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Academic Search Premier|
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Academic Search Premier is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database
containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications.
This database also offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,176 journals in the collection.
Areas include: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts &
literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are a
vailable for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more
than 1,000 titles. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or
scanned-in-color.
African-American Biographical Database| |
Brings together in one resource the biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to be
found in any other reference source. These biographical sketches have been carefully assembled from
biographical dictionaries and other sources. This extraordinary collection contains extended
narratives of African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists,
educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government
workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday
person. Their stories are pivotal to an understanding of the Black American experience over the last
two centuries.
Agricola: Agricultural Online Access | | 1979- |
Updated monthly, Agricola has more than 3.3 million citations to journal literature, government reports, serials, monographs, theses, patents, audiovisual sources, and technical reports in agriculture, agricultural economics, rural sociology, animal sciences, chemistry, plant sciences, natural resources, pesticides, and water resources.
Alta Vista's Multilingual
Translator | |
This site translates from English to French, German, Italian, Portugese or Spanish (or the reverse).
America History &
Life | | 1964- |
This database covers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. It offers access to 2,000 plus journals published worldwide and contains almost 400,000 citations including some state and local history journals.
American Fact Finder | US Census | | 1999 & 2000 |
This site provides statistics about population, housing, industry and business. Viewing a list of US Census Bureau products, creating reference and thematic maps, and searching for specific data also is possible.
Wilson Web's Applied Science & Technology Full Text | |
To search only this database, click Applied Science and Technology (AST) in the
Subject Area menu of Wilson Web's OmniFile Full Text Mega. It covers a full range of applied mathematics, chemistry, communication & computer technology, energy resources & research, engineering, fire & fire prevention, food & food industry, geology, machinery, marine technology, metallurgy, mineralogy, oceanography, physics, space science, textile industry & fabrics, transportation, waste management, as well as other industrial & mechanical arts topics. It offers access to trade and industrial publications, professional and technical society journals, specialized subject periodicals, buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings. Abstracting begins as early as 1993 while full text coverage begins in 1997.
ARTFL PROJECT: French-English
Dictionary | |
This French-English dictionary contains about 75,000 terms.
Wilson Web's Art Full Text | |
To search only this database, click Art (ART) in the Subject Area menu of Wilson Web's OmniFile Full Text Mega. It covers topics such as advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture, art history, computers in art, crafts, decorative arts, fashion design, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, motion pictures, museology, non-Western art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, television, textiles, and video.
CSA's ASFA: Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries | | 1978- |
Click the link above, then Alphabetical List, either Quick Search or Advanced Search, and finally select this title from the list. The database covers aquaculture, aquatic organisms, aquatic pollution, conservation, environmental quality, fisheries, limnology, marine biotechnology, marine environments, meteorology, oceanography, policy and legislation, and wildlife management.
It provides access to 5,000 plus serials, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations, and limited distribution literature.
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Biography
& Genealogy Master Index | |
BGMI indexes current, common reference sources, as well as important retrospective works that cover both living and deceased individuals in various disciplines from all over the world. The index now contains more than 13.6 million entries.
Biography
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For all age groups, this database is a comprehensive source for biographical information. It provides 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, and full text articles from hundreds of magazines and links to selected biography Web sites.
Wilson Web's Biological & Agricultural Index | |
To search only this database, click Biological & Agricultural (BA) in the Subject Area menu of Wilson Web's OmniFile Full Text Mega. It covers topics such as agricultural chemicals, agricultural economics, animal husbandry, biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, botany, cytology, ecology, entomology, environmental science, fishery sciences, food science, forestry, genetics, horticulture, immunology, limnology, microbiology, neuroscience, nutrition, physiology, plant pathology, soil science, veterinary medicine, and zoology.
CSA's Biological Sciences | | 1982- |
Click the link above, then Alphabetical List, either Quick Search or Advanced Search, and finally select this title from the list. The database is updated monthly and offers abstracts and citations for research topics related to biomedicine, biotechnology, ecology, some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science, marine biology, microbiology, molecular biology, mycology, neurosciences, nucleic acids, oncogenes and growth factors, peptides, proteins, protozoology, safety science, toxicology, virology, and zoology.
CSA's Biology Digest | | 1989- |
Click the link above, then Alphabetical List, either Quick Search or Advanced Search, and finally select this title from the list. The database is updated monthly and provides access to domestic and international life sciences literature including
air and water pollution, behavioral science, biochemistry, botany cell biology, climatology, crop science, ecology, education, energy resources, forestry, hydrobiology, immunology, medicine, nutrition, pharmacology, population studies, protozoology, public health, soil science, species preservation, toxicology, transmission of disease, veterinary medicine, virology, and zoology.
