covering all aspects of art, including new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Art Index with Retrospective (via OmniFile) About

    • Database: Art Index with Retrosepctive 1929-present

    Description: Indexes articles from periodicals published throughout the world, as well as reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index (via Web of Science) About

    • Database: Arts & Humanities Citation Index via Web of Science

    Description: Consists of multidisciplinary indexes of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • ARTstor [must create account on UNCP campus] [Instructors: request privileges] About

    • Database: ARTstor

    Description: ARTstor provides access to more than 500,000 images, which document artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.

    Full text: no; some links to other fulltext resources

    Access: on campus and remote; must create account on UNCP campus

  • ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials About

    • Database: ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials

    Description: Covers biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. Links are provided to over 150,000 electronic articles and book reviews, from more than 70 journals selected by leading religion scholars in the United States.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

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  • Bibliography of Native North Americans About

    • Database: Bibliography of Native North Americans

    Description: Bibliography of Native North Americans covers all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life, including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Biography & Genealogy Master Index About

    • Database: Biography & Genealogy Master Index

    Description: Index to biographical sketches found in current and retrospective biographical dictionaries.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Biography Reference Bank About

    • Database: Biography Reference Bank

    Description: Biography Reference Bank contains biographical information on more than half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images.
    It contains the full text of the articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on and off campus access

  • Biological Abstracts (via Web of Knowledge) About

    • Database: Biological Abstracts (via Web of Knowledge)

    Description: Provides coverage of information in biology and life sciences published worldwide. Subjects include anatomy, biochemistry, biophysics, botany, cell biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, human biology, microbiology, physiology, reproduction and sex, and zoology. It contains more than 7 million archival records from as far back as 1926, with more than 370,000 citations added each year.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Biological and Agricultural Index Plus (via OmniFile) About

    • Database: Biological and Agricultural Index Plus via OmniFile Full Text

    Description: Offers researchers convenient online access to the core literature of biology and agriculture—much of it from peer-reviewed journals—plus full text. Full text citations also link to PDF page images, featuring graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations indispensable to science research.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • BIOSIS (see Biological Abstracts)
  • Blackwell Synergy About

    • Database: Blackwell Synergy

    Description: A searchable database of more than 800 peer-reviewed journals in the fields of accounting, agriculture, animal sciences, aquaculture, art, behavioral sciences, business, computer science, criminology, earth and environmental sciences, economics, education, engineering, humanities, law, life and physical sciences, mathematics and statistics, medicine and health sciences, psychology, social sciences, and veterinary medicine.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Book Review Digest Plus with Retrospective (via OmniFile) About

    • Database: Book Review Digest Plus

    Description: Drawing from thousands of periodicals, Book Review Digest Plus brings together book reviews from all the Wilson databases With coverage back to 1983, Book Review Digest Plus indexes reviews of both fiction and non-fiction, and provides many full-text reviews and substantial review excerpts.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

    Database: Book Review Digest Retrospective

    Description: Reflecting nearly eight decades of H.W. Wilsons Book Review Digest, this database provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Cites over 1.5 million book reviews from more than 300,000 books.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Books in Print About

    • Database: Books In Print (BIP)

    Description: This resource provides descriptions of in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books from thousands of North American publishers. Information such as author, title, ISBN, price, publisher, binding, language, illustrations, and contact information for publishers can be retrieved.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Books 24x7 [Register using your UNCP email address] About

    • Database: Books24x7

    Description: Books24x7 provides users with access to books from the worlds top business and information technology publishers. This search-friendly full-text resource enables users to browse, read, bookmark, and create personal folders of the most up-to-date and cutting-edge texts available in the business and IT fields. This includes, in the technical publishing arena, imprints like Microsoft Press, Osborne/McGraw Hill, Artech House and many others. In the business field, prominent publishing partners include AMACOM, ASTD Press, Berrett-Koehler, Harvard Business School Publishing, John Wiley, MIT Press, Oxford University Press and others.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

    Registration: To register, click the button at the top of the Books 24x7 page. You must register with your UNCP email address.

  • Britannica Online About

    • Database: Britannica Online

    Description: The complete encyclopedia, with related Internet sites and more.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Business Source Complete About

    • Database: Business Source Complete

    Description: Provides access to more than 9,500 journals covering all areas of business. Contains the Harvard Business Review and other important journals. Also offers access to industry and market research reports from Datamonitor and country reports from EIU, Countrywatch and Business Monitor. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

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  • Cambridge Journals Online About

    • Database: Cambridge Online

    Description: A searchable database of nearly 200 peer-reviewed journals with coverage across many disciplines and fields of study.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Chemical Abstracts (STN) [limited acces, Details]

    • Database: Chemical Abstracts (STN on the Web)

    Description: Description pending

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote, by password only. Weekdays after 5:00 p.m. and Saturdays.

    Alert: The Library is charged on a per search basis. Please be conservative with your searches.

