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Art
& Architecture Complete
This database covers a wide
variety of pertinent subjects, including antiques, art and
art history, interior and landscape design, and much more.
It contains full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and more
than 220 books.
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Biography Reference Center
Offers a comprehensive collection of more
than 461,000 full-text biographies, including the complete
full-text run of Biography Today and Biography,
as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not
available in other databases. Users can also locate
biographies of interest by browsing more than 30 genre
categories, including actors, authors, composers, explorers,
figures relevant to U.S. & world history, inventors,
musicians, Presidents of the United States, current world
leaders and many others.
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NEW! Entrepreneurial
Studies Source
Offers
users full text for more than 125 key periodicals, 135
reference books, numerous case studies, thousands of company
profiles and over 600 videos with transcripts and related
articles from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series and
Vator.TV. In addition, it is one of the world's largest
social network sites for high-tech entrepreneurs.
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Environment Complete
Provides
deep coverage in applicable areas of
agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy
sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science,
geography, pollution & waste management, environmental
technology, environmental law, public policy, social
impacts, urban planning, and more.
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Hoover's
Hoover's offers the largest
business information database that includes proprietary
business information for over 65 million companies and 900
industry segments through the Internet, data feeds, wireless
devices, and co-branding agreements with other online
services and more.
Off Campus
Access - Coming Soon |
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Image Quest
Simplify and improve your search for images with Image
Quest. Now you can access more than two and
a half million rights-cleared
images from
over 50 of the best collections in the world. Dorling
Kindersley Images, Getty Images, the National Portrait
Gallery of London, the National Geographic Society, Oxford
Scientific, and other leading names have joined with
Britannica to provide the best and broadest collection of
proprietary educational imagery.
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Legal Information Reference
Center
Comprises of hundreds of full-text
publications and thousands of legal forms. The full-text
legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the
nation's oldest and most-respected provider of legal
information for consumers and small businesses.
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Points of View
Contains
a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more
than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from
both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news
transcripts, primary source documents and reference books.
Off Campus Access |
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Small Business Reference Center
This resource offers a wide variety of
information on small business and entrepreneurial subject
areas, common business types, a help and advice section, and
provides information on how to create business plans that
lead to successful funding.
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Small Engine Repair Reference Center
Includes over
440 full-text reference books with original photos and
illustrations that guide the user through every job.
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Academic Search
Premier
Magazines and journals on many subjects, includes
peer-reviewed and scholarly works. Thousands of articles
available in full-text.
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Accessible Archives (African American Newspapers)
This
enormous collection contains a wealth of information about
African American cultural life and history during the
1800s. With the addition of 10 to 12 million words of new
text each year downloaded monthly, this database will
ultimately contain the complete text of the major black
newspapers published in the United States during the 19th
century. Never before has such important original source
material – written by African-Americans for
African-Americans – been readily available for research and
fresh scholarly interpretation.
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African American
Poetry
Nearly 3,000 poems written by
African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. Coverage: Indexed from 1750 to 1900.
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American Poetry
Over 40,000 poems by more than
200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early
twentieth century. Coverage:
Indexed from 1600 to 1900.
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American Slavery: A
Composite Autobiography
A collection of
the life histories of former slaves in the United States
compiled through nearly 4,000 interviews with ex-slaves.
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Black Studies Center
A fully
cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including
scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper
articles, and much more. It combines several resources for
research and teaching in Black Studies:
Schomburg Studies
on the Black Experience,
International Index to
Black Periodicals (IIBP),
historical black newspapers, and the
Black Literature Index.
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Books 24x7
Books24x7 is the provider of
on-demand business, technical, and engineering content
containing thousands of digitized "best-in-class" books,
book summaries, research reports, and best practices.
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Business Source
Premier
Business
journals, peer-reviewed publications and magazines. Contains
thousands of full-text articles and Datamonitor company
profiles.
Off Campus Access |
CAMIO
Provides rights-cleared,
high-quality art images for class projects, art history and
studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures,
presentations, and research resources.
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Charlotte Observer via Newsbank
Local and
regional breaking news coverage of Charlotte, N.C. |
The
Chronicle of Higher Education
The No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college
and university faculty members and administrators.
Based in Washington, D.C., The Chronicle has more
than 70 full-time writers and editors, as well as 17 foreign
correspondents around the world. The Chronicle
is published every weekday and is the top destination for
news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The website
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 online CV
management, salary databases, and more.