Biomed Central: The Open Access Publisher | |
BioMed Central is both a searchable bibliographic database and an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. All of the original research articles in journals published here are immediately and permanently available online without charge.
Global Books in Print | |
Updated monthly, BIP is the most comprehensive database of US, Canadian, and UK book, audio, or video titles. It allows searchers to find publishers, read full-text reviews and author biographies, check the availability of a title in other formats, and find bestsellers and award-winners.
Black Thought and Culture | | 1700- |
Black Thought and Culture will provide approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art.
Britannica Online
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This Internet version of the Encyclopedia Britannica includes the complete encyclopedia as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. EB Online also makes an Internet directory available that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
General Business File ASAP | | | 1980- |
For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students, this database is a comprehensive resource for business, management and investment topics. It includes 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.
Wilson Web's Business Abstracts | | 1982- |
To search only this database, click Business (BUS) in the Subject Area menu of Wilson Web's OmniFile Full Text Mega. It covers topics such as accounting, acquisitions & mergers, advertising, banking, building & construction, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, communications, computers, cosmetics industry, economics, electronics, entertainment industry, finance, government regulations, health care, hospitality and tourism, human resources, industrial relations, insurance, international business, management, marketing, mass media, occupational health & safety, oil & gas, paper and pulp industries, public utilities, publishing, purchasing, real estate, retail, small business, and transportation.
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Cabell's Publishing Company | |
Professors and graduate students in Accounting frequently use Cabell’s Directory to assist them in publishing their manuscripts. Also, administrators and accrediting committees use them to evaluate publication records. Reviewers often praise the Directory for the large number of journals in each Directory and the useful information included for each journal.
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts | |
The following databases are available in this system: AFSA: Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts, Biological Sciences, Biology Digest, Communication Abstracts, Conference Papers Index, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Abstracts, ERIC, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, Medline, Oceanic Abstracts, Plant Science, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, and TOXLINE.
Chicago Tribune
Archive | |1985- |
Searching this archive and viewing abstracts or citations is free, but viewing articles requires a fee.
The Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) | |
The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) is an acquisition, research, and reference service that offers more than 1,400,000 MARC records and more than 280,000 reviews of children's books--all full text searchable from 36 review sources.
The Chronicle of Higher Education | |
Published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as an online CV's, salary databases, and more.
CINAHL|
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Provides indexing for over 1,700 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 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. Full text material includes 60 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
Pre-CINAHL|
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A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to researchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing. This enables users to gain access to article citations that otherwise would not be available. Once the bibliographic records are complete, they are added to the CINAHL database and removed from Pre-CINAHL.
Clinical Pharmacology |
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Contains current, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. Drugs may be searched by their generic or brand names. Clinical Pharmacology is made up of Drug Monograph and Patient Education Records. Drug Monographs include description, mechanism of action, and pharmacokinetics. Patient Education Records contain such information as what the medication is used for, what their health care professional should know before taking the medication, how the medication should be taken, what they should do if a dose is missed, what other medications can interact, what side effects may be noticed, what to watch for, and where to keep the medication. Patient Education records are available in English or Spanish.
College Source Online|
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Virtual library representing 31,575 college catalogs in full cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools.
Columbia
Encyclopedia (6th edition) | |
This resource contains almost 51,000 entries and 80,000 plus hypertext cross-references.
Commerce Business Daily | | 1995- |
CBD lists notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information. The Government Printing Office publishes a new edition of the Commerce Business Daily every business day, which is uploaded daily. Each edition contains approximately 500 to 1,000 notices, and each notice appears once.
Computer Source|
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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. 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.
CSA's Communication Abstracts | | 1977- |
Click the link above, then Alphabetical List, either Quick Search or Advanced Search, and finally select this title from the list. Updated bimonthly, the database covers communication-related publications on a world-wide scale. Articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions and information sources also are available on topics such as international literature in film studies, the role of technology in human communications, risk communication, crisis communication, and public opinions.
CSA's Conference Papers Index | | 1982- |
Click the link above, then Alphabetical List, either Quick Search or Advanced Search, and finally select this title from the list. Updated bimonthly, CPI provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. It includes complete ordering information to obtain preprints, abstracts, proceedings and other publications derived from the conference, together with title and author information needed to track the specific papers.
Current Research@ the University of South Carolina: A Digital Library of Dissertations & Theses | | 1997- |
This database contains the full-text dissertations and master's theses produced by University of South Carolina students. Through this site, you can (1) search citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses submitted by USC and published in UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database,
(2) view 24 page previews of dissertations and theses that were published after 1996 from any institution that cooperates with UMI, and (3) download the full text of USC dissertations and theses published after 1996 (for USC students, faculty, and staff the downloaded copies are free).