  • CHEMnetBASE About

    • Database: CHEMnetBASE

    Description:Provides access to a wealth of chemical information from Chapman & Hall/CRC, publishers of some of the worlds major chemical reference works.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Choice Reviews Online About

    • Database: CHOICE Reviews Online

    Description: Subject experts reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • CINAHL Plus with Full Text About

    • Database: CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) with Full Text

    Description: Provides indexing for more than 2,500 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. CINAHL with Full Text provides full text for more than 300 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1982 are also included.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Classical Music Library [Instructors: request privileges] About

    • Database: Classical Music Library

    Description: Classical Music Library is a fully searchable classical music resourcea comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings. Selections range from the earliest Gregorian chants to works by modern composersincluding symphonic music, vocal and instrumental music, choral works, and other forms.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Classical Scores Library About

    • Database: Classical Scores Library

    Description: Classical Scores Library provides more than 400,000 pages of classical scores from both in-copyright and public domain editions. The major composers' output is represented, as well as many lesser known composers and works. The collection includes works spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Communication and Mass Media Complete About

    • Database: Communication & Mass Media Complete

    Description: Communication & Mass Media Complete covers all areas of study related to communication and mass media. It provides indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of over 100 more, for a combined coverage of over 400 titles.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Contemporary Women's Issues About

    • Database: Contemporary Women's Issues

    Description:Provides full-text access to global information on women in over 150 countries. Indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports, and fact sheets.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • CQ Researcher About

    • Database: CQ Researcher

    Description: The most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, all the pros and cons, bibliographies and more.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • CQ Weekly About

    • Database: CQ Weekly

    Description: CQ Weekly provides information on government, politics and public policy. It takes each legislative issue being debated and provides a clear explanation of its historical significance, how its evolving and what to look for in the future.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Criminal Justice Abstracts About

    • Database: Criminal Justice Abstracts

    Description: Provides citations to major journals in criminology and related disciplines.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

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  • Dictionary of Literary Biography About

    • Database: Dictionary of Literary Biography

    Description: Provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Digital Archives of The Robesonian About

    • Database: Digital Archives of The Robesonian

    Description: Digital Archives of The Robesonian, is available (via Access NewspaperARCHIVE) from 1897 to the present. The Robesonian is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore historical content.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Dissertation Abstracts (see Dissertations & Theses)
  • Dissertations & Theses About

    • Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

    Description: The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database (PQDT) is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It is the database of record for graduate research, with over 2.3 million dissertations and theses included from around the world.

    Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than 60,000 new citations are added to the database every year.

    Full text: Partial (1997 to the present)

    Access: on campus and remote

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  • Ebrary - Academic Complete About

    • Database: Ebrary - Academic Complete

    Description: A collection of 41,000+ ebooks covering a wide range of topics.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • EbscoHost About

    • Database: EBSCOhost

    Description:A collection of databases covering a wide variety of topics and including many full text articles.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • EBSCOhost Electronic Journal Service (EJS) About

    • Database: EBSCOhost Electronic Journal Service

    Description: A searchable database of journals with coverage across many disciplines and fields of study.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • EconLit FullText About

    • Database: EconLit

    Description: Provides access to the economic literature from the American Economic Association. The resource contains citations and abstracts back to 1969 as well as links to some full text articles in all fields of economics. Econlit indexes journal articles, books, collective volume works, dissertations, working papers, and full-text book reviews. Currently there are over 630,000 records indexed within the resource and it is updated monthly. Econlit uses the Journal of Economic Literature classification system and controlled vocabulary to index its records.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Education Law in North Carolina [Requires Java ] About

    • Database: Education Law in North Carolina (ELNC)

    Description: Education Law in North Carolina is a "plain English" source of information about the federal and state law that affects North Carolina schools and administrators. It contains links to North Carolina case law, statutes, regulations and other valuable legal resources. Education Law in North Carolina is updated annually.

    Full text: Yes

    Access: oncampus and remote

    Note: You must have Java on your computer to access ELNC. If you are experiencing difficulties accessing ELNC, try downloading Java from http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp. In addition, your browser must be set to accept cookies. A page that describes how to do that in several browsers may be found at http://www.google.com/cookies.html.

  • Education Full Text with Retrospective (via OmniFile) About

    • Database: Education Full Text via OmniFile Full Text

    Description: Provides coverage of education-related topics from periodicals, monographs and yearbooks.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Education Research Complete About

    • Database: Education Resource Complete

    Description: Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,870 journals. Full text for more than 1,060 journals. Full text for 105 books and monographs. Full text for numerous education-related conference papers.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • eHRAF Archaeology About

    • Database: eHRAF Archaeology

    Description: eHRAF Archaeology is a cross-cultural database that currently contains more than 60,000 pages of information on the world's prehistory.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • eHRAF World Cultures About

    • Database: eHRAF World Cultures

    Description: eHRAF World Cultures contains more than 150 cultures and over 400,000 pages of indexed ethnographic information. Each year, 10 to 15 cultures and 40,000 pages are added to this growing cross-cultural database.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Encyclopedia Britannica Online About
  • Environment Complete About

    • Database: Environment Complete

    Description: Environment Complete 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. Coverage goes back to the 1940s.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • ERIC About

    • Database: ERIC

    Description: Indexing and abstracts of scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more from 1966.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Essay & General Literature Index with Retrospective (via OmniFile) About

    • Database: Essay and General Literature Index

    Description: Provides access to over 65,000 essays contained in more than 5,000 anthologies and collections. Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, including literary works, art history, drama, and film.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Ethnic NewsWatch About

