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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.


A peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary full-text periodical database.
Coverage includes biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, and more.
An EBSCO Publishing Product.
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America's News Magazines
Provides full-text articles from various familiar magazines, such as Newsweek, Popular Science, U.S. News & World Report, and Foreign Affairs. Coverage includes news, business, and science and technology. Paid advertisements are excluded.
A NewsBank Product.
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America's Newspapers
Find current and archived state, regional, and national articles on issues, events, people, government and more with the collection of full-text newspapers and other news sources including the Charlotte Observer (1985-Current),  The Herald, Rock Hill, SC (5/1/04-Current), The State (12/1/87-Current), New York Times (1985-Current), and the Washington Post (1977-Current).
Includes direct links to the following local papers
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The Herald, Rock Hill, SC | Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, NC | State Newspaper,Columbia, SC
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Britannica Online  [campus access only]
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.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.

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.
An EBSCO Publishing Product.
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Career & Technical Education [campus access only]
Contains information in a wide variety of career options from magazines, journals, and trade publications. This product includes company profiles, tracks trends & current innovations.
A Proquest Product.
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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.
A NewsBank Product.
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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.
An EBSCO Publishing Product.
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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.
An EBSCO Publishing Product.
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CQ Electronic Library (Congressional Quarterly) [campus access only]
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.

Custom Newspapers 
Over 100 domestic and international newspapers including The Charleston Post & Courier,  & The N.Y. Times
A GALE Cengage Learning product.
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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.
An EBSCO Publishing Product.
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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 [campus access only]
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 [campus access only]
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.

A GALE Cengage Learning product.
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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
A GALE Cengage Learning product.
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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.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.
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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. 
An EBSCO Publishing Product.
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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.
A NewsBank Product.
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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.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.
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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.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.

Hoovers Academic [campus access only]
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.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.
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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
A GALE Cengage Learning product.  
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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
A GALE Cengage Learning product.
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LearningExpress  [campus access only]
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 [campus access only]
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.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.  
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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.
An EBSCO Publishing Product.
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provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.
An EBSCO Publishing Product.
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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
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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.
An EBSCO Publishing Product.
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Million Dollar Database Total US (MDDI) [campus access only]
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.
A Dun & Bradstreet Product.
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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.
An EBSCO Publishing Product.
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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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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."
An OCLC NetLibray Product.
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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.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.  
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Ovid Nursing Content  [campus access only]
Ovid is a single database that contains the Ovid Full Text and graphics of every full text journal offered by Ovid. Get access to all of the Tables of Contents, Bibliographic citations, Abstracts, and references in the entire database.
Ovid Technologies  
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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
An EBSCO Publishing Product.
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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 [campus access only]
now provides indexing for the years 1890-1982. When combined with Readers' Guide Full Text, this results in more than 110 years of access.
An H.W. Wilson Company Product.
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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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Safari Tech Books Online [campus access only]
Safari Tech Books Online, immediately exceeded all expectations, selling site licenses to Fortune 50 companies, major universities, and leading training organizations worldwide. To meet expanding need, Safari Books Online has expanded both its offerings - introducing many new products for all markets - and its content. Faced with increasing customer demand for more content covering a wider range of subject matter, Safari Books Online tapped into the vast repositories of over 40 publishers worldwide. With this new, expanded set of partners Safari Books Online now offers the most complete digital library worldwide for technology, creative and business professionals.
A Proquest Product.
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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  [campus access only]
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.
A SIRS product.
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SIRS Knowledge Source   [campus access only]
access full-text articles & Internet resources from SIRS reference databases - SIRS Researcher®, SIRS Government Reporter®, SIRS Renaissance®, SIRS NetSelect™ and SIRS Interactive Citizenship™.
A SIRS product.
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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.
A NewsBank Product.
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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. 
A GALE Cengage Learning product.  
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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
A Vault Product.

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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