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Dictionary of
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Produced by the University of Exeter, UK, this site summarizes most of the units of measurement in use around the world today (and a few of historical interest) including the appropriate conversion factors
needed to change them into a 'standard' unit.
Discus: SC's Virtual Library | | |
This web site from the SC State Library outlines information about Discus resources that are available in schools, colleges, and public libraries across SC. To search individual databases, click the specifically named database links with Discus logos throughout this list that you want to search. Search all of the databases at one time by clicking the link for Infotrac OneFile.
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EBSCO’s Encyclopedia of Animals|
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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.
EconLit|
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EconLit, the American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature. EconLit adheres to the high quality standards long recognized by subscribers to the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) and is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. It provides comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.
Wilson Web's Education Full Text | |
To search only this database, click Education (EDU) in the Subject Area menu of Wilson Web's OmniFile Full Text Mega. It covers all age levels of education, administration, arts, athletics, technology, government funding, instructional media, library science, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, parent-teacher relations, religious education, science and math, special education, student counseling, teacher evaluation, and teaching methods.
Encyclopedia
Americana | | |
For grades 8 and up, this online encyclopedia provides in-depth information, current events and a news archive for student researchers. It includes over 45,000 encyclopedia articles on all subjects, over 100,000 related full text periodical articles, links to over 150,000 selected Web sites, a weekly news feature, teacher resources, links to US and international news sites, as well as an interactive atlas, dictionary, and 4,500 black and white and color images.
CSA's Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management | |
Click the link above, then Alphabetical List, either Quick Search or Advanced Search, and finally select this title from the list. Updated monthly, this database covers
aquatic pollution, bacteriology, ecology, energy resources, environmental biotechnology, environmental engineering, impact statements, hazardous waste, industrial hygiene, microbiology, and risk assessment. Its
abstracts and citations come from 1,500 plus scientific journals and other sources such as conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books, and government publications.
CSA's ERIC (Educational Resources Info. Center) | | 1966- |
Click the link above, then Alphabetical List, either Quick Search or Advanced Search, and finally select this title from the list. ERIC is the US national bibliographic database of education literature. It is sponsored by the US Department of Education and consists of 2 files: Resources in Education, which covers document literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education, which covers published journal literature from over 775 periodicals. It also includes some full text of ERIC Digests, which summarize various topics and provide references to related information.
Educator's Reference Desk ERIC | | 1966- |
This version of the ERIC database is available on the Web. The site also offers Resource Guides, Lesson Plans, and Question Archives.
Eur-Lex: the
Portal to European Union Law | | 1998- |
The Official Journal of the European Communities, published daily in 11 languages, consists of the L series (legislation) and the C series (information, preparatory acts and notices). There also is a section of the C series, known as the O J C E, that is only published electronically.
Expanded Academic
ASAP | | | 1980- |
For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students, this comprehensive periodical database covers all academic disciplines and provides millions of full text articles from 2,000+ scholarly, refereed and professional journals as well as selected general interest magazines. It also indexes additional professional and general periodicals.
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Federal Register | | 1995- |
Updated daily, FR is issued by the US Government Printing Office (GPO) and published on the Web by Community of Science. It lists US federal agency announcements and information, such as presidential documents, agency meetings, grant opportunities, and proposed federal regulations.
FishBase | | 1995- |
This biological database on fish, edited by R. Froese and D. Pauly, was developed by the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) in collaboration with the United Nations (FAO). It functions similar to an encyclopedia and includes population dynamics data; Eschmeyer's (1990) Catalog of the Genera of Recent Fishes; lists of threatened fishes for any given country; diet, prey and predator information; as well as functional databases on genetic traits and culture experiments, etc.
Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia|
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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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Gale's Literary Index | |
This master index to Gale's major literature series contains references for more than 130,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 140,000 literary works in one source.
Wilson Web's General Science Full Text | | 1984- |
To search only this database, click General Science (GS) in the Subject Area menu of Wilson Web's OmniFile Full Text Mega. It is less specialized than Applied Science and Technology Full Text and covers astronomy, atmospheric science, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, earth science, environment, food, genetics, health, mathematics, medicine, microbiology, nutrition, oceanography, physics, physiology, and zoology.
Popular science magazines, professional journals, as well as The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday) are included.
GEOREF | | 1785- |
This database is from the American Geological Institute and covers the international technical literature on geology and geophysics. It contains over 1.5 million records about North America since 1785 and other areas of the world since 1933 as well as records found in the Bibliography of North American Geology, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, Geophysical Abstracts, and the Bibliography and Index of Geology.