    • Database: Ethnic NewsWatch

    Description:Provides access to newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press. With titles dating from 1990, Ethnic NewsWatch presents a comprehensive, full-text collection of more than 250 publications offering both national and regional coverage. While the content may mirror mainstream media coverage, the viewpoints are decidedly unique.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

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  • Faber Poetry Library About

    • Database: Faber Poetry

    Description: A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Family and Society Studies Worldwide About

    • Database: Family & Society Studies Worldwide

    Description:Family & Society Studies Worldwide provides coverage of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development, and Social Welfare. Coverage spans from 1970 to the present indexing publications from a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology, demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history and social work. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, statistical documents, theses & dissertations and other sources.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • FORENSICnetBASE About

    • Database: FORENSICnetBASE

    Description: Provides an ever-growing number of essential forensic science and criminal justice references.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

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  • Gale Literary Criticisms Online About

    • Database: Gale Literary Criticisms Online

    Description: Literary commentary from scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Gale Literature Resource Center About

    • Database: Gale Literature Resource Center

    Description: Provides critical and biographical information about more than 120,000 authors from the Classical period to the present. It provides several hundred thousand full text journal articles and other critical essays, thousands of plot summaries and links to authoritative Web sites, over 100,000 author biographies, several thousand author portraits, and the Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • GenderWatch About

    • Database: GenderWatch

    Description: With archival material dating back to 1970, GenderWatch provides historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women. GenderWatch supports gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender studies; family studies; gender studies, and womens studies with a unique interdisciplinary approach. Combining more than 200 academic, gray, and popular literature titles, GenderWatch provides researchers with more than 100,000 articles on wide-ranging topics like sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, day care, and the workplace.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • General Science Full Text (via OmniFile) About

    • Database: General Science Full Text via OmniFile Full Text

    Description: Designed specifically for students and non-specialists, this easy-to-use database is the first place to look for answers to science-related questions. Provides graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations that convey an abundance of scientific information.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • GeoRef About

    • Database: GeoRef

    Description: Covers environmental and engineering geology, hydrology, economic geology, geophysics, petrology, paleontology, marine geology and oceanography, and mineralogy. Over 3,500 journals are reviewed for indexing in the GeoRef database as well as books, maps, government reports, conference papers, and theses and dissertations. Over 90,000 references are added to GeoRef annually.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Global Reference Center About

    • Database: Global Reference Center

    Description:Britannica’s Global Reference Center is an extensive collection of Encyclopaedia Britannica’s foreign language content, offering trustworthy information in Spanish, Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese, and French. Users will find comprehensive global content on subjects such as art, geography, history, politics, science, sports, technology and more!

    Full text: yes

    Access: On and Off Campus

  • GPO Access About

    • Database: GPO Access

    Description: GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted.

    Full text: yes

    Access: free Internet access

  • GREEN File About

    • Database: GREEN File

    Description:GREEN File offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

    Full text: yes

    Access: free Internet access

  • Greenwood Digital Collection About

    • Database: Greenwood Digital Collection

    Description:A collection of ebooks covering a variety of topics in the arts and humanities.

    Full text: yes

    Access: free Internet access

  • Grove Dictionary of Art Online About

    • Database: Grove Dictionary of Art Online

    Description: The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. Provides constant additions of new material and updates to the original text, as well as extensive image links and sophisticated search advantages.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Grove Music Online About

    • Database: Grove Music Online

    Description: Comprising of the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, this online music resource also includes advanced search capabilities and over 5,000 links to related material.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

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  • HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I & II About

    • Database: HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I & II

    Description:The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I & II Full text of Harper's Weekly, 1857-1877.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition About

    • Database: Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

    Description: Provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, and provides abstracts and indexing for over 500 journals. Also includes integrated results from Clinical Pharmacology and access to Stedman's Medical Dictionary.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Health Source Plus: Consumer Edition About

    • Database: Health Source Plus

    Description: Consumer health, nutrition and professional periodicals.

    Access: on campus and remote

  • HeritageQuest About

    • Database: HeritageQuest

    Description: Provides libraries with a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Contains original page images for all documents, over 25,000 books, the entire U.S. Federal Census, PERSI, and other expanding collections.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Historical Abstracts About

    • Database: Historical Abstracts

    Description:Indexes scholarly literature of world history, 1450-present.

    Full text: no; some links to other fulltext resources

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Historical New York Times About

    • Database: Historical New York Times via Proquest

    Description: The Historical New York Times offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage begins September 18, 1851.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Historical Statistics of the United States About

    • Database: Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition

    Description: This definitive reference work contains more than 37,000 annual time series of quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times to the present. Each series is fully documented and placed in historical context by a recognized expert.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Hospitality and Tourism Complete About

    • Database: Hospitality and Tourism Complete

    Description:

    Hospitality & Tourism Complete contains over 749,000 records, 440 publications, coverage dating back to the mid-1960s.

    Subject coverage includes:

    • Culinary Arts
    • Demographics & Statistics
    • Development & Investment
    • Food & Beverage Management
    • Hospitality Law
    • Hotel Management & Administrative Practices
    • Leisure & Business Travel
    • Market Trends

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Humanities Full Text with Retrospective (via OmniFile) About

    • Database: Humanities Full Text via OmniFile Full Text

    Description: Provides coverage of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

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  • ICPSR [must create account on UNCP campus] About

    • Database: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

    Description: The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is the worlds largest archive of computer readable social science data. ICPSR provides Web access to data files and documentation for use with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata. The ICPSR data holdings contain some 6,300 studies and 500,000 files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse.