Off Campus Access |
CINAHL w/Full Text
Covers nursing, biomedicine,
health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary
medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
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Communication and Mass Media Complete
Contains abstracts for over 390
journals and full text for 285 journals in the fields of
communication, mass media, public relations, and other
closely related fields.
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Consumer Health Complete
A comprehensive
resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is
designed to support patients' information needs and foster
an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC
provides content covering all areas of health and wellness
from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of
complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full
text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes,
drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's
health, men & women's health, etc.
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CQ Researcher Online
Provides original,
comprehensive, in-depth, non-biased coverage of political
and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health,
international affairs, education, the environment,
technology, and the U.S. economy.
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CQ Weekly
Complete source for expert
coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and
amendments, floor and committee activity, and back room
maneuvering.
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Encyclopedia of Animals
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.
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English Poetry
Essentially the complete English
poetic canon from 600 to 1900. Over 165,000 poems by more
than 1,250 poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.
Off Campus Access |
ERIC Documents Online
Educational Resources
Information Center (ERIC) is a nationwide information
network
sponsored by the Institute of Educations Sciences (IES) of
the U.S. Department of Education. This
database allows you to search for articles, technical
reports, and related documents in the field of education.
Provides
over 107,000 full-text non journal documents issued from
1993- 2004.
Our library microfiche collection holdings from 1994 through
2001 are located in the microfiche cabinets on the first
floor of the library.
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Faber Poetry Library
A collection of some of the most
influential poets of the twentieth century.
Off Campus Access |
Funk and Wagnalls New
World Encyclopedia
Updated annually, this database
includes over 25,000 full text records, covering an array of
subject areas.
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Gale Virtual Reference
Library
Provides respected authoritative
essays on varied topics from numerous subject areas, all in
E-Book reference title format.
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Health Source:
Consumer Edition
Provides consumer oriented
information on many health topics including the medical
sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports
medicine, and general health.
Off Campus Access |
Health Source:
Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides more than 400 scholarly
full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, and
provides abstracts and indexing for over 500 journals.
Off Campus Access |
HeritageQuest
Provides libraries with a
unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing
family history and American culture.
Off Campus Access |
Journal Finder
Search
Journal Finder to determine if JCSU provides print or
electronic access to a specific journal title. Contains
direct links to full-text articles when available.
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JSTOR
An archival database of older
scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences, and social
sciences. This is a full text database, and contains
complete backfiles of core journals starting with first
issues, many of which date back to the 1800s. Most titles
published within the last 2-5 years are not included.
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JSTOR Plant Science
An online environment that brings together
content, tools, and people interested in plant science. It
provides access to foundational content vital to plant
science – plant type specimens, taxonomic structures,
scientific literature, and related materials, making them
widely accessible to the plant science community as well as
to researchers in other fields and to the public.
Off Campus Access |
Learn-A-Test
Learn-A-Test is an interactive and comprehensive
database that features more than 300 online practice tests
that mirror official school and career exams. Database also
provides access to self-paced study tools for basic skills
improvement and job and career guidance.
Off Campus Access |
Lexis-Nexis Academic
A comprehensive, full text
database covering: News, Business, Legal, reference, and
Medical resources.
Off Campus Access |
Lexis-Nexis
Company Dossier
Provides
up-to-date information to conduct research on and compare
various companies, financial statements and reports, and the
latest news the business world.
*Company Dossier
is a
part of the Lexis-Nexis Academic. Once connected
to the interface, under the "Academic Search Forms" select
"Business". You will then be able to access all of the
business related modules within this section.
Off Campus Access |
Lexis-Nexis
Country Analysis
Provides
quick and easy access to up-to-date information on the
financial and market conditions on hundreds of countries and
industries.
*Country Analysis
is a
part of the Lexis-Nexis Academic. Once connected
to the interface, under the "Academic Search Forms" select
"Business". You will then be able to access all of the
business related modules within this section.
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Lexis-Nexis Statistical
A statistical
database containing over 30,000 tables produced by federal
agencies, states, and intergovernmental organizations.
Off Campus Access |
MasterFile Premier
Covers a wide variety of topics
from about 3,100 magazines and journals from 1984 to
present.
