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Academic Onefile
A peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary full-text periodical database.
Coverage includes the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and more.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.

Academic Search Premier
A peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary full-text periodical database.
Coverage includes biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, and more.
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America's News Magazines
Coverage of U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and science and technology from familiar magazines.
Includes magazines covering the following areas:
Business | Entertainment | Lifestyle | News | Science & Technology | Sports
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America's Newspapers
Provides full-text articles from electronic editions of local and regional newspapers from around the country.
Includes direct links to the following local papers:
The Herald, Rock Hill, SC | Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, NC | State Newspaper, Columbia, SC.| Other Local Papers
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Auto Repair Reference Center
Contains information from Chilton® Information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945.
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Britannica Online
Provides reference information in a variety of formats including text. photographs, illustrations, sound files, and video clips. Also includes research tools for world statistical data, timelines, archives, quotations, and year in review.
Includes material from the following reference sources:
Encyclopedia Britannica A-Z | Britannica Concise Encyclopedia | Multimedia | Selected Websites | Videos | Journals and Magazines | Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus | Notable Quotations | Gateway to the Classics.
An Encyclopedia Britannica Product.

Biography Resource Center
A biographical reference database covering noteworthy individuals, past & present in the fields of literature, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events and the arts.
Includes material from the following sources:
Contemporary Authors®; Contemporary Black Biography; Contemporary Musicians; Contemporary Theatre, Film & Television; Dictionary of American Biography; Encyclopedia of World Biography; Notable Black American Women; Notable Scientists; Scribner’s Encyclopedia of American Lives; and Who’s Who Among African Americans and Marquis Who’s Who.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.

Books & Authors
Books & Authors offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. The ideal convergence of science and serendipity, this online resource leverages the Internet's unique capacity to create, build, communicate and sustain communities of readers.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.

Business & Company Resource Center
Includes global business information including company profiles, products & brand information, industry rankings, company performance ratings, investment reports, industry statistics, investment ratings, financial overviews, financial rations, company histories, chronologies, and industry newsletters & analysis.
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Business Source Premier
Contains full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
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Career & Technical Education
Contains information in a wide variety of career options from magazines, journals, and trade publications. This product includes company profiles, tracks trends & current innovations.
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Charlotte Observer - Local Newspaper from Charlotte, NC
Part of the America's Newspapers collection providing full-text articles from electronic editions of local and regional newspapers from around the country.
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CINAHL [Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature]
Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and allied health disciplines. Offers access to health care books, journals, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals, book chapters, legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
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Computer Source
Provides full-text and abstracts on current trends in high technology covering topics including computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.
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CQ Electronic Library (Congressional Quarterly)
A source for in-depth, analytical reporting on current & controversial political issues of the day including the historical background. Use for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs.
A CQ Press Product.

Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus
Full-text collection of journal articles providing an overview of national topics. Most of these eBooks are also available in the library collections.
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Custom Newspapers
Over 100 domestic and international newspapers including The Charleston Post & Courier, & The N.Y. Times
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EBSCO Animals
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals with full text, and image links. Consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
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ERIC [Educational Resource Information Center]
An index for the field of educational related literature. Citations are provided from journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books.
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Expanded Academic ASAP
A multi-disciplinary full-text periodical database. Coverage includes the social sciences, humanities, science & technology, national news sources, and general interest.
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Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Provides detailed profiles of more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries, invaluable advice on career skills, more than 55,000 resource entries, and much more!
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First Research
View first-class industry intelligence to help you understand the latest trends, challenges, opportunities and operations of more than 700 industry segments plus State profiles. Each industry profile provides best-in-class industry information including: industry overviews; competitive landscape; products, operations, and technology; finance and regulation; regional and international issues; human resources; labor statistics and more. Use First Research for Research Projects, Thesis Papers, Career Planning, Conducting Surveys, Interview Preparation, Fundraising, And More!
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Electronic book versions of reference books in a variety of subject areas including the arts, business, the environment, history, literature and more.
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General Business File ASAP
Information covering practical business issues in a variety business related areas including, but not limited to, industry management, economics, investment & company information.
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General Reference Center
Information from general interest magazines.
Periodical titles include the following:
The Christian Science Monitor; Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service articles; from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post (indexing only), & Children’s magazines.
Reference books including the following titles:
American Reader: Words that Moved a Nation; Asimov’s Chronology of Science and Discovery; Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature; Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia of Literature; Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia; Constitution of the United States; Democracy Reader; Encyclopedia of American Facts & Dates; English Literature from 1785; English Literature to 1785; Great Thinkers of the Western World; Harper Collins Encyclopedia of Military Biography; Masterpieces of World Literature; Reader’s Companion to American History; Merriam-Webster’s® Biographical Dictionary; Merriam-Webster’s® Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition; World Almanac and Book of Facts.
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Health & Wellness Resource Center
Health-related articles from medical & allied health journals, general interest magazines, consumer health newsletters, and, reliable health web sites.
Reference titles include the following:
The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, The Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood & Adolescence, The Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, and The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, Medical and Health Information Directory, PDR Family Guide to Over-the-Counter Drugs, and PDR Family Guide to Prescription Drugs
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Health Reference Center Academic
Health-related articles from medical & allied health journals, general interest magazines, reference books, consumer health information pamphlets & newsletters, and topical overviews.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals and is updated on a daily basis.
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The Herald - Local Newspaper from Rock Hill, SC
Part of the America's Newspapers collection providing full-text articles from electronic editions of local and regional newspapers from around the country.
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Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851-2001)
Contains full page and article images with searchable full-text coverage back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue
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History Resource Center: U.S.
Includes primary source documents, reference works, full-test periodicals, scholarly analysis, and links to historical web sites. You will find timelines, annotated chronology with U.S. & world context, multimedia files of maps & images, abstracts, and overviews on countries, eras, and topics.
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History Resource Center: World
History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive online collection of full-text periodicals, reference works and primary source documents covering world history topics from pre-antiquity up to the present. The database also features a significant amount of newly available reference content – supported by additional primary source materials – and periodic content loads. This virtual library provides the resources needed – credible multicultural, global and research-based content – to study world history within a flexible and convenient electronic search tool.
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Hoovers Academic
Coverage of 17 million US and Canadian companies with in-depth content on 44,000 proprietary leading public and private companies. Hoover’s content covers the full scope of company, industry, and decision-maker information, with data that’s in-depth, accurate and insightful. Comprehensive company overviews, history, contacts, biographies, etc. plus extensive financial data. Ability to download individual company reports. Use to gain in-depth knowledge on a company and its financials for Job Interviews, Research Projects and More!
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InfoTracOneFile
A multi-disciplinary full-text periodical database. Access to newswires, newspapers, and periodicals. Coverage includes the agriculture, anthropology, arts, business & industry, communications, economics, engineering, health care, history, law, literature, political science, psychology, religion, science, technology, & and more.
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Junior Edition
magazines, newspapers & reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports & more
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Kids Infobits
magazines, newspapers & reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports & more
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LearningExpress
An interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help students and adult learners succeed on a large variety of academic and licensing tests. Includes immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of results.
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LegalTrac
articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law & bar association journals & legal newspapers
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Liebert Online
this "service delivers electronic access to peer-reviewed journals published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc." "Content exceeds 28,000 papers from more than fifty-five authoritative journals, full-text searchable & linked to external bibliographic databases in the most promising areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, and law."