Getty Art
& Architecture Thesaurus | |
Produced by the J. Paul Getty Trust, this comprehensive vocabulary of nearly 120,000 terms describes objects, textural materials, images, architecture and material culture from antiquity to the present.
Getty
Thesaurus of Geographic Names | |
Produced by the J. Paul Getty Trust, this structured vocabulary was developed primarily for the field of art history but has the potential for wide applications related to disciplines such as archeology, history, and geography.
GPO
Access | | 1774- |
This site provides access to regulatory, legal, congressional and presidential documents, business and economic publications and historical documents databases from the Government Printing Office. It also includes the Core Documents of American Democracy collection.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia | | |
For grades 5 and up, this online encyclopedia offers reference information and news on all subjects with learning tools and multimedia as well as over 40,000 encyclopedia articles with associated pictures, flags, maps and media, including video, sound, animations, panoramas and cutaways. It links to thousands of related periodical articles and Web sites, weekly news articles with news quiz and related Web links, and the monthly Brain Jam e-zine with teacher resources and student activities.
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HarpWeek: Harper's
Weekly | | 1857-1865 |
This database contains all of the pages of Harper's Weekly (1857-1865) as scanned images with a series of indexes. It is searchable by date, index terms, literary genre, and occupation/role.
Health
& Wellness Resource Center | | |
For advanced middle school students through adults, this database is a portal to health information from a variety of sources for general users. It contains 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; as well as access to health news and key health Web sites.
Health
Reference Center: Academic | | |
For college-level and other adult researchers, this database offers access to health and medical periodicals and reference information for academic researchers. It includes full text articles from 600+ health, nursing, allied health and medical journals; health-related articles from 1,500 general interest magazines; and articles from medical reference titles and pamphlets.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition |
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Provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for more than 800 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1975.
Historical
Abstracts |
| 1969- |
Historical Abstracts is recognized as the leading bibliography for historical study in the world and includes key historical journals from virtually every major country.
It covers world history (1450-present) and related areas of the social sciences and humanities including culture, diplomacy, economics, international relations, and politics are included.
Historical Statistics of the United States | |
This is the electronic version of the Bicentennial Edition of the Historical Statistics of the United States (1975). It is a standard source for quantitative indicators of United States history from Colonial Times - 1970.
Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition Online |
| Colonial times to Present |
The online edition of the Historical Statistics of the United States provides detailed statistical information covering a vast array of topics, such as slavery, migration, poverty and much more. The resource is fully searchable and downloadable, with approximately 37,000 data series. This powerful tool allows users to create customized tables and spreadsheets using data that is fully accessible online.
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Hoover’s offers approximately 14,000 company capsules (brief company descriptions and financials) for free, and approximately 4,000 company profiles (company histories, strategies, market positions, major events, and other information)plus industry information available via online subscription.
Human Relations Area Files - eHRAF | |
A full text database that provides primarily descriptive information on the cultures of the world. Annual installments will contain 50,000 or more pages of text on 15 or more cultures. In addition to the text, indexed by the Outline of Cultural Materials, the database also contains a bibliography for each culture and a cultural summary.
Wilson Web's Humanities Full Text | | 1984- |
To search only this database, click Humanities (HUM) in the Subject Area menu of Wilson Web's OmniFile Full Text Mega. This database covers archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary & social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.
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InfoTrac OneFile | | | 1980- |
For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students, this comprehensive periodical database covers all subjects and all types of periodicals. It includes periodicals from nearly all InfoTrac collections merged into a single database; over 22 million full text articles on all subjects from over 5,000 periodical titles; articles from newswires and general, professional, scholarly and children's periodicals; as well as indexing of the New York Times, other major newspapers and 8,000+ periodicals.
Ingenta
| | 1988- |
Ingenta provides keyword access to the table of contents pages from over 17,000 journals. It lists over 7 million articles that have appeared since 1988 and includes periodicals from all subject areas although it concentrates heavily on the sciences and social sciences.
International Political Science Abstracts|
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International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA), produced by the International Political Science Association, includes current indexing and abstracts of the world's leading journals in political science. This database contains over 110,000 records from nearly 900 journals published from 1989 to the present. Approximately 8,000 new records are added to the database each year.
Issues and Controversies: FACTS.com | |
Issues & Controversies @ FACTS.com presents and enhances the full back file of Issues & Controversies On File, which has probed more than 600 controversial topics in the news since its debut in September 1995. Chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies, and contact information augment the balanced, accurate coverage of current and historical events.
