Alphabetical listing of Databases

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Help Sheets for Electronic Databases

A to Z Electronic Journals

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
A to Z lists all electronic journals cited in electronic databases subscribed to by Mack Library in addition to our print titles. Periodical titles may be searched alphabetically by title or by subject.

ABR Newsletter

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
Monthly electronic newsletter of the Associates for Biblical Research

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
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.

Academic OneFile*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily

AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History

Media: Internet site
This site provides links to online versions of various documents (journals, letters, charters, grants, speeches, etc.) related to the history of America. Documents range from 1400-2000. Search by time period.

America: History & Life

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
America: History and Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. The database also includes citations and links to book and media reviews. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.

America's News Magazines

Media: MediaOnline
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Coverage of U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and science and database.

American Chemical Society

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Full Text
The ACS web edition offers full text access to thirty-three journals including backfiles to 1996. Click on the Advanced Article Search tab or the A - Z journals.

American National Biography Online

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Full text
The American National Biography Online is the premiere biographical resource on over 18,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. It offers sophisticated search capabilities, lively and detailed articles, internal cross-references, up-to-date bibliographies, thousands of photographs and illustrations, and links to external web resources. Also included, over 900 articles from The Oxford Companion to United States History edited by Paul S. Boyer, which provide information on the landmark events in our nation's history and give context to the lives included in ANB Online.

Army Heritage Collection Online

Media: Internet site
This site, provided by the U.S. Army, presents the Army's history through photographs, documents (including field manuals), and descriptions of artifacts. The entire site can be searched by keyword. Individual collections can be browsed.

ATLAS: ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Library and Seminary
Content: Bibliographic Information; Abstract; Full Text
Compiled by the American Theological Library Association, this database covers Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. With coverage dating as far back as 1949, ATLA contains over one million bibliographic records from journals, essays, book reviews and more. Full text journals representing all major religious faiths, denominations and language groups are included.

Bartleby.com: Great Books Online

Media: Internet site
The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the webb, free of charge. Included are Columbia World of Quotations, American Heritage Dictionary, and Roget's II: The New Thesaurus.

BibleWorks

Media: CD-ROM
Access: Reference workstations
Content: Full text
This resource contains common Bible texts (modern and ancient) and Bible reference materials (lexicons, dictionaries, timelines) in an easily searchable format. Perform simple or complex searches in Greek, Hebrew, and English. Read lexical information connected directly to the Bible text.

Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive

Media: Online Database
Access: See librarian for user name and password.
Content: Full Text
Contains the editorial content of each issue of the bimonthly magazine Biblical Archaeology Review from 1975 to present, as well as five books published by the Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS): Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple, Aspects of Monotheism: How God Is One, Feminist Approaches to the Bible, The Rise of Ancient Israel and The Search for Jesus: Modern Scholarship Looks at the Gospels.

Biography Resource Center and The Complete Marquis Who's Who*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Bibliographic Information; Full Text
Gives biographical information on more than one million people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines. Combines 250,000 biographies from Gale Group sources with nearly one million biographies from The Complete Marquis Who's Who.

Biography.com

Media: Internet site
Search 25,000 personalities and 2,500 videos. According to Library Journal (4/15/01), this site "offers the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical information on the Web about historical, political, and entertainment figures."

BioMed Central

Media: Internet site
This site contains scholarly research journals in biology and medicine. Some periodicals require a subscription or payment; those journals labeled "open access" are accessible free of charge. Each title includes a description of its subject matter.

Book Review Index Online Plus*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
For librarians and readers of all ages
Comprehensive reference database for locating reviews of books, periodicals, books-on-tape and electronic media

Books & Authors

Media: Online database
Access:Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
In addition to the standard browsing and search capabilities to be expected in a reader's advisory database, Books & Authors goes several steps further with interactive and dynamic features that allow users to store reading and search lists, create their own reviews and ratings, and generate easy-to-understand diagrams of search term relationships. Books & Authors also has an appealing contemporary look with a toolkit that includes the ability to export content to popular Web 2.0 tools, such as del.icio.us, Digg, Newsvine and Furl.

Britannica Online

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Full Text
Includes all the content of the 32-volume Encyclopedia Britannica, plus the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia for quick answers to everyday questions and the Britannica Student Encyclopedia, which is ideal for students in grades 5-9. In addition, a world atlas covers the geography, economies, and cultures of more than 215 countries. Researchers will also benefit from the Britannica Internet Guide, which identifies 165,000 trustworthy Internet sites rated and reviewed by Britannica editors.

