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Title: Academic OneFile discus
Description: Comprehensive database of academic journals for scholarly research. Articles from 8,000+ peer-reviewed journals and reference sources, the majority in full-text, covering the disciplines of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Full-text New York Times content from 1995 to the present . Podcasts and transcripts from National Public Radio (NPR), Cable News Network (CNN), and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) . Updated daily

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Title: Academic Search Premier

Description: The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

 

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Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who(r)
Description: Comprehensive source for biographical information.Over 300,000 biographies of people from around the world and throughout history.Quick reference information on nearly one million people from Who’s Who sources.Full-text articles from hundreds of magazines and links to selected biography Web sites.

Title: Books and Authors discus

Description: For librarians, teachers and readers of all ages. Readers’ advisory resource for fiction and nonfiction. Numerous search criteria, genre lists, plot summaries, author information, award lists, etc. Book jacket images, book reviews from more than 30 sources. User-friendly tools that allow users to store reading and search lists and create reviews and ratings. Visual search technology for narrowing choices and graphically viewing search term relationships.

Title: Book Review Index Online Plus 1965 - JAN, 2008discus

Description: A comprehensive online guide to book reviews that includes more than five million review citations from thousands of publications, with linking to more than 630,000 full-text reviews.

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Title:Business & Company Resource Center
Description
: Articles from academic and general business, industry & management periodicals, newsletters, newspapers and news wires (4000+ indexed titles; 2900+ full-text). Investment and broker research reports ·Company & association directory listings from a number of sources.Additional content from reference sources covering industries, company histories, associations, brands, market share, and more.

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:Business Source Premier (Enhanced) or Business Source Premier
Description: As the world’s largest full text business database, Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 7,600 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

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Title: CINAHL PLUS with Full-text
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: CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 1,835 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 930 journals are also included. CINAHL with Full Text provides full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1982 are also included.

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Description: CINAHL, is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for over 1,700 current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1982, totaling over 1,000,000 records.

collegiate discusTitle: Computer Source
Description: Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for more than 300 publications, covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. In addition, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications. Computer Source provides researchers with full text journals such as AI Communications, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Education, Cybernetics & Systems, Electromagnetic's, Expert Systems, Information Systems Research, International Journal of Computational Engineering Science, International Journal of Computational Intelligence & Application, International Journal of Electronics, International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, International Journal of High Speed Computing, International Journal of Systems Science, Journal of High Speed Networks, Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, Mathematical Programming, MIS Quarterly, Monte Carlo Methods & Applications, Neural Computation, Theory of Computing Systems, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement & Control and many more. Leading general magazines are also provided including: eWeek, Fast Company, MacWorld, PC Magazine, PC World, Red Herring, Software Magazine, etc. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.

 

Title: CREDO Reference (fka) Xreferplus
Description: Only CREDO Reference gives you a complete reference collection from over 50 publishers, powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context.


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:Custom Newspapers
discus Description: Full-text articles from over 100 U.S. and international newspapers. New York Times (latest 365 days); Christian Science Monitor; Post & Courier (Charleston, SC), Atlanta Journal-Constitution and 40+ other domestic papers. Times (London) and 60+ other international papers. Updated 1-3 days after publication of the print newspapers. A complete list of newspaper titles with beginning date of coverage is available on the Gale Web site.

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collegiate discusTitle: EBSCO Animals
Description: EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Within some of the full text, image links are available for the Windows client. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic.

Title: Educator's Reference Complete 1980 - JAN, 2008discus

Description: Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. The database is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home.


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Encyclopedia Americana-Grolier Onlinediscus
Description
: In-depth information, current events and news archive for student researchers.Over 45,000 encyclopedia articles on all subjects.Over 100,000 related full-text periodical articles.Link's to over 150,000 selected Web sites. Weekly news feature, teacher resources and links to U.S. and international news sites. Interactive atlas, dictionary; 4,500 black and white and color images.

 

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Title:ERIC
Description: ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.
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: Expanded Academic ASAP
Description: Comprehensive periodical database covering all academic disciplines. Millions of full-text articles from thousands of scholarly, refereed and professional journals and selected general interest magazines. Indexing of additional professional and general periodicals.
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Title: FirstSearch
Description: 52 databases- search 1 to 3 databases at a time by author, keyword, title, ISBN or date. Locate item and request through Interlibrary Loan if not available at the Learning Resources Center.

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Title: Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Description: For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually.

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discusTitle: Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description: A selection of 24 cross-searchable reference e-books covering a variety of subject areas, including health and medicine, language and literature, history, social studies, science and more.

Title:General Business File ASAPdiscus
Description: Comprehensive resource for business, management and investment topics.Full-text periodical articles and indexing on business and management topics.Newswire articles; newspaper indexing. Directory listings on 200,000+ companies. Investment and broker research reports.

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General Reference Center
Description: Magazine, newspaper and reference articles on a variety of topics of general interest. Millions of full-text articles from over 800 general magazine titles. Reference information from encyclopedias, dictionaries and almanacs. Coverage of school subjects, current events and consumer interest topics.
 