The Item, Sumter, SC newspaper | |
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Journalism & Mass
Communications Abstracts | | 1965- |
Produced by the Chicago Tribune, this database, which is formerly known as Journalism Abstracts, includes abstracts of research-based dissertations and theses that were prepared by student authors and accepted for graduate degrees. Abstracts of creative projects done to complete a graduate degree are excluded. The abstracts appear alphabetically by the author's last name; the dissertations appear first, and the masters theses follow. They are indexed by institution, author, and subject. The subject index is a mixture of key words taken from the abstracts and general terms that are assigned by the editor.
JSTOR | | date varies |
JSTOR offers full-text online access to back issues of more than 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Issues are entered online after having been published for 2-5 years. The entire printed matter of the journal as published is included, and coverage for most titles begins with their starting numbers. Adobe Acrobat Reader is necessary to view and print from JSTOR.
Junior
Edition (InfoTrac) | | | 2000- |
For middle school students, their teachers and parents, this database includes magazine, newspaper and reference sources on all subjects; full text articles from 130+ magazines, with full image of 60+ titles; and maps, articles from reference books and newswire articles. It provides access to short stories, poems, quizzes, experiments and activities and offers Toolbox, which helps students learn research and writing skills.
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Kids
InfoBits (InfoTrac) | | | 1990- |
For K-5 students, their teachers and parents, this database provides access to articles, pictures and reference information on all subjects. It contains full text articles from 120+ children's magazines, reference sources and newspapers as well as 2,500 searchable images and maps, and reading levels are assigned to most articles. It also includes activities, recipes, experiments, poetry and stories by children and Teacher Toolbox, which helps teach research and writing skills.
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Wilson Web's Index to Legal Periodicals & Books | |
To search only this database, click Legal (ILP) in the Subject Area menu of Wilson Web's OmniFile Full Text Mega. This database covers administrative law; antitrust legislation; banking; constitutional law; domestic relations; environmental protection; estate planning; food, drug & cosmetic law; international law; labor law; landlord/tenant decisions; malpractice suits; minorities; multinational corporations; negligence; non-profit corporations; occupational health & safety; politics; probate; products liability; public law; real property; securities; tax law; and trade regulation.
LegalTrac | | | 1980- |
For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students, this database is an index to law and legal periodicals with selected full text articles. It indexes over 1,400 titles; full text articles from 100+ titles; major law reviews, legal newsletters, bar association journals and international titles; as well as law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.
Wilson Web's Library Literature & Info. Science Full Text | |
To search only this database, click Library & Information Science (LIB) in the Subject Area menu of Wilson Web's OmniFile Full Text Mega. This database covers automation, cataloging, censorship, children's literature, circulation, classification, copyright legislation, education for librarianship, government aid, information brokers, Internet software and sites, library associations & conferences, library equipment & supplies, personnel administration, preservation of materials, public relations, and publishing.
CSA's Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts | | 1973- |
Click the link above, then Alphabetical List, either Quick Search or Advanced Search, and finally select this title from the list. This is the definitive database on the nature and use of language; it covers research in linguistics (the nature and structure of human speech); research in language (speech sounds, sentence and word structure, meaning in language forms, spelling, phonetics); and research in speech, language, and hearing pathology.
Literature Resource Center with MLA International Bibl. |
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This database offers information on works and literary figures from all time periods in genres such as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. It contains biographies, bibliographies, critical essays, overviews of literary works, authoritative author and literature related web sites, and approximately 250 well respected literary journals. It also provides access to MLA International Bibliography with Directory of Periodicals, Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, and the Gale Literary Index.
LLMC Digital - Law Library Microform Consortium | |
This database contains over 7,500 titles and approximately 90,000 volumes of interest to researchers in law and history. Its backfile comprises the world's largest collection of legal literature and government documents in microform.
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MAS Ultra - School Edition|
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Designed specifically for high school libraries, provides full text from more than 550 popular general interest and current events publications covering general reference, health, science, and other areas, with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 650 titles. Every full text article is assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). This database also includes more than 3,000 charts, tables and graphs; 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews; more than 500 health and science-related full text pamphlets; coverage of 339 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts) and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps & flags.
CSA's Medline | | 1988- |
Click the link above, then Alphabetical List, either Quick Search or Advanced Search, and finally select this title from the list. This database contains citations with abstracts to biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services. It includes references to articles from approximately 3,200 journals published in the US and approximately 70 other countries. It covers chapters and articles from elected monographs from 1976-1981, and author abstracts are available for about 60% of the citations.
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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 uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
Medline - PubMed | | 1966- |
This website offers free access to the National Library of Medicine's biomedical and consumer health literature; it also offers links to authoritative websites that feature medical information.
Merck Index | |
The Merck Index contains 10,955 monographs describing significant chemicals, drugs, and biological substances. The entries are not a listing of Merck & Co., Inc. products, but rather cover a wide range of compounds, which have been selected on the basis of present or historic importance and interest.