Buros Center for Testing

Media: Internet site
Content: Bibliographic Information; Abstract
Publishers of the Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print series, the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements has supported advancements in testing practice since 1938 by publishing candidly critical reviews to support the informed selection of commercially available tests. Providing audit and accreditation services, psychometric research, consultation, workshops, and contractual oversight, the Buros Institute for Assessment Consultation and Outreach helps organizations improve the quality of their proprietary test development and practice. The site includes the Test Reviews Online search engine.

Business and Company Resource Center with PROMT and Newsletters*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Predicast's PROMT and Newsletter ASAP databases are fully integrated in this database. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information

Business Source Premier (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
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.

Cambridge Histories Online

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Full Text
This unique historical reference compendium allows instant access to the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series. With access to the most up to date and authoritative scholarly content, Cambridge Histories Online is an invaluable resource, for undergraduates, graduates, lecturers and researchers alike.

All the available volumes are grouped into topics, making it quick and easy to search and browse through an array of historical subject areas. The extensive bibliographic referencing and other leading functionality, enhances usability and makes this resource ideal for any type of historical research.

Campus Research

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
This database combines breadth of news and business information, marketing, economics, and political science. Resources include newspapers, magazines, broadcast transcripts, wires and trade journals. Campus Research provides superior depth in law-related information.

Christian Classics and Historical Works

Media: CD-ROM
Access: Periodical Room workstations
Augustine - Confessions; Calvin - Institutes of the Christian Religion, Calvin's Commentaries; Josephus - Antiquities of the Jews, Concerning Hades, Flavius Josephus Against Apion, Life of Flavius Josephus, Wars of the Jews.

Christian Periodical Index (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
The Christian Periodical Index is a bibliographic citation index produced and owned by the Association of Christian Librarians. Its purpose is to provide access to articles and reviews written from an evangelical Christian perspective or of interest to the evangelical community. Beginning in 1956 with twenty titles, CPI currently indexes over 130 selected publications from the broad spectrum of knowledge including religion, science, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, history, sociology, nursing, and education. Coverage is representative of the major doctrinal positions within evangelical Christianity. The online version includes added current indexing as well as ongoing efforts to provide retrospective indexing for titles back to their initiation or the beginning of the index.

Church Fathers

Media: CD-ROM
Access: Periodical Room workstations
Includes Ante-Nicene, Nicene & Post-Nicene, Nicene & Post-Nicene 2nd series.

CIA World Factbook

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
This site presents up-to-date encyclopedic-type information (government, people, disputes, military, etc.) on many countries, gathered and produced by the CIA. Includes maps, appendices (such as on International Organizations and Groups), and flags, among other features.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 620 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, 305 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search, Health Source or Nursing & Allied Health Collection. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index – with no embargo. CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.

Citation Builder

Media: Internet site
This tool provides a quick way to help you correctly format citations in MLA, APA, and CBE/CSE formats. Just enter the basic information, and the Citation Builder will create a citation that you can copy and paste into your document.

Clinical Pharmacology (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Full Text
Clinical Pharmacology provides access 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 and investigational drugs.

Collect Britain: Putting History in Its Place

Media: Internet site
Find a wide range of manuscripts, photographs, and sound recordings relating to Britain's history at this site. Collections include (among many others) illustrated manuscripts, maps of Britain from 800 to 1600, and photographs of Victorian Britain. To see the complete list of collections, click on Collections in the menu at the top of the page. The site is provided by the British Library.

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Full Text
Incorporates Granger's Index to Poetry, Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry, Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry, and Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies. Indexes more than 500 poetry anthologies and enables the location of over 250,000 poems in full text and the citation of an additional 450,000 poems. Search poems by title, first line, last line, author, subject, and keyword. Search anthologies by editor, title, and category.

Columbia World of Quotations

Media: Internet site
Access: Campus-wide
The 65,000 essential quotations that constitute this authoritative collection represent the research of 154 experts. Entries from more than 5,000 authors and speakers are multiply classified into 6,500 subjects.

Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Bibliographic Information; Abstract; Full Text
Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies — CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Communication & Mass Media Complete provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media.

Computer Source (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for more than 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.

Country Studies

Media: Internet site
Brought to you by the Library of Congress. Because the original intent was to focus primarily on lesser known areas of the world or regions in which U.S. forces might be deployed, the series is not all-inclusive. At present, 101 countries and regions are covered.

CQ Researcher

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Full Text
CQ Researcher is often the first source that librarians recommend when researchers are seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc.

Custom Newspapers*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Bibliographic Information; Abstract; Full Text
Full-text articles from over 100 U.S. and international newspapers, including New York Times (latest 365 days); Christian Science Monitor; Post & Courier (Charleston, SC), Atlanta Journal-Constitution and 40+ other domestic papers.