    Note: ICPSR requires free registration before you can use this resource.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on and off campus

  • Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text (via OmniFile) About

    • Database: Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text via OmniFile Full Text

    Description: Provides complete coverage of the most important English language legal information. Offers international coverage and access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books and book reviews. An excellent resource for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, students, paralegals, and others involved with the law.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • International Index to the Performing Arts FullText About

    • Database: International Index of Performing Arts

    Description: International Index of Performing Arts (IIPA) Full Text is the only online resource covering the performing arts. It enables you to search and browse citations, abstracts and selected full text in a comprehensive range of journals. A variety of subjects is covered, including dance, film, drama, television, the arts and entertainment industry, stagecraft, magic, musical theatre and performance art. Abstracts are provided for every citation from 1998 forward to give further detail and offer additional access points to information. The coverage in IIPA Full Text is wide, ranging from as early as 1864 right up to the present.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • ISI Web of Knowledge About

    • Database: ISI Web of Knowledge

    Description: ISI Web of Knowledge, an integrated Web-based platform, provides high-quality content and the tools to access, analyze, and manage research information. These tools include:

    * Cross-product searching
    * Links to full text
    * Citation alerts
    * Table of contents alerts
    * Personal journal lists
    * Personal bibliographic management

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society About

    • Database: Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society

    Description: Selected primary and secondary sources on the most enduring and timely issues of the day.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

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  • Journal of Chemical Education About

    • Database: Journal of Chemical Education

    Description: The Journal of Chemical Education is the journal of the Division of Chemical Education, Inc. of the American Chemical Society. Published continuously since 1924, JCE is the world's premier chemical education journal. Our mission is to help chemistry teachers stay current with research advances as well as share new ideas in teaching methodologies and course organization. A multimedia publisher, JCE welcomes materials in print, software, video, and other digital formats.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • JSTOR About

    • Database: JSTOR

    Description: JSTOR is a database containing fulltext backfiles of more than 1,000 core scholarly journals, many dating from the 19th century.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

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  • Latino American Experience About

    • Database: Latino American Experience

    Description: The Latino American Experience (LAE) is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of U.S. Latinos.

    Full text: Yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • LearningExpress Library About

    • Database: LearningExpress Library

    Description: Provides an 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: it requires students to complete a free online registration.

    Full text: n/a

    Access: on campus and remote

  • LexisNexis Academic Universe About

    • Database: LexisNexis Academic Universe

    Description: Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal and reference information.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • LexisNexis Business About

    • Database: LexisNexis Business

    Description: The Lexis Nexis business component has sources for Business News, Accounting Literature, Company Information, and Business Directories.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • LexisNexis Congressional Universe About

    • Database: LexisNexis Congressional Universe

    Description: Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information including Congressional publications, laws, bill and regulations and member and committee information.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index About

    • Database: Government Periodicals Index (via Lexis-Nexis)

    Description: Index of approximately 250 magazines and newsletters from U.S. government agencies. Coverage includes the arts, economics, and justice.

    Full text: no

    Access: free Internet access

  • LGBT Life with Full Text About

    • Database: LGBT Life with Full Text

    Description: Covers all facets of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues. Includes the full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,300 terms. Full text content available in LGBT Life with Full Text includes The Advocate, Gay Parent Magazine, Girlfriends, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, James White Review, ISNA News, Ladder, Lesbian Tide, New York Blade, ONE, Tangents, Washington Blade, and many more.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote access

  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts About

    • Database: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

    Description: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; 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.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (via OmniFile) About

    • Database: Library Literature & Information Science Full Text via OmniFile Full Text

    Description: Offers information regarding the latest trends in a rapidly evolving field, this database indexes English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, plus over 300 books per year. This invaluable resource delivers full text articles cover to cover from over a hundred select publications. PDF page images of the full text articles bring researchers charts, graphs, photos, and other valuable graphical information. Providing enhanced access to your periodical collection, this database also steers users to valuable information on the Web with hotlinks to sites mentioned in articles.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Literature Online (LION) About

    • Database: Literature Online (LION)

    Description: A fully searchable digital library of over 300,000 works of English and American literature.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Literary Reference Center About

    • Database: Literary Reference Center

    Description: Online version of the Gale Literary Criticism series.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

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  • Mango Languages About

    • Database: Mango Languages

    Description: Mango Languages designed to equip you with conversational abilities from the very start. Whether you're learning how to order a pizza or ask when the game starts, Mango immerses you in real, everyday conversations in 12 different language courses.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Mary Ann Liebert About

    • Database: Mary Ann Liebert

    Description: A searchable database of peer reviewed journals in the fields of biomedical research and life sciences, biotechnology, clinical medicine and surgery, complementary and alternative medicine, engineering and informatics, law, psychology, and public health and policy.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • MasterFile Premier About

    • Database: MasterFILE Premier

    Description: A database covering general reference, business, and heath periodicals.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • MathSciNet About

    • Database: MathSciNet

    Description: MathSciNet is an electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts, and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Over 80,000 new items are added each year, most of them classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification. 

