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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

  • Access NewspaperARCHIVE About

    Database: Access NewspaperARCHIVE

    Description: NewspaperARCHIVE, the largest historical newspaper database online, contains tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1759 to present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore historical content.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

  • 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

  • ACS Legacy Archive About

    • Database: ACS Legacy Archive

    Description: ACS Legacy Archives provides full-text searching and instant access to all titles, volumes, issues, and articles published by the American Chemical Society from 1879 to 1995.

    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 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

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • 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 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

  • 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 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

  • CAMIO About

    • Database: CAMIO

    Description: Provides rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources.

    Full text: n/a

    Access: on campus and remote

  • 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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  • Daily Life Through History About

    • Database: Daily Life Through History

    Description: Provides a detailed portrayal of what life was like for ordinary people in different cultures throughout history.

    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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  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • 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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