Digest of Education Statistics

Media: Internet site
The statistical highlights of the report provide a quantitative description of the current American education scene. Clearly, from the large number of participants, the number of years that people spend in school, and the large sums expended by educational institutions, it is evident that education is a high priority for the American people. Assessment data indicate that there have been improvements in mathematics and science performance of 17-year-olds between 1990 and 1999. A high proportion of high school graduates is going on to college. Yet, wide variations in student proficiency from state to state and mediocre mathematics scores of American students in international assessments pose challenges.

Digital Library and Archives, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Media: Internet site
This site contains about 18 electronic journals. Most of the journals are related to science and technology; however, some social science/humanities journals are available such as ALAN (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents) and Women in Literacy and Life Assembly. You can search by journal or keyword.

Digitized Primary American History Sources

Media: Internet site
Use this site to find collections of documents (such as maps and charters) related to American history. Browse five major categories: General Sources, Topical Sources, Works of the Presidents, Photographs/Illustrations/Cartoons, and the U.S. in Conflict.

Digitized World History Sources

Media: Internet site
This page provides links to documents related to world history. You may browse by continent and then by collection.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Media: Internet site
Over 1400 scientific and scholarly journals (various subjects and languages) are available through this site. Almost 300 of the journals are searchable at the article level. You may browse by title, subject, or keyword (click on "search articles" in the column to the left).

Documenting the American South

Media: Internet site
This site provides access to text, images, and audio files related to Southern culture, history, and literature. Materials span from the colonial period through the 20th century. The materials come from the holdings of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Donovan Research Library's Digitized Monograph Collection

Media: Internet site
This collection is the beginning of a project to digitize more than 10,000 monographs (including diaries, after-action reports, and battle accounts) from World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Desert Storm, and Somalia. The paper collection of these documents is located in Ft. Benning, Georgia.

EBSCO

Media: Internet site
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Use this link to retrieve a complete list of the EBSCO databases to which our library subscribes. From this page, you may view a description of each database and select one or multiple databases to search. Simply check the boxes next to the database(s) you wish to search and click on Continue. Our library subscribes to:

Academic Search Premier
ATLA Religion Database
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
Business Source Premier
Christian Periodical Index
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Clinical Pharmacology
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Computer Source
EBSCO Animals
Education Research Complete
ERIC
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
GreenFile
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Humanities International Complete
MagillOnHistory
MagillOnLiterature Plus
MAS Ultra – School Edition
MEDLINE
Military & Government Collection
MLA Directory of Periodicals
MLA International Bibliography
Pre-CINAHL
Primary Search
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Regional Business News
SocINDEX
World History Collection

EBSCO Animals

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstract; Full Text
Provides 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.

Educator's Reference Center*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstract; Full Text
For professional educators and undergraduate and graduate students in the field of education
Database of education resources covering multiple levels from preschool to college

Education Research Complete

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals, and includes full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.

EJS E-Journals

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Full Text
Find article-level access for about 10,000 E-Journals available through EBSCO's Electronic Journal Service (EJS). For users with a valid subscription, EBSCO's SmartLinks Technology provides links directly to publishers' content.

Electronic Journals Library

Media: Internet site
Find many journals on a broad range of topics, from energy to musicology, through this site. A green circle next to a journal title indicates that the full text of the journal articles is freely available online.

Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library

Media: Internet site
10,000 publicly accessible texts and 164,000 publicly available images, including history, literature, philosophy, religion, history of science, in languages including Latin, Apache, Japanese, and Chinese. Excerpt from terms of use: "While many of these items are made publicly-accessible, they are not all public domain—the vast majority of the images, and a number of the texts, including all of those from the University of Virginia Special Collections Department, are copyrighted to the University of Virginia Library, for example, and a number of other texts are still copyrighted to their original print publishers and made available here with permission."

Encyclopedia Americana*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password
Content: Bibliographic Information; Abstract; Full Text
Encyclopedia Americana includes 45,000 A-Z articles with hotlinked cross-references; 6,500 contributors; 3,500 bibliographies; over a thousand tables and fact boxes; 1,250 pieces of line art; printable, full-color maps and flags of all nations; U.S. states, and Canadian provinces.

Encyclopedia of ED Stats

Media: Internet site
The Encyclopedia of ED Stats brings together data from several NCES sources including: The Condition of Education, The Digest of Education Statistics, and Projections of Education Statistics. Search a book's table of contents, by subject area, and through full text and table title word searches.

ERIC

Media: Internet site
Content: Bibliographic Information; Abstracts; Some Full Text
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is a collection of references to information (dissertations, journal articles, pamphlets, multimedia, etc.) dealing with education. Some of this information is available in full text through the internet site. The site is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC has more than 1.1 million references to information going back to 1966.

ERIC (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Internet workstations
Content: Information; Abstract; Full Text
The Educational Resources Information Center produces this database, comprised of citations and abstracts from two sources. Resources in Education (RIE) covers report literature from meetings, symposia, and conferences; Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) includes journal articles from more than 750 education and related publications.

Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac)*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstract; Full Text
This index of periodical literature covers astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications and general sciences.

FindArticles

Media: Internet site
Containing over 5.5 million articles from over 900 journals, this site covers a multitude of subjects, including sports, medicine, and literature. Each title includes a brief description of its subject matter and a link to the title's web page and subscription information. The site contains recent articles (usually no further back than 1998).

FindLaw Library

Media: Internet site
The FindLaw Library contains over 8,000 documents published by bar associations, legal publishers, prominent law firms, and the federal government. Publications include articles, newsletters, book excerpts, and complete books on a variety of legal topics. The full-text searchable documents are organized by publisher and into over 200 topics.

FirstGov

Media: Internet site
FirstGov is the only official U.S. Government portal to 30 million pages of government information, services, and online transactions. The site offers a powerful search engine that searches every word of every U.S. government document, a topical index, links to state and local government, and options to contact your government.

Free Medical Journals Database

Media: Internet site
Access over 1,300 medical journals in several languages (primarily English) through this site. You may search by specialty (such as oncology) or journal title.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Full Text
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Gale Virtual Reference Library*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstract; Full Text
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).

Gartner.com

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (requires BJU network login)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company. They deliver the technology-related insight necessary for clients to make the right decisions, every day. Gartner offers the combined brainpower of 1,200 research analysts and consultants who advise executives in 75 countries every day. They publish tens of thousands of pages of original research annually.

General Business File ASAP*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstract; Full Text
Delivers every type of information needed for comprehensive business research: full-text journals, investment reports, directory listings, newswire releases, and indexing of three national newspapers Covers practical business issues as well as theory in every business-related area.

General Reference Center Magazine Index (InfoTrac)*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Bibliographic Information; Abstract; Full Text
This general periodicals index covers current events, popular culture, arts and sciences, and sports.

GreenFile

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstract; Full Text
GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.

The Greenville News*

Media: Online Database
Access: Campus wide and Internet (if using Internet, see librarian for password)
Access to the The Greenville News (1999-current) and The State – from Columbia, SC (1987-current). Complete full-text content of these newspapers, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.

Grolier Online*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Bibliographic Information; Full Text
Includes Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and New Book of Knowledge.

Grove Dictionary of Art - see Oxford Art Online


Grove Music Online - see Oxford Music Online


Guide to Social Science and Religion in Periodical Literature

Media: Online Database
Content: Bibliographic Information
Provides electronic accessing to the periodical index from 1993 forward. Indexes articles in the arts, politics, science, sociology, sports, literature, religion, entertainment, humanities, and psychology. Search by keyword or subject heading.

Hands on Health-SC

Media: Internet Site
Hands on Health-SC enables the people of South Carolina to learn about health and wellness. This database contains information about diabetes, heart disease, cancer, asthma, stroke, and suicide, among other topics. The partnership of the MUSC Library and the Library of the USC School of Medicine brings expertise in health information management and access. The South Carolina State Library is another major partner. Their DISCUS statewide network touches public libraries, K-12 schools, and higher education institutions. This is an important key to making the resources of Hands on Health-SC accessible. The South Carolina Hospital Association, the fourth major partner, identifies the information needs of the patient population in the state.

Health and Wellness Resource Center*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Full Text
Use this database to research topics in health and medicine, medications, and wellness. Includes encyclopedias, directories, medical dictionary, magazines, journals, and newspapers.

Health Reference Center Academic*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Information; Full Text
Use this database to find articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, occupational health and safety, HMOs, Prescription drugs, etc. This database draws from professional and scholarly journals.

Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
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.

High Wire Press

Media: Internet site
More than 800,000 full-text articles from journals covering science and medical subjects can be found through this site. See access information in the column to the right of the title. Searchable by citation, journal, and author; advanced search available.

History of the Christian Church

Media: CD-ROM
Access: Periodical Room workstations
This classic by Philip Schaff covers the first period under the Apostles through the Reformation.

History Resource Center: World*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
Collection of resources providing coverage of events, themes and trends in world history from antiquity to the present, with a multicultural and global view

History Resource Center: US*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series.

Humanities International Complete

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
Humanities International Complete is a comprehensive database of humanities content, providing full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from American Humanities Index and Humanities International Index (over 1.6 million records) plus unique full text content.

I.O.P Institute of Physics

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Full text
The site Includes subscriptions to full text articles in electronic format for thirty-nine journals published by the Institute of Physics. Abstracts of other I.O.P. journals are included. 

IPA Source

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Full text
Online since 2003, IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Now with over 3500 texts including 500 opera-aria texts!

Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections

Media: Internet site
Over 20,000 links to databases, journals, textbooks, conference proceedings, and many other types of resources. Infomine offers a variety of searching and browsing features, including advanced searching capabilities. It is indexed by Library of Congress subject headings, keywords, and authors.

InfoTrac databases * -find description under database name

InfoTrac Power Search

Media:Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Link to the full menu of all Thomson Gale databases provided by DISCUS.  Cross-search feature allows simultaneous searching of one, several or all available databases.

International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry, and Technology

Media: Internet site
Offers data on physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and other key properties. The full text is available in PDF (full text searchable), including the original index. All entries in the index are hyperlinked to their page numbers.

Internet Library of Early Journals

Media: Internet site
This site provides the full text of key 18th and 19th century British journals. The collection primarily contains 20 consecutive years of Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophic Transactions of the Royal Society, Notes and Queries, The Builder, and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. You can browse all of the above journals, but not all journals are searchable by keyword.

Internet Public Library Newspapers

Media: Internet site
This site contains links to the websites of newspapers from around the world. Use the site to see the latest editions of these newspapers. The site has brief information about most of the newspapers listed. You can search by country and state/province.

Internet Public Library Serials

Media: Internet site
Find journals on various subjects. Search by subject area or keyword. Not each subject area listed will have journals.

JSTOR Music Collection

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Full Text
The Music Collection contains the complete back runs of thirty-two titles dedicated to scholarly research and theory in the field of music. This international collection includes journals published in the Netherlands, Croatia, Hungary, Germany, and France.

Junior Edition (InfoTrac)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Full Text
Helps junior high students locate information on current events, arts, science, popular culture, health, etc.

Kid's InfoBits (grades 1-6) (InfoTrac)*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Bibliographic Information; Full Text
Designed for elementary students to locate information on current events, arts, science, popular culture, health, etc.

Knovel Critical Tables

Media: Internet Site

This important, interactive Knovel reference contains tables of physical, solvent, and thermodynamic properties. The physical property tables alone include over 21,000 inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances. The solvent property tables have data for 385 common solvents, and the thermodynamic property tables have data for over 15,000 compounds. Additionally, several tables make use of the interactive Equation Plotter to plot thermodynamic properties as a function of temperature.

LegalTrac (Infotrac)*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Bibliographic Information; Abstract; Full Text
Use this database to find articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and legal newspapers. Included are articles on Federal and StateCases, Laws, and Regulations, Legal Practice, and Taxation. Also included are: British Commonwealth, European Union and International Law.

LiebertOnline

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
Liebert Online delivers electronic access to peer-reviewed journals published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Our critical mass of content exceeds 28,000 papers from more than fifty-five authoritative journals, all full-text searchable and linked to external bibliographic databases.

Librarians' Index to the Internet Magazines

Media: Internet site
Find journals on various disciplines. Not all of them are freely available. Search by subject.

LitFinder*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
Collection of full-text literature, citations and excerpts, and sources that provide context to authors and their works

Literature Resources from Gale *

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
For all age groups
Environment that enables cross-searching of the literature-related databases provided by DISCUS

Literature Resource Center*

Media: Internet site
Literature Resource Center (LRC) provides online access to Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twayne's Authors Series, Scribner Writers Series and much, much, more.

Magill's Medical Guide

Media: Online database
Access:Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Full Text
The database is a digital version of the five volume Magill's Medical Guide containing 1,017 articles and essays.

MagillOnHistory (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
MagillOnHistory, produced by Salem Press, combines content from their critically acclaimed history reference sets in a fully integrated single database. This database is comprised of approximately 10,000 records, more than 1,800 historical images, charts, graphs and maps, and an index of more than 13,000 names. In addition, this database includes more than 4,000 biographical essays which examine the lives of more than 3,800 historical figures.

MagillOnLiterature Plus (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Full-text
MagillOnLiterature Plus, produced by Salem Press, is the premier literary database, combining MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors. This database includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors.

MagPortal

Media: Internet site
This site contains journal articles on a variety of subjects. It is updated daily and, therefore, good for current events. You can search by category or keyword. Each article includes a brief summary.

Making of American Journals: University of Michigan and Cornell University

Media: Internet site
These sites cover primary sources (journals) in American history from the 19th century. Major subjects include: education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. You can search by keyword or by browsing journal titles.

Marshall Cavendish Digital

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Full Text
Marshall Cavendish Digital is an electronic resource for six print titles in the Marshall Cavendish Reference collection. The titles include ANIMAL AND PLANT ANATOMY, DRUGS AND SOCIETY, EARTH AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES, FAMILY HEALTH, HOW IT WORKS, TECHNOLOGY AND APPLIED SCIENCES.