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • MEDLINEplus About

    • Database: MEDLINEplus

    Description: Includes citations to medical literature, as well as an encyclopedia, adictionary, drug information, and other health related resources. A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Mergent Online About

    • Database: Mergent Online

    Description: Source for global business and financial information on over 10,000 U.S. public companies, 17,000+ non-U.S. public companies, as well as extensive corporate and municipal bond, UIT, and dividend information.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • MERLOT About

    • Database: MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)

    Description: Provides free access to a growing collection of online learning materials, peer reviews, and assignments to help faculty enhance instruction.

    Full text: yes

    Access: free Internet access

  • Middle Search Plus About

    • Database: Middle School Plus

    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. Also includes the Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia of Animals, Essential Documents in American History, and coverage of the CIA World Factbook. Total coverage includes nearly 400,000 articles

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Military & Government Collection About

    • Database: Military & Government Collection

    Description: Offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military, as well as a thorough collection of military titles, trade publications, and news weeklies. Includes abstracts and indexing for nearly 400 titles providing cover to cover full text for nearly 350. Database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • MLA International Bibliography About

    • Database: MLA International Bibliography

    Description: A bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations, MLA indexes periodical articles on literature, languages, linguistics and folklore. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Morningstar About

    • Database: Morningstar

    Description: Morningstar's data reports cover more than 20,000 securities. One can retrieve a list of stocks that also have analyst reports. A list of fund analyst reports can also be retrieved.

    Full text: yes

    Access: free Internet access

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  • NASA Astrophysics Data System About

    • Database: Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Description: The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 4.6 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and ArXiv e-prints. The main body of data in the ADS consists of bibliographic records, which are searchable through the Abstract Service query forms , and full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature which can be browsed though our Browse interface . Integrated in its databases, the ADS provides access and pointers to a wealth of external resources, including electronic articles, data catalogs and archives.

    Full text: yes

    Access: free Internet access

  • NCJRS Abstracts Database About

    • Database: National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts

    Description: The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 170,000 criminal justice publications. To search the NCJRS collection of 7,000+ full-text publications, go to the NCJRS Virtual Library.

    Full text: no

    Access: free Internet access

  • NCJRS Virtual Library About

    • Database: National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Virtual Library

    Description: Searches the NCJRS web site and the web sites of the agencies of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, and the NCJRS collection of 7,000+ full-text publications.

    Full text: yes

    Access: free Internet access

  • NetAdvantage About

    • Database: Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage

    Description: Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage brings together a dozen financial and investment publications that provide information for corporate research and for industry, competitive, and investment analysis. Among the publications included are such familiar titles as S&P's Corporation Records, Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Stock Guide, Bond Guide, Dividend Record, Earnings Guide, Mutual Fund Reports, and The Outlook. Also included are S&P's Register of Corporations, Directors, and Executives and the Security Dealers Directory.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • NetLibrary eBooks [must create account on UNCP campus] About

    • Database: NetLibrary eContent Collection: eBooks and eAudiobooks

    Description: Provides easy access to the full text of more than 10,000 reference, scholarly, and professional books.

    • Accessing Your Library's eBook Collection: This site provides access to the Library's eBook collection. When you enter the site from your library, you will see the name of your library in the box on the right side of the screen. Once you have accessed your library's affiliated site, you are able to search and view the full text of all the eBooks in your library's eBook collection.
    • Searching for an eBook: Use the Basic Search on the home page to quickly look for an eBook. Or if you would like to search with more detailed search criteria, use the Advanced Search.
    • Search Results and eBook Details: Once you retrieve a list of Search Results, you may choose to immediately view an eBook in the online reader or you may choose to see additional information about a title and other viewing options on the Details page.
    • Viewing an eBook: When viewing an eBook in the online reader, besides being able to navigate through the content page by page, you have the ability to navigate using the Table of Contents or to search the full text of the eBook.
    • eAudiobooks

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote (accounts must be created on UNCP campus)

  • New York Times, Historical About
  • Newspaper Source Plus About

    • Database: Newspaper Source Plus

    Description: Provides abstracts and indexing 1995 to present for:

    • The New York Times
    • Wall Street Journal (Eastern and Western editions)
    • Christian Science Monitor (some full text)
    • The USA Today

    Selected full text coverage for:

    • The Raleigh News & Observer

    Full text: Includes some complete articles from over 100 other U.S. newspapers.

    Access: on campus and remote

  • North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) About

    • Database: North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)

    Description: The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS pronounced Nakes) is a unique, all-new system for classifying business establishments. Adopted in 1997 to replace the old Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system, it is the industry classification system used by the statistical agencies of the United States. It is the first economic classification system to be constructed based on a single economic concept. Search by keyword to access related codes (these codes can then be used to access data in databases, such as the United States Economic Census. There is a SIC and NAICS conversion feature. The Ask Dr. NAICS feature is also helpful for new users.

    Full text: no

    Access: free Internet access

  • North American Women's Letters and Diaries About

    • Database: North American Women's Letters and Diaries

    Description: Over 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials depicting the personal experiences of hundreds of women.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • North Carolina Standard Course of Study About

    • Database: North Carolina Standard Course of Study

    Description: Serves as a curriculum terminal from which you can travel to specific goals and objectives based on discipline and grade level. This service provides a convenient way for teachers, administrators, and parents to verify the instructional objectives of the Standard Course of Study at a given grade and subject area.