Literature Resource Center
includes criticism, biographies, bibliographies, work overviews & explications, Web sites, periodical articles, compare & contrast pages, full-text author's works, and reading lists.
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LitFinder
"your full-text source for exemplary original literature and primary content vital to literature and language study; students and researchers can access poems, plays, speeches, short stories and more at any time from anywhere they have access to the Internet"

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MAS Ultra - School Edition
provides full text for nearly 600 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines & 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.
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MEDLINE
provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.
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Micromedex^®
A wide range of clinical databases, including unbiased, referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine Healthcare Series and CareNotes^™ provides your patients with complete, easy-to-understand information about all aspects of their care, medications, and health, in English or Spanish please contact the library for login and password
A Thomson Healthcare Product

Military & Government Collection
offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. It is a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites and provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.
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Million Dollar Database Total US (MDDI)
Coverage of 14 million US companies. Look up companies one at a time, or search using more than 35 targeted criteria. Use for Research Projects, Industry Research, Marketplace Analysis, Job Searches, Interview Preparation, And More! Key is the ability to search, view, print and download company profiles.
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MLA Directory of Periodicals
Contains information available on the journals and series on the bibliography's Master List of Periodicals. The entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission guidelines.
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MLA International Bibliography
Provides a classified listing and subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics from 1963 to the present. It is searchable by classification headings, document authors, subject-index terms, language of the book or article, journal name, and other elements.
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NewsBank Academic Collection (1986 - Current)
A multi-disciplinary full-text news database for research use. Articles cover social, economic, environmental, government, sports, the arts, people, health, and science issues and events. Sources for this database include U.S. and international newspapers, wire services, broadcasts, and magazines; science digests.
Consult the Source List for individual titles.
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NewsBank Retrospective (1970-1991)
A multi-disciplinary full text news database for background information on more recent issues and events. Articles cover social, political, economic, environmental, international, health, and science issues and events from contemporary American history, including firsthand reports and varying regional perspectives.
Sources for this database include U.S. and international newspapers, wire services, broadcasts, and magazines; science digests.
Consult the Source List for individual titles.
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NetLibrary
A variety of electronic book & downloadable electronic audio-book collections with titles in wide variety of subjects. Create your individual account by following the link above and selecting "Create a Free Account."
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Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers

With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
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Primary Search
provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost
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ProQuest Curriculum Essentials
A multi-disciplinary full-text periodical database. Includes access to charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, and photos in business, general reference, medical, education, literature, arts, sciences, and more.
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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
provides coverage of more than 550 full text journals, including more than 525 peer-reviewed titles and covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
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Readers Guide Retro
now provides indexing for the years 1890-1982. When combined with Readers' Guide Full Text, this results in more than 110 years of access.
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Regional Business News
provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. It 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.
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Scribner Writers Series
this literature database has over 1,500 lengthy essays on the lives & works of important authors from the world.
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SIRS Discoverer
access thousands of full-text articles & graphics from hundreds of publications. To locate information, choose one of three search methods: subject tree search; keyword; subject heading.
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SIRS Knowledge Source
access full-text articles & Internet resources from SIRS reference databases - SIRS Researcher®, SIRS Government Reporter®, SIRS Renaissance®, SIRS NetSelect™ and SIRS Interactive Citizenship™.
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State Newspaper - South Carolina Newspaper from Columbia, SC
Part of the America's Newspapers collection providing full-text articles from electronic editions of local and regional newspapers from around the country.
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Student Edition
access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers & reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
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Testing & Education Reference Center
An interactive online learning platform of practices tests and ebooks providing users with in-depth information on colleges and universities, graduate and professional programs, distance learning, corporate training, available scholarships and awards, preparatory entrance tests and much more. Available online practice tests include entrance exams and certification and licensing tests.
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VAULT's Career Insider
Downloadable Career Guides; Employer profiles and rankings; All discussion boards; Industry blogs and news covering the latest trends and issues; Diversity, green programs and leadership development profiles; Vault's job board, which matches employers and recruiters with top talent
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Vocational Biographies Online
"with this program, you can career-shadow up to 1,001 persons from across America. Click on one of the 7 search buttons at the top of the page to get a list of titles, click on a title and the career story will appear on the screen for you to read or print out."
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What Do I Read Next?
includes nearly 100,000 recommended titles, over 53,000 plot summaries, to help users uncover new reading adventures, find long-remembered favorites, & discover award-winning titles. Search by genre, subject, author, title, series, & more.
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