Masterplots (Salem Press)

Media: CD-ROM
21 sets of literary reference books (12,000 entries) from Salem's Masterplots line. All entries include ready-reference information and most include a bibliography. Information is divided into seven convenient indexes: Title, Author, Text, Locale, Genre, Subject, and Principal Characters.

MAS Ultra – School Edition (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides the full text of 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.

MEDLINE (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts
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.

MEDLINE/PubMed

Media: Internet Site
MEDLINE/PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,000 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The file contains over 11 million citations dating back to the mid-1960's. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts.

Merck Manuals

Media: Internet Site
Search for medical information in Merck's five manuals: The Merck Manual of Medical Information—Home Edition, The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, The Merck Manual of Geriatrics, The Merck Veterinary Manual, and The Merck Index.

Military & Government Collection (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
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.

MLA Directory of Periodicals (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Bibliographic Information; Abstract; Full Text
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.

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Bibliographic Information; Abstract; Full Text
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 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.

Music Index Online

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Music Index Online is a subject-author guide to music periodical literature. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music are thoroughly categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal subject list which includes both subject and geographic headings. Covering all styles and genres of music, The Music Index Online duly cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.

National Juvenile Court Data Archive

Media: Internet site
The National Juvenile Court Data Archive (Archive) houses the automated records of cases handled by courts with juvenile jurisdiction. The Archive was established by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, within the U.S. Department of Justice, to promote access to automated juvenile court data sets for juvenile justice research and policymaking efforts. This web site was developed to inform researchers about the available data sets and the procedures for use and access.

Nature

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Full Text
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. It provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public.  Includes 1997 to the current issue.

NewsBank NewsFile (NewsBank Inc.) (through 1999)

Media: CD-ROM
Access: Periodical Room workstations
Full-text news resource containing comprehensive coverage of current issues and events from over 500 U.S. and Canadian newspapers, news sources, and domestic and international newswires.

New Book of Knowledge*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Bibliographic Information; Abstract; Full Text
For grades 3 and up.
More than 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
Links to student activities, educational games and teacher resources

New Millennium World Atlas Deluxe (Rand McNally)

Media: CD-ROM
Access: Reference workstations
Lets you explore, travel, and research. Travel from high above Earth to street level for some of the world's largest cities, and all points in between. New Millennium is the perfect resource for students, families, and anyone interested in understanding the world.

New York Times Archive 1851-Present

Media: Internet site
Over 15 million articles are available to search for free. Search the full text, author, or headline. Specify a date range or include advertisements and other listings. Click the appropriate icon to either view a sample portion of the article for free or purchase the article for downloading in pdf format.

Nursing Collection II: Lippincott Premier Nursing Journals (Ovid)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
For premier nursing content paired with outstanding search tools, extraordinary linking, and 100% searchable full text - the answer is Ovid. The most up-to-date, respected nursing titles for your clinical decision and research support; Direct journal links from databases such as CINAHL®, MEDLINE® and British Nursing Index; Unlimited access to all tables of contents and bibliographic citations for every journal, plus free tables of contents for more than 1000 biomedical e-journals.

Nursing Resource Center*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
For nursing students at vocational/technical high schools, colleges and universities
Collection of core content from recognized reference, textbook and journal publications in the nursing field

OneFile (InfoTrac)*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Bibliographic Information; Full Text
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

Online Bible (Answers in Genesis)

Media: CD-ROM
Access: Reference workstations
Contains hundreds of megabytes of Biblical material. Like other Bible study programs, it includes many classic works such as Strong's numbers and definitions, Thompson chain topics, Bible maps and charts, Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Easton's Bible Dictionary, and over a dozen English translations of the Bible and even an interlinear Greek-English New Testament.

Online Books Page, The

Media: Internet site
The full text of more than 20,000 significant works in English is freely-available online at this site. Find everything from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre to Arthur W. Pink's Gleanings from Paul. The site also contains full and partial archives of certain serials, such as the Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Online Books Serials Page

Media: Internet site
About 90 serials (magazines, journals, newspapers) from the mid-1700s to the present are accessible through this site. You may search by journal title.

Online Newspapers

Media: Internet site
Using this site, find links to the websites of thousands of newspapers throughout the world; at each site you will find the current edition. You can search by country and state/province.

Opinion Pages

Media: Internet site
The Opinion Pages site provides access to the most current editorials, opinions, commentaries and columnists from English newspapers and magazines on the World Wide Web. Editorial, Opinion and Comment pages from online English newspapers around the world, plus opinions from other thought-provoking Web sites are included. This specialized database is indexed twice a day.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center*

Media: Online database
Access:Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
For middle school students through adults
Database of contemporary social issues with content structured to promote critical-thinking skills and information literacy

Oxford Art Online

Media: Online Database
Access: Campus Wide
Content: Full Text
Oxford Art Online is the innovative new gateway into art research and the access point for Oxford art reference subscriptions and publications. Included in Oxford Art Online are Grove Art Online, Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Full Text
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography available in a 60 volume print edition and online at http://www.oxforddnb.com. Over 100 years since the completion of the first edition, the publication of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography celebrates the rich history of the British Isles from the earliest time to the end of the year 2000. With 50,000 biographies, 10,000 illustrations, and representing the work of over 10,000 specialists worldwide, the Oxford DNB is the largest reference project ever undertaken in the humanities and will surely be one of the greatest reference works to be published in this century.