    Full text: n/a

    Access: free Internet access

  • Novelist About

    • Database: Novelist

    Description: An online readers' advisory tool that helps readers find new books based on books they've read or topics in which they are interested.

    Full text: n/a

    Access: on campus and remote

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  • Occupational Outlook Handbook About

    • Database: Occupational Outlook Handbook

    Description: Includes Occupational Outlook Quarterly, Career Guide to Industries, and links to many other Bureau of Labor Statistics publications and research reports. Career information can be found three ways: by typing a specific occupation in a box, clicking on one of the occupational cluster buttons (sales, transportation), or by clicking on the A-Z index, which is detailed and includes numerous cross-references. Entries for individual occupations contain extensive details about the occupation, training and required qualifications, job outlook, earnings, related occupations, and sources of additional information.

    Full text: yes

    Access: free Internet access

  • OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition About

    • Database: OmniFile Full Text

    Description: A multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases:

    • Education Full Text
    • General Science Full Text
    • Humanities Full Text
    • Readers' Guide Full Text
    • Social Sciences Full Text
    • Wilson Business Full Text. 

    Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available:

    • Applied Science & Technology Full Text,
    • Art Full Text
    • Biological & Agricultural Index
    • Index to Legal Periodicals & Books
    • Library Literature & Information Science Full Text.

    Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Opposing Viewpoints About

    • Database: Opposing Viewpoints

    Description: Draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Oxford English Dictionary About

    • Database: Oxford English Dictionary

    Description: The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Oxford Journals Online About

    • Database: Oxford Journals Online

    Description: A searchable database of more than 170 peer-reviewed journals published by Oxford University Press. Journal coverage includes the humanities, law, life sciences, mathematics and physical sciences, medicine, and social sciences.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Oxford Language Dictionaries About

    • Database: Oxford Language Dictionaries

    Description: Features essential language resources - fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages. Offering over 4 million words, phrases and translations in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese, OLDO also features native speaker audio pronunciation.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection About

    • Database: Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection

    Description: Brings together Oxford's core collection of renowned reference works into a single cross-searchable resource with an expanding range of key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

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  • PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) International About

    • Database: PAIS International

    Description: Database chronicling global public policy and social issues by providing selective subjects and bibliographic access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, Internet resources, and other publications from 120 countries.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus

  • PBS Video Collection About

    • Database: PBS Videos Online

    Description:A selection of nearly 250 PBS programs, including films from award winning documentarian Ken Burns, and series such as Scientific American Frontiers, American Experience, and Frontline. These videos are available using video stream and require Adobe Flash Player Version 9.0 or higher.

    Full text: NA

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Pepid Online About

    • Database: Pepid Online

    Description:

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Periodicals Archive Online About

    • Database: Periodicals Archive Online

    Description: An online archive of digitized, full-image journal articles, Periodicals Archive Online (formerly PCI Full Text™) offers unprecedented access to international, scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences disciplines from 1802 to 1995.

    Periodicals Archive Online, with over 1.7 million articles and over 10 million pages of text, offers institutions a virtual library and a permanent archive of retrospective journals for the humanities and social sciences.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • The Philosopher's Index About

    • Database: The Philosopher's Index

    Description: The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology, and book reviews.

    The Philosopher's Index monitors over 550 journals from more than 40 countries and is updated quarterly. Extensive indexing includes personal and proper names along with subject terms; there is also the capability to search for the authors of book reviews.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Physical Education Index About

    • Database: CSA Physical Education Index

    Description: CSA Physical Education Index allows all researchers and professionals in the field to acquire accurate and scholarly information in this comprehensive database. These abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered as they continue to become more prevalent in our society. Coverage is 1970 to the present, with almost 300,000 records currently in the database.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • PolicyFile About

    • Database: PolicyFile

    Description: PolicyFile is an online service which indexes research and publication abstracts addressing the complete range of public policy research, covering all public policy issues from trade with Asia to health care reform, from terrorism to telecommunications regulation. It draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers and includes famous well known organizations such as Brookings Institution, International Monetary Fund, United States Institute of Peace or World Bank to name but a few. Coverage varies; updated continuously.

    Full Text: partial

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Polling the Nations About

    • Database: Polling the Nations

    Description: Polling the Nations is an online compilation of the questions and responses from over 14,000 national, state, and local surveys conducted by over 1000 polling organizations in the United States and more than 100 other countries. The database covers over 4,000 subjects, from social and political concerns to economic issues. Information is gathered by professional polling organizations, television networks, universities, newspapers, businesses and associations, including the Brookings Institute, Gallup Poll, the International Monetary Fund, the Pew Center, the Roper Organization Poll and the World Bank among others. Updated monthly.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Pop Culture Universe About

    • Database: Pop Culture Universe

    Description: More than 300 full-text volumes of material related to popular culture both current and historical.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Project Muse About

    • Database: Project Muse

    Description: Full text of 100+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from Johns Hopkins University Press and nine other academic presses.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • ProQuest About

    • Database: ProQuest

    Description: A group of databases providing general, newspaper, and business information, including many complete articles.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • ProQuest Digital Microfilm About

    • Database: ProQuest Newspapers

    Description: A digital copy of the Raliegh News and Observer and the Wall Street Journal from 2008 to 3 months ago.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • ProQuest Newspapers About

    • Database: ProQuest Newspapers

    Description: A full collection of newspapers including The Christian Science Monitor, The Lost Angeles Times, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Coverage varies with newspaper.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • PsycARTICLES About

    • Database: PsycARTICLES

    Description: A leading full text source for academic, research and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines, PsycARTICLES is published by the American Psychological Association.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • PsycInfo About

    • Database: PsycInfo

    Description: 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. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in more than 25 languages.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • PubMed About

    • Database: PubMed

    Description: PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals.