Merriam - Webster Dictionary &
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This dictionary database offers pronunciation, word function, and simple etymology information while the thesaurus provides word function and hot-linked synonyms.
Military & Government Collection|
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Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, 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. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.
MLA Directory of Periodicals|
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Contains all information available on the journals and series on the bibliography's Master List of Periodicals. Over 7,100 titles are included; of these, over 4,400 are currently indexed. The entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission guidelines. The directory also provides statistics on how many articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many are submitted.
MLA International Bibliography|
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An index 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. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included. In addition, the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the association's proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the bibliography are also included.
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National Criminal Justice Reference Service | | 1970- |
This database contains summaries of 170,000 publications including federal, state, and local government reports; books; research reports; journal articles; and unpublished research. 12 core periodicals are comprehensively abstracted, and many more periodicals are routinely examined. Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, domestic preparedness, and victims of crime.
Nature | |
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.
New Book of Knowledge
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For grades 3 and up, this online encyclopedia offers reference information on all subjects with current events and educational features. It includes over 9,000 encyclopedia articles on all subjects, with pictures and maps; related articles from children's magazines; related Web sites appropriate for children; weekly news articles and pictures with lesson plans; and links to student activities, educational games and teacher resources.
Custom Newspapers | | |
This database contains full text articles from over 100 U.S. and international newspapers including the New York Times (2000-); Christian Science Monitor (1996-); Post & Courier (Charleston, SC; 2000-), Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1998-) and 40+ other domestic papers; as well as Times (London; 1996-) and 60+ other international papers. It is updated 1-3 days after publication of the print newspapers.
NTIS - National Technical Information
Service | | 1990- |
This database contains complementary materials from international sources as well as citations for 750,000 documents and links to government web sites for scientific, technical, engineering, and related business information that is produced by or for the US government.
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Occupational Outlook Handbook
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OOH is nationally recognized for career information that helps individuals make decisions about their future work lives. It is revised every 2 years and outlines what workers do on the job, their working conditions, the training and education needed, salary, and what the expected job prospects are in a wide range of occupations.
CSA's Oceanic Abstracts | | 1981- |
Click the link above, then Alphabetical List, either Quick Search or Advanced Search, and finally select this title from the list. Updated monthly, this database exclusively covers worldwide technical literature pertaining to marine and brackish-water environments as well as
fisheries, geology, geophysics, geochemistry, marine pollution, nonliving marine resources, communications, maritime law, desalination, ships, meteorology, plus environmental and technological topics.
Omni Gazetteer - Web | |
This electronic edition of the Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America provides place names for the United States and its territories.
Oxford English Dictionary
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Updated quarterly, OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition and the 3-volume Additions Series. Many Additions entries are additions to entries that previously were published in the Second Edition; they are appended to the end of the appropriate Second Edition entry. Complete entries published for the first time in the Additions volumes are presented as free-standing entries along with entries from the Second Edition.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | |
An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Great Britain's past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000.
Oxford Reference Online | |
Brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.
The Premium Collection offers over 170 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series.
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CSA's Plant Science | | 1994- |
Click the link above, then Alphabetical List, either Quick Search or Advanced Search, and finally select this title from the list. Updated monthly, Plant Science contains citations and abstracts of plant science literature including pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry, genetics, biotechnology, techniques and environmental biology. Over 250 primary research journals are scanned by specialized scientific editors to add approximately 23,000 titles to the database each year. Since July 1996, abstracts have been added when available.
Population
Index | | 1986-2000 |
This website is a searchable and browsable database that contains over 42,000 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index. It provides access to
monographs, articles and other serials, working papers, doctoral dissertations, machine-readable data files, as well as relevant acquisitions lists and bibliographies for topics such as
rates of fertility, mortality, population size and growth, migration, marriage and the family, research methodology, projections, and demographic and economic interrelations.
PRAXIS Practice Tests from Plato Learning | |
An off campus log-in handout is available on the display rack. Ask for help at the Circulation Desk. This website offers an online simulated pre-professional skills test.
Primary Search |
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Designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms, contains full text for more than 60 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. Examples of publications covered in Primary Search include: Appleseeds, Boys' Life, Cobblestone, Cricket, Highlights for Children, Hopscotch, Jack & Jill, Ladybug, Ranger Rick, Science World, Spider, SuperScience, Time for Kids, Turtle, and many more. This database also provides the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text backfiles go as far back as 1989, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as 1984.