Off Campus Access |
MEDLINEplus
Developed by the National
Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health,
the site contains extensive, high quality information on
common diseases and conditions, health promotion and
wellness, prescription and non-prescription drugs, medical
dictionaries and more.
Off Campus Access |
Military & Government
Collection
Designed to offer current news
pertaining to all branches of the military, this database
offers a thorough collection of military titles, trade
publications, and news weeklies.
Off Campus Access |
Morningstar
Investment Research Center
Combines in one timely database
all the fund and stock information necessary for in-depth
research.
Off Campus Access |
National Library of
Medicine
Offers links to a number of free
biomedical literature resources, including PubMed, NCBI
Bookshelf, the Public Library of Science, BioMed Central,
and the Directory of Open Access Journals.
Off
Campus Access |
Newsbank
Research current and archived news content for information
on topics, events, issues, people, businesses, and more
through this in-depth resource of
6400 + sources.
This primary resource solution supports a wide range of
academic disciplines, including political science,
journalism, English, history, environmental studies,
sociology, economics, education, business, social sciences
and more…..
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NC Live
A North Carolina
statewide-shared electronic information network providing
access to a variety of multidisciplinary databases. These
databases contain thousands of journals, magazines,
newspapers, and eBooks covering a wide range of subject
areas. Many databases provide full text availability.
Off Campus Access |
NetLibrary
Easy access to the full text of
more than 22,000 reference, scholarly, and professional
full-text books online.
Off Campus Access |
Newspaper Source
Plus
Provides abstracts and indexing
1995 to present for The New York Times; Wall Street Journal
(Eastern and Western editions); Christian Science Monitor
(some full text); The USA Today. Selected full text coverage
for The Raleigh News & Observer. Includes some complete
articles from over 100 other U.S. newspapers.
Off Campus Access |
North American
Women's Letters and Diaries
Over 150,000 pages of published
letters and diaries plus 4,000 pages of previously
unpublished materials depicting the personal experiences of
hundreds of women.
Off Campus Access |
NoveList
A readers' advisory service that
is searchable by author, title, series name, and plot
(including character, topic, time period, and setting) to
retrieve descriptions, reviews, discussion guides, and
feature articles related to books of interest.
Off Campus Access |
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English
Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the
English language over the last millennium. It is an
unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation
of over half a million words, both present and past. As the
OED is a historical dictionary, its entry structure is very
different from that of a dictionary of current English, in
which only present-day senses are covered, and in which the
most common meanings or senses are described first.
Off Campus Access |
Primary Search (Children's
Magazines)
Includes many complete articles from 35 children's magazines
from 1990 to present.
Off Campus Access |
Project Muse
a unique
collaboration between libraries and publishers providing
100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access
to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social
sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. MUSE is also
the sole source of complete, full-text versions of titles
from many of the world's leading university presses and
scholarly societies.
Off Campus Access |
ProQuest Newspapers
Many full text articles from the
Wall Street Journal (1984 to present); and the Chicago
Defender (Daily, National and Big Weekend Edition from
1910-1975).
Off Campus Access |
ProQuest Psychology Journals
Provides bibliographic citations, abstracts and nearly 300
academic journals in psychology and related fields, all in
full text from 1992 forward.
Off Campus Access |
Regional Business News
Abstracts for 67 regional
business publications. Includes some full text for 52 of
those titles.
Off Campus Access |
Sanborn Maps North
Carolina
Provides digital access to
11,173 large-scale maps of 158 North Carolina towns and
cities.
Off Campus Access |
Searchasaurus
Colorful and fun graphical
search interface intended for elementary and middle school
students.
Off Campus Access |
Serials Directory
Provides up-to-date information
and pricing for popular magazines and other serials.
Off Campus Access |
Twentieth Century
African-American Poetry
A collection of poetry written
by the most important and influential African American poets
of the twentieth century.
Off Campus Access |
Twentieth Century American
Poetry
A database of modern and
contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth
century to the present.
Off Campus Access |
Twentieth-Century
English Poetry
Containing tens of thousands of
works by 288 poets, Twentieth-Century English Poetry
provides an overview of poetry written in the 20th century
by both established and emerging writers.
Off Campus Access |
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal (1984 to present)
Off Campus Access |
Wilson General Science
A full text
database covering a range of general science topics from
popular science literature through a core collection of
peer-reviewed professional journals.
Off Campus Access |
WorldCat
A union catalog of materials
held in libraries world-wide.
Off Campus Access |