    Full text: yes

    Access: free Internet access

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  • RCLweb About

    • Database: RCLweb

    Description: RCLweb is the online edition of the new Resources for College Libraries and is provided by ACRL's Choice and Bowker. This 2006 edition is the long-awaited successor to Books for College Libraries (BCL3). The core list features 65,000 titles in 58 curriculum-specific subjects. Titles have been selected for your academic library by more than 300 subject specialists and bibliographers.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Readers' Guide with Retrospective (via OmniFile) About

    • Database: Readers' Guide via OmniFile Full Text

    Description: Offers the ultimate in current events coverage, curriculum support, and quality periodicals research for students, educators, and library patrons. Provides searchable full text of articles from journals as far back as 1994 and indexing of periodicals as far back as 1983.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • ReferenceUSA About

    • Database: ReferenceUSA

    Description: ReferenceUSA is an Internet-based reference service from the Library Division of infoUSA. The site was designed for use as a reference tool in libraries and is continually enhanced based upon suggestions from librarians and library patrons.

    The ReferenceUSA database contains, in module format, detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses; 102 million U.S. residents; 683,000 U.S. health care providers; 1 million Canadian businesses; and 11 million Canadian residents. Libraries may customize the product by purchasing one or more of these five distinct modules.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • RefWorks [Must use Mozilla Firefox] About

    • Database: RefWorks

    Description: RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool that is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

    Note: RefWorks requires free registration before you can use this resource.

    Full text: no

    Access: on and off campus

  • Regional Business News About

    • Database: Regional Business News

    Description: Business journals and newspapers covering metropolitan and rural areas within the U.S. Abstracts for 67 regional business publications. Includes some full text for 52 of those titles.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Research Starters - Business About

    • Database: Research Starters - Business

    Description: Comprehensive summaries of discipline-specific topics to help grasp the broad outlines of a subject, realize its real world applications, critically engage it, and locate sources for advanced research.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Research Starters - Education About

    • Database: Research Starters - Education

    Description: Comprehensive summaries of discipline-specific topics to help grasp the broad outlines of a subject, realize its real world applications, critically engage it, and locate sources for advanced research.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Research Starters - Sociology About

    • Database: Research Starters - Sociology

    Description: Comprehensive summaries of discipline-specific topics to help grasp the broad outlines of a subject, realize its real world applications, critically engage it, and locate sources for advanced research.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • The Robesonian About
  • Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy About

    • Database: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Description: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy features 2,000 original entries from a team of over 1,300 of the world's most respected scholars and philosophers. Covers an unparalleled breadth of subject matter, including Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy. Includes over 25,000 hot-linked cross-references between articles and new links to other editorially reviewed websites.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Rural Development Abstracts About

    • Database: Rural Development Abstracts

    Description: Rural Development Abstracts is an online bibliographic and abstracts database of internationally published research on rural development bringing the latest information on rural development in developing countries from environmental management to technical progress, poverty and women's studies. Coverage includes policy and development, land reform, employment, land and water resources, biotechnology, microfinance, education and extension, health and nutrition.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

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  • Salem Press History Collection About

    • Database: Salem Press History Collection

    Description: Access to the following Salem Press titles online:

    • Milestone Documents in American History
    • The Seventies in America
    • The Fifties in America
    • The Sixties in America
    • Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 c.e.
    • Great Lives from History: The Middle Ages
    • Great Lives from History: Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600
    • Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives
    • Great Lives from History: The Seventeenth Century
    • Great Lives from History: The Nineteenth Century
    • Great Lives from History: The Eighteenth Century
    • Great Events from History: Modern Scandals

    Full text: Yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Sanborn Maps of North Carolina About

    • Database: Sanborn Maps of North Carolina

    Description: Sanborn Maps for the state of North Carolina provides digital access to 11,173 large-scale maps of 158 North Carolina towns and cities. Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and compare maps from different years.

    Full text: n/a

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Sage E-reference About

    • Database: Sage E-reference

    Description: A collection of over 35 encyclopedias and handbooks covering a variety of topics in the social sciences and medicine.