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:Health Reference Center Academic
Description: Health and medical periodicals and reference information for academic researchers.Full-text articles from 600+ health, nursing, allied health and medical journals. Health-related articles from 1,500 general interest magazines. Articles from medical reference titles and pamphlets.
 
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Title:Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Description: This database provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

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:Health and Wellness Resource Center
Description:Portal to health information from a variety of sources for general users.Full-text articles from 600+ health, nursing, allied health and medical journals. Health-related articles from 2,200 general interest magazines. Medical encyclopedia articles, pamphlets, drug information and hospital directory. Access to health news and key health Web sites.

 

Title: History Resource Center: U. Sdiscus
Description: History Resource U.S. provides a complete overview of U.S. history covering the most-studied events, issues and current information. Selected by expert history advisors for its relevance in the undergraduate curriculum.

Title: History Resource Center: World discus

Description: History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.

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Title:InfoTrac OneFile
Description:Comprehensive periodical database covering all subjects and all types of periodicals. Periodicals from nearly all InfoTrac collections merged into a single database.Over 21 million full-text articles on all subjects from over 5000 periodical titles. Articles from newswires and general, professional, scholarly and children's periodicals. Indexing of the New York Times, other major newspapers and 8000+ periodicals.
 
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:LegalTrac
Description:Index to law and legal periodicals with selected full-text articles. Indexing of over 1400 titles; full-text articles from 100+ titles. Major law reviews, legal newsletters, bar association journals and international titles.Law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.

Title: Literature Resource Center discus
Description: Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series. Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 full-text titles.

 
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Title: Mary Ann Liebert
Description: Liebert Online delivers electronic access to peer-reviewed journals published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Our critical mass of content exceeds 30,000 papers from more than sixty authoritative journals, all full-text searchable and linked to external bibliographic databases.

Title: MAS Ultra
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: Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text nearly 600 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, 268 full text reference books, 82,968 biographies, 90,915 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

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Title:MEDLINE
Description: MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.
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Title:Military & Government Collection
Description: Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.
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Title:MLA Directory of Periodicals
Description: The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.

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Title:MLA International Bibliography
Description: MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.6 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.

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Title: Nature
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Description: Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public.

Title: Nursing Collection IIcollegiate discus

Description: : Lippincott Premier Nursing Journals also known as the Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) nursing titles

Title: Nursing Resource Center discus

Description: Designed for nursing students, the Nursing Resource Center brings together in an easy-to-use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts. The information is written in accessible language for students completing class assignments and preparing for clinicals as they learn how to care for and treat patients. Search results are returned in tabs that correspond to steps in the nursing process.

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Title: Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center discus

Description: Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.

 
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Title: Points of View Reference Center

Description: Points of View Reference Center is a full text database designed to provide students and schools wth a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications.


Title:Primary Search
discus Description: Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Title:ProQuest Career and Technical Education Description: Designed for both students and instructors, ProQuest Career and Technical Education is an excellent source of vocational information for community colleges, two-year institutions, public libraries, and high schools offering technical courses.

Title: ProQuest Nursing and Alllied Health Source
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ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This versatile database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions.ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides abstracting and indexing for more than 700 titles, with over 580 titles in full-text.

 

collegiate discusTitle:Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Description: This database provides coverage of more than 550 full text journals, including more than 525 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

 
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Title: Regional Business News
Description: Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc.

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SC Newspapers: Columbia & Greenville, The State
Description:
(NEWSBANK)Archive of full-text articles from The State (Columbia, SC) newspaper. Locally written articles - news, editorials, sports, business, arts, features. Letters to the editor and major newswire articles. Includes most obituaries; death notice coverage begins March 1994.Special Reports from NewsBank - topics in the news with reprints of stories from a variety of sources with related photographs and maps.Note: Updated 1-2 days after publication of the print newspaper. See The State.com for free access to the latest 1-2 days of coverage.

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Scribner Writers Series
Description:Essays on the lives and works of 1600+ important authors from around the world.In-depth coverage of noted novelists, playwrights, poets, short story writers, essayists, journalists, critics, philosophers and writers for children and young adults. Includes 40+ essays on special topics in literature - gothic novels, nature poetry, etc.

Title: Science Online
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Founded in 1880 on $10,000 of seed money from the American inventor Thomas Edison, Science has grown to become the world's leading outlet for scientific news, commentary, and cutting-edge research, with the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general-science journal. Through its print and online incarnations, Science reaches an estimated worldwide readership of more than one million. In content, too, the journal is truly international in scope; some 35 to 40 percent of the corresponding authors on its papers are based outside the United States. Its articles consistently rank among world's most cited research.

Title: Science Resource Center discus

Description: Researching science topics has never been easier -- with Science Resource Center, thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards.

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SIRS Knowledge Source
Description: Articles, images, reference information, Web sites and more on all subjects. Articles selected from 2,500+ U.S. and international magazines, newspapers, government publications and reference sources.News, current events and organized links to evaluated Web sites. Includes special features on - literature, terrorism and other topics. Interactive textbook on citizenship with teacher resources. Images, maps, country profiles, primary sources and Supreme Court decisions.

Title: Small Business Resource Center discus

Description: Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.

 
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Westlaw Paralegal (Requires a username and password assigned by your instructor)


 

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