Project Muse | |
Includes the full-text of over 300 quality journal titles, covering literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
PROQUEST | |
Contains citations and/or abstracts for over 2 million dissertations and theses. The database accepts over 90 percent of doctoral dissertations in North America and contains thousands of international titles. Additionally, the database provides 24 page previews for many recent titles as well as numerous full text documents.
PsycARTICLES|
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A definitive source of searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 39,000 searchable full text articles from 44 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 52 journals. Coverage spans from 1985 to the present
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection|
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A comprehensive database providing more than 550 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed journals. The database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. Publications offered can be searched independently, but also allows users to conveniently link to full text from citations within PsycINFO. All full text publications included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO. The majority of full text titles in this database are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.
PubMed -
Medline | | 1966- |
This website offers free access to the National Library of Medicine biomedical literature, consumer health information, and links to authoritative online medical resources.
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Wilson Web's Readers' Guide Full Text | | 1983- |
To search only this database, click Readers' Guide (Current Events) (RDG) in the Subject Area menu of Wilson Web's OmniFile Full Text Mega. This database covers
aeronautics, african-americans, aging, astronomy, automobiles, biography, business, Canada, children, computers, consumer education, current events, education, environment, fashion, film, fine arts, food, foreign affairs, health, history, hobbies, home, journalism, leisure activities, medicine, music, news, nutrition, photography, politics, religion, science, sports, and television.
General Reference Center | | | 1980- |
For high school students through adults, this database provides magazine, newspaper and reference articles on a variety of topics of general interest. It includes millions of full text articles from over 900 general magazine titles; reference information from encyclopedias, dictionaries and almanacs; and covers school subjects, current events, and consumer interest topics.
The Religion Case Reporter | | 1998-present |
Indexes court decisions relating to religious issues. Provides references to where the text of court cases can be located. The text of Federal statutes relating to religious issues is also included. Dates covered include: 1998- (Some decisions from 1997 are also included if decision was published after December 31, 1997)
Roget's II: The New
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This website makes the 1995, 3rd edition of Roget's II available; it contains succinct definitions as well as 35,000 synonyms, and over 250,000 cross-references.
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SC Census Information - SCIway | | 1994-1998 |
This website features the largest and most comprehensive directory of information about South Carolina on the Internet.
SC State Agency/Employee Phone Book | |
This directory offers access to the phone numbers for SC state government. The database is searchable by specific agency classified listings and by employee name or agency affiliation.
ScienceDirect | | date varies |
ScienceDirect offers full-text access to over 1 million articles in broad collections of primary journal literature. The heart of this database is the Elsevier Science collection, which comprises 1,100 journals. It covers chemistry, materials science, engineering & technology, environmental science, economics, business & management science, neurosciences, pharmacology & toxicology, physics, mathematics & computer science, earth sciences, social sciences, biochemistry, microbiology & immunology, biological sciences, and clinical medicine.
Science's Next
Wave | | current |
The Next Wave is published by Science magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Not-for-profit, this weekly online publication covers scientific training, career development, and the science job market.
Scirus | |
Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 200 million science-specific Web pages, enabling you to quickly:
Pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web.
Find the latest report, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre-prints and journals that other search engines miss.
Offer unique functionalities designed for scientists and researchers.
Scottish Bibliographies
Online | | 1976- |
This database comprises the Bibliography of Scotland (BOS) and the Bibliography of Scottish Gaelic (BOSG). BOS, Scotland's national bibliography, brings together over 60,000 records of books and major articles of Scottish interest published all over the world. In principle, it covers the period from 1976 to the present, but most of the records available online date from 1988 to the present. When completed, the BOSG is intended to list books and periodicals published in Gaelic, or containing substantial Gaelic text, from the beginning of Gaelic publishing. At present, it lists much but not all of the Gaelic material held in the National Library of Scotland plus some recent periodical articles.
Scribner Writers Series | | |
For high school through college level, this database includes essays on the lives and works of 1,600+ important authors from around the world. It provides in-depth coverage of noted novelists, playwrights, poets, short story writers, essayists, journalists, critics, philosophers and writers for children and young adults
and contains 40+ essays on special topics in literature such as gothic novels, nature poetry, etc.
SIRS Discoverer | | |
An off campus log-in handout for Discus resources is available on the display rack. Ask for help at the Circulation Desk. For students in grades 1-9, their teachers and parents, this database contains articles, pictures, reference information and Web sites on all subjects; age appropriate, full text articles and images selected from 1,600+ U.S. and international magazines, newspapers, government publications and reference sources; maps, pictures, photo essays, activities, biographies, country facts, current events; and links to age appropriate Web sites with reading level indicators.