Oxford English Dictionary

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Full Text
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the volution of the English language over the last millenium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half an million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

Oxford Music Online

Media: Online Database
Access: Campus Wide
Content: Full Text
Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2e, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz 2e. With no rival in either print or online, Grove Music Online has nearly 50,000 articles, sophisticated search and browse capabilities, audio musical examples, and extensive links to musical sites on the Internet. This is truly the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music.

Peterson's Education Portal

Media: Internet site
Since 1966, Peterson's has helped to connect individuals, educational institutions, and corporations through its critically acclaimed books, Web sites, online products, and admissions services. Peterson's reaches an estimated 105 million consumers annually with information about colleges and universities, career schools, graduate programs, distance learning, executive training, private secondary schools, summer opportunities, study abroad, financial aid, test preparation, and career exploration.

Primary Search (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstract; Full Text
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.

Project Gutenberg

Media: Internet site
Content: Bibliographic Information; Abstract; Full Text
This site houses a collection of more than 13,000 electronic books and journals. The full text of all works is available. Here you will find a broad range of materials from Cicero's Academica (in English and Latin) to Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities.

Proquest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstract; Full Text
The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database (PQDT) is recognized worldwide because of its comprehensive coverage, high-quality information, and rigorous editorial control. The database is the definitive guide to more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses.

Proquest Nursing & Allied Health Source

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Abstract; Full Text
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.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstract; Full Text
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.

RefDesk.com: Newspapers – USA and Worldwide

Media: Internet site
Find the current edition of USA and world newspapers through the links at this site. You can search by country and state/province.

Regional Business News (EBSCO)

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Full Text
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Salem History

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
Salem History is the online version of print reference works in history. The titles include Milestone Documents, The Decades Series, Great Lives From History, Great Events From History. The set Milestone Documents includes full-text primary source documents with expert analysis and commentary. The Decades Series covers events, movements, people, trends in popular culture, literature, science, technology and in politics.

ScienceDirect

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
Mack Library subscribes to the ScienceDirect College Edition Journal Collection in the Health and Life Sciences. ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. There are over 2.75 million articles from 1994 to the present.

 

Science Online

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
The world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary. Includes ScienceNOW and Science 1997-current issue, except Science Express PDF articles.

Science Resource Center*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
For high school, college-level and adult researchers
Comprehensive curriculum-oriented database of reference and periodical content covering Life Science, Physical Science, Earth and Space Science

ScienceWeek

Media: Internet site
Offers a searchable open access archive of articles (excluding the current year), free thematic texts, short summaries and explicating texts, reports, position listings, and book announcements.

Science.gov

Media: Internet site
A portal for science information from government agencies. Includes a subject directory to key science web sites and a database search engine.

Scientific American Archive

Media: Online Database
Access: Campus-wide
Content: Full text
For over 150 years, Scientific American has been the place to turn for understandable, authoritative reporting on the spectacular developments that have taken place in every field of science. Here members of libraries and other institutions can access the complete editorial pages of the magazine published since January 1993 in high-quality PDF files.

Scribner Writers Series*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for username and password)
Content: Full Text
View a biography of an author's life and works; design your own search, using words or phrases, or customize a search by genre, gender, ethnicity/nationality, time period, and language; view topics with a highly selective, curriculum-related list of writers to use as research starting points. Scribner Writers Series

Sermon File

Media: CD-ROM
Access: Reference workstations
Tool for locating sermons in the Library on a specific passage.

SIRS Discoverer*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus wide and Internet (if using Internet see Librarian for username/password)
Content: Full Text
Informative reference tool for the young researcher. Designed to develop research, reading, writing, language and computer skills.

SIRS Government Reporter*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus wide and Internet (if using Internet see Librarian for username/password)
Content: Full Text
Information issued by the U.S. government on domestic and international affairs, scientific research, business developments, government procedures and military issues. Contains updated information on members of the U.S. Congress, Supreme Court justices and federal agencies. Government Reporter also provides hundreds of significant historic documents and Supreme Court decisions.

SIRS Renaissance*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus wide and Internet (if using Internet see Librarian for username/password)
Content: Bibliographic Information; Full Text
Provides current, dynamic information on cultures, architecture, philosophy, religion and visual arts.

