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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.
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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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Access Science
Contains illustrated reference materials from a variety of disciplines including but not limited to agriculture, anthropology, astronomy, biological science, chemistry, computing, earth science, engineering, environmental science, mathematics, medicine, physics, and psychology.
Special features include the following:
Biographies | Student Center | Image Gallery | Related Web Sites | Headline News

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online

Accunet/AP Multimedia Archive  
A primary source database archive which includes photographs, audio sound bites, graphics and text from a historical perspective to present.
Includes the following areas:
U.S. News | International | Sports | Entertainment | Weather | National & State Curriculum Correlations for K-12.
An Associated Press Product.

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AccuWeather
Provides current weather headlines, permits you to check local forecast by city & state or zip code, contains satellite & radar imagery includes a storm center and historical data.
An Associated Press Product.
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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
A NewsBank Product.

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.| Greenville News, Greenville, SC | Other Local Papers | Other United States Newspapers.
A NewsBank Product.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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 Plus with Full Text [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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Clinical Pharmacology
Provides drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. Drugs may be searched by their generic or brand names.
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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.
A Proquest Product.
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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.

Consumer Health Complete
Provides full-text health content to better understand health-related topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, and more.  It also focuses on the complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health and wellness.  Included in this database are health related journals, encyclopedias, reference books, the Clinical Reference System and Clinical Pharmacology reports.
An EBSCO Publishing Product.
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Credo Reference (previously named xreferplus)
A multi-disciplinary ready-reference source containing full text reference sources, images, sound files, data, maps, and a visual search feature called "concept mapping.
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Criminal Justice Collection (Infotrac)
Contains information useful for those studying law, law enforcement, paralegal, or Homeland Security. Provides access to 150 journals and 16 reference works.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.  
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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.
An H.W. Wilson Company Product.
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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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DISCoveringCollection
Reference content for the core curriculum areas of literature, history, biographies, science, and social studies based on national curriculum standards. Includes primary documents, plays & poems, multimedia content, topic overviews, literary criticism, information literacy skills, and study guide questions.
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.
An EBSCO Publishing Product.
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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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Famous First Facts
Coverage dates:  10,000 B.C. – 1997
entries on thousands of inventions, discoveries, and first happenings in American history
An H.W. Wilson Company Product.
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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.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.
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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.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.
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General TracOneFile 
A multi-disciplinary full-text periodical database. Access to newswires, newspapers, and periodicals. Coverage includes the agriculture, anthopology, 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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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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Greenville News - Local Newspaper from Greenville, 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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Grolier Online   
An online reference source containing encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and thesauri. Includes current news information and lesson plans.
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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.
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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
New York Daily Times (1851-1857); New York, N.Y.
New York Times (1857-Current file); New York, N.Y.
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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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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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LexisNexis
"provides full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options"
A  LexisNexis product.

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."
A Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. publishers Product.

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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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
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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.
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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.
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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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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center with Critical Thinking
access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
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Ovid Nursing Collection
Premier nursing content paired with search tools, linking, and searchable full text.
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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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Reference USA 
"ReferenceUSA is a research and reference tool licensed to libraries, educational institutions and government agencies.  The database contains detailed information covering more than 13 million U.S. & 1 million Canadian businesses; 120 million U.S. & 11 million Canadian residents; and more than 683,000 U.S. health care providers."
An Info.USA 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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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™.
A SIRS product.
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Small Business Resource Center
Covers all major areas of starting, operating and maintaining a business from financing, management, marketing, accounting, taxes, etc.; of particular importance, access to real-world business plans from entrepreneurial success stories.  
A GALE Cengage Learning 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.
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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
A trusted name in career information. Gives inside information on top employers and education programs, job listings, job search advice, salary info, employee message boards, surveys and career guides to individual industries.
A VAULT product.
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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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WEB FEET
Contains web sites pre-selected by experts as the best on their topic. Provides resources for a wide variety of subjects including ready reference, general education subject areas and advanced areas such as law, business, arts & culture, science & technology. Also includes a section for college selection, financial aid, career information, job search strategies, resume and interview resources.
A GALE Cengage Learning product.
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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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DISCUS is coordinated by the South Carolina State Library in cooperation with schools, colleges and public libraries. DISCUS is funded by the South Carolina General Assembly through the K-12 Technology Initiative, with supplemental funding by the federal Library Services & Technology Act.

Collegiate DISCUS is coordinated by PASCAL, in cooperation with its members, the South Carolina State Library, and other partners. Collegiate DISCUS is funded by the South Carolina General Assembly through an appropriation to the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education.

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A member of South Carolina Information & Library Services (SCILS) Consortium  

[Library Home | YTC Home | Campus Cruiser | WebCT |SCOIS | KUDER]

For assistance contact Debbie Jones  or call the library at 803-327-8025.

While every effort is made to ensure the completeness and accuracy of the information supplied on this web server.
York Technical College is not responsible for any errors or omissions, external links, or individual opinions.