    Full text: n/a

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Science Citation Index (via Web of Science) About

    • Database: Science Citation Index Expanded via Web of Science

    Description: Consists of multidisciplinary indexes of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • ScienceDirect College Edition About

    • Database: ScienceDirect College Edition

    Description: ScienceDirect College Edition includes the Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering, and Social Sciences and Humanities collections, and contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. Apart from online reference works, handbooks and book series ScienceDirect offers a rich journal collection of over 2,000 titles. In addition, the backfiles program offers the ability to search a historical archive of over 6.75 million articles directly from your desktop, back to Volume 1, Issue 1. The collections contain 4 million articles prior to 1995, and 2.75 million articles from after 1994.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Short Story Index with Retrospective (via OmniFile) About

    • Database: Short Story Index

    Description: Provides a convenient digital guide to thousands of short stories, plus the full text of more than 1,600 stories! Seek short fiction by a favorite author, look for the quintessential example of a particular genre, or research the body of work of a literary figure.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remoe

  • Simply Maps About

    • Database: Simply Maps

    Description: SimplyMap is an Internet-based mapping application that enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Social Sciences Citation Index (via Web of Science) About

    • Database: Social Sciences Citation Index via Web of Science

    Description: Consists of multidisciplinary indexes of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Social Sciences Full Text with Retrospective About

    • Database: Social Sciences Full Text via OmniFile Full Text

    Description: Provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language journals published in the U.S. and elsewhere with full text and page images from scores of key publications, plus abstracting and indexing of hundreds of others. An in-demand resource for a wide variety of users from students to social workers, this database covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Social Services Abstracts About

    • Database: Social Services Abstracts

    Description: Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,406 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Social Work Abstracts About

    • Database: Social Work Abstracts

    Description: Abstracts from social work and related journals.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • SocINDEX with Full Text About

    • Database: SocINDEX with Full Text

    Description:Offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. Includes over 700 full text journals dating back to 1908.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Sociological Abstracts About

    • Database: Sociological Abstracts

    Description: Provides access to the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences from journals, serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Something About the Author Online About

    • Database: Something About the Author Online

    Description: Examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults and is the preeminent source on authors and literature for young people.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • SPORT Discus About

    • Database: SPORT Discus

    Description: International citations and abstracts on exercise, physiology, physical education and fitness, sports and sports medicine.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • SpringerLink (plus Kluwer Online) About

    • Database: Springerlink

    Description: A searchable database of peer reviewed journals in the disciplines of behavioral science, biomedical and life sciences, business and economics, chemistry and materials science, computer science, earth and environmental science, engineering, humanities, social sciences, law, mathematics, medicine, and physics and astronomy.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Supreme Court Collection About

    • Database: Supreme Court Collection

    Description: Part of Legal Information Institute (LII). Contains all U.S. Supreme Court opinions issued since May 1990 (FindLaw is the source for decisions prior to 1990). In addition, there is a historic collection of approximately 600 of the most important cases, which can be accessed by party name, topic, and opinion author.

    Full text: yes

    Access: free Internet access

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  • Teacher Reference Center About

    • Database: Teacher Reference Center

    Description: Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

    Full text: yes

    Access: free Internet access

  • Thomas About

    • Database: Thomas

    Description: Thomas provides the full text of bills (103rd Congress and after), laws, Congressional Record (103rd and after), most committee reports, and many of the Library of Congress's excellent guides to legislation (formerly produced in print). The latter include "Major Legislation," "Bill Summary and Status," and "Floor Activities" for the current week. Texts of many historical documents are being added, and there are two lengthy guides to the legislative process. Direct links lead from the Thomas home page to Web sites maintained by congressional committees, the Clerk of the House, and the Senate, and pages of links to other federal sites are also maintained. Full description available at http://thomas.loc.gov/home/abt_thom.html.

    Full text: yes

    Access: free Internet access

  • Twayne's Author Series About

    • Database: Twayne's Author Series

    Description: Twayne's Authors Series of literary criticism offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. This online series features the content of nearly 600 books that comprise three print series — United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors — each of which were carefully coordinated with input from librarians and educators to include authors universally studied in high schools and colleges. Twayne's Author Series is an ideal starting point for research papers on literary works and figures, special projects and presentations. Students can quickly gain results by searching for a specific author, combining search criteria for a more complex search, or exploring thematic and chronological topics.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • 20th Century African-American Poetry About

    • Database: 20th Century African-American Poetry via Literature Online (LION)

    Description: A database of modern and contemporary African-American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Features 10,000 poems by around 70 of the most important African-American poets of the last century.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

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  • Wall Street Journal About

    • Database: Wall Street Journal via ProQuest

    Description: The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news. Coverage begins in 1982. View Titles

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Wiley Interscience About

    • Database: Wiley Interscience

    Description: A searchable database of peer reviewed journals in the fields of business, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental science, education, engineering, law, life sciences, mathematics and statistics, medicine and healthcare, physics and astronomy, polymers and material science, psychology, and other social sciences.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Wilson Business Full Text (via OmniFile) About

    • Database: Wilson Business Full Text via OmniFile Full Text

    Description: Provides full text, page image, abstracts and indexing access to a multitude of sources—from The New York Times Business Section and The Wall Street Journal to magazines and scholarly journals. Offers feature articles, product reviews, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, book reviews, reports from associations, societies, trade shows and conferences, and more. 

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • World History: Ancient World History About

    • Database: World History: Ancient World History

    Description: Covers human history in all corners of the globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • World History: Modern World History About

    • Database: World History: Modern World History

    Description: Covers a broad range of topics in depth—the evolution of modern Europe since the Renaissance; concurrent developments in Asia, Africa, and the Islamic world; the global impact of the Industrial Revolution; and the last 100 years of conflicts and international cooperation.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • WorldCat About

    • Database: WorldCat

    Description: Abstracts from social work and related journals.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

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