SIRS Researcher*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus wide and Internet (if using Internet see Librarian for username/password)
Content: Bibliographic Information; Full Text
Thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political and global issues from more than 1,200 domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals and U.S. government publications from 1988 to present.

SIRS WebSelect*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus wide and Internet (if using Internet see Librarian for username/password)
A unique database of Internet resources, providing access to quality web sites on almost any subject. Utilizing time-tested techniques, SIRS editors evaluate sites originating from around the globe for credibility and relevance to the needs of researchers. SIRS NetSelect is continually updated to include new sites and dynamically changing data. Summaries are included, providing a concise overview of site content and authority. Users can locate sites using keyword search or topic browse. Topics are assigned based on site content and mission.

Small Business Resource Center*

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see Librarian for username/password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
For adult researchers
Resources for prospective and current entrepreneurs and business students

Smithsonian Physical Tables

Media: Internet site
Originally published by Smithsonian Institution Press, this classic reference source includes 901 tables of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense. All entries in the index are hyperlinked to their page numbers.

SocINDEX

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,600,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 253 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.

South Carolina Statistical Abstract

Media: Internet site
Use this site to find statistical information on South Carolina. Data covers areas such as population, business, tourism, government finance, transportation, health, education, criminal justice, climate and geography, agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, and employment (among others).

Spurgeon Library (AGES Software)

Media: CD-ROM
Access: Reference Workstation
Includes the entire 63 volumes of the Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit and over 70 of Spurgeon's books, writings, and other publications. Enjoy and learn from sermons based on texts throughout the Bible.

State newspapers* (Columbia and Greenville, SC)*

Media: Online Database
Access: Campus wide and Internet (if using Internet, see librarian for password)
Access to the The Greenville News (1999-current) and The State – from Columbia, SC (1987-current). Complete full-text content of these newspapers, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.

Statistical Abstract of the US

Media: Internet site
A US government publication, the Statistical Abstract of the US is the premier source for statistical information on every aspect of life in the United States, including population, crime, transportation, industry, business, media, and economics. The online version of the most current Statistical Abstract provides Adobe Acrobat versions of all the tables included in the print edition. Some back years' statistics are available. The current edition includes an interactive index.

Theological Journal Library

Media: CD-ROM
Access: Periodical Room workstations
Bibliotheca Sacra 1955-1997, Grace Theological Journal 1960-1991, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 1978-1997, Westminster Theological Journal 1980-1997.
Location: Periodical Room workstations

Today In Literature

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide; Internet (See librarian for user name and password)
Content: Today in Literature is a daily calendar of engaging stories about literary history. Our articles and our daily newsletter featuring quotations, anniversaries, literary news and more.

Treasures in Full

Media: Internet Site
This site provides digital editions of Shakespeare's Quarto, Caxton's Chaucer, the Gutenberg Bible, and Renaissance Festival Books (books about European festivals and ceremonies from 1475-1700). Provided by the British Library.

TREN (Theological Research Exchange Network)

Media: Internet Site
A library of over 7,800 theological thesis/dissertation titles representing research from as many as 70 different institutions.

Turning the Pages

Media: Internet Site
Turn the pages of some of the British Library's treasures, including Leonardo's notebook, the Lindisfarne Gospels, and the Golden Haggadah (a 14th century Hebrew manuscript).

Twayne's English Authors (G.K. Hall/Macmillan)

Media: CD-ROM
Access: Reference workstations
Encompasses about 200 titles from the Twayne's Authors Series with scholarly criticism, timelines of key events, and bibliographies of primary and secondary works. The database can be searched by author name, genre, sex, key words, or time period.

Twayne's United States Authors (G.K. Hall/Macmillan)

Media: CD-ROM
Access: Reference workstations
Contains approximately 200 titles in their entirety from the acclaimed Twayne's United States Authors Series. The series offers criticism by scholars on hundreds of years of literature. This disc makes it possible to research and compare authors from a variety of genres and generations.

World History Collection

Media: Online database
Access: Campus-wide and Internet (see librarian for user name and password)
Content: Abstracts; Full Text
World History Collection offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964.

 

Pay-per-Search Databases

In addition to the databases listed above, STN (Scientific and Technical Information Network), the DIALOG databases, and the OCLC database are available for mediated searches. Please contact Mr. Joe Allen to set up an appointment. The librarian will search the database with patron input. There are charges for search time and citations downloaded and printed.

* Links marked with an asterisk are provided to South Carolina's public libraries, schools, and colleges by DISCUS — South Carolina's Virtual Library. DISCUS funding is provided by the South Carolina General Assembly, with supplemental funding from the federal Library Services and Technology Act. DISCUS is administered by the South Carolina State Library.

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