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An off campus log-in handout for Discus resources is available on the display rack. Ask for help at the Circulation Desk. For advanced middle school students through adults, this database includes articles, images, reference information, Web sites and more on all subjects. Articles are selected from 2,500+ U.S. and international magazines, newspapers, government publications and reference sources. It contains news, current events and organized links to evaluated Web sites; special features on literature, terrorism and other topics; an interactive textbook on citizenship with teacher resources; and images, maps, country profiles, primary sources and Supreme Court decisions.
Wilson Web's Social Sciences Full Text | | 1983- |
To search only this database, click Social Science (SS) in the Subject Area menu of Wilson Web's OmniFile Full Text Mega.
Updated weekly, this database covers addiction studies, anthropology, area studies, community health & medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning & public administration, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, sociology, urban studies, and women's studies.
CSA's Social Services Abstracts | | 1980- |
Click the link above, then Alphabetical List, either Quick Search or Advanced Search, and finally select this title from the list. Updated monthly, this database provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related topics such as social welfare, social policy, and community development.
CSA's Sociological Abstracts | | 1963- |
Click the link above, then Alphabetical List, either Quick Search or Advanced Search, and finally select this title from the list. Updated quarterly, this database contains the latest worldwide findings in theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science.
It provides access to articles, serial publications, monographs, and dissertations.
The State, Columbia, SC newspaper | | |
Archive of full text articles from The State (Columbia, SC) newspaper. It contains locally written articles (news, editorials, sports, business, arts, features); letters to the editor and major newswire articles; most obituaries (death notice coverage begins March 1994); and Special Reports from NewsBank, which are 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.
Student
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For high school students, their teachers and parents, this database includes articles and reference information on topics most often researched in high schools. It contains over 3 million full text articles from 400+ periodical titles, newswire articles and articles from reference sources, as well as a selection of maps and historical images.
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TDNet - Electronic Journals Master
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The Libraries of the University of South Carolina campuses provide electronic access to many full text articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers. TDNet is a directory of these materials for each USC Library. TDNet search results link to electronic resources that contain the full text of the articles listed. Please be aware that in some cases database restrictions may prevent access from off campus locations, or a specific E-journal may be unavailable if the USC Libraries do not own a print subscription. Even if a journal title is listed in the master list, all years and issues of that title also are not necessarily available in electronic format. If you do not find the journal that you need in TDNet, please check USCAN, the USC library catalog, to determine if the journal is available in print at your campus library.
CSA's TOXLINE | | 1994- |
Click the link above, then Alphabetical List, either Quick Search or Advanced Search, and finally select this title from the list. Updated monthly, TOXLINE covers all areas of toxicology including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. The database contains citations and abstracts from journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, papers and reports. Produced by the US National Library of Medicine, information in the database is drawn from a number of discrete files including Toxicity Bibliography and Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology. This version of TOXLINE does not contain information from Chemical Abstracts Service, BIOSIS, or International Pharmaceutical Abstracts.
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US Census Bureau | | 2000 |
This website includes the census of population and housing, economic census, census of governments and other census bureau surveys, data, and publications.
US Patent and Trademark
Office | | 1790- |
This website is a searchable full-text database of all patents issued since 1976. It includes all bibliographic data, such as the inventor's name, the patent's title, and the assignee's name, as well as the abstract, a complete description of the invention, and the claims; full images of all patents issued since 1790 are available. The trademark database contains more than 2.9 million pending, registered, and dead federal trademarks.
US Patents Citation Database | | 1975- |
Updated monthly, this bibliographic database, which is available from the Community of Science, contains information about all awarded US patents since 1975.
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Web of Science (ISI Citation Databases) | |1982- |
The Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Science Citation Index make up the Web of Science system, which collectively indexes more than 8,000 peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover. It provides users with complete bibliographic data, searchable author abstracts when available, and cited references from the world's most influential journals.
Webopedia | |
This website offers access to an online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology.
What Do I Read Next? | | |
For librarians, teachers, and readers of all ages, this database is a readers' advisory resource for recommended fiction and nonfiction. It contains recommendations on 100,000+ book titles for children, young adults and adults; plot summaries, author information and award lists; and recommended books by series, subject, reading level, genre, setting, etc
Wilson Web Databases | |
This link searches OmniFile Full Text Mega and offers access to art, business, education, humanities, legal, library and information science, readers' guide (current events), and social sciences information.
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Zack's.com | |
Zack's Investment Research
provides access to several informative reports. Company Research offers an overview of Wall Street opinion. Portfolio is used to sign up for free "Profit from the Pros" stock recommendations and market insights. Updated daily, Earnings Surprises details the companies that reported earnings exceeding or falling short of a significant percentage of analysts' projected estimates while Stock Screening, a customized and predefined screening of stocks tool, picks stocks that meet given investment criteria.
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